skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lexus brand has a higher quality standard. Toyota is already good, but they do additional checks for lexus.
For example they CAT scan the motor for any imperfections.

https://blog.lexus.co.uk/7-engineering-and-production-techni...
Why is there such a big difference between California and Texas on the issue of immigration?
An analysis of censorship in Chinese open source projects
throwaway actually had a valid informative point, followed by some sarcasm. the troll is the person you replied to, and you yourself. you should not flag, downvote, and shadow* people to make yourself feel more in control of your life.

your moderation practices are what has been detrimental to this site more than any trolls or spam. you have turned this site into a subreddit, just with an interface written in 1991.

Please don't violate what the site is for. It's for people wanting actual quality information, not for you as a mod to feel satisfied. You are literally removing things people have wanted to see. A quality discussion does not mean "super nice and agrees with my childlike style of humor." It means more pertinent information. You seem to define pertinent information as "troll" while not noticing the actual trolls. Here is a guideline: you need to be replaced.
My new serverless-to-CGI bridge will be called "hipstercgid"
The GP was talking about a delivery company budgeting for tickets. All the answers to the parent miss the point. The discussion is on a large scale with a significant amount of tickets. If it's a hundred tickets for 1,000 drivers a year, that's a few thousand bucks for a multi-million dollar salary. Doesn't something like that run under miscellaneous and isn't explicitly budgeted for?
This is what I love about HN, instant access to experts in the field, so we don't have to argue our assumptions.

I guess it's unsurprising that uranium operations run a lot cleaner than fossil fuel extraction, given the politics involved.

I'm not against fission power itself, but being in California makes me kind of a NIMBY on the issue. All you need is somewhere with water and without active fault lines, and nope, not seeing a good spot. The evacuation plans for San Onofre involved moving one to eight million people, or about eight million ways something could go wrong.
The Terminator of harvesting berries is around the corner. What comes next?
Interesting. Curiosity beats dazzle I guess. Will beta-test something like this. Thanks for the tip.
You trust Facebook ? Skip it bin it and forget
MSIL is Microsoft's implementation of the open standard CIL, which has been open for over a decade, and is how Mono even works.
Justice for Brianna
UK firms plan mass exodus if May allows no-deal Brexit
That's really the crux of the issue. Nobody cares if a thousand or two additional jobbers die falling off of roofs while installing solar panels, but if one person is exposed to sub-lethal quantities of radiation, everyone cares.
It feels like we couldn't build the goddamn interstate system today, and you can't tell me that's due to a lack of pavement-laying competence.
You're just assuming that. And, despite your snark, you are completely incorrect about what my commits looked like.
Are the police responsible for not pursuing it if nobody comes forward?
Does Duolingo Work?
To be fair, it sounds like it was some group brainstorming ways to reduce costs and throwing ideas out there, not something the senior leadership were actively planning. Probably one of those brainstorming sessions where they say “there are no bad ideas, just throw everything out there!”
Nowadays the Computer Engineering degree lets those of us who were torn between EE and CS get both. At least at Virginia Tech, CpE(Computer Engineering) easily outstrips CS and teaches the basics of CS and EE fundamentals as well as practical application of both of them.
Screw this website for hijacking the back button. This is easily the worst culprit I have seen yet.
Ah, I'm mostly hoping to learn how it works and what I can do with it. Trying to find a hardware-based pet project!
That all makes sense, but it doesn't explain why shipping workers would be EXTRA careless with items marked fragile. I would expect equal carelessness with all packages.
> An entire generation of top tier college students have pretty much skipped ee.

Umm, what? I just looked at MIT's statistics (the registrar publishes them online) and sure, there are a lot more CS students, but there are certainly a lot of EEs.
Not everyone is completely informed on either side of the issue, and there are those that are informed that simply disagree about the scope of harm and scale/approach of solution. The huge assumption is that being informed makes a difference in people's stance. What those that claim they are informed need to do is recognize that while they are more informed about uses of the data, they are often less informed about the plight of the users and their preferred benefits.
>As a parent I have a strong desire to raise my children with the same values that I have. For people who practice organized religion, you can’t really have the “values” part without the religion part. It all fits together into a cohesive whole.

Then you should probably examine whether your values can stand up without the false axiom you're using to shore them up. I'm not saying they can't! But you need to check. And if they do, so much the better: you can pass on good values and avoid teaching your children nonsense.
"then we don't do business in China anymore."

If that is indeed the case, I think is too late, in my opinion.

The historical precedent doesn't account for the fact that Russia and China are currently members of the WTO and that they have their own group named BRICS.

But I applaud your initiative on thinking on the issue and the Logic of your thinking is Good, and this is the most important.

A bit of information less then the needed, in this case, doesn't mean the Logic was not good. So, the understanding can be good.

And something important I have to say, I think, in my opinion, that is a naive misconception to count non-nuclear non-strategical weaponry in any reasoning, those are just toys to play, to show to the other kids and make poor kids envy, they are not weapons, in the Real Game of the Globe. Count only the ICBC in your logic, and you can have a better understanding.
I have a 14 year old Volvo wagon and a 13 year old Camry. I regularly drive both. Love not having car payments. Live in the snow/salt belt. In my youth it just wouldn't have been possible. The cars would have rusted to pieces by now. Paint sure has improved.
I'm not sure what you searched for but you shouldn't need obscure sources like that for this... a bit of quick searching re: citizenship rights found [1] for me from the UN. Whereas for migration there's [2] which makes it clear there is no universal agreement on migration rights. [3] seems to make it even more clear that it's up to countries to decide migration policy. I'm sure more can be found via some more searching.

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/Nationality.aspx

> The right to a nationality is a fundamental human right.

> States shall introduce safeguards to prevent statelessness by granting their nationality to persons who would otherwise be stateless and are either born in their territory or are born abroad to one of their nationals.

> States shall also prevent statelessness upon loss or deprivation of nationality.

[2] https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/migration/pages/migrationand...

> It is increasingly clear that a lack of human rights-based migration governance at the global, regional and national levels is leading to the routine violation of migrants’ rights in transit, at international borders, and in the countries they migrate to.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Compact_for_Migration

> The Global Compact reaffirms the sovereign right of States to determine their national migration policy and their prerogative to govern migration within their jurisdiction, in conformity with international law. [...]
I sometimes prepare my shipments as a kid preparing for bullies at school. Be ready for some abuse, everyone is tested. But don't look overly protected and don't just mark yourself fragile. That's "asking for it".
Duolingo’s design largely relies upon a system called
“spaced repetition,” a technique in which learned information
is repeated at regular (usually short) intervals

Aside from the author's other criticisms, she just takes it on faith that Duolingo actually implements a proper SRS. I'm not sure they do. The other apps and webapps I have used seems seem to have much better Spaced Repetition algorithms.
See, this is why we shouldn't have banned trans fats. Sure they were killing people, and sure we knew it, but the devil you know...
Well done! Thanks for the book. Your English is great, I'm not sure what the other guy is talking about.

I would agree that it would hook us in if we knew more about you (and your project challenge?) in the first chapter of the book. We don't really get to know you until we follow links to your main website page and off to your Youtube channel (subbed).
context sensitive grammars.
I struggle to buy the idea that people are irrationally overestimating the costs of nuclear when the industry has needed a legally mandated cap to its liabilities to operate.

The existence of the cap indicates that the industry itself believes that the costs of a black swan event in the nuclear industry could be ridiculously high.
Honestly, at this point, I'm expecting that anyone participating in "hustle culture" is either self-consciously referencing Sorry to Bother You or just letting me know they are, in the immortal words of Douglas Adams, a bunch of mindless jerks who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Agree completely that it is a deal breaker. But don’t be too hard on the hardware engineers, sometimes the BOM can not afford the extra 17 cents.
Cruise Control for Apache Kafka
Most nuclear renewable energy competitors are cheaper than nuclear.

Sure, nuclear provides baseload energy in a way its cheaper competitors cannot, but as long as you have more than 20-30% fossil fuel the baseload is not really a concern anywhere.

It seems foolish to divert money intended to reduce polluting sources of energy into the more expensive nuclear alternative, until the share of coal and natural gas is low enough that more stable sources of energy are neeeded.
Space Invaders exploited the render-dependent timing of it's game loop to increase the speed of movement as the kill count increased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders#cite_ref-RG-3_1...
Reddit have a Public API, thats how all these unofficial clients work. Don't know for sure if this site is using it. (It probably is)
?? linker scripts are about the layout of the executable. The OS (if there is one) is the driver of that. ISA spec is an orthogonal concept.
The methods on Socket don't have async methods. As others have pointed out, you can use NetworkStream. I have missed the memo on that :)
I do not find my Data Engineer job either boring or dead end, but thanks for the condescension.
I'm a current employee and subject to the confidentiality agreement, so I can't go into detail here. But you probably know as a former employee that Google often makes incremental improvements to their processes, and the promotion process (including L6+) is no exception. Sorry for the boring corporate-speak. If you really want to know the details, come back! :)

(I realized after re-reading my comment that it was ambiguous; I didn't mean to suggest that your eventual yes would have turned into a no. I merely meant that the process to get there today would have been different, and hopefully more predictably efficient.)

EDIT: actually there is one hugely confidential scoop that certainly would have affected you and that I'm totally going to share with you. They no longer have promotion jackets. (Readers, these were lightweight zippered jackets or pullovers that read "Google Engineering" near the breast-pocket area. They were so understated that they triggered this sort of CrossFit reflex that compelled some wearers to tell everyone within earshot about them.) In the past couple years the company has tried to tone down promotion celebrations, at least in Tech, so many of the broadcasted congratulations are gone, along with the jackets. Fine with me -- promotion season is nice for those who get what they asked for, painful for those who didn't, and in either case something that should be private by default, like your salary.
Well, why not the original Refactoring, as it's more OOP-oriented, and actually has Java examples. Fowler's website, as has been mentioned already, has a lot of his refactoring-type material online. https://refactoring.com/catalog/
Why not just use DuckDuckGo or other search engines?
This. I too got my O1 last year. And know a few others who came here the same way. We are no Einstein.
This is true. The only human derived food that we know of is breast milk.

Can we create a food from our stem cells?

This is mostly a random thought experiment. It’s not to actually trying to feed the human population nor is it based on hard science.

I keep thinking of how plants can synthesize their own food due to photosynthesis. Animals and birds and mammals and insects cannot...I keep going back to the origins and evolution of photosynthesis, but don’t have the scientific background to figure why we can’t do it too..or rather..what do we need to modify in our habits or genes to be entirely a self sustaining species.
Apparently some modern cars with a lot of electronics do actually have a problem keeping their battery alive for just two weeks in an airport garage!
It makes me think of jumping out of a plane. Pulling the cord to open your parachute sounds like a really simple thing, but doing a really simple thing correctly and quickly when you are otherwise about to die is harder than you might think. And when skydiving, even for the first time, you get to prepare for the event, rather than having it sprung on you.
Right and it takes them five minutes to ramp down, and the price market window will be 5 minutes. Which means they will have to bet on the price being high the next windiw too. Which means higher prices sustained longer because gas units won't be quick enough any more.
I think a lot of people just use parser combinators which I personally find a lot easier to use and much more powerful. Code as data, data aa code, yadda yadda.
I love data engineering - atleast when I practiced it at an adtech company, it involved lots of interesting challenges around performance, distributed systems and a mix of SWE & Ops work. Buut, applying to data engineering jobs I see where the parent poster is coming from (minus the condescension) - a lot of them are about writing simple ETL jobs, and they tend to be lower paid & less prestigious.
I wouldn't mind joining, but I have no idea who to vote for for the board.
My impression is that cabin altitude on a pressurized airliner might be up to 8,000 ft.
I find it relatively easy to stick to doing productive things every single day if I do them the first thing in the morning, before I have breakfast. Later in the day things always get in a way and it is much harder to concentrate on non urgent things.
My previous employer tried the same in 2015 with both BC and Washington with Oregon. We scrapped the plan after 6 month of the pilot plant keeping failing.

Finding cadres was really tough even for the simplest things. Finding a guy who can program a particular brand of chipshooters took 2.5 months. We found a single guy in all BC/Washington/Oregon area, and he demanded 100k+ for something that I can teach a highschooler to do. In Shenzhen, I'm 100% sure that I will get few solid applicants on day one for just any machinery brand.

Simple assembly line workers. 50k+ undergrad students were horrid workers, with terrible discipline. 70k+ masters students, just a bit better. People with years of work experience and 80k+ expectations finally did that, but they were still spending more time wiring simple electric bikes than Chinese highschoolers do. At that stage, we decided to stop.
You're claiming to know amazon internal except you're also using SWE, not SDE, the standard name for software devs there. Also amazon seems to hire very few Applied Scientists and thus is likely cherry picking for this role. The one I work near is an industry thought leader at Principal Applied Scientist. They'd be a leading researcher if they were in academia.
My last bike came damaged. The box with the steel frame suffered a minor hit I didn't even notice it until after my shop reported the damage. Bent the right rear dropout less than two millimeters, dropouts are where the wheel axle connects to the frame. This prevented the rear tire from inserting and had bent the location of the rear derailleur mount.

Repairing wouldn't necessarily be safe and would definitely invalidate the warranty, luckily the company I bought it from sent me a new frame after I gave them proof of shipping damage.
People who want access to a 1.2 billion person market, 350 million of which are living close to a first-world lifestyles.

Where are these factories moving? Poorer countries in Asia. Vietnam, Thailand, etc. It's purely a cost-saving measure, due to the rising wages in China.

Despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth about the trade war, those jobs aren't coming back to the US. If neo-liberal economics, and nationalism continues to be a popular in the United States (I predict they will be), its only a matter of time until we'll be talking about a trade war against <The new China>.
Explainer: why can’t humans photosynthesise?
I wondered the same thing, and came across this guy who has been documenting his experimentation and purported success with self-administered bacteria from kimchi... https://lactobacto.com/2019/01/17/what-else-can-lactobacillu... :)
Show HN: Big Bad Word Search
misogyny is not limited to e-sports.
its probably less than 20 feet away from you.
I have no experience with Go, but boots being useful at tasks other than driving nails was pretty clearly exactly their point.
Lots of unsubstantiated claims here. WD doesn't need the OSS community, the community won't make or break the project. They're a 'nice to have' at best. Remember, if this really means savings of $X (that goes to ARM ??) per unit of storage shipped, given their volumes, they'll gladly fund this to the finish line. Claiming WD needs the OSS community is like claiming chrome/Google needs the community. Sure, the community contributions are valuable, but the core funding and heavy lifting is always in-home.

As for a whole generation skipping EE, no evidence.
Hard to say. Xbox has the Xbox live network you have to subscribe to for muliplayer. Playstation network is optional and sometimes gives free games.

500 bucks is too much if they can get it under 400 it will sell more and they make the difference up in selling games.
On x86-64, the page tables control memory access permissions (rwx). The layout and semantics of these page tables are defined by the ISA and work the same on any processor. You wouldn't need to lay out your binary differently on Intel vs. AMD, for example.

It sounds like AVR, by contrast, has some parts of the address space that are (x) only and others that are (rw) only, even though other RISC-V processors don't have this restriction. That seems odd to me.

Maybe it's not as odd if you think of memory as a device that is mapped into your address space. ROM could be mapped into an x86-64 address space and be read-only -- even if the page table said it was writable it would probably throw some kind of hardware exception if you tried to actually write it.
I understand enterprise sales to be a necessary evil but man it is annoying when I want to try a service or software but have to talk to a sales rep before being able to test out the product.
> Writing every day kept ideas top of mind. When I finished writing, I’d carry the puzzles to my commute or the shower, and I’d talk to people about them. My ideas were always nearby, making it easy to jump back in.

This sounds like the main takeaway. Even though the direct time spent on an activity may seem small, the total effective time spent on that activity shoots up if it is performed daily (v/s weekly or longer).
People who vote populists have both fickle loyalties, and short memory. The OP is right. I myself began to sense the trend back in nineties, back then there were centrist ultrapopulists, now the cohort catering to their electorate just changed their purely nominal titles from centre to right.
I have a 10min attention span for intense activities like reading. I use this to my advantage to do I might otherwise not do.

* Reading: I take my Kindle to the toilet.

* Solve quiz on Brilliant.org during office commute

* Listen to audiobooks before sleep

* When waiting for the next meeting, I read bookmarked articles.

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My Lessons:
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* It is very important to stop doing something once I realize I have no more juice.

* My total learning time per day is around 1hr on best days.

* Takes 1hr to reach office. So during cab rides, after a quiz is done (10-15min), I nap.

* When zoned out in and realize I'm doing random wild-wild-internet-reading, I immediately turn tech off. I just talk to people (work or casual chat).

* During times of silence, I observe things around me. I learn new things about stuff that has been around me for a long time. I put these observations to use when I draw (I use Procreate app on iPad). For example: I observed reflections in water and attempted to draw a reflection https://www.instagram.com/p/BrxmF1enz87/
Then, the delivery trucks shouldn't be parking there. Clear a spot and turn it into commercial parking only, i say. They're doing this right now on Polk street and it's so much safer for bicyclists on the portions that have this now.
Rider uses the same project system, so I haven't had a chance to observe any alternative.
When doing some research for a final project about using Grobner bases for cryptography, I came across an interesting paper titled aptly titled "Why You Cannot Even Hope To Use Grobner Bases in Public-Key Cryptography: An Open Letter to A Scientist Who Failed and a Challenge to Those Who Have Not Yet Failed".

[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aab4/9f22ed522d16111eca29ae...]

Not only is this paper written in a very wry style not super common in math papers (it is addressed to "Dear Deluded Author"), it seems all the authors are pseudonyms: Boo Barkee, Deh Cac Can, Julia Ecks, Theo Moriarty, and R.F. Ree. And it includes a large quote from Trithemius' (a 15th century occultist who wrote several books on magic that were actually "encrypted" books on early cryptography in disguise.) Steganographia in the abstract.

When I tried to do some research on this mysterious paper I couldn't really find any references or explanations for who these people are, where they are from, or why this wrote this paper. The only thing I could come up with is "Boo Barkee" sounds a lot like "Bourbaki", the last name of a pseudonymous group of French mathematicians [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki].

All this to say, does anyone here know about this paper or who the authors are? Why is it all so mysterious? Is there supposed to be hidden steganography'd messages inside the paper itself? Are the other authors' names also references?

As for my final project, I ended up not being able to figure out a way to use Grobner bases for cryptography.
That really hurts the crowd that lives paycheck to paycheck. Price goes up: someone goes without.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/grab-maps-osm-thailand-sou... to add the context
You can deal with context sensitive grammars with "lexer trick" or multiple pass parsers.
What union actions have you been seeing that would impede this kind of onboarding story today?
To Fight Fatty Liver, Avoid Sugary Foods and Drinks
A very good point you make - it's hard to walk the line with regards to keeping it real but not crushing students. For example, teaching climate change can be challenging.