skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to think like an interviewer - what can you reasonably make someone do in half an hour (plus time for chat and questions after)? Apart from being able to parrot deep learning theory, implementing things is tricky. Do you learn anything from making someone implement VGG in their pet framework? Training models also takes more time than you have to spare.

Much easier to quiz the applicant how they would solve a problem, or to discuss a previous project or paper they've published (or are interested in). Some people will find that much easier than whiteboard coding, others will hate it.

It really depends where you apply and if you want an applied or research role. Some places won't touch you unless you've got a publication in somewhere like CVPR. Others will go _hard_ on the stats questions. Other places want to see a strong Kaggle rank or some personal projects. It's really useful to have a portfolio here.
Is there any good link with sources of what the patients were actually told?

The original articles about this were pretty vague and only had the initial negative response from scientists who were against the whole thing. But I’m curious about the level of consent he got and what the AIDS organization was told when they helped
him find his guinea pigs.

If he really did say it was just a vaccination then regardless of what scientists think, he crossed a line no medical professional should take.
You might want to take into account that severe punishment for car accidents is the exception, reserved to the most egregious cases. You are unlikely to get justice when a human driver kills, unless they are drunk or try to flee.

As for the hypothetical, I would definitely take the senseless, unpunished death of one close family member over the properly punished deaths of 37 close family members. But I agree that less extreme numbers could put me in doubt.
Was downtown ever cheap during the downturn? I only remember hearing about fire-sale prices in the neighborhoods... which were already quite low before '08.
I think UBI that promotes self-actualization in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs is the solution
The logic you just gave is the classic penny wise logic, but the reality is you can have as much Starbucks as you want if you stop buying more house or car or education than you actually need.

Fucking up big decisions is how Starbucks matters, and one of those fuck ups is to refuse to learn how to use a credit card.

People like to pretend constant denial of small pleasure is what makes a difference because martyrdom feels righteous, but the reality is it's a huge waste of energy, dollar-per-effort wise. It's not the smart way to live a thrifty life.
I wish he’ll read the entire article and answers provided by some wise people.
Yes, that’s perplexing and unusual-sounding. I’ve had updates take awhile occasionally, but I’ve never seen your issue. Could it be tied to your Apple ID in some way?

Despite your dismissive last line I have to share my data. Here are my results for my currently updateable apps on residential Comcast in the Midwest from the moment “Update” is hit until “Open” appears:

- Strong 117.6MB 15 seconds

- Waze 100.6MB 20 seconds

- Keyforge 44.6MB 5 seconds
>Speech can never be a crime

Speech can be a crime. Google limitations on free speech. The specific example you gave is in fact a crime.
Quantity is a quality on its own
That’s probably an India-specific issue, which is still annoying and probably just one more reason Apple is not as successful in your market as they’d like to be. The OS downloads always take under an hour in the US, and several minutes for me for at least the last few versions.
Thunderbird is spying you
Pretending like words don't mean what they actually mean is an even worse way, though.
Dr Dre advocates marijuana usage...
[Happy new year emojis here]
Ancient software that works but you can feel its age.

It would be great if someone would create a fork implementing a modern syntax and implemented as modules for multiple platforms.
Fair point, although I would bet that the share of Netflix customers using Apple devices is significantly higher than 10%. For one thing, in the US, iOS has more like a 45% share. For another, wealthier people are more likely to own iOS devices (worldwide), and I’m guessing they’re also likelier to be Netflix customers.
When distracted or reckless drivers don't kill but just endanger, typically nothing happens, not even with video evidence.
A little while ago I read that various historical records indicated that we would naturally sleep in two sessions overnight. This was changed by a combination of artificial light and also the industrial revolution giving us more regimented working hours.

"The myth of the eight-hour sleep" at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783 is an interesting starting point.
I remember one year in Campbell, CA, someone thought it would be a good idea to unload an AK47 clip in the creekbed. Police had other ideas but they at least they didn't get caught. Getting caught with an ATF NFA Class 3... Better Call Saul ;)
What does DNA say about how you process medications?
People learn about new things through two ways: through algorithmic recommendations, and through social media / real life social networks.

From what I can tell from recaptcha requests, Google still hasn’t figured out how to teach something to identify storefronts, bicycles, crosswalks, or traffic lights.
Apple doesn’t offer a consumer cloud, what they refer to as iCloud is just a SaaS similar to Dropbox. For their internal requirements they use both GCP and Azure IIRC.
Wrong. There are multiple alternatives. Such as, by doing what Netflix is doing, and bypassing the whole thing completely.

Netflix will still continue to work on iOS, so it seems like it is working out for them. They very much have the legal right to do this.
Everything is fake. Ex Reddit ceo confirms internet traffic metrics are bullshit
looks slick! Wish it provided Mac builds. I will try to build on my own and try this
Yes, single assignment is functional programming.[1] But without all the cool notational problems.

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/ssafun.pdf
Thanks for the answer. My question was sincere, and I appreciate your thoroughness.
Nice.

Two phase flow is a difficult subject, so much so the owner of a nuclear engineering consultancy I worked for wrote his magnum opus on it: Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems
It's imperative to get right in process environments like chemical production facilities and nuclear reactors.
https://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-04713296...
We don't regulate who can breed with whom. Why is this worse?
I think in comparison visa/master cards are really outdated payment methods. They are expensive and discriminative as merchants need to pay 2-3% transaction cost and banks give rebates based on some complex calculation. They are highly insecure as it’s easy for malicious actors to spoof your card.
The PE is so “popular” that they discontinued the test for it.

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
EBOLA CRISIS, POLITICAL UNREST AND VIOLENCE IN CONGO
It's a local option in the US. Large cities are stricter about it. Some large cities paint a big box on intersections and ticket people for blocking the box.
One that lets me start quick projects/MVPs without too much boilerplate or having to think of the general architecture.

I've recently finished a project using Meteor, and I quite liked the opinionated views it has on things (less initial choices to focus on the product rather than the underlying tech).

But if I had to pick some techs I'd want to play with in such a stack, I'd go for Rust (Rocket), Postgres, GraphQL and React.
I grepped the Thunderbird source code, and the only references I could find are for integration with Facebook's now-discontinued XMPP chat system. I also can't find any references to those IP addresses.

The IP range seems correct (https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-157-240-0-0-1/pft?s=157....), but that doesn't mean there may be some other error. I started Thunderbird and it's not connecting to any Facebook domain or IP.

Unfortunately the claim doesn't contain any details other than "I blocked Facebook and my email stopped working". I don't know what situation the author encountered, but the bombastic claim of "Thunderbird is spying you" is completely unproven.
It’s a clever way to hide it. But wouldn’t it be better to just let it loop around the handle, like this? [1]

1: Excuse the crappy drawing, https://i.postimg.cc/FR7Qc9M5/0845194-D-F5-DE-46-D6-8200-CB9...
Great stuff, @jbreckmckye. I love how you eliminated anything unnecessary. Congratulations!
Let's Encrypt is one of the best things that has happened to the Web in the last few years. Everyone wants (and needs) SSL/TLS, and there was no reason for companies to be charging so much for the service. Kudos to the authors and maintainers of something that saves so many people time and money each year.
I feel like that's something that could be at least in part be automated by a computer. If everyone is following a standard you should be able to feed the data in and start doing pass/fail tests on requirements. I assume that's what people who sign off on plans kind of already do anyway.
I did something similar. Hook "WebSocket.prototype.send", check if arg is type "typing", if so return.

Likely against their ToS (https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9bc6gi/bye_bye...)
What would make device drivers safer:

- Microkernel OSes - one driver failing is okay, because it runs in mostly in user-space. The big gotcha in microkernel design is transactions that touch multiple components. Some sort of across-driver transaction API is needed (start, commit, rollback) in order to undo changes across several userspace subsystems.

- A standard language (like the talk suggests) and shipped as portable bytecode to run on a VM or compile to native, so that drivers are portable and runnable without knowing the architecture.

- Devices themselves containing OS-signed drivers rather than each OS having a kitchen-sink installation of all drivers. Each bus would have an interrogation call to fetch the driver.
I assume it's just rent seeking, services which are allowed by governments to increase regardless of utility because that's what people will pay.

People will pay more for the basic needs until they can't any more. Mostly with housing.

I don't know how to fix it, but I guess it would be enormous taxes on land owned but used by somebody else and selling land to someone else. Basically making real estate and finance only viable as charitable institutions (or something at least significantly in that direction). More or less impossible, but that's life.
The linked-to article says:

"But Jenner writes that this kind of stink was by no means ubiquitous in premodern times. It was in moments of high poverty and rapid urbanization that the most awful odors arose—“moments and cultures better understood as experiencing or entering modernity than as immured in some ‘primitive’ state.”"
Same here, had this problem for few years, the thing that helped me was a bit surprising - Magnesium L-Threonate. I must have been depleted of magnesium, maybe from drinking coffee? Other forms of magnesium didn't helped (but I haven't done proper experimentation on myself). With this form of magnesium the results were pretty much immediate. You can try it if you want, it may help as well.
Ask HN: Looking for an old HN post about how to effectively lodge a complaint
Hello, and happy new year!

I am attempting to find an old article that was posted to HN a while back, about how to effectively lodge a dispute/complaint. I believe it was about telephone companies. It spoke about sticking to the facts, staying emotionless and documenting everything.

I wanted to share it with a friend, but cannot find it, even though it was front page for a while.

Also worth resharing with the HN community IMO.

Help appreciated.
How do you vote somebody out?
The syntax is actually still a very nice way of quickly writing down a graph. However, graphviz mixes structural information (nodes, edges) with style information (color, shape), and layout information (preferred rank assignment, dummy nodes and edges to make the algorithm do what you want, or other hacks such as edges that should not be considered directed). This makes it difficult to tweak the layout and also bloats the format with very many things that are more or less irrelevant if you're just after the graph structure.

We've recently added very barebones Graphviz import to our online graph drawing application and I've compiled an internal list of features that could be supported eventually and which will never be. There are a few quite annoying behaviors and corner cases in some attributes that make re-implementing them elsewhere difficult.
It's seemed to me that gentry is a code word for white and diversity is a code word for black.
Ok, we've s/Linux //'d the above.
I have wondered how autonomous cars are supposed to handle a scenario where common sense dictates a slight violation of the traffic rules. For example, let's say that you're on a long, narrow road in the mountains where passing is forbidden for many miles. If there's a slow vehicle in front of you, such as a cyclist or a tractor, normally you wait for an opportunity for a safe pass and you take it. An autonomous car however, would just follow it, costing you many minutes of your time.
Yes. How many seconds per trip does Waymo's conservative driving cost? Probably not very many. Left turn delays, the main complaint, are a problem only at intersections with heavy traffic but no left turn signal. That can be dealt with partly by routing and partly by bugging municipalities for left turn signals at key points.
Starting a video in most browsers is pretty expensive (it usually loads up various GPU features for hardware video decoding).

On some old and buggy machines, that might cause the browser to crash too.

Not something Google wants to risk for a doodle - that's why all non-trivial doodles require a click to load.
The US Flag code is a law but it is not enforced by violence. It is purely voluntary law.
Non-sarcastic question: Everyone at my company has "Software Development Engineer" on their title if that's their role. That's a capitol E. What's your thoughts on that?
Yes indeed. Thanks!
s/Warner/earners/ sorry
From 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337444

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13324989
Yes, but only because the Supreme Court ruled that there’s no way to enforce the Flag Code without violating the First Amendment, a part of the Constitution, the supreme law of the land. That’s not the usual case for laws that are on the books.
Would you please stop taking HN threads on generic ideological tangents? They're tedious (because repetitive, because nothing new) and lead to flamewars.

I feel like we've had to ask you this kind of thing a lot and have cut you way more slack than we do for most. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart, we'd appreciate it.

You might find these other links helpful for getting a clearer idea of the original spirit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html
I want to make a site to track how often I accomplish my daily goals in respect to my new years resolutions. Such as running, reading, journaling, etc every day.
print('\n'.join([
'fizzbuzz' if x%15 == 0 else
'fizz' if x%3 == 0 else
'buzz' if x%5 == 0 else
str(x)
for x in range(1, 101)]))

Or

for x in ['fizzbuzz' if x%15 == 0 else
'fizz' if x%3 == 0 else
'buzz' if x%5 == 0 else
x for x in range(1, 101)]:
print x
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, especially race war.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can I ask why you left Spotify? Do you think they're in serious financial trouble?
Please don't. It's off topic and never leads to interesting discussion. It's also against the site guidelines, in spirit if not in letter: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Would this not just be a container?
We've banned this account for trolling.

If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
> Apple's privacy stance is what Steve Jobs believed in, and what Tim Cook has stuck with, because they know that leaving privacy-based decisions up to third-party developers never ends well.

As opposed to leaving their API wide open so anyone could access anybodys photos and files? Hence, the fappening.

Apple is a marketing company, not a technology company.
Yes. Back some 20 years ago, I switched majors, spent another 1.5 years and $15k for a degree accreditation eligible for PE.

I'm fine with forbiding speech regarding life/safety impact like shouting "fire" and protecting the use of PE for liability and public safety reasons, and letting anyone call themselves a hacker, engineer or whatever else floats their day. To be clear: there ought to be a level of professional rigor where lives are on the line, but otherwise it's caveat hiring manager.
I can see how it is getting traction.

Static-typed java lite language, near-native, cross-platform support. There is a lot to like. And there aren't many alternatives out there, if you consider cross-platform compilation a must. React Native and alikes suffer even greater performance related issues.

The only thing currently blocking Flutter, is the ecosystem. But for some presentation centric apps that need functional yet consistent UI, Flutter is pretty competitive solution.

What is somewhat a little concerning is, unlike React has JSX to relatively easily to compose components, at least in a fashion that is easy to tell the hierarchy, Flutter seems to opt for deeply nested parentheses, which results in lengthy code and isn't very friendly to the eyes.
Some places they habitually send a cop and an ambulance, even if there's just a medical emergency.
This is the essence of land in the Midwest. You do get what you pay for, there's no magic to it.
this is absolutely the worst format for any length of text
I understand your frustration but this isn’t a place to vent out profusely. If you have nothing to add to the discussion, please refrain. Hope it gets sorted out for you.
Sorry but your Argument falls flat....you cannot use android as an option to defend Apple. If apple fails to meet the needs for the user you cannot defend them and say 'but you can choose android' that is not freedom. Freedom within Apple would mean the ability to easily host and run applications as desired. They do not have alveen caught trying to suppress users freedom. Aka jailbreaking and their fight make it illegal
It's cheap but what's the 0power consumption? This tutorial from Eric Tsai covers a similar architecture but a lot more extensible, with a lot more explanation, and each end node can be powered from a coin cell for many years:

https://www.hackster.io/erictsai/lora-tooth-small-ble-sensor...
Note that they categorize "domestic" by nameplate only, not country of manufacture. The falling Ford Fusions for the North American market are all made in Mexico, for one example.
Not only they are free of charge, but Let's Encrypt certificates are some of the most technically featured ones too.

- Embedded SCTs, so you don't have to worry about certificate transparency.

- Must-stable flag support.

- ECDSA leaf certificates.

Digicert is doing an excellent job too, although expensive, trying to push the tech forward with new flags such as signed HTTP exchange, but LE is not only free, but they are _better_ in many ways.
Okay, sorry.
Show HN: Draftss – Design and UI/UX on subscription
Same with me. I start to think fiction and then I kind of blur the line between a dream and my thinking and just falling asleep.
> That sounds a lot like losing your wallet

Many tourists keep backup cash and travel documents in a waist-pack just for that contingency.

To expand on the original scenario, last year my primary phone was soaked in freak torrential rain and shut-off. Thankfully I had loaded all my travel docs, password safe and maps to a backup tablet and I was able to call into a service station and arrange my affairs over their wifi. It took two days for my phone to dry out.

Always, always take a backup when away from home.

> I'd just borrow the driver's phone to login on WeChat and pay

You'd know your password from memory? You'd trust his phone? Would you use banking apps on his phone too?
Is the ask here for Facebook not to do anything to intervene?

Times was giving Facebook crap that Facebook Live promoted/publicized suicides, so doesn’t quite compute that their attempt to do something about it is also bad.
My university had a "Masters of Software Engineering" course that was accredited by some European engineering body, and a significant amount of the content was UML diagrams, OO and writing huge reports. "Engineering" as it is practiced in other fields seems fundamentally tied to the waterfall approach, which makes less sense in software.
NYT: Trump will give U.S. troops 4 months to pull out of Syria -
Python one liner:

print('\n'.join([{(True, False): 'Fizz', (False, True): 'Buzz', (True, True): 'FizzBuzz'}.get((i % 3 == 0, i % 5 == 0), str(i)) for i in range(1, 101)]))
" You copy rather than use strided accesses. " I don't understand "strided accesses". « Plagiarism is stealing, copying is create. » I just translated the code in the lambdatalk language and added missing examples, something that I consider mandatory.
About reading textbooks: you'll get tired, put it away, turn of the light and then can't sleep and is not tired. Turn on light, read again, get tired ... Etc.

You don't learn anything and you don't sleep.
Such or will have horrible politics as all those autonomous people fight with each other over who will call the shots and who will control non-existent resources.

There is handling uncertainty and there is organizing workplace to maximise unceirtenity. You described the latter.
BBC's "The Documentary Podcast" covered the same subject in a recent episode.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06w68bs
That's disputed by Matthew Walker in Why We Sleep.

He writes that biphasic sleep was a cultural phenomenon with no basis in sleep science, and that only one Western society ever really practiced it, whereas e.g. "primitive tribes" all have one uninterrupted phase of sleep.
That's terrible about the policing of walking in the bike lane. It reminds me of the woman in Georgia whose child was hit and killed by a driver (who had been drinking) in a hit-and-run when she crossed a road without a crosswalk. There was no crosswalk nearby. She received a much harsher sentence for crossing the street without a crosswalk than the driver received for the hit-and-run. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2011/07/14/mother-convicted-of-v...

Our institutions are failing us. https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_using_our_practical...
Good luck reimplementing all frameworks, libraries, tools and clients in Dart.
Does this mean Netflix is not abiding by App Store rules and will therefore have its app delisted?
Yeah forget Flutter, every dev I spoke with said it’s a joke. They shared similar feelings : only Google is pushing for it.
One common one when learning recursion or lispy things is factorial with recursion? But it's also in proof as well. It may just be really simple or something so I'm not sure my example counts
A ground based two axis tracking mount that can take the wind loading of six 360W 72-cell (2.0 x 1.0 meter each) panels costs more than the panels. Foundation, concrete, pole, mechanism, etc.

It is much more economical to just buy more panels and mount them at a fixed angle.
This is neat, I didn't know it started there.