skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this seems wrong to me. It's ok to feel feelings, not just ups but also downs. How we bear and cope with losses and "negative" emotions is an important and defining part of the human experience. Imagine a world where the only movies, tv shows, and books allowed were comedies, it would be a much less interesting and much less substantive world. Adopting a "sour grapes" attitude toward the loss of a romantic relationship is not mature, and it is certainly not a healthy coping strategy.

I have to wonder about any advice for dealing with a relationship loss that would be drastically different depending on who initiated a breakup or depending on whether or not the loss occurred due to a death. Nobody would advise dealing with the death of a loved one by regularly thinking about all of the ways that the deceased was shitty and thus one's life was actually better without them around, would they?

As I said, it's ok to feel feelings. What is important here is having feelings that are grounded in reality, having feelings that are part of your life rather than subsuming and taking over your life, and avoiding "negative" feelings pushing you into a spiral of negative self-talk or excessive rumination on the past or on fictional time lines.

People break up, it's a thing that happens. It's important to first recognize that other people can and should have agency over their own lives which is independent from you. It's also important to recognize your own self-worth, your ability to continue living, to have other relationships and to live a rewarding life even when single. It's fine to experience and be brought low by loss, even if it's "just" the ending of a relationship, you don't have to vilify your ex to be able to get beyond that loss. With healthy coping strategies you can integrate that loss into your life, having it be a part of who you are without defining and controlling you.
Neural Machine Translation as a Path to Paraphrastic Sentence Identification [pdf]
People talk about this because it is a disgusting display of wealth, and morally immature to say the least.

But all technologies like this, meant ultimately for humans, will be tested on animals first.

If we are going to learn and refine cloning on dogs anyway..... they scientists might as well bring back "Captain Fluffles".
Amiga: Hyperion added back to Belgium's company register
Audio recording: Trevor Dickinson accusing Ben Hermans of criminal behaviour
TIL: Chrome tab discards
Find out the discard state of your Chrome tabs:

chrome://discards/

Explained: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding
Now figure out how debunking works when the guy putting out hate speech can block at will and/or controls the website.
Very personal answer to your serious question (sorry if it isn’t relevant for others): I can’t stand the stimulus caused by light (one of the problems that come with being part of the autistic spectrum). I wear sunglasses at work (because of the bright fluorescent lights above). Being able to work in the dark is a relief.
Having gone through a breakup of two marriages now, I would say this is remarkably on point.

One thing that I still find myself at odds with is the loss of romantic companionship. It's not a feeling of a wound per se, but it does make you question your romantic value in the world. It can be easy to let yourself get sucked into a negative thought spiral if you're not conscious or aware of it. That's just my $0.02.
When the First Amendment was authored, I suspect people thought public property was going to be where the largest audience was, with the town hall and park and square and what not being the main platform for discussion. Reaching the crowd meant going out with a handbell or standing on a box passing out pamphlets. Stopping the government from arresting someone advertising in the town square was more important than stopping a shop from kicking out a customer they didn't like.

But that's not the case now. The platforms hosting your work are privately owned, the large community websites/social networks/whatever with millions or billions of users are privately owned, and a larger portion of real life locations people frequent are privately owned too.

The way society is going seems to be making the amendment less and less relevant as time goes on.
> Do you have children?

So you have decided into what to invest the 15-20 hours. I can find more interesting hobbies for my time.
If you want to see some more research samples check out this link: https://google.github.io/tacotron/
What's especially impressive is how fast they're moving along with new ideas (see the dates)
Bear in mind that the WaveNet outputs are likely to be pretty slow to generate (but they do yield remarkable quality!)
Nuclear is unsafe for the same reason software is unsafe. Because absent obvious signs of lack of safety, there will always be a drive towards lower cost. It's sociology, not technology.
Fukushima...

I'd rather have windmills than an entire town abandoned and a power plant that appears to still be melted down to this day.

are they really noisy? the big windmill farms i see here in Texas just seem awesome and they put a smile on my face as i drive through 'em.
Sandsifter was pure genius, I can't wait to read the whitepaper for this one!
This is by the same badass who wrote a compiler that generates only MOV instructons [1]

[1] https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
Even more modern cars with "protection" (usually against tuning, not theft) use obvious, simple-to-reverse algorithms. For example, the Simos18 ECUs used in modern VWs use flash files encrypted with AES128. Except, they share the same key and IV across all ECUs on the platform, and the key and IV are stored in plaintext in the "upgrade" routines in the flash ROM. So once you've dumped one ECU's flash memory, you own them all.

This wouldn't be that hard for car manufacturers to defeat if they really cared. It's the exact same trusted-boot problem as any mobile phone faces, except (so far) with much more limited attack resources. It's devilishly hard to get perfect (as every iPhone jailbreak proves) but it's easy to get started.
Nationalism preserves&increases the gradient/spread.
Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella are US citizens who live in the US. They are not foreign nationals.

MSFT sells ICE a lot of software and regularly sells software/services to the DoD as well as other parts of the USG.

Google was opposed to working on military tech for years before Sundar Pichai became CEO.

> I realize this won't be a popular view here

Blatant factual inaccuracies and ignorance of extremely obvious alternative explanations should be unpopular. Both are avoidable and both derail potentially productive conversations.
On a more pragmatic note, it's much harder to track these groups as well on the dark web. On the internet, anyone can see their thoughts and it's much easier to track their location as well.
Thanks. The state (or most states) tacks some on as well, right? If I was not self-employed my employer/client and I would be paying into Employment Insurance and Canadian Pension plan as well, but I'm able to skip that as I own more than 20% (don't recall the exact percent they require for exemption) of the corp I work for. There is also 13% sales tax but I stack that on top of my hourly. I can claw back some of the sales tax by claiming the tax I paid on business expenses.
The entire point, rightly or wrongly, of keyless entry is that you never have to touch the key, simply have it somewhere in the vicinity of the car, such as in your pocket. No button pressing or user input. You approach the car and it is already magically unlocked and ready to be started, usually via a starter button on the dash.

Therefore the same concerns regarding relaying still apply, unless I’ve misunderstood your reply, but your later post suggests pressing a button on a key. If buttons on the key are pressed, this ceases to be “keyless” as the car industry understands it - this is back to conventional remote locking.
That point I get, people may not enjoy prepping for an interview.

That's different than asking "Why should I prepare for a job?"

If you want the job, you'll put in the effort to prepare, regardless of your feelings on the process. That sacrifice (2 hours a day for a month) is minor in the grand scheme of things. Granted to the OP's point, Google probably isn't worth it. But that's a value decision each candidate has to make for themselves.

I'm preparing for my brown belt in Krav Maga. The test is 6 1/2 hour grueling physical exam that includes a comprehensive test of all the material from the previous 4 belts. Not only that, we're the first group eligible to test, so the instructor wants to set the standard with us.

Not everyone wants to put themselves through that hell. But those that do will put in the effort to be ready come test time.
its really easy for men. Refocus on a something else, new parter/dates( sex with new person works the best), new project, new class ect.
I feel like you're vastly overcomplicating the whole thing. Granted, I don't know if there were any parameters specified other than "Find the largest connected segment in a 2D grid".

I had to solve almost the exact same problem very recently. I find the best way to start is to just implement the easiest solution you can think of, such as the array approach you mentioned in the beginning. I did that in 5 - 10 minutes. We spent the rest of the interview optimizing and fleshing out the problem (e.g. let's not use an array, but there is only one "color").

Overthinking the problem straight from the beginning and potentially being unable to provide a working solution at all is probably the worst thing you can do. I actually had that happen in a previous stage of the aforemention interview, and had to "reset" by going back and implementing the simple solution before optimizing it.
I stand corrected, then. However, the fact that I was wholly unaware of this also suggests they are not really a viable/successful Steam competitor. ;)
It can be your self when it represent a lifelong bonding, without that person there's no you anymore, she/he was your emotional outlet, your happiness intake.

One can rationalize it and see that it's a distortion of your own perception of reality. I'm still recovering and at times my mind accepts that it wasn't a possible future. I can sense part of my brain unlocked. As if grief was a shutdown of some systems, these probably impede pleasures of living (the one you needed the other to share with).
Just to be clear, his "political views" are a call for violence.
Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf]
If you're on Android, I recommend Screen Filter[1] which will draw a semi transparent overlay on top of nearly everything (depending on the phone and/or OS version, it might not dim the status bar, bottom navigation buttons, lock screen, etc.). I use it a lot when reading at night, because the lowest brightness setting on my phone is also too bright for dark-adapted eyes.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor
> I think we all can agree that these lines are repetitive and even error-prone to some degree.

I don't agree. I'll take if-statements over a validation library 99% of the time.

This is how we validation a message coming into our REST+JSON API: https://github.com/ohsu-comp-bio/funnel/blob/master/tes/vali...
Do you have an on-prem demo version I can try? I'd like to make a small pretend app to showcase to my team how this can be effective.

EDIT: Ah I see. I should contact you. I'll do that.
I worked on a project where we were trying to modernize it with a fancy web UX. All the old timer users (people working at the insurance company for 20+ years) were used to working with the old version that was mainframe-based where they'd be opening flat files, and entering data, etc. they were really efficient at it. They knew all the keyboard shortcuts, etc. These weren't educated people, but by rote learned their jobs, well. They hated the new web-based, fancy UX that was built for them. So, I could see how the old-school accountants couple probably be pretty efficient at Lotus....
Interesting idea, I like that Pioneer is looking for more than just startups (or tech in general). Obviously the $5k grant is too small to make this appealing for people in the U.S. who need money to pursue their ideas. BUT, of course, there's the entire rest of the world, where $5k can be stretched quite far.

One hang up - is it necessary to say that Pioneer seeks "young" people? Does Pioneer have a preference for young people when determining who deserves an offer?
Yes! Leibniz thought it would be possible to invent "a kind of alphabet of human thoughts" in which "everything can be discovered and judged by it comparison of the letters of this alphabet and an analysis of the words made from them." These would be essentially arithmetic - every thought would have a numbers. This would "increase the *power of the mind much more than optical lenses strengthen the eyes and which will be as far superior to microscopes or telescopes as reason is superior to sight." This was influenced (but not reducible) to what he had been reading from Chinese philosophy.

In 1679 he said it would take, "five years to complete project with a few select men." Famous last words...
This is really sad that the response is so often: you must be just paranoid, when stalking is so common and surveillance software is cheap and so easy to use. Actually stalking/surveying a potential target is a very prolific tactic used by most modern criminals, it's crazy and stupid not to care about it.
But that is my point: if host language doesn't have feature X, you still can implement that feature yourself, can't you?

If host language is untyped, then write your own type system.

Another example: Java has no co-routines, has no continuations, but Kotlin (written in Java) does. They compile Kotlin code with co-routines into finite state machines in Java.
We need you to present your own arguments civilly and substantively, according to the guidelines. Perhaps we could also please request “calmly”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As a data point, I frequently hit the power button on my phone to see the text notification I just received. On my phone that means the wallpaper is about 3 quarters of the screen so if the pipes were actually off it would cut the energy usage by a fair amount
Lite.im Allows Litecoin Transactions Through Telegram and SMS
Zipf’s Law in Passwords [pdf]
> At least Python's backers had the guts to release a breaking version 3, unlike some other dynamic languages, specifically Ruby and Apache Groovy.

The backward-compatibility breaking Ruby release often held up as a parallel to Python 3—Ruby 1.9—was released December 25, 2007, about a year before Python 3.

If Python had as much guts as Ruby in this area we'd be seeing a backward-compatibility breaking Python 4 around 2021.
Seems like step five is a reasonable place to stop, and I don't know any languages that eventually got to step 6 and are useful or fun to program in as rust. Exceptions are really not a great way to think about error handling.
2 hours is about how long I spend at the gym every day and I'd hate to give that time up.
This is absolutely brilliant. Kudos to the team that created and produced this video.
This is one of those things that even if it can be done correctly in theory, it’s often so bad in practice that it’s probably best to just not do it at all.
Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible
Thank you for many years of f.lux. How would you say it stacks up against Nightshift in iOS and macOS natively?
I always find it interesting when life imitates "dystopia." Nobody recognizes it as dystopia because, my guess, is that dystopia isn't some cataclysmic apocalyptic period. It's just life as it has been in all of it's gritty and exploitative glory with the addition of technology.
I have built an access control system that does a similar thing. Long story short: Time Of Flight is patented and no one can use it. Our system used a nice workaround... We tried to convince car manufacturers to use or license our tech and they seemed happy with their current stuff.
Isn't a subsidy just a negative tax on what's seen as a positive externality? I get the argument for trying to find a 'market-based solution', but at some point a relatively small group of people (government representatives) need to make a decision that will affect the whole market/population. Whether they're taxing one thing or subsidizing something else, a decision is being made.
If you post like this again we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It allows them to be refuted - which hopefully stems at least some of the indoctrination that would otherwise occur only in private.

This does not appear to be the case. Consider the math, if nothing else:

Bad Idea Public convinces .1% of those who hear it and those people are irrationally convinced.

Bad Idea Private convinces 10% of those who hear it and those people are likewise irrationally convinced.

I'm assuming the private bad idea is 100 times as effective, which may or may not be accurate. Even so, as long as your private circles are smaller than ten million people or so, we're better off than we would be if your bad idea was hitting a billion people on the Internet.

I'm still not arguing about the difficulty of telling which ideas are good and which are bad.
Also known as crying wolf.

Don't you have insurance for theft? Kind mandatory in Amsterdam.
It is a common concept, true. It’s also wrong and not supported by any studies. The reason the idea keeps going is that it keeps getting repeated despite being comprehensively debunked, thus serving as its own contradiction.

(Those entertained by intellectual diversions will observe that if you assume that I am incorrect and that in fact the evidence supports OP, you end up with a logically inconsistent position.)
> I guarantee that 80% of working "rockstar coders" will fail (but not before whining, crankily, about how unfair it is that you would actually make them do such a useless thing, since, y'know...never actually documents anything IRL, dude).

Are you sure you're not just replacing one stereotype with another here? Do you think it's fair to say that 80% of people who do well at whiteboard coding value documenting their software so little that they'd be fail at it while disparaging the concept?
> That is why I pay attention to kooks and antiflocks. If you can explain precisely why something is impossible you’re halfway to making it possible after all. And if nothing else, kooks are really good at pulling those explanations out of you.

reminds me of https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-f... , which i think is a pretty neat ethnography of the "crank"/pseudoscientist phenomenon.
Cool! This is the kind of stuff I'd like to build in React/Node. Guess I could just do it with Google searches and the documentation. StackOverflow when stuck.

Thanks! I learn the most when I am building things I would use myself.
Depends how complicated it is. If it's a really simple site where you won't be updating the content all too often (or ever), then good old static HTML and CSS should do fine, along with whatever host takes your fancy. Heck, even something like GitHub pages may be a good choice here, since you don't need anything with server side language support for a site this simple.

And if you can avoid bringing in JavaScript frameworks or what not, well all the better there. Making a fast site seems to have become a lost art nowadays, in part due to all the people just bringing in dozens or hundreds of libraries for the simplest possible things.

If you want something more complex? Then look into a framework like React or Vue, or maybe a very basic CMS.
"business impact" is almost always a lie or used as an excuse to do what you want.
Some of the same people who voted for the First Amendment very shortly thereafter authored the Alien and Sedition Acts.

It was certainly much more expensive to distribute writing in 1800 than it is today. It would be much easier to stop a person from printing.
Riddles are the worst, I was recently asked the "You have a 5 litre and a 3 litre container, how do you get 4 litres" question (never heard it before).

It's so simple to figure out if you're on your own and just play around with the idea. When asked on the spot I just kept thinking "hey these people want an answer NOW, don't make them wait" while feeling their stare, and couldn't figure it out without help.
I don't know what he is but he's not human anymore, since confirmed by himself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qGVVxaosDM
We just asked you to please go read the guidelines and follow them. Could you do that now? We don't need any more flamebait here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are an infinite number of bad ideas in the world. No-one’s life would be improved by hearing them all.
Wish Apple would give us a physical cover.

Work MacBook has monitoring software on it that seems to have a number of different capabilities, the usual driver disablement commands also don't work (even sudo'd), and the input slider on the microphone always manages to creep back up a notch without my doing. (None of these things are a problem on the home system.)
There are three components to my knowledge. below is my anecdotal knowledge so pls verify if needed :)

- remote car monitoring/bmw connected app. this can be tweaked (its off by default) via idrive. I believe there is also some anonymized sharing with "parknow" and real time traffic apps.

- maintenance notifications. this is on by default and can be disabled in bmw's new "my car" website. They also send you a postcard letting you know its on periodically.

- "sos" services - I would call BMW and ask to have it turned off (its on by default). The signing of the doc might be depending on the state you're in. Mine's NJ reg, but NY dealer.

If BMW ever shares the location data with third parties other than police, I would have major issues with all of this.

To answer sibling post, SIM cards are located inside the Navi computer, which is a big gray/black metal box behind one of side access panels within the trunk (or under trunk for most sedans). BMWs can also be coded (google that- dealer wont do it) to not use SIM data completely. If you truly want teleservices disabled, find a friendly BMW modder shop adept at coding and they'll help you void your car's warranty :)
As with everything, it depends.

To me, whiteboard interviewing makes sense when hiring for a role that leans toward a comp-sci background. People who do well in these roles typically have a brain that works in a certain way.

The roles that lean away from a comp-sci background are usually the type of developers who don't do well with whiteboard interviewing techniques.

What too often happens is that a hiring engineer doesn't interview within the context of the role they are hiring for.
Which is maybe why Moxie is encouraging people to rely on Google Play Store.

If you are so concerned about state-level actors that play store is untenable to you, signal and android on commodity hardware are probably not the solutions you want anyways.
Step 3: Uninstall Flash

Step 4: Pass test?!
> Not sure it was erased without any trace.

Yep. The thing about logless VPNs (or other services) is that you really never can be sure about what's being saved and what isn't. Only solution is to assume any service is compromised and act accordingly.
Presumably it takes a business and facilities to to realize its value, so the barrier to entry is high. Like the thief needs access to a shady used car dealer or shady used parts business, unless it's a low volume rural thing where they can strip cars in the backyard and sell parts on eBay.

Assuming the 30000$ car is one ton, that's only 15$ per pound of car... Not too valuable.
what is "cool" is very person specific though. It's hard to fully appreciate multiple dispatch in 8 lines for example
If I remember correctly, one of the games bundled with QBASIC on MS-DOS had the same problem. Perhaps it was GORILLA or NIBBLES.