skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just put my iphone on "do not disturb" full-time and use my favourites list to only allow calls though (from a selected list). People who double call are also allowed through. Then you are not constantly distracted by notifications, emails, texts, spam calls [1]. My thinking is, my phone should serve me, not the other way around, so I only check when I'm not focused on something else. Personally, I find useless notifications way worse than calls.

[1] https://www.iphonelife.com/blog/32671/tip-day-how-let-favori...
"Intro to quantum computing"

Really?

otherwise This is heavy on maths for data science and machine learning..

It doesn't have any of the "software engineering" courses though.
What do you mean when you say "a literal smartcard reader"? Do you have a link? All the smartcard readers that I have seen are way too large to be placed in a smartphone e.g. http://www.dualboost.com/index.php?pos=photos
It was called that because connected pty devices could hang up. Whether hanging up due to intentional logout or actually hanging up the modem was, and is, left as an exercise to the user. Unless we try to disambiguate it via login/pty manager programs, that is.
Sure, it's very attractive, suddenly you can accept all sorts of payments, but what you won't know, are the massive chargebacks -- 25 usd per chargeback.

This means, if your product costs 10 usd, you just lost 35 usd revenue.

That's payment from 3,5 customers, if 2 customers create chargebacks, that's 70 usd gone from your account.

And the best part? The payment provider will just "suspend" your account because "they invented a reason, without any warning upfront", and just steal your money.

Pretty fun?

Just do it the old fashion way:

Negotiate with your customers, and send an invoice, old fashion way, but more reliable for your company.
Technology, AI, and Ethics: Interview with Luciano Floridi
By only if you’re also willing to forgo every single other possible notification.
yep UML and such don't have what we think of as sensible semantics.

> if you really do it right, the high-level design might enable you to specify type-like properties that constrain the low-level implementation in a broadly helpful way

so this is exactly what we do. we have a general way to specify boxes and wires and if you give me some sort of type system and a functor and voila, we can produce some well behaved code. nothing is hand-wavy about it, or "complex", like specialized flags or properties of boxes, just some simple mappings
I've always wondered why someone hasn't tried to reverse the model on these delivery service apps (postmates, doordash, instacart)

Instead of delivery people blindly accepting orders and hoping for the best, the people who are requesting the delivery should have to set a rate at order time and make the full order and destination visible so couriers can decide if it's worth it and make a counter-offer if it's too low to be worth it.

If you ever go read what the workers are saying in subreddits for these services, it's clear that the incentives for quick and accurate deliveries just don't line up with the current gig system.
Just a guess, but I would expect carriers to be strongly against any feature that made it easy to block most calls.
That would be a neat foia project - request graffiti datasets.
Tor's Open Research Topics (2018)
More details: Link to the (unofficial) r7rs package https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/r7rs

The GitHub page has the details about the installation (it's quite straightforward), how to use it and compatibility with the standard. https://github.com/lexi-lambda/racket-r7rs
Non-native reader/kubernetes learner here. I know only keywords from this article. It's a pity that I cannot get the full meaning of it, but still it provide a chance for me to learn some upstream news.

Thanks for speaking out for us!
Using the network inspector, there's a button when you click on a specific request to edit and resend it.

Here's a SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28775346
Especially because Washington's Attorney General is particularly fond of jumping on cases like this, particularly worker rights. But he is also fond of keeping startups in line. So this is a double-whammy case for him.
https://sci-hub.se/10.1126/science.324_1254

In short, sexual reproduction is very old (> 1 billion years ago) and first appeared in an ancestor of all eukaryotic cells and long predates multicellular life. So, all of multicellular life evolved with the haploid/diploid molecular machinery already available and different branches of life have built vastly different strategies to use it. You'd be better served IMHO to start at DNA replication and build up rather than starting at sex organs and working backward.
In the computer world, a similar idea was building a highly-available cluster using consumer hardware. This was also counter-intuitive and revolutionary when it was introduced (20 years ago?).
Come to think of it their aggressive upselling techniques always left a bad taste in my mouth. I do like the service but they really need to up their pay for their drivers.
Yes, I'm aware of that, which is why I "translated" for the article.
I'm genuinely surprised that the site hasn't found more traction than it has. Don't get me wrong: I wasn't expecting to set the world on fire or outrank the big players, but I have seen young sites do a lot more with a lot less (including some of my own).
Are we, as a society, ok with people being desperate enough to need $20 more than privacy?

Or maybe privacy isn't something we should care about or at least value as much as we do as a society. Maybe I'm wrong. I think I see the dangers down the road but maybe it's just a mirage and privacy will die and it won't be used against use by people in power or with money.
WA doesn't have a separate tipped minimum wage, which makes the violation even more flagrant.
Another reason to avoid bootstrap if possible. I wouldn't touch that thing with a 10 foot div.

Each to their own, but it's better to make your own templates, unless your primary role is something other than frontend dev and you want the equivalent of store-bought pasta sauce instead of making your own pasta sauce.
Toilet Technology Is Going to Have Its Tesla Moment
Will this work also help other alternative implementations like pycket [1]? As a layman it seems like making things more maintainable and less tied to C would help, but I'm curious if someone has more insights.

[1] https://github.com/pycket/pycket
As long as you are doing something more complicataed than O(n), the shipping of data is going to be negligible.

In fact, that's why sorting on a GPU is going to almost always be worthwhile. Sorting is a O(n*log(n)) operation, but the transfer is O(n).

The Table-Join is O(n^2) if I remember correctly per join. (If you have 5 tables to join, its a ^2 factor for each one). That means shipping the data (a O(n) operation) is almost always going to be negligible.

So I'd expect both join and sort to be pushed towards GPUs, especially because both joins and sorts have well known parallel algorithms.
I saw a friend do this a lot over on Google+, and my first thought was "what happens when your kids are in school, and their friends are talking about embarrassing things they did when they were three or four years old".
But it's also paired with Facebook gaining unprecedented data access that they don't have on most users. Crazy.
I find when reporting bugs, you have to do all the work. Supply videos, screenshots, gifs. Step-by-step reply. The people who’s job it is to filter out the junk from the actual bugs have such little technical know-how and are overwhelmed with so many dumb users that you basically have to do their jobs for them by supplying an entire write up on the issue. It’s the only way I’ve found to consistently get through to someone that knows what’s going on.
That's some nice sounding evangelism, but also completely besides the point. You seem to think I don't understand C++ and Rust. Believe me, I do. Rust inhibits use cases of array slicing that are both useful and not error prone.

Last time I read a blog post about this, they picked a situation that was perfectly safe and ordinary in C++, with straightforward function-local safety reasoning.
> everyone knows Turing

This is nowhere close to true.

I am willing to grant you that a random person off the street is more likely to have heard of Turing than Shannon. But much more likely still to have heard of Stephen Hawking or Jane Goodall or James Watson.

Public awareness of scientists drops off very quickly. That’s just the way life works. It’s lucky enough if random people off the street have heard of small countries or political leaders of their own country. Most people don’t remember most of the major genocides of the past few decades.

Shannon is without question one of the best known (by the general public) 30 or 50 scientists of the 20th century. It is ridiculous to pretend that nobody has heard of him. At the very least anyone with a STEM degree will have some idea.

But not everyone can capture the public imagination the way (say) Einstein did.
How does one do this? I've never had a mentor, less a good one, and I can't help but think it's held me back.

I've been successful in my career but maybe I'm leaving something on the table?
I think there's a happiness vs. success tradeoff with optimism vs. pessimism, and it works in counterintuitive ways.

In my experience (both personal and with close family members), pessimists are happier but less successful than optimists. They're happier because if you already think the worst is going to happen, it doesn't take much to exceed expectations. It's the old "happiness = reality - expectations" saying: set expectations at zero and anything that happens makes you happy. There's also an aspect of taking control of risks and actively working to avoid them that you mention, which makes near term, immediate reality more likely to go their way.

They're less successful because if you believe that most risks will turn out badly, you are less likely to take "leap of faith, have no idea what's going to happen" risks. Why would you, if the outcome is already known and will likely be bad? But in today's economy, many of the great successes come from taking big risks where you don't know the outcome and nobody else has the balls to try them. (This is a feature of markets: gains accrue to the people who supply what nobody else is willing to supply but which many other people demand.) So pessimists tend to make great technicians but shitty visionaries, while optimists tend to make great visionaries but shitty technicians.

I've fallen on both sides in my career. I've found my biggest successes usually have come from leaps of faith that I was was willing to suspend my "This is totally gonna blow up in my face" belief for, but those opportunities come from and must be followed by periods of actually thinking about and managing all the ways that it could blow up in my face.
That would be just one step away from calling them "meatbags" as Bender would do in Futurama...
> GPU technology has advanced significantly over the years, making it a perfect fit for real-time computation and data processing in parallel.

I wouldn’t call GPUs perfect for performing analytics functions. It can be painful to force your data processing algorithms through shaders. What GPUs are is cheap in terms of dollar cost per flop and power consumption.
Guessing that there are plenty of employers who would take the opposite view. There are surely companies who want employees who will do stuff without complaining about a bunch of annoying ethical implications.
The person was actually paid $10.80 - $10 of which was tip, and $0.80 was from Instacart.
Adding Emotional Tone Analysis to Your Contact Form
He accused Lennart of hurting people with no proof. Is that reasonable?
Thanks for detailed comments. Many of the design choices that I made for the site are polarizing (like the decision to include no images). Same goes for the content: My goal is to help people get in and out of the site in five minutes or less. It's a bummer when that seems like a cop out. I've found it much harder to write short (and meaningful) content than it is to write longform.
Perhaps a bit like Baghdad Bob's job as Saddam Hussein's Information Minister: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf
It depends very much on what users are told they are signing up for. The ad in the article says a "paid social media research study", which couldn't be more vague compared to the level of access Facebook are granted through the root certificate.

Plus, the deliberate targeting of children that won't know better. And asking people to upload their Amazon order history! Pretty scummy.
Keep us updated.
Not an expert, but if you add "The Best Cheap" [1] at the beginning of every title tag of your product pages I guess Google bot will think is something shady.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoodcheapandfast.com
I think a lot has to do with media outlets like TechCrunch having an “oh shit” moment wherein they realize Facebook is taking their profit machine from them (advertising). He even admits as much in the Twitter comments where he posted this.

If people at this point doubt that traditional media is waging war against Facebook as a means of survival and masquerading as a bastion of privacy as a means to an ends they are willfully delusional. These organizations show much more intrusive ads to me than Facebook. Also they treat Twitter with kid gloves because Twitter is useful for them to gain a following and disseminate their posts. Twitter has also shown me much more politically motivated ads recently than Facebook has.
> Are we, as a society, ok with people being desperate enough to need $20 more than privacy?

This is not the question that's being asked here. The fact is, there are people like that, and for them, these things are great.

They're not solutions, they're band-aids. But if you're not ok with the situation existing, removing band-aids isn't particularly productive.
> Whatever. The premise still holds fine, we could drastically increase marginal tax rates at the top end and the world wouldn’t blow up.

No, the world would not blow up. But you'd generate basically zero revenue. People that make $10 million a year are mostly not making that in the form of cash compensation. And those that are have the leverage to demand different forms of compensation. Which they will immediately do. The person that person that makes that kind of money that also doesn't have the power to say "pay me in equity now, thanks" is extremely rare indeed.
When i dreamed the code, Maybe it is the code dreamed me.

When Worlds end, The Rest Is Silence of Code.
Dick move, instant back lash
Thanks for the encouragement and double thanks for emphasizing the word "believes." I work hard to make the content as short as possible while still being useful, but it's true that Google may not be able to see the value in that (at least, without a lot of user feedback signals).
You're comparing owning a person to people voluntarily downloading apps ?
I may be imagining, but I vaguely recall a suggestion that this was a face-saving alternate story, since drugging the kids didn't sound so nice.
how is it any different than not being willing to pay $3/month for private email, and instead getting it free from google/microsoft?
can we just kill Google instead?
This is probably something you should ask the person who's desperate enough to need that $20, than to decide for them from your point of reference.
24 days a month, 7 hours a day, what's your problem?
It is the obligation of the tipped employee to report their tips as income and pay taxes on them. True, it's difficult to audit so sometimes they don't, but that's hardly my problem.

The notion that you should overpay your own taxes to solve this is just bewildering.
From "Ask HN: What are your favorite entrepreneurship resources" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15021659 :

> USA Small Business Administration: "10 steps to start your business." https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/how-start-business/10-...

> "Startup Incorporation Checklist: How to bootstrap a Delaware C-corp (or S-corp) with employee(s) in California" https://github.com/leonar15/startup-checklist

> FounderKit has reviews for Products, Services, and Software for founders: https://founderkit.com

... I've heard good things about Gusto for payroll, HR, and benefits through Guideline: https://gusto.com/product/pricing
right, but considering most web traffic is encrypted nowadays, it's pretty much mandatory to do MITM to analyze traffic.
Both those links are on harness racing specifically not horse racing in general; and I found them in 2 seconds of obvious google search.

Like the guy beneath me: I've seen those curves before -they're always a mistake.
> Maybe grade school should focus on reading comprehension.

You had a strong comment without the implied insult. Don't compromise your point to be mean to someone.
Ciao cgrs PJON stands for Padded Jittering Operative Network
Recently, there was an HN thread of a Chinese man who sold his kidney for an iPhone at 17 years of age and 8 years later was bedridden for life because his remaining kidney failed.[1]

You could say the people who bought his kidney for an iPhone did nothing wrong. The kid had control over his own body and they made a deal the kid thought was good.

I think, though, that he wasn't properly educated of the risks that doing such a trade would leave him with, and that the people who offered him the deal very well knew them, but targeted him for being a naive child who wouldn't take them seriously.

I think this is the same case. People just don't understand or don't take the risks of this seriously enough, and companies like Facebook take advantage of that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18925780
what if parents force their children to participate?
I swear to god I am never going to order from instacart ever again.
The worker is supposed to report all cash tips. Since most of these workers probably pay little to no taxes, it really doesn’t harm the treasury, even if they fail to report.
To be fair, you could replace the word children with the word adult in your first paragraph and it would all still hold.

Adults might have fully developed brains from a biology perspective, and I recognise this is what you meant, but I believe there is a strong argument to be made that many adults, myself included, are heavily lacking in the development of mind department. Mark Zuckerberg surely is, either that or he’s actually Satan.

I definitely have an undeveloped appreciation of the consequences of my actions, and I’m easily manipulated. I’m rapidly approaching 40 laps around the sun!

My greater point here is that I don’t find your argument for why it’s worse because children particularly compelling. Or, perhaps, insufficient. So I’ll replace with my own:

Society at large has a long history of, and a cultural and biological evolutionary adaptation, to protect children more strongly than adults, because we are born vulnerable and take a long time to reach sexual reproductive age. We’ve only made it this far because we’re not descended from parents who let their kids stumble in to sabretooth tiger territory. (As an aside, I appreciate that the greatest threat to children’s health and development is their immediate family. But here we are).

The worrying thing is, now the sabretooth tiger is a guy who’s surname translates from the mother tongue, German, to English as candy mountain, Google translate actually says “pile of sugar”, and comes with a family friendly large blue thumbs up symbol. So the threat is difficult to discern.

I’d actually be more worried if I didn’t have a seizure like laughing fit every time I think about the whole scenario. It’s a coping mechanism I guess.

I mean, is this really happening? I wish Bill Hicks was still alive! Aaah, he lives on through those who carry the flame!
Oh they could, I mean Apple could just keep killing their accounts they create but is FB ballsy enough to keep opening them? It would be FB calling Apple's bluff. Users would riot though. Apple has to decide between supporting privacy or supporting their users' choice. Apple has made the decision to take away users' choice in the past in the name of safety/protection, I could see them doing it again.

I can bet this is the LAST thing they want to see in the headlines. It forces them to address it, maybe they have a plan ready to go for this eventuality, a whole PR push and I kind of hope they do. If they don't they either look weak on privacy or have to roll out some half-baked plan/proposal/nebulous idea on how to protect users privacy better in iOS 13 or something like that.

Right now Apple is doing a whole hell of a lot of taking out of both sides of it's mouth and I understand it's a hard line to walk, I'm not saying I could do it better. FB's practices in general are probably an affront to Apple in general but skirting Apple's limitations to piss all over privacy and essentially turn an iPhone into an Android-level of data collection, I can imagine Apple is PISSED. I just really hope they had something planned for this day.
The Pandora handheld can act as a keyboard/mouse/joystick/mass storage peripheral over its USB-OTG port, and the Pyra is expected to as well. These devices follow a similar aesthetic, if not quite a similar role - small, chunky, and overloaded with i/o options, Pyra especially so.
Validate and confirm that what you're looking for is good, yes.

Obfuscate what you're looking at, no.
How many restaurants have $1.9B in funding and are valued at ~$8B? There's also an obfuscation on payment to workers that doesn't happen in a restaurant.
Microsoft’s auth infrastructure has been a hot mess over the last 12 month. These outages are getting old.
Hmm has anybody used e.g., llvm to do regex -> ir -> native code? I found a 2008 presentation about llvm's "regcomp", but didn't immediately turn up any benchmarks; anyway, surely the state of the art moved since 10 years ago. Even so, a bullet point said llvm "could even vectorize common [regex] idoms" http://llvm.org/pubs/2008-10-04-ACAT-LLVM-Intro.pdf
I didn't write any of that content for SEO purposes. In many cases, it's an opportunity to clear the air about misconceptions that people have (sometimes, dangerous misconceptions). Is there a specific page that you found useless?
a lot of people shit on systemd because of the "SIGHUP"-"bug" however what they don't realize is that there are more use cases where logging out a user SHOULD kill all users processes.

I mean without that behavior linux is not a multi user system.
The default is sane, however the lack of "permissions" in this kind is also a little bit bad, however since it is runtime configurable this should be enforced by the distribution, i.e. when installing the distri there should be a switch "this system is only used by a single user". it's basically the same as windows uac. while it looks bad for a single user, it's not that bad when you see computers as a tool which can have more than one user, with more than one "privilege".

system just shows that linux is by far not ready for the masses cause a lot of behavior is undefined, like the uid/username stuff. usernames can be created as you wish, but most programs will behave broken if you create usernames that start with a number, it's a security nightmare.

and the problem that there is no real process to actually get ALL people together who can solve this, it will never be fixed. there is only the posix standard but not everything applies to linux and not everything is a good idea in the sense of linux.

systemd actually makes a lot of things in the right way, but of course it's not perfect and probably at a certain point in time people would come up with something better.
There's a saying that pets look like their masters and I think the same is true for entrepreneurs and their cities. Musk is the perfect embodiment of LA flim-flam.