skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ACM also comes with free access to Safari Books Online which gives me electronic access to 95% of all professional books I'm interested in.

That's probably my only real gripe with unions. I want the benefits and collective bargaining (of course), and I like the courses they occasionally hold, but I have no desire to effectively donate money to parasites like O'Reilly.

Thankfully my local union (Sveriges Ingenjörer -- Sweden's Engineers) doesn't have the O'Reilly agreement, but I'm still stuck paying for crap such as https://www.nyteknik.se/.
Forwarding Loop Attacks in the Content Delivery Networks (2016) [pdf]
It's more than that too. Sometimes the companies have the knowledge and skill, they just don't have the time. Their engineer might have a list of 15 things to do, and if there's a tool that accomplishes #15, just pay for it and take it off their list.
All I will say is that this protest should be happy that Steve isn't in charge anymore, he would not react well to something like this being "demanded" of Apple. I think realistically Apple will just ignore these folks the way they operate today, I just doubt they can impact such policy change but who knows...

In the end of the day its good to see groups of people try to fight for change they believe in. So no matter how I feel about this specific efforts chances of success, its inspiring to see them try. Even if this fails it might encourage other people to join forces and use collective efforts to push for reforms.

If nothing else as the big corporations take more control away from us peons this (union type efforts) is our last way of having any say in the big picture, so we need more, not less of this kind of activism.
I think OP is a bit confused, the post is very ambiguous and on telegram he added more info but still hasn't fully formalized what he's trying to say
Counter point: lots of people are just very, very passionate about their country and have even less sense of perspective on social media.

I remember well over a decade ago a student wrote a comment piece about the PRC in my UK university, which had a large Chinese student population. It was a fairly bad comment piece that felt like the student in question was angling for a slot at one of the UK's very right wing tabloids (funnily enough the student journalist is now a well-respected commentator at the FT) but its fundamental point was the fairly uncontroversial observation that the Chinese government isn't democratic and has very different foreign policy priorities than the West. It's possible, of course, that some of the outrage on the threads below the article on the website from people apparently incapable of distinguishing between disparagement of government and insults to ordinary people was orchestrated by a higher power, even though English student media probably isn't top of the CCCP's list of priorities now, never mind in the early 2000s.

But a lot of the hysterical commentary about how deeply offensive and discriminatory it was towards Chinese people that ended up in the print edition came from named people who were actually overseas students at the university.

People being willing to spend their free time manufacturing the same outrage or enthusiasm others receive full time incomes for manufacturing isn't exactly a uniquely Chinese thing either...
Sono Motors: A 35kwithh electric car for 16.000€ and battery rental
I left journalism for tech … and I use all the same skills
> Copyright has been extended to cover fictional characters for instance.

Can you provide an example?
What Is a Wallet and How Does a Crypto Payment Work (Explain Like I’m 5)
One could read this as you're being dodgy with your user data. If you were reasonable with the data in the first place, then compliance costs nothing.
false. I know hoards of engineers working on boring code at google
Motorola removed 64 bit MUL/DIV as well as transcendental floating point instructions (FCOS, FSIN, ...) in the 68060, ARM removed Jazelle instructions, AMD removed 3DNow! instructions.

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/MC68060UM.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

https://web.archive.org/web/20131109151245/http://developer....
> Guns prevent egregious violations of rights. But egregious violations of rights tend to be preceded by confiscation of guns or other forms of gun control, which is generally not seen as sufficient justification for violent resistance.

Again, if true, that clearly undermines the claim that guns prevent violations of rights.
A good reputation with solid references that are checked from real engineers and managers that you actually delivered a good product seems like it would suffice to override the straight up lying, to me. Is that not the case?
Anecdotes are not data. I know plenty of farms that do use invisible fences. Dogs have a habit of digging under fences when determined.
So many conflicts of interest with the WashingtonPost reporting on Bezos and Trump and that's before we even delve into the conflicts of interest in subjugating companies to unequal costs under the law. Idk why USPS which loses Billions per year is subsidizing Amazon which makes Billions per year and how that makes sense for we the take payers. Maybe someone can help me see what I'm missing here.
Some I checked were already taken and others were "premium" domains.
To be honest I know nothing about law enforcement in the EU, but the one thing I have heard about in recent memory is that guy who made a video of his girlfriend's dog saluting hitler, and was subsequently tried for a hate crime, convicted, and was charged with a pretty hefty 800 GBP fine after being found in violation of the Communications Act of 2003[1]. Seems like a pretty poor example of principles-based regulation. Maybe it's just an outlier though, idk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Meechan
Yes and no. The answer is actually quite complicated... and I have no idea if I'm allowed to talk about it publically or not.
"Deep learning is like big data: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it..."

Tim Hopper
https://twitter.com/tdhopper/status/916383020835368960
> Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat (innocent until proven guilty).

Seriously?
I'd break that down like this:

Google-esque companies figure "Let's just ask these hard puzzles to filter by IQ, everything practical (e.g. databases) can be learned"

However, some companies tend not to see these specialized puzzles as an IQ test, but rather a memorization-based learned skill (learn these 10 algorithms and their performance metrics). To them, asking questions that represent day-to-day job challenges is a better predictor.
You’re misreading the fine is in the range 0..max(20 million, .04*revenue).

Basically if you’re a small business your maximum fine is likely 20 million, if you’re a large one it’s 4% of your global revenue. The global revenue is needed because companies are perfectly happy moving their money around to minimize the amount of money they make in places that will fine and tax them. They’re also super good at manufacturing reasons that profit does not actually get recorded as profit. Also it’s generally accepted that fines and settlements are an expense, so you’d get a situation where ome fine would effectively discount another.
As this article says, some doctors are doubtful of the benefits of breast cancer screening.

https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2055

That references this (quite old, 2012 Cochrane review):
http://cochranelibrary-wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD0018...
Maybe they work in advertising ;)
I believe the author was referring to work done in reason, logic and 'natural philosophy' from the time of Kant/Hume/Leibniz onwards, so, 18thC+.

One of the reasons philosophy doesn't seem so well these days - I think - is because the value our society places on software engineers is so much higher. The same kinds of natural ability which help with reasoning about the behaviour of some function, help with reasoning about the shape of some concept in philosophy.

I don't particularly lament this shift, as a philosophy grad who is working on becoming a software engineer. I only lament that experimental and multi-disciplinary philosophy is becoming cool and interesting only in the past decade or so.
“If I Were Wrong, What Would It Look Like?”
Xi is a very smart fellow, and he seems to sincerely want what is best for his country. That said, I think he is making some terrible mistakes. Instead of helping the population become smarter, better-informed thinkers, he is trying to turn them into robots.

Xi is creating an illusion of unity, which means if things start to go seriously wrong, there will be an explosion, as happened so many times in China's past. Citizens will lack the sort of intelligence and ability to work together that would be needed to resolve problems, and the country likely will either fall into chaos or under the rule of a malevolent emperor.

Let me add that Xi claims to be following Confucian principles, but that is not at all true. Confucianism is a set of principles that everyone from the top down was required to follow. Xi, in contrast, answers to no one, and is simply making up his own rules.

To the Chinese out there, let me say that what you need to do is get your hands on all the information you can from independent sources, and study political philosophy, so that you will be in a better position to make intelligent decisions in the future.
Some engineers think that whiteboarding is not clear enough ... that code snipts are better.

The key about whiteboarding is it take away all the specific syntax and gets to the heart of the understanding the logic.

Thats what collaberation is for, i think many young engineers that only code with an ide are nervious whrn they dont have autocomplete available and they lose focus on the core logic.

Programmerd used to write on paper ... this entire process (coding without the ide/search engine) is lost.

But this is the part where the programmer shoes their strength in logic ... not syntax memory.
Because eggs that don’t break when dropped even 3 ft (never mind multiple floors) are a thing? Perhaps I am just projecting my Earth based experience...
This seems to be flawed logic, many EU devices have IP addresses from non EU address blocks.

Assuming there is any significant adoption of your proposed solution to avoid GDPR rules the likelyhood is EU citizens will use VPN or Proxy services to bypass the restrictions.

I don’t think the use of a VPN would remove the GDPR obligations on the data controller or data processor.
Better Rails Logs: Current User Request Context
We don't know the specifics of the work environment there. I mean if you were working on a trading pit on Wall Street would be offended when your boss/co-workers yell at you "f- off" or "get the f- out"?

The reaction of the same person should be different if the work environment never had the f- word pronounced though. That would mean trouble.
‘Will You Be My Emergency Contact?’ Takes on a Whole New Meaning
I have pondering of an idea, which encourages local economy. Products, services or goods would be preferred of the local area. This is to allow visibility of local businesses and encourage spending locally. This also would provide jobs for the local people. Its frightening that globalised economy while beneficial takes jobs or sucks out of local economy. What do you think?
Proxies are hardly new (2014?), well, just like Es6. There are some interesting applications [0] but I don't know if is use it in production.

[0]: https://curiosity-driven.org/array-slices
(Sorry about the typos)
Is Git a Google project now?
I understand this was private communication from Rob and Russ.
When I was in college I had a website that I ran google ads on. I let a balance build up over time so I could use the money to buy school books. When I attempted to cash out Google (which up until that time had no problem profiting off of my site) decided that I was part of a clickfraud ring and refused to pay out the money. There was no way to appeal.

Honestly, to this day, I am still far less likely to use Google services (I won't touch Google's Cloud, for instance) because of how bad that experience was. The stress of being a college student who needed that money was definitely a multiplier, but at the end of the day I don't think it's possible to expect Google to do the right thing when it comes to customer support- especially when they can directly profit by hurting them.
Opening a new bank account as easy as taking a selfie
If you're a programmer by formation, then indeed you will be given a programming intensive, theoretically non-intensive task (or be found to be qualified for such a job). If you are more theoretically inclined, unsurprisingly, you end up with a more theoretically heavy job.
Irreducible complexity sounds like an incredibly high bar.
> pointing out the random articles dealing with China ever is also unrelated. (A freaking article about the Moon lander for pete's sake)

Which was observed to have had anomalous commenting behavior.

I think it's an important question to consider if the 50 Cent Party operates on non-Chinese forums, and the observation in that comment is relevant to that question.

> The topic is propaganda, that other countries and organizations like companies do that is related to the topic.

And the topic of the Xinjiang re-education camp thread, judging by the comments, must have been "everything bad that any country has ever done ever." /s
Most likely it was noted because several of us probably immediately wondered why google would have taken it upon themselves to release a new version of something they weren't the maintainer of.
Because primes exist on a base 6 numeric scale. Where all prime numbers are multiples of 1 and 5.
I would like to see a law mandating all bots emulating any amount or type of artificial intelligence to announce themselves at the start of the conversation
> I never loved nor pretended to love her—but a man is a man—& if a girl of eighteen comes prancing to you at all hours—there is but one way.

Truer words were never spoken.
I spent two hours today at our campsite working on my web sites to make them reasonably compliant. One problem area is that I serve my blog on Google Blogger. With pained reluctance I turned off comments and stopped showing my followers. I also linked to Google’s own GDPR info page. I used to use Jekyll and maybe I should go back to doing that.

Any suggestions?
Training Automation Is Your Ticket to B2B SaaS Growth
This is an extremely naive bunch of statements. For side projects where there is only a single developer, it's not a matter of "not caring" but literally not having the time to do these things. Putting an archive system into a service may not be as easy as a DB query. It could be pulling images out of a file storage system, generating thousands of PDF documents or a million other ways data is stored. I hope you can realize that oversimplifying every application to a DB query is just absurd. Add on top of that, now the developer needs to support an entire separate system for pulling data out in addition to whatever the project is meant for. What if this system breaks? Does the developer have to guarantee uptime for this system?

Also, I fail to see how not having time to build an archive system equates to the developer not storing their data securely? That's just an accusation you decided to make which is irrelevant and accusatory.

The point of this post was to show an easy way to ensure you're compliant in 15 lines of code. Building the archive system and associated subsystems will be more than that, without question. Just because you don't like this solution doesn't mean it isn't a solution.
Lots of songs are used in commercials and movies that people still enjoy, so I'm not sure why that's supposed to be such a death blow to classical music specifically. If it's because classical music needs to be enjoyed over a long period of time, observing the interplay of themes, it's not well-suited for the world we live in now anyway.

Overall, I just don't see the problem. The lost enjoyment of classical music is sometimes lamented in the way the author is doing, but really why should it matter what particular forms people enjoy or don't?

If people find it boring to listen to, if people would rather listen to Beyonce or whatever these days, it's fine. We don't eat or dress as was done when much of this music was made, but you don't see anyone mourning pantaloons.

And, why can't people just not like it? Why does it have to be because we're not properly introduced to it, so we just don't understand it properly? I never enjoyed this music very much, and I spent plenty of time in orchestras and so forth. Sonically it's sumptuous, but overall it just doesn't interest me. That's okay!
Okay, so I understand how you feel. The thing is I clicked on that post and the top comments are critical of indoctrination camps. There's one top-level comment you replied to that pointed out an irony given the imprisoned population here in the US.

The article details, AFAICT, the CCP's attempts to spread propaganda to its own people, not to the west, although I have no doubts it does try to spread it elsewhere. So given that, what is the likelihood that most of the critical, anti-US comments are in fact CCP propaganda hires? I don't know, but it seems a little bit much to assume everything is a plot to subvert people's opinions.

I'm not a propagandist. I agree with the sentiment in the comment on that article (I missed) about the US imprisoned population. People can disagree with you and point out opinions you disagree with.

I said earlier, somewhat sarcastically, it sucks that people are pushing things in this comment thread and voting down and flagging comments that point out other countries do the same. I am always somewhat paranoid, and anyone would given Snowden leaks and having read history about things like COINTELPRO, etc., but it was somewhat tongue in cheek (yes, I'm not perfect, I say mean things online like most people). Do I really believe all of you are US gov't plants trying to sway people to be belligerent to China? I don't think so.

I get we should keep our eyes open, but we should be willing to accept that there are people who disagree with us, and not everyone who disagrees with us is a Russian/Chinese/etc bot. I'm actually really bothered by the attitude online these days that calls everyone who disagrees with us as being an astroturf. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it really helps to further strengthen the echo chambers we've created for ourselves.
As a counter argument, I think the PATRIOT act might have not gotten as much popular support had it born a name more accurate to what the bill actually covered.
You need at least a coven or cabal to take on Google, council isn't going to cut it.
Probably just had to demonetize a few more Youtubers in the name of censorship.
Yet promoting artists to create art is the only legitimate ground on which the Constitution gives Congress the authority to create copyright laws.
It irritates people to have brightly colored bike-shaped ads strewn about residential, non-commercial neighborhoods.
Clearly, it made an impression. I wish everyone took software as seriously as Jobs did and shouted at others when a point needed to be made. Say what you will about a shouting boss not being nice or fun to work for, but I think getting shouted at undeniably makes you more attentive to an issue than if steve had tried to instruct him calmly.
What's Sto Lat?
Its not causation, but I'd say it correlates to being a thoughtful person. Drilling down on the architecture blabble to see how deep their understand goes will absolutely tell you whether they could code a solution.

Is there a person who claims to be a coder that has configured and launched a multi-environment microservice with several attached artifacts like DBs and queues, that knows in depth what each is doing, that can't code? At that point you're just testing whether someone has memorized syntax details that they might usually get from an IDE or a 3 second google search in regular development. I have been writing production JS for years but still have to occasionally look up Array.slice vs Array.splice parameters, especially if I haven't done a lot of data munging in a while. That may indicate to a person giving an interview that somehow I'm "faking" it, when in reality its just a momentary stall-out in my brain's lookup tables.
Also see George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell (a scene from Man and Superman often performed as a one-act play).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_and_Superman#Don_Juan_in_H...
50c party is widely accepted as real a thing as Russian troll farms during the election, but I'd be skeptical if HN is a target. (I don't think you need an academic paper to 'prove' it's a real thing.)

The reason you read defensive comments on HN (even from me) is due to how easily anti-China criticism slides from legitimate policy discussion into raw, tribal racism. I simply feel it is my duty to call out anti-Chinese racism when it comes across my path, not just because it makes me mad.
Google indicated was not scripted. Would guess decent number of people involved and little chance lot lying.
Where are these $300k salaries? I have a PhD and work in Atlanta. I never got the memo on these sky high salaries. Don't know anyone else either who earn this much.
...yes?

"[The burden of] proof lies on him who states [a claim], not who denies [it]."
From OP:
> Interestingly, this same pattern holds for more numbers, and for different intervals.

He's not claiming it holds for _all_ n, just for _many_ n.
iZettle is huge in LatAm. Almost every small business I know that is starting to accept credit cards (taco stands, coffee shops, small stores) is using it.

Like WhatsApp, I imagine the company wasn't really on the radar for most people in the States.
But appeal might take forever and by the time it is resolved you file for bankruptcy because the fine ruined the cash flow. I've seen in it many times in the EU, for example in Poland. Civil servants are immune from taking responsibility and if you manage to get any compensation you'll find yourself spending years in courts.
It's not the worst type of puzzle except if you do not know of a solution it might take a while to figure it out.

It does relate to programmer's ability to amortize worst case running time.

Once you realize that 1 egg requires linear search you just have to realize that with 2 eggs you have to decrease the level increase by 1 on each success.

Of course those must be some crazy genetically modified eggs.
(n/2)y^2-(n/2)y + yz + x
> For example, anyone who accepts equitable distribution of attributes across genetic variances(a commonly accepted social narrative).

Can you give an example?
Have you ever worked in development?