skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no comparison between the 'Western' and 'Eastern' variants.

The article is in a way very misleading.

'Wheelbarrow' in 'The West' is generally a local tool, used to move things like dirt and what not 50 feet to somewhere else.

What the Chinese have there is a '1 wheeled cart' for transportation, which in the west would have '2 wheels' or even '4 wheels'.

And yes, one would be right to question why on earthy they wouldn't add another wheel or two. Maybe resources?
I get where you coming from. It's really easy to underestimate the rip current.
This might be very dangerous, especially if you are not a good swimmer, it can take you off shore and drown you if you panic and waste your strength fighting it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_current

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rip+current
I couldn’t find any videos but the class slides and reading material are a good reference for particular topics.

I have not taken this Coursera class but it looks relevant https://www.coursera.org/learn/big-data-graph-analytics
Yes, this seems like a much less wasteful, and possibly more fruitful approach. Rather than running identical experiments, one can perform experiments that test different but overlapping aspects of the underlying theory. I suspect this kind of "replication" is done all the time in physics, which has led to a robust knowledge base in spite of less than ideal rigor within any individual experiment.
they have fork and spoon everywhere in Chinese restaurants, what can be hard to find it's knife

also most of Asia doesn't eat with chopsticks except few eastern Asian countries, heck whole southeast Asia it's fork+spoon for most of the dishes, it's just strange CN/JP/KR preference
The answer is in 'The West' they added another wheel, or three more wheels and it was called a 'cart'.
Don’t mean to sound like your mom but just walk outside for 10 minutes a day.
Data mining company behind Hola VPN sues data mining company behind NordVPN
So, if I want to use the new code in v2 for my v1 legacy consumers, would I let v1 (or a new v1.1) depend on v2, and wrap the new hi-method passing in a default parameter of "en" for language?

Or is my only "supported" option to push consumers to the new major version - with the possible bit-rot of the old code?

[ed: that is manual backport fixes/improvements to a v1.x version]
Simulate any mobile device at any location in Google Search
I'm in bio research and not programming. Moral of the story is to cold-email people who are friends of friends. I have never got a job through my CV/resume.

Current job I got via word of mouth and an email. My boss used professors he trusted and knew me to check I was okay.

Previous job I got from a friend mentioning I should ask them. I emailed them and they gave me a job.

Back before University I got two jobs in retail and fast food through my mum who worked as a bank teller and thus could ask if they were looking for work.
Did you see the waves stopping at the spot they were at? It's called undertow and can surprise even strong swimmers. The incoming water needs a place to retreat, creating a current, often very local.
I'm in Portugal and it works. Perhaps there's another video of it on Youtube Spain.
good luck writing code for that kind of dataset then.

Data has schema by definition otherwise you wouldn't be able to reason about it.
Probably disagreeing over the meaning of hawk then.
Ask HN: How do you motivate your team to work on mundane tasks?
At my company, part of product involves on-boarding new developers (freelancers) on the platform and evaluating their profile and the online coding assessment. We are not at a stage where we can have a separate team of evaluators to take care of this so our tech team is required to set aside time from their coding work and evaluate these profiles, which is a mundane and non-rewarding work for them. How do you keep your team motivated to do such mundane tasks that are important for the company/product and yet not directly related to their individual performance?
That’s just one of the sources of money:

”Yet 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.”

and

”Dr. Holick’s ties to the tanning industry also have drawn scrutiny. Although Dr. Holick said he doesn’t advocate tanning, he has described tanning beds as a “recommended source” of vitamin D “when used in moderation.” Dr. Holick has acknowledged accepting research money from the UV Foundation — a nonprofit arm of the now-defunct Indoor Tanning Association — which gave $150,000 to Boston University from 2004 to 2006, earmarked for Dr. Holick’s research. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classified tanning beds as carcinogenic in 2009.”
I had moved to a new town, and got an adjunct teaching job as a stop gap. My office mate was a former employee of a company. One day he called the founder of that company on the phone, introduced me, and handed me the receiver. That was 20 years ago.
It’s not that complicated for me. There are certain things I just don’t want to do and gladly pay money to have someone else do the work.

I don’t like doing yard work and I will happily pay the going rate for someone else to do it. I don’t like going to the gym or working out outside - By the time it is all said and done, I’ll spend way more than the accumulated hours I’m saving by not driving to and from the local gym.
"But history has judged him as one of the worst presidents."

I think he had a bit of bad luck with the economy of his time and also with the Iranian hostage situation. If freeing them had worked he would have been a superhero. Or he could have done it like Reagan with Iran-Contra: talk tough in public but secretly pay off the Iranians.
I think what was most scary about this article is that if Sato had just been slightly more "realistic" in his fake data - such as having fewer fake patients and slightly less dramatic results - he would have got away with it.

As such it's not really comparable to Madoff. Madoff would have been caught eventually whatever happened because what he was doing was fundamentally unsustainable. But this fraud was fairly close to being undiscovered. It was only caught because of the persistence of some researchers (for whom it wasn't even their job) and the unbelievable data.
As for actually getting a job, I’ve generally always applied for job openings via normal channels, but the clincher has always been that I have some small connection to the company - a friend of a friend worked there, or something. I find there needs to be a ‘tribal link’, however weak. Social capital is real.
I think this is by no means a new phenomenon. We as humans have staked our self-worth on social acceptance for millenia, seeing how we are social animals and most of our successes were the consequence of our societal organization.

What Facebook might have changed is whom our peers who we derive social acceptance are. That peer group seems to have changed from people close both as proximity and emotionally to people further away from us, who might not care as much about out emotional well being and feelings.
Just take a normal dose..
Why bother when there’s an easy alternative? I absolutely hate doctors when they see that you’re low on X, they advise you to take X supplement.
Anything about Twitter addiction? [That would avoid me the cost of a psychotherapy]
Debt vs. Equity Financing: Pros and Cons for Entrepreneurs
>> All of those require a training step, and that is the same error minimization as curve fitting.

>> Basically they are curve fitting in a high enough dimension.

>> Even theory builders can be thought of as curve fitters. The error metric is greedy, the curve is not differentable, but that's it.

I don't understand most of what you are saying and the bits I understand, I don't see how they're true. Could you please explain in a little more detail? For example, how is, say, recursive partitioning, as in decision tree learners, or storing data points for later comparison, as in KNN, "curve fitting in a high enough dimension"? What is the function being fit and where are its parameters?

Full disclosure: I study ILP algorithms for my PhD and I have implemented a couple myself. There is nothing like optimisation going on in there, just (inverse) resolution and some ordering of the search space. Most have nothing like an "error metric", greedy or not. And I have never heard anyone describe logic-based learners, including ILP algorithms, as curve fitting before.
I'd like to see it used for shark detection too. Maybe the drone could drop an anti-shark device into the water near any swimmers who are too close to a shark, according to the drone's aerial view. Adding an audio advisory would help too.
John Carmack agrees with you:

http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
To clarify for anyone reading this comment, self-reported means data obtained by questionnaires rather than observation by trained assessors. The key take-away is this paragraph:

"""
In other words, people who agreed with statements such as “My self-esteem depends on the opinions others hold of me” tended to also agree with statements such as “I spend a lot of time thinking about Facebook”, “I am using Facebook in order to forget my personal problems”, and “I use Facebook so much that it has had a negative impact on my job or studies.”
"""

So they were self-reporting is their feelings toward facebook and their feelings about their self-esteem, they weren't self-reporting the connection. They may not be aware of the connection between the two.
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Russ has explicitly written that yes, redefining v1 in terms of v2 is not only the way to go, but in the future it might help automatise the switch to v2 with the "go fix" command.

See https://research.swtch.com/vgo-import, section "Automatic API Updates".
The subtlety is this:

Imagine you are in the weightlessness of space, and you measure distances by taking a ruler and placing unconnected beads 10 cms apart.

Now a gravitational wave passes through, what do you see? Nothing. The beads don't move. The intervals you use to measure the distance are stretched in the same way as the space you want to measure in the first place.

So what you can do is, every milisecond or so you lay a new string of beads into empty space. And now when a gravitational wave passes through you'll see that when you lay the string of beads at the moment the gravitational wave passes it doesn't line up with the previous ones.

That you can measure. And by observing the miniscule misalignment of the beads you can see stretching that is much smaller than the 10cm intervals.

So the strings of beads are light rays, and their intervals are the wavelength. The difference is that they don't last, but if there is a light ray in there right as the tube is stretched, it get's stretched along with the tube and you would not see a difference with that, whereas the light that's coming right after it will place new beads/amplitude peaks and actually see the stretched distance.
The short history of the “about:” URL (2013)
Curious to know how you reach your market, if it is completely non-tech. How do you reach new customers and convert them to paying?
Note this was written by Lou Montulli who also wrote the amusing post about "The Origins of the <Blink> Tag" [1]

[1] http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

I didn't know about the about:about url, and have since found a number of amusing and useful links, for example:

Chrome:

chrome://site-engagement/

chrome://net-internals/#dns

chrome://net-export/

chrome://indexeddb-internals/#

Firefox:

about:mozilla

about:memory

about:robots
Real password based vs challenge response.

With real password when you type your password into the ssh password prompt it then sends that password to the server.

Challenge response is a method in which you usually encrypt or hash random server provided data. You send the hash. The server knows your password and can hash the data with it too. The hashes are compared not the password. In this method the password never leaves your machine. Replay attacks are prevented due to the server sending different data for you to hash on different login attempts.
LIGO is scaled up version of Michelson-Morley experiment, so we should ask very different kind of question.
last entry it's just a photo of a busicom calculator
No, censorship regimes made them less accessible. In fact, those regimes were already making all content they wanted non-accessible, and only allowing people to see the content that didn't really matter anyway.
But in practice small instances are better at this than large platforms, and in practice flexible moderation policies are pretty observably better at curbing abuse than ridged ones are. The point isn't that Mastadon is perfect, it's that it's better. In business, better is good enough.

A lot of people are OK with a middle ground where moderators remain, but are closely associated with their communities to reduce communication problems and increase their stake in doing a good job. Is it really crazy to believe that someone might want to trust other people, but also want to have more selection over who they trust?

You're here, so I would hazard a guess that you're OK with that middle ground too. HN admins could theoretically turn this site into 4Chan or Reddit if they wanted to. But we both trust them not to, and the fact that they theoretically have the power is not enough to make either of us throw up our hands and say, "well there's no difference, and nobody will care, and there's no reason for anybody post on HN instead of Reddit."

There are a lot of people here posting on a dedicated tech-community Reddit clone about why fringe Twitter is a bad idea.
You're arguing about how you think things should be, which is boring and trite, because opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one and most of them stink. What this is about, is how things are, and how they are is that redlining is illegal. So if you would take some time to look into the socioeconomic and legal history of this issue, you will find explained (ad nauseum) why certain choices were made in the past.
Thanks for this. Was a good read.
As long as it’s not a protected class. For instance, I was once a hiring manager and everyone I was talking to was shocked when I said I would rather hire someone older and more stable. They thought I was opening them up to a lawsuit. Being under 40 is not a protected class. Being over 40 is.

I also told the recruiter that I wasn’t going to hire a guy because he smelled like cigarette smoke, I would be working closely with him and it bothered my asthma. Cigarette smoking is not protected in some states - including mine.
Me too for a moment, but ultimately I don't care. You could send her a PM on Quora. I've send her PMs with questions about her and psychopathy in general in the past and she's always been helpful and informative.
It turns out, that Luminati Networks Ltd sued UAB Tesonet over patent infringement in "Large-scale web data extraction products and services with residential proxy network (oxylabs.io)"[1] in July 2018.

[1] http://litigation.maxval-ip.com/Litigation/DetailView?CaseID...
>they have fork and spoon everywhere in Chinese restaurants

I did a Google search and saw:
"It is a good idea as cheaper restaurants will not have forks available."

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g294212-i2147-k2629991...

This is from 2009, so has this changed in the past 9 years?
I'd like to see this replicated with a few tweaks for the « I am using $x » where $x could be porn, bets, games, books.. any means of escapism.
Every president is the victim (or beneficiary) of the economic cycle and external forces.

What makes a president memorable is what they do when they’re dealt a “bad hand.”
Well just the last week, the Dutch highest administrative court ruled that Pastafarianism is not a real religion. Do you at least see why (you don't have to agree, just understand)?
I came across Shamir's Secret Sharing recently when thinking about how a partial password scheme might best be implemented. I even went as far as writing up an implementation of the cryptographic aspects.

https://jonathanstreet.com/blog/partial-passwords/
Vidmate
Thanks for the info, I'm still unclear on this (my original question):

If I'm on one instance, and some person is on another instance, if that person gets kicked out of that instance (for a poor joke, let's say), do I lose access to all their messages?

From what I gather by your answer, the answer is "Yes". They need to get another account and I need to follow them on a new one, which may imply I need a new account as well.

Further, if I go for a "free speech" instance, I will run the risk of getting blocked (by proxy) by other instances because of what other people do on that instance.

On Twitter, this isn't such a big problem because people don't get banned that easily, but with all these moderators and "codes of conduct" being emphasized for Mastodon, I think it will be a problem.

> Do your thing, but I hope you know most people don't necessarily have these questions.

They will have the question of "why do I want this?". One answer to that is "no single corporate entity decides who gets to see what", but from what I understand the whole system is worse. All this complication to fight "outrage" and "harassment" which I don't think most people are bothered with in the first place.
> I chose Jimmy Carter, and added the campaign slogan, "I will gladly trade peanuts for the American hostages" (referring to to Carter's history as a farmer and to the Iran hostage crisis [1]). I thought I was really clever at the time, but now I think I was just being a stupid smartass.

I really like that story! You'd be a few years older than me, but we would have gotten along well as kids/stupid smartasses...:)
I don't consider it a tall order, it's exactly what I'd expect advertisers to do with these tools, if there was no specific process to prevent them from doing so.
Dan, please add author names to the suggested books!
A Beginner’s Guide to Amazon’s Elastic Container Service
I do technology at an MLS and we police our listings and have agents change terminology that may violate fair housing laws, including things like "man cave" (a frequent violation). For a while we were also contacting agents if they used drone photos of the property, because of restrictions on the commercial use of drones.
It was something else. Nothing or no one brute-forced a 20+ random string pass. More likely some service (Wordpress, phpbb etc) got owned. I’ve had multiple servers running for years with < 15 char non random root pass (stupid as it is to do so) with no problems.
Which would be hard to detect, if they had temperature close to that of CMB.
HP spectre x360 has a centered trackpad... but I higly advice AGAINST this device for tons of other reasons (including the trackpad, btw, which is top-hinged-real-click and glass-made variety but it's still horrible).
Ask HN: What should I learn to become web developer in 2018?
> So why use redux at all then? Why not just subscribe to a bunch of selectors?

Not exactly sure what you mean by that? Selectors are a redux thing for me, I don't understand what you mean by not using redux but subscribing to selectors

> The last codebase I saw that was written with an HOCs-first perspective was rendering every HOC on every prop trigger. It still gives me the twitches :)

I don't see how that's a problem. Just because you render a bunch of wrapper components (one for each HOC)? React is extremely efficient at rendering this kind of components having only one child
The article says: "Compared to a two-wheeled cart or a four-wheeled wagon, a wheelbarrow was much cheaper to build because wheel construction was a labour-intensive job."
IIRC, when BYTE magazine benchmarked it, the Archimedes doing software FP beat a Compaq (?) 387 with an 80387 coprocessor.
Quite a literal application of sovereignty - if you can defend it, you can keep it.
Our future is shaping up.
Could be that only this brand's gas-station POIs were ingested in your region? In my region (Central Europe) I'm getting complete list of all nearby gas stations in the Garmin's "need a break?" feature.
Got a recruiter she was the worse (dropped her after she committed some criminal acts and repeatedly lied to her clients) would have me in a senior position if she could when I had zero experience. Took first job that made me a offer. Left when my contract was up, but meet a handful of good guys. Every job after that has been refers from guys I meet contracting at places, but I never found a place worth staying at. I have learn to separate the bullshitters and people with genuine interest in tech. Group messages, joke emails, epic lunches, and understanding someones true ability has gotten me more work then any recruiting agency has ever been able to.
Email the authors. There's a 50-50 chance they'll just give you the paper.

Though I wouldn't lead with calling BS ...
Yeah I've had the same kind of problem: 100% test coverage by unit testing but I still had crashes because I wasn't testing integration.

I'd like to move to a page-based testing, where I mount the entire page and interact with it, asserting what's going on visually and in the store
When I think of serverless I think of an application that runs on the desktop, in the browser, or WASM. The generated data is stored in the same place the application is run. The only distribution is the initial delivery of the application. Not only is that confined to one side of a network no network is required.

I suppose the reason I have trouble accepting this use of serverless is in the case of a connection interruption. If the connection goes down the application is killed, which sounds like a service availability failure to me.
Thank you soo much for the feedback! Those issues should be fixed now :)
If a river becomes a legal person, the government can prosecute it for crossing some threshold. The sentence will be forced labor in a dam for 100 years. The duration may sound harsh, but rivers outlive humans by a long margin.
Any code that you write now will need to be edited in future for enhancement or bug fixes. If you are able to split individual steps or sub tasks of the main function into smaller sub functions, you would not be required to scan through the entire code in future for any modifications. If the functions are named properly, you can directly go to the function and edit it as required.

Also, assume that this big function breaks for some reason. Having sub functions will make it easier for you or anyone else maintaining the code to isolate it and track the source error in a much easier way.

So for me, functions are not just about re-usability, but also about maintenance and readability of code.
Take a step back and look at what you're justifying.

A candidate from a mainstream party for US Congress with mainstream views creates an ad about her past that is true and historical, and that gets banned.

Hiding behind vague TOS does not cut it.
If I round each result to 6 significant figures and then use that as the input for the next stage, my bog standard scientific calculator gives me 9.32631 for the final answer.

(chained using full accuracy as sibling comment does give 25 of course).

Thinking about the curves of the functions near zero in the middle steps and a few terms of the taylor series around those values suggests lots of accuracy lost in rounding. We are spoiled with 16 sig fig these days...