skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gates on large fences might work for this too then. Be a good middle ground for testing. A larger chain link fence with a gate so you can still see both sides
Actually, it does sound fair to me -- or at least as fair as it can get.

Individually it may suck if you come from a country with a large population like China or India but overall it gives people from all over the globe the chance to emigrate without having to directly compete with the large numbers of visa seekers from these countries.

I honestly can't think of a more egalitarian immigration policy.
In Germany union representatives regularly participate to management meetings.
Moreover the labour union system is completely different: unions represent all workers, and in each company there are usually different unions.
What is an attacker going to do with the hash? The attacker will try to crack it, to get the original password. As long as the user's password had at most 64 bits of entropy, it's just as easy to crack a truncated sha1 hash as a full sha1 hash. Truncating it has not harmed the attacker at all. The attacker doesn't care if it's a full sha1 hash or a truncated sha1 hash. The attacker just cares about cracking it.

>Why do you think that most passwords are just in the first 64 bits of a SHA1 hash?

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Are you asking why I think most passwords have less than 64 bits of entropy?

>According to one study involving half a million users, the average password entropy was estimated at 40.54 bits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength#Human-genera...
My wife refers to this as "Male refrigerator blindness"

It is also why I prefer the NASA mission control approach to monitor layout
Perhaps not absolutely, but in a Bayesian sense it should make us less sure of the theory's truth. "Falsification" is really just severe scepticism, after all, nothing can be absolutely proven in any direction.
If some unions are a tool of organized crime, I would expect them to be a source of hard-to-explain inefficiency.
> The submitting companies often want patents partly (or mostly completely) for marketing reasons

For startups marketing to investors can be a key goal of patents.
Why exactly do you think people do wildlife research? Because they care about animals in a deep way. If endangered species get saved it will be through the result of their research. The true "atrocity" is the great extinction period we are going through.
Thank you! Web search for WSJ bypass has been mostly failing lately.

Downvoting you for being helpful is a bit uncharitable, +1
I wonder whether UPS’s business really is mostly residential. The business side is invisible to me - it could be huge, I don’t know. Does anyone have data?
> The company announced that its initial wave of 7nm chips will be available first to its data-center customers—who are driving its greatest revenue growth—not to the companies that build laptops and tablets.

Intel said nothing of the sort, in large part because their upcoming process is called "10nm".
With shipping - there will be always be tons of manual work to do. It will just change in nature.
I'm thinking the battery explosions will be more spectacular too.
On mobile you can read about 20 characters before hitting the edge of an iframe. It isn't even good for code.
Hey Boss, You Don’t Want Your Employees to Meditate
We'll need "commerical astronomers" to help find promising asteroids.

At last February's AAAS meeting in Austin, Martin Elvis (quoted in the article) noted that over the next several years, a number of larger (20 to 30 meter) terrestrial telescopes will be coming on line. That will free up some the smaller 10-15 meter instruments, some of which could be used to search for watery and/or metallic asteroids.
Those basically follow the federal law: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/montana-layoff-laws....

i.e. companies are allowed to have layoffs with certain notification requirements.
CERN thinks bigger
> They didn’t have lawyers actually advising them? They just unilaterally shut off access to millions of people out of an abundance of caution?

Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. I think they did have lawyers who advised them. They concluded that the potential risk is larger than the gain (in ads - europeans love their privacy and adblockers; and ad rates are comparatively quite low outside of the UK).

One, I think they should have hired european lawyers for this.

Two, comparing with the FATCA risk is amusing.
I tried but I die a little each time the swipe animation happens. The Amiga way worked great for me. 1/60s switch time, no animation, fullscreen. Wish MacOS could do away with the animation. Is there a way to config that?
The reason it's done is that you structure the patent broad enough & vague enough to still be enforceable but cover more than what exact specific thing you were actually thinking about. It's shitty IMO & a lot of patent trolls rely on this but that's one of the downsides of the way the patent system works (it's a tradeoff - if you tried to solve this problem you'd end up creating other problems so you have to figure out which downsides your OK living with or mitigating in other ways).
Such a map is far from useless - if you want to see any other area you don't have to travel there; you can "visit" all areas, you can duplicate any one area and experiment on how changes will affect it, etc.. It's only the bulk of the map that makes it impractical, we actually now have maps that are pretty close to that, we just found a way to make them less bulky.

I think the end goal of science actually is very close to the 1:1 scale map in Borges' story [1] - we want to be able to say in any situation "if I take this scenario and run it forward then what are the outcomes".

We can do this to some extent. We can predict paths of simple objects, we can predict how macroscopic systems will play out to some degree of accuracy. We can even predict the existence of particles and confirm the consistency of such predictions in later observations.

Surely the goal is to make our predictions better, up to any limit the universe gives. We want to be able to perfectly simulate the world - we don't just want the 1:1 map, we want a 1x10^20:1 map with moving people, with weather, with every possible feature that we can measure so that instead of travelling to Ulaanbaatur and dropping a rocket motor from the troposphere we can do that in the "map", and measure the effects in the map and so know what the effects would be if that were to happen for real.

We can't use the Universe as it's own map, we can't arbitrarily look at it at any scale, we can't run it back or duplicate it when we want to re-run experiments, we can't visit any part without travelling, etc. - so we seek to simulate it, through simplification because we can't currently simulate it any other way. As we uncover ever better models we learn to simulate limited sections or limited facets to a greater and greater degree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
Recruiting is pretty hard, actually. It takes a lot of moving pieces, and there's a lot of work to be done. This work is split between recruiters who manage the overall candidate relationship, interviewers who assess the candidates, and managers who are staffing their teams and thus do a lot of other work. There are also coordinators and all kinds of other folks.

If my understanding about product development is correct, it's not that different from building a product. Besides engineers, there are product managers, designers, researchers, and managers in that process as well. There are all kinds of processes and dependencies that go into it. Same with recruiting :)

Ultimately, I believe the heads of both Talent and Engineering have other responsibilities besides recruiting as well. Recruiting happens to be one where they share a lot of responsibility.
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Gmail low deleting
My gmail account is recently incredibly slow deleting one or two items at a time from my inbox.
I have no apps nor 3rd party sites linked.
I am using Outlook as the interface to gmail on a windows 7 computer.

Got any suggestions?
Thx
Since you're thinking towards the future, think also to the time when you will probably have to move an awful lot of your stuff back in-house, which might be much sooner than you'd expect. Plenty of companies which outsourced in a big way some years back have already been through a similar cycle.

A former Fortune 500 employer of mine went through the outsourcing boomerang. Now I understand that they have big plans to move everything to the cloud within the next two years. Knowing their systems like I do, and knowing that the CEO who is driving this is fairly noobish (note that I said CEO rather than CIO), I don't think this plan is going to work out too well for them. But given that since I left they've had to file bankruptcy, and in doing so involuntarily dropped to about half of what they were before (employees, assets, etc.), I guess this is just par for the course for them now.
All swans are white.

I can sit for day after day not observing a black swan. This proves nothing, it does not prove the theory "there is no non white swan". But if I see a black swan then the theory that all swans are white is up the chute.
First glimpse of a giant nucleus reveals its peculiar shape
I am not downlaying the article at all. I made it quite clear I believed it was likely the procedure was being abused. The anecdote of the asthmatic woman is particularly concerning.

> But how often have ended up in danger from people who were both handcuffed and secured to the stretcher?

Multiple times (I don't have a specific number). A stretcher is not intended to be used as an anchor for restraints. It's very difficult to keep someone restrained to a stretcher if they are continuing to fight. There is also a significant risk they will injure themselves. Finally, in some cases it is necessary to sedate a patient to provide treatment.

The point of my comment is that it would be very easy for the article to omit details to make situations seem far less appropriate than they actually may have been (or that the abuse was more widespread than it actually was).

EDIT: As your comment is starting to gray out, I think it's important to say that while I disagree with you, I think your comment is thoughtful and contributes meaningfully to the conversation (and certainly shouldn't be downvoted)
A few seconds earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329396
> How do you infer that the article concentrates on the misbehavior of police more than misbehavior by EMS workers?

Well, I guess it's not so much that the article concentrates on police misbehavior, but that the actual people involved did so. The article does not give us complete information, of course, but it appears that the police basically said, "We messed up, and we're fixing things," while the EMS people said, "There isn't any problem." And since the EMS people apparently are the problem, I find the response disturbing.
Glasgow art school fire: Sturgeon says blaze is 'heartbreaking'
This could also be a matter of taste. I happen to like “long form” media because of the detailing it enables; this almost certainly isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
wow indeed
I can't read the article since it's behind some paywall, shouldn't these kind of links be banned from hackernews? I'm going to start flagging things from wsj.com consistently now.
I lived in a one-room (plus bathroom) apartment for half a year. It was an awful experience. The apartment was very well designed with nice furniture and very very centric. But it felt claustrophobic.

I have lived since then in similar apartments, equally small, but with at least 2 rooms (living room and bedroom). It feels so much better.

At first, one-room looks like is going to be better. There is more space as you don't have inner walls. But when you play games, watch tv, cook and sleep all in the same room it feels that there is something wrong.

Getting up in the morning, leaving the bedroom and going to the living room makes a big difference. The context-switching is welcome. It is also easier when going to sleep.
You get this in mathematics too. The four colour theorem for example has an "ugly" brute forced machine checked proof that's impractical for humans to check.

Elegance and simplicity should be sought after, and ugly proofs can be an indication that you're missing the right abstraction but I don't see why all true statements should have an elegant proof.
It is huge. I consider UPS business orientation a plus : I know when they show up. Tracking is the best of the bunch.

For example : Farnell ships with UPS. Farnell is a mostly B2B electronic components distributor.

EU experience from good to bad : UPS, Fedex, DPD, TNT and then DHL which is the worst from a receivers perspective.

edit: I should add, running a business from a residential location.
Yes that's the entire point of patents. To pay people for sharing their ideas with others. If your patent can't do that you don't get paid.
Yes. It makes sense to share the burden among all drivers, instead of letting a few unfortunate people go bankrupt because of irresponsibility of others.
Why isn’t it right? By this point they had a very reasonable suspicion that he was the criminal they were looking for based on his bitcoin addresses and then further confirmed by analyzing the writing style. That certainly seems like a good enough reason to search someone’s laptop.
I wonder what the effect is in specific energy. Weight is at least as much of a concern as volume for a lot of mobile applications.
I fight the 'pretty icons' syndrome by using monochrome / white on black icon theme. It really helps.
It was a while ago. I remember reading it on reddit, so I googled "no limit sugar children reddit", this is it!

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/26/140753048/ki...
I am a developer and I love using a Mac. The stock terminal app has improved so much over the last few years that switching to any flavor of Linux always leaves me wanting Mac OS. It also seems like >90% of the developers at all of the companies I’ve worked use Macs. I’m sure that’s not the case for everyone but that’s been my experience. What has Apple done to make you feel this way? What am I missing?

Disclaimer: my current laptop still has an ESC key also I used to work for Apple
I don't think it's inappropriate either. But we should note that police do not have expertise regarding the administration of drugs.

Someone with no expertise in a field can suggest anything they want to. Those with expertise who are actually making the decisions need to be held to account for them.
I'm sure there were some, and I'm not saying never but as I was the one usually asked to help fix friends and family I'd like to think I'd catch local ones. Usually the AV trigger on cracks were one of the generic catches for writing to unusual places etc.

There was one NoCD site that was highly reliable. Random Google searches were, as with everything, asking for trouble.
35 U.S.C. § 112(a) ...

> The specification [of the patent] shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same

It's the raison d'etre of patents. A time-limited monopoly in exchange for full documentation of the invention for the long term public good.
How about some reproduction first.

I'm sorry, but we live in an age where decades old famous social sciences experiments are proved to be frauds.

I have stopped giving any credit to the various "scientific study proves X does/is Y in psychology/social sciences/diet". Every day we have a new "eating red cookies in the morning" makes you "less likely to lie" study.
Or you could just document that code will only function with specific hardware and compiler settings, and move on.
I've been using AutoHotkey as well as AutoIt in the past. If I need keyboard macro, I use AHK. But if I need automation that interacts with other apps, I use AutoIt. It's fairly easy to get started writing scripts, but I've never liked the language/syntax of either AHK or AutoIt. One thing I wish I could do this is to write everything in Python, Lua, etc...
Definitive statements are easy to pick apart, but I think he's basically correct. Pretty much all the open source we use are made by a tiny handful of people. It makes sense because most software works this way anyhow, and when there are large groups involved it takes intense coordination.

The more existential question is: are those 'peripheral' additions critical? Because maybe that 'last mile' is superfluos, i.e. minor bugs and 'nice to have' features, but it's possible they are key contributions.

It's possible that the 'key contributors' are like 'managers' or 'curators' of the project, bringing in the work of others, making decisions about it, possibly borrowing ideas from the community and 'implementing it themselves'.
I think that Bayesian reasoning applies to a different category of knowledge; there are things for which we have no predictive theories that we have to reason about probalistically and Bayes is good for that. But thinking about how things are and probability seems a poor duo - after all, we can end up 99.999% sure that something is true, observe one counter example and now know that 100% it is false... Bayes doesn't do that.
I am surprised as your surprise. For example, the term "date rape" occurs twice on the Wikipedia page for ketamine:

> In December 2013, the government of India, in response to rising recreational use and the use of ketamine as a date rape drug, has added it to Schedule X of the Drug and Cosmetics Act requiring a special license for sale and maintenance of records of all sales for two years.

> Because of its ability to cause confusion and amnesia, ketamine can leave users vulnerable to date rape.

It's not hard to find things like:

> "Tests for “date rape” drugs, such as Rohypnol and ketamine, were conducted. Those tests came back negative." - https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/attorneys-for-kenneka-jenk...

> "Three teenagers are being praised for a straw they invented to detect the presence of date rape drugs in drinks. ... two common drugs used in assaults — GHB and Ketamine" - https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/straw-detect-date-ra...

> It’s called ketamine, a class III scheduled drug .... The drug is the most commonly used among veterinarians for anesthetic purposes, according to Medical News Today, but is often illegally used in clubs and as a date-rape drug. - http://www.miamiherald.com/article206350184.html
Most of the time people who spend big on weddings do so because they are socially programmed to do so. They believe/feel that the bigger the wedding, the more legitimate their love for each other is.

Keep in mind that a lot of people can’t realy afford big weddings, but use what little savings they have on them anyway.

Basically, the entire extravagant wedding culture is absolutely irrational and crazy. It just doesn’t seem that way because it has been normalized over decades.
They did about the same with designers and video people before they started sharting on developers.

They are steadily paring away all of their target demographics until only users who are seeking a status symbol are left. I wonder how that will work out for them.
Same with microservices.
It's pretty long (>6000 words), but here's a section that hit too close to home:

Conscientiousness: Exceptionally Low

You are exceptionally low in conscientiousness, which is the primary dimension of dutiful achievement in the Big Five personality trait scientific model. Conscientiousness is a measure of obligation, attention to detail, hard work, persistence, cleanliness, efficiency and adherence to rules, standards and processes. Conscientious people implement their plans and establish and maintain order.

Your score puts you at the 0th percentile for conscientiousness. If you were one of 100 people in a room, you would be less conscientious than 99 of them and more conscientious than 0 of them.

People exceptionally low in conscientiousness do not consider duty as a virtue or an obligation. Instead, they regard those who slog away diligently at their task as suckers, teacher’s pets and boot-lickers. They will not even work hard if directly and continually pushed by outside forces (supervisors, spouses, friends, parents). They can be exceptionally skilled at wasting time and slacking off and justifying it. They are almost certain to procrastinate (particularly if they are also above average in neuroticism). Even if they do commit to doing something, they will be late, or delayed, even when there is absolutely no reason for failing to deliver. They inevitably formulate and deliver excuses for their failure under such circumstances, blaming the situation for their problems with task focus and completion. They are not all decisive, neat, organized, future-oriented, or reliable, and they find themselves constantly and continually distracted.
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How/why does Outline work?
The Single Reason Why People Can't Write--Steven Pinker
I absolutely agree that the folks pushing the drugs are the ones responsible.

My point is that it is reasonable for police to say "we're getting our asses kicked, this isn't working, can you sedate this person?"
I felt like he was trying to say "Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater."

It is really common for people to say "X is being abused. Proposed solution: Do away with X altogether." In this case, EMS sedation in certain situations where safety of the patient and/or others is at stake.
His reading order is still good advice today though. Lua has seen many improvements recently but the file organization is unchanged.

(I can confirm this because I need to frequently dive into that codebase as part of my job)
Few things - not updating hardware for years, pretty much no innovation on the desktop (both, hardware and software), getting rid of ports on recent laptops, not having touch screens, horrible cables [1], etc...

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apple+broken+cable&t=ffab&iax=imag...
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They don't care much about web browsing and care far less about word processing. They are making appliances as interfaces to services, with as many of the services as possible being ways to buy things from Apple. I'm not saying this to be cynical. I'm being quite literal that that is their business plan.
I'm wanting to try Flutter for a new app I'm planning. But a blocker is that it doesn't (yet?) run on Linux, which is a deal breaker for me.
If you want private, mark the video as private.
In absolute values, those salaries are the highest, but for quality of living, that's largely irrelevant unless your hobbies need large amounts of capital.

For example, in big cities in Europe, you can easily and happily get by without a car, which saves a lot. You have more vacation. No tipping. Easier/more obvious ways to save for retirement. Your kids not having to do active shooter drills at school. Cheaper/free schools and universities. Maternal/paternal leave. Etc, etc.

So if you have a family, or thinking of starting a family, it's worth factoring that stuff in.
Free APIs fueled the Mashup revolution. The dried up or became restricted as businesses deprecated them and moved towards eyeballs and ads.
I specially mentioned "in my experience".

I personally know a lot of lazy or borderline incompetent engineers, (some of them even went through PIP) who do thrive in corporate environment and it is much easy for corporate just to keep them on payroll. This is especially typical for software industry. This is anecdotal experience and may vary from company to company or even from team to team.