skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has it really been 10+ years since the "acid" tests debuted? I can remember when these things were the height of the browser wars. I guess I should be glad that we don't really need them anymore.
Ok, then I have no idea what you were asking. Can you state it in a different way?
Which “transportation district” do you mean?

All of them I know of are run by people who have to stand for election so they are accountable to the voters who put them there.
How I built a jet suit (2017)
I agree. The whole point about science is that you can look at the data and not have to take things on authority. If they faked their data, then that is one thing, but if they had real data, then this is just a part of science.
Ask HN: Desktop Based Local App Builder (Like Delphi Hopefully)
Hello.

I am hoping you can help me out. I need a program like Delphi (Embarcadero) or App Builder (davidesperalta) in order to make v2 of my MVP.

I am currently checking the aforementioned out, am on the lookout for others.

My background in regards to this: I'm not a programmer, although I did learn programming many years ago, doing a few different languages, so I am not completely illiterate:

1. BASIC (Speccy, inputting programs from mags like C+VG amongst other things)

2. Turbo Pascal

3. Borland Delphi (I prefer something like this, object orientated stuff)

4. Bit of JS and Java

Required functionality of MVP v2, which is to be a desktop based up, no internet connection required:

1. Input data (numbers, strings) either in fields, or dropdowns

2. Store (local database)

3. Process (simple mathematical and statistical stuff, join strings and numbers, put inputted strings and numbers in to use-able dropdowns). It needs to also do pivot table type stuff, I assume a query to a database can do that, not sur. Basically what one can do in Excel.

4. Output in fields and graphs (pie, bar, radar)

My OS: Windows 10

Why an MVP v2: my idea, my startup, I have to take it as far as I can on my own. I do have some developers who want to work with me on this, but that's not the point. I can de-risk this further, and just because someone wants to work with me, doesn't mean I change my stance. Basically a person has to pay their dues in my book, including me. Of course, things might have moved on a bit too much for me.

Anyway, I just want something as simple as possible that I can use to create a desktop app, as quickly and as dirtily as possible.

Do you know of any such programs that can enable me to do this?

Cheers, Ace.
the problem of interview in large companies is no one want to take responsibility of recruiting the wrong guy. So they just use some "standard" process to screen and test the candidates. If they still pick the wrong guy, no one will be blamed, since other big companies use the same process.

And that is the main reason big companies like google, facebook can't make good products. Instead, they pay billions to buy successful products made by those who were rejected in their interview.
Same here. Maybe it's partially because I remember the game, and partially because graphics here are good enough to not to distract. In a similar vein, I recently played the remastered version of Modern Warfare 1, and it felt just like I remember playing the original - i.e. a good contemporary game. Were I to play original now, it would feel dated.

Except full scene water reflection. This is pure awesomeness, and completely distracted me from watching gameplay.
Also I thought part of this had to do with the size of a sample vs a full serving. Sweeter or stronger flavors tend to do better in small volume taste tests (like the Pepsi Challenge). Drinking a whole glass can be another story.
Florida reviews deaths of three children in chest freezer
FTC is reportedly considering a ‘record-setting fine’ against Facebook
Similarly to how farm cows get pregnant, with bull sperm being harvested with a machine and cows later manually inseminated, it is perhaps more efficient than the traditional way, but arguably lacks some... oomph.
For years I've essentially not consumed sugar except for that in vegetables etc.

I still suffer from this rubbish though:
1. I often can't find any meat in the supermarket that has not been denatured by having the fat removed.
2. I reject a lot of products which I suspect I'd like because they have added sugar.
3. I have to tamp down on my anger when I hear somebody rabbiting on about the dangers of fat.

Humans truly are a stupid species.

Best to ignore "Public Health" advice, too much of it is demonstrably idiocy.
I'm curious of when this would actually happen. Some kind of recursive implicit specialization? AFAIK auto x=foo; is just sugar for decltype(foo) x=foo; rather than MLish inference.
Coming from someone who doesn't watch any basketball, are there many incidents involving shoes coming off or becoming loose? Is the safety argument real?
I've basically spent my career without static types (except for the little bits of C that happen here and there), but I keep hearing about how types would change my world ... But then evertime I've looked at a typed language lately, everything is type 'auto'. Well, maybe not Java, I don't think they have auto yet?

As an honest question, if types are good, why would you put auto, instead of telling me the type?

For context, I'm a neanderthal and just use a boring text editor, so I'm not getting any tool assisted type information if you write auto everywhere.
Leap seconds are the most stupidest thing ever. It's time to abandon UTC and start using what professional astronomers use: UT1
You can buy a home in the scenic Italian town of Sambuca for about $1
But an algorithm or more generally algorithmic thinking is not a collection of rote memories. It's concepts that can be applied broadly. Much in the same way that I'd expect a pastry chef to be able to cook a 2 layer red velvet cake because they know that a red velvet cake is just chocolate, and a 2 later cake is just 2 one layer sheets with icing between. Someone who understands a relatively small set of fundamentals well will be able to perform as well or better than someone who spends weeks memorizing every cake in the dictionary.
Before my mother died (from lung cancer), she was just extremely anxious and miserable. Don't expect some kind of revelation or great thought about the meaning of life when people die. It's just horrible for everybody involved.
core i9 x are coming awfully close to larrabee performance as demonstrated in 2008, we should be close to be doing this on the cpu unassisted
What do you mean? The tunnel opens next month: https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/tolling/sr-99-tunnel-tolling
So the football industry now has to pay for their externalities. That's progress.
Try "Basic Mathematics" by Serge Lang. This will be particularly useful for learning basic algebra.
> Stop tying compensation to seniority

next, on hacker news: "why nobody makes children anymore"
Normally, urban development follows common sense without much aid from central planning.

What you see in US cities, is that central planning itself stands in way of common sense; that car centric lifestyle in USA was pretty much enforced from above.

Take a look on city plans from sixties, or watch some documentaries about that time
Bluntly stated, young fools who work 80+ hours a week provide a greater short term return for employers than older persons who have a life and a family that also makes demands on their time.
Put it in ski boots... done and done, I’d buy it right away
That's honestly mostly a myth. The number one factor in divorce rates is income.

Don't believe me?

https://qz.com/1069806/the-highest-and-lowest-divorce-rates-...
I was listening to the car radio only yesterday, tuned into a mainstream station and an advert came on for one of the major supermarkets. The gist of the advert was the holiday seasons had passed and you might be looking to lose some of the "excesses" e.g. body fat, so why not get some x brand low fat (high sugar) yogurts, six for the price of four.

I just said to myself, how can they get away with putting out a clear lie and one that is a health hazard.
Are you talking about an outcome different than the replacement tunnel? What alternative do you have in mind?

Personally, I live in the South Sound and I would love alternatives that would allow me to visit the city without the hassle of bringing my car.
Unless you're interested in the finer details, the article is very long.

Basically, the NFL should be fine, but even they may be self-insuring head trauma nowadays.

For youth and school contact football programs, they are in jeopardy. Insurers are increasing premiums and/or requesting waivers for all neurological injuries. Some schools are already folding their teams. Probably with no end in sight. Where will the next generation of players come from?
And not complain it doesn’t have enough entropy because it lacks special characters when it is a hex of a 128bit key!

What I find the most annoying is that developers enjoy creativity for password validation. Some requires special characters, but only from 2 or 3 allowed special characters (what good does it even do in term of entropy???). Some limit the number of times a character can appear in a password, and I understand that it is meant to prevent people using “aaabbbccc” as a password but it also makes long passwords impossible. Many have an artificially low length limit (why would they even do that)?
I haven't paid much attention to the reproductive issues typical for CF, but I'm sure they are more complicated than thick mucus. IIRC, something like 97% of men with CF lack a vas deferens and are thus unable to deliver sperm when they ejaculate.

I think there is a lot more going on with CF than lack of adequate mucus. I was merely trying to provide a fairly straightforward example of what seems like an obvious error in logic for a biology mental model.

Since mucus has an immune function and people with CF have a terribly compromised immune system, the assumption that we overproduce it seems flawed on the face of it and fails to be consistent with widespread reports of vaginal dryness.

Thank you for the link, but this kind of argumentation is usually not helpful.
Momentum is the number #1
One is a typo, the other a factual error.

Vaginas don't produce phlegm, period, and never will.

I don't know you from Adam, I have no idea about your past and also don't care much.

In this one, specific instance, you do not know what you're talking about. Pouring half a page out doesn't change that.

There's no need to be defensive about it, or take it as more than it is. This is HN. Mistakes get pointed out.
'Frenzy of hatred': The dramatic rise of far-right extremists
> If so, this seems self-evidently false: all edible calories start out as plant calories, and we can either eat the plants or have animals eat the plants (wasting a bunch of the input energy along the way) and then eat the animals.

I'm no expert but I believe there may actually be some limited basis to that claim: ruminants can eat things we can't (grass) and there are areas where it's more ecological to grow grass and let ruminants eat it than try to grow things that we could process. You also get the benefit of better topsoil with the help of the animal dung.

But I think the (huge) majority of the meat we eat is fed grain, where we're obviously wasting energy.
Yes, there is one, it is part of the MakeCode project.

https://makecode.com/language

"Microsoft MakeCode: from C++ to TypeScript and Blockly (and Back)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGhhV2kfJ-w
How much law to take with? See, marslegalcode.org.
This comment is enraging. "Have faith that totalitarianism will work this time" - as if the 20th century didn't happen.
This is addressed somewhat in the article:

> Players, for example, will tell you that after about a half hour on the court, their feet will swell, sometimes up to a half size. This changes their comfort level significantly. So they have a choice: either play with their shoes too loose for 30 minutes or tighten them enough to be painful by halftime. Not with an adjustable shoe.
I like to buy Bulgarian or Greek yoghurt and add jam to it. That way you can control the sugar content. Those types of yoghurts in particular also have a great, slightly sour taste that is great on its own once you get used to the relative lack of sweetness.
Doncha just love the rule of law?
I am a hardcore Linux user. I went so far as buying Chromebooks to wipe ChromeOS and run Linux on them in the last 5 years. As of late, I have decided to leave ChromeOS alone on my new Pixelbook.

There are two reasons for that decision:

- I just love having the ability to have a pen to draw when I needed to share the screen to explain something for my friends when we talk about technical crap. ChromeOS supports the pen reasonably well with its ability to run Android apps.

- The Linux emulation layer on ChromeOS is actually very good. I can run app-get, gcc, Sublime text, Konsole and most of the apps I want to run.

I figured it is a good tradeoff between convenience and utility. I still have to do my embedded work on my desktop which has a real distro. I am very glad they are bringing the upcoming usb redirection support, so I can do embedded work on my laptop. With GPU acceleration I can play games too, fantastic!

Hardware-wise, the Chromebook Pixel has been a disaster. Every once in a while, the USB-C port just craps out completely and I had to do the SMC reset procedure for it to work again. The other day, I left the laptop battery run dry and when I plugged in to charge and tried to turn it on, the keyboard would flicker like a discotheque with nothing on the screen for like 20 minutes when it was charging up. The hardware is just inconsistent and feels flaky as heck.

But all in all, I am actually quite happy with my Pixelbook purchase. If the hardware/firmware experience could improve a bit, then it would have been a very, very good purchase despite all the hates from Youtube reviewers.
Every company I've worked for interviews acquihires.

From FAANG, to start ups, to established traditional engineering companies.
I saw by the other comments this is not related to wechat pay. wechat pay have been a hassle to use for at foreigner fields for some years now.

Life without wechat in China is ok, but wechatPay helps a lot. In Zhejiang province and other industrial hubs Alipay is widely used, even by the little cigarrette shop seller, but most places this is most WechatPay's territorial waters, yes, maybe because Alibaba's birth of place is Zhejiang.

Many years ago I helped a cooperating individual and had to buy a Phone inside China, could not get Phone device from abroad to pay things with WechatPay by any means.

Later,could not make transactions after a while, even walking in person inside a foreign branch of ICBC, having accounts both in the same name in a China's local branch of ICBC and at the said foreigner branch, and firstly to have an account in a foreign branch is not easy, so thigs are getting hard indeed for wechatPay abroad.

Even my "personal" wechat, in a phone that is decadely old, with decadely old wechat account, has suffered a rather strange and suspiciously unexpected cut on the maximum amount of financial transaction limit.

I don't go down south for long time, but the current chairman of China seems going in the completely wrong way, is already enough to get worried, it seems what was left of the directions set by Hujintao and wenjiabao, at this point are all gone. Expected a bit, they were/are(it is unclear) kind of enemy groups, but this is already ridiculous.

Margareth Thatchers way of detecting interior confict lead Weakness of mind and Weakness of power itself doesn't fail. It was already seen coming by the placing of stupid warmongering ridiculous tapes on subway monitors the first week after assuming the presidency. Probably sources are born lack of confidence and Fear of ucraine\arabspring phenomenons. Sure not a excuse for stupidity. very Bad for world's Hummanitarian\left-leaning-Freedom/Fraternity "long" term.

:by the other hand, Thailand is giving great unexpected hopes.

:the worst of all this is that probably the "numberous fish school defense" provided by using a Billion persons of interest's Chat tool, monitered by government that has adult-like more important things to do, is defeated at this point, so...look for some other non-zuckerb chat tool now.
I don't get the article's subject's sympathy for him or the Panther 21 at all. It felt like a surprise turn in the article.
Seems like it could be the same thing, at least that's what McGwire said to himself to justify to himself that it was OK to juice up.

McGwire said he took steroids to get back on the field, sounding much like the Yankees' Andy Pettitte did two years ago, when he admitted using HGH.

"During the mid-'90s, I went on the DL seven times and missed 228 games over five years," McGwire said. "I experienced a lot of injuries, including a ribcage strain, a torn left heel muscle, a stress fracture of the left heel, and a torn right heel muscle. It was definitely a miserable bunch of years, and I told myself that steroids could help me recover faster. I thought they would help me heal and prevent injuries, too."

http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=4816607
Does this mean Chromebooks have been running without HW acceleration all these years?

Or is this about something else?
Perhaps, though it's likely still better than a shoelace untying, which leaves the player with a dangling lace that can easily cause a trip.
Why not just retie the shoelaces at halftime?
I'm not clear what your point is. Sure you can come up with questions that are difficult or obscure.

Yes I can probably implement a sufficiently fast maze solving algorithm, depending on exactly the environmental constraints (for ezple, given the problem as stated I'd assume something like a* using a precomputed mat heuristic would be fast for most mazes of reasonable size, I promise either didn't google that).

But I wouldn't expect someone to answer that in an interview. Hell, I don't ask dynamic programming questions because I think they're too obscure and tricky (in the riddle way). My most common interview question involves a problem I've faced multiple times at work, has multiple valid solutions, and which I had to implement myself in various flavors before eventually coming across a relatively obscure standard library implemention.

Although before I was able to identify that implementation, I had to solve the problem 2 or 3 times, see the different flavors, and identify the common themes and the theoretical underpinnings.

I don't expect a candidate to do that without help, and most don't. But it sure sounds like you think that I'm somehow a bad engineer for asking a question that tests on the job skills I've needed, and the ability to break a problem down into component parts and implement them cleanly.

But oh no, it uses an algorithm. It's a terrible question and I should just ask a question about software engineering that doesn't use any algorithms. Because obviously people will always be able to identify the standard library implemention (no candidate I've interviewed ever has, in fact). So colore dubious of this whole argument about whiteboarding questions being a bad test.
No, the "real" ChromeOS has had acceleration all along. It is about the Chromebooks getting HW acceleration for its virtualized Linux environment when you want to run real Linux apps on it.
Disagreeing with something doesn't entitle employees to storm out of meetings, unless there was intentional malice. While family doesn't necessitate children to be a part of it, neither is the implication that a "high probability exists that families have children", offensive enough to storm out, act out, throw a fit, etc.

At what point will Google realize that every tantrum doesn't deserve a corporate change, some just necessitate the employees to "grow-up" enough to live in a world that's not a 100% ideal.

FYI googling "family definition" returns "a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household". How genuine can this outage really be?
I did not realize the degree to which I suffered vaginal dryness until I was like 40 or something. Vaginal dryness was my "normal." I didn't realize it was quite abnormal.

I generally did not have pain during sex because I got married at 19 to my "high school sweetheart" and he and I accommodated my vaginal dryness without making a big deal of it and I didn't realize how much we were doing to accommodate it until after I finally had a diagnosis and was getting divorced. It was our "normal" and we were oblivious to the fact that it wasn't normal at all because neither of us had much experience prior to getting together when we were both 17.

So I will suggest that lack of reports of pain during sex may say more about a woman's sex partner than about how much vaginal dryness she is experiencing.
Heard back from the OpenGrok developers and they said they don't support the use case I needed. My gist was just a very small part of the overall process (and yes, for that small piece it was trivial to use a linux util instead of csharp).
Also a dream for me. The lacing system in these sneakers sounds similar to a snowboard boot's Boa system so I could imagine this tech quickly applied to those but a ski boot seems much more difficult.
It will be very hard to displace Matlab out of certain very important niches. For example, across both academia and industry, Matlab is king in control systems design/analysis thanks to its toolboxes, Simulink, and (at least in industry), its autocoder. Matlab is used to generate the flight controls software on a lot of today's aircraft. In a number of other engineering disciplines, Mathworks has been astute in developing toolboxes that answer the needs of industry. There will probably have to bit quite a bit more paid development of Julia and its ecosystem to deal Matlab death blows in industry. I hope for it to happen sooner rather than later, as the 70s-era Matlab language and Mathworks' exorbitant license fees are holding things back.
There is no so much HW acceleration required for canvas, CSS layouts and WebGL 2.0, versus OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan, Metal, DirectX 11/12 are capable of.

So I guess now they are getting big boys HW acceleration.
I feel like if they have already managed to gain access to your hashed passwords 9/10 times its already game over
Report: Snap fires 2 execs after alleged sexual misconduct
I know it’s not cheap but we have exactly one copy of MATLAB on our cluster to use their compiler and then run the compiled code on nodes without licenses.
But then businesses will keep doing so secretly and indirectly, which will just hurt people who share correlating traits with the disadvantages hires, e.g women with no interest in having children.
There is a comparison screenshot a bit down the page

no filter: http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt/images/path_tracer_720p.png
denoised: http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt/images/denoised_720p.png

The denoise filter might as well be the main achievement of this project. Edit: note that if I understand correctly, the filter doesn't operate on single frames, but considers several previous frames in order to maintain temporal cohesion and to improve quality.
The article is, unfortunately, lacking in substance. For example, the author applied to 20 jobs and got interviews with 6. This is an incredible success rate. I'm guessing he had referrals from hiring managers and didn't just apply through a CTS.
Skillshare suspending support requests without an answer
Long story short, sent a request to Skillshare support through their CS portal a few weeks ago. Didn't think much of it, but just learned that rather than responding to me, they blacklisted my email address from making any other support requests. I never got a response to my initial email.

I must have triggered someone's inner spam filter that day...
An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech
This is the github repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt/tree/master/pxtcompiler