skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a deceptively funny answer! Got quite the chuckle from me, thank you.

Could you explain a little bit more about what porting an app from GTK to QT is like? It makes sense now that you mention it but I'd never thought of doing that until now.
Decorticated cats have their whole midbrain, it's not the cerebellum that's doing all that. Also, the cortex is more dominant in primates. Decorticate humans can't do much of anything. Also, humans can live without a cerebellum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellar_agenesis
Nicotine damages the liver
Agreed. This really just sounded like a "Look at this new tool I found" type of article. Which is great, but I was disappointed that he didn't go over bugs that he found with this method and more specific value-adds that this helps provide.

I do think there is merit to looking at code outside of an IDE (for the sake of keeping yourself focused on the task at hand), but that's what a typical code review provides.

Maybe a process like this is good for looking at "bad" code and theorizing how to improve it. But even then a lot of my problems span multiple files and multiple modules (and I don't suspect I am alone in this) so it seems inefficient to print all of that out.
Oh wow! I consider myself a fan of his but had not seen most of these. Great finds!
Hey Devon, not to worry. I follow you on Twitter! Congrats on the new gig. :)
Herstein was my undergrad book back in the early 90's. I remember really liking it. It's been a very long time, but my recollection was that the groups to rings progression felt a lot more natural to me than the rings to groups progression of some of the other books at the time.
FTC considering hitting Facebook with a record-setting fine over privacy issues
There's something about UI polish that puts me off from converting from SequelPro like space padding and font sizes.
Because railway lines, in the past, were not designed with autonomous operation in mind. It’s really only suitable for completely isolated systems (high speed bullet-train style lines walled off from their surroundings, or Western Australian iron ore trains miles away from anyone) or lightweight metro/subway style trains (e.g. DLR, airport “air trains”) that travel at low speeds or can stop quickly.
First report on LLD porting
‘An egregious offence’: Canada battles Norway for tallest moose statue
> Does anyone believe that? I would describe this situation as more than merely an omission.

Do tobacco executives smoke?

Astroturfing is such an amateur move, I fully believe he's unfamiliar with social media-- else he'd understand the implications of getting outed.
> It occurred to me that heart rate data of everyone who has tried on the watch might count as the kind of medical information you shouldn’t publish on demo watches.

That's an overly generous explanation. Fitbit-like devices are notoriously inaccurate[1], and the simplest explanation seems to be that their inaccuracy is unintentional.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
You and a lot of other commenters are getting hung up on the BFS example. It's just that - an example. There are dozens of algorithms that are "common" enough to be asked about and diminishing returns to having them all memorized.
This feels a lot like an ad for Perdue (apologies if it isn't).
Anything with non-trivial edge cuts are advantageous to do on a CNC mill.
Of course one can also combine, as long as one has the registration skills.
There's no such thing as "our" culture as a homogenous, averaged mass. I benefit from FB. If you don't, that's fine, don't use it. But don't tell me what's best for _me_.
">99.5% accuracy is great for a scientific measurement device that's only been developed very recently; it's absolutely rubbish if you want to sell the results to consumers."

Or potentially put people in jail based on these results...
Where are you getting that snus doesn’t have cancer risk?
False.

World Payments Report 2018 https://worldpaymentsreport.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2...

China ranks the third of non-cash transactions organization after Eurozone and USA, and with its rate of growing, China will become the #1 in 2021, aka 3 years later.

Actually, in 2016, WeChat alone has already reached 500M transition/day[1].

As for cash propensity, it has nothing to do with non-cash transactions. Chinese ppl just love keeping lots of money in their bank accounts.

[1] http://www.sohu.com/a/129980516_324659
Noting that hand, it looks like he went on to work as an illustrator in Apple's patent design office.
You're correct! When sound is recorded, it will be transformed from analog to digital. This will be done with a very high quality clock source. At home when you play your music it's often on a DAC with a bad clock source. You can hear this easily because the timing of the samples is off. The reconstructed waveform is different because of the wonky timing (jitter). Replacing the clock source (soldering) within a cheap CD player with a high quality one, will make it sound a much better.

http://www.tentlabs.com/Components/cdupgrade/xo2xo3/index.ht...
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Get well soon Simone.
Significant digits is a calculation shortcut introduced to people freshman year in highschool. It's shorthand for error rate. 2.1374cm +-1cm is a completely different error range than "2." In fact, guess what - real equipment error rates are not integers like 1cm - it's something like "+-.96cm" . Your way literally takes results and makes them less accurate. Why in the world would they do that?
> , is that cities are only relaxing zoning restrictions in a limited area, in their dense urban cores.

That's also a thing too, but I'm referring to the trend of cities to remove zoning city-wide, all at once.
A sizable proportion (half?) of the seasonal agricultural workers in America are undocumented immigrants and have been for 2 generations.

It used to be that they would migrate seasonally and go back home during the off season. But since the 1980s it has gotten increasingly expensive to cross the border, which means that migrant workers must stay in the US longer to pay for the crossing, which means that during the off-season those migrants find other jobs (in factories, restaurants, as janitors, gardening, ....) which they then keep instead of going back to agricultural work the next season. Agriculture then needs to recruit a fresh batch of immigrant workers every season.

Ironically, making the border harder to cross thus works as a kind of ratchet which prevents seasonal workers from moving back and forth, and ends up increasing the total number of undocumented immigrants in the country.
Right, since I didn't pick up on the acronym I thought I had missed something. Cheers!
Surely most retailers only carry a fraction of the UPCs as Walmart does. Amazon beats Walmart, but who else? Wikipedia estimates 120,000 items per Walmart location and 35 million sold by Walmarts online. In comparison, McMaster-Carr has 570,000 products. Walmart is huge.
Comparing Firebase ML Kit’s Text Recognition on Android & iOS
Fostering AI Research: Meet Unity at AAAI-19
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_respiration

It’s technically true that we (animals) can convert fat into CO2 and water.

But we burn this fat to release energy. If we don’t need this energy (if we consume more calories than we burn), the fat just accumulates.
English is not my first language, so forgive me if I'm a bit ambiguous, it's not the intention.

CAM workstation (running some "generic" CAM package with machine specific configuration) in some office building was the precondition, in that case it will never make much sense to control a machine's servos from that workstation, in my opinion.

Integrating the CAM within the machine itself is something else, and yes, stuff like that existed for very long time, but that is something completely different IMHO.

The machine controller "knows" the physical limits because somebody configured it (and "locked" it). It would be hard to guarantee the integrity of this configuration if you put it on an arbitrary workstation to run CAM and machine control.
One striking and highly suggestive statistic: 60-80% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia are smokers. (see e.g. the wiki article "schizophrenia and tobacco smoking", or https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smoki...)

While there are many possible explanations for this, a particularly compelling theory is that this is self-medication: nicotine directly alleviates some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, so schizophrenics naturally gravitate towards becoming heavy users.

Along these lines, albeit very anecdotally, many people take up smoking as self-medication for high levels of stress and anxiety.
Are you setting your own mappings? If so - where are they kept and can you share yours?
This looks awesome, going to check it out this weekend!

FYI in a narrow (especially < ~1000px) the Features icons are overlapping content. I tried changing the class 'fa-4x' to 'fa-2x' on those icons and it appears to fix the issue.
It's buggier as it crashes on me every few days but can't connect to MySQL 8 otherwise but the way development is going on, the product seems like a dead end which is too bad.
I'm not sure why anyone thinks significant digits in any way informs error rate, and it's a little hyperbolic to suggest 4 significant digits with a whole number error rate, when they did 1 significant digit with a ~3% to ?% error rate.
A u-blox GNSS receiver for orienteering mapping
RoboFossil Reveals Locomotion of Beast from Deep Time
Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are siblings. Of course both could be true.
It's absolutely victim blaming.

It's true that it's a reasonably good practice to assume that databases will be leaked. That doesn't mean that when a company loses control of private data that the company holds no blame.
Netflix is burning through cash. This can't last forever
I don't argue with that, but the overall negative vibe of top 5 is obvious to me. I mean we could have at least a couple of "this new great thing happened" there?
Of course, corporate mergers may be good news too for some people, so maybe that's not full negative.
Are you trying to make the claim that, since one instance of discrimination is worse than the other, then we shouldn't try to discuss and explore other controversial examples of the discrimination, simply because they're not as bad? Even if they are more relevant to us, the commenters? I didn't see the parent claiming that their version of bigotry was worse/equal to grandparent's version, that's something you falsely assumed.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Wag-Salaries-E1201565.htm

This was just a generic guess..
I was preparing for a few months and interviewed at 0 of six top companies bhahaha.
It seems like they are very reluctant to hire guys from overseas even if you are already in SV for interviews.
I don't understand what you mean. Are you reading the quote backwards? They're claiming 1999 had a then-record high amount of surveillance. That the trend continued is hardly a reason to call the quote insane!
Climate Change, Limits to Growth, and the Imperative for Socialism (2008)
There will always be some sort of interface between CAM and other design tools and the physical apparatus to execute assembly. I think we're all just being pedantic in this thread; is it likely you're going to hook your workstation directly to the multi-axis mill? No. Is it more likely we're going to have some sort of queue and bus that'll allow you to send more complex instruction sets to assembly systems? I think so (based on my interaction with a firm who is doing this for high precision additive manufacturing). What that looks like is going to depend on the complexity of your shop floor, and manufacturing demands.
UI polish and snappiness can't be beaten, which in turn locks me into using MySQL..
They Yoko'ed that site way too far.
https://www.casewatch.net/board/chiro/berg.shtml
> It was exhausting and it meant that most of my lunch breaks were just interviews for multiple weeks. I had to start going into work very early so I could leave earlier to take calls at home. Making sure I was still meeting all of my commitments at work was a challenge, too, but I made sure to prioritize that over interviewing, rescheduling when necessary. I wouldn’t phone it in for the purposes of interviewing. It makes you look bad, it’s unethical, and if you don’t get a job, you’re now a lower performer.

I'm impressed with this person's ability to write a blog that BOTH:

— feeds people's curiosity via the current interview experience at several of the worlds biggest companies all in one read

— Incorporates (advertises) his own personal work ethic and credibility throughout, to where I would bet he's getting all sorts of significantly higher paying offers around the area.

The latter was likely the motivation to write it, which is great. I'm surprised more people with similar stories don't use their ultra-blog-worthy experience as an opportunity to humble brag and display their value. Might as well, right? Small risk/big reward
Hmm, everything has negative sentiment for all time periods (only goes to one year)... Seems about right.

Is the previous year available? Have the algos overfit for negativity?
Spotify DRM _has_ been cracked before (extraction 320kbps Vorbis streams without recompression), but for obvious reasons there are no ready-made public PoC's.
Only in CI, not during development. IDE warnings are enough.
Well, first of all, define "sanity check".

About trial periods, there are places that do those, and a lot of people hate it. There is a lot of risk involved in leaving a permanent gig to "try out" for another one. If they let you go at the end of the trial period then you're out on your ass. I personally would never do this if I were already employed- there's nothing in it for me but downside.

But more broadly, lots of places try these different avenues for hiring and inevitably some large portion of potential employees hate it.

Try doing take-home tests? Well, those are biased toward people with more free time, so obviously you're discriminating against people who have children. Interviews using Coderpad? Now you're discriminating against people who get anxious in the moment and need more time to think.

This is not easy or simple.
Generally seems that HN has become less interested / more skeptical of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We still like the former crypto though!
Payment processors are worse the Patreon especially mastercard so unless you manage to get around them you're not going to be able too.
I think I'm being unclear about my argument. $95K today is not a great income in NYC. But that's not what I'm asking. In an alternate universe, where all income of all New Yorkers, not just me over $100K is taxed at 70%, is $95K still not a great income?

I suspect that in such an alternate NYC, very few renters (let's ignore buyers, because it makes it more complicated, but I think my argument applies there too) would be motivated to make significantly more than $100K. Therefore most people are going to be paying at most $100K/40 = $2500/month for housing according to the standard NYC rental guidelines. The market for 1BR apartments that cost $3000, $4000, $10,000/month no longer exists. (Double that for 2BRs.) In that housing market, not in the current NYC housing market, would I still end up homeless and hungry on the street if I had to pay rent from savings? I think there's a lot less chance that if I got laid off I'd be unable to make rent in this alternate universe, even if I had the savings of making $95K/year, than that if I got laid off from my current job making >>$100K/year and with my current savings I'd be unable to make rent in this universe.

Obviously in the NYC of current reality, I am not going to donate 70% of everything I make over $100K. The very fact that taxes are a collective activity is what makes them different from voluntary charity.
Definitely, but being addicted to something that will make you chronically ill and kill you is much worse than being addicted to something that won't.
A lot of my forum posts from 2004 are still around. Also web archive exists meaning that all those sites are being archived even if the site hosting that content disappears.
If you feel that way about 99.5% accuracy, I'd advise that there are a number of consumer products you absolutely shouldn't buy, including: kitchen scales (small ones), measuring cups, store brand spirit levels, etc.

You can get considerably better accuracy, you just have to be willing to fork over $1500 rather than $60. How much are you willing to pay to know if your 31% German vs 30%?
Search for young people? So discriminate?
How is it "well known"? Do you have a source with concrete data? Have you asked both people who were hired and not hired if they completed/not completed their question, over a big enough sample?

Obviously, people who can't finish a problem correlate with people who aren't good candidates in general. But that's not necessary. You can have someone who shows very good problem solving and reasoning, but just doesn't make it to the end.
Sounds like you just found a business opportunity for people in china.
My WebDev knowledge is quite poor but it seems natural to me that if you have slack-like sidebars, where they tend to be optional but non-temporary, the ideal solution would be 2 css-grids, and a way to switch between them. Even if it were temporary, like a shop using a sidebar for its menu , it still seems intuitively the preferred solution. Essentially just flipping between grid-states.

This is assuming you're actually dealing with a grid, and not some kind of floating pop-over panel eg a drop-down menu panel

How would you go about it? Maybe more importantly, how would you want to go about it?
I think I'm trying to suggest that people who walk dogs for a living might have a hard time -- and, thus, we should show them compassion.

We could also pay people a living wage -- but showing compassion and understanding is cheaper.
(hints of sarcasm may occur)
I was recently asked to identify pages in our 10 million line application that use a certain piece of business logic. It involved parsing the page and their nested subcontrols into a tree with by doing a modified BFS on the linked files, doing a modifed BFS on the tree to identify the related code behinds, parsing the C# from the codebehinds into a tree, and traversing the C# tree (again with a modified BFS) to find if the code path was hit.

These questions come up all the time. You just need to be proficient enough with algorithms to identify them.
I dunno. You know… my grandpa drank a 5th of whiskey a day and smoked one cigar a day until the day he died. Age 102. Sometimes I think that you enjoy the heck out of life and don't worry about anything. Shrug. I hope genetics matters more :)
wasn't there a recent article showing that (now owned and run by amazon (?), Ring video cameras doing something similar, with ukraine "tech's" watching people's video feeds and tagging things?

I wonder how often bedroom talk is heard with these things. I would imagine there are sometimes exciting and sometimes distressing things heard with some of the audio clips.

There should be some transparency with this - a monthly message about "X number of audio clips were reviewed by humans to make our thing better" -

Isn't there some way to listen to the audio captured by your Alexa? Would be nice if there was an indicator next to some of them saying "inaudible" or "sent to human for review"

You could crowdsource and get end users to help make it smarter by clicking to add a note about what they were trying to get the thing to do even.

Either way transparency - make the info available to the end user easily. Toggle option to turn off notifications, and toggle to turn off "send my data to humans to make it better" would be nice as well.

I am sure most people won't care, but there are plenty who engage in "alternative" lifestyles who would likely not want their amazon device sending audio to humans they do not know.
Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola.
There are plenty of freelance OS X developers out there that would be willing.
Python Steering Council Nomination: Peter Wang
Your liver doesn't really care the time frame over which you drink the alcohol.
This happens at any company with any product.

Can you name a few examples?
It has to do how we define the word "drugs" culturally, not the reality of whether or not a substance is both addictive and toxic. Alcohol and vaping are culturally accepted drugs that everyone likes to use, so people don't like to think of them as being in the same category as the "bad drugs", which only addicts use.

Also, most people can regularly use alcohol and tobacco without it consuming their life, so I think this is an important factor. The same cannot be said for heroin or crack.

Edit: I'd also like to add that I know a number of people in my generation (millenial) who would consider themselves soft drug users. This would mean marijuana and maybe some hallucinogens occasionally. In Canada at least, regular usage of marijuana is very much normalized amongst my generation. It's not really considered any worse than drinking and I think you'll see over time that marijuana culturally is defined outside of the "bad drugs" category.
Serious question:

We bitch and moan in the US about NSA-Google-FB-Amazon etc spying on private conversations/things we say outloud etc.

Why on EARTH would you want a Chinese WeChat account, assuming you had any privacy concerns in a country like the US?
Tangentially related to the article: I miss Groklaw.

It's been over six years since PJ stopped posting to Groklaw, around the time that Lavabit shut down (see http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175), because PJ relied on email to receive documents and tips.

From the time I discovered Groklaw, I grew attached to the way that PJ not only managed to keep a handle on the crazy machinations of long-running cases (SCO v IBM being one of the biggest), but was able to tie all of the different threads together into a cohesive narrative. I'm not sure any single news source has managed to step up to Groklaw's level.

PJ, if you ever read this, please consider coming back! Since you left, groups like the Freedom of the Press Foundation (https://freedom.press) have formed to provide tools that sources and journalists may use to communicate as securely as possible. Groups from different ends of the political spectrum — from the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/anonymous-news-tips/) to the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/tips) and beyond — provide ways for sources to submit tips using Signal and SecureDrop.

In the time since you have left, there have been leaks of documents orders of magnitude more damaging than those of corporate lawsuits; and the news organizations which convert those leaks into reporting are doing a good job of keeping their sources secret. Government agencies continue to press for backdoors to encryption. And I take all of that as a sign that things seem to be working.

So I hope you consider coming back one day!
Dynamic alerts in mobile apps
You should watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmM6SUn7Es
after being explicitly told by Facebook not to do so.

That's not what the article said.
Organic food is negligibly different from non-organic food and is generally worse for the environment because of the additional resources required for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmM6SUn7Es
really awesome.
My college _writing_ teacher forced students like myself to read a long and very repetitive book on the subject called Salt, Sugar, Fat. It was an interesting read for the first 1/3 of the book, but extremely dense and the last 2/3 felt like a rehashing of the first 1/3. 480 pages of Food companies are evil.

She also had a nasty tendency to bring in lots and lots of political discussion into the writing class, to where the twice-a-week, 90 minute long "writing sessions" felt like 20 minutes writing, 70 minutes theories and politics. But that's another story.