skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, when I started out, I remember once seeing an advert for a GCHQ job.

The salary was a tad more than half the starting salary in the private sector, working for an ethically neutral company.

(It'd probably be 25-33% or less of the salary of a Google or Facebook).

I imagine the case is similar in the US and that it's just like finance vs. the regulators.

Except in technology it's way worse because of the trust issues. Working for a financial regulatory body isn't evil, just boring.
Wash Trading: How Crypto Exchanges Are Faking 67% of Trade Volume
The irony of the articles website asking to turn off adblocker :)

I'm not sure what a non ad supported web would look like.

I'm fairly sure my local newspapers would collapse. They are drastically shrinking already. Seems hard to make a buck in journalism these days.

we also hate "paywalls", we expect everything available for free and, the more tech savvy, are more than happy to block the ads with adblockers.

While I agree that the web is warped by ads, and it's getting absolutely nuts what can be tracked about people.... What are viable models? Do we try and regulate this and see what happens? Nothing sounds too promising, other than trying to regulate advertising itself ( which also feels like a crappy tool for the problem )
I mean, who wouldn't have trouble saving after Eliminating the Stock Market and perhaps "all the manifestations of capitalism"? Because isn't that what capitalism is all about? Saving, and accumulating some capital, some seed corn, so that you don't have to live hand-to-mouth?
With your background you are unlikely to get a research job in bioinformatics. Think of it this way. A MSc program is at least 1 year long. The course you took is 5 weeks.

You are more likely to find a support position, writing software for a bioinformatics group.

Pay is typically lower. As you point out, most people hiring are at universities. Further (and my experience is out of date so it might have changed), in general programmers are typically better paid than researchers. In science-oriented companies, the decision makers are often people with a science background, often PhD, so often 6+ years of graduate school.

It can be hard for them to accept that someone with a BS + 2 years of work experience has a market value higher than a newly minted PhD.

I haven't done bioinformatics for a long time, and I never did much in the first place. My experience was that the typical problem solving is "parse the output of program X so the output can be fed into program Y". This was back in the days when Perl was the main programming language in bioinformatics.
Having the power to order instructions introduces the possibility of having bugs that have to do with the order of operations.

Getting rid of order gets rid of the bugs. Like how restricting types with type checking gets rid of all type errors.
Using css animation-timing-function!
I don't see how what you personally can't stand has anything to do with there being nothing wrong with it existing. It's like me saying I very much disagree with a statement saying there's nothing wrong with a beet-supported farm. Maybe there is something wrong with an ad supported web, but a better argument can be made.
When my nephew was 6 months old, I spent a week babysitting him during the days. We did a bunch of things, but the main thing that interested him was learning to put things in his mouth. Especially the bottles I was feeding him with.

He'd try over and over and over. Nipple on cheek. Nipple on chin. Nipple on neck. Drop bottle entirely. Nipple in eye. (Do not want!) And once in a great while, nipple in mouth. Then he'd suck for a while and start over again.

We learn so much that we forget even learning. If he could have talked and he'd asked me how to put something in his mouth, I couldn't really have told him. I just did it.

I think about that a lot when dealing with students, junior programmers, etc. It's so easy for me to think, "How could they not know that?!?" When the real question is how I managed to forget learning.
> The other benefit is that it decouples the vehicle from the energy source

until, you run out of the juice (electricity)
Advertisement is a required feature of a market-based economy, because it (also) informes consumers of the choices available.

Without ads, the chances of breaking into an established market are extremely low.
I would argue that it should scare you. This is targeted towards people who are working in the AI world and are likely not embedded experts. Also, the bigger problem is closed source libraries and drivers that choose not to support arm64.
> Advertising is manipulative and causes people to make bad decisions.

Not all advertising is some evil plot to brainwash the public. At it's core, it's a way to let the public know about your product. In the correct context, it's beneficial to the consumer.

My Grandpa used to subscribe to Hemmings Motor News. It's a magazine that is focused on restoring vintage cars. It has regular ads, and a pretty large classified section. He used that magazine, including the ads, as a resource for vehicle restoration.

Ads selling parts for 1940's Chevy pickup trucks in a section of a magazine specifically catering to that audience make sense. They're beneficial to people in the market for those products.

I agree that web sites or real sites (eg. Times Square) that simply bombard you with anything and everything are awful. But, you can't put all advertising under one umbrella.
Nonetheless even models from the early 2000s have predicted temperature really well. Definitely better than that of any climate change deniers
what a coincidence i was just looking for this and my "brain index" could only retrieve mitmproxy
Yeah, but kids lack the ability to not have every other word be a swear word. And them becoming looked down on for their use of vulgar language isolates them and can become depressing.
Actually, yes! ML algorithms using PennyLane have been run on the IBM Q Experience, using both our Qiskit plugin (https://github.com/carstenblank/pennylane-qiskit) and our ProjectQ plugin (https://github.com/xanaduai/pennylane-projectq).

I can't say much more at the moment, but we should have a few more plugins released in the next few weeks that targets hardware from other QC vendors.

The D-Wave question in an interesting one, though. Unlike the QC hardware available from IBM, Rigetti, Google, etc, which uses a universal circuit model, D-Wave has focused on a particular application - quantum annealing. While our theoretical quantum gradient results only apply to the qubit model, it is an interesting question whether they can be extended to the quantum annealing framework.
That is basically how advertising works. You set the price and people pay to be next to the content. If you don't get the price you want, don't share the content. For people blindly putting a javascript tag on their page for google ads I would agree but you can bet that places like Techmeme and DaringFireball set their price.
I based my decision on liking mountains and the sea, so I live near mountains and the sea. I prefer solitude, I have no friends by choice, and I work online. In my time off I either go to the beach (in the summer) or I go hike mountains.

I like mountains.
I lived for awhile inside Schengen and enjoyed the near total frictionless border crossing, train, air travel etc.

When I later moved back to the UK, I had a faint hope the UK would one day see sense and join Schengen as well, but I am pretty sure that boat has now sailed...
With the rise of ‘cyberwarfare’ as a legitimate concern, how much of this divide do you think could fall into the realm of the 2nd amendment?
Of course there's a fallback. If the fly-by-wire system fails, there's another whole fly-by-wire system ready to take over. Usually this is safer than the old redundant hydraulics systems where all the lines ran close together, making them vulnerable to localized impact damage and fire.
Just a quick note: This article contains many spelling and grammar errors. If you get a friend to read it over for you and point out mistakes, it will greatly improve the readability of your article.
I hate this kind of documentation so much. The kind I hate the very most is the application manual that is constructed by dumping out the menu tree and then have somebody write something about every menu function. 85% of the prose being what any idiot could guess from the words clicked on to get there.

My plea to everybody: user-test your documentation. Give the thing to a novice, have them do tasks, see if they can figure it out. If nobody looks at the docs, great, just throw them out. But if they do look, make sure it is useful to the person who is looking.
I thought about this for a little while, and I think I don't like the API for this library. There are two things in particular I don't like. The first is that I think I would prefer to have helper types for each tag type so you don't have to include them as strings all the time, and the second is that I don't like the AppendChild approach that this library takes.

I would change it so that you pass the document to the constructor of each element and the scoping of each variable effectively determines the relationships. As a 10 second example of what I mean:

HTML::document d;
HTML::body b( d );
HTML::div div( d );
HTML::p p( d );
d.text( "Hello world" );

<html><body><div><p>Hello world</p></div></body></html>

The reason I like this because it maps very well onto a C++ programmers natural understanding of the stack frame and RAII, and in addition it can be implemented with needing to store any state inside the node classes. This means that only HTML::document would need to actually allocate any memory, and it would just be a single text stream.

This wouldn't create a node hierarchy in memory, so it's not a DOM like this library creates, but if you are just looking to output HTML quickly, then I think it would be easier to use and more efficient.
... and also means that they reduce competitor barriers by essentially taking themselves out of the loop; jet can offer “jash” buttons tomorrow with a similar arrangement.
Get a Windows VM that you can RDP/VNC into. Amazon Workspaces could work.

It's going to suck, but you can try it out.
Most executives don’t have the abilities to be an employee.

The main limit to executive entry is having access to an executive vacancy. The short version is that if you are an honest hard working employee that access will never be available to you.
I meant against the Android phones, which are just using a 2D camera for face detection.
I saw an ad in one of those chum boxes[1] yesterday that was a common one, "drivers in [your city] are shocked by this new law." However, I noticed something right away about it that stuck out like a sore thumb - I live in the Northeast, for those who are unfamiliar with the Northeast, we have a lot of trees and greenery here, every year I have to crawl into my bushes and pull trees growing in there and pull trees that start growing in the foundation of my house and along my fence line. However, the picture was of some women being arrested in (what I would consider) a desert.

IDK, just a really weird juxtaposition that stood out to me.

[1] https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
>"Listen: As an adult — and you’re too young to understand this now — all you want is your kids to be happy. That’s what you work for. To give your kids everything in life."

This sentiment is common to all parents across race, culture, and religion. It is one of the things that makes us human. So uplifting to hear how these two very different people connected over that.
I can only speak for Headspace, but there's nothing "instant gratification" about it at all. In fact, stuff like "this is a lifelong practice", "it's a struggle sometimes/at the beginning", "there's a lot to learn abput your mind" are constant refrains.

Of course, you can still be cynical about that and say it's a great way for them to keep you subscribed.

But for me, it's been a good introduction. I've been practicing regularly, I introduced a friend to it, and we have decided to sign up together for a retreat in the spring. So it's not necessarily just mind candy to pad out your credit card bill.
The QNX Neutrino Microkernel (2007)
A lot of Germans feel the same about the Bavarian-German state.
So if I am an executive looking for a big bonus, just let the company run down to the brink of bankruptcy then accept a performance bonus when I miraculously save it?
Clonezilla?
I agree with your statement. 49% of the costs are about cover-your-ass. 49% of the costs are about mass production something that doesn't need mass production.

The rest is the actual cost of the product.
> On the other hand, biometrics is a quite decent username, better for this purpose than some nickname or email address.

Well, biometrics may be better than an a third-party email address in some cases (harder to lose throguht third-party action), but often worse than a first-party email address (e.g., Gmail for a Google account) or a nickname, for the same consideration.
I'll add escaping attributes to the library according to the spec. Thank you for the heads up!
Yeah, I tell people that I treat it like a well-mannered 15-year-old driver - I expect it'll do the right thing, but I'm here to take over in case it finds itself out of its depth.
For devil's advocate testing of this, apply standard addiction/depression comparisons.

- "As an outsider I find the fuzz around heroin amazing....If you don't like heroin just leave and don't be so dramatic about it."

- "As an outsider I find the fuzz around depression amazing....If you feel depressed just get some exercise and don't be so dramatic about it."

- "As an outsider I find the fuzz around sex addiction amazing....If you are addicted just stop having sex and don't be so dramatic about it."

The world is becoming more empathetic to addiction and mental strength - And is, in general, transitioning away from 'stiff upper lip' / policing policy towards nurturing / healthcare.

It's worth considering 'FOMO' (fear of missing out), social anxieties, desperation to belong in society etc... There are many factors like these (genuine mental patterns that people experience) that give credibility to the current narrative of 'social media is addictive and we should help people'.

It therefore seems that one's default stance should be 'I assume there is a genuine problem here that people need help with' rather than 'they must be pathetic, why don't they just quit'.
Don't magnets lose their magnetism with repeated drops?
We already have a lot of nearly-worldwide treaties, so there is something like a common baseline already.
This is just the cyber equivalent of "Shoot someone and you'll go to jail, join the military and shoot someone, get a medal".
You are absolutely correct, this is essentially for meeting GDPR requirements and Switzerland (as far as I can tell) is under the same legal requirements in that regard despite not being in the EEA.

The problem is our customers are not end-users, they have their own policies and a significant number of them have a much more rigid interpretation of GDPR data storage rules which we've been forced to integrate into our own. This is one of the many problems of overreach due to the fear that GDPR creates IMO.
“Just”?

It must be opt-in, not opt-out. The exact use must be properly described. Consent may be revoked at any time, and all copies of data retrieved or deleted by customer request.

It is more likely the apps would drop Vectuary than deal with that.
It seems like most people are deeply cynical now, as in “all politicians are corrupt, anyway”, “journalists are corrupt/incompetent”, etc.

Or, at least, that’s how they justify running every last publisher into the ground for reasons as spacious as “they are intruding on my rights by loading this unnesseray JS library”.

Once all medium-sized papers are gone (i. e. soon) it will probably get worse, then downhill from there, and over the cliff beyond that.

But at least we won’t have to deal with those distracting ads. Or only in the 30 minutes per day that the power is on.
That, and so many of them are trying to turn English into an English-based conlang, with rules English speakers generally don't follow and have never followed, and then they have the utter temerity to get angry when nobody wants to agree with them that splitting infinitives is "wrong" because of some rule they made up out of flatus and nothing.
No ad supported web means a paid web. I am not sure if that is what the users want either. I have seen even in HN where people post alternate links of a site blocked by paywall to let users access the content for free. And this paid channel means every content site (such as Medium, NYT, WSJ, WaPo etc.) will have to institute their own paid mechanism which will cost users a lot of money. Pick your pill - you can't have it both ways.
I’d prefer they stuck to HTML and CSS, with a bit of progressively enhanced JS on top if needed.
Any plans to include an RSS feed?
Yeah, it's certainly not Game of Thrones quality stuff. But that's not what I'm looking for usually. I feel like certain outlets (HBO/Showtime, network television, streaming original content) have specific characteristics to their shows, in more than one way... really hard to put this into words. HBO shows, for example, are usually really well-written, great acting and strong cast, and strong visual design that sets their shows apart from other networks. The critics love them and they become hits, for good reason. Network shows, on the other hand, might not be innovating anywhere on the cinematography side and have a typical, cookiecutter look & feel, but still receive high ratings because they cater to a very mainstream audience. Sort of like your average, cookiecutter rock band that has millions of listeners, but the most picky listeners aren't going to like that band because they sound so "cliche".

TV seems to have a similar thing going to for it, a "class system" of sorts. I'm really bad at putting this into words; I don't work in the industry or read TV blogs or anything like that. Netflix has so many shows I'm sure they are all over the map here, though, so not really sure why I'm saying this.

I guess my point is, some people aren't looking for 5-star GOT/Westworld level quality in their TV watching. If you only have 1 hour per week to watch TV, sure, make it something good. If you watch more TV than that, though, the bar becomes substantially lower.
AMP pages mean Google has 1st party access to your browser no matter what you browse, which is far more than normal.

I didn't state any preferences, and how would sites track you on pages you don't visit?
I think it's even stranger than that. Given how easy it is to do a web search, and given that you've just seen headline in a major newspaper use the word, think of how much overconfidence you'd have to have to declare to it's not a word without even doing the search before posting. And despite this seemingly reckless disregard for truth or accuracy, he's probably living a happier and more successful existence than I. Makes me wonder why I make things so hard.
The difference in wastefulness is rounding error relative to tap water.
Now these are some cool resources! Thank you for providing them.

I'm really starting to enjoy Joy, J, FP, and other languages based on a similar combinator-like basis. I'll have to read over Compiling to Categories, because that certainly is something that catches my eye.
What’s the significance of mixing red and blue paint? Sounds like a reasonable way to generate purple?
The convergence rate on learning from "x didn't work" is much slower than from "x did work".

If you're looking for a peak, most of the time you want to climb the gradient rather than descend it. That statement is true even if you suspect there are multiple peaks in the landscape.
It's not a bad observation. But for most people, computers are appliances. Apple's insight was to have computers serve people, rather than insisting that the people should serve their computers.

I write this from a Linux laptop, so obviously my preferences are different. But I recognize that I'm part of a relatively narrow niche. And I'll note that Apple is still making personal computers. If you include their phones (which I do) then they have hundreds of millions of daily users. Whereas IBM got out of the personal computer business long ago because they couldn't compete.
The lack of umatrix in safari is my biggest gripe — otherwise its a lot more pleasant than chrome/ff.

Browsing on mobile is always the same trouble too, entering a world where everything went wrong
Why do you keep saying "you prefer" in comments? That's a poor way to frame arguments.

What I actually prefer is HTML which is universally accessible by any device and service. No reason to have any proprietary formats like AMP or others.
The Expanse was good! Fair disclaimer: I canceled Netflix recently, due to unhealthy amount of binge-watching... hence the list above. I have not heard of some of these newer titles. It seems some of them didn't make it through NFLX's recommendation system to my homescreen, because I have never heard of Marvelous Mrs Maisal but that has been out for a while.
So what is an example of an intermediate state in a human being?
Thanks for the feedback! I will fix those typos.
Many of the world's centenarians share one common hobby: gardening
While I do agree with the idea of outputting HTML quickly, I think that in the end I'd want to emulate the DOM more closely. For instance, I've been thinking about adding a simple parser to the library so that I could use it in making a web scraper. With a replication of the DOM, I could then easily find nodes that I'd like to grab from the scraper. In addition, I was also thinking of adding actual element grabbing via selectors a la CSS, which would require a DOM representation.

However, the helper types could be useful, and might be able to be implemented as simple aliases to a Node. Also, the reason I take the approach of appending child nodes is for representing actual HTML easier. For instance, with your .text example (at least with my limited glance on it), you can't do something such as <p>Hello, <span>world!</span> Welcome!</p>, which was actually a previous problem that I had with another version of the library.
It's also happening on Firefox 64.
FYI Chargebee handle EU VAT rules for businesses and consumers, if you’re looking for a solution there (it’s the main reason I started using them)
ØMQ:  multithreading magic
Except for security updates, software bug fixes, etc.
There might be some survivorship bias at work here. Lots of things were programmed on early microcomputers. It seemed easy but control systems can harbor unexpected bugs that are hard to diagnose. The ones that failed were taken out of service and forgotten about.
The potential for a gas powered bus to become "clean" is nonexistent. They will always run on 0% clean energy.

The potential for those electric buses is completely maximized. They likely run on greater than 0% clean energy now, and can potentially run on 100% clean energy in the future.

The difference could not be more stark or significant.
List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity
> I was hoping to hear more about his cat litter work

Of course it could be a different Lin Wang working in this area, but it looks like he has a few patents for new absorbent materials and related things [0, 1].

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5849405A/en?inventor=Lin...

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7757638B2/en
I thought it was reasonably secure (consider this would only include minimal binaries required for rsync without an interactive shell), but I am relatively ignorant in this area, would you care to elaborate?

LXC/D was on my radar but all of this is a little more complexity than I was anticipating dealing with myself (the security side of locking down the rsync account at least). I may even settle for "restricted rsync". This is why I value rsync.net, they do this for me - and for a much lower cost I might add (I am not a security expert).