skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a non-CS grad, but have been programming almost daily since I was 11 (so about 20 years). I'm more or less self taught and I now run a tech company, with around 50 tech staff, most of them coders.

When I hire someone, I pretty much ignore their degree. Why? Because I've seen CS grads who don't know how to program very well at all, and I've seen English grads that are programming gods.

I think it comes down to passion. If you see programming as just a job, you'll have a hard time self teaching it to yourself. If you see it as a pleasure, an art form, the learning will happen without you even realising it!

Words of wisdom from someone in my team: programming is infinitely more fun when the pressure is off.
Well yes, the degree is purposely inefficient (to extract money) but it is the only game in town due to accreditation that is controlled by the self-interested schools that are already accredited. Basically, you're dealing with a cartel.
I see this as, "What we thought was true actually is, and we still have no real idea why."

The fact that this is a longitudinal study lets us say that not only is heavier use of low calorie sweeteners tied to being fat, it is correlated with getting fatter faster. That's an important point that only longitudinal studies can verify.

However without being able to control people's diet, we don't know which way causation goes. Do low calorie sweeteners cause people to gain weight faster? Or does having a tendency towards gaining weight cause people to use low calorie sweeteners? And if it is a cause, why that would be.
Yes. Note the “particularly associated” with but lack of extermination as a requirement in the definition. The word in neither definition is limited to those cases, and concentration camp has been used to describe situations post 1945 that are unrelated to genocide.

The debate on the word is also well known, from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment:

> As a result, some[who?] say that today the term "concentration camp" may be conflated with the concept of "extermination camp" and historians debate whether the term "concentration camp" or "internment camp" should be used in order to describe other examples of civilian internment, such as the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II,[4] the Australian government's immigrant detention facilities,[25][26] and South Korea's detention camps for "undesirables" in the 1970s and 1980s.[27]
Yes. The failure to even mention, much less account for the selection bias that may come in to play here means the correlation may be used to recommend precisely the opposite of the healthy choice.
Played so many of these titles, in particular Dune 2, and Eye of the Beholder 2 (vastly preferred this to the original) but also recall Hillsfar and of course later C&C. Hillsfar was sort of like Witcher 3 for 286.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

This was a gem. Really makes you appreciate not having to work on such a codebase.
It's okay, Slack sucks too.
Both of you are mad as badgers. I'd love to buy you a beer.
I do think that building in checks and delays can help stabilize government, but I am somewhat concerned by how to keep it up to date with the rapidly changing world. We're still trying to figure out how to regulate the internet and that's been around for ~30 years.
Hello - I created the site. I would encourage you to take a look at the 'links' section which is something you probably have not seen before. It aggregates and comment urls and ranks by count for a variety of sites - including XKCD!:

https://hntrending.com/links/all/xkcd/index.html

You can view summaries of Wikipedia articles or abstracts of arXiv papers on the site as well.

I hope you find it useful!
Almost done with this one last game of Civilization V mom.
I guess I just don't get too hung up about what people believe. For instance, if Southerners want to believe the Civil War was about state's rights and preventing Northerners from coming south to turn the family farms into factories, they should be free to have that perspective. (From my perspective it's asinine, but I mean whatever. I'm sure they believe my perspective on slavery to be asinine.) Point is, they aren't obligated to discuss their perspective, or entertain other perspectives if they don't wish to do so. That's what the freedom of thought is about, none of us are obliged to listen to any other of us as a matter of course.

If you want to discuss your perspectives on life with other people that's fine. (Actually I think it's admirable even.) There just shouldn't be the expectation that anyone else has to sit down and discuss their perspectives on life with you.

Other than that though, I think we're in agreement. Different people can have different perspectives that become subjective realities, but are usually not even close to being objective realities. People have the freedom to discuss, or ignore, other perspectives at their sole discretion. Thereby fulfilling the promise, and conveying to us the benefits, of freedom of thought.
I think you have that backwards. Physics doesn’t arise from mathematics; reality just is and the math describes it. The universe is expanding, and the cosmological constant simply describes this relationship between space and the matter inhabiting it.
First contact Google and let them know they violate your privacy and GDRP via this form: https://support.google.com/policies/contact/general_privacy_.... When they refuse to change anything, make complaint to your national authorities: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item....
top general news site: nytimes.com

top multi blog site: medium.com

top tech news site: techcrunch.com

top social media site:twitter.com

top journal site: arxiv.org

top cloud provider site: aws.amazon.com

top for-profit company tech blog: blog.cloudfare.com

top personal blog: drewdevault.com

top disregard of users' data site: www.facebook.com
I remember seeing an article maybe a couple of months ago that turned up a possible cause / mechanism that operates via the liver, IIRC. If I read it correctly, this paper reports only a small average effect, just a small fraction of the difference between obesity and normal weight. But that is just an average effect, it might be that the artificial sweeteners have no effect on most but a large effect on a few.
That is true, the time and space axis gets flipped at the event horizon. This also happens to a fast moving objects due to relativistic effects, although the roatation is usually not very high unless you go really fast. Seehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_diagram

However that doesn't mean you can't move when you cross the event horizon. You can do that like usual (except for gravity pulling you inside. You can. It only means outside observer won't be able to see what you're doing, because of the time dilation (and the event horizon of course).

This kinda implies time and space are the same thing, it just depends on your point of view. Still have to see about that :D
About to have my TN Visa interview next week. Any tips or recommendations?
I once wrote a batch file virus... it was mostly a proof of concept because the only programming documentation I had access to was an MSDOS 5 manual. It was a great manual!
Biometrics are the future equivalent of using the same password everywhere.
> I think we're all in agreement that if the KKK signed up and wanted to use our software to organize clan rallies we would not be willing to foster hate speech.

I think you might actually have a problem with that one, too, unless you have a policy in place that defines hate speech and that it's not allowed on your platform. Even the KKK has freedom of speech, and there isn't an actual law about "hate speech,"[2] and the ACLU routinely goes to bat for the KKK and Nazis to protect their freedom of speech, as well as yours and mine, even though we might not agree with everyone's speech[1].

> The United States does not have hate speech laws, since American courts have repeatedly ruled that laws criminalizing hate speech violate the guarantee to freedom of speech contained in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[8] There are several categories of speech that are not protected by the First Amendment, such as speech that calls for imminent violence upon a person or group. However, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that hate speech is not one of these categories.[92][not in citation given] Court rulings often must be reexamined to ensure the U.S. Constitution is being upheld in the ruling on whether or not the words count as a violation[2]

There were actually 2 cases about bakers refusing to sell their services to people based on sexual orientation, with 2 different outcomes because the reasons were different. In one case, they had a stated policy against derogatory language/images

> In the first case, the baker refused service to a customer who wanted her to bake a cake with anti-gay Bible verses on it. The customer argued that he was discriminated against because of his religious beliefs. But the court ruled that this was not discrimination because the baker had a consistent policy of refusing to create cakes that used derogatory language or imagery.[3a]

> In the second case, a baker refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, saying that it violated his religious beliefs. The court held the baker liable, saying that his reason was just a pretext for discriminating against gays.[3b]

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression-aclu-position-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States

[3] https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/the-right-to-refuse-servi...
You mean tautology?
Why do closures suck? What are they missing?
Could you elaborate on the privacy regulation that is gaining traction in Canada?
Middle Kingdom.... are you joking? That might be true 1000 years ago, but now everyone knows West is good. Going abroad was the dream of the entire 70-80 generation and so their children.
Grew up with an outdoor cat in a suburb with backyard. Would let her in when she wanted and out when she wanted.

She would occasionally follow us on a walk without any invitation or leash. We were a little surprised "Do cats do that?" I think first time we tried to shoo her back but then we realized it was fine and just let her come with us.

Worst that happened was one time a dog scared her up into a tree but she came down eventually.

A neighboring family were not so lucky. Theirs kept getting run over by cars (Not because of walks just because of being outside).
???

Are you implying that Europeans can't see through propaganda? That, somehow, only Americans have this gift?
Can't help but feel a bit of vindication/validation after reading this.

I've commented on the declining quality of Apple hardware and software, and switching to Windows 10 + WSL, several times on other posts.

Like OP, this isn't a perfect experience. It felt like it was a very balanced treatment of the issues.

There are still issues, for sure... but it's definitely passable, and improving. (At least for me.)

As far as the slow I/O performance, I believe the heart of this is Windows Defender live scanning the FS where each WSL environment resides. If you exclude those in Defender, you see a significant increase in I/O performance.

Side note: I wonder if Apple is observing this trend at all, and/or if they even care? They give lip service to the idea that they care about the Mac still... but the experience is still lackluster.
Also because they are trying to estabilish monopoly. Amazon's long term plan is to kill every other big retailer.
headline is 2026, body says 2050.

> After 2050, there may still be some gasoline and diesel models

There will still be plenty. My own estimate is that if electric (battery) cars are still a thing in 2050, it will be 50% that and 50% ICE. But more likely, again just IMHO as an interested but non-expert party, if h2 generation is "solved" sufficiently well by then, it will be 50-75% H2 fuel cell and 25% ICE.

The plan to deliver H2 instead of natural gas to homes by 2032 by Northern Gas is an example of how the H2 infrastructure can take over.
Maybe after he becomes a billionaire, Stewart can finally retire and actually release a game.
Brain-eating amoebas kill Seattlite. Doctors fear global warming increases risk
It was much more ironic than it was rude, because yes I was referring to the video, as you would surely know because you also watched it... right?

Anyway, I can understand the supposition that GPUs are good for audio processing because they have oodles of processing power and memory bandwidth, however this will hurt latency because there's at least one extra bus hop (assuming the GPU can DMA to the sound card, which I doubt, and if not it's two extra hops!) and it's not like modern multicore CPUs lack throughput for audio purposes.

tl;dr They claim some latency advantage and then use GPU acceleration as an example; as someone doing lots of GPU coding I find that contradictory because of the extra bus transfers.
The fact that the drink-giver's fingers are on the subject's head gives it away. No way his squad mate is pointing his gun anywhere near his colleague's fingers.
It’s called Instagram.
The electroweak force is most certainly not easier to describe than electromagnetism and the weak force separately. But we still talk about electroweak interaction as being a simpler theory than two separate fundamental forces, because it reduces the number of things that are needed to describe the universe, even with added computational difficulty.
People still do that but it’s generally not a good idea for many reasons. Feral hogs destroy crops, are dangerous to people, and eat foods that native species rely on to survive. In colonial times, it made a lot of sense to do that, but not so much now.

https://mdc.mo.gov/wildlife/nuisance-problem-species/invasiv...
Blackout – Solidarity in Opposing the Australian Assistance and Access Bill
Open source CMS for schools?
Hello everyone, I am wondering what options there are as far as open source CMS for schools that people who are less tech savvy could use pretty easily. We used to use something called Julio (A drupal distribution) which I had to update what I could since it was no longer being updated.

https://www.drupal.org/project/julio

I really liked the school focused options it had. Thats kind of what we are looking for.

I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to post this.
Exactly. And the reality is if you don't take their money, a competitor will.
I recently encountered code (at work no less) that overloaded the == operator.

a.) It was not a const overload.
b.) Inside said overload, it modified FOUR member variables.
c.) The 'new' keyword was used twice inside said == overload.
d.) I learned when gdb fails, to grep the codebase for the 'operator' keyword.

I am not a fan of operator overloading. If the SW enginner in question had instead written a equals(<type> rhs) function, I'd have saved myself a lot of headache.
Side Note: Isn’t it just dandy that Google security researchers are the ones finding all the PhD level zero days now a days? Like I’m sure they never use them before reporting them...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18632847
> My guess is that the platform creators tend to put a lot of money into look and feel for their native components. This is hard to match for a small open source project (or anyone, really).

I wonder whether the problem for cross-platform GUI can be solved by brute force. Swing had a terrible reputation for being slow and ugly, yet today I find Intellij (which is based on Swing) fast and good looking.
> here's a local support network for the hardware which is decent and doesn't involve me shipping it off to some third party and losing it for 2 weeks.

Small heads up, every serious hardware issue I've had with MacBook Pros involved them being shipped to a third party for a couple weeks. Sure, they might try a thing or two in the Apple Stores, but then it's shipped off. YMMV
I respectfully suggest you examine the onset of the Eemian, the last interglacial period, about 130k years ago. Global temperature abruptly rose by more than 5 degrees Celsius in just a few centuries. That was not the most sudden warming we know of, and its speed was not a tiny fraction of the current warming speed.
The recent Spectrum acquisition may eventually serve a similar purpose: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18570598
Yes, this shows how hard science can be. Studies have shown both that people who consume artificial sweeteners tend to gain a little weight (like this study) and that people who lose a lot of weight tend to be above-average consumers of artificial sweeteners. Best hope is that chemistry can untangle the mess.
Unfortunately you don't always have the choice of keeping politics out. Activists that discover you are doing business with a company or group they disapprove of can publicize this fact, organize boycotts against you, harass your other customers, bully your employees and do everything in their power to make you go out of business if you don't cut ties with the customer which they disapprove.
This. Bulldozer was (ironically) AMD's Netburst moment. They made a speculative play ("modules" in the case of Bulldozer, long pipelines in the case of Netburst) to chase high core counts/clock speeds (respectively) and the technology didn't end up panning out like they expected on top of performing worse out-of-the-gate than the architectures they were meant to succeed.

The difference is that Intel had the cash and political clout to wait out Netburst and force the market to take it while Bulldozer nearly killed AMD (which only held on thanks to its GPU division, itself now in crisis due to lack of competitive products due to under-investment).
This seems like a question that should be asked on Reddit.
They aren't literally doing "GPU acceleration," though. The GPU is a possible target for the language, but not an ideal one. Their prototype is compile-to-WASM, which is by itself a good move as a portability concept. A fully audio-focused processing unit, which is what they are really gunning for, would contain a different instruction architecture from either CPU or GPU to reflect the need for a mix of state machine style activity(envelope triggers, voice allocation, etc.) with parallel number crunching for the DSP math.

The end result of this would function like existing hardware modules and software plugins: it's assumed to be always running, and the host(sequencer, keyboard, etc.) sends it messages to trigger audio events. The latency you are discussing is messaging and control rate latency, a problem the audio world has considered mostly-solved and production grade(minus a few scaling and edge-case warts) since the invention of MIDI in the 1980's. This would not present more or less control latency than existing options. Audio output would otherwise be desynchronized from the CPU, making the low round-trip latencies described feasible.
Why would power steering work differently?
For a company with infinite headcount (any of FAANG), it does mean you were rejected though.
You nailed it. If the HSR was viewed as a SF and LA to Central Valley connection, it would have been much easier to implement. Also, they could have taken a typical MVP style product launch and only completed a small section such as between Gilroy and SF to have a proof of concept. There is a good product lession here of taking on too much scope and then dealing with inevitable scope creep
Well, the negative consensus is disappointing, but the criticisms are absolutely massive.
The abundance of Twitter picking people up after rejections is really odd to say the least.
Why do you say Tesla is not reliable. Its been 9 months no issues yet
I can't help being reminded of Astral Projection:

The spice extends life, the spice expands consciousness.
The spice is vital to space travel.
Travel without moving.

Dune & the Spice surely made their impact on pop culture.
(Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with the details of HIV in particular.)

Given that a particular person shall catch a terminal contagion of some sort, is it not preferable that he die to it sooner than later, so as to reduce the number of other people to whom he spreads his infection?
The internet war on sex is here
> well, if my local factory can dump toxic waste in the river, why can't I?

Yes, that can be one interpretation, but only with intended irony, not literally.

But suppose you're saying it literally; you wouldn't because you're living there. And also because regulations will never allow you to, because your local company has your politicians in their pockets and they effectively get a free pass in the form of bills thanks to ~~legitimized bribing~~ lobbying while you'll just be sent to prison. Which is a part of the irony I was trying to point out.

> My ultimate goal is to keep the river clean, not to make things fair.

It's very easy to say such things. Words are cheap. How exactly were you going to keep the river clean toward your ultimate goal, again? By offering your stashed billions on the moon as counter-lobby during next elections? Are you also going give us World Peace and unicorns while you're at it? Or assuming you also know how unrealistic you actually sound, would you just be content by opposing the dissent in favor of the status quo by pretending to take the moral high ground?
And they sucked.
Read this as a firewall for humans. Am disappointed
I'd love to read a source for that if you can find one. What did they confuse? 霸 and what?
To be pedantic, it's not that they are the same thing, but that they are intrinsically tied together: Time begins at the moment of first inflation.
Better than having to go to Privacy Mode (which can feel a little creepy with the spy icon and even just the name), it would be easy for Google to make a clear On/Off toggle for personalized vs raw results.

For the sake of education and not being evil (or "doing the right thing"), it would be nice to be able to view results from other typical profiles' points of view.
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> Like I’m sure they never use them before reporting them...

That would be highly illegal. And while Google has been accused of various things over the years, like the Wi-Fi sniffing thing, actively exploiting someone else’s system would be on another level entirely. Of course, the same smarts that make complex exploits achievable can also make them harder to detect – but only to a point. It’s almost impossible to bring the risk to zero.
Gutenberg Rocks!!
Here is our compiled version of Nginx... if you want to take a look! (or compile it yourself)

https://github.com/wasmerio/nginx/blob/master/objs/nginx.was...
If you own a car in NYC, you have a toy, not a necessary transportation device. I would think NYC would be a step ahead of everyone else in this regard. ie - I would think they would be actively discouraging use of motor vehicles at all. Especially ICE vehicles.

I think of NYC as being more like Paris in that regard than Houston or Minneapolis. If you want to own any car in the future, I think living in NYC is not the place for you. I really do believe they are out to reduce the number of cars in NYC. (Or more precisely, I believe they are out to reduce the number of personally owned vehicles.) So it's not surprising to me that you don't see this sort of infrastructure in NYC.
The Strength Through Joy Car aka the VW Beetle
Totally unscientific theory: sweeteners are to sugar what methadone is to heroin. If you're using them, you're still craving/addicted to sugar and your palate remains out of whack, so you're probably also drawn to sugary foods that don't use sweeteners (eg. most commercial pasta sauce, ketchup, fruit juice, many breads).
Nice question. Hope Peter answers.
In what way do you think you have an obligation to provide the service? Don't business with don't like. But WTF KKK? details and we'll, um. help/
Webex Teams includes what used to be called Cisco Spark. Spark is a Slack clone.