skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same anecdote :) the interview all checked out, everybody gave a thumb up, but my guts were telling me "it's not gonna work". I forced myself to ignore it, put it on the account of unfair bias or something and hired the candidates. After 6 to 8 months they were gone after a disastrous tenure.

It actually shook me a little after the 2nd time, because I thought I was doing the right thing not dismissing people just because of gut feeling.
One of the reasons Node developers hate Windows is because of how stupidly slow it is to open lots of files... This will teach them
AssertJ Core 3.9.0 release: New and noteworthy
As soon as I remembered pencils had graphite in them (duh) I was reminded of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YBwDNfOaxU
Knife ?
Most people in India work in the informal sector and are not counted.
If anyone wants to read how this changed and understand the main call hierarchy in React 16, I try to explain it in https://engineering.hexacta.com/didact-fiber-incremental-rec...
Doubt it. If it was profitable the cloud mining providers would be mining for themselves instead of renting out the gear.
YouTube’s recommendations drive 70% of what we watch
XML Process Definition Language (XPDL)
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I know it was an Israeli company.

Can anyone describe superficially how this is possible?
Yes, but the reference to eight-dimensionality is quite baffling. The peak of the population is at two, and there's a tail end far above.
Is there a way to see why it was flagged?
I'm also having trouble relating with this comment. Lived in India for the entirety of my life and this makes no sense at all
This might be a bit idealistic and not align with US principles - but doesn't this actually show it would be much smarter to keep education free for everyone and just straight up pay for it with a higher taxation?

These numbers look to me a bit as if gov is paying anyway, but with the current model it gets the money back only (eventually) after the citizens education, and pushes a lot of people into debt.

All of that for essentially avoiding that one person might add a few $$$ to the pot that could benefit another...

I know US policy sees the self-responsibility of the individual completely differently, but having grown up in Austria and profited from top education that is _naturally_ free for everyone, all of this student debt stuff looks like madness to me.
The Work Required to Have an Opinion (2013)
Good grief:

"A lot of people didn’t take us seriously, ignored us, bet on #OpenBanking instead. Look where we are now. We OWN the best access to the banking infra & everyone is else is out in the cold, totally fucked. When everyone thinks you’re right, you’re wrong. https://open.spotify.com/track/0whZQj81yqAv9yJEyNZcnR?si=TGr... "

Anyone fancy building their business on top of this attitude?
Have you ever heard of the expression "How do you know someone disables javascript on the internet through an add-on? They'll tell you"?

No? Well, anyway, one draconic way to fix this is installing something like uMatrix or NoScript. This particular website works fine without JS.
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Ask: Type systems in natural languages?
David Attenborough talk technique 2018.pdf
It’s been a while since I’ve read Slate but I recall their “Explainer” series always made a point of putting the answer in the first sentence, with the rest of the article serving as amplification. I really liked that, for the same reason you mentioned.
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> ...don't have enough time to really be immersive in anything

I understand you're running a company and on an absolute basis your time is limited. That said, all of us are guilty of "never having any time" when really it should be described as never making time. You have to get over the concept of being too busy for everything else and actually make time for something you want to do.

If that means learning some mathematical problem, schedule an hour at night to sit at home (or location of choosing), ignore your email/Slack/etc., and learn. If instead it involves meeting people, go to networking events, introduce yourself to people, and generally go out of your way to be active. Just MAKE the time, don't complain about not having it.

For what it's worth, intramural sports teams are an effective way to meet people if it seems impossible. Also, Meetup/etc. groups for something related to a shared passion (e.g. photography).
DSA-4082-1 linux
> Aka if you get 50$ off your taxes this year but your share of the national debt increases by 5,000$ then you are far worse off.

Why? Do you suppose in the future, we'll all pay off the debt equally?
After 3 days Kraken returns with free trading for January
And in the variance bias them?
No, Google was tracking users long before Microsoft.

It is not Microsoft that tracks me whenever I am, unless I disable the settings in play services, and even then I am not sure.

It is not Microsoft that sells an OS whose premise is that all my data lives on their servers.

It is not Microsoft that created an office suite that hides my data behind servers, with access to everything I might create with those applications.

Buddling software with the computer being bought was already a thing in the 8 bit era, with C64, Spectrum, MSX and Atari packs.
Top spin words in the news this week
The sound of space-filling curves
But this isn't simply a passenger issue. There's implications to the broader social fabric.

I agree, no one has figured it out yet. But I'm not so sure anyone has tried. Action <> Reaction is not an "algorithm" tech companies excel at.
Even Chemists Are Baffled by This GIF of a Droplet Spiraling to Its Doom
In general I loathe HSBC globally. However, FWIW their HSBC UK higher end XML based credit card gateway was the bees knees in about 2009. Best I've seen in my career. Awesome individual fraud rule reporting, total control. We probably had the ass-kicking total package though as I was developing a pan-European solution for a major handset manufacturer.
Interesting. Apparently if you keep default passwords, you are in danger of being hacked. Shocking. Superb investigation, keep up the good work.
Lithuanian - lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbata

Polish - pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbata

That's pretty much all exceptions.
Digital access to your data isn't likely to work out generally unless you're happy with "Here's a PDF sent to your email address" in which case, sure, that's going to happen.

I look after a system that has loads of PII, as a mix of traditional SQL databases and RDF with a bunch of RESTful service layers keeping it all in neat boxes so it's not a sprawling unmanageable mess.

Now, if you ask for Subject Access after our verification team is happy that you're who you say you are I can and will extract the data that's clearly about you from those sources, tart it up and reformat it, and shove that into a PDF you can have.

What I can't realistically do, even if they tried to legislate for it, is make say the RDF data structures somehow understandable to the lay person who thinks "graph" means "chart" and "a triple" is when you win three things in a row.

OpenBanking works because ultimately the banks are pretty interchangeable when it comes to ordinary personal accounts. Money comes in or out, there's some short half-arsed text saying why, an amount, it's a very regular structure. But imagine trying to build a single "digital access" that works for your Reddit posts, health records, grocery purchases, subscription to Playboy, and MetroCard account... what on Earth would the UX be for that?

Google gives us an idea what the best we could hope for is - if you sign in and say you want all your data, Google will ZIP it all up for you. But it's not a coherent system, it's just like somebody's old PC backup, a bunch of unrelated files in different formats in a ZIP file.
In hindsight, it was poor taste, so I edited it out. However in this case I think the character of the individuals involved is material.
Can't really tell a difference, the site is still sluggish as before. Sure they didn't just revert to their old code because the new didn't work out in production?
They screwed up in a big way by not having processes and QA in place to catch these issues or gradually roll out the change or pull it if it goes south. That does not inspire confidence in their abilities to operate and secure an exchange in the long run. But we'll see what they do in reflection of this event and how/what they'll change.

That said, they've shown communication around this and the free trading is not something they HAD to do, but a gesture of apology.

in the end we'll remember this: kraken went down for 48 hours and offered free trading for 2 weeks. Of all the horrible things that exchanges have done or failed to do, there is some solace here and means kraken isn't AS bad as some of the others. so, yay for that i guess.
IF you think this is cool check out Irmin.
If you wanted to run a startup that ran APIs which bank customers could use this bill would presumably make that possible.
Damore was fired for stating without ambiguity that not only should Google drop diversity initiatives, but that some current Google engineers are innately less talented than others based solely on their gender.

That creates a hostile work environment. Which is why he was fired.

His opinion was not "well researched". He quoted respectable studies then took multiple leaps and applied them inappropriately.

I don't understand how anyone who doesn't understand why he was fired can hold down a professional career.
To be fair, most subscription model software that I know changes UI less frequently than pay–per-release software. As for every big release the marketing department steps in to fully redesign everything.
Thanks for that call-out for Rocket. I skimmed a Rust book over the holidays so I could experiment with the Exonum blockchain platform. I had tentatively decided to not pursue an interest in Rust but looking through the docs for Rocket has changed my mind.

Looking through the CS140e class description made me a little envious of students who are both able to take the class live and also have 20 hours a week or so to really get the most out of the class.
They mention at the end of the article that SwiftGen did not exist at the time they made their own tooling.
>> Legit question: if human intelligence is fundamentally limited by scale, why aren’t there some humans running around with heads twice as big and twice the neurons? If it’s such an advantage why hasn’t nature selected for it in at least one place on Earth?

There's nothing saying there won't be such humans, one day. Maybe we'll eventually evolve to Homo Sapiens Megacephalus, with brains twice the size than now. Evolution is an ongoing thing, right?

Btw, I don't think it's ever safe to compare machine learning with human intelligence. So far, it's clear that human learning is completely different to machine learning and human learning is only part of human cognition. It's not easy to use observations on the one to draw conclusions about the other.
The magnificent 2d matrix
Regarding the possible cancer : "The secondary reason is an unhealthy fear of needles and a desire to live without a colostomy bag." you @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889203

You can always decide to call it quits the day after, so don't let this stop you. Even if you have it, it may totally disappear. The money issue, I understand.

To be sure, you need a $10+mil net-worth in USA, then whatever happens, you can go to Mayo Clinic and pay cash.
Nice thoughts but the vulnerabilities of Spectre and Meltdown do not directly threaten code which runs on the vulnerable CPU. Instead, the vulnerabilities allow malicious code running on the vulnerable CPUs to attack the system and other apps. A subtle difference, but makes the job to identify the applications which are not trustworthy and avoid running them on the performant but potentially vulnerable cores.
I recommend Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations[0] to anyone who decides to start tinkering with bonus schemes.

It's a short, sharp, quite readable explanation of why tying reward & punishment to metrics of difficult-to-observe work tends to quickly become destructive.

[0] http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/mmpo.html
They used to be made in the same city as the factory in the article.
Those crank operated or electric tabletop sharpeners are great. For a portable sharpener, my personal favourite is the KUM long point automatic two-stage sharpener. The way it works is that it first sharpens the wood leaving a round core and then points the lead inside. The longer point stays pointy a little longer than standard. The only downside is it's a little hungry and uses up pencils a little quicker than normal. Jetpens sells them in the US and Cult Pens in the UK. I can highly recommend both.

Good pencils help too. I tend to prefer German and Japanese brands like Staedtler, Stabilo, Mitsu-Bishi, and Tombow.
One more meaning the stub at the pointy end of an umbrella is also called the ferrule.
Did you read the article? It discusses energy at length.
Me neither, despite >6k points... @dang, is there a way "vouch" can be implemented for ordinary users?
Introduction to utPLSQL
It actually returns "Service unavailable" when I try to trade -- so that, too, is similar to before the outage.
Apache Trafodion: Transactional SQL-On-Hadoop Database
Dancing.

After seeing the book 'Impro' by Keith Johnstone recommended on HN, I read it and decided to try improvisational theater. It improved my connection to my body a lot, and as a consequence, changed my feeling of presence in the world.

Now I don't do impro as much, but I found a group of people - mostly older folks - who come together once a week and just dance. After years of dancing together in one room I still don't really know them, since it is not a social encounter.

But the feeling of being expressive through movement is one of a kind, and I feel out of place without it.
Microsoft has always (as far as I can see) alternated between focus on core tech and focus on user experience. Vista was a heavy tech push and so the user experience and polish suffered a bit. 7 was entirely focused on user experience and so it was awesome to use, but it wouldn't have been possible if not for Vista.
Properly anonymised doesn't exist. Every mechanism has been broken.
The "fix" Intel pushed out this week is a microcode update that in my experience doesn't fix or address Meltdown at all. The update does however make Spectre slightly less reliable, so I'm going to assume that the microcode update has something to do with fixing, updating, or adding new controls to the branch predictor buffer.

So absent a microcode update that outright fixes Meltdown, there will always be some level of slow-down for vulnerable devices. System calls now jump from user mode code to a stub kernel in "supervisor memory". The stub kernel then does a full context switch (touching %cr3 paging register and wiping a good portion of the TLB), and once the real kernel finishes, it does a full context switch back to the stub kernel. It's all terribly inefficient, and realistically it's unlikely that there will only be negligible performance impacts. It should also be noted that this "work-around" doesn't fix processor, it just makes it so that that there's nothing juicy in the supervisor memory.

You may have to learn to live with this for a while. Even if it takes Intel a month to design and validate a fix for Meltdown, prototype and mass production turn around times mean that no customer will have a processor that isn't vulnerable to Meltdown until April-June 2019.
Arez: scalable state management library for client-side applications
>> My suspicion is that things much smarter than us are very possible; my reasoning is, it just seems so strange to me that the peak of feasible intelligence just so happens to correspond with what can be fed by a hunter-gatherer diet and fit through a birth-canal which fits into the constraints of an upright primate.

I think you're understimating the intelligence required to survive as a hunter-gatherer, individual or species, in a world that keeps wanting to kill you, where the number of things that want to make it easy for you to eat them is exactly 0 (not counting fruit, which is made to be eaten by birds, not humans) and the numer of things that want to eat you is ...very big.

If you think about it, the amount of brainpower needed to survive as a primitive human in the savannah is exactly as much as required to develop modern technology. We got were we are today because our ancestors were smart enough to not be eaten by lions etc.

Of course I'm not saying that smarter things than us aren't possible. There's an element of luck involved in evolution. Maybe we 're not the most powerful intelligence that could have evolved on Earth; but we're certainly the one that did.
well, how to define “ordinary user” is a huge problem for the system administrator — access control is at the root of all security issues...
Colour leads are not commonly available, and is often not as good in quality compared to cased colour pencils.Charcoal is not hard enough (I think) to made into lead form for lead holders. Water soluble leads I haven't seen in forms for lead holders.
If you look at their announcements and blog posts, their company mantra seems to be „overpromise & underdeliver“
If every application were signed (like on the apple store), does that help reduce the risk here? If it were a game server then all apps run would presumably be provided by some official third party who could be relied upon to sign the binary.

If it were all signed, then is the risk of the box becoming compromised fairly small and worst case, replacing the entire box (rebuild) if there were an issue could address problems quickly?

[edit to make it clear that this is a question]
I'm pretty lonely too, but I have two problems:

1. I don't feel like I have enough energy to do things after work, and I find myself unable to socialize for long periods of time.

2. My friends, or at least friends I know in the real world, are running into number 1, and often have different work schedules anyways.

Modern society feels isolating. When I try to be social, I find many people are disinterested. I myself hardly have any energy to be social even though I feel like it would be good for me. Perhaps general health has something to do with this too, but it sure isn't convenient.
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Looks like they mostly improved their trading engine, and, to their defence, I do not have seen one of the dreaded 520 errors yet.

https://blog.kraken.com/post/1449/
The LEDs you linked to have just two pins and automatically cycle through the three colors in a fixed pattern - is this really what is required? Or did you intend to link to a four pin variant with common anode [1] or common cathode [2]?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C19ENFK/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C19ENDM/
Not today, but we hope tomorrow. We're working on it.
In HN speak, another karma threshold (downvoting ~500 points, flagging ~1k points if I'm not mistaken). ;)
I’m not sure how you got “day" out of it, the linked recording sounded (to me) more like "the", if you were trying to say the word "there" (but obviously without the "re").

My mums' native dialect is Teo Chiew, which is a variant of and falls under the Min Nan family of dialects (but can be quite different in many ways, a native speaker of one does not necessarily means mutual understanding of the others). And while similar, Teo Chiew uses a "dê” rather than "tê" for tea.

On another note, the area is also the origin of the "Gong Fu Cha" style tea ceremony. [1]

[1] https://www.kyarazen.com/chaozhou-gongfu-tea/
A tool for populating relational databases with yaml-based test data
For my home PCs, I purchased the MS Action Pack subscription so that I could install Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB and not get ads and Cortana. With it and ClassicShell, it serves me nicely.

I prefer my FreeBSD box running Motif as my daily driver though.
Right idea, wrong reason. You have a tonne of assumptions about how the product works that I don’t. If the bug is that subtle, dollars to Donuts says that one of your assumptions is wrong, but you just haven’t thought to question it yet.

When you explain the issue to me, I’ll ask dumb questions about context I lack, so you’ll explain stuff you take for granted. And it’s answering those questions that will make you figure out where the problem is.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139219 on the front page currently
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The US is moving that direction too.
> All of that may seem like an elaborate setup to catch a spy drone in the act, when it could far more easily be spotted with a decent pair of binoculars. But Nassi argues that the technique works at ranges where it's difficult to spot a drone in the sky at all, not to mention determine precisely where its camera is pointed.

This technique could also be used in legal proceedings to establish that someone or some org was spying illegally.
You don't need to decrypt TLS to know where it's going. SNI leaks the domain in plaintext and if SNI isn't enabled you can just use the IP address.
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By the way, I'm extremely sad to be missing your talk at the Recurse Center; I'm in Canada until Monday :(
Hmm...I can't even reproduce it. Now on Safari, I do have a JavaScript blocker on, but I also tried on Chrome and still nothing.
Spfwalk: Sender Policy Frwork, a standard to verify the domain name mail sender
I'm sure the neocons would probably write this off as India being in the early stages of of Kuznets Curve (1), but it's probably a case of what Piketty found when writing 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'. Ie, in developed nations, the rate of return on capital greater exceeds the rate of economic growth, which creates an increasing gap between rich and poor.

It's difficult to see how they will mobilise these people to become consumers, when nothing suggests a disruption of Indian wealth becoming increasingly concentrated.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve
Any docs on designing trading engines? How to process trades efficiently and correctly? What kind of algorithms, datastructures to use to make the trading engine scale?

I thought this kind of stuff is a solved issue, some kind of distributed queueing messaging engine with the trading logic at the collector of all these trading messages.
Aren't those Windows licenses upgrade only?
The wrong read-only text gets you arrested.
Copy and paste of something I posted a while ago to someone asking a similar question:
>I am extremely introverted, but one of the social activities I've found that actually DOESN'T drain me is going to game nights at my local game stores. Most stores have something going on every night, ranging from standard issue board games to RPGs to miniatures tabletop games. It's amazingly easy to make friends when you're all engrossed in whatever setting you're gaming in!
You can’t sell spectrum to broadcasting if the listeners don’t have receivers.

You can buy DAB (and DAB+) receivers directly from China if you want. They’re still more expensive than FM receivers but then you can be sure there is no shady conspiracy in your own country profiteering.

In fact, if you want you can buy a SDR device which gives you the data an antenna would receive, and do the rest in software (both FM and DAB decoding).