skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> New research detects brain cell that improves learning when impaired

Way more fun. Instead of improving the cells it could be that we will impair them in some way to improve our learning ability.

I see some similarities with autistic people. Usually, they're impaired and/or had brain damages in the past. This brain damage can be considered one of the reasons why some autistic people - aspergers - are able to learn much faster than others (one of the reasons is the restructuring of neurons after the accident which leads to better learning ability).
Singular them/they isn’t that weird and is easily normalized through exposure.
> You're comparing 10.6.1 to 10.7.1, but there were a bunch of improvements in between that you're omitting.

I don't recall where I omitted anything in my original post or compared 10.6.1 to 10.7.1, care to explain? And I'm not discounting that bugs exist, just that in my experience I've not hit any huge ones. And snow leopard also had its share of badly embarrassing bugs.
"Sarcasm and humor are a big deal" - I would say practically a way of life here in the UK....

[Edit: I got a severe telling off once from an Intel lawyer for using very mild humour in a conference call.... I learned my lesson. I think in the middle of a multi hour conference call of mind numbing tedium I said 'I'm not sure what a Quad Pump AGP Port is but I want one...' - I got a bollocking for a good 15 minutes].
The root of the misunderstandong is that their is no rational in the proposal. How are people supposed to understand any proposal without a rational?
I think a lot of companies think of themselves as the better side of a tradeoff between QoL and compensation. "Sure, you could make more money elsewhere, good luck with that!"

Makes sense when you think about it from a business perspective. Some people like running lifestyle businesses. These businesses won't make anyone rich, but one can carve out an economic niche regardless. That niche is predicated on being willing to accept less comp than the broader market pays.

My last job was just such a compromise, and, I gotta tell you, if they had listened to me when architecting their new ecomm platform, I'd still be working there, not moved on for $20k more comp.

Corporate feudalisms are actually really nice when you're living in the castle, not working the fields.
Fantastic work! I will use this. :)
> 4) You've touched on the water aspect. It's an issue that this can solve.

Market pricing for water could solve all of the problems with water too.
How about a language agnostic background processing framework with clients in multiple languages, including Javascript?

https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
Keep in mind that, outside of some contrived examples, beliefs themselves are rarely bigoted -- it's the reason why that belief is held that makes the determination.

For example, a coworker of mine is extremely against illegal immigration. Most people that don't know them assume that this belief stems from a hatred toward immigrants from certain 'undesirable' countries. But once you get to know them it turns out that it actually stems from a belief that the law should always be followed to a t -- they don't actually care one way or another about the issue itself, if the law said we had open borders then it would be no problem.

But we sort of run into a problem when people proxy their beliefs -- for my coworker it's the law, and for the religious it's their doctrine. Are people who subscribe to a belief system responsible for any or all of the intolerance that underpins it? Do people have a moral responsibility to audit their beliefs systems and look for intolerance? Do people have a moral responsibility to not follow an unjust law? Where you fall on these questions probably determines the answer to your question.
I have not done a rigorous investigation, so YMMV, but what I would say is that Sturgeon's Revelation is at work here.

90% of tech companies are crud. They're froth, undercapitalized, built to flip but doomed. Which is fine, but if we try to measure the mean or median wages while including all of them, we'll get numbers that are ridiculous in any location.

I believe that if we filter down to "good" companies, by some hand-wavey definition of good—Pedigree of founders, pedigree of VCs, existence of a working revenue model, whatever—we'll get the US companies that open Canadian offices plus a bunch of decent Canadian companies. Same in SF, we'll get the obvious big companies plus lots of properly good companies.

It could well be that good SF companies out-pay good Toronto companies, it would be wrong to compare my employer to a startup operating on angel fumes in either location. We compete with companies like Amazon, Google, and Shopify for talent.

But it could also be that we do pretty well against such companies. We work hard to make sure that our pay is competitive, and we are trying our damndest to grow our Toronto office even more.
I was expecting FUBAR and SNAFU.
An 8600M GT killed my '07 15" and I've sworn off discrete graphics ever since.
AM I BEING DETAINED?
Off topic, is it normal now to include a "Code of Conduct" in new, single-contributor projects? I thought it was more of a reactive thing.
> It would of course be harder to count using your fingers.

No necessarily. 4 fingers * 3 knuckles per finger make 12, so you can count in base-12 using only 1 hand. I think the Sumerians (?) used that * 5 fingers on the other hand to count in base-60, resulting in our base-60 time system.
> That level of abstraction sounds nice, but isn't really practical

The only thing not practical about it is that in these days and age, the amount of people with data modeling experience is low. But it totally does work in practice and is, IMO, the only way to really be productive with Redux. Otherwise any change you make or any new feature requires modifying components, actions, AND reducers. At that point you're just doing 3 times the work for everything.
> Israel is a democracy, and therefore (at least in theory) the government represents the people.

Netanyahu says the West Bank is Israel, and within Israel de facto and de jure it is. Yet Palestinians in the West Bank can not vote, and there is talk in the Knesset of disenfranchising Palestinians outside of the West Bank. Yet a Jew from Brooklyn can move to the West Bank, seize a Palestinian's land, and vote in elections.

Yet this is termed a democracy in comparison to Iran.
HyperNormalization looms large.

"everyone knew the system was failing, but as no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, politicians and citizens were resigned to maintaining a pretense of a functioning society... Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the "fakeness" was accepted by everyone as real"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
perhaps the fads and trends that drive huge amounts of VC investment and disappear a year or two later? Currently it's blockchains and AI, but previous iterations have been IoT, social, local, chatbots, and so on. Often these technologies are hyped way beyond their actual practical applications.
Yeah, it didn't look good. The extension you posted downloads and installs the native client on its own, which is worse. However, you can't really do this any better, as the apps are sandboxed and not allowed to launch external programs.

I've audited the script for the extension I posted and it looks good, I've posted mine here: https://www.pastery.net/dyeamx/
Haha, thanks! I always forget :)
I get angry when they put ads on while I am in line. I get angry when I have to call in the first place.
The one thing that you didn’t get in the Soviet Union was everyday crime, well, what we understand as crime. Sure they could and did send people off to the camps for weird [political and crimes against the state] offenses, but property crimes and such were close to non existent.
You’re taking the right approach for your age IMO. Breadth is good because it acquaints you with the solution space for any problem you may encounter. Depth is good because it enables you to build solutions. But you don’t need depth until you know you need it. Depth is rarely realized through academic exercise. You develop depth through trial and error while solving real problems with practical use cases. Once you have a problem, and you’ve used your breadth to identify a potential solution, then it is time to dive deep.
4 years internally is what I remember hearing, plus 1 year as a developer preview.

So, no, certainly didn't happen overnight.
This startup streamlines the pro bono work of lawyers, especially at the border
Like this Charlie Chaplin 1928 movie, with a time traveler talking into a cell phone walking by?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_k4yGPeOI
They do have their own engine.
There’s going to be miles of text on forums written about how to quickly ask a question or play a tone to test for humanity. It’s going to be a whole new dystopic layer to customer service!

Fuuuuck.
While I am also concerned about the growing depth of surveillance, there hasn't been any _real_ evidence that Cambridge Analytica's methods were effective (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Assessment...). That they were mostly ineffective seems to me the more reasonable null hypothesis. Why assume these shady micro-targeting campaigns are such a big deal in the face of the huge, multidimensional propaganda wars that are political campaigns?

Without the presumption that the micro-targeting is super effective, nothing looks like it's on fire.
You can't just claim a position is rational just because it is cynical.
So what you're saying is that small batch sizes allow varied products to be produced at low cost with a low overheads? Wonder where I've heard that before...
I don't think Trump, Clinton or anyone can tackle this issue. Remember presidents don't really run the country. Their essential backers do. Presidents need to support their keys to power, the telecom companies, the oil companies, the big Tech companies, big pharma ...

The only way this changes in our fucked up system is if one big supporter, say tech companies, have a reason to collectively force the politicians that support them to start an assault on the big health/pharma industries. But no company wants that. All industries benefit from the fucked up health insurance system because it means all American must have jobs. It's not an option because no one can afford to get sick or break and arm without one (with health insurance).

I'd suggest reading The Dictator's Handbook. It goes into this pretty extensively.

Trump/Hillary hate/loyalty we see in this country is really sad and misguided. It's attacking the runny nose and not the bacteria that's causing the infection. The people who run this country are not the Congress and Senators and President, but all the people who pay their wages: Microsoft, BASF, Boeing, Facebook, Timewarner, Exxon, Google, etc.
I agree insofar as the problem of labels as expressed prior to you is really an extension of anti-individualism and group-think. I wouldn't sooner blame memes and facebook. Obviously, labels can be useful and in a broader sense we abstract everything around us in near binary fashion. It's a symptom of being human.
As a former .net developer now java developer this article is another reminder about just how good the .net runtime library is.

Kudos to the team(s) for all this work!
I think this answers the question pretty comprehensively. There are a lower amount of sophomore interns, and you only really go to a CC for 2 years or maybe 3 for the cost savings aspect, so you don't see many CC interns.
Hi, I work at a supercomputer company.

A short list of things I know our customers use them for:

- secret spy/tla stuff (no i have no idea what they're used for either)
- simulating nuclear blasts to know if the bombs we have will work or have issues
- simulating decay of those bombs (safety first!)
- simulating weather
- geological work to find say oil
- biology simulation for protein folding and understanding things like cancer

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head, but generally, they get used for whenever you have a lot of computation that generates a ton of data and then works on that data.
> People mainly use Redux because they don't understand that React isn't Angular

Ironically, Redux came out around the time Angular popped. While not everyone, a significant portion of early adopters came in because they were rejecting the Angular 1.X way of handling state, and Redux was the polar opposite.
I'm not happy when the liberty and quality of life of foreigners is damaged.
It looks like they had a meeting on June 12, 2018 in Des Moines, Washington (FAA Office?).

Here's a direct link to the "Record of Discussion":
https://www.regulations.gov/contentStreamer?documentId=FAA-2...

Unfortunately it doesn't really add any new information.

For those that are interested, here is the FAA's entry in the Federal Register from Boeing's Petition for Exemption: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/03/23/2018-05...

The documents related to that Petition for Exemption can be found on Regulations.gov by searching for Docket ID FAA-2018-0186 https://www.regulations.gov/searchResults?rpp=25&po=0&s=FAA-...
Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax
In that scenario people wouldn't sign up for recurring services, or it would end up being like the new law in Cali where they have to let you unsubscribe on the internet.

Also having a robot repeating: "my customer number is blabla and I would like to cancel my account", "has my account been canceled yet" doesn't exactly take a lot of cycles.

In fact it might be worth it to create cancelation as a service bot, where for a small fee, you can get the bot to call and cancel for you.
I've found multiple systems that go on your tone of voice. No need to swear or even raise it.
I never got the point of F11 moving all windows so you could see the desktop. At that point, you probably have too many on the screen and would benefit from a second monitor.

Despite this, I actually really liked Dock expose and minimizing windows into the icon a la Windows.
> I don't get the praise/hate online for different releases, or the narrative that Apple's software quality is turning to crap. It's too shrill to be genuine.

For example, its the introduction of new bugs in the Finder that started with Maverick and still haven't been fixed. Its not too shrill, it is the software version of the neglect we see with the hardware. Things just aren't being fixed and the OS is getting flaky. I am getting a little sick of filing radars with no response or fixes. I would imagine our Adobe classes are going to end up transitioning to Windows if this keeps up and that would truly suck.
Rendering electron apps... but seriously, as well as the list of uses someone else pointed out, it's the kind of thing that the more you have the more uses you will find. What's it's called again where demand is static (but not maxed out) until supply increases and then demand increases to compensate and soak up additional supply?
That's far from "far", though.
Use the react devtools when looking at those websites.
>Depends on whether you have lived in an advanced Western European country.

All of which enjoy the shadow of nuclear security provided by the United States.
Why are you cancelling your service today?

Because I have explosive diarrhea...
How does this model compare to a CSA or csa-like subscription businesses (e.g. Full Circle, Farmigo, Good Eggs, etc.)?

So there’s an aspect that one ‘rents’ a portion of farm to choose what grows, but I’m having a hard time understanding why one would want that over a fully managed service where one trusts the farmer to grow the appropriate food.

This feels like more of a ‘control your farmer’ idea over ‘know your farmer’
The compiler has deduced that a comparison of a pointer to null makes no sense, because it was dereferenced; if that code is reached, the comparison will always be true. That should be diagnosed, just like, say, an unsigned-type > 0 comparison that is always true.

> why are you using C?

For detailed control of the machine with minimal run-time support, without resorting to assembly language. Basically, the original reasons for C, before all this historic revisionism.

I want reasonable speed: good use of registers and basic optimizations like jump threading and peephole code improvements. Optimization in C is otherwise the job of the programmer. The machine code should more or less follow from the calculations that are written in the source, and every memory access through pointers should be there, in the order it appears.

The "trust the programmer" mantra never meant "trust that there is no undefined behavior" but simply "trust that the programmer put every every expression in place for a reason and just translate it to machine code".
China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are three countries that have never invaded the United States, all of which were invaded by the United States.
Usually, the way to do this is to get a bunch of friends and families and raise a "seed" round that will convert at Series A. It's common to offer seed investors a discount to make it worth their while. I'm interested in investing, let me know what you're doing via private comment
Unique, inaudible fingerprints for synthetic voices would make it trivial to alert people that they are not talking to a person, and might enable some useful optimizations for ASR.
I know exactly what you are talking about. When my wife bought her last car, I stopped by the dealership after work to cosign all the papers and for some reason they entered my phone number into their database. They started calling me and each time I would tell them to call my wife because it's her car. It took probably 10 or 12 discussions with various people at the dealership to get our record updated. The general manager seemed to be as frustrated with their system as I was because he had to deal with me asking him over and over to fix the problem.
>property crimes and such were close to non existent.

Whaaaaaaaat? Well, according to official statistics.

From my father's side, we had relatives living in a closed down military city, but they were totally paranoid about break-ins during "Peak Brezhnev." Break ins were 50/50 annual events.

Street poverty existed as well, just not in big cities, where classless were either branded as substance abusers and locked away in jail, or being labeled as mentally ill and locked away in jail.

The regime tried really, really hard to make it appear that there were something wrong with the classless people, and "you keep your head low and everything be alright"
It's not over yet. The person is still in London.
A good test is your view on the 2nd Iraq War.

For background, as facts matter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

"After 9/11, the Bush Administration national security team actively debated an invasion of Iraq. On the day of the attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked his aides for: "best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit Saddam Hussein at same time. Not only Osama bin Laden."[72] President Bush spoke with Rumsfeld on 21 November and instructed him to conduct a confidential review of OPLAN 1003, the war plan for invading Iraq.[73] Rumsfeld met with General Tommy Franks, the commander of U.S. Central Command, on 27 November to go over the plans. A record of the meeting includes the question "How start?", listing multiple possible justifications for a U.S.–Iraq War.[71][74] The rationale for invading Iraq as a response to 9/11 has been widely questioned, as there was no cooperation between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.[75]"

Is this good, neutral, evil?
You also need a third in case one of the first two goes pop, and because batteries don't like being left on the shelf fully charged (or discharged), it needs to be actively cycled through. That's N+1 redundancy; N+2 means four in total assuming you can charge as fast as you can discharge.
I like Mike a lot and I think Sidekiq is awesome--not having it in Node was largely why I wrote TaskBotJS. And I evaluated Faktory before writing it, because hey, this has been a lot of work, buy instead of build when you can!

As it stands, and things could change in the future, but I think a dedicated ecosystem-specific system is a better bet for the 90th, 95th, and probably 98th percentile of products and projects. I don't feel that centralizing background processes makes a lot of sense in a service-oriented architecture and that takes away a lot of Faktory's benefits of agnosticism. The embedded use of RocksDB also makes me itchy; Redis--while by no means perfect--is, IMO, more understood as a backing store, and it's separate from the runner itself. (TaskBotJS is also likely to eventually grow a Postgres backend. I've also got a good chunk of one written using SQS/DynamoDB, but that's further out for sure.)

All that said: Mike is crazy smart and I wouldn't begrudge anybody who wanted to use Faktory. When I write Ruby, I will continue to use Sidekiq. ;)
Look up filter bubbles[1]. The problem with a search engine that (helpfully) tailors its results to you, and keeps improving that tailoring over time, is that it will cut you off from results that others would see (unless the others are exactly like you). In the short term, having better results is great, but in the long term you are in a bubble.

While DDG does use Bing (and others), the DDG searchers are getting the same results because Bing can't track and tailor your results.

Many also like DDG's bang[2] which easily lets you direct your search elsewhere. For example if you search for "example" and don't like the results, then "example !g" sends it to Google. I like it for slightly more obscure stuff - eg "example !homedepot" does what you'd expect. For us python folk, it is nice to do "example !py2" or "example !py3" depending on the codebase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/bang
Not a fan of this sort of "open core" offering, and it's heavy on the marketing. Recurring jobs are an "Enterprise" feature? Hard pass. That's a core feature of Celery and readily available for Resqueue, latter of which seems to be your project inspiration? Pro/Enterprise should be tool offerings that depend on your hosting and support. Arbitrary feature gating isn't encouraging for a project like this.
> I kinda got that impression as I was reading it, but had hoped I was wrong.

Absolutely hilarious that all it took was one anonymous comment to "convince" you of this despite the fact that you hoped you were wrong. This thread made me lol so thanks for that.
Good to know. I have a half-finished project I was going to snarkily call “Who’s Not Hiring” that parses through HN Who’s Hiring archives and lists the companies who post the same ad month after month despite the so-called robust hiring market.
hyperbole-driven documentation
The MEPs are simply doing their job, which is a different one than that of businesspeople and traders.
OpenBSD is very nice but it used to be a bit painful for a desktop. Funny, I ran linux on the desktop from 2000-2016
and then went back to windows because I'm getting old. :)

Keep fighting the good fight!
You do know that France is a nuclear power, right?
Nicely done! I really like the example graphs you give.

I'm sure this crowd would appreciate seeing an example graph for Kotlin, Scala, or Rust as well. :-)
I haven't used nuxt, but this vuejs component "hides" the wrapped component during server render:

https://github.com/egoist/vue-no-ssr

Regarding the "client/server render results do not match" issues: Fixing these is mostly easy in my experience, especially since vue will log the offending dom nodes to the dev console.
Interestingly named package given that it's clearly using quite a few non-ascii characters which will break non-unicode aware consoles. Also that the description, Node page, and github repo list different licences.
yes. Seems you're right.