skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard performance targets can work, but only if you have full buy-in from management. If you don't, someone is going to persuade a higher-up to make an exception just this one time and the whole thing falls apart.
I haven't read the specific paper, but there are studies that try to classify countries by "cultural dimensions", of which "individualism" is one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimensio...

"Individualism vs. collectivism (IDV): This index explores the “degree to which people in a society are integrated into groups.” Individualistic societies have loose ties that often only relates an individual to his/her immediate family. They emphasize the “I” versus the “we.” Its counterpart, collectivism, describes a society in which tightly-integrated relationships tie extended families and others into in-groups. These in-groups are laced with undoubted loyalty and support each other when a conflict arises with another in-group."

https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/
At which point the election is on the stock that you exercise, not the options.
i worked on a project last year that upgraded to 1.7
Raildar – Tracking the UK Rail Network
No, systemd devs...
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One can, and many people have, over the years.

Some of the more interesting ideas that people have had, in my view, have been:

* ID systems that introduce hierarchies, allowing (say) a user to create multiple sub-users (one for running the WWW browser, one for running the office suite, one for running the chat program, ...);

* proper nonce ID creation with segregation guarantees (c.f. nonce SIDs in the Windows NT world); and

* IDs that are reference counted, accessible via descriptors, passable from process to process via descriptor-passing mechanisms, and explicitly supplied in system calls for opening/creating things.
I'm one of the "chronic checker" types. I used to be really bad about checking and rechecking door locks, particularly, but also the fridge and the garage. If I check absentmindedly and without intention, I'll have to do it all over again.

What really helped me get out the door in the morning, and still does, is actually to video myself doing it. When I got a Palm Zire 72, for the first time I could actually leave within a normal interval because I had a continuous, raw, time stamped record of everything I did from checking everything was off and secure to leaving the apartment and driving away. I refused to ditch the Zire until the iPhone 3GS because the 2G and 3G only did stills. To this day I still do it with my Pixel when I'm flying solo.

Which brings me to the other thing that helped: my very patient wife, who reminds me she saw me do it, you did it right, and get your butt in the car, darling.

The damnable thing about OCD is that a little is very valuable in my regular line of work (medicine). Without it I wouldn't be as careful, I don't think. It means it won't let me take shortcuts and it forces me to be thorough, and that's a very good thing in that business.
The junction map (https://raildar.co.uk/map/MKC) is also really interesting to look at.
Wow, GB/s vs MB/s is the worst read-vs-write disparity I've heard of yet, although I haven't studied the subject extensively (mostly because I don't know where to start).

I wonder what the average readback rate on modern GPUs is. And whether it has an impact on, eg, on-GPU graphics compositing.
Good! This means more open distribution methods (email) will be given priority again.

I don't want Facebook, nor Twitter. Just take my email address and send me your content, or offer an RSS feed.

EDIT: Anyone know if this kills Buffer and other social feed managers?
Whoa, this is really cool! My wife knows sign language and I showed her this and she was impressed, and had so many questions about how it worked =) I love the innovation — Thanks for sharing!
Actually, since we are planning to integrate QASM and eQASM (a new kind of assembly from Delft), if you can use Yao.jl to run a quantum algorithm for solving differential equations (there has been several already), you will be able to run it on some real hardware. Still working on more features, and we do need more feedback to help us make this better, please feel free to give us any comments in the issue :)
This has never existed. I'm not even sure what you could be thinking off.

I guess I’m having my first “senior moment.” I remember this quite vividly. I sure hope I’m not confusing it with another city.

I used to keep pretty good expense records back then, so I should have a record of the fare. If not, where do I go to collect my Crazy Old Man badge?
Only if strategic balance is maintained. Otherwise there is a huge incentive for the stronger party to strike and win all

The MAD equilibrium is very fragile!
No one would argue for having no electricity in times of low wind and solar. The short term solution would be to use natural gas power plants to fill the gaps. If they ran only in those situations, the 90% of CO2 reduction could still be achieved. Of course, we need to expand storage solutions and with internationally coupled grids, those times become even shorter, as the weather variations tend to even out.
Show HN: Reccrd – easily archive/share insights from ML experiments
Hi HN,

Reccrd (www.reccrd.com) is a tool to help machine learning practitioners and researchers streamline their workflow. Frequently, ML engineers/researchers need to refer back to insights from experiments done in the past (usually in the forms of tables, plots, and text). This involves manually digging through digital files or flipping through a physical research notebook. Apart from being inconvenient it is also hard to share these results with colleagues. The idea with Reccrd is to have a research notebook hosted in the cloud for easy organization and sharing of insights from experiments. Specifically, these insights can be pushed to Reccrd programmatically as to not break the normal workflow. I would love to hear any thoughts the community on HN may have about this. Thanks!
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Many of the seed companies now are fertilizer (and pesticide/herbicide) companies.
Has anyone tried this? I'm curious about experiences with this setup.
Ho isn't used in the West as a pejorative, almost ever. It's far more often used playfully, and often by women themselves. Only a very offended culture would cause you to take it seriously.

And honestly, Coal Mining is a job with like social status zero and sex work status -1. My dad actually was a coal miner and it wasn't great. Even if you mindlessly take it literally it's not that far off.
I may be swimming in the opposite direction, but I like to see that go. I left Twitter (well, abandoned my account) years ago, tired of the excessive noise and progressive loss of relevance to me. Seeing tweets on the FB feed always makes the author seem lazy and desperate to have a presence in every social media site, just because.
I know that the change won't stop all of that but will certainly reduce it. FB isn't exactly a noiseless feed but I sort of have to put up with it given family and friends.
> A deeply red/Republican and relatively low-density state might seem like a strange place to find a functional public transit system.

I do not see it this way. Communities with shared values (republican or democratic), usually find it easier to agree on and build public services that they find useful. Getting efficient, inexpensive transport that does not cost too much to the state is pretty easy to justify.

By the same token, most Republicans know that they will eventually get old, likely sick and finally die; thus they are not opposed to public healthcare as long as it is efficient and does not overburden public finances. However, they think (with some justification given past national federal projects) that if the US Federal government designs such a system it will be an inefficient and super costly monster pandering to special interests. And they are dead set against it.
I'm under the impression that the federal government knows this and actively tries to keep the population ignorant if their individual personalities. In America's violent culture, people see a massive red vs. blue battle and can't help but take a side.
Or, to see what's really going on at a low level you have immediate access to the native assembly from the REPL:

julia> square(x) = x^2
square (generic function with 1 method)

julia> @code_native square(1)
.text
Filename: REPL[3]
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
Source line: 1
imulq %rdi, %rdi
movq %rdi, %rax
popq %rbp
retq

julia> @code_native square(1.0)
.text
Filename: REPL[3]
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
Source line: 1
mulsd %xmm0, %xmm0
popq %rbp
retq
Exams are basically some of the most flawed tests you can come across.
Directly Critical.
Particularly poignant blog post of his from only two months ago.

http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/2018/06/why-would-an...
Talk to people...on the train?
I've read and re-read so many of his books. Tweeted a couple of times mentioning his work and got replies from him. Truly a great person
Cool, I'm not familiar with quantum at all but I'll start looking into it. It will definitely be something we add to DifferentialEquations.jl common interface next year. I'll see about getting a Google Summer of Code project on this.
of course it is.. Poettering and the gang dont care. Their effort to rebuild and replace everything thats worked fine for the past 20 + years MUST continue unabated.
"Hm I should check it out, are there docs?" https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/ Julia 0.7 Documentation

Sounds like 1.0 hasn't propagated everywhere yet :-)
Yes, perhaps partially, but would you not agree that the amount of outrage-worthy news has also increased? Perhaps the issue is not the lens, but the reality...
First of all, I think it's really great you are doing this ;)

One option is that I believe you can get relatively inexpensive Android devices in India. And there are now environments such as Grasshopper and SoloLearn that allow you to develop in Java right on the mobile device!

I can also recommend CS Unplugged: "a collection of free teaching material that teaches Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around"

https://csunplugged.org/en/
No, you can't. You have to learn each character individually.

That said, when I studied Chinese, I found it easier to learn the words and how to write them compared to other languages I had learnt before. Perhaps it's just me, but I find learning symbols easier than words made up from letters.
Do it, they are really really good, I re-read them often
> the loss your getting from investing the same amount of cash working at bigco in ETFs

Only if that's actually what you'd do with the money. If working for a startup means working from home in rural/suburban Oregon and working for bigco means you're living in SF proper the rent and ancillary costs may make dumping the excess cash into the market unlikely or not particularly lucrative.
Apple refuse to invite Ian Beer into their vulnerability disclosure programme
Unfortunately, it's often suppressed by those who are offended because they feel speaking up jeopardizes their job or acceptance with coworkers. Look how much is quietly endured in this very anecdote.

Cases like this exist, where managers are subsumed into the culture (or passively even actively foster it), but more common is behavior that's increasingly tolerated because nobody wants to speak up because of the cultural implications.

I realize it's gauche to complain about downvotes but ... what?
That's not true on an individual scale, only on a country average scale, and only post-industrialist. So basically, that's not true.
The documentation should be equivalent, modulo a small couple additions made in the past couple of days.
Their birth rate is now getting back up. It used to be quite a bit worse. On top of that, average Japanese life expectancy is rather long. Which makes it skewed towards elders.

And on top of that, they have strict immigration and don't feel like going Euro way at all. Thus population decline is massive compared to western europe.
The issue isn't the mere existence of namespacing or scoping. It's about having explicit and consistent models for how these things work. Container frameworks try very hard to introduce a single boundary that applies to all those resources, and so are straightforward to reason about.
Show HN: mdi-cli – Generate material design icons from the command line
The article contains the text "in 1999", so yeah...
It's similar to what happened at Uber, and the solution will be the same -- Replace people from the top-down, starting with the CEO.
The type system, which really encourages development of safe, reusable code. Also the type system can be a useful reusable solver.

I strongly prefer the dependency management system to python's efforts.

I like the strong arithmetic precision management facilities.

Dynamic programming is interesting, but I'm not sure that its great for collaboration.
All the warning signals about earth are lit up and chiming... But still we ignore.
> can move email elsewhere within an hour or so

Future mail.

Unless you’re constantly mirroring somewhere. Most home NAS have an array of ‘mirror cloud stuff to local’ apps.
You don't need to annotate function definitions with types, but you should actually annotate your composite type definitions with concrete (parametric) types for each field.
They actually aren't leaving out the name of the project, it's called Loop - the system that she's on is not actually OpenAPS. I've tried both systems, OpenAPS lacks a clean, user friendly UI. As a result, most people (according to a recent survey) are running Loop instead of OpenAPS.
I am not concerned with doing so in the general case, and even less in corner cases that are not relevant here. My point is that preserving 'Chicagoese' will be difficult because it is essentially English in an English-speaking part of the world.
If this is commonplace in America workplace, then you truely are an odd country.

This statement seems odd in this context. While Riot may be headquartered in the US, all of the events in the article took place in Ireland.
"Common view" is usually very inaccurate.

More principled cultural measures like Hofstede's don't measure individuality of individuals (sic). They measure relative differences in a group of people from another in the terms of the culture and values as they are collectively represented in institutions and behavioral norms.

In Hofstede's cultural dimensions Japanese uncertainty avoidance may be interpreted and perceived as 'low individuality' because it restricts expression of expressing ideas and individual behavior. It does not mean that Japanese are drones without ideas as individuals. They must express new ideas using different channels when working inside Japanese culture.

Hofstede's ranking for individualism for select countries:

US 91
Japan 46
China 20

Japan ranks culturally quite high in individualism when compared to other East Asian nations. Japanese society does not have extended family system which forms a base of more collectivistic societies such as China and Korea. Where they really separate from the rest is masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, low indulgence and power distance. In contrast, Chinese uncertainty avoidance is very low. Lover than in the US.

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Short definitions to avoid confusion from literal interpretation of the terms (these terms don't mean exactly the same what the common meaning is):

individualism: the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. In Individualist societies people are supposed to look after themselves and their direct family only. In Collectivist societies people belong to ‘in groups’ that take care of them in exchange for loyalty.

power distance: the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally.

masculinity: indicates that the society will be driven by competition, achievement and success, with success being defined by the winner / best in field – a value system that starts in school and continues throughout organizational life. A Feminine society is one where quality of life is the sign of success and standing out from the crowd is not admirable (Sweden is opposite of Japan in this axis).

uncertainty avoidance: the degree to which the members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity. Strong uncertainty avoidance means maintaining rigid codes of belief and behaviour, and are intolerant of unorthodox behaviour and ideas.

indulgence: the extent to which people try to control their desires and impulses. Culturally less emphasis on leisure time and control the gratification of their desires.
A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos
Here's a pdf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5468189
leni536 is correct, the range is specified at compile time.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v239/doc/UIDS-GIDS.m...

However, do note that if the service file sets a User= name, and that username already exists, then it will simply use that user, and disable DynamicUser for that service. All of the service files that ship with systemd itself set User=, making this possible for them, but 3rd-party service files might not.

One thing you could look in to is writing a systemd generator (see the systemd.generator(7) man page) that injects User= in to DynamicUser=yes service files, and then ensures that local system users with each of those names exist.
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I used Julia in my day-to-day work at my previous job (Intel) and in my new position (Rigetti). There's quite a few companies that are using it in production now.
Good - if you don't like/use Facebook. For people who like/use it (and there are many), this is a very sad day.
I think the intent behind net neutrality is not to prevent bundling but technical discrimination. Your ISP can bundle free Hulu with your data plan, as long as you can also get Netflix and Youtube at the same quality with no bandwidth throttling.

So as long as there is no technical discrimination and you can access and subscribe to other news sources, net neutrality is respected.
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In the book [0], he adds the observation that sometimes something does happen. My inference of the point of the incomplete story told above is to reassure people when their efforts don't seem to take hold. Some can begin to blame themselves. Recognizing that change is rare and hard helps to depersonalize a failure to make change happen.

[0] 'The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully', Weinberg
It's because it's been below population replacement since the 1960's, so the age-sex pyramid has been inverted for a long time and it used to be unusual.
Dependency management for packages just got hugely better with the release of Pkg3 (now simply Pkg) as part of 0.7 / 1.0.
Congrats to everyone behind this effort! I’m looking forward to helping out with getting the image processing packages in Images.jl packages updated for 0.7/1.0.
Wait for the spec to mature a bit more, and for better tooling to emerge, and even then chances are the solution will be a port of QT.
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Compatible pumps ARE that rare these days... I've seen them being sold online for anywhere from $500 - $3,000 depending on their condition. I've purchased a few as backups because it's not a question of IF my current one will fail, it's WHEN.
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Actually, wanting this stuff not at install/configure time is one of the primary driving forces behind the mechanism. Lennart Poettering notes that it moves the relevant tasks out of package pre/post-install/deinstall scripts and into service startup and shutdown.

Ironically, the alternative approach here is more descriptive and less imperative package management.

Witness manifest files on the old BSD pkg system. Rather than every package maintainer writing an install/deinstall script to invoke the relevant account database tools, packages place a @newuser or @newgroup directive in the file and the packaging system handles creating and deleting the account at appropriate times.

* https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_create.1
A lot of people have cancelled their cable subscription and get by with ad-free services like Netflix and Hulu, MLB.tv, etc...

The other things you mention - magazines, newspapers, and billboards - usually don't track you and build a profile on you so they are less objectionable.
Monopolies don't care about you
How to do stuff with Julia: https://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/Python/Julia/#
Signaling is everything here. Once you've announced that you are going to charge for something like this, you've also in a way announced you could charge for other things as well.

At that point, you are just better off using something else to insulate you from things like these.

>>Just don’t expect any future updates from Oracle, security or otherwise.

That's a very big problem for most shops.

>>With its huge ecosystem and modern toolsets such as Spring Boot Java is a highly viable option for developing new applications.

Spring Boot isn't a configuration less framework. Its basically a only one configuration works framework, change something small and nothing works. Also code comes out so unmaintainable no one apart from the original authors generally understands anything about it.
Why couldn't they blanket-deauth all Facebook apps (or maybe just ones authed before this year, or sth.) instead? People would fix the apps they still use. And really, publishing apps on FB is not a real problem; apps exfiltrating data is.
It's pretty gross how the author alluded to IBM's involvement on the allied side in WWII but neglects to mention the nature of those contracts: the management of concentration camps on both sides.
The article says it is the ecological fallacy. Google "ecological fallacy example" and you'll find lots. A simple example: take a group of 3 people. One has an IQ of 200. The other 2 have an IQ of 50. The average IQ is 100. So the group is "average IQ" but if you pick a person at random they are likely to be substantially below average IQ. Examples get substantially more complicated in reality.
Module Linker, my browser extension for browsing code on GitHub, has support for Julia: https://module-linker.alhur.es/#/julia
It doesn't primarily manifest as anxiety, more of an intrusive thought (obsession). E.g. until you have washed your hands, you are actively aware of a feeling they are unclean and need to be washed. This can amount to distractability and irritability, which is remedied by the compulsive act (washing hands). Combined with the highly co-morbid condition of ADHD, the intrusive thoughts can impair ability to manage attention.