skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link wasn’t copiable for me without grabbing it from the address bar.

Is it possible to record and capture the video?
Isn't it weird that someone else controls this. It seems like a website removing itself from your bookmarks.

Maybe twitter could instead work on not being a terrible way to communicate coherent thoughts to each other instead.
Historically, Fusion has been bad at predicting when it's going to be ready for prime time, that plus very early fusion experiments turned out to be a lot of duds. Just think of the Cold Fusion hype (on a side note; cold fusion does work, µCF replaces electrons with muons in the hydrogen atom which reduces the radius of the atomic nucleus such that fusion becomes possible at room temperature and far below but generating the necessary muons is a fools game) and the various other nuclear fusion failures.

Fission on the other hand could report a lot of results and success and, at the time, seemed to be infallibly safe.
You can have a law that only affects algorithms used by the state in education,medicine, police and justice, this algorithms should be fully open or at least properly checked to be correct. Also the people using this algorithms need to be trained not to blindly trust the computer, they need to learn the failure cases.
Well, I assert that encryption is a type of arms, and that it's the right of every free man (so, children/prisoners/&c. are excepted) to own, bear & use arms peaceably.

In the U.S., one can make an argument that the Second Amendment protects the right to encryption.

But even if no constitution or law in the world protects a right, it's still a right — just a right without legal recognition.
Anyone know what the 'standard' and state of the art approaches to inference are for fusion?

I.e. going from sensor readings to inference of the plasma state.
To be fair, if you are implementing a feature or fix in Word and think you need to edit the main loop - 99% chance you are wrong and the fix would be better placed elsewhere. And 99% chance that an edit will cause regressions or changes in behaviour elsewhere.
I keep a list of 50+ sites that focus on remote-first (or remote-only) jobs:

https://userinterfacing.com/here-is-the-full-list-of-my-50-r...
Well easy books are difficult for a substantial minority of users.
Computing and craft among the end users
There was a time when basic literacy required a level of expertise that most people didn't have, the answer wasn't to start highly regulating those who do have the expertise, the answer was for people to learn.
>The immense engineering challenge here is to heat plasma to ridiculous temperatures, and keep it confined in a very small volume at great temperature and pressure to mimic conditions that give rise to nuclear fusion in the center of stars.

This is not exactly true. Inertial confinement fusion has conditions that are similar to stars. The engineering challenge for magnetically confined fusion to keep the low density plasma confined for long time durations for fusion.

For anyone interested in further reading, look up the Lawson Criterion.
If you are referring to the return when he was facing championship point, then that is indeed noteworthy. The spirit he displayed there made me a fan of his and to this day, I admire the cool-headedness and the resilience he displays.
The book contains more then the private personal data topic that we discuss here, a topic mentioned that I never seen here on HN is the algorithms used in justice.
> NYTimes writes, “Unlike...”

While the New York Times Co. did indeed purchase The Wirecutter/The Sweethome, there’s no reason to start attributing Wirecutter reviews to the parent company.

This is especially true in the settings of reviews, since the NYT performs its own reviews.
I would love to get hired into a job that easy.
You're right, the degree was removed in 1967, because Kelvin's units are considered absolute. However, one could argue that, since it has a scale, each "step" or "unit" can be considered a "degree", like in a literal scale. In informal conversation, we should not be so pedantic. Even some modern scientific textbooks still include the degree.
Generally I want to agree with you, but there is also research going the other way...

https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/health-and-environmental-ef...
Firefox has really been appealing to me lately. Unfortunately, on my MacBook Pro, Safari is more energy efficient and it's not even close. If Firefox could close the gap there a bit I would make the switch.
I had some "Easy Peeler" mandarins yesterday and, without any arthritis, they were much more effort than removing a plastic wrapper would have been.

I can't even begin to imagine how hard it would be if I had crippling arthritis in my hands.
Programming as expression
... it all "worked great". Wow, what a mess.
Or similarly toxic chloramine gas, when combined with cleaning agents containing ammonia, such as Mr. Clean.
Image Smoothing via Unsupervised Learning
Image smoothing represents a fundamental component of many disparate computer vision and graphics applications. In this paper, we present a unified unsupervised (label-free) learning framework that facilitates generating flexible and high-quality smoothing effects by directly learning from data using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The heart of the design is the training signal as a novel energy function that includes an edge-preserving regularizer which helps maintain important yet potentially vulnerable image structures, and a spatially-adaptive Lp flattening criterion which imposes different forms of regularization onto different image regions for better smoothing quality. We implement a diverse set of image smoothing solutions employing the unified framework targeting various applications such as, image abstraction, pencil sketching, detail enhancement, texture removal and content-aware image manipulation, and obtain results comparable with or better than previous methods. Moreover, our method is extremely fast with a modern GPU (e.g, 200 fps for 1280x720 images). Our codes and model are released in github, https://github.com/fqnchina/ImageSmoothing.
if someone is using a package-manager that uses code signing then indeed, the binary is harder to attack than the JS. (only because the package-manager would need to collude).

However, a lot of people get their software from downloaded .exe's or auto-upgrading installations. For them, JS or binary are equally vulnerable. (All it takes is a mozilla signature)

Besides, it is undeniably better to only be vulnerable to an active attack from mozzila, than to be vulnerable against a passive attack from them.
Latest Discovery Has Revealed How Egyptian Pyramids Were Built
HyperMinHash: Bringing intersections to HyperLogLog
If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, PE funds would love for you to believe it doesn't make a sound! That said, besides the lack of real time mark to market reporting and thus lack of measurable volatility, perhaps there is some value in long term investing that's forced by the lock up period?
But companies tried as much as possible to work around GDPR, using stupid tactics like popups with the option to not allow data collection hidden on hard to reach settings page.
I'm happy I studied EE to work in Software/System Engineering. I always found it more helpful to think in terms of complex systems.
Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones in biometric systems
The Jacquard loom is what started [1] the punched card era. Check out this episode [2] of the podcast 99 Percent Invisible for an accessible explanation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom

[2] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/kids-clothes-articles...
Since I don't see any comments mentioning this, I've heard a lot of talk about skepticism on other forums regarded Chinese scientific breakthroughs. I know on the state level, their numbers are not considered reliable (economic data for instance). Does anyone have thoughts on the reliability of this?
In general, I test those things that relate to the application, not those about the implementation.

i.e. Test business logic edge-cases, don't test a linked-list implementation... that's just locking your design in.
Economic Development
> The best way to write to convey meaning is to be as absolutely clear as possible

Agreed. Clear and concise writing hard, and takes time. The writer needs to revise, revise, and revise again.

There is a great anecdote in "On Writing Well" where the author remembers taking students first drafts and telling them to cut them in half.
I agree with the principal that encryption should be a human right, and I agree that I can construct thought experiments that "prove", or more correctly, show sound reasoning for, the principal. However, nation-states do not run off of principals. They run off of enough people agreeing on something that they get to decide what is right.
I agree in principle - but the hypothetical was about someone who was (presumably measurably) worth twice as much as other employees.

I agree that it's difficult to measure productivity / output - but it's by no means impossible - and sharp discrepancies in productivity between employees are often highly noticeable anyway.
> Self driving cars are totally the wrong direction we should be going in, and it's going to cost the US more in the long run

This goes against the research I’ve seen, which suggests a self-driving fleet can more-efficiently transport a dispersed population like America’s than rail. (For the relevant distances.)

Also, anecdote: after Uber, I use the subway and regional rail system more. It solves the last-mike and “should I rent a car” problems.
That won't prevent the higher version from breaking your application.
I just paint it like this:

If you made a teleportation system where you could step in and come out the other end anywhere in the world, but there is a 1 in 1000 chance you step in and turn to green goo on the other end, should we still adopt it?

You basically save millions of lives, but people have seem to come to the notion that they protect their own fate when in a car (which is 100% untrue). You may be able to mitigate some accidents, but getting T-boned at an intersection when you have a green light, but no visibility, is possible every single day. Your wheel bearing could blow out on the highway and send you rolling into a ditch. A deer could step out in front of you and go through your windshield and kill you. You have no ability to save yourself other than praying.
As far as scaling Heroku, it's usually the cost that will limit you, rather than the number of Dynos. Some alternatives, arguably cheaper:

- Dokku: a Docker-based Heroku clone, self-hosted (cheap!), compatible with Heroku build-packs, easy migration.

- Firebase: Google's answer to an all in one deployment solution, scales really well, fairly cheap too.

My view is; Heroku is a great option it's probably the fastest development cycle you could possible get. Instead of preempting scaling problems, stick with what you have, then migrate slowly to something bigger IF it becomes an issue.
Don’t some still balk at an open ended contract though? They have budgets etc that limit what they can spend.
This reminds me of the book "The Power of Now", which try to combine teachings of many religions, and basically says that you gotta "feel your presence now, without thinking" to fully connect yourself with the world. The author even mentions Descartes' famous quote.
What if the discrediting of Chinese data was a type of state propaganda on America's side?
How do you interpret the derivative of that? It's now log(2)*2^A.

What does "log(2)" mean as a type here? Do you expand it back out as a taylor series like in the circular list example?
If you somehow manage to include bitcoins, industry 4.0 and machine learning into that then you'd also get a heap of VC money for the start!
Early soviet 60s story is hardly reflection on current trend in schools.

I think that this sort of thing happen because it is hard to impossible to determine future development of child. Misjudging happen to both future winners and future losers. Same kid is often judged differently by different adults and same kid can perform differently one year then the other. Same adult can have bad day and badly judge kid or simply badly judge most of them.

Being told that you are bad by authority sux and you will remember it. And for winners it is good anecdote to tell later on, when they know it turned up false.
China's Industrial Revolution: Past, Present, Future
> Barely half of US fighter planes are combat ready at any given moment. The trillion dollar F-35 had to be flown with VFR the first time it crossed the IDL. Who knows what else is lurking in that software?

The US Air Force simply doesn't use it's full fleet at any given moment:

"For example, in 1969, 523 USAF fighter
aircraft were deployed to Vietnam or Thailand, only 14 percent of the 3,838 fighters in the USAF
inventory that year." [1]

1. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/..., p.20
Yes, but that leaves you with 2 passwords and isn't default.

The advantage here is twofold.
- Your encryption key is derived from your single Firefox password, rather than having 2 passwords.
- The ease of use of this system makes it possible to have e2e encryption by default rather than by opt-in.
> Cooking is hard, requires a lot of hardware to do

I think this is completely false and it's unfortunate that people have this perception of cooking. Yes, it's true that if you want to be able to cook all the sorts of food you're used to having delivered, a lot of skill and hardware is probably required. However, you can cook a lot of great, tasty meals with a single pot and pan and a few inexpensive utensils and limited skill required. I think some of the biggest challenges to more people cooking at home is that it will always take more time than ordering.
Lessons Learned in Migrating from Swing to JavaFX
Wouldn't this mean that measures to protect your data from other adversaries (criminals or competitors) would be illegal as well? Unless, of course, "intent" is determined solely by the fact that I am or am not a criminal. But in an age of overcriminalization, where you can indict a ham sandwich if you need to, anyone could be considered a criminal if the government takes enough of an interest in your activities. This would mean that everyone who takes reasonable security precautions is at risk of stacked charges for "destruction of evidence"! Not a great situation to be in for journalists and dissidents.
Releasing a tool cannot be hypocritical. The existence of a tool to audit performance, accessibility, etc. is not a declaration of Google's moral or virtuous superiority. It's a tool.
Data Structure and Algorithms Interview Questions for Programmers
I'm a long time Firefox user and I haven't noticed a difference in battery usage. I have a MacBook Pro and I've got other things that drain my battery of course, like the Scala or Haskell compilers :-)

That said Mozilla is apparently working on it and to improve energy efficiency, try setting gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true in about:config.

Courtesy of @pcwalton: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18048844
Forget adding extra salt because of poor quality ingredients, restaurants almost always add significantly more salt and fat than you would be comfortable doing yourself at home.
I'd be surprised if more than 10% of the population actually ever owned an external drive... (excepting diskettes)
Bingo. The reality is many people have no idea how to interview, so they fall back on the only thing they know: test taking in school, and studying for the test.

You don't want to just ask them to tick boxes, because first off some'll lie to you, and second, the dunning-kruger cases will lie to themselves. Can they communicate? Can they solve unseen problems? Can they do so comprehensively and rigorously? Do they know how to maintain a project for many years?

An interview method that can't tell the passionate hackers from the posers and pencil pushers is worthless.
Indeed. Nobody’s going to be confused by “degrees Kelvin.”
Show HN: An experimental Github/trending User Interface
Man pleads guilty to swatting attack that led to death of Kansas man
I little bit of background info:

I made this OAuth middleware for NodeJS a few years ago, but it can also act as an OAuth proxy, meaning that you can deploy the NodeJS app on your server and access it from another server written in any programming language.

Here is the example app: https://grant.outofindex.com/
Sorry, I meant gooder.
Great snapshot for the turn of millenium. Thanks for posting and triggering the trip down memory lane.
Especially nostalgic for me personally as I was in the midst of coding early Windows and OS/2 kernel mode device drivers for scientific instruments, not to mention having written my own multi-tasking RTOS for the 186, at the peak of my career at that time. I remember most of these books, and had dog-eared copies of a few of them (particularly Baker's Device Driver book.) The only other book on Operating Systems that I see missing from this list, and probably would have included at the time, would be Donovan's.
They have an open bug to change the number of iterations. Also, there are more rounds server side, so at least the values in a database are pretty safe in case of a leak.
>Not enough apparently

Can you expand?
Those are Manhattan prices. If you travel more than 10 minutes outside Manhattan the rent drops. This normally means long commutes, but with the new HQ in queens, workers could commute from the cheaper parts of queens.
Yep, quite the burgeoning tech scene in Phoenix as well. Compared to California it's quite affordable if one can put up with four months of pretty extreme heat per year.
Isn't that a stronger argument? The reason you aren't allowed to hunt unicorns is that they don't exist, not that they are sentient creatures.
So happy to see this live! I've always wanted a resource like this to show clients how specific functions would work, without fully having to mock it up myself. Thanks Maitrik!
My spouse started a bootcamp last year and I've helped her with many algorithm assignments. Even though I have a CS bachelor degree I still struggled with a lot of the algorithms exercises out there. It requires practice and there are actually a lot of subtleties that you don't experience while working on software projects.

A lot has to to with mathematics as well. You can work on projects with hundreds of thousands of dollars and face zero mathematical problems.

I spend a lot of time, dozens and dozens of hours, helping her with these algorithms on paper, whiteboard and writing them in code. I also struggled along with her through online algorithm and coding interview platforms like Hackerrank. Solving these algorithm is difficult and often ridiculously theoretical and out of touch with the daily routine of a software/web developer.

My spouse was very worried about not being able to solve these problems. She was scared that she will have to solve these things during the internship, but of course there are no mathematical algorithms to solve when you are working as a frontend developer.

I think the trend of mathematics during development courses and theoretical algorithm exercises during interviews are not doing us any good. Most companies are not Google and you can be a very valuable developer for 99% of the companies out there without being a whiteboard algorithm expert.
Hi all! this is an experimental Github trending UI that records the permanence of repositories and developers on trending chart and their relative gain / loss positions.

The frontend is based on zircleUI, which is a frontend library to develop zoomable UIs I created a year ago, while the backend is powered by the awesome work of Hu Chen (https://github.com/huchenme/github-trending-api)

There are a lot of cool projects based on Github Trending (you can find some of them at https://libraries.io/search?q=github+trending), this proposal is just a conceptual approach.

Here is the repo https://github.com/zircleUI/github-trending-plus
I am working on a Datomic clone, watch this https://github.com/amirouche/asyncio-foundationdb
Staffing levels are used to calculate the star rating of a nursing home. States have required staffing ratios, for both nurses and CNA.

What I recommend is to look up the facility star rating and the last couple yearly AHCA survey results for the nursing home. You can also check to see if they have had any complaint surveys recently and what the outcomes of those were.

>Nurses are overworked in these places, and the owners of nursing homes make money only by hiring not enough nurses.

As above, there are staffing level requirements.

>I know of a nurse, who used to not take readings, but filled them out based on yesterday readings. This, because she had so much work to do on her own.

She could lose her license for this, and blaming someone else won't save it. Nurses are in incredibly high demand and she should go work somewhere else. Let me know if she needs a job and what state she's located in (and what license? RN, LPN?). We hire hundreds of nurses per year.
Is it really any wierder than gaming (almost) exclusively targeting men? There's some data here on what kind of numbers we are talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Genre_pr...
Of course he would say this.

Att is one of/ if not the biggest beneficiary from these laws.

For a party that claims to be about small government and states rights the conservatives certainly seem to have a moral relativism about enforcing regulation where their big money donors are concerned.
And what is the case for home cooking over delivery food

The big one is that I know what's in it and can select/exclude ingredients based on my own criteria. Another big plus is that I can tweak the flavors to match my preferences.
Anecdotally, ketamine has changed my life. I found a low cost clinic run by psychiatrists and get injections once a month. I don’t even care if it’s placebo effect, I’m better than I’ve been in 8 years of pharmacy-psycho therapy.
Having to learn cooking skills is definitely a factor (some say it should be taught at school) but speaking only for myself I actually know how to cook half-decently, I have the hardware and I'm in the same boat as the parent: I order and/or take away most meals during the week. It's not a lot more expensive that cooking yourself and it's a lot quicker and more convenient. When I get home from a day's work I often can't be bothered to spend even 30 minutes cooking and cleaning. Now I mainly cook on weekends when I have the time to do things right and I can actually enjoy it.

I too wonder if overall it's a bad habit (socially and environmentally) that I should try to change or if it's just a reasonable and efficient way to get food in the 21st century.
There isn’t a hard limit. But as you get farther away from the amount of energy that would be “enough” without tunneling, the probability of tunneling falls off exponentially.
Immigration hasn’t kept up either, so how can it be the driver?
No, he left before I was hired as a consultant. I had never get chance to talk to him in any form. I am the single person who ever touched the source code for past 10 years. I don't know why he left or where he went.
I’m reminded of Rogue’s Beard Beer[0], which was made with yeast cultured from a brewer’s beard.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Beard_Beer