skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it's fair to compare a very specific food item which enjoys massive economies of scale when prepared industrially the McDonald's hamburger is. Like, of course a homemade hamburger of that type is going to cost more and take a bunch of time— when I make hamburgers at home, I make them from scratch including baking my own buns, but the result is not a $1 McDonalds style burger, it's something that would be $20+ at a gastropub.

More realistic would be to compare the food value derived from a $1 McDonalds hamburger with what $1 can buy at a discount/bulk grocery store in dried beans, sweet potatoes, onions, and other high bang-for-buck items.
i would think that on non-leap years you would 'age' on the 1st of March. but i can see where the confusion lies.

for days before Feb 29th you get to the next year by adding 365 days on years except the leap year. so for 2000-2004. [366, 365, 365, 365]

for days after Feb 29th you get to the next year by adding 365 days on years except the year before the leap year. so for 2004-2004. [365, 365, 365, 366]

if you use one of these rules for Feb 29th you get the next year falling on Feb 28th or Mar 1st for non-leap years..
>almost identical to modern JavaScript

What do you mean by ‘almost’? You cannot have fair separate threads of execution or substitute function’s global environment in javascript, but this is the other way ‘almost’. What features does js have beyond syntactic sugar and second-hand techniques?
Google is the biggest media company in the world and with that comes political power and political pressure. Larry and Sergey are probably really sick of that problem and just want to make everyone putting pressure on them happy enough so they can focus on the tech stuff. Part of that strategy is keeping a low profile even though it is impossible in their position.
In mathematics, there are multiple symbols for negation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols

What is there to defend? Can you explain why it's "asinine design?" You don't actually elaborate as to why, and I've provided you both academic background in mathematics and prior art. I apologize if I've missed your point.
Fun way to test your skills and win something cool :D
> Can you hold securely in one hand and pull down Control Center from the top right corner with your thumb?

I can, but usually I swipe down inside the launcher bar which pulls the top of the phone down. Then I can perform all the normal actions. Admittedly that shortcut is not very discoverable.

https://mashable.com/2017/10/31/how-to-use-iphone-x-reachabi...
From what I understand: instead of cp -rf from offline cache, or ln -sf (which doesn't work for a large percentage of packages due to node being node), they propose to use a custom resolver to tap into the cache directly.

This will also break for various packages due to fs.readFile* dependencies, gyp, and other things. If your dependency tree is 4k+ node modules, the "vanilla" yarn or npm resolution and reconciliation techniques are already so brittle, that changing them will undoubtedly break things.
true, but my point still holds for pure abstractions - drawing random lines is not creating a representation of an abstract concept.

Unless you want to argue that any output you produce represents the abstraction of your brain's state (ie the random lines represent the firing of the neuronal pathways that are causing you to choose that specific arrangement of "random" lines), but that's pretty meta and outside what I think the common conception of abstract art is.
It's not on my macOS, though I am on 10.12. If it's on macOS now, it means they've added it in the past couple of years which would be interesting.

(Edit: Seems like it might just be me :-D)
because those egomaniac, corrupt politician are elected, representatives of people living in and participating in a democratic republic. They of all people should be able to question citizens of this country.
I took a quick look at your reddit history.

You don't need to go into implementation details but could you give a high level explanation of how you are using AI?

Just being honest here but it feels like you are giving your opinion and then saying "This is what the AI says you should do."
Not trying to instigate a flame war, thanks for correcting my language if that's what it seems like. I'm earnestly trying to understand what it is about Breitbart that causes Jacques to have the opinion that the people who produce are either stupid or cynical manipulators (not my words). Let me rephrase, can you really not imagine an intelligent decent person subscribing to Breitbart?
This seems like it'd be a fun way to kill 20 minutes - sim games usually are - but I'm unable to begin any projects and so am unable to make revenue. I thought maybe I had to hire each position first (PM+Marketer+Designer+Developer) but that didn't seem to be the case.

I'd think it were intentional as a joke if it weren't for a /js/projects.js file existing.
I always felt that "don't be evil" is a shallow and effectively vacuous feel-good slogan because they never spelled out what it means for them not to be evil, which I think is a completely non-trivial question.
It makes sense to get the person at the top. They are ultimately responsible/accountable for things. They are well prepared in advance so why not go for them?
You went from "isn't sustainable" to "has to be a worldwide major economic and political powerhouse" and claim that I'm the one that moved the goalposts?

lol, ok
I have bipolar 2 and the difference between losing an hour of sleep and not is tremendous and consistent. I will be deeply sad and demotivated the next day, no energy to do anything without a extreme amount of willpower.

I have a nice mattress but I stopped sitting on it or laying on it unless I'm going to sleep. I make sure for the hour before bed I turn off overhead lights and just use a lamp, and in the last hour I also refrain from screen use, except for brief moments. No matter how tired I am, I wait until the end of the hour to crawl into bed (build sleep pressure if it's there). Finally, and I just discovered this several weeks ago, I play white noise off my Google home (rain noise actually). That last step has added atleast an hour to my sleep every night, and I suddenly started having dreams again. And give yourself lots of time so that you never need to use an alarm.

A week of that routine and you will be falling asleep and waking up in extremely consistent ranges night to night. My target sleep is 10-630 and I estimate that I'm falling asleep 2 minutes after getting in bed and I wake up between 610-630 everyday.

Results: consistent mood, lower appetite, probably better learning and memory.
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I've seen those on Amazon, but it seems like they just sell the hub and brake disc. Are you supposed to DIY the rest of the wheel or is the average bike shop able to build it for you?
I'm not. I didn't realize people thought Breitbart was racist. Forget conservatives. Let me rephrase, can you really not imagine an intelligent decent person subscribing to Breitbart?
Ask HN: What to do if your CV is too bad to get an interview?
Hi HN,

I'm in my mid-thirties, and my CV basically contains only two items (plus four foreign languages at different levels): a bachelor degree in CS and a two-year programming job (from which I got fired). The rest of the time I struggled with (mental) health issues (depression, anxiety, injuries from a suicide attempt).

That's not much, considering my age. And it seems to be not attractive to potential employers, because so far I was unable to get invited to any interview. I guess the long period of health issues/unemployment is a big red flag. And there is also the issue of not being up-to-date with current languages/tools/practices, though I don't know how much that matters for entry-level jobs.

I'm not sure what I could do to improve the odds to pass this first hurdle. While I can work on the outdatedness to some degree, I cannot change the past. And of course, the second hurdle, the interview, still awaits. Probably with low odds, too, due to being a listener/observer and not a talker (for the first job I had to interview at more than twenty companies before getting an offer, though getting the interviews was not much of a problem back then).

Any ideas, thoughts? Thanks in advance.
Sadly there's no constitutional obligation for them to hold or respect that, or even preserve the Scottish parliament; I fear the situation may end up like Catalonia. Similar signals are in place for Northern Ireland.
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They did seem to find Sandberg acceptable.
Sure, I guess they put you in contact with them, but why would that person talk to you? If they'll talk to random people on the internet, why not just email them or DM them on Twitter or use any other means beyond LinkedIn?

If, however, that person sees that they are connected to you via some other person they know and trust, I think they'll be more likely to take you serious.
Name one filetype you can open on OSX that you can't open on linux. I'll wait.
Larry Page has largely checked out from Alphabet
I dig the sentiment. But why not use "leader" and "follower" instead?
Multi-tiered hierarchies might use military ranks (private, sergeant, etc.) or titles of nobility (king, earl, duke, etc. which would probably confuse a lot of people)
I always felt it was a bit like that old saw about not knowing how to define porn, but "I know when I see it." I took it as the broadest possible encouragement to Do The Right Thing as you see fit instead of spending a lot of time second-guessing what corporate would think.

-- disclaimer: never worked there
You need at least a 3x return opportunity to make it worth the time. They charge a 10% vig and a processing fee to draw your winnings, plus you get taxed as gambling winnings.
Are robots coming for your lawyer
How many twitter movies have been made? The facebook movie pushed his platform higher.
There is no way Edge could run in Wine on Linux.
To be fair, he created the child, so there's that...
That is also something I worry about. There's been a bit of talk of a potential update to the SE but I hope they will keep making a 4" phone. I have gone from an iPhone 6 to an SE and I seriously enjoyed the experience of having a smaller phone I can operate with one hand again.
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Can posters fix tech? Here are 150 of them that try
The poster I responded to said the current X.
Basic They have dedicated hardware that is used for image processing. They run a trillion operations through this hardware to post process the photo. That sounds insane till you realize that these operations are very small and the hardware is highly parallelized.
Can you point to where I said that wanting more money is a "dirty word"? Or can you point to where I said it was wrong to want more money? I don't see anything like that in any of my posts, and I certainly don't believe that to be true.

Most advertisement based sites fail. Does that mean we should also abandon that model?

Nobody said that the average campaign should succeed. I definitely don't believe that.

You can't just keep putting words into my mouth and then claim that I am the one changing the topic.
To be fair, I said "can" use them, not necessarily that I do :)

But, I have actually reached out to connections to discuss business opportunities. Since the connections live in the world where I have done business, they are more likely to know and trust that I can deliver on their business needs.
The ridiculous amount of dependencies in webpack is one of the major reasons I went for rollup. I refuse to install anything that depends on is-odd.
Part of Kazakhstan is within Europe.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#Contemporary_definition
+1 for Swappa; always have had good experiences on that site.
The use cases overlap neatly with Kafka's. Everything from it's usage of zookeeper, time-and-storage-based retention tuning are similar

The announcement does not clarify the reason they use this over kafka. Is it because Kafka doesn't scale to millions of logs on a single cluster or is it because kafka is not sympathetic to heterogeneous disk arrays containing SSD and HDD. I strongly suspect it may be latency of writes at scale but this is pure speculation.

I don't know. If I understand why anyone might use this I'd contribute to building language bindings for the APIs.
> I could even get a restraining order

What? No you can’t. Is this entire thread disclaimed by your “sometimes I lie” line in your profile description?
Excuse me? Collapse theories have a problem with large quantum systems. Many-World is fine.
I'll tell you right now, as a person that got sucked in by the look and feel of the packaging at a time I was looking to replace my razor, it is by far the worst most cumbersome razor I've ever owned. The blades rust almost immediately. From top of blade head to neck is just so long (5 blades plus lots of space) and the weird rubberized flex of the head makes following contours of face virtually impossible. Leaves patches of hair. The razor was probably designed by a woman for legs or an early 20s geek that hasn't sprouted facial hair yet. Either way, you'd be better off buying a razor from a dollar store.

[Edit] This video link explains the head issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-JRaAyJz_E&t=2m10s
Uh, I mean, I’m a graduate student at a pretty good Canadian school and this hasn’t been my experience with the Chinese undergrads I teach or grad students I’ve worked with. I’m not saying they’re weak or anything, I just haven’t really seen anything to suggest they’ve been through a much more rigorous education program.
> My vision on the bike is not impaired by my helmet.

I've never worn a motorcycle helmet, but the visor seems so small that you'd lose some of the peripheral vision.

I agree that it would often be the car at fault, but as a cyclist I wouldn't care who was at fault I'd just want to avoid the crash. I'd only crash into the car if my peripheral vision missed the car.

> we solve them by designing intersections such that they can't happen.

I agree, but I don't want to wait for governments to fix every single bad junction that exists in the world.
That is the only reason I would consider the xs over the x. Still waiting for reviews to see just how good it actually is.
Probably not, but it has a history.
Sundar isn't a founder and most will forget his name when he moves on if they ever knew.

Tim Cook is more well known but will never reach Steve.
"Hey Larry, wanna head down to the Senate hearing so a bunch of morons can grill you about stuff they don't understand?"

Nope.
Facebook got "The Social Network", Google got..."The Internship"?
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Why not the XR? You get a slightly smaller 7plus with taller screen and all of the features of XS bar the second camera and 3D Touch which both provide limited added value. On top of that you will have better battery as well.
Your point seems to rest on holding to a different definition of "abstract" from the one I was originally using.

Which is (unintentionally, I presume) a subtle form of putting words into my mouth and then arguing against those instead.
Is this transparent for bundlers?
I think Jonathan Rodden is right. People like to attribute economic results to whoever's in charge, but a lot of it depends on factors that are either outside of political control or only changeable through long-term policies.
Or maybe this is largely a manufactured issue. Alphabet sent Walker, but the committee didn't allow him to sit down. Between him and Salgado, the experts that Page and Pichai defer to, I don't think there's anyone better qualified to talk about these issues, because they deal with them all the time. If you want to have a meaningful conversation, that is. The problem is that the hearing was mostly an excuse for the senators to posture and to go on off topic rants about pet peeves. It's a media event, not a venue to get anything of substance done. Page has little tolerance for such BS.

While the senators' whining was to be expected, because it largely called their bluff, I was more disappointed by the media's acceptance of the lines that Walker was not the right person to be there and that he was "a lawyer" (should we send home all politicians with a law degree?). These are policy issues, so you talk to the experts and leaders who make the policy calls.
Since it's the FBI, then it's probably a domestic threat. Given the huge show of force, my guess is armed extremists threatening to take it over?

This is pure speculation, but I think this QAnon/whitehouse leaker stuff is driving people mad and in the coming years, we'll see rebel groups forming and doing more of this.
> e.g. why would you try to do a mathematical operation between a customer's name and it's account balance?

Types like `int`, `float` and `string` are rather impoverished. Much more common mistakes are:

- One the numerical side, trying to perform arithmetic with different units of measure ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter ) or with different representation sizes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(spacecraft)#Launch_fa... ). These sorts of errors are trivial for machines to identify, if we let them (e.g. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe... )

- On the textual side, type errors are widespread and cause a large proportion of security vulnerabilities ( https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2007-Injection_Flaws ). Again, they're trivial for machines to identify, if we let them (e.g. http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2006-10-18-a-type-based-soluti... )
OLED needs higher pixel density to achieve the same level of “sharpness”. That’s why LCD’s can looks as crisp at much lower PPI.
Lets not go overboard. The article was specific - the drawing was 'abstract' as versus 'figurative' or art representing a figure like an animal
No need to guess. You can look at the treatment Jack and Sheryl received. A bunch of ignorant, annoyed blowhards basically talked at them for a few hours, accomplishing nothing and expanding the pool of useful knowledge exactly zero.
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Are you sure they are your politicians and have any of your interests in mind?
I started with marketers until the first project suddenly came in. Then more marketing and developers until there was a constant flow (3-5 projects ongoing). 50mil balance after 3 years, increasing about 100k/month.
Your purchasing power map is also misleading because it just compares how far $100 will go in each state. Of course CA will appear to be worse. What this misses is that CA salaries trend higher too. (But it's AEI, so kinda expected).
They're closer to my interests then those running large tech companies.

I care about my privacy more than free Facebook and Gmail, and continue to evangelize GDPR style legislation with US legislators.
So what's it like living in a less stratified society?
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I must admit I upvoted for the puns.
Do you have any info on pregnenelone and DHEA I could read up on?
Lots of places scattared around Europe.

That is what I get as feedback from American expats over here.
Sunspot Observatory closed due to security issue
Actually one service I do use a bit is https://godbolt.org/ a C++ compiler explorer. It would be nice if their editor could work collaboratively.

You can share snippets there but can't edit them with another person.
We'll see what the community response is, and once we're confident this is what everyone wants we'll merge it into master (PR is already up[1]).

While there isn't an official build at the moment, the code PR includes a prebuilt version of the current branch, and we have a playground repository to experiment with it.

[1] https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/pull/6382

[2] https://github.com/yarnpkg/pnp-sample-app
LogDevice is crash fault tolerant not byzantine fault tolerant if that's what you're asking. This fault tolerance is in regards to where the logs are placed not who's emitting them though. If you want to analyse logs for inconsistencies or attack patterns you should look into something like SEAMS/REAMS, it's completely out of scope for LogDevice.
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This is awesome. I didn't read the full proposal yet, but at first glance it's very close to how we do things where I work (because we needed something long before Node even existed, and never replaced it).

The biggest hurdle we constantly face is tools that make assumptions about the environment (eg: Flow, TypeScript, Webstorm, etc), so changing anything to module resolution breaks everything. We have to spend a lot of time hacking it in every single time. Sometimes the hooks just aren't there (TypeScript has a hook for overriding module resolution, but editors often don't give you an easy way to hook into TypeScript's own hooks).

Any thoughts on how things would work for tools if this was to go forward? Would they all need to be updated to honor this new way to resolve modules?
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Hi Ahmed,

I imagine you looked at other solutions before starting this. A distributed log is a fairly simple idea to understand (hard to implement) but what pain point is being solved?

Seeing that it is written in C/C++ - would it be that logdevice is optimised purely for speed and responsiveness?
I believe Sheets does have keyboard shortcuts.

And in response to your comment, Excel is still the de-facto tool for people in analyst and non-technical positions.
Honestly I can see the subpixels of any oled display. This does not happen with high ppi lcds. I don’t know why but the oled subpixels do not blend as well as the lcd ones
What exactly is an "illegal citizen"?
"We need to drop this irrational (and frankly, racist) notion that our citizens are unable to obtain IDs because they are too poor or dumb or too disorganized to get them."

Here's a nice writeup about Spread The Vote, one of many orgs helping people get their voter IDs.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/07/644648955/for-older-voters-ge...
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> Big companies are just successful small companies.

That would imply either that big companies all started as small companies which became successful and grew large, which is false (some big companies start big). Or that big companies operate the same way as small companies, just at a larger scale, which is unequivocally false.
The bicycle was, arguably, a bit too late. Imagine how cities would be constructed today if bicycles (with modern functionality and affordability) had predated cars by 50 years.

Imagine people trading in their horses for bicycles, for much easier care, less pollution, much smaller and flexible (it seems to me) alternatives. Imagine the variety of bikes people would come up with, lacking alternatives: Personal transport, of course, but also cargo, long-haul, rough terrain, tandem/triple/etc when more power is needed, rickshaws, etc.; with bikes already being the established 'first mover', would we use cars for as many purposes as we do today? Imagine how cities would be constructed, providing for bikes first, with the car fitting in later - from roads to locations of retail and transit.

For some things you still may have needed horses, such as pulling heavy loads. Also, I wonder if the terrain and roads would have suited bicycles (cobblestones and muddy roads probably aren't so great to ride on) and, if not, if people would have invested in the infrastructure; beware the modern myopic perspective about cities - back then almost everyone lived in rural areas. Finally, in some less economically developed parts of the world bicycles did become immensely popular before cars, IIRC; I wonder how these issues played out there.
Is it irony that tech companies spend millions every year on education initiatives, but don't do anything about climate change/evolution deniers on their platforms?