skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and can find a library that will give you access

Does any library not have this stuff? It seems absolutely standard for universities, the main/research branches of public library systems, etc. Even my small suburban branch library had a microfilm collection and a few readers.
I wasn't thinking of anything that can connect to a network!
Tesla Solar Panel Mix-Up: What Went Wrong
> But I can't wrap my head around what "diversity of thought" means, in any meaningful way.

For that to be true, you'd have to be unaware of the fact that people can process data and reason through complex problems differently.

> I assume 'diversity of thought' refers to expressed thoughts - our mind reading devices aren't that good.

That is a poor assumption that requires the redefinition of the word "thought". Our mind reading devices are pretty good: "Here is a complex problem that can be solved in more than one way - show your work."

> How does that evaluation have anything to do with "diversity of thought"?

By clearly demonstrating an applicant's competing priorities by way of solution selection? It sounds like you've never worked on a team that had that one guy who would regularly shoot down seemingly sensible textbook solutions, and instead offer a solution that either sounded like more work or just plain insanity. Have you never heard the story of Mel [0]? I can tell you from my own experience, as a former full stack developer who had to do a lot of interdepartmental work at a non-software company, diversity of thought is very useful.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.jokes/k2JVKQzJSp...
This is refreshing to hear. As a UI developer. More curious about Rust now. Thanks.
"I'm biased, but I'm biased through experience"

BAZINGA!
One can not have freedom with out privacy. As we destroy the concept of privacy we also destroy the concept of freedom.

It will be interesting how civilization handles it. We are starting to see some signs of push back, but unfortunely people are turning to governments and authoritarianism as a "solution".

IMO we are at at fork in civilization, and it seems we are choosing the less free, less private path
Business Lessons from Rob Hayes (First Round Capital)
Is Sherlock-style deduction possible?
Azad
If you find one in the Bay Area, please let me know.
America was founded on the principle of egalitarianism (despite the flawed implementation), so class-shibboleth etiquette rules like formal-dancing with your fork while you eat didn't take deep hold here.
I second this. Vue is more declarative to me. Which I appreciate.
I think it’s pure hubris to say that anyone can distinguish overall skill at a statistically significant level between these different populations.

Heck, I’d even say if you only look at the population of engineers who you have directly observed doing a good job on some interview trivia or code test, you still cannot reliably conclude that draws from that population are statistically significantly more likely to be acceptably good at a job once hired than draws from a different population.

People and processes capable of detecting skilled engineers are extremely rare. Skilled engineers are also somewhat rare.

What we set up as tech hiring processes are mostly just crap-shoot just-so stories we tell ourselves, mixed with a ton of hubris.
I agree 100% with this.

Maybe there are some slight advantages in some edge use cases - but if someone came out with a company that was "modified public SQL database technology" would people be investing their money and declaring it important to the future of technology? The answer would be no.
How is it a misinterpretation of what you said? You said:

I think that the issue is that the kinds of attacks we're talking about now leave injuries that are persistent, invasive, and infectious

and

carefully chosen words ... recognized as involving systematic neurological changes which might be classified as "brain damage"

Injuries? Persistent and infectious? Might be classified as brain damage?

You're saying that merely being exposed to words can turn someone into some kind of damaged disease spreading intellectual leper. My interpretation of what you said appears to be entirely accurate.

there are a number of psychological conditions, such as PTSD, which can be induced via "gaslighting", also known as carefully chosen words

You can induce PTSD using carefully chosen words? Can you provide evidence for any of this? These views are alarmingly extremist, your hypothesis is far, far stronger than even the strong form of Sapir-Whorf which is essentially discredited at this point. I have never encountered any theory of psychology that would support any of this.

Finally, of course your views are totalitarian. Who gets to decide what information is "damaging", exactly? Presumably the lucky few who can be exposed to words and not get PTSD, i.e. yourself.

It is fundamentally totalitarian to believe yourself so mentally superior to others that you have to protect them from "bad" ideas and information. That is how all tyrants throughout history have justified their campaigns of censorship and control.
A public hospital cannot refuse care
Galactic-wind whisperers
How does a cook prepare peas to be eaten with an upside-down fork? Or does proper etiquette demand not eating tasty, healthy, cost-effective foods if they interfere with making a fancy show of putting food in your mouth?
Scientology explanation video: Your mind is more accurate than any computer
How is it not?
goto a non-emergency hospital, tell them no insurance. Get the help you need now, worry about bill later. They can't deny you because of no money or no insurance.
Is this on High Sierra? I have the same machine and had read that TB2 was not going to be supported/deliberately disabled so I sort of gave up hope of getting eGPU working.
Yes, it's like the mostly urban legend about tulips, currently the tulip industry is worth billions.

All industries will pop (I predict there will be another recession!), the only thing of value is knowing when and by how much.
Hardly, I spent a lot of time in spaces where Java and others languages would be considered. If there was ever any hint if performance being a bottleneck we chose C++ over it. Even moreso because unsafe doesnt exist on some variants(Android).

What unsafe gets you is good cache usage. JNI and other approches negate that benefit(also disables inlining and other things).
> A public SQL database is in nature centralized

Why would a SQL database be centralized in nature?

Just as your n nodes hold the entire blockchain, you would have n nodes holding the entire SQL database.

Of course, you could have a blockckain only on one node, centralised. That wouldn't make it inherently "centralized", however.

Same with SQL databases.
Thanks for sharing this.

Perhaps I interpreted it wrong, but I think this speaks volumes for the amount of low-hanging fruit that exists for improvements in such a system: obviously, the above _shouldn't_ happen but does, which raises the question.. why?

I may be (and probably am) wrong, but my guess is that many PDs are still using incredibly outdated systems (at least, mine is), and would vastly benefit from modernizing and improving their systems. There's many other possible reasons (improved systems don't fix this problem, or improved systems have other problems, or administration doesn't care about this problem, etc), but when I read stories like this I think "modern technology would help/fix that" rather than "adding/scaling technology would exacerbate existing problems".
Canadian Eatery Puts Chairs Around the Little ‘Table’ Inside Pizza Boxes
Just wanted to point out that Chrome has Chrome Profiles which can be used for "work" "thailand" etc spaces.

Maybe we can extend this with a better UI + ability to move pages between profiles (this creates some serious security problems though)
One big advantage of film (especially transparencies rather than negatives) though is that it can trivially be read, regardless of technology or hardware.

I can view on a light table or project a photographic slide from 1935 just as easily as I can view a slide developed yesterday. On the other hand, it's not a trivial task to read a magnetic tape from the 70's. These days it's not even trivial for me to read a CD, I don't own a CD reader, and if I'm away from my desk I can't even read a USB flash drive on my Macbook Pro.
Thanks, I know PUBG. Just curious what exactly the bug is? The timer was counting down waiting for enough players to join, is the issue related to estimating how long it will take to get 100 players?
You know what would kill fewer people? Not bombing Yemen.
Chris Sacca, the $4M Negative Balance, the Salinger Group and Twitter
How do consensus protocols help here?
I have some awesome tulips in my garden that I’ll sell you for $8000 a pop. I’ll call it my Initial Cultivar Offering. It has massive appreciation potential.
NET core vs. JVM
>Have you taken care of an elderly person there?

Yes. I have also worked as a welfare advisor, with direct involvement in cases involving issues of mental capacity, legal guardianship and residential care.

>It's not any different.

Clearly it is very different. There's no financial incentive here for over-treating elderly patients - NHS trusts are not paid per treatment. If a doctor or hospital chooses to administer unnecessary treatment, they have less money in their budget and their performance targets are negatively impacted. A service provider cannot arbitrarily rack up fees, because that's not how we fund health or social care.

In many states in the US, a completely unvetted person can apply for guardianship of someone they have never met. In many states, there is effectively no oversight of legal guardianship due to a lack of funding. In many states, guardianship is administered by local courts with no specific expertise.

https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-1046

>Please google: "over drugging elderly UK"

I did. On the first page of results I found some tabloid news articles, a Scientology front group and an NHS summary of the research paper they were all citing. The paper concluded that, while neuroleptic drugs are prescribed more frequently in care homes than in community prescribing, it is not clear whether that is due to inappropriate prescribing or selection bias.

I am not arguing that the UK is a utopia, but I cannot reconcile "Elderly without children to check in on them are seen as ATM's" and "Extract as much money as possible and don't care about the person" with my knowledge and experience of elderly care in the UK. Parts of our system are chronically under-funded, we have unreasonably long waiting times for many services, there's a shortage of care workers, but I've seen nothing to suggest that elderly people are being used as cash cows.
Except that each "action" is one click. Whereas a word corresponds to ~5 clicks, assuming 5-letters-per-word average. This means that 120 WPM is analogous to 600 APM.
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you can be the citation on the wiki article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Uncle_Pennybags
With enough political or legal pressure, you easily deploy a "51% attack" on the chain, and fork it as you like.

Just as the NSA runs almost all the Tor exit nodes nowadays, what would stop a government from running the majority of blockchain nodes and gain consensus majority?
This still implies that higher-income eyeballs will be more valuable, doesn't it? McDonald's might not value rich people so highly, but Lamborghini will be willing to pay 10,000x more per customer gained. Of course the details could confound this (supply and demand for each category of consumer, conversion rates, etc.), but it seems like a reasonable default assumption.
I don't disagree that Google and Facebook do enormous amounts of difficult engineering (I recently saw a USAF slide which compared Google's R&D spending on software to the entire defence industry's).

But the Apollo program and the Manhattan project were something else. Arguably they represent the historical highwater marks in terms of megaprojects which had effectively unlimited resources in the face of wide-open, unsolved problems.
One end goal of blockchains is indeed that they become the system of record, and that legal agreements are English translations of what the code says rather than the other way around.

That might sound scary, but I'd point out a few things:

1. That future is still a long time away. The legal system is very conservative.

2. These systems don't have to be perfect, just better than what we have today.

Yes, I certainly wouldn't trust ownership of my house to a general purpose laptop or smartphone on which I install lots of other apps and which are optimised for high performance and low cost. I wouldn't trust ownership of my house to any computer today.

But the idea that bank-run paper based systems are 100% secure is not true - they routinely go wrong just through basic mistakes and screwups, let alone actual fraud.

Consider all the cases of ID theft in America. There's a specific kind of ID fraud where someone literally steals your house:

https://www.lifelock.com/education/deed-fraud-losing-your-ho...

Or how about this case where convicted murderers learned how to forge their own release paperwork whilst inside the prison, and then successfully got themselves released:

https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/justice/florida-inmates-mista...

Possible because the only thing authenticating prisoner release orders was easily duplicated patterns on a piece of paper.
Quy định cấp chứng chỉ hành nghề điều dưỡng như thế nào?
There's not many use cases I come across where the 'nested' data is the only instance of that data. A student record might have some nested class information, but the class information itself lives as a master someplace else. If you nest things, you now have data living in multiple places, no? Updates need to update multiple locations, which would potentially introduce lots of errors.

I've got a handful of situations where nested structures are making sense, but it doesn't seem to be the norm (at least in the data worlds I work in).
Eeeeh, I think I don't get this thing.
Isn't this an unregulated betting house?
In this case though, the allegation is that the chance-based giveaway was still operated and promoted in Canada, but the prize-distribution was skewed so that no prizes went there.

Which, from a regulatory point of view, seems strictly worse than running an honest game.
Just out of curiosity as I'm probably closer to your age than I am to the majority of folks here, are you taking these classes as part of a grad program in CS or related?
I mean that you should say things more simply in less words. I don't mean to be rude, just an honest critique, but you give the impression of trying too hard.
The original IBM PC lacked an RTC, clones (as with everything else) had occasional portability glitches with them, and this was a decade before the TSC arrived. If you wanted a game to have a delay loop, you counted instruction cycles. If you wanted those delays to be portable, you manually detected the CPU and ran a pre-calibrated custom loop.

Yeah, that seems hard to me.
Angular today is different from 2 years ago.
Is this it?

http://retrogamer.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FA-18_Korea...
Yes, I do. Sorry for the abbreviation. We used the LDAP connector that is publicly available in GitLab and then tied Mattermost into GitLab authentication.
fwiw, I ran into issues when trying to perform more robust search algorithms in PG, such as fuzzy search: https://medium.com/the-backlog-by-nimbo-x/dev-notes-fuzzy-se...
No, I was just wondering whether the mean for women is significantly to the right of the mean for men, or whether mid-to-low skilled women aren't being hired for some other reason (hiring bias, self-selection, or whatever). Or maybe my experiences don't generalize, and there actually are a bunch of mid-to-low skilled women whom I've simply never encountered.
User adoption is the toughest nut to crack. Right now the two largest use cases of cryptocurrencies are financial speculation and illegal activity. Both are huge turn-offs for the average prospective user.

What’s the value proposition for an average Joe to use bitcoin over fiat currency?
The large screen refreshes could be coil whine. I had a video card in 2010 that would do the same thing.
First, congratulations on growing your business to this point! Most don’t make it that far!

Second, to echo some of the advice here, networking really helps. You likely have some connections at shops that do something similar and may be able to strike up a relationship with leaders and bring it up organically.

Another route is to identify your “best”/“most dedicated” client and approach them about bringing your services in-house. Depending on the nature of your business this could provide this client a diversified product offering if there is some synergy with their core competency; worked for us.

Regardless, best of luck!!
A good multivitamin stack (for example, AOR Ortho-Core + Life Extension D & K in the morning and 4 Doctor's Best High Absorption Magnesium pills at night 5 days/week) is probably better than raw melatonin.
ML enabled RASAR outperforming animal test reproducibility
I prefer list comprehension's syntax. I could respect this if it was also faster maybe. To me lambdas are kind of clunky in Python, and I've never been impressed with the .NET Object Oriented builder way of dealing with lists. If you don't format it well(which frankly is kind of difficult to do) you can end up with many very long lines.
> I am a normal citizen and I want to donate money to WikiLeaks without the banks colluding to stop my financial transaction, even though nobody has been convicted of a crime.

Time will tell if Wikileaks was really a noble cause, or if the banks were right all along.
I'll always remember it as F-19 Stealth Fighter :) (Microprose issued a patch shortly after release to correct the name, 3D model, and a "realistic" mode to conform to actual payload specs)
It is an interesting thought, with some precedence. The F-111 Aardvark and the F-105 Thunderchief were labelled as fighter aircraft, but only ever used as bombers.
I’m surprised you haven’t received inquires. We get about one a month to acquire Cronitor.

If your objective has been to keep quiet about your success to avoid competitors, possibly reevaluate if that is the best strategy for acquisition.

Consider an outright sale at something like 24-36 months current mrr. Don’t acquihire for the wrong company.
Mouth Sets Healing Standard
A document store is not a replacement for a relational database, and there are few cases where it's truly a better fit.

More importantly, ES is not a document store. It is a search system that can be used as a similarity index between all kinds of data, most commonly json docs but can be anything like images or audio waveforms.

ES can return none of the source data or not even store it in the first place. In addition, it lacks ACID and transactions and generally has an overall poor reputation for data integrity.

If you just want a json blob, you can already use a relational database column for it and get the key/value performance semantics, while still retaining all the reliability and manageability properties.
Supply chain attacks are one of my personal nightmares.

However, on the bright side, cryptominers are continuing to perform a public service by providing non-destructive whole-lifecycle penetration testing on a contingent-fee basis.
Um no... it's no more than 1-2% in western societies.
If it is for an engineering job that you have to analyze, create, and manage a large amount of data, optimize binary performance and security, write distributed cloud applications that run on bare metal need to be real-time capabilities, build custom routing and switching tech then the Google-style algorithms are very popular.

As without the capabilities to do algorithms and data structures in depth it will be very hard for the incoming engineer to get up to speed on high end engineering projects already in progress along with being able to work on the level required to build newer secure, scalable projects.

If the interviewee shows amazing potential, a good knowledgebase, and drive we may give them a shot and evaluate their progress every six months to insure they are learning what is required for increasing their maximum engineering capabilities. As the worst thing we could do is throw away obvious great capability and potential without giving them a shot, guidance and mentoring.
Maybe the Dingo ate your baby
Ask HN: I want to create a clone of a popular software, should I?
As the title says, I think I could create a pretty decent applicant tracking system. Think Lever, Workable, etc.

I think I could get some good the features within two weeks.

What are the pros / cons of doing this?
Any suggestions?

Should I start selling it before building it?

Do you think there is a lacking feature?

Should I target big corp or small startups?
Obnoxious ads are definitely a problem. If they were native, I'm not sure we'd have much recourse against them. I disable auto-play in Firefox, but that's not the default and some browsers don't even have the option. I'm personally fine with that scenario, I'd rather just black-list a sites that go too far, but we need better tools to do that. I made an FF extension for myself that lets me remove links to any sites I choose from any page I view. For example, there are several sites I know I'm going to hit a paywall or "sign in to view" if I visit, I'd rather just never see those links, now I don't. If everyone had that power (preferably built in to browsers) and it was easy to use and, possibly, community driven, site owners might be far more conscious about what they do, at the risk of being basically removed from the internet.
My friend is a terrible snorer, but I noticed one day when he fell asleep on the couch, that he’d stop snoring, then do this big gasping snore. It was really scary actually! I told him about it, he did a sleep study, and he turned out to have bad apnea. A few months of cpap therapy and he’s a new man. He used to pretty much fall asleep any time he sat down and did nothing, he was always tired, he needed a brass band to wake him up. Now he’s full of piss and vinegar, gets more work done, and he’s just a lot happier.

The test is apparently easy and you can do it at home with a device you get from your doctor and wear overnight, and his machine fits in the palm of one hand is basically silent. Anyone who thinks this is a possibility for them, I agree with you, get checked!