skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "All made possible with a series of comparatively small investments to buy scientific research to keep the jury out."

I agree with 99.9% of what you said, except this bit. I hate to mince words __but it's essential to this tactic__. Simply put:

This is __not__ - and never should be considered - scientific research.

It's fiction.

It's a perversion.

It's the kind of nonsense Orwell warned us about.

There is only one thing more unconscionable: "Real" Science and its ilk remains silent. In addition, certainly, the FDA isn't the only lab capable of making making these test.

But this is contemporary / modern science. Again. Is it any wonder so many have so much doubt?
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You made the statement in the context of the currently discussed article, where not trusting the companies and obtaining samples from supermarkets would have been at least as easy and cheap. That makes it a bit hard to understand what your point is, we have a concrete example, there is no need to theorize about other scenarios. What you came up with has little or no connection to the item being discussed.
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"Ask Joel," February, 2004, fourth item:

https://discuss.fogcreek.com/askjoel/default.asp?cmd=show&ix...

"With software sold in corporations, as soon as your price gets up in the $3000 level, the amount of approval it needs is so absurd that you are not going to sell products without a salesperson making a few visits. Hiring the salesperson, sending them out to make presentations, hotels, airfare -- now it costs $50,000 to get the sale done just in sales closing costs. That's why you see a lot of software products at $100,000 and a lot under $3000, but anywhere in-between and it's impossible to make sales. (It's sort of funny -- these big corporations create so much bureaucracy around purchasing in order to protect themselves against losing money, but they just force the vendors to spend a fortune on salesforces, which results in vastly higher prices for the big corporations)."
While Enterprise is always the go to for things like this, I think any time non technical people get involved in technical decisions the fun time begins. Just today I was told that I wasn't allowed to implement something in python just because it's "a scripting language"
Samsung Galaxy Note9 benchmarks and leaked image appear online
Correct. Erlang (and therefore Elixir) stdio is implemented by means of sending messages to a process that does low-level writing to a console. When a single message is served, the other are queued up.

Therefore, when two processes (let's name them A and B) want to output something at the same time, the result is going to be AAAABBBB or BBBBAAAA (depending on the order in which the messages arrive in the mailbox), but never BBAABBAA or anything similar.
No, that's also incorrect. The correct way is:

float f;
memcpy(&f, i, sizeof f);

Don't worry about the implied overhead of the call to memcpy; the compiler will replace it with an intrinsic and emit the expected movss instruction.
The Sales funnel series – No2. User activation
Someone get this girl a scholarship, stat.
> these kids will think we were too lenient and restrict the movement of their own children even further.

Or will thank us for our lenience and be sad about what the society as large is forcing them to do to their kids. Kind of like my mom, which expresses her sadness over the bullshit paranoia my children will live in, and I totally agree with her on this.

And the real reason parents go along with this and restrict the children further is a combination of media paranoia, complete failure to do basic maths instead of failing prey to availability herustic, and of course the presence of "do-gooders" who will happily call social service workers on you for any reason whatsoever.

(Oh, and the fear of "do-gooders" also feeds into the general paranoia.)
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Is there any particular reason why js wouldn't be used to emulate the same effect? I'm thinking that the onclick() method calling several things instead of just whatever the button is intended to do.

Please do ignore if i completely misunderstand the discovery, but i don't really see the need to make a html+css button to make any of this execute.
What's AFL?
My nine-year-old wants a phone – but will a non-smart device cut it?
And LDAP authentication.
1. Because building from commodity hardware is faster and cheaper.

2. It's not hand-waving, that's how file systems work.
I seem to recall reading about something similar regarding field testing of new gear for soldiers.

The generals and sales goons would come up with all kinds of "would it not be useful if they had XYZ on their helmet". but once given field trials the feedback was that while it was nice to have, it made said helmets heavy, leading to neck strain and problems with simply looking around.
By weight I mean the multiplier used when summing it with all the other things you know.

Meaning you don't use information from sources that lie to make decisions. Full Stop.
Wait, what? Checking (un-)evenness with (n & 1) is considered obfuscation now? I know no C programmer that would even bat an eye at that one.
Someone should write a program that builds a UI for arbitrary database schemas; and allow the user to extend the schema using the UI.
> This really depends on which city you're in and where in the city you leave your bike+helmet.

London, famous for rampant bike theft, and I've never had a locked up helmet stolen. Lights, I take with me; I'm not mad.
Goedel, Escher, Bach - an eternal golden braid. This book is so rich with philosophical content it will change you.
Why Your Hospitality Business Needs a Mobile App?
> Would reframing the developer "technical interview" as an audition instead create better expectations for everyone?

If companies would frame it as such, I could choose to avoid these companies. So for the candidate, it would have a tangible benefit.
The keyword is "for now".
Yes. Caches actually work. And work quite well for code. Of course there are pathological cases.

Also, static size does not mean anything. The only thing that matter is the dynamic size (i.e. the instructions that are actually fetched at runtime: code that isn't run or run rarely doesn't matter (then again, such code is a prime candidate to be compiled with -Os).
Regarding referential integrity I don't disagree. It would be a process to be performed by an expert in who understands the data structures and what the effect of rolling them back would be.

I might be wrong but I believe Aurora backups can be restored quite a bit quicker than that, right? We are evaluating Aurora at work, hence my interest.
Did you mention conditions and restarts? That's a big deal too, missing in many languages.
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Furthermore, currently, world-wide more people die from the "side effects" of too much food; not enough is not the challenge.

We have the food. It's just "unevenly distributed."

Furthermore, my sense is, the argument for the world needing GMOs is based on the animal protein heavy diet. Such animals are resource / feed intensive. Shift the diet to less meats and more plants and the fact is you feed more.

I'm not here to make a case for zero meat. Only the the pro GMO argument is based on a myth, a myth that I've seen plenty of reasonable people buy into.
Creating a multi-architecture docker swarm to monitor RPI operating temperatures
BRAINYUP, a PLATFORM TO PROMOTE THE EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE and a PLAYFUL LEARNING
Also, STL is data structures + algorithms. Even if you can't use the datastructures out of the box you might be able to use the algos. Boost.Intrusive provides STL compatibe datastructures with full control of allocation (and more).
What food products do FDA chemists consume from the market is a question that would give us a lot of insight.
Cryptocurrency or Fiat in the new era
> either there is a harmful level of pesticides in our food or not

That is an impossible standard even if we had far better methods. One, "damage" is a continuum. Two, who is affected is a wide range. Three, we only test chemicals individually, and set threshold levels individually, but in reality mixing chemicals very often leads to vastly different effects. For example, when lead and mercury were tested together (LD testing) it was found toxicity increased a thousandfold compared to each one alone. But there is no way to test a meaningful number of combinations, and that would still leave out what happens in the extremely complex biochemical environment of a human body in any case.

For the foreseeable future, maybe forever even in 10,000 years of solid scientific progress (because complex stuff remains complex), will be be able to do more than do guesstimates - and they will all be on a population level, don't even try to say anything definite about an individual.

That means calling for "solid proof of damage" before anything gets banned is a sure way to stall any action almost indefinitely. I recommend a look at the history of lead (which has not yet ended at all). The most "solid proof" I can think of is a large scale and long-term human experiment, unthinkable. Even then you could raise doubts about the context/environment, methods, selected participants, etc. "Solid proof" is a lot less solid than a lot of people think, the text book examples of easy primitive physics experiments make it seem as if it's easy to find out things "for certain".
I'm guessing d33 is talking about the capabilities needed to setup the sandbox (like CAP_SYS_CHROOT), as mentioned in the article.
... no it's not. Else by that logic you'd be using pointers through any programming language.
Make School is hiring a Dean to run our college
Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Our education combines liberal arts, computer science, software development, and character development with a strong emphasis on fully preparing students for successful careers as software engineers, product managers, or entrepreneurs. Our alumni work at Facebook, Google, Apple, Snap, LinkedIn, Lyft and more.

Our college is accessible to students of all backgrounds, 40% are underrepresented minority students and 50% come from low income families. Students pay tuition as a percentage of earnings once they are employed, directly aligning their incentives with ours. Make School is funded by Learn Capital, Y Combinator, Mitch Kapor, Alexis Ohanian, Tim Draper and others.

We are looking to hire a Founding Dean of Make School (the academic equivalent to Head of Product / CPO) to join the senior leadership team of the company. You’ll start off managing a team of 10 people who teach and operate our college. You’ll be responsible for overseeing our academics and student life to ensure students are happy (as measured by NPS) and our education is relevant (as measured by student outcomes).

We are looking for someone with the following (if you have most but not all of these, we still encourage you to apply):

- Ph.D. in Computer Science (or adjacent field)

- 10+ years work experience in technology or education

- Experience in a leadership role at a $10m+ revenue business or college

- Experience building scalable process and making data-driven decisions

- Experience managing a team of 10+ people

- Experience teaching and passion for education

This role will give you a unique opportunity to design the future of higher education. You’ll work closely with our instructional team along with various stakeholders (students, industry partners, student success staff and founders) to make product and pedagogy decisions and build scalable systems to support the growth of our college from 50 to 500 students. You’ll have the opportunity to grow with the company, building out a larger team and interfacing with our investors.

You’ll be joining a team of people who are deeply passionate about our mission to make high quality higher education accessible to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds. This will be a chapter of your life you’ll always remember. We hope you join us!

If you're interested or know someone who might be, email me (one of the founders) at ashu@makeschool.com
Byron Katie. She's goes extreme in my opinion, but her instrospection method("the work") is very powerful.
I highly recommend 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.

This book gave me the courage to take responsibility in my life and start working towards things which are important for myself. As the author once said, you don't get not to pay a price, you only get what price to pay.

It actually gave me the courage to leave Berlin and go back to my country(Romania) which even though is more poor and low in quality of public services, my friends and family are there and they are a priority for me right now.

It also thought me to make small changes in my every day life even though is something as small as cleaning my room. And these small changes give me enough confidence to pursue bigger ones like quitting smoking for good.
HTLV-1: An emotional call to eradicate ancient virus
That is incredibly cool. Genius way to preserve, and even honor, the old, even though it is replaced by something newer. Wish we did this kind of thing more.
All hail the absurd joy of Eurovision
Reminds me that some time back HN linked an article showing that floppies (the 3.5" type, not the 5.25" kind) were still used in Norway to distribute data to doctors.

Thing that came up in the comments were that said doctors were holding on to and older, DOS based, patient record system, because it was all keyboard operated. This in turn allowed a seasoned doctor to work the UI while maintaining a dialog with the patient.
Startup: Automated reports for marketing agencies
Then you get situations where the cabled network security is incredibly restricted but the wifi network works off the same 10 digit code for years.

Folks then have to log off the restricted network and onto the wifi to run simple processes that require data that is inaccessible through the cabled network.

The potential for abuse by an intruder is obvious.
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I recently had a chance to visit a company in Glasgow, Scotland, that develops and sells a restaurant management system.

The owner told me something, that stuck with me.

They only hire people who have worked in the hospitality industry before. They wanted people to know the domain extensively, so they were more likely to understand what their customers were facing in their workday.

During my talks with various roles in the company, formal and informal, almost all of them would refer back to a real-life situation, where they would face a problem - and how they tackle that in their software.

I think that was a pretty interesting approach.
What are you implying by posting that?
I love it, I love even driving 5 minutes with a car! I am such a "in a car animal". Car is amazing!
In your kids room. I used to do my own, then they will fight and I'll typically end with a multicoloured blob of plasticine with arms and legs of two characters protruding. It was a lot of fun.

All clay bars get dirt or turned psychedelic or brown after a few rounds so is not a totally renewable material.
Look into uMatrix - it's a damn good plugin for this purpose. But you might need to find something else to control CSS loading.
Building healthy technology – Google I/O Talk
And i have seen programmers that when they do so, declare users to be drooling idiots best confined to a padded cell...
1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Mostly the bits about how our society is mostly built on collective fictions.

2. Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse

I remember being very moved reading this, but I can't quite remember why.

Looks like it's time to re-read it.
An Affordable Education in Financial Freedom
The research you're thinking of was by Roger Hart. There is a section about it midway thru this article about free-range parenting: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
Snapchat has started rolling back its redesign
I think that's unfair (talking about the helmets). The policy makes a lot of untuitive sense and it's only with the benefit of hindsight we can say that disadvantages were too big. And this law may not even be universal, it's a product of the society we are in. In a different place or time the result may be different.
I second Alan Watt's.

Watch some of his youtube videos as well - they gave me strength to endure through some tough times.
The Enchiridion of Epictetus is one of the main books of stoicism.

It has really changed the way I see life and face adversity.

It is very short and easy to read, despite being quite old, and contains actual down to earth wisdom about life

It somehow goes quite well with the teachings of Frankl, if you replace "God" by meaning.
Racket was PLT Scheme. DRSheme was It's IDE now called DRRacket
This is whataboutism. Choosing one method is not saying 100% of enforcing with only one method. 100 million calls means statisticaly one of 3 usa readers got a call frim him. Thats alot.
How International Calling Can Make You Happy
> In all of those cases you're paying elsewhere for the service.

Recorded and enforced by a contract.

> In the case of web ads, you're not usually paying for the content, and so they're expecting you to see the ads.

It doesn't matter what they expect. I'm not obliged to view their ads.
To buy Bitcoin, sure. When it hit $18,000 you would still look back at the $2 (then) worth that you spent at $200 / bitcoin and regret it.
Experiments and explorations in Chemical Programming
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
> I believe fundamentally that any content creator has the right to specify the terms by which their content is consumed. If one of those terms is 'watch the ads', then you are morally obligated to watch the ads.

And luckily there are plenty of content creators that don't think that way.
Since MS bought Skype it is gone to shit. What is even worse is that even with the "Windows Integrated Skype" which suppose to work seamlessly I get notifications about messages days later. This is just pathetic.
Actually, if you fill out the form, you can mail it in or hand it to a postal clerk and skip the $1 fee. I recently had to change my P.O. Box address and could not do it online; because the credit card used for the $1 charge has to match the old address.
> Netflix is just one tab away

Tools like https://selfcontrolapp.com/ and https://freedom.to/ are really helpful here.
Flowers for Algernon, without a shadow of a doubt, had a huge impact on how I regard intelligence in others and myself, and it also put the pursuit of success into a new context for me. Lastly, it made me evaluate the prospects one has going into life, with respect to what is (and isn't) under once's control.
Siddhartha is such a great book. I actually read it slower just to enjoy it for a longer time :)
Not partying till 2am before a workday is pretty good if it means I'm free at 5-something every day and can enjoy a nice dinner, go for a walk/ride/run, hit the gym or whatever.

From my partying experience, no amount napping helps after a good party. The next day is lost anyway. Unless you plan to hide from your colleagues in that pod for the whole day...
If a "life-shattering crisis that completely wrecked my world view" means a breakup definitely read "No More Mr. Nice Guy" from Robert Glover.
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It’s not the language I personally can’t stand, but the whole tooling and build experience. Horrid. Also Maven/Gradle/JVM package and build management in general frustrates me.
The case for electric scooters
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Depends on the distribution you use. Some (Debian, Ubuntu) make it extremely annoying to apply your own patches to packages, while others (Arch, Gentoo) make it very easy.
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That why good user research is not about asking customers what they want, but rather observing them use products, identify the pain points that are obvious and ask them more questions to understand better their problems and desires.
Telling someone "that thing you're doing is great! Keep doing it!" is good for motivating and focusing them.

This also applies to the workplace.
Wow, that's really not what music theory is at all. This kind of eggheaded simpletonism is grossly offensive and embarrasses the HN community, not to mention engineers in general. Please, the world outside of STEM is not reducible to a few hand-wavy sentences about physics.
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
No, it turns out you didn’t need anything more complicated. Others do (or like it)
Saved a billion ~human~ lives, perhaps. It caused the death and destruction of many billions of non-human lives. It massively reduced bio-diversity on 90% of the earths surface.

It has to be said, it has to be acknowledged, the 'progress' of man has come at an extraordinary cost to every other living thing.
If you like Alan Watts you might enjoy Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice from Shunryu Suzuki.

https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditatio...
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is a catch-all where they dump all the things root has that didn't fall into another bucket. So if a program needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN then basically you haven't really got any meaningful sandboxing so far as I understand it.
anecdotally for myself I find the reverse is true
Content creators seem to be expecting a lot, based on absolutely nothing.
Came here to say exactly that. The only relevant and important take away from this article is to perform proper user research. All the other insights will follow that.
In practice, being a slacker when working from home is not really an option. I know very well that if I don't perform well enough, I'll be fired. Why should I take the risk? Also, when I realize a job is going to take longer than expected, I notify my boss immediately and clearly explain the reasons. It's not that I wake up after two weeks that I'm 12 days late - I probably realize something is wrong immediately or after a couple of hours at most.
Is this sarcasm?

New programs like this tend to crop up every few years - MS Access, FileMaker, and most recently, Airtable.
What Is Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)?
The women who risk their lives for others' rights
Mapping Your Customer Journey in 5 Essential Stages
Bug 1424373 – Tab crash reporter is activating auto-submission of crash reports
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16629055
I believe that’s the point of contention: I’ve you’ve gone through those programs, you are a graduate.
There are a lot of green field opportunities out there — technologies and solutions that will exist but which will need significant capital to get there. I think in 10 years from now we’ll look back on today and say that we were vastly underinvesting in technology and being too conservative given the size of the opportunity to create category defining companies from scratch.
Ask HN: Hosted time-series database as a service
Would companies be interested in such a platform?
How would a self-aware AI behave?
Navigation in a browser? Like, typing a destination and getting proper driving directions - like, a lane info, real-time route updates in case of known road accidents ahead, etc?

I beg your pardon, but I think this is something yet non-existent with webapps - the best you can get is a prepared list of directions, and maybe you can set the tab to auto-update once in a while. And this is something any half-decent navigation app does.