skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this earlier today scrolling through in card view mode, except what I saw was an image macro with text about how I'm using an ad blocker. I was amused, the irony of a transparency report being blocked because of an ad blocker. I was using Brave. I didn't click through, yep I'm just gonna scroll by without updoot because the Great Thing About Reddit is it (mostly) works great with no account. At least so far.
this reminds me of a cargo cult or something. People following strange rituals they observed others perform for no reason
> "You don't think Google wants to hear the correct answer?"

They may want it but they don't reward it. I don't care what sort of answer they want, I only care what sort of answer they accept. I'm not going to donate my time to these bastards by doing anything more than what's necessary to pass their captcha.

> "If everyone just answered "no, that's trees" instead of a hand-wavy "I think you think it's trees","

That's just not going to happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
It really isn't. Even the multiplatform aspect of Electron is PITA - abstraction layers are so poor you usually have to support every platform separately by yourself if you want to reliably use stuff like systray icons or notifications.

Well, there's one exception - it sure is more productive if you already have a webapp to reuse.
Identical twins raised separately end up rather similar in adulthood. So human twins actually provides fairly strong evidence that genes substantially (though not exclusively) determine how we end up.
What came first, the definition/concept/time span of a second,

or the discovery of the Caesium-133 atom?
The way I understand this proposal, the idea is to find at which request rate the latency of a storage configuration (eg, 2x Optane) explodes. If your request rate is above that rate, get more RAM. I'm not sure I understand how to figure out how much more RAM? Until the latency goes down I guess?

Also what about diurnal patterns? Can there be a way to dynamically react and save power..

Interesting reference to the morning paper. But don't get how that fits into the story?

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/26/robinhood-tail-latency-a...
Sorry, but I'll point out a bit of elitism in this post.

> (Unless if the job description is for front-end development only, in which I'm less qualified to say whether a CS education is needed or not.)

The browser is an extremely complex platform, at least rivaling an operating system. If you're going to argue that advanced knowledge of a platform is required for non-frontend work, you should be comfortable making the argument for frontend.

Except people generally don't make that argument. Frontend devs (I am not one) are looked down on. But it's a double standard.

I'm sure that wasn't your intention, but it's a constant expression I see - that web developers are a class separate from the rest of us. The truth is that OS knowledge is not critical and the general sentiment that frontend devs can do their job without understand the complexities of a browser only reveals this.

More to your point, I taught myself about OS's and x86 outside of class because I wanted to learn how to exploit memory safety issues. I never made a career out of it, but I learned a lot, and it was a matter of buying a few books and talking to people on IRC. I found tons of excellent talks by Herb Sutter and Scott Meyer about CPU architecture and how code maps to it.

There's a ton of resources out there for those who choose to self-teach.
I disbelieve your claim.

In particular I maintain that any competent logician or set theorist should be able to explain to you the sense in which the statements that I made cannot logically be settled, and also explain to you the extent to which the rest of mainstream mathematics accepts these statements as true.
The media should cover White House press briefings with their cameras tilted in a Dutch angle, like Batman used whenever they're in the evil villain's lair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle

Dutch angles were used extensively in the satirical 1960s Batman TV series (and its 1966 film spin-off) in which each villain had his or her own angle, as they were "crooked".
You dont have to waste time listening to the voicemail. I had my carrier turn off voicemail over 5 years ago, it was the best phone related decision I have ever made.

...I may have also made friends with corporate telephony for a similar reason at work, but I'm not admitting anything.
35% of trillions is still trilliions. 10% of 10k is difference between eating everyday and not.
The marginal utility of money is negative past the first 10M per capita, if not less.
Well, that was possible since Swift 1.0, wasn't it? It is using Objective-C as a proper ABI just like Windows people use COM to mix and match different C and C++ versions.
Except that Apple doesn't provide proper dylib sharing (which doesn't really require an ABI in the first place, just versioning).
> Infinite sets exist, and are described by a known set of axioms called ZFC

This is the assertion of many mathematicians, but the justification for it is “this is convenient” and/or “we take this as an article of faith” (or often “I never really thought about it, but it doesn’t much affect my work day to day one way or the other”).

There is no way to prove that infinite sets “exist” by reasonable definitions of “exist”. Indeed, by a conventional definition of “exist” infinite sets pretty clearly don’t qualify.

Instead, mathematicians have redefined the words “exist” and “true”. In mathematics it now means something like “if we accept a particular set of non-obvious and rather handwavey premises, we will also accept any conclusions that result from symbolic manipulations thereof following our established formal rules.” [This is not a full or precise definition of mathematical existence; folks interested can do a search for those keywords and find piles of material.]

* * *

Personally I am happy to accept ZFC or the like because it is convenient and I can’t be bothered to work up an alternative system from scratch and carefully examine all of the conclusions that might follow from that, and whether ZFC is “true” or not doesn’t really affect me. It seems intuitively wrong to me, but I remain agnostic.
What license are the generated images under?
Could you release them under creative commons?
I've heard programmers described as plumbers. I've heard orthopedic surgeons described as body mechanics.

There is a certain type of person who considers any endeavour that is tactile, applied, or practical to be "blue collar". When I encounter such people I can't help but wish I were rather in the company of a plumber or a mechanic.
It punishes humans more than computers because computers are more efficient multitaskers. A computer can find a productive way to use the second between each tile fade in, but a human has no realistic way to productively use that second. The human sits there staring at the screen waiting, while the captcha-solving computer does other things (perhaps solve other captchas given to it through other connections.)
I do this after being blackholed by goolgles captcha a dozen times. If your site reli3s on google you are the problem at this point. I am not a data point. I am a free man.
To minimize collisions, and so we're not retreading this argument in another ten years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19063727
so what's the problem of 10 people stuffing in two small room, the ill guy could recover in time, why they all get fired?
I also read the beginning of a few chapters and have to agree: the writing style is very concise.

Example (from the Introduction):

One of the major advantages of the relational model is its uniformity. All data
is viewed as being stored in tables, with each row in the table having the same
format. Each row in the table summarizes some object or relationship in the
real world. Whether the corresponding entities in the real world actually
possess the uniformity the relational model ascribes to them is a question
that the user of the model must answer. It is a question of the suitability of
the model for the application at hand.
Whether or not the relational model is appropriate for a particular set of
data shall not concern us. There are plenty of instances where the model is
appropriate, and we always assume we are dealing with such instances.
I saw perfect glasses, but I've never seen perfect earrings.
I also stopped really checking voicemails... I stopped checking voicemails, as only people who call and leave voicemail are not the people who I communicate everyday. People in my life know to text/chat/email if they need to get through to me right away. And I do the same. I never leave voicemail in people's inboxes...
None to be honest. I migrated my projects back to express. Most of the packages for koa are either unmaintained or not very active.
I almost exclusively use my Google Voice number and its remarkable how good it is at filtering spam-calls.
I want to tell everyone to get Google Voice.. but given their history of killing successful projects. Well, its only a matter of time.

Dear Google: here take my money! Keep Google Voice!
The hardware progress since the 486 era, along with massive parallelization, has only reinforced this approach.
> replaced by a party that wanted to end these disastrous and costly wars

Because the USA only has 2 historically significant parties and both mainstreams want wars?
I mean, the US has a concept of "bipartisanship", as if the entire political spectrum could be boiled down to ultra liberalism or slightly less ultra liberalism.
But how many real people are you losing? You have no idea
First, setting the stage: https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/plants-are-alive

Second, assuming for example that molecules have some experience of reality, and we just don't "relate" to the air around us, I am going to assume we will continue breathing.
Path of Exile Prophecy Guide – Best Useful Prophecies
It's actually not that hard, assuming you control your form generation. Bots usually fill in fields using the actual field name - not the label the user sees. So provide a field labelled "Age" but named "email", and simply check it contains digits. If it's got an email address in it, it's a bot.

Labels can also be obfuscated with javascript, replacing the raw HTML "Email" with "Age"on page load. Getting this right will require the bot to parse both HTML and JS, and we can force them to handle CSS too. Add a "zip" field, and hide it with complex CSS rules. If it contains a zip code, it's a bot.

If you're really paranoid, randomise combinations of distinguishable fields (name, email, phone, age and hidden fields) every time you generate the form, so even if a bot herder manually maps names to fields one time, it'll fail the next. At this stage it'll be cheaper for the bot herder to use Mechanical Turk, after which even Google's captcha is compromised.
Well, boredom and to commemorate the 911's 50th birthday.
This is a dumb question. How do you get into freelance work? What skills are needed?
Ulefone Power 5 – Android Phone with week long battery
Machines have been able to beat captchas for years and years. The point is that it costs money and that's good enough to prevent free and scalable abuse.
I celebrate the achievement just fine, it’s the horrible estimate that is shoved in my face constantly I have issues with. It represents a dumbing down of science for the masses that is just getting worse year after year that I resent. The rover isn’t good enough as is, we are told to be impressed by a nearly 50-fold wrong estimate that is all anyone knows about the rover. I knew it would be one of the top comments on this post. As a scientist I appreciate precision and good science, not hero worship and bureaucratic PR estimates.
I know this comment is in jest, but please don't joke on Hacker News as you would on Reddit. Posts like this add little informational content, spawn a thread of joke responses, and take time away from hundreds of people who are here to read high signal commentary.

Sorry to be so profoundly un-fun.

edit: I'm being downvoted, but consider the comment chain this has generated.
He might be defending the value of immigration (and immigrants), not much the h1b. So I wouldn't accuse him or pushing an agenda because of that comment.
You are confusing UX designer with UI designer. UX designer does not use words such as clean and simple or beautiful that’s the talk of someone who does no user research which is precisely what UX designers focus on primarily.
> as an Asia-Pacific entity, we felt we wanted a guarantee our data was in Asia-Pacific (preferably Australian) DC and under local law.

I don't understand why you would want a generic Asia/Pacific location. It makes sense that you might want it to be in a particular jurisdiction for legal purposes, so I understand specifying Australia, in the same way other businesses specify EU or US or China. But why would you ever want to say "put our data somewhere in this hemisphere, Australia or Malaysia or Korea are all OK but don't let it be in Ireland or the USA"?
And in addition, that they are aware it is batshit crazy too.
Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
Maybe I’ll take you up on it. Give me a list of sites you want reviewed.
More like Second Variety

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
Steven Squyres, the Principal Scientist of the program came to Microsoft to give a talk. One of the best talks I’ve been to.

So many interesting tidbits like the parts about the rovers expected short lifetime due to the dust, and how (if I remember correctly) they fixed this by shaking the solar panels like wings.

He talked about the rover drivers, and how they all had to live in special light cycle controlled buildings to get them used to working on Martian days vs. Earth (the extra hour adds up over time).

He wrote a book, a worthy read. The printing I got had some amazing pictures in it:

https://www.amazon.com/Roving-Mars-Spirit-Opportunity-Explor...

RIP Opportunity. An amazing testament to our need to explore.
Retarded is a bit much, don't you think? We are talking about children here after all.
He just forgot the "What if you're stranded on deserted island" argument. Should one really waste time and attention on this?
Curiosity is doing well at about 6.5 years and had a 2 year mission but it probably won't stay fully operational that long. Its RTG could last that long but it will eventually stop producing enough power for the rover to move.
The Patriots won in OT, Mahomes never got the ball. Should NFL change its rules?
Tip: I wish I knew this Windows 10 Command prompt tip years ago
Subscribe to a newspaper that you like & they'll curate what you like most.
(i.e. one of the standard set theory axioms amounts to "an infinite set exists")
Any chance it could be configured to black out the PII instead of randomize it? What forms of PII does it detect?
What visas did Lily Yang or Mikhail and Yevgenia Brin enter on? I think there's a fairly sound argument that we should be encouraging those, at least.

Elon Musk had Canadian citizenship and moved to Canada in order to enter the US on a student visa, with the goal of getting an H-1B. By the time he founded Tesla he had citizenship but he was certainly not a citizen when founding his first companies. There's no public documentation of what his status was, but it was likely either H-1B or TN. (He may also have overstayed his visa at some point.)
"Look at how good we're showing you we are"
To add to that, in the valley I’ve worked alongside H-1Bs whose main job was quotidian SQL queries —nothing one could claim we had a dearth of local talent for. I’m not denigrating the work, it’s honest work, just that it’s hardly the case for an H-1B.
Exactly. I got 7 spam calls today. Each one left a voicemail. I can't keep up with that.
1) Super workload dependent unfortunately. Probably "easiest" way is to set up test systems with enough RAM and disk space. Then either slowly reduce the RAM or start from a low point and slowly increase until you hit your target; there's a command for memcached to live-adjust the RAM limit.

2) dunno! For RAM that's super hard. for disk I'm hoping tiering will do something. ie; for on-peak you can add extra NBD space then remove it off-peak.

3) referenced tail latency because most of the testing focuses on displaying latency outliers and how the system generally minimizes them.
> I'm a strong proponent of a CS university education, as opposed to something like a bootcamp, for this very reason.

The value proposition of a university education is something of a moving goalpost for most people. It's not even about what you learned but how exclusive and prestigious the institution was. Or how uncomfortable and sleep deprived your experience was. If the value of a university degree were based on a skillset that could be proven, then the need for exclusive accreditation could be replaced with a simple unit test - and education would be called "training" and everyone would feel much less smug about not being "blue collar". Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Wow, that's awesome. The score display makes me think of some of the stuff that's been done in Wireworld: https://unnikked.ga/simulate-logic-circuits-using-wireworld-...

(There was a similar thing posted here a while back, too, that used modified rules to make it a bit quicker and simpler, but I can't remember what it was called...)
But... you don't.

The turbines in any kind of staged or full flow system run at a pressure higher than the chamber is at... I don't remember the numbers offhand but I want to say the SSME's preburners were at 8000ish psi, with a drop to 4000ish through the turbines, and finally to 3000 in the main combustion chamber. The SSME was only partially preburned, and so the flow through the turbine has to expand over a higher pressure ratio, but I still don't see a fundamental difference.
> To be honest, I still have a couple years wait on the kidney but there is a non-zero change of a perfect match that gets to the head of the line. And I certainly don't want to miss that.

I got curious, and scanned https://www.organdonor.gov/ to see how one gets notified when an organ is available. I didn't see any information after a few minutes of poking around the site.

When a kidney does become available, what is the process by which you'd be notified? Do they make one phone call, and if you don't pick up, they call the next person on the list? Do they broadcast a message to you & everyone you know via every possible telecommunications & social media channel you've provided, and then give you N minutes to reply with "hey, I'm on my way to the hospital now!"
One should err on the side of caution and assume consciousness for sake of ethical decision-making, whenever possible.

That said, it's incredibly presumptuous to assume everything has consciousness just because you do. We are not all alike. You might have had a fever when you were young, and your consciousness emerged because of that fever. And people who didn't have that fever, don't have consciousness. A pretty silly possibility, but no sillier than "consciousness emerges from sufficiently many interacting neurons". Right now we basically have no clue, and it's arrogant to pretend otherwise.

To all the virtue-signallers in this thread talking about how cruel it is to kill animals, I would say: what's your stance on late-term abortion? Funny how a lot of the people who claim to believe cockroaches have consciousness, actually think it's virtuous to support killing unborn children.
Awesome idea giving them crappy data. I do the same thing with loyalty programs. Someone has already registered XXX-555-1234 as a phone number in your area code. I like to think I'm adding a little bit of chaos to their data tracking.
If the American worker is less competent than the foreign worker, it goes against everything your namesake stands for to have government intervene to assist the American worker.

(And yes, national borders are themselves a form of government interference, and a fairly significant one at that.)
Uber purport to be doing so...
What if the car were heading directly for the side of the Tesla? Would it accelerate to miss it, or break in front of it?
Is it not acceptable that they were conservative in their predictions about the effects of Martian dust? I imagine they didn't have a whole lot of data points to inform their estimate.
I've had reasonable success cutting back on useless catalogs with catalogchoice.org. There are a few very persistent clothing companies that I'll have to call to see if I can get them to finally stop sending catalogs every few weeks, but for the most part, Catalog Choice is pretty quick and effective. Too bad there's no way to opt out of all bulk mail, though.
Correction: UI designer. I wish developers would stop grouping them into one category, totally different fields.
There's certainly a period of time where that solution is sufficient as it stops the lowest level of drive-by <form> spam.

But it also sucks the first day you get an attacker who solves it once and then spams you thousands of times.

Modern spam tools are pretty impressive these days and minimize the targeted work the human spammer needs to do in these cases. In the early 2000s, you could set a custom question and then assume no attacker is going to manually code for your little blog.

But even in 2008 I was using spam software (out of curiosity) where you could import a massive blog list, and it would pause spamjobs with failed comment submissions, let you pencil in a value for this unknown field, and then click resume.

You could also choose other actions for that field like "prompt me each time" and sit at your computer multiplexing your labor across hundreds of blogs. And that was pretty polished ten years ago.
Except who would report that person? There has to be some sort of intent there too plus the complaint.
You provided a link that proves the opposite. The fact is that the Steele Dossier has mostly credible claims, many of which has gone under investigation and proven to be truthful. To claim otherwise is to lie and/or deny the reality of the dossier. You can't talk about bias while also denying the facts.
This was a great talk from a FreeBSD dev praising systemd and putting it in a different perspective. He did a great job of explaining the relevant Unix history as well.
I also let non-contacts go to voicemail, but my experience is different — I find that almost no unsolicited calls leave voicemails. Also, I use the Google Voice transcription, which is at least good enough to let me know if it's interesting or spam. Sometimes even good enough I don't need to listen to the recording.
California governor proposes consumers get ‘data dividend’ from tech companies
It could be a sign of increasing inequality. The super-rich can easily invest in private companies as they desire, and the company doesn't have to conform to public stock requirements and regulations. In other words, they don't have have to care about the 99% because the 99%'s funds are becoming too small to offset the downsides of going public.
"the language also changes as it is read" Lol. Quora and its nonsense.
John Perry Barlow must be spinning in his grave.
While Tesla might not exist without Musk, though he may be its soul, he also wasn’t a founder since those were Eberhard and Tarpenning.
This is making me question my increasingly unused subscription. I might just cancel to express how little I want my money going to frauds like goop, fyre, fuckjerry, and the other moral leeches endemic of our time.