skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> bleaching whites

This only works on a lawn, doesn't it? The combination of grass, sun and water produces hydrogen peroxide.
By creating alternative options for yourself other than the thing you are negotiating for.

E.g. 3 job offers rather than 1.

E.g. pay raise, but if they have no budget how about an extra week of leave.
Being able to count worlds in the manner you describe is apparently not easy to justify. If I recall correctly, this is actually a pretty thorny epistemological problem with the theory. IIRC the current response among Many Worlds people is that either (1) it doesn't really matter because there is no reason to believe that probabilities are "real" in the first place, or (2) attempting to show that if you did insist on finding a metric that looked like probability, it would provably have to be the Born probability (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7577). All this stuff is way over my head so I have no way of evaluating whether it's persuasive or not, but it does at least seem to be contentious among physicists.
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IMVHO simply because of social degradation, in the past even outlaws normally behave far better in society, we (as society) simply became from adults to child, regardless of our age and that's the problem.

Someone think that's being child it's easy, pleasant, so a nice selling point, also children are easy to manage so good for managers/politician etc, but there is a problem, children needs parents to live, they can't stand on their foots in the wild.

On a more limited point of view usenet work well enough for any tech savvy user and commerce see no opportunity in developing it, preferring instead push less free and more profitable web tech solutions, so on one side peoples get advertisements of "new colorful, 'featureful' platforms" and on the other nntp client like desktop MUA does not improve in any way.

Take as an example actual MUA for the masses like Thunderbird, they look '90-style, with all limitation of ancient clients, compare to webmail's evolution... Of course we have notmuch, mutt&forks, pine&forks, but they are not for the masses, so vast majority goes for actual pre-made webmail food...
Really? And the US Post fell for that? I'll try sending a package from Austria-Hungary, now that you've told me :))))
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What I really hated in primary school was that when you finished your homework, you were allowed to read a book. However, all the books were pretty dated and not all that interesting. Furthermore, when you'd finished it, you'd have to write a report on it. One year, I got sick of this system, so I found one book I enjoyed and basically read that one a couple dozen times over the rest of the year.
I have been using brave on android and really enjoy the experience. It is very similar to chrome and thus gives most of the advantages of chrome (opening browser after a long time feels very snappy, swipe to switch tabs). It also has convenient options to block ads and js placed very prominently at the url bar. It also has features like HTTPS everywhere and fingerprinting protection(haven't tried this one yet). Firefox on Android supports desktop extensions like uBlock origin, and I tried making it my default for some time, but brave is simply much more usable. The two shortcomings for Android firefox for me have been (a) No swipe to switch tabs, (b) Loading new pages is noticeable slower than Chrome/Brave.
I find many government web sites to be too link-heavy. What I mean is that on any particular page, they distract you with too many links to related information in other parts of the site, but such related information should probably have been made part of the current page.

As a result, I find myself opening a large number of tabs when getting information about a topic on these sites.
Clothes
How can i buy clothes online??
Heaps are not exactly obscure datastuctures and they are practically useful. They are also relativity simple to implement. I wouldn't ask about them in an interview, but wouldn't be surprised if I were asked.
Interesting, I've been running Linux for 15 years, yet I can't understand how to upgrade from 6.3, which I just installed on a cloud server, to 6.4 by reading the official document.

(Specifically the part "instruct the boot loader to boot this kernel" because it says to type in the file name during the boot process, which is not exactly easy on a remote machine.)
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade64.html

I have a lot of respect to OpenBSD devs when people don't contribute back much even if they use OpenSSH everyday but a bit more friendliness doesn't hurt to let people try it out more.
What would Google do if Mozilla blocks all ads browser wide by default? (Which they can't do adhoc because it is probably explitically forbidden in their contract with Google)

The answer will give you a clue about the question who is the product.

Irregardless of semantics, Mozilla is entirely dependent on the privacy invading ad system.

Everyone knows that default settings matter, as around 80% of users never change much in their browsers, and it is this majority user base which forms the foundation for the contracts between browser makers and search engines.
Decision tables are like an extension of truth tables [1] then, with the realization that instead of mapping the inputs to boolean outputs of true/false, you can map each output to any value. That’s clever, I like it!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table
That might be true for a small percentage of projects/teams.

If you want to succeed as a SWE at a FAANG company you'll have to be an exceptional engineer, or have other skills (leadership, pm, ...).
You can't just weasle up the ladder by playing "political games".

Though, most of my colleagues don't even care about their career - most of us just want to work on cool projects which immediately affect billions of people.
It's still building a fiefdom based on loyalty. You'll be competing with people who build loyalty in other, more negative ways - good doesn't always triumph, and I'd contend that in large orgs it rarely does. The pressures that come to bear as you rise will not push you to be good to those under you.

Politics does not have to be a zero sum game but often those who view it that way and are absolutely ruthless rise to the top. Perhaps that's just the human condition.
> Using Firefox makes you the product, because Mozilla monetizes you with selling you to Google. That is not a browser that "puts you first" or promotes the "open culture of the internet".

Why not? The idea of being targeted with more effective ads based on what I look at is microscopic when compared to the things that got me excited about the internet originally, and it doesn't even seem to contradict them.
Drivers for hardware that is better supported in Linux compared to FreeBSD - 90% of which is graphics - are usually licensed as MIT or BSD, not GPL, even though they are shipped as part of the Linux kernel.

So, nah, it's not the license.
The fold that separates the "fuselage" from the wing? Not the leading edge (except in one point), but you are right, that is the one where many otherwise non-arbitrary planes make an exception. My favorite designs, front heavy with a decoratively complex leading edge would usually have plenty of potential guidepoints for the fuselage fold though. Good times, bringing up those memories makes me wonder when exactly I stopped.
Australia Dispatch: Preserving a Culture by Protecting the Environment
What makes you believe the guise of privacy as a right is anything more than a trick to gain network effect?

If the rewards system doesn't make it out of beta, or worse, does and leads to adtech having an easier time profiling you, what we may end up with is more centralization around data collection—it just won't be as obvious.

And with the move to Chromium It's time for me to bail on Brave. Because if Muon doesn't compete with Chromium we've simply inched closer to a closed loop system.

Orfox here I come!
U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Traditional Cars in 14 Years
Well that's still will be something using NPAPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI which means old. Back in the days browsers didn't have build in flash, java, divx player etc. so they was done by extensions aka plugins back in the days, so no, toolbars was not the only extensions in 90s. I guess there have to be some kind of extension that went from Netscape to Firefox etc. In there late 90s there was extension pack giving a lot of functionality to IE called MyIE (today known as Maxthon). You have to define what "modern extension" means to you because I have a feeling that you are looking just for oldest Firefox/Chrome extension.
LWN has a good article about unveil() which also discusses the approaches taken in the Linux world.

https://lwn.net/Articles/767137/
Note that you can do GPGPU with the current WebGL, compute shaders don't have that many additional capabilities unless you are looking do computation without interference from from onscreen WebGL graphics.

For a future GPGPU web api, the vendors seem to have settled behind https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/
99% of people within FAANG are the most friendly people ever.
E.g. for Google not being a dick is a hiring criteria (Googleyness).
Research based recommended reading:

Getting to yes.

The mind and heart of the negotiator.

Both were required texts for my college class on negotiating and conflict management.

Also, understand your BATNA and get as much data as possible. Good information facilitates a win/win scenario.
Despite all the shit that happened in Bosnia last century, Jews tend to feel safe in Bosnia. One of the oldest Sephardic Haggadahs in the world (~1350) is located in our national museum[0], and our tiny Jewish community feels like this is the safest country for them[1].

In a country where Muslims are a majority (just barely, 50 point something percent), the Synagogue mentioned in the article is in dead center of the capital with absolutely no security needed.

Edited to add: Too bad they don't have basic democratic rights. According to our constitution, the minorities can't run to be one of our three presidents (yes, three)[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo_Haggadah

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-why-saraj... (paywalled original, I've read non-paywalled Bosnian translations).

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejdi%C4%87_and_Finci_v._Bosni...
> has been repeated over and over again for at least 5 years, with very few new developments.

The same is true of discussions of Intel's architectures; they've only released one new microarchitecture in the past 5 years. Hardware development is slow, even for the people who are already shipping silicon.
UV breaking down the fabric, maybe? Certainly less fast than clothes driers.

Random google search result comparing wear-and-tear of line-dried and tumbler-dried clothes :

https://www.reviewed.com/science/how-dryers-destroy-your-clo...
Looks like functional programming sweet spot: data transformation.
PostgreSQL, LLVM, Apache, Nginx, Xorg - all of those are covered by liberal licenses, not copyleft ones.
> A huge unaccounted-for externality.

Not even close to the definition of an externality. Everybody involved in the transaction is there voluntarily.
What propaganda is this?! Why not have a discussion?
I wanted to compile it myself a few months ago... gave up after about 15min of looking. I _know_ I missed some obvious repo/instructions somewhere.
In chapter 2:

> Let us think of x as a quantity that can grow by a small amount so as to become x+dx, where dx is the small increment added by growth. The square of this is x2+2x⋅dx+(dx)^2. The second term is not negligible because it is a first-order quantity; while the third term is of the second order of smallness, being a bit of, a bit of x^2.

It seems to me that the third term is actually a bit of a bit of x, rather than of x^2.
Knowing that unique_ptr has no copy constructor is not a minutuia. It is the whole reason for the type to exist in the first page.
I don't recall the details offhand, but I've used High Sierra on VBox on a Debian host. Just a few VBoxManage tweaks were needed to get it to boot. I don't recall any Apple keys being required.
Yet it was (the company) Opera that first included adblocking by default.
I don't understand the purpose of your reply. You built a straw man which you now attack. I didn't say "data structures don't matter" or whatever else you interpret into my comment. Also read my other reply to another reply.

I understand that it is highly unpopular that some particular knowledge is unnecessary - for every piece of knowledge there are people who feel very strongly about it. I guess that's partly because getting the knowledge was quite an effort, and then psychology kicks in, what was hard to obtain has value by that proxy. Makes it hard to talk rationally and calmly about what is actually needed. That's why questions such as what children or students need to learn are so hard, the discussion always becomes extremely heated, and removing anything from the list can only be done against lots of screaming. So sure, me saying that being able to immediately connect some name and immediately have the respective thing, here some algorithm, available without looking it up is not popular maybe not with everybody, but those who are opposed to what I see feel very strongly about it. Unfortunately that includes interpreting things into what I say/write that is not really there. I mean, obviously, a good and thorough education in algorithm fundamentals is extremely valuable.
I always aimed for (but rarely achieved) a long, slow, stable flight, never had anywhere high enough to test my better attempts. What I'd have given for an empty stadium to test in

https://youtu.be/BV6EP9bBbac
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Bit of a long shot, but I saw a paper within the past six months on the topic of the most common "errors" made by software engineers developing and maintaining distributed systems/systems based on a microservices architecture. I'm fairly certain it was published by or affiliated with Microsoft, and the methodology was they asked a large number of developers what they thought were the most common cause of problems in distributed systems. I remember the top "error" so to speak was a lack of API versioning.

Has anyone else seen this paper and would be able to link to it? I've searched far and wide - I think I first saw it one of IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Queue, or possibly even here on HN.
I find his claim dubitable at best whereas there can be real concerns from Apple's side about possibly counterfeit or ill-gotten merchandise that isn't up to their standards making it into a customer's machine and ending up in a fire or something.

He should really be complaining about Apple not offering service parts from a first party /trusted source.
I bet your work doesn't depend on selling software unless you are using two measures here.
Barcelona's Sagrada Familia agrees to deal over lack of building permit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
The unexpected origins of music's most well-used terms
Software is not only web sites/applications.
In that very same application domain there are pieces of software like the Apache http server. AFAIK the Apache Foundation is founded by donations.
Is httpd a product? They're not selling it and apparently they don't sell data about its users.
Or MPs who think those problems can be solved in 12 years rather than 22.
Data journalism at The Economist gets a home of its own in print
This is touted out so much but switching cars over to EVs would require the grid to be increased less than 50% as EVs use about 30% the energy of a combustion engine. Given that most cars will be charged over night the reality is that it would be less than this.
> Good specifications are often written at a level that generating executable code from them is often undecidable and almost always intractable in practice [...] (which we don't know how to do just yet).

Sure, but I'm talking about this article about decision tables. We don't have to spec the entire program in an executable way. We can just take part of the logic, encode it as a decision table, and declare that this is the spec. Then we read it in to the program and execute it. Nothing intractable about it! (Or if there is, then no self-consistent spec is possible in the first place.)
Did you watch the video? The main argument is about them not offering service parts.
> the Church-Turing thesis is not a theorem and cannot be proven true or false

This is not quite correct: It cannot be proven true. But it could be proven false with a counterexample. The speaker would simply have to point to a concrete algorithm that can be performed by a person with pencil and paper but not by a Turing machine (or vice versa).

I haven't had the time to watch the video, but from the comments here it appears that the speaker did not provide such an example.
With my rant, maybe I should, though the majority of it would be Danish works as I’m Danish.

Until that I can recommend Bill Gates lists, it’s a really great resource for modern international works. Some of the recommendations in gates notes are very humanitarian, but others, like Sapiens, have made it into the book shelf of most cultivated people I know and I only read it because it was recommended in gates notes.
Because you have to read, while social networks are the modern era equivalent of zapping on television

People look at the screen and scroll, they don't even stop for reading the titles
Unique_ptr is such a fundamental type that, if one claims to be a c++ programmer, one has to know it and understand how it works.
Here's a clickable link: https://www.grenadehub.com/

The site design looks great, friendly. Hello from Czechia. :)
He does complain about that in the video. He says Apple won't service these machines or sell him the parts so he can service them.
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Irrelevant.

If Mozilla blocks ads by default, the question isn't what Google would do, the far better question is what will the publishers do.

If big publishers start to block Firefox's User-Agent, it's game over for Firefox. And yes, publishers are increasingly more aggressive in blocking users with ad-blockers installed.

Or did you think that the content producers will simply stand by while their revenue vanishes?

Nope, not going to happen and it will be getting worse, before it gets better. Ad-block users have been ignored only because they were a minority.

Want to bet that they'll try extending the DRM support to the HTML content itself and thus make it illegal to block ads? It's going to be fun.
Comparing Resilience4J with Sentris
Same in a couple of other West European countries I know. Where I lived, middle class apartment blocks explicitly advertised the fact that there is a large room (cellar or attic) to hang clothes (and I am talking about the 1990s and 2000s here, not about 1960).
People starved themselves to death believing a version of that.
Measurement shows the electron is a perfect sphere
I find the irony in more prosaic details like a 2.1MB image [1] to show the new UI of "Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser" (for comparison optimized PNG8 is 351KB [2] and JPEG is 398KB [3]).

[1] https://brave.com/new-brave-browser-release-available-for-ge...

[2] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3129436/47203976-b...

[3] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3129436/47203978-b...
Thanks. In South Africa "waitron" is standard, and I hate it, and most people from outside the country just have a "wut" reaction. "Server" is much better.
it's been widely reported that gmail was a 20% project to start with. That seems inconsistent with this version of events.
From a mathematical point of view probabilistic algorithm simply manipulate probability distributions instead of value.

The output is a random variable.
Agreed, GOV.UK is so underrated. Their service review teams (who give approval) are relentless about user research, accessibility and ultimate effectiveness of the service. They won't allow a service to pass an assessment until it meets these on a very high standard, no matter how 'urgent' or important the project is.

Their commitment to accessibility is also laudable, unlike other commercial organisations who aren't incentivised to service that minority.

Many people complain that GOV.UK "looks boring" but it's brilliantly effective.
Same here. I am a US to UK person as well. Stuff is just so much easier to find and fill out. It was a breath of fresh air, where previously I would dread the thought of trying to use govt websites.
To follow up on this, I actually had a philosophical debate with myself about the following statement: "Anything that can be used for good, can be used for evil."

The point I'm trying to make is that by inventing something "good", you can always use it for "evil" by witholding it from someone. You invent a new medicine to cure cancer? Give it to the highest bidder and leave those who can't pay for it to die, this could be seen as "evil" in my eyes.

I haven't studied philosophy so I'd love some pointers to authors who touch upon this subject or whatever its called.
Without rejecting ads outright (which is IMO a valid position), it's hard to argue against ads based on site content, anonymous user statistics, or terms of the current search.

The most objectionable thing is tracking specific users, which results in a lot of data that can be abused, and further power imbalance of companies and states vs. citizens. The latter clearly does contradict early internet ideals.
I don't think that's accurate. The many worlds interpretation is fundamentally an interpretation of something unobservable; if there were a way for you to observe it (by noticing you haven't been able to sleep) and 'report back' to all/most universes, it wouldn't be an interpretation anymore. (If you did a quantum suicide experiment, you might be able to 'report back' to the subset of universes where you still exist, like in Permutation City. I'm not sure that would actually be a valid demonstration of many worlds – the classical equivalent is just "something unlikely happened", and you can justify that with the anthropic principle. But in any case, that's very different from reporting back to all universes.)

As for the diagram… Even in a classical universe (or just a non-many-worlds one), if you set a mechanism to have a 50% chance of killing you, you should expect to 'find yourself' alive afterwards – in the sense that if you 'find yourself' anything, that anything can only be alive. It's just that you have an equal chance of not having any further conscious experience. That doesn't apply to sleep or even temporary death, since the resulting universe would still be observable by you at some point in the future. Now, even in a classical universe, there is a possible set of values under which participating in a 'suicide lottery' could be rational! That would be, "I fundamentally don't care whether I exist or not, but I do prefer existing while being rich to existing while being poor". The many-worlds interpretation just lets you amend that to: "I don't care whether I exist or not in 'my' future, as long as someone else identical to me exists in an alternate universe." There is no reason you must or should care about someone benefitting in an inaccessible universe just because they're (very) similar to you; but there is also no reason you must not. To whose benefit you strive is an arbitrary choice, after all.
Also how do you control for diversity of bacteria in our guts and variation of metabolism on an individual basis?