skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on a Windows Mobile (on the huge ruggedized devices) they were really slow, but the people who used them knew the screens so well, that they wouldn’t wait on the screen to refresh to navigate the screens and start typing. They would just take advantage of the keyboard buffering. I mistakenly changed the order of one field on the screen and it threw off all of the data entry. We could not reproduce the “bug” but we knew we shouldn’t be getting that many mistakes from the same people who were doing everything correctly. We actually sent the QA guy out in the field and he discovered the issue within an hour - the users weren’t looking at the screens, they were doing everything from muscle memory.
Ev Williams personal paid PR piece aside, it is actually possible to solve the problem: have it done by large company as in “free parking” model.
Which systems don't use two's complement?
Introduction to MoneroV and Its Inherent Risks
I keep coming across this blog post, and each time I read it, I find myself liking it:

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-yo...
Let the set M = {circular, regressive, axiomatic} to be the set of "unsatisfying" arguments that may be used to prove any truth.

Let the mapping J: powerset(M) -> <schools-of-thought-in-meta-epistemology> to map some subset of M to a theory of justification such that the believers in said theory only find usage of some combination of the said subset to be "acceptable".

Then:

J({}) is in {Skepticism}

J({circular}) is in {Coherentism}

J({axiomatic}) is in {Foundationalism}

J({regressive}) is in {Infinitism}

J({axiomatic, circular}) is in {Foundherentism}

J(M) is in {Quietism}

Is there an x where x is in the powerset of M, such that J(x) is {}? Or literally every possible position can be the foundation of a philosophical paper?
The researchers surveyed current students and recent (one year) graduates of a pharmacy program. [0] They were not surveying job titles (like “technical co-founder” or “pharmacist”) but rather looking at what they call entrepreneural awareness, i.e. had the students “blended” business and technical education actually given them an ability to see business opportunities.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jsbm.12365
Agreed. I had to do this first semester freshman year and again in my embedded systems courses. But a very large portion of web developers never went to college or only have a 2 year degree (and, sorry, but most 2 year "Computer Science" degrees glorified really expensive bootcamps).
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My maternal grandparents both went that way. Apparently long after they were both essentially 'gone' the nursing home staff would occassionally find them in the main living area, late at night after everyone was meant to be asleep, dancing together. Clearly something of their former selves remained.
That's the analogy I use when people complain that whiteboarding doesn't mimic/approximate they day-to-day job. If you're the casting director for a play you're going to have auditions, you're not going to cast people based (solely) on their resume and having a conversation about their acting background. But auditions are very different than an actual performance: there's no audience or costumes or props, the lighting is completely different than what it will be, you're reading from a script, you may be the only person on stage while the other roles are read offstage, you're being accompanied by a piano instead of a full pit orchestra, you're mostly standing in one place instead of moving to established blocking, and so forth. The point of an audition isn't to mirror performance night, it's to get an idea if you're capable of acting/singing/dancing/whatever. Likewise the purpose of whiteboarding isn't to mirror the day-to-day work, it's to get an idea of your problem solving capabilities (some might argue it's also to see if you actually know how to code, but personally I feel that's what the technical phonescreen is for).
Yes, I would suggest Stoicism too (I have a page devoted to it: http://pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/Stoicism.html).

Also, I am working on a page on A Philosophy of Loneliness (https://www.popmatters.com/a-philosophy-of-loneliness-by-lar...) and finally I would suggest "Trust the Process" (https://www.shambhala.com/trust-the-process-1598.html)

All these somehow helped me in dealing with personal issues and/or provide some adjustment to my views.

Finally, maybe this one might help, too https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89200.Pragmatics_of_Huma... (I read it in Italian and many years ago, the current edition is probably updated).
>. A Dutch city was made for humans, a few hundred years ago - most Australian cities were made for automobiles, within the last 100 years.

Did you not read the next sentence?
I don't trust laws. I trust open hardware and software and people able to look at devices and verify that they are either secure or discover they are backdoor-ed.

Laws are a panacea.
cow orker: n. alternatively: cow-orker

[Usenet] n. fortuitous typo for co-worker, widely used in Usenet, with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. This term was popularized by Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) but seems to have originated earlier in a 1997 ScaryDevilMonastery.

-- http://wiki.c2.com/?CowOrker
Up or out is law, not policy. 10 U.S.C. § 632. It also does not necessarily "require[]" discharge for twice failing of selection for promotion; officers can be continued on active duty. 10 U.S.C. § 637; SECNAVINST 1920.7B.
It's the big 4 now. See Enron, and Anderson.
A new AI task force will protect workers and keep America first
This has to be a different strokes for different folks kind of situation (the modus operandi for parenting) but just in case you truly are in need of the answer: discipline.
You do realize that it's only "obfuscating" if you can't perform basic arithmetic, and that there are several countries that use imperial measurements?
Not GP but I think that the point is that the whole "corporate culture" is mostly bullshit - you wouldn't expect factory or farm workers to form a "culture" and "take pride in their work" or "share company values", so why are you expecting all of this from knowledge workers?

For me the whole "corporate culture" thing is just an attempt to brainwash people into accepting lower salary, because "we are changing the world here".
How to Make Your Text Look Futuristic – Typeset in the Future
Although I don't think this is some sort of conspiracy, HN front-page is curated content, ranking is not only based on votes.
It's not as easy as that.

First we don't start from zero. If you would build a robot with all human senses but erased hard drive it wouldn't do anything, ever.

Second, while applied in RL, science might be labeled as "objective" and therefore be superior for, let's say, building a bridge. But on a very basal level, we're subjectively agreeing on what "scientific" is, or rather based on non-proofable paradigms, which is what the article is about
Wonderful thread! There is most certainly a canon of "introspection" literature. Required for any one who pays heed to the wisdom of "knowing thyself". Gandhi's Experiments With Truth and St. Augustine's Confessions are perfect examples. Absolute honesty. With the single goal of providing future readers many years hence with some guide points in navigating the seas of life.

List of 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/enter/books/book372.htm

And just a heads up. This June brings the arrival of another biography I am very much looking forward to. Matt Polly's definitive Bruce Lee: A Life. Perfect summer beach reading to provide the inspiration for a commitment to discipline!

https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Lee-Life-Matthew-Polly/dp/15011...
Something like this: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1178/5804/products/Airflow...

It's not total hearing loss, but it catches the wind which makes noise once you're going a reasonable speed. Similar to the noise you experience if you orient your head the wrong way when there is a reasonable amount of wind going by you, but you can't get rid of it by turning your head. I also find I'm much worse at pinpointing direction all the time with it on (presumably because of sound bouncing off of it... since ear's generally pinpoints sound via echo).

I've found other people who agree with me on this, and other people who don't notice it. My best guess is that the people who don't notice it just never learnt to use sound as such an important queue while biking, particularly with respect to direction, but I don't know.
The impression that I get, with no basis in data whatsoever, is that these days, people that explicitly like KDE use KDE, a few people with strong opinions or definite resource restrictions use other environments like XFCE, LXDE or a tiling window manager, and pretty much everyone else is using GNOME, and so the momentum is behind GNOME, with even Ubuntu recently switching back to GNOME.

I think that this is targeting the sorts of people that are more likely to be familiar with and like GNOME than KDE, so there is advantage in using the same software, and producing software that will be able to, as depicted, run on a laptop as well as a phone without feeling out of place anywhere.

Note also that they’re working with both GNOME and KDE, so that both will have first-class support:
https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-gnome-and-kde-collaboration/,
https://puri.sm/posts/gnome-and-kde-in-pureos-diversity-acro... (that latter link includes content very similar in meaning to my remarks above).
That would be a hard sell to parents, I think.
No. That is a narrative from the alt right. SV folks have similar ethics if not better than the average person.

I would say generally engineers tend to be more ethical and rule following. They are built in this manner.

I am not sure what is happening but suspect part of the problem is some are scared of the future and tie SV to the future and taking it out on them. Where the narrative comes from.

The other possibility is they need a bogey man with the Clinton's gone and using SV to replace.

The last is more conspiracy oriented. The biggest strength for the US, hands down, is SV. The innovation coming out of SV is just unbelievable.

It could be Russia and other countries are trying to get us to fight to hurt SV for self serving purposes.

Who gets AI first will have an unmatched advantage. Google is far ahead of everyone and that could be driving the alt right narrative at Google. Using the Damore firing as the rallying event.

It really scares me how easy it is to manipulate some in the US. They use a fear of the future for some to stir it up. Kind of like how Trump and others are using people that look different to whip up people in a frenzy and scared of people that look different.

That they are coming to rape our women.

All I got. Been still trying to figure it out. I have engaged with a number of people on Reddit and surprised how many times someone negative on Google turns out to be Russian.
In the computer games industry, or at least at the companies I have worked in based in the UK, these would be part of a test given either remotely or immediately on arrival and failing to answer correctly would make it unlikely to proceed any further.

In the c/c++ game code bases I have worked on, it is very common to have statuses stored as a uint with each bit representing something and very common to set, unset, toggle, reverse bits etc.

I actually read the first part of the article thinking these aren't hacks these are just things people use day in day out. But the later section about setting last 0 or 1 bit etc suddenly because things I wouldn't typically see in the wild.
Yeah this is certainly a cultural thing. It hadn't even crossed my mind that I would be held accountable for injuring someone on a scooter.

From what I can see, this law hasn't been tested, but given that my scooters max speed is 11mph, I'm not worried about killing someone at the moment.
Part of the reason that Apple found more success after 1998 was the “consumerization of technology” the end user was the buyer and not the corporate IT department. The UX is a sales driver for the buyer. In the corporate world, the buyer and the user are not the same person.
I agree with pretty much all of the substance of what you said, but the better source is SECNAVINST 1920.6C.

https://doni.documentservices.dla.mil/Directives/01000%20Mil...
As a parent of a high functioning ASD child -- consider adding a way to attach that to clothing (or a way to attach a generic tether, which could then be used to attached to a belt or a necklace, etc) and you have a whole new market.

[edited] I know you market yourself as tetherless, but I'm referring to something as simple (and optional) as the mechanism Roku does for their wrist straps on remotes (and Nintendo Wii, etc):

https://twitter.com/rokuplayer/status/524376205345435648
Maybe I should call my toothbrush a Personal Hygiene Device.
If you were getting 10 billion dollar as your net effective yearly comp then I sure you won’t care about work life balance either.
Redgate Software Bolsters Its SQL Search Tool for Microsoft
This is the most clickbait programming article title I've ever seen.
It depends where you live in the UK. In Cambridge (just next to London) is extremely common.
I think as the developing world grows economically we will continue to see higher demand for meat. Eventually the only thing stopping higher meat consumption will be the fact that the price has been pushed higher and higher by limited worldwide production capacity intersecting with high demand.
Could you post a link to such a story? I'd love to read about it. Unfortunately the wikipedia article doesn't seem to have many leads for me just yet.
I do a lot of walking (adult) and you know what I've noticed?

SO MANY parents sit with their kids in a car at the bus stop. I'm not just talking about 1st graders either.

There's this one high school bus stop where no less than 7 or 8 parents are parked there with their kid sitting inside. Everyone is isolated from each other.

These are 15-18 year olds in a normal high school in the suburbs in a reasonably safe neighborhood at a large public school district.
We have this in the US as well, "Registered Mail". It's only used for things that are very sensitive/important since it's a huge pain in the butt, both sender and recipient require verification of identity.
I suppose this is sarcasm but the results are quite intuitive to me. From my perspective, it's trivial to construct the truth tables for trivalent logic based on a sense of what "should" be in them. Maybe give it a try.
Well yeah, if you hurt someone, you have to make it right. This has an easy fix, though: Drive safely. You can get insurance (we in Czechia colloquially call it "insurance against dumbness") if you want to, btw.
I usually just blaze through the technical questions, FizzBuzz takes 1-2 minutes, 2-SUM maybe 5 minutes. Rarely do they have more than 15 minutes of technical questions unless you have problems with how fast you can write on a board. I've also asked to skip an easy question so that I would have more time for the audition phase.
> the pressure to not work weekends

It's interesting that you describe feeling pressure to not work; usually I think people talk about feeling the pressure to work.

But I know what you mean. It's hard to know how to balance the two. On the one shoulder is a little voice saying "Don't be a sucker and spend your free time making money for the company! It's just a job! Go have a life". On the other is the pride of craft, and the thrill of having a really good idea that you want to see to the end.

I've been thinking a lot about this, not least because my relationship was a bit strained last year due to both of us probably putting too much emphasis on our work. I don't know if ultimately one side or the other is the right answer. Doing good and creative work is important and fulfilling. But friends and family are equally important and fulfilling. Maybe the only way is to carefully guard against either one predominating.
Why is that? You would rely on the third option, basing on axioms, no?
Pushing the limits of optical information storage using deep learning
People (including you) put things over their health every day. A sad life would be one utterly regimented and optimized for health.
> In this model, a UNIX pipe acts like a wire, that is, a conductor with parasitic capacitance.

can someone please explain why / how the 'parasitic capacitance' comes into play here ? thanks !

from my very faint memories of ee courses, iirc, 'parasitic capacitance' happens due to proximity of two parts of circuit e.g. one signal-line and another, signal-line -> earth etc. unwanted coupling causes unwanted effects (duh !) f.e. interference, attenuation, distortion etc.

how does this behavior gets observed here ?
2 nuclear power plants in the US in the last 20 years. [0] These shills, lobbyists, and astroturfers need to get better at their job for the defense contractors.

[0] - https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=228&t=21
It’s a monitor - they could have different views of the same data for different users.
Efficient Design of Hardware-Enabled Recurrent Neural Networks
I wounder what sandboxing improvement will be in 63 ;)
Would you call your towel a toothbrush?
Some of the scammers have run shady phone companies like CallerID4U [0] specifically meant as "bulletproof hosting for robocallers". I could see them branching out into the CA business.

CallerID4U seems to have gone (has been put?) out of business, at least. My Asterisk box hasn't received calls from their prefixes (which I blacklisted) since 2015, and their website's main page returns a 403 Forbidden. [1] It took a bit of hunting with the Wayback Machine to find a good shot of their page. [2]

Spot-checking on telcodata.us, it looks like their prefixes/thousands groups have gone to others as well. 253-245-2xxx now belongs to CenturyLink, for instance, and 425-336-8xxx is unassigned.

Much like "unsubscribe" links in spammer emails, they even had a helpful "Click here to register a complaint and put your phone number on the DO NOT CALL (DNC) list" item on their web site.

[0] https://800notes.com/forum/ta-705926565a74ba5/callerid4u-inc...

[1] http://callerid4u.com/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130310040410/http://callerid4u...
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Using the word incompetence is ridiculous. An incompetent person can't do their job and I can tell you all these people were very competent at their job. They just didn't ever have the need to learn binary math. Bitwise math is not needed for a huge portion of software.

That's like saying someone is incompetent because their entire career they have only spoken English and someone writes "el al." to them and they don't know what it means. Sure english is based on latin. Do most english speakers know enough latin to know what "et al." means? Probably. Does that make the person incompetent at their job where they only need to speak English? Definitely not.

A large portion of web developers don't have any formal education and the bootcamps and websites don't teach this stuff. As someone who has a computer science degree it seems absurd, one might even say it sounds like incompetence, but it is actually completely understandable.

Most of them can come up with the modulus solution but the bitwise operator solution is less common.

To the other comment in reply to you that talks about Amazon... yeah, that is Amazon... I work for a company with 1/100,000,000 the budget of Amazon (wild probably inaccurate guess). We don't get the people Amazon attracts. We get the people who all those other companies turned down. But you know what? With extremely few exceptions all of them have been great software developers despite not knowing how to tell if a number is even or odd using bitwise.
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Hierarchical Temporal Memory Using Memristor Networks: A Survey
definitely, and your algorithms class was probably industry-driven and an exposure to what you should be doing to write code in the workforce, not teaching you to come up with novel algorithms.
Prove it.

I've been staying at places like Holiday Inn, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Country Inn & Suites, Courtyard, etc., which area all most certainly "hotels" and all of them have free Wifi.
Ask HN: Cost Effective Options for Email Marketing?
Hey HN!

I'm looking for email marketing options. I know the usual one's people use like MailChimp, Madmimi or Sendy + AWS SES.

Was wondering if self-hosted services like Sendy + SES has good deliverability?
This is technically undefined in C, but most compilers define it to work as expected as an extension to the language.
Code = Language
Taking control and insisting on it is not polite, unless you the boss. It is pretty bad trait for college in cooperative environment.
The Most Beautiful Piece of Code That Prints 42
I wish my school would have done that, those were terribly intensive and not really stimulating like signals was.
An interesting idea! As shown by the sibling comments, there might be some trouble communicating what this means to candidates..
As an engineer I think this is best interpreted as a recommendation to ask a lot of questions when you are given the chance. Take it as an opportunity to demonstrate a greater understanding and care for the opportunity than just the scope of your role. Ask about culture, about challenges, competitive positioning in the marketplace etc.. I try to ask questions that demonstrate a lot of compassion for team dynamics and business objectives. It’s never led me astray.
Guy who loves* Spring here. Curious what you think I'm missing out on...

* I'll grant you that I find Spring Boot to be a blessing and a curse, but that's not what you're talking about, I assume.
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Hybrid CMOS-CNFET Based NP Dynamic Carry Look Ahead Adder
> ”don't build anything”

Every one of your comments contains blatant misrepresentations and devolves into YIMBY talking points. I have clearly represented the study as supporting building. The issue is how much emphasis on BMR and how to protect vulnerable communities from local displacement. The study places strong emphasis on BMR, preserving housing affordability and protecting vulnerable communities — phrases “cherry picked” from its conclusion. Thus it supports the very issues that low income and minority activists have been fighting for against the original YIMBY-supported bill and the amendments that were added to better address their concerns.
I can say I've got through something similar.

A book that made me very introspective was David Brook's The Road To Character . It made me ask my self a lot of questions which I have documented here https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/packages/55/david-brooks-humi...

Another book was Paul Kalanathi's When Breath Becomes Air I also copied some quotes, questions, and answers here https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/packages/135/paul-kalanithis-...

I'd recommend reading biographies because they can help you give perspective about how a person leads their life. The ones I found thoroughly fun was Trevor Noah's Born a Crime, Phil Knight's Shoe Dog.
I guess there was some Swiss bias in what I wrote. Apologies for living in a tiny country.
I'm not sure this is true. Many of the bit twiddling hacks can be used in NEON and they have a few unusual instructions I'm dying to play with.

I'm not sure which bit hack you're talking about that's done with a multiply or multiply-add. There's a nice use involving De Bruijin sequences for doing lg2 of a single bit that's very instructive - is that what you meant?
We could flip the original sentence as: "Blind faith in industrial progress..carried by the tide of public policy..is causing and will continue to cause a ton of damage in the century to come, and the damage will never be repaid."
Exploiting Row-Level Temporal Locality in DRAM to Reduce Memory Access Latency