skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe the term has to do with hair color, and not race.

Was this dumb joke worth making the second line of your post?

Anyway, it resonates with the "Great White Hunter" idea, which is even less acceptable today, and, to some extent, with the "Great White Whale" of Moby Dick. It's a simple fact about race, to a simple extent, and it's an expression that they were on top in a way no group will (should) ever be again.
So, their outsource partners can't invent new things, but can clone every existing thing for a small fraction of the price? That's a good deal for them.
you can transfer free between friends using services like paypal, doesn't that count?
didn't notice this comment until now.

This is a somewhat deep rabbit hole, but what I will tell you is that you'll probably have a hard time finding what you want in a chiclet keyboard because there's not much of a market for chiclet keyboards among keyboard enthusiasts. Chiclet is both a switching mechanism and a keycap; most of the keyboard-enthusiast community is working with setups that involve separate switches and keycaps that are interchangeable.

What you probably want in practice is the following characteristics: a specific key layout, all of the keys should be the same height, the key travel should be low (i.e., the amount of distance you have to depress the keys before registering a keystroke). No idea if you want the keys to make noise or not, or how stiff you want the springs to be, but that's customizable too. If you want chiclet keys because you want low key travel, you have a lot of options. If you want something really thin, there are way, way fewer options.

A single left column of macro keys is not something I've ever seen, but the one keyboard I can think off of hand that has a similar layout is the Red Scarf II, which has two columns of macro keys on the left side; unfortunately it's not currently in production. Some people use an external num pad and put the num pad on the left for this purpose. https://www.massdrop.com/buy/red-scarf-ii-ver-b-custom-mecha...

I personally use a KBD75, which is an aluminum body, tenkeyless layout with a right-hand column, and it's all programmable with QMK so you can make any key do whatever you want. For example, I have a key that, when I press it, reverses the position of the Alt and Win keys, so that I can switch between layouts for either PC or Mac and have the Alt, Command, and Windows keys always in their correct location. Images and build information here: https://imgur.com/a/5pSva2A

you can get keycaps that have a flat profile that are interchangeable with any MX-Compatible switch. DSA Granite is a super popular flat-profile keyset like that: https://pimpmykeyboard.com/dsa-granite-keyset/

it's pretty common to add rubber o-rings to the keys to reduce the travel. But chiclet keys are generally going to restrict the rest of your options.

Anyway reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards has a bunch of info on all this stuff.
No doubt JavaScript is useful but I've been a professional game developer turned VR developer for 18 years without ever needing it in my career. I have friends who went into embedded development who are even less likely to need it.

I could get by just fine professionally knowing C++ and later C# plus a bit of assembly (more so in the past) along with HLSL/Cg for graphics programming. The other languages I've learned have been for my own interest / education and that's included only a very minimal amount of JavaScript.
Depends whether or not you consider Facebook to be a "random website" or not.
This takes me back, and points out something people today probably don't fully appreciate.

In 1993, Edutainment was the promise of computers. We had an old XT that my sister took to college that fall, and we were shopping for a 486. Encarta and National Geographic CD-ROM based titles were everywhere. Every demo in every computer store let you play with these seemingly-limitless repositories of information. It was mind-blowing -- complete with short postage stamp videos for select subjects!

It would be fascinating to look back at all of the titles available, but rich multimedia was finally here, and it died as quickly as it had arrived, as people moved to AOL, CompuServe, and the Internet instead.
Different viewers are different. You want to experience a story when you see a movie, but other people want to be emotionally numbed. Still others want to be reassured they know how they’re supposed to feel about things.
> So lead in the air can make it from Spain to Greenland, about 2700 miles, but not from Greece to Greenland, a distance of about 3100 miles?

I have no domain knowledge about this, but I assumed the difference was in atmospheric circulation. Happy to be corrected by anyone who knows about this stuff, but I'd have thought there was a relatively clear pathway across open ocean from the Iberian peninsula to Greenland. I'd expect the route from Greece to Iceland to be significantly more chaotic as far as wind is concerned; more land, mountain ranges, and opportunities for rainfall and mixing of currents.
Most companies don’t care how discouraging they are to the people they don’t hire.
Yeah you don't have to use machine learning for this type of site there are so many aspiring musicians on the web with home studios good old fashioned crowd sourcing will generally give you a better result than machine learning for this kind of site.
I think they print the online form, have the buyer fill it out (including the stupid captcha) so they can go back and fill it online when the buyer is gone
Two different products tbh, we all throw it into (retail) 'banking' but, payment processing and savings/investments are different products that needn't exist under the same umbrella.

Moreover, the median American has around $3000 in his bank account and a lot of people have negative cash balances. FDIC insurance isn't a big deal in the lives of many millions of people. And even if it was, there's no reason you can't have a bank account with FDIC insurance for your cash savings, and a WeChat like payment system for day to day payment processing.
> It would be a really fast and effective way to create diplomatic tension for a third party who stands to gain from the breakdown of communication.

Assuming they can keep their involvement secret, which is not a given.
Sometimes the discussion is only about the headline, as there is nothing else in the content.
What I find fascinating is how there's a whole mathematical formalism for describing juggling patterns called siteswap which allows patterns to not only be described, but discovered. It's based on throw heights, with the basic 3-ball cascade being represented by 3 - a sequence of balls thrown so they land 3 beats later on, repeated indefinitely. 531 indicates one ball thrown high, one mid-height and then one passed directly across from one hand to the other.

Basic intro:

http://www.twjc.co.uk/siteswap.html

Much more in-depth treatment here including synchronous and multiplex patterns, ladder and causal diagrams and a bunch of proofs relating to the notation:

https://www.jugglingedge.com/pdf/BenBeeversGuidetoJugglingPa...

but you can always go here and try a few patterns such as 3, 441, 531, 504, (4,4) or in windmill/Mill's Mess mode, 423

http://www.gunswap.co/
It seems like we'd know by now (I mean here in the US) whether there are sounds that 1) can cause mild TBI symptoms and 2) are only just barely [0] detectable.

Mild TBI symptoms include [1]:

- May remain conscious or may experience a loss of consciousness for a few seconds or minutes.

- Headache

- Confusion

- Lightheadedness

- Dizziness

- Blurred vision or tired eyes

- Ringing in the ears

- Bad taste in the mouth

- Fatigue or lethargy

- A change in sleep patterns

- Behavioral or mood changes

- Trouble with memory, concentration, attention, or thinking

I'm guessing that since this has hit the media via [1] and Pompeo's reporting, the "employee personal/performance problem" angle has been ruled out.

0. "subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure" -- https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/ha-05232018/

1. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Traumatic-...
Also open air broadcasting isn't mentioned anywhere in plan descriptions.
"Mailer, Updike, Roth-the Great Male Narcissists* who’ve dominated postwar realist fiction are now in their senescence, and it must seem to them no coincidence that the prospect of their own deaths appears backlit by the approaching millennium and on-line predictions of the death of the novel as we know it."

David Foster Wallace (1997)

http://observer.com/1997/10/john-updike-champion-literary-ph...
Sleeping in until 8:30 sounds amazing. Much better than the current 6:00 my toddler prefers.
> Regulations exist so that entrenched players can use the lethal force of government to block new challengers.

That's not how it appears to everyone. That's often how they are crafted, but this is not a problem with the concept.
We don't use FB anymore.
I'm in zone 4 too and I get 200Mbps. I could pay for more, and I'd probably get it, but 200Mbps is fine.

I guess it's just a dice roll. /shrug
And they define it as a sleeping for more than 5 hours:

"people under the age of 65 who get less than five hours sleep on the weekend had an increased risk of death"
I don't know where to start with writing an emulator. Any ideas?
Back then the big consumer players were Nintendo, Sony and Philips. The PlayStation was actually the second PlayStation, with a deal between Philips and Sony to jointly produce it blown by Nintendo. The result of which being Philips able to use Nintendo licenses in limited ways, and Sony hating Philips.
I think modern society is in a sleep deprivation epidemic that needs to be addressed, and just weekends isn't going to cut it.
Actually, this "Consultant" part is released today. I could consult a client, and charge my hours, but I wouldn't mind if someone else implements the proposed solution. :-)
Motion Store. Elevated
The VAX had a POLY opcode, which evaluated polynomials of arbitrary degree:

http://uranium.vaxpower.org/~isildur/vax/week.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9841892

> The table address operand points to a table of polynomial coefficients. The coefficient of the highest-order term of the polynomial is pointed to by the table address operand. The table is specified with lower-order coefficients stored at increasing addresses. The data type of the coefficients is the same as the data type of the argument operand. The evaluation is carried out by Horner's method, and the contents of R0 (R1'R0 for POLYD and POLYG, R3'R2'R1'R0 for POLYH) are replaced by the result.
I remember once playing the CD-I at CES in 1992 (maybe ‘93), well before the days of E3. This was also the same conference where I saw a preview demo of the Sega CD (in retrospect the demo was a complete hoax).

But, what stuck with me most was the potential capability of CD based game systems to have much more immersive environments. It seemed imminent that we would go from 2D sprite based games to something much more complex, and it was absolutely fascinating at the time.
I think most of the talk is about increasing the number of women and non-Asian nonwhites. I’ve heard very little talk about being more respectful of people’s humanity (whether applicants, employees, or the general public).
Yeah a corporate job may be 'soul draining' but at least they are legally req. to pay you. This sudden interest and push to freelancing and gigs seems like a way to inure people to the loss of this ironclad right to get paid.
This is true. And net salaries are 3x higher.

Say, an average tech Joe from Munich is getting home only 3 to 4 thousands of dollars after taxes (48%, it includes social security, etc.), but renting a studio costs almost the same as in San Fran. All other costs are similar or more expensive in Europe.

Even healthcare is more expensive in Germany: if both parents are getting more than 3k USD after taxes each, then each of them need to pay around $900 (!!!), thus $1800 per month HEALTH INSURANCE per family. Good thing is that your employer pays around 50% of that costs, but even $900 health insurance is not as cheap in comparison with USA, right?

Day care, kindergarten - costs depend on your income. The more you earn the more you pay. On average it's around $800-$1000 per month/child for public kindergartens (assuming your net monthly income is over 3k USD) or $2000-$3000 private.
>This was a long time ago so it’s probably very different now.

As a recent CS undergrad and current software engineer in a research organization, I don't think it is. Most of the people I worked with on group assignments in my undergrad had, at best, a limited understanding of their prior coursework, much less any knowledge acquired on their own time. Furthermore, CS PhDs in my org don't know anything about software engineering and mostly don't care. They are really here to do math. They don't need to write good code because I can transform their mediocre (from an SE perspective) code that handles the base case of a complex algorithm into better code that is maintainable, handles error cases and integrates with the rest of our codebase.
A few things that come to mind: lower COL, individual liberties, food culture, outstanding diversity of geography, easier to get around by car, no GDPR if you want to run a website.
I guess remote isn't for everyone.
They don't want to risk 4% fo global revenue to find out.
Firefox, Chrome, and CloudFlare all already support (DRAFT) TLS 1.3:
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/15/how-to-enable-tls-1-3-supp...

Apache mod_nss and nginx support (DRAFT) TLS 1.3.

The changes to allowed ciphers in TLS 1.3 could be implemented by modifying webserver config (e.g. as produced by the aforementioned Mozilla config generator tool). IDK what versions of (unupgraded) browsers that would cut off.
Typical day at my job :

08.20: Come in to work. Check if there is any errors with loadings in production. Chat with colleagues.

09:00: Pointless standup where we tell the product owner the stuff that is on the kanban board. She asks if we are stuck. We are not. If we were, we would have unstuck ourselves.

9:15 to 11:00: Chat with colleagues, write some simple code. Harder code is reserved for work at home due to noise level in open office.

13:00 - 16:00: Meetings usually, a couple of them. Enough to make sure it's not possible to get into flow even with headphones.

That's a typical day in my office.
What could have been more attractive about Australia than the US?
That actually made me realize how wasteful this system is by business standards. We should expect a income stream of at least 8% of the investment on something like this. So, this decision needs to add 500 million rides per year at $2.75, and that's not even considering the marginal cost of adding riders beyond just the signal changes. So, a 30% increase in MTA usage just because trains will come slightly faster? Not a chance in hell do they get that.
Anyone know the name of the grant/program/challenge ? I didn't see it in the article..
I sunk a ton of time into Encarta as a kid. In some ways, it still seems superior to Wikipedia.
> I encourage people to run timing tests on their own code, as that is what matters to them.

This is the heart of the matter: benchmarking toy and unrelated bits of code amount to the same thing.

I think what people really need is a straightforward, accessible understanding of where a software implementation is inefficient. Design inefficiency can sometimes be "hacked over" (read "paved over") a bit like evening out technical debt; implementation inefficiencies, perhaps not so much. Making a complex database query faster by fiddling with (very) obscure SQL options because a given vendor's query planner is broken in a rare edge-case is one example that comes to mind.

I think it's especially sad when a software implementation becomes renowned for its inefficiency. It kinda takes the heat off in what I would argue is a very unfair way, like it legitimizes slowness like speed isn't a worthy pursuit... and then we wonder why our computers are slow. (Yeah, I'm thinking about Python here... and to a small extent many interpreted languages.)

In the context of D (and now DMC++ :D), so specifically compilers, it would be interesting to know what areas of the language don't generate especially fast code, or what bits might produce code that uses a little memory than it could, etc. Because that's what people really want to know before they take the time to write/port; and if they know about all the instances of "don't do XYZ in this very specific way" ahead of time, maybe they can write the best possible code on the first try! (Design and implementation are intertwined in practice.)

I suspect the list of such "avoid"s may not be long. It might make for a particularly efficient kind of developer user manual.
"Sometimes"... the majority of HN comments are replies to a headline.
Using AWS Cost Management Products to Help Save Costs on RDS Reserved Instances
It's a perfect location to have public transit, but it's an absolutely terrible place to build it because you would have to disrupt so much existing infrastructure and millions of people.
So cut other spending. There is a 100% chance that there is money being mispent somewhere else. When a family has a budget, they can’t go over that budget: they cut expenses and prioritize. Governments are unwilling to do that because they somehow feel that every single expenditure is “vital.”
They are looking to build one more.
That is true. Having a rooster makes it easier to introduce new hens into a flock though and raising your own hens from eggs is fun.
Most places significantly cut total vacation time as part of the conversion and you still need a reserve to cover sick days anyway.

The loss of sick days also tends to get people to show up to work sick which is terrible downside IMO.
5 billion. I wish I understood how projects involving that much money are actually managed.
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3029477/norman-foster-on-design...
Ditto - I've been wanting to do one on a small ARM Cortex-M core, but it's bewildering to even think about where to start.

It seems like people have put together a lot of good documentation for old systems though, which could at least be a good place to start reading:

https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm
Will the Future of the Stock Market Be “Survival of the Fittest”?
It's not just about quantity. And even if the central issue was figuring out how many years of education people need, that wouldn't negate my claim that the subject is of the utmost importance.
Πfs GDPR compliance
I fully expected to see jobs for 'Media Marketing Ninja' or 'Social Media Hacker', but the jobs listings are normal. Was not surprised to see it's an SEO company. Making the internet a better place one backlink at a time!
However, they absolutely did business servicing the EU before and gathered an enormous amount of personal data of EU citizens by doing that.

As such I'd be surprised if they simply declare their service closed at one time and instantly lose all obligations for the data they collected in the past.

As an analogy, if you paid for some service in advance, the service took your money and then, instead of providing the service, spontaneously declared to end their relationship with you, you'd probably have good chances if you were to sue them.
Ask HN: Should I keep using antivirus software?
I've lately been noticing a particularly high performance hit on my personal computer from the antivirus software that I run (Avast).

I'm generally careful about what I download and run on my computer -- is there still reason for me to use antivirus software?
paypal isn't a bank, though.
You might want to start with a CHIP-8 emulator. There are a lot of guides on the web, and it isn't a giant time commitment.
This topic is a FAQ:

> "Are paywalls ok?"

> "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."

> "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
A large library is perfectly fine if it provides enough functionality to pull its own weight. But these days just about every site on the web has dozens if not hundreds of bloated libraries for the stupidest things and large bundle sizes due to that have become a pretty good indication of wrong priorities from the developer's part.

And I, as a user, am left waiting several seconds waiting for pages larger than the original Doom executable to load. It's gotten so bad that my wife had to be selective of when to use her phone because browsing normally without wifi from starbucks etc would get her over the plan limit by mid-month. I mean, how much browsing are you really supposed to be able to do when every page is several MBs of JS alone, and you have a 300MB/mo plan to work with? Not every country has cheap/good mobile plans.
Also it is generally better to have a consistent sleep schedule, because circadian rhythms and routine. Good sleep habits are highly correlated with health.

As I get older, it is increasingly difficult to maintain the 4 hr weekday sleep and then crash on weekends. The body can no longer tolerate this type of variation.
Exactly. I explored legal options, but with Client, Website and me based in different countries, it was gonna be just too expensive.
Even the first line of illustration is kind of misleading - "Paycheck is deposited into employee's bank account"; there's no such thing as a paycheck in most places worldwide, no checks get involved. The employers pay out the salary with free or cheap bank-to-bank payments, and have done it long enough that the term 'check' has no colloquial relation to your salary.

The main difference for accessibility of such payments is that, unlike cards, there's no percentage fee involved; and that, unlike paper checks, processing them can be so automated and cheap that payments can be offered for free or nearly so.
Ok then, companies that hover around 900 employees. Business owners aren't stupid either, generally.
> All the problem I have, which I absolutely hate and drive me crazy are colour inaccuracy and flickering. Both of which are non existent to Halogen Lamp.

Not really true. The fancier halogen lamps (e.g. MR16s with reflectors that pass IR) have CRI below 100. Halogen lamps do buzz, especially when connected to a dimmer. (Many halogen lamps are 12V, too, and most of the transformers also buzz.) And they all flicker — the power delivered to the filament is roughly sinusoidal at 120Hz, and the thermal mass is low enough that there is a good amount of modulation in the light output. IIRC it’s about 30%. It just so happens that the residual 120Hz modulation is low enough that it doesn’t affect most people.

A crappy LED driver modulates much deeper than 30% at 120Hz and might even modulate at 60Hz. A good LED driver doesn’t.
Funny enough, that difference in needs when deciding what to watch (if anything at all) has turned out to be one of the best indicators for whether or not to keep dating someone for me.
Was he referring to the Abilene paradox?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
In "science projects" like these, you pay in time to recieve experience. By day I do Javascript at work, but my work on a passion project resulted in a wealth of OpenGL and C++ experience. Enough that when I was tapped to do work on our C backend, I hit the ground running quick.
It's hard to keep something like this out of the media and trying to do so could backfire and create an even bigger mess.

Going public is really the only response that makes strategic sense, irrespective of the causal factor.
The percentage of open source code in proprietary apps is rising