skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit much
OK, I read the same thing and the OP probably got it wrong, but does it really matter whether it's undertow, a rip tide or just a strong current or a wave pulling you away from shore?

The main thing to keep in mind is that if the current is too strong, you shouldn't try to swim against it, but try to go sideways or you'll exhaust yourself.
It must depend on niche. For web development sort of things or python sort of scripting, it is Windows that is regularly ignored the most by a wide margin.
21-year-old Baja California Bitcoin dealer charged with financial crimes
No, the paper says you can multiple streaks as well.
User ids without login privileges can be just as interesting to enumerate.

Containerization isn't really relevant to protecting data, as you'd normally find data volumes and backups attached.
It's true (pretty much by definition) that rhetorical power is a form of power. But it's a further, cynical step to conclude that if someone acts in a way that confers rhetorical authority, they must be doing so just for the sake of that authority. You're assuming away the possibility that someone might be genuinely acting, at least in part, from principle.
This has been my experience too, though I apply for lower tier jobs so I don't interact with 3rd parties, rather just in house.

It takes maybe 20 bad interviews to get one good offer in my experience.
Hacker News addiction linked to staking your self-worth on...
It’s an interesting theory but that article points out that the Senate did an investigation as well as many many news outlets in search of supporting evidence and none was ever found.

That’s not to say it didn’t happen, but it hasn’t been proven by any means.
Quebec will compensate taxi drivers up to $45,000 for Uber losses
b) use ssh, but control access with a firewall or vpn.

c) fair enough, although you should probably be using keypairs and a vpn for test and dev envs too.
Elaborating a bit on the sibling comments, Facebook has no "right" to exist as a business. If the only reason it can exist is by ignoring laws with which other businesses are able to comply, it should be shut down (or alternately, forced to obey those laws and then "corrected" out of business by the market).
Are you considering adding editorial content that ties the articles together and explains why each is important?
Got Storage? How Hard Can It Be? (2011)
The Church-Turing thesis and its implications. Turing completeness is one of the roots of the field and likely has implications that go far beyond into realms like the origin of life and cosmology.

Others more concrete ones include recursion, how to build simple VMs, and many data structures.
About once every second or third week I go out to 'beer:30' with a small (5-10) group of people that I've worked with in the past, so I don't spend too much time networking. Aside from that I'm too busy with my family.

Probably the most successful strategy I've employed in my career is to remember that even though I'm reasonably good at what I do, how I get along with coworkers and management is more important. A lot more important, in fact. Turns out there are plenty of people that are competent enough, so when someone is looking for a new team member, they gravitate towards people that can play nice with others.
>$1000/mo to a doctor? So what?

From OP:"In an interview, he said that working for Quest for four decades — he is currently paid $1,000 a month — hasn’t affected his medical advice."

Also from OP:"...Dr. Holick acknowledged he has worked as a consultant to Quest Diagnostics, which performs vitamin D tests, since 1979. Dr. Holick also has extensive financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. He received nearly $163,000 from 2013 to 2017 from pharmaceutical companies for consulting and other services, according to Medicare’s Open Payments database, which tracks payments from drug and device manufacturers. The companies paying him included Sanofi-Aventis, which markets vitamin D supplements; Shire, which makes drugs for hormonal disorders that are given with vitamin D; Amgen, which makes an osteoporosis treatment; and Roche Diagnostics and Quidel Corporation, which both make vitamin D tests. The database includes only payments made since 2013, but Dr. Holick’s record of being compensated by drug companies started before that."
You're solving the wrong problem.

That's just an inefficient, roundabout way to manage a environmental legal defense team (will lawyers accept crypto-Monopoly money?). But such legal defenses are actually quite ineffective (by design!) at preventing ecological harm, even when they win the lawsuit.[1]

[1] https://www.linktv.org/shows/thomas-linzey-earth-at-risk-201...
Does vgo miss a nuance in the semantic versioning of 0.x.x branches in that any bump to minor or patch allows a breaking change? Specifically point 4 of the spec. Some projects or libraries have a huge psychological barrier to releasing a 1.0.0. React comes to mind when they finally went from 0.14.x to 15.0.0.

---

4. Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything may change at any time. The public API should not be considered stable.

https://semver.org/#spec-item-4
This is where opinions will differ, I quite like go's ability to pull straight from a repository, and see outcomes like this as an unfortunate side effect of that feature. If a developer doesn't understand proper git and package versioning they will have a hard time in any language producing quality software. I'm not sure I want to give up the speed and ease of `go get` just to protect entry developers.
> especially to those of us reading instead of basing it on partisan hackery

And make no mistake: the partisan hackery is strong in criticism (more commonly, vacuous dismissal) of Carter. I know a Republican who calls him "that man", a la FDR's detractors.
That's my point: the difference between a pathology and a personality trait is merely of degree. A trait in small concentration is beneficial, but if you concentrate it enough, it becomes toxic and we label that a pathology.

In between health and pathology is a vast grey area where things get complicated, and people are biased to think everyone else is just acting like a spoiled rich kid.
Reservoirs could probably be built underground. I could also see one of these block stackers existing in the sublevels of a big skyscraper. Cost and and difficulty of access for maintenance might make either thing impractical, though.
I run a workshop series specifically for this demographic and the notes are online:

http://ucidatascienceinitiative.github.io/IntroToJulia/

It's mostly problem-based. I hope that by showing you a manual, some resources I like to use, some problems, and then some high level discussions you can get up and working in no time. Sources for "how to write a function" can be found elsewhere: this resource starts assuming you can read a manual if you know what to search for.

(Note that there are some v1.0 updates still necessary, but most works)
The woman puts on the lifejacket herself, but she's being held afloat by the man next to her. She doesn't seem able to kep herself afloat- the waves keep washing over her and she can hardly keep her head above them even with the lifejacket on.
Part-time job agency? Would you be willing to share this agency's name?
Vintage calculators are my hobby! It's a shame I only saw this thread when it's 12 hours old. If anyone has any questions about them or would like to see photos I'm happy to share.

The Twitter thread, while educational and cool, is a bit inaccurate/misleading about a handful of things. A lot of the photos are of later models or something unrelated to the tweet, and there were a lot more innovations not talked about. Progress also did not happen as early as the tweets would indicate.

Personally, one thing I love about old calculators is the craftsmanship. Each one of the early ones was assembled by hand, and it shows - some of them are true works of art.
the EU grew out of the BENELUX (BElgium-NEderland-LUXemburg)
Crossing the borders was always pretty straight forward, except for the period during WWI when Belgium was occupied and The Netherlands were neutral. So the Germans installed barbwire and guarded the border.
So if I pretend in front of facebook I am poor, I can see less ads? Sounds good :)
> but in my experience the majority of users (at the very least the people I know who use it) just see it as a convenient way to keep up with what friends are up to and share interesting jokes/memes, it's certainly not destroying their mental health.

It's a distraction. And a lot of people are addicted by it, so much they feel they need to "share" what they are doing or what they are thinking at least once a day. This focus on the Self and the ubiquity of social networks makes for a phenomenon that did not exist before.

As for whether it is positive or negative, well it's a net loss of time (and mental attention since social networks tend to disrupt you the whole time with notifications) that could be spent somewhere else, and it's difficult to argue with that. Are there emotional benefits? Sure. Are such benefits more rewarding than the ones you would get from real-life networking and real-life activities? That should be the proper benchmark to use to make a judgment.

For people who have lived before social networks existed, such evaluation could take the form of a simple question "has Facebook made your life any better?".
"What I can say with certainty is that the Archimedes running C programs without a math coprocessor rivals the Compaq Deskpro 386, a 16-MHz 80386 machine with an 8-MHz 80287, and comfortably outpaces a Macintosh SE with a Hyper- Charger, a 15.67-MHz 68020 with a 7.83-MHz 68881 , on all but the floating- point-intensive Savage benchmark (the Compaq also beats the Archimedes on the Sort). Even more remarkably, the Savage benchmark in interpreted BASIC V in RAM on the Archimedes takes only half again as much time as it takes in compiled C on the Deskpro 386 with a math coprocessor.

Benchmarks are not everything, but the experience of using the Archimedes tells me that on many untested tasks, like writing to the screen, it is far faster than anything else I've seen. If I had to take a stand on benchmark figures alone, I would look at the Dhrystone, which is the most general-purpose test (even though it doesn't test floating point). The Archi- medes runs 3 1 percent more Dhrystones."

https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1987-10-rescan/1987...

(see other formats at the top too).

Facinating read.
Every civilization that has existed prior to the modern age has fallen. And unlike them, we're now destroying the planet's very ability to support life as well.

It's a deadly serious matter whether human civilization can continue in its present form, and if it does not, it's worth considering what it might fall back to. It's happened many times before.
re: open mind; for sure... this also reminds me of the business that went viral a few years ago selling edible anuses made from milk chocolate.
How did they know you were behind the keyboard during the test? Just curious... seems like a huge risk for a company to hire people like that.
iPad Explodes in Amsterdam Apple Store
> The vandalism echoes a rash of pellet-gun attacks on so-called Google buses in the Bay Area and appears to be motivated in part by resentment over the increasing presence of tech corporations along the Southern California coast — what is now dubbed Silicon Beach.

Or more likely: scumbags behaving like scumbags.
Hi, inflamed wimpy lover of bread and pastries.
iPad explodes at Apple Store Amsterdam, store evacuated
If a light therapy lamp company claims their product will increase your vitamin D, they're either telling blatant lies, or they're giving you skin cancer. Only UV radiation (like in sunlight and tanning beds) triggers vitamin D production.
So this provides some legal framework to handle questions regarding environmental impacts of human activities? Is it really that difficult to implement laws that protect rivers without engaging in a debate whether a river can hold rights? Opponents will have a field trip ridiculing the argument distracting from the goal of protecting the environment.
nothing is taking her off shore, waves are going towards beach, there are people standing, not swimming, all around here, including guy holding her legs and back after putting on safety vest, watch the video again, especially the end

this video was published by drone company and they made sure most outlets will include exact brand and model in the text body, some of them even in headline, once again very poor marketing attempt
Why not disable them when it's invalid usage then?

Who did I accuse of racism? I stated people in the thread are being casually racist but didn't name any names.

Haven't we been learning as developers or operators that it's better to put processes and systems in place to prevent human error opposed to relying on human judgement alone? Why the slack with this issue?
I see that recommendation a lot, but I'd expect most VPN products in use to be _less_ secure than a standard OpenSSH. It's a comparably less complex protocol and codebase than IPsec, for example, and pretty well audited by now. It's not as if VPN products hasn't been open to this type of attacks before (I'm looking at you, Cisco).
I disagree that it's cynical. I think maximizing the power of your ideas and principles is laudable, and can have great returns. Tying ethics to tangible reality increases the value and urgency of ethical behavior.
Yes something I always wonder and assume many large numbers are [excessively] exaggerated. I’m surprised this concern doesn’t crop up more here. Someone usually brings it up, but not as much as I’d expect.
It's true that the eastern and western wheelbarrows were different, but the Chinese also used "western"-style wheelbarrows for moving bulk materials short distances on construction sites, whereas we had no equivalent of their wheelbarrow for longer distance travel. Sounds like they won there.

As for adding more wheels, why? You're just adding more weight. Keep in mind that these need to be pushable by a single person. A single large wheel is the best design for handling rough terrain and optimizing maneuverability, while still being pushable by one person. By the time you've added multiple wheels you're talking about a larger type of vehicle that needs better roads and draft animals to pull it.
I was working for a company where I felt I had stagnated somewhat, about the same time my current employer posted to a local Ruby mailing list saying they were doing things with home automation technology and needed a developer to join them. It just so happens I love home automation, so I applied, got on well with the team, and ended up joining them.

The job wasn't quite what I'd expected when I accepted it - they merged with an insurance startup between me accepting and starting - but I've been having great fun since. These days I get paid to play with new bits of connected hardware, and mentor the other developers on my team. When I first started I got to write the first iteration of the firmware for our hub, and do a ton of work on our core infrastructure.
The Tuna King of Tsukiji
UX comments: 3 buttons on a page which do the same, is very confusing. And then the button in the corner, what does it do? Also, what will you do with this content? Examples? I am interested in the project but as a reader, not a contributor writer.
How to Find Money Based on Your New Venture Progress
> If you want to have some fun, you can smoke pot while standing on the border and holding it in your left, Dutch hand.

Hence the song “Pass the Dutchie on the left-hand side” :D
Is mild hypertension an illness? At some point the dividing line between normal and abnormal is blurry and arbitrary. But there are people with say severe anxiety that impairs their ability to carry out normal daily activities. That’s a mental illness, but is mild social anxiety? Maybe not, but it’s probably not optimal health either. There’s just the best possible life on one end and the worst possible life on the other.
>America nobody eats ramen noodles with a fork

What? Everyone I know uses a fork, as did I until I decided to learn to use chopsticks.
Sad but true, especially in the basic sciences. We are failing to invest in the future.
Ask HN: What Math topics are the most important for Machine Learning?
I'm just beginning to learn Math for ML, with no background(other than high school). I see that Linear Algebra, Calculus, Probability, and Statistics are the most important areas I should be learning, but turns out these are pretty wide fields that can take years to master.

So I'm trying to make a curriculum of the most important subjects from each of these fields that I need to learn. By "most important" I mean most useful for applying ML on practice. Can you help me out?
Is your mother a professional gardener? This case is about Roundup causing cancer after professional-scale in-depth exposure for decades, not use in a home garden.
Actually when I read the title, I assumed it implied the causality going the way that makes sense (e.g. "FB addiction linked to need for social acceptance" = "FB addiction caused by need for social acceptance").

Upon further reflection, for me, I don't think the verb "linked to" implies any particular direction of causality. I would find it reasonable to word a headline as either "diabetes linked to twizzlers" or "twizzlers linked to diabetes", even though the causality clearly can only go in one direction.
Important comment. I was just trying to figure out how using a self-reported survey to assess whether respondents have an underlying need for personal attention from others is not the most basic example of sample bias ever conceived of.

The general early childhood emphasis on "pro-social," behaviors and performative identity is almost certainly creating generations of incompetent narcissists, but the way to test that hypothesis is probably not by offering them validation in exchange for their opinion, unless you are measuring them against an isolated control group.
I had a product management job and was thinking about getting back to programming fulltime. One day I went on job site and there was ad that reads "Looking for programmer" no body, nothing. I replied just for fun, went for interview and took it as a freelance gig which let me quit my previous job, work on my own various projects and travel the world for couple of years.

It was ERP programming for construction company that bought assets of software company which went out of business. 11 years later, I am still working with this customer for couple of hours each month and I can still lean on it and make it pays all of the bills for my 4 person familly. It basically works as a basic income for me.
Like any other thing in live, facebook can made your life better for some people, can make your life worse for some other. It what you make of it.
This one is interesting to watch not only for the content but also for the presentation style.
I don’t think it is useful to have a statement as your username.
Short sight solution at best. People will leave on the next purchase.
I'm pretty selectively with the interviews I go on. My success rate for interviews is like 50% cause of all the vetting I do before hand. I've been on 3 interviews in the last 7 years and have had 2 jobs over the period.
That article is from 2011, I wonder how much of it any continued to be developed?
Thanks for the link. I guess the url changed? Otherwise it would have redirectes my submission attempt.
How about putting one or two of these _inside_ a new construction sky scraper just like one long, heavy elevator? “Charge” it at night. Release it during the day. This may not be a general solution but might be helpful at a per building level.
Probably due to HN demographics like myself, mostly introvert people who understandably despise social media.
Makes The City and the City (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_%26_the_City) suddenly more realistic!
Corporations are legal entities composed of people, so it makes sense to treat that the aggregate would have similar rights as the individual. When we say a corporation has the right to free speech, we mean that you cannot restrict the right of people just because they’re acting together through a corporation.

Rivers, of course, are not people nor are they composed of people. Nor are ecosystems. People might be affected by, for example, what happens to a river. All of this legal wrangling over river personhood is an attempt to avoid having to show that effect.
The fact that we don't have an open border between the U.S. and Canada is a real shame. Just a waste of everyone's time to indulge the U.S. border paranoia. I'm not really worried about the US being flooded with poutine and hockey.

Or even better, a sort of super-Schengen area including the EU, the US, Canada, and Japan. Yeah, I know I'm dreaming, but it's not like this set of countries would produce mass migration or security issues that would cause problems beyond the economic benefit of a free migration. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17382400
>Ecosystems aren't collections of people.

Is the implication here that "only people have rights," therefore ecosystems shouldn't? Correct me if mistaken. To clarify, I wasn't arguing that ecosystems have rights because corporations do.

This is indeed the status quo, but it's hardly immutable. Consider that 200 years ago neither women nor slaves were considered legal persons. Restating the status quo isn't an argument in its favor.
>No, because other animals don't have mental capacity to truly understand the consequences of their action.

A lion knows full well that it survives another month when it kills a wildebeest and that it can feed it cubs. What more is there to "truly" understand?
This is typical of Qualys security advisories. They frequently find unintended software behavior which can be arguably called vulnerabilities but which can’t directly compromise software. It’s good they find these kinds of things, but I wish more people focused on the basic fact that their security advisories frequently only impact servers which aren’t adhering to best practices. It’s not good that OpenSSH allows user enumeration, but you’ve committed a critical error in system administration if that minor bug gives an attacker any leverage at all.

If you strictly use public key authentication and don’t expose your SSH server to the public internet, this is a non-issue. Furthermore there’s no defensible reason not to do that - it’s very straightforward to firewall SSH access behind a private network, and VPNs exist precisely for this reason. Access to the network and access to machines within the network should be strictly decomposed. If you allow SSH access from the public internet and have a VPN, you have to worry about two (privileged) points of failure, not one. Put everything behind a public-key authenticated VPN and SSH vulnerabilities are obviated, with the exception of insider threats in the organization.
Thank you for saying something that far too many doctors, scientists, and my fellow programmers seem to have trouble with: I don't know. Your honesty is refreshing and we need to use those words far more often.
I think it depends a lot upon the internship.

What domain are you looking for? Software? Marketing? Biz dev?

Are you limiting to start ups or just small companies? What is your definition of “start up”?

What are you hoping to get out of it?
Many storage media formats and network protocols use closely related schemes to transparently handle minor defects and disruptions [1].

The more general theoretical category is the erasure code [2].

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/realworld/reedsolomon/reed_solo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code
I don't know. Now that I am old enough to see how people praise Bush or Chirac even though `they are the worst presidents ever` I can't help but wonder what it was really like under Carter.