skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're what's broken. Our prudish approach to adult entertainment.

"Joe" would have a happier life if he and his wife were open about how much money they were each spending on porn. They might learn something about each other. Hiding it in layers of shell billing companies isn't just ridiculous at the technical level described here, it's unhealthy.

Also needs to be noted that —as others have said— card processing companies need to get the hell out of the way and just deal with money at a fair risk level. Adult entertainment is higher risk than a card-present or delivered transaction, but absolutely no worse than your Netflix subscription. Considerably less risky than the in-app junk that Adyen happily underwrites ("My toddler bought this without my permission, waaa").
It says "There's a perception that we sit way more than any other culture out there", and then they say no, the Hadza sit a lot (" 'The Hadza are in resting postures about as much as we Americans are' "), but if you search for photos of the Hadza sitting, they are always sitting on the floor/ground, or crouching, not sitting in a chair. That's not the same thing at all!

Then there's a photo of the Indian weaver they mention with the caption "No special chair required" (compared with the kneeling chair the author had bought, I guess). But the weaver is sitting on a low, (backless) bench! I've never seen an office/computer worker sitting like that.

So it's all about how you sit, but never that sitting in chairs might be (part of) the problem?
And it's a matter of public safety, collapses like these.
Try walking in the employer's shoes: "can this person learn what we need them to learn?" is notoriously difficult to assess. While the risk of making a bad hire is tremendous (deadly for smaller companies), the upside's lukewarm (hypothetical loyalty).

The only safe way to see if a person can do the job, is for them to do the job, pretty much.

I'm speaking from painful experience: we also used to hire based on potential. Bad idea (or we just couldn't make it work). Our hiring process is now very close to the actual job, whether the position is junior or senior, and although it can take weeks (a test project), "I could learn this later" doesn't cut it. Too many scars, not enough resources.
Like I said, anecdotal (indicating I don't assume to have more datapoints to make it a study). No need for passive aggressiveness, I just shared my observations, which include multiple cases in which everyone would have benefitted from AOT.
Ideally you are in college or in a job already. I guess if you’re in between then it makes sense to get another job. After all there is really no guarantee you will land the job at big 5 even after all the prep.
I'm really tired of people fawning over China. This is a country with a horrible human rights record, over a million people presently in camps based on racial profiling, and an active program to build the most comprehensive surveillance state in the world.

It's doubly hypocritical when the people doing the fawning are American liberals that would go completely bonkers if anything like that were happening here. (The same logic applies to Saudi Arabia, our other even more brutal "ally.") Money talks I guess. China's GDP growth has been phenomenal and that's all that matters.

Getting tough on trade with China is one of the very few things I agree with Trump about. The Chinese don't play fair in the trade realm either. They vertically integrate their industries with the government, subsidize them to dump, manipulate their currency, ignore the environment and pollute to a degree unprecedented in human history, and deploy "soft" plausibly-deniable mechanisms for trade protectionism so they can pretend to open their markets without actually doing so. The most significant part of the latter is the "great firewall," which is as much about keeping foreign Internet companies out of China as it is about censorship or surveillance. Another mechanism is a maze of regulations around currency, banking, incorporation, and payment systems that makes actually taking payments from Chinese customers painful. It's very easy to send money into China but hard to take any money out.
Having just briefly skimmed the article, I suspect he would have been horrified at how things developed on that front throughout the 20th century. He very specifically railed against "the nonsensical sentiment of the present day, that goes under that name [pride of race]".
Seems like he's referring to this: https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2019/
That's such an awful fallacy--"Somewhere, someone else is worse off than you." Yeah, everyone in China, India, Indonesia, North Korea, most of Africa, most of South America, Mexico.

Digging ditches, that is hilarious--as if people manually dig ditches in developed countries anymore! Most road crews are like 10 dudes standing around doing nothing. Road improvement projects are a form of welfare.
Monsanto-Bayer is going to lose several billions when the other hundreds of claims are successful. Monsanto-Bayer is one of the most vile companies on earth in my opinion
I had never seen this one, thanks for sharing.
I routinely type English and Japanese on my one keyboard. We're not talking about whether keyboards should have different configurations in different parts of the world, just whether any particular keyboard should be able to be remapped so that it sends keys which no longer correspond to what's written on the keycaps.

I contend that almost no one does that (obviously outside the 2 people on this page who are so insistent on the feature), so the engineering effort is not worthwhile. And it must be weighed against all the times everyone has to select the right keyboard layout manually when installing operating systems, or they type a particular key but what shows up on the screen is different from the keycap and they have no idea how to fix it.
I thought this would be about a JIT compiler for the BASIC language.

Does such a thing exist?
exiftool is lovely for wiping metadata from photos. I always use it when i upload photos taken from my own phone.
Yep, this is why I wouldn't personally use 0 probability to describe anything in the real world. It technically works, it's just the realm of pure measure theory rather than anything applicable to finitely many trials.
The Kingston Bridge in Glasow, which opened in 1970, has had to have a huge amount of work done over the years - there were problems with both the original design, the actual construction and the face it was carrying far more traffic than expected:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Bridge,_Glasgow
I'm not advocating for room searches or intrusion of privacy, but the fact of the matter is all of those cameras and security personnel still weren't enough to detect the worst mass shooter in history. I don't have a better solution unfortunately, and I think these room searches are a complete invasion of privacy, but my point is that the evidence contradicts you.
I recently reduced my weekly hours and am now working only 4 days a week. its so much better.

People are dumbfounded when i tell them, they do not understand that free time is more important to me than money. as long as i can live comfortably and use my new free time i will trade money for time. end goal is 2 days a week - no idea if thats possible, but 3 days is a must.

if you can do it financially and with your job situation i can only recommend it. i still giggle like a little girl every friday because i dont have to go to work
Google still tracks your location, like it or not
What Is the Multinomial-Logistic Regression Classification Algorithm?
Please allow this article to help you appreciate bridges. :) http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-makers-of-things/
I pay about 0.38€ per kWh and thinking of 8 hours per day usage, compiling heavy Rust and C++ projects, gaming at night. I could get my electricity prices down to 0.24€ per kWh if I'd spend some time switching providers every year.

The 1950X (16-core) is now about 760€ here in Europe, and the upcoming 2950X (16-core too) seems to go to the same or a bit lower price point. Now the price of electricity is already a much larger percentage of the purchase price, but the convenience of cutting time out from the compilation might be worth it.

Of course with so many cores, it is a good idea to get 64 GB of RAM, which adds to the energy bill. A template-heavy C++ project will eat RAM for breakfast, `make -j8` and 16 GB will definitely swap.
And requires no maintenance?
Concurrency in Go Language
Last time I bought a prepaid card (I believe it was Visa), to register it I had to be looked up in the credit card database. As I did not have a credit card at the time (hence buying the prepaid card), I was not in the database, so they would not sell me the card.
The employment bubble you describe really only exists in the Bay Area. The majority of users on HN are not in the Bay Area:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905

People 35 and over, are somewhat likely to have families and find it difficult to relocate.
>90% chance they all had iPhones

Not necessarily. Outside of tech and the wealthy android has pretty good market share. It wasn't mentioned what her parents did for work but among blue collar professionals cheaper Android phones are the norm because their work environment tends to be hazardous to phones with large, thin glass screens.
I don't perceive any blame in the comment you are responding to, only observations relating to the history of bridges and the responsibility that comes with it. What did you feel was assigning blame when you read it?
Is anyone else similarly frustrated with journalism? This article is 2,300 words - yet it could have transferred the important information in less than 20% of that.

At least the last few paragraphs included the summary: "[it's good when you are] sticking your butt back and creating this little curve at the lower part of your spine"
Anti-administrator sentiment doesn't seem limited to healthcare, here's an interesting article focused on the same theme in academia:

https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/ju...

Also, the comments on that article provide some insight into the administrator's point of view.
This is profound. Mark Manson [0] writes about how long-term happiness/tranquility can only be found in saying "No" in our world of infinite choice - in intentionally limiting ourselves and actively choosing to focus on depth rather than breadth in our relationships, careers, travels, etc.

[0] https://markmanson.net/
> I don't think you should think about the risk in isolation like that.

I don't disagree with the sentiment but FDA asks you precisely to do this analysis piecewise by what they call "SW units". And for each SW unit, you have to define a severity of hazard that can result from a malfunction of that SW unit. (from minor injury to death or irreparable damage)

Now you can always say you have a single "SW unit" to not have to check the boundaries or interactions, but then all the SW should have been developed with the same methodology/process, and this is not possible when you are using SW coming from an external source. (because you have no idea how it has been developed, and it was likely not targeting medical devices)

As as aside, the recommendation by the FDA is that, prior any mitigation, you have to assume that a SW bug as a 100% chance of happening. (That tells you how confident are the regulators..) But all SW bugs do not necessarily create an hazardous situation.

> But what's the risk of not having the app because you were afraid of the other risk? Doctors getting fluids wrong - and we found in practice they did get them wrong regularly and significantly.

You are allowed to use the benefits risk analysis by the FDA, but you have to demonstrate first there are no other mitigations possible, that you are ALARP (As low as reasonably possible) [0]. You need to explicitly write it in a risk management document to demonstrate you have analyzed that source of hazard.

To be fair, I am not anti regulation, but I think most of these standards are more applicable to SW written in the 80s or 90s when the SW stack where a bit smaller and simpler. And I have hard time to understand how they can be applied in practice in complex SW stacks like iOS. That's why I was interested by your experience, but it seems NHS did not challenge you on the finer implementation details. I understand this is complex because we are talking about 2 different regulation frameworks, so it is not necessarily transferable.

Thanks for chiming in, that is still great to know that is is possible to get something approved on a modern tech stack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALARP
I don't know the official numbers, but just from looking around I'd say space is about 50% filled. They do have a lot of construction going on so lease numbers might be higher. It is a very cool office space
Many mistranslations may be a result of lack of work/research in Turkish language. I don't agree with that Turkish language does not get along with computers well. Yet, there is not a mature work on this. If a language is understandable, analyzable, executable, expressible by humans, computers most probably can process it (this is a claim, not a fact).
It would be very interesting to know how bridge metrics (length, load specification, etc.) relate the longevity. Of course, some bridges last for centuries, but some last for decades. This is an order of magnitude!
They're just copying what the CIA/NSA has been doing for decades.
The US owes China gazillion dollars. Not a gazillion dollars in services and stuff. That's a huge difference because at any point the US can create a gazillion dollars for virtually no effort.
I'm an academic, and I feel underpaid and over-monitored
dep was the tool I used. There are a few other solutions but this one was most popular when I last looked.

https://github.com/golang/dep
I did something similar for universities, to help students select their courses:

https://easy-a.net/

I wrote a blog post about it, because it requires a ton of work to get FOIA requested data - this I'm assuming was done in the same painstaking way:

https://austingwalters.com/foia-requesting-100-universities/

I give this props. I'm sure it required a ton of work
Probably the best image, showing the scale of the collapse:
https://gfx.nrk.no/gJothoXlgJysV_sS10u_RQaXLsIZsJIlLIQrfEX8E...
To some extent yes, but it's a false equivalence to compare the USA and China. They're pushing surveillance further than our own intelligence agencies, and more importantly they have no bill of rights.

I dare someone to try a Sasha Cohen act in China mocking the present leadership. You'd end up in a prison camp within a week. In America you can openly call the President and the ruling party hideous names, troll them, mock them in public, and criticize them all day and the very worst that will happen is getting kicked off private media platforms and forums.
This article is pretty great, not written by me: https://brianbalfour.com/essays/customer-acquisition
Broken or optimized for a different set of processors?

Don't forget that AMD can submit changes directly to the Linux Kernel but has to request or help Microsoft to make changes to Windows.
or to start attending swimming pool
Funny, round about the time I turned 35 I stumbled upon Erik Dietrich's Defining The Corporate Hierarchy [1] blog.

It cynically divides corporate workers into sociopaths at the top who step on other people to get where they are, idealists in the middle who don't realize they're being stepped on and think they'll eventually get to the top through hard work, and then pragmatists at the bottom who come in in the morning, do their work, and find meaning in their lives elsewhere, like family or hobbies.

I found myself much more relaxed at work when I realized that I would be better off as a pragmatist (though YMMV). I have since left the corporate world for a smaller company, and I'm much happier at work now.

[1] http://www.daedtech.com/defining-the-corporate-hierarchy
in fairness, Java has an excuse that it’s ancient in language terms and expectations were different then.

Go, not so much - it came out in 2012. Pip and CPAN and Gem had been around for years. Go’s lack of a sane packaging solution this far into its lifetime remains a serious weakness of an otherwise solid platform.
The latter part of your comment sounds like "The Circle." Does every interaction need to be recorded and logged?
The method gives a data structure for any metric space, and the quality of the data structure is controlled by how well expanders embed in the metric space. This implies interesting results for metrics which are not norms, like geodesics on certain manifolds. The surprise to us was how well this approach works for any norm, however. (I am one of the authors.)

Also, a math correction: spaces which obey the triangle inequality are called metric spaces. The class of normed spaces is more restricted, but still very large.
> Two years ago, at age 34, she switched careers and learned how to code.

Oh dear.
Its also about what you value most; Being happy about everyday, or material things.

For some people its material things like a house, car etc. and thats okay.
This was addressed a bit in a separate article recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/capitalbusin...

The DoD intends to use multiple cloud providers overall, across multiple projects —- but not within this single contract.

The CIA already has a $600M contract with AWS.
I understand the idea but there's a threshold of diminishing returns when putting too much pressure on a position. Lots of doctors work with lawyers in mind, and will refuse tasks because of risk. Other fields have similar subpar performance due to high responsibility stress.

We need to increase quality but not at the expense of people working.
The main difference is legal/constitutional. Yet they use almost the same tools.
We need to be using lazy coolections.
That is probably the time when you become a ghost rower.
> algorithmic primitives from which modern algorithms are born.

What is a good way to learn more about these?
Batteries die when it's too cloudy for solar panels to keep them charged. And unless "you" are a licensed electrician it's highly dangerous and irresponsible to run a cable to another house. That's how fires get started and people get electrocuted. In most of the developed world it's easier, safer, and cheaper to keep a grid connection for backup even if you generate most of your own power.
For the state of NUMA on FreeBSD it seems like drewg123 (and HN comments in general) is a good source for: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=freebsd%20numa&sort=byPopulari...
MAPS.ME Launches In-App Route Library
The new version of the MAPS.ME app features a route library. As of today, the app offers travelers routes in 50 popular cities across Europe and the US, with more routes coming. For most cities, there are a few routes available: top tourist attractions, a list of great bars, and delicious local restaurants.

The route library is available in the Routes and Bookmarks section. A user can search for a route by city or by tags describing the route. Itineraries can be downloaded and then accessed even when offline, with all locations marked along the route displayed on the map of the city. As of today, there are 97 routes; more to be added, both from developers and from users.

Each location has a short description: a brief note about its historical significance, an amusing fact, or a tip on what star dishes to try. In addition to tourist attractions, the lists feature places favored by locals. Some routes also have photos.

Moreover, the updated MAPS.ME app displays hotel offers and promotions marked by the special icon, thus enabling users to find accommodation at the best rate quickly and easily.
I don't think there is, but there could be one hiding somewhere haha. Just recently started here and it's 2 million sqft :D
The CPU in question--the 2990WX--has the added "W" for "workstation", whereas the lower core parts (which don't seem to be affected by the Windows scheduling issue) do not have the "W" denotion.

Most TR users I know are running Linux or hypervisors.
Millennials are not so young anymore these days you know
The question is also if it has to do with the jobs, or work in general. I don't hate my work, I really like job actually. What I dislike is it taking up 37 hours of my week, that's starting to be to much, I got other stuff to do.

When I was young it didn't seem to matter than much, I had plenty of time on my hands. As you get older, time moves to fast, and there's to little of it.
Go modules are the future but use dep as of now
Engineers in Canada wear "iron" rings that are meant to be representative of this responsibility[0]. While not actually true, most of the time people talk about it they claim the rings were originally made from a failed beam of the first Quebec Bridge[1], improperly engineered.

My wife has three pieces of jewelry- engagement ring, wedding ring, iron ring. She doesn't tell me which one she loves best.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge
Fake video is happening regardless (and a lot better) with generative neural network architectures.
Also fake video was already possible, we just see its usage ""democratized"", in a way.

Empowering everyone to be able to make Hollywood-grade feature films with like $10k in hardware has a lot of negative side-effects, but also a lot positive. The only problem is that video is no longer hard evidence for justice. It's a huge loss, but it happened already.
> Here's an NP-hard problem you haven't heard of, write correct code for nlogn solution on whiteboard in language of choice

I guess that would be a trick-question then, as nobody ever solved an NP-hard problem in linearithmic time.
> This sounds like the infrastructure version of the 'financial bubble' prediction that crops up every other year.

My favorite is the yearly "end of china" report by gordon chang. I remember the guy talking about china's collapse in the 90s and he's been wrong since.
French Air Force Used Reaper Drones to Surveil the Celebrations on Bastille Day
I know you're joking, but they used Antergos which is a snap to install.
I thought I was the only one. Almost every article I read is way longer than it is necessary. Some information is repeated and the gist is tucked away someplace at the bottom.
I’m thinking about a similar post. After a long run between different departments in Norway I got out all historic train delays and all form/e-mail contact with the rail company, including the number of people getting money back because of the delays.
What interested me most in this article was mawk/AWK.
Ecobank selects 11 Afrika focussed startups for its FinTech challenge
Oh I'm sure they're optimized for Intel, but that's easily explained by Intel's near-monopoly for the past 10 years. Now that AMD is gaining market share again we'll probably see this change. MS doesn't want to look bad in benchmarks.
Biology / Nutrition / Fitness and the basic of medicine.
There are a few companies/orgs trying to solve these issues:

https://spankchain.com/

https://www.iliac.io/

But porn doesn't have high margins. No one (except the large distributors like Mindgeek - Pornhub, Redtube, YouPorn) is making much money. Especially these small sites that are being built. After you subtract legal, production, performer fees you're left with almost nothing.

I worked in the Adult Industry for several years, but building tech for the industry wasn't financially stable for me so I had to leave. Still really passionate about the sex worker community though. Porn performers/activists are the kindest, sweetest, most intelligent group of folks I've ever worked with.

Maybe we can start a small group of engineers who want to discuss working through some solutions together. My email is hello@marik.io if anyone is interested.