skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome. We have so much customization around TeamCity that moving away from it doesn't make sense, but we're starting to look at the CI runners for other things, along with the k8s integration, all great stuff in GitLab. Yeah, the DevOps name though, it's unfortunate. DevOps is a culture, not a thing, product, tool, or process. Seems more like calling it Auto CI/CD is more appropriate, maybe? Anyways, thanks for the response!
British final undergraduate degree grades are first class honours (1st), upper second class honours (2:1), lower second class honours (2:2), third class honours (3rd), or ordinary degree.

That's what you put on job application forms. We don't use a GPA.

A 1st is good. A 2:1 is fine. A 2:2 is a problem. A 3rd is a failure.

Some people use cockney rhyming slang - a 2:2 is a 'Desmond' (Desmond Tutu, two-two).

In some cases you can get a double 1st, or triple 1st, but these are very specific to your university and are about what courses you took.
Yeah, there is a lot of demand for work, and illegal labor drives down the price. You are out to lunch on doing drywall being easy. To be a pro (quality work done fast every day of the week) at hanging and finishing drywall is not something you get good at in 2 days.
> your previous yarn.lock will be silently migrated

I hope that's not that silent, because at that point, everybody who works on that project will have to upgrade as well.

That said, shipping the light-weight POSIX-like shell will make it a lot easier for scripts to be multiplatform. That's the improvement I'm looking forward to most.
Correct! Most live performed music does not use equal-temperament. Many keyboard instruments do not use equal-temperament either, especially organs/clavichords etc.

One of the interesting things about organ tunings is that because you can choose which pipes to perform with, different pipe-sets may be tuned according to slightly different needs on the same instrument. So, you might have one set of pipes that is well suited for equal-tempered, highly chromatic pieces. Another set of pipes may be intended for use with choirs, and another set still tuned to be ideal in an orchestral setting. However, the specific tuning of the instrument is usually maintained over the course of its life, which is part of why organs can be so distinct and characteristically themselves. Most organs are tuned by ear with tooling assists, and generally land in a Wohltemperiert that compromises between equal-temperament and pure 5ths.

Pure 5ths are are especially important on an organ, because many of the pipes produce highly sinusoidal fundamentals, making un-pure 5ths especially obvious and "out of tune" sounding. The complexity and bloom of the harmonics in a piano helps to mask these effects.
Abrahamic Religions arrived perhaps too recently. The records we have of ancient civilizations show that they successfully dominated their environments
already, and certainly accomplished amazing things.
Adiantum: encryption for the low end
He also has a Google nest (which is slightly upper class tech) and a google home -- even if it is in one room.
Nice. It's hard to invent new meaningful, playable acoustic instruments. Respect to anyone who does.

Another one I really like is the Array Mbira, up to 7 octave chromatic Mbiras with stereo pickups.

https://www.arraymbira.com/
If you listened to the TGIFs made by Eric Schmidt 12 years ago, it was totally different. It looked like there's enough opportunities to make a lot of money without going to the war industry (I can't call defence what the U.S. is doing). What do you think ,,Don't be evil'' means?

We (non-Americans) were all writing code and staying at Google in the late evenings, sometimes working on weekends because we really though that Google is different.

Of course when 2008 happened, a lot of things changed, the optimism changed to being cautious and more frugal, which everybody understood.

Since then Google changed it's motto, but the code and the network effect stayed with it.
There was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that explored a similar concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
I believe that philosophy undergrads get the highest lsat scores, however that could have changed in the last 5 or so years.
Guitars are even worse, due to fretting. The act of fretting a note stretches the string, which raises its pitch, and the amount varies by string and by fret. So guitars are never truly in tune. Not only are harmonics not sufficient, but neither are electronic tuners! A guitar that is "in tune" according to an electronic tuner is always sharp in practice.

And it gets worse from there! The tuning of a guitar string varies as it decays. This is true of piano strings too, but not to the same degree. A freshly struck string is vibrating more widely than a gentle or decaying note, so it's stretching itself sharp. You can see this on a fast digital tuner - the note will go sharp at first, and then settle to a slightly lower pitch. So when you tune to an electronic tuner, are you tuning the initial pitch, or the decayed pitch? This variation might be 20 cents or more.

Because of this, how to tune a guitar well is very much a matter of taste, context, and experience. I use harmonics and electronic tuners to get myself in the ballpark, then start fine-tuning based on the guitar itself (each one has its own quirks), and the material I'm planning to play. On acoustic guitar, I tend to focus on getting the B string in tune with the D and A strings first, by the quality of octaves for open C and D chords (which also gets the A and D in tune with each other). Then I focus on getting the low E in tune with an octave E on the D string. Then get the high E in tune in unison with E on the B string. Finally, get the G string in tune with G on the low E, an octave down. This means my G string is usually a bit flat relative to the D and B strings, but that's okay - it's in tune for G chords, and being a little flat is good for E major and D chords. I might adjust a little if I'm playing in C/Am.

James Taylor has an excellent YouTube video about tuning guitars consistently with electronic tuners. It's very much to his taste and the specific guitars he uses, but his principles are sound. And if you try it on an acoustic with good intonation, you'll immediately hear that "James Taylor" sound.
The case against rolling your own crypto is that bugs can hide in crypto software without symptoms. Everything will seem to function perfectly. The verifier will o.k. valid signatures and reject invalid ones. The signatures themselves will look like gibberish to the eye.

But the bug will still be there, waiting for an actual attack.
It’s not isolationism, that’s been around forever and this fear for kids thing is more recent.

I’d argue it has a lot to do with the increasingly far-flung suburban housing that most people live in, and how dangerous the roads are.

1. Parents don’t want their kids getting hit by cars.

2. As they get older parents let them walk around the neighborhood —— but there’s nothing there except boring locked houses and front yards that, if you try to play in, you’ll get yelled at or worse.

3. The sprawl means even in these burbs there often aren’t many other kids around.

This terrible sprawl creates the reality that if you want your kids to get to hang out with other kids, or go to school, or go to a friends house, or do ANYTHING, you have to drive them there. And that’s such a time suck it’s not realistic to do all the time. Thus the helicopter parenting shuttling kids from one activity to another and then when exhausted saying “just watch Netflix.”
+1, excellent reply. The May hostile environment policy was a horrible travesty, the most appalling result of which (that I'm aware of) was the persecution of 'windrush' migrants from the Caribbean.

However surely the majority of the people in the situation you describe entered illegally or are avoiding review of their immigration status? I was under the impression that legal asylum seekers do get financial assistance, are entitled to medical treatment and can work if their application takes longer than a year to process. Are you saying that the police are raiding the homes of asylum seekers that entered legally, have registered with the authorities and have an application for asylum under current review?
One of the biggest advantages humans have is that humans can take risks. We have agency. Computers cannot take risks; not because they cannot be programmed to take risks, but because they are programmed by huge corporations with massive, centralized liability.

This is why level five autonomous cars will never exist. It's not a technical problem; it's a political one.

Its easy for someone on hackernews to say "maybe you shouldn't be driving if the car can't"; try saying that to a single mother working as a third-shift nurse, just trying to make ends meet, who's patients will suffer if she doesn't get to work. Try saying that to a technician who needs to get to a downed electric line in the middle of a torrential downpour to restore power to 20,000 people sitting comfortably in their homes. Try saying that to a Marine deployed in Nangarhar, under fire from enemy combatants.

Level Five autonomy could exist, but what we'd end up discovering is that humans let Jesus take the wheel far more often than the engineers in sunny Silicon Valley think. Level Five might mean seeing five feet in front of you and horrible traction, operating on your knowledge of the road, and just driving forward. Until an organization is willing to program a car to still drive forward in those conditions, level five won't happen. Uber practically shut down their entire program after one person died; over 100 people die every day in traditional vehicle accidents.
Inharmonicity increases with string thickness and decreases with string length (or effective string length when you're fretting it). It's most noticeable if you play high pitched notes on the E2 string. However, slight inharmonicity is just part of the sound and not a flaw:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.515...
These comments read like a bunch of low-income retail shoppers defending Walmart because they provide something they otherwise couldn't get.

I think these types of debates are bellwether for programmer/IT professional unionization. These are the exact types of lawsuits brought against organized labor as it was trying to get organized to prevent exploitative behavior.

It's disturbing to see these same anti-organization arguments rehashed simply for a new industry.
>put a cap on tuition so that it can't be more than X hours of work at a state's minimum wage

This is the best idea I've heard when it comes to the debate on education costs.
A little further off topic, but can people really sue because a teacher tells their kid not to use their phone in class?

That seems counter-productive.
People report that it's already working again: https://www.v2ex.com/t/530388
That is the best way, go to the bank.

It is mentioned in passing in the article itself.

> Of the roughly 40 people I spoke to, not a single one had been refunded by the delivery service; those who did get their money back had got it from their bank.
This seems like a technology enabled by our capacity for language and abstraction.
I have a 64 note piano and love it. It is has one or two strings per note instead of the standard 3. I bought mine at a garage sale for $240 bucks about 20 years ago, and it is my favorite instrument. I love the idea of this but not at that price point.
They do not teach CSS at any bootcamps as far as I know. It is considered too easy to waste time on in a bootcamp.
Sounds so exciting! :^)
I've wondered if mathematics is a 'shared fiction'. Obviously money and laws are shared fictions, but I wondered if other species can't grasp math concepts (beyond counting) because there is a fictional or conceptual element that their brains can't process.
Depends on how many "credits" the course is worth (which can be pretty arbitrary). However, 14-15 weeks of 1hr classes twice a week is standard.
I think I’m old fashioned but I just don’t understand the appeal of these food delivery services.

"Old-fashioned"? Nice try, Grandpa. I'm approaching retirement, and delivery of restaurant food has been a thing since before I was born. Hell, Domino's was founded in 1960.
>Maybe the dude didn't understand what the big deal was and kept dropping his hands? Someone probably jumped the gun?

or the cops lied about what happened. Wouldn't be the first time that has happened when a cop murdered an unarmed civilian.
A better “tech for good” investment thesis
It was someone who runs a competitor to Palantir, and that was kinda my first point. Textual analysis alone isn't sufficient, you ned a human with an ivestigative, analytical mindset. You do need access to the data and a good way to search and visualize the relationships in the data as well, of course.

PowerPoint actually did come into play - its how he presented his analysis to clients who hired him directly tather than buy access to the tool itself.
Running on open source hardware, manufactured before your eyes, by equipment you also manufactured...
And there’s nothing preventing employees from finding a new place to work if they don’t agree with how their company handles things. It’s a multinational corporation not college or even a democracy.
How is anything other than threads supposed to be a solution to long-running tasks blocking the UI thread?
I went to a relatively large public school with a big endowment. The "just teachers" were called Adjunct Professors and they really had a shit deal. They basically didn't make any more money teaching at my school than they would teaching at a community college and I don't even think they were considered full-time with benefits. Meanwhile, my research PI was a tenured professor who made a very decent living (salaries of teachers at the school were publicly available) but almost all of his salary was paid out by research grants, not the school.

Really among most of the department, I was surprised how much of an afterthought teaching seemed to be. They were by no means bad teachers, and I guess when you've been teaching the same class for many years it becomes pretty effortless, but there really is no good incentive for them to sign up and teach a bunch of extra classes when research is what they are interested in and pays for their salary (along with the salaries of all of their lab members).
There appears to be a real movement to move from Flow to typescript. Is Flow dying?
> There is an anti-authority ideology that permeates everything and a persistent skepticism.

Why are you calling this anti-american? If there is one American value, I would say it is rugged individualism. That's what drives the libertarians. And that's what drove the expansion into the west.
Can i brainwash myself?
Software development is a skilled trade, like being a plumber. It's not a lifestyle.
I'd love to see a more specific version of Troy Hunt's "have I been pwned" API which explicitly blocked user/password combinations which had been leaked.

The catch is, you'd have to store the pairs together which then makes you a target, so in practice the best you can really do is what's on offer already -- check that the password hasn't been leaked (and maybe if the email address has a high HIBP leak count).

That solution would seem to force people into password managers and random high-entropy passwords or passphrases...
Calling the police seems like an important thing the author didn't seem to do. This is not a nuisance, it's a crime. I am less interested in fining Deliveroo, rather I would like to see them forced to cooperate with law enforcement to prosecute thieves.
Standards have been lowered. Here’s a perspective from someone who used to be a tenured lecturer in the UK:

http://www.marktarver.com/professor.html
Bing in China fills my needs when I visit. Taking a look at my recent browsing history I was able to use Bing in China to find: hotels that accept foreign guests, terminals for flights, train maps, etc.
Maybe I'm missing the point but how did the fraud take place to begin with? Somebody fished the author's Deliveroo account and used it to buy a lot of food? If so what would be the right way for Deliveroo to solve the issue? I mean if they just swallow the cost and reimburse her with no questions asked it seems easy to abuse, I could just order a lot of food then later complain that my account has been breached. Then again that's pretty much what Amazon does in these situations in my experience but not everybody has Amazon's deep pockets...

That's not to say that their current response (or lack thereof) isn't bad, it's more that I'm not sure what would be a good response in this situation.

I'm also not sure how Deliveroo could be considered liable if the breach is on the user's side (phished password) rather than a server-side vulnerability. If I offer an online service and one user gets their password stolen, would I be liable for that? If so, what should I do if somebody claims that their account was stolen? What if they're actually lying to get access to a legit account?
In developing countries, I think it's a different story. I've visited my fair share of countries where public toilets don't have toilet paper. Or, someone stands at the door collecting payments, asks if you need toilet paper, and they take some sheets off the roll for you to use. If you put toilet paper in these kind of countries, it just disappears instantly. People have difficultly affording it when they make a dollar or two per day.

For a similar comparison, imagine if toilet paper costed $20 a roll in the US. Suddenly, it's being stolen everywhere from public places. Businesses can't afford to stock it in their toilets, as they can easily lose hundreds of dollars a day from theft. People also have trouble affording it at home, so it's not common in households. People are stealing entire rolls or filling their pockets with sheets because they can't afford to buy it. There's also suddenly a market for stolen toilet paper. People start stealing it from public toilets, and selling it for half price, $10 a roll on the street. Now we're in a situation like developing countries. This is why toilet paper is never provided, or you pay for a few sheets.

For the same reason, you can't stock pads and tampons in these countries. You said it yourself, stock them like toilet paper. Well, free toilet paper doesn't work in these places.

I don't know the solution. I would assume you need to give people ID numbers or stamps, and they can freely pickup N pads or tampons per month from a secure building.
Interestingly I went to an okay state school. I remember when I first transfer from college to complete my computer science. I wanted to take 4-5 classes of CS to get a ahead, but only two classes were available everything else was already filled.

I literally had sign up for classes as soon as registration was open to graduate, otherwise I would not get into courses required.
Well, TypeScript at least is growing enormously. Whether Flow dies or not is up to its authors, but I think TypeScript is pretty much unstoppable today.
He's also speaking as an employee who is uncomfortable with the current state of Google. Do workers rights include the right to not be constantly bombarded with political messaging you don't agree with and to be intimidated into keeping your own opinions silent?

This poster's message and the internal dialog that came out during the Damore hearing make Google sound like a horrible place to work that is aggressively overly politicized. So yeah, the stock holders would benefit from this but so would the employees.
Empires or religions are great unifying forces that span centuries and continents, so yes it is possible to have a narrative that goes beyond a simple human life.

Regarding the global scale, even if we don't realize it, we mostly already have a global common culture. Everyone is organizing its time in year of 365 days, split in 24 hours, counting in base 10, have mostly the same economical policies. Even ISIS has seized and used dollars from banks in their occupied territory, so they also believe in the dollar [0]. All of the these things were not true 10,000 years ago, we have probably already lost thousands of different human cultures since the start of agriculture. Sure we still have regional preferences on sport, food, festival, etc, but mostly all humans are running the same basic OS, so to speak.

So are we going to coordinates on the global scale, only time will tell, but this is much more likely today that it was 1,000 years ago.

[0] IIRC this is an example taken from Sapiens in the chapter about money.
For some perspective, the original guide was produced to help the Canadian population to stay healthy during war induced restrictions.

The later, and current version of the guide influence institutional kitchens that do not have dedicated nutritionists such as daycares, some schools, clinics, etc.

If I followed by grandma's preferences we'd be eating canned food, salted meat, mincemeat pie, a lot of mayonnaise and cookies (exaggerating of course).
See also:

>Florida v. Harris, 568 U.S. 237 (2013),[1] was a case in which the United States Supreme Court addressed the reliability of a dog sniff by a detection dog trained to identify narcotics, under the specific context of whether law enforcement's assertions that the dog is trained or certified is sufficient to establish probable cause for a search of a vehicle under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[2] Harris was the first Supreme Court case to challenge the dog's reliability, backed by data that asserts that on average, up to 80% of a dog's alerts are wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Harris
We'll make sure to add a notice at runtime to make it clear (plus, a consequent diff at review).

Also note that we recommend using `yarn policies set-version` to enforce the version of Yarn used by everyone in your team with very little friction:

https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/policies#toc-policies-set-ve...
There have been several projects that were flow based that have moved to TS. I think the real litmus test will be if React eventually either includes TS types or is rewritten in TS.

Disclaimer: I work with TypeScript professionally.
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Aha that's a great point, will update!
Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for causation
Beethoven stage piano is still experimental and in fact you may note the moonlight do not go higher note. But more importantly the sound meadower. Chopin also have a weaker source Piano.

Not all are concert pianist. Should have an option
> because school do not enforce their "no phone" policy due to litigious parents.

I have family members that are teachers - and this is one of the reasons why some of the most experienced, highly skilled teachers are leaving to teach at private schools. It's not a good thing, because these private schools' tuition fees ($16,000 per year or more) mean that the children of the top 5% of wage earners in a city are getting a better quality education than the public school children. And this is in a location where the public schools are generally of good quality.

Just like any job, teachers who have reached their personal threshold of bullshit-tolerance will leave and go find a job elsewhere.
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... and wear cvdazzle style makeup or other face changing costume; facial recognition is good enough and ubiquitous enough to identify you.

Also, develop a special limp for just these meetings - gait analysis is also becoming mainstream.

It’s constantly becoming harder to not be tracked.