skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I find physical exhaustion, from a long hike for example, a lot more pleasant than mental exhaustion. The first feels positive (helps me sleep well), the second feels negative.
> I don't see the first claim anywhere in the article.

Seriously? From the article:

> All across the country, there are people as repelled by the current White House as they are by the countless and increasingly baroque expressions of identity politics that dominate so much of the culture. These are people who aren’t looking for an ideology; they are looking for ideas. And many of them are getting much better at discerning the good from the bad. The Democratic Party reviles them at its peril; the Republican Party takes them for granted in folly.

Were you expecting the article to use my exact wording?

I won't bother defining identity politics for you because you clearly know what it is and how it relates to voting blocs.

It's obvious that you're only interested in derailing the discussion with endless pedantry, so have a nice day.
I've found that In my career as a software developer, I rarely have a need for any math beyond what I learned in high school (set theory being the one exception).
Check out this new article:

https://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2...

They implemented a back propagation algorithm using just optical.
Does this abstraction target WebGL as well? I could imagine it being a nice portability layer for web-aware apps since rust can easily target wasm with a few compiler flags.
Brazil sets new record for homicides
UniFi Network-Managed LED Panel and Dimmer Switch
Removal, as in expulsion. I didn't miss a thing. The gas chamber mythology is entirety based on emotional propaganda. The facts point to the German camps as a network designed for prisoner labor and transportation and show no support for homicidal poison gas chambers. Search for the International Report of the Red Cross, who audited the camps, 1944.

Class-act whoever decided to flag my post for posting my opinion.
They are not "platitudes" though, but real-world practical concerns.

To give a specific example, even with these extensions you won't be able to handle NULL bytes in your shell script. So if you ever want to store, say, a PNG image in a variable you're screwed.

This can be a real problem. I once wrote a shell script to deal with some email data, which worked brilliant right up to the point we had to deal with emails which contained attachments that aren't base64-encoded (an external provider sent it to us that way), at which point it all came crashing down. It took me ages to discover why emails were being mangled and had to rewrite the entire stuff in Python.

It was only used in our development environment and not production, so no permanent damage. But still a waste of my time.

There are many other cases where you may want to deal with binary data.
A livable wage and modest healthcare sounds like a nice compromise.
You will have to add him on the IRS form so you will have to deal with tax filings with him involved.

Also, most operating agreements have all these clauses to cover cases where he wants to sell his share to someone else. Say he sells to someone with a lot of money and big lawyers. There is a small possibility in this case that you would be spending most of your time and money in a court setting.

It is best to try to just pay him to walk away.
Aren’t many of these problems amenable to solutions with asymetric cryptography? I.e people signing their votes with a key and the vote only be decryptable by a multi-part key, with the various parts being disrrinuted between the major parties and media.

Of course this has its own set of tradeoffs, but so does our current system.
Consider Venezuela. There was no civil war there (unlike Russia immediately after the October revolution, and unlike China before and after WWII). There was no foreign power intervention (unlike Korea, Vietnam). Yet Venezuela is authoritarian.

(There's also Nazi Germany. The Nazis were socialists, really, and they also had no civil war and no foreign power intervention, and that ended pretty badly too.)

I think the answer to your question is: yes, yes, of course it would have.

Now, you might point to post-war Western European socialism, but there we have a number of stabilizing factors (e.g., NATO, U.S. troops on the ground) limiting the freedom of socialist politicians to be as extreme as they might want to. As a result, post-war Western European socialism mostly means just high taxes and large welfare states.

Generally, socialism outside post-war Western Europe ends badly. There have been left-wing presidents in Brazil and others where it didn't end badly, but they didn't impose socialism -- they ruled more like Western European social democrats, not like Chavez, Castro, or Maduro.
"I think I would like to see more academic interest in what it means to "live the good life" in a developing era of high technology,"

That would be very good. I've seen more work on that topic here on HN, indeed, I've contributed more work on that topic here in HN than I personally have seen come out of academia. This is not a statement of pride in HN or myself, it is a condemnation of academia. I see a lot of judgmental discussions about whether things are good or bad or pathological or qualifying for DSM diagnoses, but very little on how to navigate the morass.

This used to be a core topic for philosophy; it's certainly a huge component of Stoicism, if not the main focus, for instance.

I will however give academia one bit of the benefit of the doubt, which is that it's been awfully hard to keep up lately. Writing about how to have the good life in 1990 would have only marginal utility in dealing with the civilizational neurotic hysteria that social media is creating, for instance.

But it would still be nice to see some more effort put in this direction. I can only imagine going to my advisor and telling them I want to focus on this. They may individually and intellectually support me, but the system will utterly reject it.
> But for contemporary use, say in a classroom, minimizing area distortion is often a higher priority than keeping bearing lines straight.

You'll find that in contemporary use, especially when computer interfaces are involved, a very nice property to have is called conformity. A conformal map projection satisfies the property that, as one zooms in to smaller regions, what one sees better and better approximates the actual shapes on the spheroid.

This is actually the reason that mercator is so prevalent today, not the "rhumb line" property useful for navigation, which was probably more a factor centuries ago. This proposed projection is not conformal, so if you were to zoom into any area away from the prime meridian, street grids would not meet at 90 deg, rectangular buildings would look like rhombuses, and other distortions would be noticeable. This isn't acceptable for tools like google maps/bing maps/etc, where one spends much time zoomed in.
Data integration consultant with around 10 years of experience. Sounds fancy but it was about making sure their Facebook posts also get tweeted, when they post a new YouTube video it also gets published to their FB Page, that they are able to connect their Salesforce with Slack (or suggest them to use Slack) and blah.

He even worked with a bank that decided to close down their website and redo entire netbanking in some .net based installable app because it was supposedly secure. After spending a lot of money and a pilot with 10,000 users they discovered that nearly 80% of their users who were forced to use it simply move the money out of the bank.

All this was tech incompetence tax.
Sometimes they get detected and fixed, and sometimes they just get written off because they are small amounts.

Besides an important part of banks fixing issues like this (when they do fix them) is that someone (often the bank itself) must lose money, which they inevitably notice. In the case of an election, no one would ever know if their vote was stolen because they have no way of tracking it once they cast it. You seem to be blindly assuming that every problem will get detected and fixed which is mindbogglingly niave.
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No, not everything. But this can be.
This is obviously not a completely serious question but it is definitely looks like a question someone might ask when learning about complex numbers for the first time.

The answer is completely historical in nature. Imaginary numbers began as being interpreted as the square root of -1 for the purposes of solving polynomial equations (hence the name.) Later, their field structure and their interpretation as vectors-with-multiplication became their primary use but the name remained.

Mathematicians don't really use "vectors" in the traditional sense like in physics but deal with abstract vector spaces where a "vector" is simply a member of a "vector space" which is "a set of things with addition and scalar multiplication and a few other nice properties".

However, if something needs to be done with vectors in a plane, complex numbers are extremely useful because scaling and rotation can be represented as multiplication. Therefore natural operations in the complex numbers often correspond to natural operations in whatever you are trying to study with complex numbers.
As far as I know, the problem wasn't primarily one of underestimating cost or effort - it was one of funding. The non-profit that did this has downsized quite a bit since the RP:CB began and has been seeking other funders.
Let's be honest, though. He didn't burn thousands of calories. You are underestimating how efficient the human body is.
I'm still running OwnCloud. I've tried twice to move to nextcloud but run into syncing issues from my clients with the same data (and same basic setup) that Owncloud is currently handling fine.

Long term I do still plan on moving to NextCloud, the core dev team from owncloud moved over and I've always been happy with OC, but I need the time to actually figure out why I'm getting sync errors with the suggested setup after following all the suggested fixes.
Well done - this is such a great walkthrough. I think if I take a shot at this I might do Salvador Dali and Elon Musk... :)
No. The U.S. was definitely for Pinochet's coup, but on the ground it was all Pinochet. (If anything, Pinochet was less bloody than others because of U.S. pressure.)
Peter Norvig on Clojure
A Data Scientist's Reference for Choosing AutoML Python Packages
Just want to say, that's brilliantly simple use of css-grid. Nicely done. Thanks for the cheer sheet :)
One does not need to consider themselves at a specific level to apply something for security.
I can't fathom why you've been down-voted on this comment! I feel the exact same way and I think you've elaborated on the parent's comment in a usefully specific way.

And I, too, find the exchange irritating and have now taken to a stock response of "hi" as a form of "nonviolent resistance"[01] to the question!

[01] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance
Including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
Eating insects such as crickets could be good for your gut
Also happening right now: "China mosque demolition sparks standoff in Ningxia"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45140551

Although this isn't the Uighur population, the Han Muslim population also faces some level of discrimination.
By such a definition then the U.S. is socialist too, just a bit less. Good news socialists!
There is a huge difference between a foreign national and a naturalized citizen. Proceeding in a conversation on this topic without using these terms correctly will only lead to confusion.

> You're assuming bad faith.

On the contrary, I misinterpreted your meaning precisely because I was being charitable.

Your original post could've been interpreted in two ways:

1. Charitably: you simply didn't know that these people were citizens of the USA, and are reasonably suspicious of someone who built their career and fortune here but who doesn't want to obtain citizenship.

2. Uncharitably: you distrust people because of where they were born.

I chose the charitable interpretation.
'Microdosing' growing in popularity among tech workers, but is it safe?
They do slash technical debt; for example, they did it with the add-on subsystem.
HP and other companies owe banks $200B on benprise website
My experience in London was much better... sure, a hot market meant you needed to move fast, but no hoops around local guarantors or months of pay stubs. It was easier than most local rentals I've done in Boston.
Meant to say HDL. I shouldn't HN before I drink my coffee. But to answer your question, RTL is Register Transfer Language, so the EDIF or equivalent.
Helm is awesome!! U-He makes a bunch of great quality instruments, another one that is really spectacular is Zebra.

It also runs on linux! Which is more or less a desert when it comes to interesting audio plugins.
This basically a chicken and egg dilemma. In some cities of US, like LA, you can't live without a car. If there is a convenient public transportation, I would prefer to take subway if the daily commute is more than 1 hour.
Hey folks,
Author of that post (but not the story contained in it) here.

Jerry Weinberg published that story in a book titled The Secrets of Consulting. It's a very good book though, going by the comments here, many of you won't like it (or have never consulted).

I published this piece ~7 years ago I'd say, it popped up today as Jerry died sadly a couple of days ago (a real loss, if this style of article isn't for you, you might enjoy The Psychology of Computer Programming[1]).

Anyways, just wanted to give context here amongst the criticisms.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silve...
And I hope you've learned to sanitize your database inputs.
Yay, we're winning!
If thinking like I’m 5, it doesn’t add up. At first, “b times i” means rotation, but then ‘a+bi’ is a vector of two orthogonal components. I expected ‘bi’ to be an angle in polar coordinates and ‘a’ to be length.

Besides that, why did mathematicians choose this exact representation? Why not polar, spherical, hyperbolic, Hilbert-like, Minkowski-like? Did anyone explore on how that could change known problems, like e.g. Riemann-zeta?
Intel Announces the 'World's Densest' SSD
IMHO, people with/without CS degrees should be evaluated by different standards/methods.

If you do have a CS degree, then I expect you to be able to show decent competency with that material because you were sitting in all those classes for all those years. If you didn't learn anything, it makes me question whether you apply yourself to what you do or just coast through stuff and are going to coast through at this job too. Since we have the shared experience of a CS degree, if I understand what you got out of it, I think it tells me something about your attitude and approach to your work.

If you don't have a CS degree, then I am going to focus more on skills required for the job role itself. If being strong on algorithms is really necessary for the job, then I'll need to cover that. For any job, though, I'll need to convince myself you have a certain base level of competency so that, for example, you know that a linear search of a billion items is bad.
I've been lucky enough to be a beta tester for Workona and once I decided to go all in with its usage, it was a game changer. If you do work on the internet, or are guilty of having a million tabs open at once, I'd highly recommend trying it.
It's not a single camp.. because a few months ago, there was a story about contracts for running these camps across the country:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/china-re-educatio...
> The transport protocol picked for the DNS, the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), was the best option at the time, but is fraught with issues, including being a major ingredient for DNS-based DDoS events. Only recently has attention turned to finding a more suitable transport arrangement.

UDP is perfect for DNS. The problem is the original protocol design itself. For example, DNSCurve uses UDP and doesn't have these problems.

The only reason people are turning to TLS now is that errant middleboxes have been interfering with all attempts to improve the security of DNS, and using TLS is seen as a way to get the traffic through.

If DNS had been DNSCurve from the beginning then middleboxes breaking it would be seen as a flaw in the middlebox instead of the new protocol, and protocol ossification would be less of a problem because encrypting the data inhibits interference.

But TLS seems obviously worse than defaulting to DNSCurve or similar and falling back to TLS when breakage is detected.
Makes sense- it used to be that college was a place where the ruling class sent their children to be educated in how to be gentlemen/managers. The humanities were considered what such a person needed to know; an understanding of people and society, but not specific work skills since it would be the underclass doing the work.

Now, college is increasingly a form of trade school where members of every class go to learn a marketable skill, in order to sell their labor. Not everybody can be a member of the ruling class, and people are realizing that. Getting a degree in the humanities is only advantageous if you have a reasonable expectation that you'll never have to know a specific trade but will simply be in the management.
In the U.S. city public transit is always mismanaged then. Buses come on a schedule, yes, but way too infrequently. The subways run, yes, but improvements and innovation take decades longer than they used to under private management. I don't know if in Europe private ownership of these things would do better, but in the U.S. public ownership has been pretty bad, and private ownership used to be pretty good.
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If this is based off of Chromium it may be required to be Open-Source. Unless the LGPL parts are dynamically linked, you must share the statically linked source just like with the GPL.

Regardless, I'm only interested if it is Open-Sourced.
What's driving Elon Musk? We asked the people that know him best
How to Project 3D Cuboids on 2D Images
I think we are talking about apples and oranges. The dream metaphor is inapt, because your brain is consciously experiencing only 'level' of that dream. There is only one "you". In the case of the simulations, each 'level' is independently conscious.

The idea behind ancestor simulations is that the simulated people are conscious. If we aren't talking about that, then of course there is no chance we are in such a simulation.

So, you can't really skip what Lincoln had for breakfast, because Lincoln has to experience it and because it can affect him. Maybe the chef poisons him. Maybe it gives him the runs and he cuts a speech short. Maybe he has an allergic reaction and misses an important meeting.

In any case, if you could prune it and we are in a simulation, then none of us would ever have the experience of having breakfast.
Different Databases for Different Strokes
If we don't "free market dogma" applying to college major decisions, then we've got to figure out how to make it so choosing humanities is not signing up for a near-lifetime of debt with no practical way of discharging it.

If there is any discipline for which it make absolutely, utterly no sense that college today is so many multiples more expensive than it was 50 years ago, it's the humanities. Have books gotten more expensive? No. A huge chunk of the material is public domain, so it's not licensing problems. We shouldn't need more administrators, we should need massively fewer what with computers taking care of all the tedious paperwork. The teachers involved are making maybe a couple of times more than what they would have 50 years ago, inflation adjusted, and a great deal of them are making less than they did back then, as associate professors. Where is all the money going?
What you just said is a great observation, but it's not what I was criticizing. I was criticizing people who say "Bash is bad, so I hate this new thing." But since this is a project to build something good on top of Bash, that doesn't really address the issue.

What you're (very helpfully) pointing out is that is a case where it's just a bandaid, and Bash's flaws shine through. I suspect there will be more. But other comments are just saying "Bash bad", and those are irrelevant.
https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2016/06/23/ci...
We now have an engineering manager position open - https://jobs.lever.co/reifyhealth/a9f1ad89-11f3-43aa-b94a-bc... with compensation of $100-160k + equity
It seems that by using this analogy that you're making a fairness argument that China should be criticized more, because they're worse, and Western governments shouldn't be criticized, because they're innocent.

But that doesn't make sense. In the US, for example, when injustice happens, it's possible to fight it in court. No guarantees, but it can be quite effective. Getting attention in the press is sometimes useful too.

Taking advantage of available opportunities to make things better is not "unfair". It's just smart.
> American salaries are 2 to 3 times higher.
Cash in hand is 2 to 3 times higher, but compensation is not.

You need to include benefits such as company car, extra holidays (europe starts with 20 + unlimited sick days), 13th month (get paid twice on december), food stamps (around 8€ / working day), ...

And stock options can be part of the package on both side of the ocean. You should value them similarly.

> The cost of life is NOT twice higher.
Rent is around twice higher in SF, and contributes for a significant portion of your total expense. Other expenses (leisure, culture, ...) is indeed more slightly more expensive in SF but not by a factor x2.
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