skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this to be a pretty obnoxious point of contention.

Soccer is an English term invented in the 19th century. It spread to a number of Anglosphere countries in a similar manner to all sorts of words from 19th century England. It is currently used in Canada, the US, Ireland[1], South Africa, Australia, New Zealand etc.

The idea that soccer is an "Americanism" simultaneously requires you to believe that (a) that only Americans use the term and (b) that Americans are ignorant of the rest of the world.

The reality, of course, is that these countries are using a term that has existed for over a century and is a borrowed word from England. Each of these countries have a prominent sport containing the word football(various rugby codes, american football, gaelic sports), and therefore it was convenient to retain the term soccer.

This, of course, does not jive very well with lazy anti-Americanism however, which generally seems to be the point of the exercise.

[1] I know, I know.
Don't excuse things as trolling.
Given the fixed amount of memory available back then, handles were the only way to avoid fragmentation, although you had to be careful if you required locking them temporarily. I even wrote a tech note on this when I was at Apple back then. How far we have come since then.
Ask HN: Job application tracking featured on Show HN a few months ago?
I'd like to find the URL but I can't remember the name of the application.

IIRC, someone made it while they were job hunting to keep their sanity.

Does anyone remember the name? It was posted on Show HN a few months ago.
I didn't share it here, but it's my application. The source code is available at https://github.com/zachomedia/apple-music-webplayer
Centrelink robo-debt program accused of enforcing 'illegal' debts
I think Ovechkin is a great example of this as well. He has the burst for when he needs it, but a lot of the time he is nonchalantly positioning himself perfectly.
For general YouTube? Sure. For the advertised as curated and safe YouTube Kids? Absolutely not. There is zero excuse for not having a human vetting what they show on there.
I hope it gains Beats One support. It was a long time since I listened because I can’t stomach running a 200+ MB app to stream some AAC file, but I do recall I liked that radio station most at the time of announcement of Apple Music.
This is shifting the goal posts. The point is we have a media that's already well under the thumb of 'rich people', to use the phrase of the person I originally responded to. And so comparing any idea to an ideal of an independent media free of this control is rather disingenuous.

For your shift, is anonymizing control in exchange for a clear ledger of control a bad deal? I'm not sure. Seems like an interesting idea at least, and given the current state of our media I'm more than happy to see any idea trying to change the game.
Before this discussion starts between how the interview process sucks. Here is my 2 cents:

1. Pick up leetcode (or whatever rocks ur boat).

2. Do a lot easy questions and understand the pattern.

3. Do medium level questions and understand the pattern.

4 If you are aiming for Big 4 do Hard.

Coding interviews is all about finding the pattern and applying it. Only way to be good at it is practice. Don't give interviews without some practice.
I'm jealous of folks who have the luxury of being able to have their bodies let them sleep 8 or more hours. I'm not sitting there with a phone next to my pillow, and I have no problems falling asleep. But I always wake up too early, before the alarm, meaning I can't get more than 6.5-7.5 hours because my body is too sensitive to light, noise and everything else: I'm cursed genetically as a light sleeper.

Worst part is, I'm in an unsympathetic world of non-light sleepers who play music, stomp around at odd hours, etc.
One can argue that some of the hosts on Fox already are Disney characters. Hannity/Malificant?
I'll add that they have very good and especially very diverse shows. "La Casa de papel" is killing it (at least here in Europe), and that's because Netflix doesn't care if their shows are spoken in English, Spanish or Swahili, they know that bringing diversity into the cinematic game it's what is badly needed right now.

I'd compare this to Hollywood in the late '60s - early '70s, when it needed the breeze of fresh air brought by La Nouvelle Vague or by Kurasawa's and Jean-Pierre Melville's movies. Right now Hollywood (and the media companies behind it) is stuck in making movies for late-teenager geeks (the comic-book-based endless series, the Star Wars soap opera etc), movies which have almost no interest for the general public.
My partner and I did this a few years ago. Our kids ranged from 5-10. It wasn’t that big of a deal but the social pressure has risen more and more each year due to advertising “watch on YouTube,” classmates having YouTube, elementary schools requiring YouTube projects, complaints that other parents allow and such.

But the strangest thing is the reaction from friends who have kids the same age that we’re being prudes or technophiles. I shared a few of these articles with a friend whose 9 year old had a YouTube channel with a few cute videos but spends about 4-6 hours per day watching. They denied the author. Screen caps showed videos like the ones referenced in the right list and recommended and they still said it wasn’t a big deal.

Really weird reaction from people I know well.

Makes me wonder if I’m getting all Tipper Gore in my old age and this is the new form of heavy metal panic.
Clearly you have a chip on your shoulder so it's not worth having any further discussion.
"If we had tried to tell this story forward, we would have lost most of our audience once they encountered Tharpe’s old-fashioned dresses, twangy guitar and sanctified lyrics." This is an obnoxious piece.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mentats
>History told forwards is superstition: trying to show that what came after was inevitable, when in fact it was one future among an infinite number of different possible futures. History told backwards makes sense: look for the seeds of post events, in the past.

That, besides being totally unintuitive to our sense of time, puts even bigger emphasis on making the future seem inevitable (the past harvested as the "seed for post events").
Non-exclusive distribution is a failed business model.

Exclusivity works. Most of the population don't torrent. Exclusivity drives subscriptions.
I have strong ideas that are somewhat better informed than most people I talk to, but then again I am probably talking to the wrong people. As far as I know Occam's Razor was invented 800 years ago to solve the problem of the holy trinity. Basically medieval philosophers were stumped by the number three - one was fine; unity was perfection... but more than one was a problem - why would god have a certain number of aspects? So school of Scotus formulated the idea that the number of entities was necessary; just right because God knew what was up with the universe and therefore would produce aspects to necessity. This brought in the idea that there were elegant and sufficient numbers of things in nature which was quite contrary to the old way of looking at the infinite and mystical aspects of the world, inspired by ideas of real numbers and right angled triangles with length 2 hypotenuse. This idea has been a handy heuristic for science (not maths) ever since, but it has no actual basis apart from avoiding getting put on a bonfire if you were a Christian philosopher in the thirteenth century ( I think that William of Occam was nearly burned in Avignon, but talked his way out of it).
That's my point: don't try to do content curation, pass it down to the next level. A limited number of manually vetted publishers should have access to the kids sections, and that access should be a very valuable asset which they lose when publishing bad content; as opposed to a burner Youtube account anyone can setup in minutes.
As another example, this morning I needed to perform a small convolution in an inner loop. Since I'm targeting x64 under the msvc compiler I can't write an external assembly function and have it inlined into the inner loop. Therefore I was left with just using the raw intrinsics from intrin.h for like, 10 lines of code. The simplicity of the convolution means the compiler will have no problems generating optimal code.
Someone on Reddit is also experiencing the same issue. I haven't had a chance to look into it more. It's likely that MusicKit JS isn't initializing for an unknown reason (my app initializes after MusicKit JS).
The code for these hash tables is open source. You keep repeating that he should be using your hash functions for reasons xyz. Honestly, if you really believe this, show that doing so is better.

Just because you are the author of uvw does not make yo right.
Brilliant! I would, too.
Maybe, "slaves eavesdropped on plantation owners while operating manual ceiling fans." Then, it wouldn't be implied that something about the ceiling fans in particular helped with the eavesdropping.
I would love to see a short movie based on this story:) It could be hilarious...
The Evolution of the Airline Seat
> interesting technical problems to solve and not consider outsourcing them to other vendors?

> a company which has a well established product (preferably something used by developers) and has some room for creativity

> composing AWS Services to fit customers needs

Have you considered AWS? Look, I won't go and defend Amazon's reputation because there's lots of people who don't like it here. But lots of us do, and you might. You understand AWS well as a customer of it- there's lots of AWS dev teams who could use someone with that experience, and they pay well enough. Lots of stocks, which seem to never stop rising in value.

Bias note: I work in a totally different division of Amazon.
I have serious problems with this article's headline: "Two years ago, NASA dismissed and mocked an amateur’s criticisms of its asteroids database. Now Nathan Myhrvold is back, and his papers have passed peer review."

The two people who actually did the mocking and dismissing are a UCLA professor and a JPL employee, not NASA employees. The only person who's legally allowed to speak on behalf of NASA (David Morrison) says what this guy is doing is great, and somehow that means NASA "mocked and dismissed" this man's claims?

I get that the author and the editorial staff (who likely chose that headline) are shooting for a David vs. Goliath angle, but really?
Having gone through the same situation, I'd advise practice and you'll eventually catch on. Hackerrank is a good place to start.
See the docs [1]. As I understand it, each actor is a Raft group. Each actor has its own independent SQLite WAL.

[1] http://www.actordb.com/docs-howitworks.htmlhttp://www.actord...
> People would be less happy to shell out for yet another subscription, especially for a single kind of content (unless you watch Disney all day, it doesn't make sense to subscribe).

There are multiple market reports (not a public one that I can find) that show the vast majority of Netflix subscribers already do shell out for another subscription (and that's true internationally, including in non-Prime Amazon territories, so it's not about Amazon delivery).

Most people will very much happily shell out for multiple subscriptions.
> Really, nobody actually studies history going forward. We don't for example study random people's backgrounds on the off chance they might have an impact. Rather we pick important figures based on what they did and then go back and take a look at their backgrounds.

I don’t believe that to be correct, actual history studies seem to be a lot of back-and-forth on topics surrounding, let’s say, a particular event that we know happened or believe to happened. Then in this back-and-forth you will have the spotlight on some specific characters who seem to be related to the event (and then, as you said, a huge part of the actual details are filtered out, I don’t see how that could be otherwise). So of course you have to go in the past to focus on an event.

> So the trap in teaching history going forward is you hide why things are being studied.

Aren’t topics studied because they are believed to be true, or because researchers think that there is some interesting knowledge to find? What are those reasons that we hide?

> Further by focusing on only important things people start to associate importance with what is being focused on right now.

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean by that.
Yes, but it's probably more reliable to just construct a test that forces them to compare in a pairwise sort, than try to explain how to do it.
So much content is already locked behind exclusive streaming rights. I don't see how this would happen without extensive regulation.
Umm, fresh fruit, beef, beer, to name a few reasons.
nah, this is how Lithium ion cells fail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J-h6fC1GrU 2 and 6:50 minute mark for quite dramatic demonstrations
Eh, I would call very few people at the Murdoch’s and Mercer’s media conglomerates and the like journalists, and while they’ve significantly amplified extremism in the last two years, they’ve never been considered legitimate journalistic organizations like the New Yorker or the Washington Post.
In general, sure, that sounds like a great idea.

As for the actual linked website, https://www.virtualprogrammingtutor.com/, it's highly unclear what the deal is. Are the people requesting tutoring going to pay for this? Do the tutors get paid?

Teaching programming to become a better programmer is one thing, teaching programming for free so that someone else can make money is a another thing.
FSK across the room? Does that have noise restrictions?

I’ve found all the phase modulation schemes work poorly across the room. DSSS works ok but is very slow. I would be curious how reliable FSK is in that situation.
Btw, is there already a handshake and data protocol for the AI calls via voice to a business phone which happens to be received by another AI? So instead of voice call they try to negotiate using data packets and save some time and clarity.
Yes, and it's results confused everyone in physics and made people wonder what was really going on, but it could have been that another "amended" version of aether could have worked out, or it could have been that there was some mess with the experiment, or something else (perhaps) a bit like gravity now (cdm, or something else?) - when Einstein came up with relativity then all of that was blown away because Relativity came with positive predictions that aether didn't come with and these predictions were then observed ("look ma that swan is black, I told ya"). Now, who out there actually believes that cold dark matter is wrong because no one has had a good direct observation so far? It might be wrong, but it isn't ruled out at all.
Their aim is to create a “super wood” that is stronger than most metals. Their approach is to treat blocks of wood with sodium hydroxide and sodium sulphate in a chemical process similar to that used to remove lignin from papermaking pulp. The difference is that they remove only enough lignin to make the wooden blocks easier to compress. They do that by squeezing the treated wood at around 100°C, which causes most of the pores and tubelike fibres within the wood to collapse. This increases its density threefold and its strength elevenfold.

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

The two biggest disadvantages of plant fibres are [1] they're flammable, and [2] easily damaged by moisture. Maybe I'm just cynical, but this feels like it can only advance planned obolescence --- in the same way as the rest of the "biodegradable" materials trend.
How does this differ from PCH?
You're absolutely right, but that still leaves it a garden path sentence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence) and thus a poor title.

The measure of good writing isn't that it's possible to parse unambiguously with sufficient dedication. Good writing gets the idea across without placing any undue burden on the reader.

(And it's easily fixed by adding a second "why": "Netflix is why AT&T bought Time Warner and why Comcast and Disney want Fox".)
- Practice a lot.

- For that authentic whiteboard performance feeling ask a friend to play the role of an interviewer.

- Maybe set up a local meet up to help people practice this interview skill
So you disbelieve dark matter because it's not been directly observed?
If you don’t want to subscribe, then don’t. But these services are cheap compared to what they’re replacing. The average cable bill is over $100. These streaming services are the a la carte channels everyone was always saying they wanted in the bad old days when content was bundled together in cable packages.
There are laws that set statutory royalty fees for music recordings, which strongly encourages non-exclusive licensing, even when those laws don't apply.
No, humans don't do better. What you probably mean is you're personally good at applying your own judgement that's arbitrarily based on your own culture and experiences regardless of whether that's good or bad. But would you trust all other humans with that task? Isis was composed of humans but they taught schoolchildren to kill people. I grew being read the bible at school and had to hear stories about entrails being spilled on the ground, hands being cut off, and a father attempting to murder his son in a fit of mental illness. Humans told me those stories. These complaints are just parents being parents and hunting for anything to worry about for their children. The anecdotes about being afraid of the dark, crying and violence obviously cannot be attributed to some particular thing they watched. Even scientists can't work out the causes of child behavior with much reliability.
Disk I/O. This stays in memory between compilations.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. It’s definitely possible to just not let your kids use YouTube unsupervised.. or curate content for them.
Really interesting article. Wish Myhrvold's research had been available in 2013, seemingly the last time the Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee (jurisdiction over civilian space issues, i.e. NASA) had a hearing on space threats like asteroids.

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID...

The hearing featured Dr. Ed Lu, who leads the B612 Foundation, that's trying to launch their own satellite for observing city-killer asteroids (remember Chelyabinsk?). But I haven't seen any news about their work in years...

Glad others are taking a look as well.
Does ZapCC provide libclang.so which utilizes this caching?

I noticed that parsing heavy-templated files with clang-based tools is also very slow which probably means that some kind of template instantiation (or other processing step) is being made. These tools could greatly benefit from any speedup.

While reported 2x average speed-up may be not big enough for me to consider ZapCC for offline compilation, 2x less time to get list of completions in Clang-based IDE is something I would be very happy to get!
Powershell has aliases, so you can use 'ls' instead of 'Get-ChildItem'. My colleagues tend to use Get-ChildItem in scripts and ls when typing at the command prompt.

Personally, I prefer 'ls' for scripts too. I would never use "rd" for a variable name, but since I speak Unix, the more concise 'ls' seems better. To my colleagues without a Unix background, Get-ChildItem, probably is a better choice.
Interesting article, according to this wouldn't Coutinho be the better team player contributing most overall? Messi doesn't do much defense, so naturally he stands around more in the front and FC Barcelona built everything around that.
I said the same thing back in the day... Nothing teaches the nuance more than trying to explain something and being wrong in front of 20 people.. you make sure you fully understand it so it doesn't happen again.
Thanks, great link.
I'd advise people to not teach if they don't understand the source material very well, it can lead to spread of misconceptions which can make the concepts more confusing for the students rather than less. I feel this is often left out of these discussions.

You can always pretend to teach yourself to navigate the concepts though, when learning the first time yourself.
And does HBO still lease that technology from MLB Advanced Media? Strange to think a leader in this technology is spun off from a sport that took off back when "streaming" meant "watching the guy update the box score outside the telegraph office."
> Off to a torrent site or asking around to see if someone has rips or a box set.

The other option is to just not watch it.
There's a great numberphile with Persi Diaconis all about shuffling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxJubaijQbI The extra footage is fantastic, too.
This has been so true for myself and many of our instructors at Fullstack Academy. There are so many cool ideas in programming that you can get by without - but once you start teaching it forces you to truly wrestle with those ideas. Definitely makes you a stronger programmer on the other side.
If you don't have problems with sharpness of your mind, you might want focus on stress handling. I'd start with the attitude. Why stress out when you have a 6 figure salary?
http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Mentat
"eventually"
There is no need to "deal" with it. You're the same person you were yesterday, just a little wiser and a little slower.

Take care of your health and enjoy life.
Apples to oranges, really. Cockroach presents a single database view that happens to be sharded and replicated in a fault-tolerant, consistent way. ActorDB doesn't.

With ActorDB you have to design your data model to shard at a high level. For example, you could shard it by user; every user would have its own database that ActorDB will shard and replicate for you. That database is for the most part separate from everything else -- it has its own tables and indexes.

ActorDB provides tools to operate on multiple actors, but they're explicit. For example, you can query across multiple actors, but this requires a small SQL declaration at the beginning of the query to select which actors to query, a bit like a "for each <actors> do <some SQL>".

You can also do transactions across multiple actors, though this uses two-phase commit (which coincidentally is the strategy used by Google Spanner), and requires some locking.

So Cockroach pretends to be a classic RDBMS (databases have tables and indexes, but most apps just use a single database per app), allowing an existing app to be ported with little effort. It would be harder to port an app to ActorDB.
> You can easily brute-force even the worst of all siphash in under 4min

You assume that you know the seed or can directly observe the output, which is rare in practice.

> upper bits of a hash function are always superior to the lower bits

Why is that? The identity hash for ints is quite common. And for good hashes, the difference should be negligible.
Engineering problem aside: Stop and think about this for a second. YouTube is hosting videos designed for child abuse and doing nothing about it.
So an object table, like in early Smalltalks?

http://www.mirandabanda.org/bluebook/bluebook_chapter30.html...

I've always wondered what the performance impact would be on 64 bit, assuming 32 bit indexes: on the one hand, half-size for most pointers, on the other hand extra indirection and the size of the table.
Yeah there is a generational gap that largely doesn't connect with me as a non-parent and somebody who didn't have internet until adolescence, and there was no youtube etc back then. I just will always generally scoff at calls for more censorship, "curation" etc on what is basically a large public medium of expression on account of "concern for the children", to me kids are the parents responsibility.
HBO Go is what you get when you subscribe to HBO through your cable service, HBO Now is a direct subscription to HBO.