skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No kidding: this is a problem with signed integers as well: C allows signed magnitude, ones' complement, and two’s complement representations, but no mainstream compiler supports anything other than two's complement.

> In short, the only machine the author could find using non-two’s complement are made by Unisys. Nowadays they emulate their old architecture using x86 CPUs for customers who have legacy applications which they’ve been unable to migrate.

- http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p090...
Senior developers normally have about 10 years of actual work experience. This is normally a long mix of managing program deliverables, other engineers, mastery of documentation for all aspects of the program or programs and the big one is understanding the big picture and asking why, what, when, where and how for engineering, management and personnel decisions goals for the success of programs(these guys generate a ton of profit just by keeping things on task and focused to achieve the goals of the program(s)).
I'm pretty sure bail is different than parole. Bail comes before sentencing, parole comes after the jail/prison time.
If we can make provisions for permanently disabled people to have jobs, then we can make provisions for temporarily disabled people to also have jobs.

Provisions are made for pregnant people. Just many people are not satisified that it is sufficient. Disabled people, can sometimes have careers not compromised by their disability (since many jobs are sitting down), other than that they probably have a very unsatisfactory work situation overall, that in noway would satisfy these kind of complaints which are actually an order of magnitude less challenging. I think in the UK 50% of blind people are completely unemployed (nevermind derailed from a certain favorite career). This is not true of women who have had children and want to work.

More daycare would be a good thing. Problem is the rather extreme regulation has made it so costly in many western countries (and not necessarily so much better).
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Surprised MIPS was up for grabs so cheaply and that noone had snatched them yet.
Or aggressively pulling his trousers up whilst lying in a hallway begging for his life.

Warning, this is terrible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc&has_verified=1
>operators are distinct from functions

>c#

As python, C#'s operators are backed by functions - they're just static ones on the class.
My most hated JavaScript features
Looks like my dream of having an MacBook Pro 15'' with octa-core Intel processors that support AVX512 and an Nvidia graphics card with which you can run CUDA will never come true. Now I just wish they could keep the Unix kernel of macOS, cuz I don't want a bigger iPad.
The leeway that the creatives are given at Netflix is impressive. Contrast that with network TV programming and moviemaking at many other studios, which can be so controlled by business departments that non-creative executives even get involved in casting decisions and editing.

Brian De Palma talking about one failed project (1):

I would get stacks of notes, over and over again, from multiple sources. It’s changed. They want to be included on everything. I remember throwing executives out of the room during a reading for “Bonfire of the Vanities.” Are you kidding? I can’t have these actors performing in front of studio executives during the first reading! They claimed they wouldn’t say anything, which was nonsense. I had the same thing with the Paterno project. I said, “This is the first time Al [Pacino] has heard this material. I can’t have executives sitting here.” They were offended beyond belief — sulking, tense. I finally walked away from it. ... If you’ve seen HBO’s “Project Greenlight,” the HBO executive on that show, Len Amato — that was the guy I was dealing with. On the show, there’s Len in the editing room, making suggestions. That’s like my worst nightmare. I have never dealt with a producer in the editing room. And you can’t get final cut on television. Can you believe that Martin Scorsese doesn’t have final cut on television?

Nick Offerman (Parks and Rec) described the control that executives have over casting and other key creative decisions in his recent Fresh Air interview (2). It's depressing.

1. http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/brian-de-palma-documetary-h...

2. https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2018/06/07/617872975
You might use this to

- schedule background tasks,
- run jobs,
- trigger recurrent workloads,

and you'd do that by putting your task behind a HTTP endpoint. The things you might use cron/crontab for, but when you want it more scalable, more fault-tolerant than one machine running cron, or you would like 1 second resolution instead of 60 second resolution with cron.

It's also my first full standalone SaaS product. I posted it here to hopefully get some customers.

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They have extended their delivery hours already. Most of my UPS packages come 7pm or later these days some even around 9pm even outside rush times like Christmas. There's just not enough hours available for them to do all residential deliveries during the 6/7-9/10 window when they could reasonably assume that people with 9-5 jobs would be home.

Also it's become exceedingly rare for UPS or Fedex to leave me a slip these days the only missed delivery because of signature requirements for me have been USPS attempting to deliver international packages, can't actually remember the last time UPS or Fedex has delivered a package requiring a signature.
How do you feel about separating families at the border? Because as part of the Republican's push for 'stronger checks', it does nothing to solve the current absolutely abhorrent treatment of people seeking asylum in the US.

I'll consider not calling them racists and bigots when their policies stop being the policies of racists and bigots.
In the parlance of this space, energy density usually means specific energy. "Volumetric energy density" is the term normally used if research is highlighting a material that achieves high energy-per-liter storage from its high specific gravity.
iOS is also sitting atop Unix.
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch
Most women I know wouldn't go there - including myself. Maybe we run in different circles.
We don't have "meritocracy" already, so this isn't a useful objection.

Groan. Well it's all degrees, and for the purposes of this discussion, the reason fertile women are discriminated against is because of lost productivity, no other reason is posited (it's not sexism per se, even though that does exist to some degree in places).

In fact, perhaps you should consider that your entire view of this is precisely the opposite way round of where it ought to be.

You are unlikely to fully understand my view. Especially given that you are prone to uncharitable reading of things.
Certainly, I read the headline in a completely different meaning --- Boeing's engines are having trouble, and airlines are switching to Airbus instead.
> I can't have sympathy for someone who was selling opioids to addicts, exacerbating a terrible epidemic.

That's a philosophical question about how much people own their own lives versus how much you should be able to dictate their lives for your own selfish sense of peace of mind. We're not going to change anyone's minds on that in HN comments.

> The feds didn't do that, his own actions did that.

The "feds" did do that, in response to his actions, because people like you manadte via votes that they do that.
Yes but wouldn't be great for the workers if they had a stake in the company that makes the conveyor belt for example?

We all have seen the graphs showing that the efficiency in the businesses increased dramatically while the salaries stagnated.

Maybe they should pursue investment unions that are aiming to replace their jobs with technology so that they can take the rewards of the increased efficiency.
> I encounter far more trouble upgrading gradle and the build plugin itself

Could be time to switch from Gradle to Bazel. It would also be nice to see the last of Apache Groovy, don't you think?
The same people who complain about hardware updates nearly always say, in the next breath, that they're using a Mac from five years ago.

I'd like to see steady updates too, but perhaps we should all admit that updates aren't as essential as they used to be.
While I agree with you about the inconvenience of most residential shipping services, I think people not interacting directly with the industry tend to forget how absolutely huge the business-to-business market still is for UPS. I expect the margins are quite a bit larger for them there as well.

Working in the engineering field, people send things at shipping prices of $50-$200 plus per package on the daily. The only thing that matters is that it arrives where it's needed fast. I can't say for sure, but I would expect that UPS is still more inclined to cater to the relatively price insensitive business customer over the Amazon Prime residential customer.
Jordan Peterson isn't so much a conservative as he is a rational realist. Google "intellectual dark web" and listen to the conversations these people have: they are intellectually curious and don't like labels and slogans.
Yes. And a lot of projects these days emphasize "casual contributors" who work on small external modules, documentation, management (which, as you suggest, isn't explicitly factored into the stats), etc. As the piece suggests, it may be wrong to view open source through a lens of free, happy, and democratic community contributions but it would be equally wrong to say that it's just like proprietary software development.
That link showed nothing on my browser, but entering directly the WSJ article url on https://outline.com redirected to your url and displayed correctly.
How does this compare with AHK (AutoHotKey)?
'Taking our jobs' is an outright lie, since the opertunity to use undocumented workers as a way to spend a lot less on a given task/job and have to hide that fact, so they also have skip out on taxes for said work. My opinion is that the people claiming this use this statement to missdirect the core issues becuase they are the one giving jobs to non citizens becuase they are greedy.
When my children were little, my standard was "repeat it in your own words" to make sure they weren't parroting it back at me without comprehension.
Last I checked it was really easy to get data out of a WhatsApp backup.

No special skills needed except running locating the file, running a command and connecting using SQLite or something.
No idea why you are being downvoted, thanks a lot for this. Some days it feels like half of HN's front page is paywalled, and you can't even tell until you try reading each one.
There's some exploration going on to make that work:

https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
Really hope we hear more from Mike Pall this year. He's been off the radar for way too long.
As someone who just started using windows for the first time, doesn’t the little search box essentially replace the start menu? How are people expected to find their app—manually clicking through a bunch of menus to one they are looking for? Assuming they have NOT pinned it to the dock at the bottom.
Thanks, I meant parole.
> I know this wouldn't work for a lot of reasons and people would just keep the boxes,

Actually I think this could work if you offered some money for the empty crates, like with bottle deposits. You could keep the crates if you needed them, but you could also save them until you had a carload to take to the UPS Store and get some cash. If the fee were low enough, the shipping companies would still be saving money over buying zillions of cardboard boxes per year.

I'm not sure if the economics work out, but if we standardized and got USPS/UPS/FedEx/Amazon all on board, it could work.
Wow, 1673 cracked software, all with expired copyright. This is an amazing preservation achievement. Love the automation part and am a bit curious to how hard this would be to port to another 6502 machine (yes, c64)?
Apple doesn't make horrible cables, iffy anecdotal gif-evidence notwithstanding. Apple's reputation is quite decidedly for making high-quality cables.

"No innovation on the desktop" doesn't really mean anything. Who else is "innovating on the desktop" right now?

"Getting rid of ports" can also be interpreted as "moving to new and superior ports". Apple has always been brutal in weeding out obsolete interfaces and introducing new ones.
The point of H-1B is to both fill a skilled job temporarily, and as a path to permanent immigration. This is called _dual intent_ technically.
>He was making an inherently disingenuous claim that anyone arguing for immigration reform is called a racist.

He was making a claim based on his experience with people asking for the kind of reform he'd like to see (e.g. stricter rules).

In casual conversation absolute statements ("anyone") are not to be taken at face value, but (through the principle of charity) as the person meaning "in many -or most- cases".

>Whenever I see someone make that claim, in my experience it's because they've been in favor of racist policies and when called out on it

One can be an isolationist ("no more immigration", "we have enough people already", "priority to local workers and building a local skilled workforce as opposed to importing cheaper foreign labor") without being motivated by racial concerns -- and yet in many cases they will still be labelled a racist.
Are you legit suggesting that people should do their family planning around their employer's convenience?
KOAN: a shared virtual memory for the iPSC/2 hypercube [pdf]
Non-UPS trucks the same size as UPS's carry much heavier loads. If the balls made sense in other respects, their weight would be much less of an issue for the truck than for an airplane.
I wonder if Amazon will buy them.
The article is based on "the findings of an investigation conducted by the Office of Police Conduct Review", so I think it's reasonable that it concentrates on the police conduct.
Indonesian woman swallowed whole by python
Oh I'll open the phone with the intention to do something, do something else because shiny, then realise the moment I lock the phone and put it away.

On particularly bad days, a couple of cycles have been needed...
I'm just an ordinary Joe and it was pretty obvious to me from the beginning that this was mostly just a scam. For one, she didn't have the necessary background to really create anything new and inventive here. Second, her supposed goal was a "no needles" system, which of course she didn't really have. Third, my wife is a nurse and she told me that finger-prick samples are mostly useless for many of the tests that might need to be run, so instead relatively large amounts of blood have to be drawn from a vein. Also that one reason why they often draw multiple vials of blood is because the test results from each individual vial may vary considerably; I forget the details though.

That said, microfluidics (where you use minimal sample sizes and minimal reagents and such) is a real and growing thing, and I assume that she was just trying to ride that wave. But it turns out that this doesn't work so well for blood samples.
I'm not sure if that's what the parent meant. I'm on the same side,
I'm not really watching movies anymore, there's too little depth to the world there. It's amazing how much you can make the world and characters deep and interesting in series. It's the same situation as movies vs books.

The problem is when there really only is enough interesting content for 4-5 hours and you feel like half the series is there only as a filler. Handmaid's tale is an example that comes to my mind. I like the series overall, but it's 2-3x times as long as it should be in my opinion.
I don't see anyone proposing that solution, so just how common is it?
That's Firefox fault? Bitwarden works perfectly fine with the latest FF.
Let's not get confused about what "a viewpoint" means - sure, the viewpoint of An innovative anodic approach for efficient immobilization of an acetylenic triple bond via silicon‑carbon bond scission is that their approach for immobilization is innovative. That's different from what you see in the journals I'm talking about, which sometimes contain pieces of text written like a political organization's internal memoranda. The culture of doing that probably lead to the mention of capitalism vs. "leftism" at the end of the article. Why else would the author have brought it up, if it wasn't commonly seen as a relevant topic?
The contents of the box will differ, even if its only the language of the manual or the plug.

I've bought slightly cheaper goods from Romania where just above the barcode it said "Romania and Bulgaria only". I presume the bar code was different than the rest-of-EU one.
Having studied both pure physics and pure mathematics, my impression is that physicists don't really do mathematics, they use a pidgin form of symbolic expression related to mathematics with the specific goal of studying natural systems. And this is a pretty subtle point to explain to anyone who has not experienced both cultures significantly. But the MO of studying systems that can be measured in physical reality, is a constraining principle. Mathematics is not constrained to so-called reality and as a result can fly higher and see farther; it has a better imagination, if you will.

Burden me not with any reminders about reality, people needing to get up to make the donuts or whatever. I know all that. I'm not knocking reality, reality's great. Nor do I need reminding how beautiful and strange and wild and cool some of the math in physics really can be. Utterly, utterly rad, without a doubt. But working with such high-dimensional spaces, such high-rank/high-variable transformations, and such high-density symbolic representations, as physics seeks to do, requires a much freer and more "artistic" approach than some kind of mental slavery to what can be seen. (By which I mean, what can be measured.) Physicists need more pure math, and when I say pure, I actually prefer the term theoretical math. Because physicists need to design their own math, and that is in one sense what theoretical mathematics means.

Physicists are better at what laypeople think of as mathematics--huge whiteboards, filled with esoteric symbols, furrowed brows and chalk-stained hands jittering through the air in some magnificent, halting dance of frustration & eureka. That's what people think of when they think of "doing mathematics". But physicists don't really do what mathematicians do, not really, not completely. And all those purely esoteric maths that no one except pure mathematicians ever get to see, say, topology, homology, algebraic geometry, abstract algebra, etc, are hiding some real gems of thought.

I'd like to see Physics, finding itself at a halt, go and start to study all the Mathematics it's been putting off.
It's working out great for them. Not as great for me, but that's not their problem. I'll be exploring other options.
If possible, I would also like to add when to choose Pjax, Turbolinks over React, Vue-like frameworks?
That claim that "vendor-paid developers do almost all work" also fits the Linux kernel. The kernel is very large and has many contributors but work done by random volunteers is dwarfed by that done by large companies. This is visible in contributor statistics: https://lwn.net/Articles/750054/

For the kernel the "community" is to a very large extent a community of companies.
If people (and, organizations) are not allowed to learn from their mistakes Big Brother is an even more scary thing for our youth than it already is.
For me, it is "new browser tab" effect these days. I will often be reading a website, then think "Oh, I must research this thing they are talking about" or else I will remember some other thing that I have to do online, so I will open a new browser window in the background.

But then I will get distracted by something else on the current web page - for even a few seconds - and when I go to the new tab to do what I had planned to do, I sit there in complete blank befuddlement, staring at the empty page and wondering what on earth I was supposed to look up.
The 25% tariff is just for China, or? Do manufacturers in countries like Japan or Germany exist?
Yes, I am referring to

> If you are the type of person interested in Awk, you are probably the type of person I'd like to see working with me at Google. If you send me your resume (____@gmail.com)
but the predictability in this example comes from the function that maps one state of the map to the next through time, not from any visible or high-resolution feature in any particular snapshot of the map. You don't determine the function and the skeleton of the map by increasing its resolution, you obtain its functions by abstracting the unnecessary details away to figure out what the important objects and regularities are.

If you want to figure out how the tube in London works you don't need a photorealistic, lifelike copy of the subway system, you need an abstraction of the network, its congestion, routes and so forth. Those are idealised mental models that are simplifying the real system, but they are much more useful to you than the real thing.
Whoever forgets where they are is a moron. Get a Einstein-like skill and ephipany-subject and you'll no longer jerk off to chicken mc doubles. Obviously crack smokers and meek people who fall for this "phenomenon." Perhaps you should just slit your throats. Fucking morons.
Based on your description on what you like/hate I think you should go for something slowly changing, like ObjC/Swift or Java/Kotlin. Something were mastership is rewarded as opposed to just copy/pasting sort of working code from some random example on the web that you barely have time to understand because of its inherent complexity.

Explicitly don't go for React (Native) or anything else that has come out of the crazy world of javascripters doing mobile.
Curious which series that was. Can you check your history?
If you simply Alt+Tab away there shouldn't be animation.
Let me guess - you are in California, rt? California DMV is an absolute peach in this respect. They won't issue you an extension to your license while you wait for your H-1B extension. But if you are in California illegally, they have no problem handing you a license! Some California cities actually fight for the right to harbor illegal immigrants. But a legal immigrant waiting for an extension paperwork - sorry.
It's possible you aren't seeing it in this discussion because of the comment we are discussing.

HN is less histrionic than most forums, but it isn't really as calm, cool and collected as it likes to imagine. Or, perhaps a little more charitably, the degree to which it manages to remain a sane discussion space hinges in part on the willingness of actual subject matter experts to inject such comments and then put up with being raked over the coals for it as if they are "apologists" for whatever nefarious behavior is under discussion.
The Seattle Times headline had 'and' in it originally, look at the url!

In this case, the way you interpreted the headline is ungrammatical; a comma is not a semi-colon.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why this could have been so, such as they were patents of some small piece of Theranos' technology that worked, even though their grand scheme did not.

However, the real reason is that patents are bogus, and more or less all they assert is that this person or company filed the paperwork first. The Patent Office has not even close to the amount of staff they would need to actually verify that the patents they grant are working.
> A conventional graphite cathode, in a process known as intercalation, can only transfer a single electron. But compounds like iron trifluoride can transfer multiple electrons.

Flourine is difficult to work with, so these batteries may cost more. Hopefully the energy density offsets the cost.