skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish they’d fix the md to adoc table conversion issues. Apart from that I love it.
I know where you are coming from. I myself being from Mexico find the "political correctness" trend happening in the USA quite interesting.

I used to work for a company that had HQ in California and offices down in Mexico. The head of HR was horrified when she visited the offices in Mexico and saw the interaction between colleagues... of particular interesting to her was that people were hugging each other!. She instructed our Country Manager to ask us not to hug each other. Of course everybody laughed when this was mentioned during an internal office meeting.

It is the same problem as with the "Puto" chant of Mexicans during soccer games. Sure, literaly it is a homophogic connocation, but in practice it is used just to show animosity to the goalkeeper. It does not mean that 5000 people believe the male goalkeeper preffers to have sexual relationships with other men... they don't care.
If I remember correctly the game ran somewhat fine on my geforce mx440 (passively cooled).
"Oasis Biotech" ...
if we find the c.v. for thier technicians we may see something interesting[speculation]
a biotech facility may use plants as the carrier for novel genes in order to produce biochemical or pharmaceutical products, even an oral vaccine bearing plant product...a classical "plantized" operation in a lab and industrial compound is expensive to design construct and operate...
genetic engineering of plants can be cheap and forgiving in the event of failures, thus not financially catastrophic...
these sorts of startups may be a good stock pick
> Coding questions are among the most quantifiable and objective questions there are.

Only in the most trivial cases (for statements, not necessarily solution). If you want to assess engineering ability, specific coding questions are a small, tiny sample of the space, and generally the more difficult the problem the less useful it is.
California's problems in the early 2000s were caused by exactly that. Here's one tape where a trader asks an operator to "get a little creative and find a reason to go down".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBnnUIEZiNI

I'm not sure if its really been fixed or if its just not as aggressive.
Intel definitely isn't going to give up. I'd also be really surprised if the government doesn't start subsidizing Intel and AMD just to make sure the U.S. has fabrication technology "in house."
Wearout is very uncommon. Biggest thing to do is make sure you don’t fill them up. Full drives are unable to do their optimal wear leveling.
The question is what direction that's in. Activism that is, in essence, urging the adoption of ones findings, if obtained through valid experiments, isn't really biased. Politically-oriented think-tanks are looking to build research that supports a particular political outcome.

That's a pretty strong contrast to say "We have found that X is harmful, and will advocate for people having reduced exposure to X."

Consider, for example, the number of infectious disease epidemiologists, vaccine developers and doctors who have essentially been forced to engage in "activism" thanks to anti-vaxx movements.
Is there an equivalent of this for spreadsheets?
The tech has existed for a while to embed components inside PCBs --- inserting them into voids during the lamination process. Small discretes (capacitors, resistors etc) up to full magnetics are being embedded in production.

Example of an embedded magnetic in a board-mount DC-DC converter-- https://twitter.com/hubmartin/status/906768773180530689
Apparently that’s pretty common when your light exposure isn’t dominated by natural light (insufficient exposure to natural light during the day and/or significant exposure to artificial light at night): https://www.circadiansleepdisorders.org/info/cycle_length.ph...
National Financial Capability Study (2015)
I still see no reason this couldn't have been communicated to Epic, nor why Google felt the need to take it upon themselves to decide. Whatever happens now can no longer be considered to be Epic's fault, as other than existence of the bug itself their response to the report has been close to perfect and Google overruled them on anything else.
With paypal, if someone gives you trouble, you can call support and reverse the payment. And they have protection policies. With bitcoin, if anything happens, you're the idiot who bought into the hype and now getting what was coming you you. For consumer, there's a huge difference - that's why "ZERO FRAUD LIABILITY" is written on every credit card conditions in big friendly letters. Are there any zero fraud liability bitcoin instruments? Are they even possible?
Presenting unsubstantiated rumors as news is not "obviously preferable".
I've always understood it to be related to the hottest part of the day, not so much a post-lunch thing. Probably why GP mentioned air conditioning preventing it.
No, Epic is at fault for having a basic bug that is incredibly easy to exploit.

At what point did people who browse a site called "Hacker News" start believing in Security through Obscurity?
Ask HN: What is your favourite drink?
What is your favourite alcoholic drink? And what do you drink, in a social setting, when you don't want anything alcoholic?
Neither are "Justice" and "Revenge". But there's a good reason we treat them differently.
> Nobody who has to compete with others gets to set a price based on their costs.

Sure they can. They can set whatever price they want.
And on the other side of the coin, the available pool of renters can choose to pay that price or not pay that price.
>the more likely that someone will crunch it and find some statistical patterns that they will label “racism” or "sexism". Even if you’re innocent

The existence of that pattern by itself might be enough for a company to be guilty of discrimination. If a policy disproportionately harms a specific protected class and they can't show a legitimate business reason for that policy, it is illegal regardless of intent. It is called disparate impact.
Earplugs?
Can't download either.
I saw so many people drop out or destroy their relationships because of WoW.

I'm lucky the monthly fee was too much for me bacm in the days :/
I mean, x86_64 came out in 2000. The basic patents behind it should be expiring right about now.
AMD's licenses from Intel have some strings attached. I think they basically cannot be bought while keeping the rights to x86. A bought AMD could possibly threaten to no longer grant licenses to Intel, but I'm sure Intel's lawyers have thought of that.

Apple buying Intel could work, I guess (anti-trust might get involved), but I don't think it would be a wise investment. Apple doesn't have the volume to keep Intel busy alone.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. We're really trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Removing Myanmar Military Officials from Facebook
Yes, but you can use gcc 4.2.1 to compile a newer version which does use c++.
of course the assumption is there are someone else with similar skill but has easier to understand accent, its no brainier which one to pick.
I recall reading an article recently about city birds using butts in their nests to ward off insects.
I saw this thread on Twitter that talks about what might happen if China tries to take over Taiwan soon: https://twitter.com/adam_ni/status/1033179777220276224

> A physical blockade in some form could be coupled with intense economic pressure, and cyber operations. This conflict escalates, and because of domestic nationalist pressure as well as factional infighting, Xi chooses confrontation instead of a backdown.

> PLA cyber, missile, air and maritime forces are deployed against TW in order to neutralize its ability to defend itself. At this stage, an invasion is still not the preferred plan because that would entail a costly campaign involving amphibious assault and urban operations.

> Instead, precision conventional missile, counter space, maritime/economic blockade, and cyber operations are used to bring TW to its knees. For the #CCP this is not only a campaign to obtain limited concessions, but to achieve its vision of unification.
Our HR department wouldn't let me give proper feedback. Even though I've had some people that, with a little tweak to their knowledge, or a slight shift in thinking, could become great hires.

There's tonnes of candidates out there that just lack something small, or are slightly less ideal than someone else... yet still have all the raw talent and potential in the world.

But you can't always hire them because you don't have the resources to up-skill them efficiently. Or you need someone that can more readily contribute to a project.

I've certainly got some people in mind whom I'd love to contact as soon as I start at a different employer, to drag them on board if said employer had the resources to properly develop them.

Ah well.
Would you do anything different with your storage software or SSD procurement if you didn't have to worry about filling up SSDs or wear leveling? Wondering how big of a pain point it is (disclosure: I work on new SSD tech at Intel).
"7nm" is very misleading, there isn't any feature of that size in either GloFo or TSMC's transistor libraries.

Intel's fabs are still cutting edge, although the gap has almost closed up.
What don't I use it for?

+ Static websites from any input to html

+ Markdown & TeX & References to pdf for academia

+ Generating manpages for new tools

+ Generating ebooks

... Let's just say I get a bit lost when it isn't available.
I've seen this a million times teaching students. They raise a shitstorm for two weeks because they can't understand their TA's accent. Then they learn and can understand them just fine.

The truth is it's part laziness and part racism.

That being said, there is reinforcing incentive to be a bad communicator when the people around you don't make the effort because of your accent.
Start With No by Jim Camp, and Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss are two very good books on how to use/work with "No" in negotiations.
Insightful. Thank you for posting!
Sure, but these are highly correlated. If you've been working in startups for a few years, you will have some experience in both coding and interviewing coders.

Even most of the successful large companies are pretty good at cultivating interviewing skills among their employees.

I would put it the other way around.

My experience is that most startups just put you in front of people and tell you to figure it out. People who have done that for a bit wind up with really bad interview habits because they never get corrected. My experience with large companies (Google and Amazon) has them giving interview training. I learned a lot more about interviewing from that than the informal practice that I got in startups.
I also learned this not long after I started conducting coding interviews. People with resumes from the best schools and the best companies would fail in multiple interviews in a row. Nowadays I don't even look at the resume, though to be fair I am only tasked with evaluating coding ability, and not things like culture fit or pay scale.
So many of them would escape to the USA as well, where they don't need a visa to enter and will be met by many sympathetic Americans.
https://www.ait.org.tw/visas/visa-waiver-program/

Considering that Taiwanese engineer programs were, when I was a recruiter, equivalent to USA schooling (depending), they shouldn't have a hard time finding a job here either...
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Although China is increasing its amphibious capabilities [0], it's unlikely that the US would allow Taiwan to be taken over militarily. It's much more likely that China would go for a political takeover, and I doubt that'd happen in the next decade or so, by which time China may very well have their own leading edge fabs.

[0] https://thediplomat.com/2018/08/5-pla-navy-projects-to-watch... The author is a credible source active on reddit as /u/PLArealtalk
0:51 in that talk. Though it doesnt mention arecibo specifically(i might have mis-remebered it) its still a fun thought.
My favorite pandoc hack is using it to convert word docs into markdown which can then be diffed similar to source code. Works great for legal redlining.
No it doesn’t the WAS still stands which is OK as AMD likely will have enough 14nm parts to go until 2020.
They can't code because you are looking figuratively over their shoulder---the clock is ticking next to a hundred grand in a suitcase.

A single question is pulled from subjects vast enough to fill up years of college and there is no time to research, as one would in the real world. Binary pass/fail with your pride/livelyhood/family on the line.

Please state your last exam conducted under such conditions?

Oh and your questions probably stink. I've gotten plenty of them with recursion that might take ten minutes in seclusion but simply not possible under the gun.
Russian archeologists have found an exceptionally rare 'beard kopek'
Prejudice Employement
A lot of employers like Macys, Sears, Marriotts, and other places are becoming prejudice and will discriminate people by looks despite experience.
Yeah, that just seemed to me like somebody looking for trouble where there was really none to be found.
I just got an email:

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As a result, in order to restore public access to your GitLab Pages you will need to update your DNS A records as follows:

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The link:
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/08/28/gitlab-pages-update/
Taiwan is doing the same.

https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/taiwans-unstalled-force...
I found the change.... disappointing.

I'll gladly concede that there could be a better logo than what previously existed, but this isn't it.

When I look at the old logo, I think "professional and clever". When I look at the new, I think "WE'RE SHOUTING IN A LIBRARY! A LIBRARY LIBRARY!"

If this places me in among the unwashed masses that "just don't get it", so be it. I see regression, not improvement here.
Yes IG Metal and others seemed to have dropped the ball in not getting payback for restraint earlier.
> It does make you wonder when AMD and Intel double the normal CPU socket from 95 watts to 180 watts or so.

could they, and still expect to sell? it seems hard to tell the data center and supercomputing customers that they're going to have install massively more cooling capacity.
Pentagram has done rebrands for many organizations, and they all fit the same theme. Enough so that when an organization hires Pentagram to do a rebrand, they must obviously be looking for a "pentagram logo" like this.
I think this is pretty horrible, too, though.
In the context of sales, you can have a conversation about perseverance and not taking no for an answer. However:

> At the end of that example, Brandon laughed and said, “I was about to say something.” He paused, and then went on to say, “No doesn’t necessarily mean no.”

Brandon _changed_ the context into something offensive and then made the joke. This was an attempt at rape joke. He even prepped the audience for it by laughing and saying, "I wasn't going to say this, but..."
It is imperative more members of tech organizations consciously decide to act in ways that are respectful, inclusive and professional, such that environments like the one described are no longer the norm.

Any leadership rejecting this is indicative of their inability to grow up and be adults. We aren't in high school anymore.
I get what you're saying, but if someone says "the way you phrased that really bothers me because it sounds like a rape joke", I think the best response is to say "sorry, I didn't mean it that way, let's find a better way to phrase that", not "no, it's not a rape joke and you shouldn't be upset."

Hearing "no doesn't necessarily mean no" as a play on "no means no" is not some insane unreasonable interpretation, and "no means no" has been pretty consistently used as an anti-rape slogan for ages.

And maybe that phrase has been used that way in sales for ages, but the commonly accepted language has changed over time and will continue to change in response to changes in culture.
> Not use technology to find way to kill each other more efficiently

Without nuclear weapons we would have probably had world war three already. Sometimes finding more efficient ways to kill each other is a good thing.
Doesn't it require essentially trusting Electrum server with your money (and your transactions)?
2018.35 a Quick One from Kilfenora – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
Update about GitLab Pages / GitLab Pages IP Changes
Is Literature Dead?
The problem was that all the interesting examples had nontrivial state that couldn't be mocked.
Perhaps better to have a live visualiser or atleast an example of a live visualisation for your own site.

Looks great and I can break it down into subnodes. Here is a list of things I would like to see further

- Ability to see media files

- A count on all asset types to understand the size

- The rendering is user side so it really freezes at over 20,000 links.
> Inside, the floating reactor is a warren of tight corridors, steep staircases, pipes, wires and warning signs in Cyrillic letters.

What? So Russians would have warning signs in English?

Indeed, the article overall sounds like anti-Russia propaganda. What's going on with the NY Times about Russia and China? Just grasping for clickbait?
You realize that as most people age, they tend to sleep earlier and wake up earlier. Maybe one day you too will be an old lark :).
Seeing Like A State actually goes into a tremendous amount of detail about what a monumentous effort it was to introduce decimal measures in France. Progress was slow and took generations. It is only in hindsight that it was successful.

> The state could insist on the exclusive use of its units in the courts, in the state school system, and in such documents as property deeds, legal contracts, and tax codes. Outside these official spheres, the metric system made its way only very slowly. In spite of a decree for confiscating toise sticks in shops and replacing them with meter sticks, the populace continued to use the older system, often marking their meter sticks with the old measures. Even as late as 1828 the new measures were more a part of le pays legal than of le pays reel. As Chateaubriand remarked, "Whenever you meet a fellow who, instead of talking arpents, toises, and pieds, refers to hectares, meters, and centimeters, rest assured, the man is a prefect."

I would imagine likewise for the other standards that you mentioned. And in a lot of ways they succeeded exactly because they weren't (thinking specifically about how HTTP/HTML succeeded because it was less comprehensive than, say, Xanadu).
They would be acting as a nonexec director it would effectively be a fulltime role maybe 2 days a week minimum.
I'm pretty sure I can get a job if my company dies.

Workers don't have a good incentive to offset the human need to want more more in worker wages which may be counterproductive to the long term viability of a company to compete.
Yes, It is discriminatory. So ? Not able to code is also discriminatory to someone who don't know how to code.
Just say he's no fit for the organization. Safe and at least partially fair for the candidates.
For varying definitions of great ...

All 5 HOF QBs who coached in the NFL have losing records.

Norm van Brocklin, HOF QB who could never coach another HOF QB (Fran Tarkenton)

Bart Starr

Otto Graham

Sammy Baugh

Bob Waterfield

But yeah basically as soon as broadcasting and endorsements became a post foot all career option, all the top QBs went that route.
I'd like to ask a provocative question: if this was always the culture at Riot, why are people who joined the company surprised by it? Would it be wrong for people to self-select into a workplace that was tolerant of such jokes, knowing that it would not be totally inclusive?

At some point if you have enough employees leadership needs to grow the hell up - but it doesn't exactly surprise me to learn that game developers use language at work that anyone with gamer friends has certainly heard in private.
I think this might give a more in-depth introduction to CL’s conditions/restarts: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...
Looks like GitLab accelerated their GitLab pages IP Address cutoff; this is part of the Azure/GCP transition.

I received an email indicating that this was not an intentional acceleration (from the email):

"During a resource cleanup the public IP for Azure pages was inadvertently deleted. This will affect all users of custom domains for pages who have not yet updated their A record to point to the new GCP load balancer."
As someone not involved in ML, why doesn't it work?
Your statement makes a ton of sense. Assuming you’re correct, it is a bit crazy how many sites have the copyright programmatically set to the current year.
Hmm... it's not quite addressed here (they address generality as the size of the scope of the solution), but I have a slightly different take:

I love generalizing things. If I need to remove a couple of prefixes from a list of strings, I don't hard code those strings in a function. I make a general string prefix removal and pass those prefixes in. I find that I write more correct and stable code by switching from special cased code to generalized code.

One can take this to extremes of course. I think the article is against generalizing solutions that shoehorn things together that normally don't go together. E.g. hal for handling disparate hardware abstractions. Its a forced abstraction to gain certain things.

I guess it's abstract vs generalize. Generalize is good, if it doesn't introduce abstractions... that's the thought process I just had anyway.
You can't build a reputation on garbage clickbait, and then expect people to take you seriously on-demand. Integrity isn't a light switch that you can flick on and off. To take any investigative piece seriously, I have to have some trust for the people that produced it, and I don't trust Buzzfeed to be anything other than low-quality, no-integrity mindless garbage.
Not necessary. The economy isn't a zero-sum game. There is more wealth to go around now than in 1978.
Because they don't say "We do rape jokes. Be cool with that." in the interview process.
These still exist in Russia, they're called коммуналка (kommynalka), very good for students etc. I lived in one for uni, I guess it's kinda like halls, but like, all sorts of people live in them.
So the issue here is not with the sentiment, but the fact that the slogan “no doesn’t mean no” is _very_clearly_ a play on the anti-rape slogan “no means no”. I get being against over-sensitivity, but mocking an anti-rape slogan to invert the meaning could make victims of sexual assault really uncomfortable.

Edit: literally the entire first page of google results for “no doesn’t mean no” are anti-rape articles. This is seems like a pretty black and white issue.
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They'd surely try an in-house ARM design long before considering an x86 chip of their own design, especially given Apple's enormous success with their own ARM designs in the cellphone space. Rumor mill has been suggesting such a move for a while too.

Apple have successfully managed major instruction set transitions in the past, I think x86 to ARM would probably be the "easiest" one yet.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bsdgames/+bug/7253...