skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an example of how they treat "old" code, services or otherwise. Fixup your code to use new version or you can't build. Replace "build" with "deploy" and you have the policy of GCP. Now it's been a few years and they may have fixed this, but Go was the only language I've ever used that didn't let you pin dependency versions
I did not get the feeling that the Bloomberg piece was about devs. Did I miss something? They specifically called out Apple Maps, which requires a lot of data cleaning.
this is a must-watch. It puts the self-congratulatory, hyperbolic & optimistic wording of the article headline into much needed perspective.
> The day old.reddit goes away is the day I stop using reddit, period.

Me too! I'll be super happy about it, though. Will break my reddit addiction and principal time sink once and for all. The new design is just so visually disgusting to me I get a palpably negative reaction to it. So cartoony and spaced out, so much less information, even the concise views make everything look like it was obviously designed for mobile and to be like instagram. It's gross. The whole reason I read reddit is for the good discussion and comments. Part of the reason I like HN and craigslist is they're simple and not a visual overload.
Looking for ways to make this program faster, probably running Ramanujan's sum on different thread and share the data?
Mirrored FAQ: https://web.archive.org/web/20060306132156/http://www.millio...
That wouldn't have made the news the way this did, now would it?
Why is your post being down voted?

Kinda makes sense, but the last bit regarding fair share is probably more complicated. Weren't the early employees at MS given stock options and many became millionaires?

How should new employees who joined 10 years after MS's founding for example be fairly compensated (as they didn't contribute to reaching escape velocity)?
Nah, definitely not Mattermost. It's open core, which is kind of dubious, and not better than Rocket.chat - we switched away from it to Rocket.chat at a previous job.
Making money off the lazy economy
> Twitter’s 280 characters just don’t leave enough room for a nuanced conversation.

Well, yeah. And cars are a terrible way to travel across oceans. The world discovered this ages ago. Kids, back in my day we only had 140 ch
As mentioned previously here on HN - the coder pool is binomially distributed. Theres the extremely high end coders who will get job offers falling out of the sky, and then there is everyone else. Further, this is only in America - in the EU and the rest of the world, coders don't get rock star salaries.

I'd say unions are definitely for everyone else - and especially for people in the Video Games industry.
Not surprising though, we live in a world where developers seem continually surprised that a document format isn't ideal for application development.
Mazda and GM (and Nissan, and probably a few others) work with Toyota on hybrid drive because of the wonderful CVT Toyota designed. It's really light years ahead of what the competition had at the time. Everybody has licensed it because it's patented, and demonstrably better than alternatives.
Machine learning can drive change in traffic-packed L.A
I wonder how you get all this info about the backends behind cloud services. Nearly everything is a huge blackbox from my perspective. Personally, I deploy solutions to AWS too, mostly beanstalk with defined environments, cognito for user authentication, typical latte macchiato cloud user.

Still using my own server for anything in development or for personal stuff or file storage (have you looked at prices? It is basically free now). I mainly use cloud services because people want it fast and cheap but still need an option to scale the solution.

I am content with the services Amazon delivers, but I heavily expect some kind of bubble burst in the future. Development of infrastructure and management interfaces probably isn't cheap either.

So does Google have a better backend than Amazon or Microsoft? I couldn't tell. Only that Microsoft tends to be slower than the competitors, Google tends to ban random users and some of their own services, and just with that Amazon comes out on top. But the fear that a service is deprecated at one point is a permanent undercurrent.
Current unemployment benefits have significant administrative overhead such as eligibility testing, forms to send and receive, staff who meet with the individuals each week to ensure that they are achieving their required job application targets, additional staff to handle appeals, paper by the ream, printer toner, heating & office space... and only then can the money be disbursed.

UBI in contrast just moves money to bank accounts.
Ray Kurzweil, is that you?
Regardless of what Twitter is or isn't, how in the world is the CEO surprised by how his product works? And we're not talking some obscure corner case, but basic use case?

Having a conversation was a learning experience for him and his team?

Such a basic level of unfamiliarity with their own product gives me a lot of pause that he can do anything to guide the company on fixing rampant automated accounts or making it less of a frequently hostile forum.
The null hypothesis here is that Twitter is biased against users who violate their terms of service, and that if conservatives violate Twitter's terms of service more often than progressives, they appear to be subjected to "harsher" treatment, which is interpreted by conservatives as an organized campaign of anti-conservative bias and suppression, rather than Twitter simply enforcing its policies.

What needs to be demonstrated, to me, is that the majority of banned provably conservative accounts were not banned for violating Twitter's terms of service, but for their political views, and that an equal or greater ratio of provably liberal accounts with equal or greater following which violated Twitter's terms of service were not banned, in order for political bias to be the more likely reason for the treatment of conservatives.
> Race can be determined by DNA testing

Wading into a minefield here, but is this even remotely true?

My understanding of DNA testing is that it can only tell you what genes a person has. I wasn't aware of any reliable way to cluster genes into racial groups. (The 23 & me stuff is all probabilities, wide percentage ranges, etc.)

Further, I thought it was the case that science has basically abandoned the concept of race specifically because it couldn't be reliably measured, even by DNA analysis. Is this not the case?
What am I missing?
Do you have xml feed?
Twitter is like a town hall where everyone can heckle. Here’s a tree visualization I made of a portion of the #KaraJack thread, which demonstrates the problem (and only includes a fraction of the non-Jack/Kara tweets): https://treeverse.app/view/pX89745H
For me it depends of tired I am, if I do too much physical work then when I wake up it feels I just slept 5 minutes. If i don't sleep enough then I don't remember any dreams , if I sleep enough hours i will remember my morning dreams. For my case part of my dreams are related with my anxieties or things I want hard to do.
Getting the Assembly Code of Go Programs
But it's not "nothing to show for it" if you use the subscriptions... people pay money to go to a movie, go out to dinner, go to the gym, etc. When you leave each of those venues, do you think you have nothing to show for it? Okay, maybe the movie was bad, or the meal was poorly prepared. Hopefully, most of the time, you enjoyed the experience and it fortified you mentally (and even physically, if the meal was nutritious and the gym workout was a good one). The same applies for any of these subscription services. You get value while you are paying. It is not nothing :)
It has long been gone since Quinine essentially already let alone successors. Population spike maybe but also potential to stabilize more as persistent dangers cause humans to reproduce more. It would encourage more investment in children as well. No worries about "if my child dies all I spent on education would be lost and unrecoverable while say a jeep or plow would have something in the worst case".
I agree. But the R1S is exactly the electric vehicle Tata-Jaguar-Land-Rover should have built. If somebody said this was the new Range Rover Classic it would be exactly what I’d expect. Elevate the roof at the rear end and change the window styling for the 3rd row of seats and it would be a new Discovery.

Put the spare tire on the hood, extend the wheelbase, and call it a Defender.
People seem to still be arguing about that - [1] and [2] argue that they're directly correlated in ketamine treatment, and I can't begin to guess what research on {ar,es}ketamine and metabolite efficacy is going to produce when one of these becomes readily available.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4065787/

[2] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29501990
There's a difference between wiping out a virus that pretty much only affects humans, and wiping out an animal that's been present for millions of years and is firmly established as a food source for countless other animals.

One has the sole effect of making humans healthier. The other is linked to far too many things to predict the outcome of. Considering dragonfly nymphs have mosquito larvae as a stable food source, it's safe to say that knocking them out will probably affect them. Then follow that food chain up (and down) and things start to get complicated.
For my part, I was using it with Postgres most of the time. I'm on Ubuntu, so there aren't a thousand alternatives. For now, I'm back at using the command line for everything. But the command line sucks when trying to debug/find/compare some data in large tables. :-(
Swiss Government to Reward Hackers Who Hack E-Voting System
Even people who love Perl don't love 1991 Perl.
True, but let’s say a ridiculous ToS had any mention of Marxist ideology as a violation.

That would have an inherent bias against people on the Democratic side.
> Enterprise Architecture & Integration

Curious about this one but not sure which you're referring to. Who is the author?
Millions of people from many different origins have any given set of those traits (e.g. [epicanthic fold, pale skin] or [epicanthic fold, dark skin]. The phenotypes presented are divided into any number of social "races".

QED there's no biological basis for race.
That's why I pushed Merkle Trees back in the day when the topic came up. There's been work extending them in recent years, too.
CVE-2019-5736: Escape from Docker and Kubernetes Containers to Root on Host
Mars rover Opportunity is likely done
I'm sure he made a bit less... Taxes, Operating costs (AWS wasn't around back then), etc..
What about the effect of existing anti-mosquito measures? We aren't exactly using pleasant chemicals for that.
It's a fair criticism of the older versions of Go - it did not have good dependency management out of the box. Probably due to the famous Google monorepo and how they did not need to tackle that issue head on themselves. However the past few years Go has really addressed this problem, first through the dep project (which has your standard .lock file for pinning dependencies similar to Node) and now go modules (included in the latest Go versions). Now you get dependency management out of the box. Your point is valid but does not reflect the modern state of Go.
Diversity in the 'man cave': Boardrooms gain women as minorities lag
So? Plenty of former VScode users are on Sublime, Vim or Emacs now.

I really don't get your point.
They said the same thing about Prozac -- that it made you better than well and that current licencing which restricted use to people with illness was denying people access to this wonder drug.

SSRIs are useful meds, but they're not miracles.
I wonder if we'll one day get something like SQL, but that is based on hypergraphs instead.

Correct me if I'm wrong; I understand you can represent any relational model in hypergraph. And a lot that aren't representable in relational model, but are natural in hypergraph form.
Citation needed. How many exactly?
My experience is, that the Bible shows you what the reality is really is. If you truly reflect on it for yourself you will uncover how right it is. But this assumes you really want to think and see the truth. And yes it will hurt (in a good way).

Every other statement, "I have my own beliefs" is short sighted.

And Bible is not equal to the institution you call "Church"!
My experience was similar if somewhat more organised - multiple interviews over an extended period of time, before a trip to their office where no one seemed to realise I was there to be interviewed.

I ended up having lunch with the HR person, who was fairly scathing about the whole thing.

Got an offer - which looked fine, until I realised they had me down to work in another city despite all conversations being about working at the site and with the team closest to me.
Third World Problems don't matter much to First World readers.

Oddly enough, Africa needs markets, and the U.S. needs charity.
> last few genes that make them black, or let them get sicklaemia

Popular understanding of race (it's a social construct, so this is the relevant metric) has little or nothing to do with susceptibility to a given disease. Similarly, dark skin != what we commonly think of as "black" (think dark-skinned people from Asia, for example).
How do you automate software development?
It’s simple and it works. Does one thing well.
+1

I think the power comes from knowing something -- _anything_ -- well.

I feel the same about vim and common unix tools (bash, sed, awk etc). If you can use these effectively, these can be very effective productivity tools. The learning curve is steep, just like learning to ride a bicycle, but once you do, it is difficult to imagine life without it.
Are you saying jack should hav signed up for a forum?
The questions aren't usually about things I left behind, though that does come up and documentation could help that. They're usually looking for someone to build out a new integration with a big customer that has to be done right the first time, quickly, or risk loosing the customer to a competitor. Outsorced dev teams with high turnover and little domain knowledge just can't pull that off, a fact many places learn too late.
Show HN: The ideal system. Identity proof based on six degrees of separation
I think only Reddit has mastered the large-scale discussion involving thousands or ten of thousands of people at the same time.
It is the content of the dreams which is the inverse of the anxious mind-wandering.

During anxious mind-wandering situations which demand avoidant behaviour enter the mind. For example, an individual with obsessive compulsive disorder may visualise that they are contaminated (imagined experience) and therefore must wash their hands (the avoidant action; Mcguire et al., 1994). Alternatively, an individual with social anxiety disorder might im-agine being in a conversation and having nothing to talk about (imagined future scenario) and therefore will avoid entering a conversation (avoidant action; Richards, 2013).

However in dreams I am suggesting that the situations imagined call for un-avoidant behaviour. For example Tim's dream in the paper:

> Tim’s father gives him a large volume of prescription drugs which he knows could kill him if he takes them all. Tim’s father wants him to swallow all the pills at once. Tim does not want to! However, he swallows the pills without protest.

In this situation it is clear that avoiding the confrontation and swallowing the pills is not a sensible decision. The situation calls for un-avoidant behaviour (saying no to his father). It is in this way that I am arguing that dreaming is the inverse of anxious mind-wandering.

It is interesting that those who do a lot of mediation have been seen to be less reactive to norepinephrine (a neurotransmitter associated to stress).
> Even the Washington Post’s owner Jeff Bezos knew to publish his words that he wanted everyone to read on an open platform like Medium.

Medium is definitely not free. I always get paywalls when I visit it.
Author here: Hey, Hacker News! I'm developing an identity proof system based on the idea of six degrees of separation. I'm writing a series of posts, which I'll then transform into whitepaper.

This is the third post. Here I try to imagine the ideal system. What the project might look like in the case of it's success? What if all social connections in the world are replicated? Who may benefit from a database like this?

Will be happy to hear your thoughts and critique!

Previous posts on HN:
Personal motivation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18988497
Proving the six degrees of separation idea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094362
They should have taken the layoffs as a sign their company produces bad content and to get a real job.
I built Iconscout
in these situations I'd hope for people to naturally gather around positive ~negotiations. Open and constructive sharing of ideas.
There are measures of genetic distance that happen to correlate quite nicely with perceived ancestry, even though most genetic variation is not necessarily related to it. It's just one of many genetic "signals" that barely rise above the background noise. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_distance
Bikes put spanner in works of Dutch driverless car schemes
Expecting a wave of pranks rickrolling victims into terrorist propaganda content.
This seems like an A/B test to find out if there is enough demand to open up twitter or improve twitter for some specific purposes.
How many flats you get depends on where you drive more than anything. If you're only ever driving on well maintained roads that are free of debris then you will almost never get flats. Also just because a leak is slow doesn't mean you don't need the spare. If you had needed to be somewhere the following day (e.g. work) you would have put on the spare.
I don't think you can fully separate business and customers. Google Maps? Google suddenly vastly increased prices.

This is something all cloud providers suffer from. What assurance do I get that pricing and quality of service remains stable? Amazon has the same problem. If I look into my billing console, I see an increase of used computing resources. From inactive projects. They still managed to use significant CPU-time. I would not be able to claim otherwise. As long as the costs remain low, this is not a problem. But you have to believe your cloud provider...
"likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"

Doesn't seem to include propaganda. Just looking up bus and train timetables, diy electronics, chemistry......
Sure, but now non-Twitter users will just think of Twitter as being bad for 2 way conversation due to this event/stunt.

But I guess all publicity is good publicity.
Yes, but in person insults are less likely to happen because of the _implication_ of violence.
> The Chinese government could effectively end bitcoin mining tomorrow if they decided to.

So you do want a central planning committee to control which technologies are allowed to exist in the world. ;-)

You're right, though, the Chinese government could greatly reduce the global hashing rate of bitcoin, which would make blocks much harder to mine (temporarily), and slow transactions down. The network would continue operating though, and perhaps Iceland would become the predominant location for bitcoin miners:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/13/how-iceland-be...

With their clean energy supplies and greater internet freedom, that might not be such a bad outcome (except for China's economy, potentially).

> Bitcoin (see top question) is not useful (citation: after 10 years, almost nobody is using it).

The top comment I see in this discussion is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19146037

and it contains multiple examples of use cases. Maybe "almost nobody" cares about WikiLeaks, or weed, or porn, or Venezuelans, or privacy, or having an alternative to PayPal, but "almost nobody" needs a cure for a rare illness, that doesn't make it useless. Similarly, nobody actually needs Facebook (or Hacker News, for that matter), which also uses a lot of electricity, so if we're going to start banning technologies for being not useful and using energy, then why don't we start there?
This issue outlines one of the problems with memory safety which is not fixed. Since you don't believe outsiders, look at your own tickets, where your own developers admit unsafety. There are probably more, this is just the first I found.

But the general problem is that rust cannot be made memory safe at all with its current architecture. Overlarge alloca calls are unsafe by default (either accept compile-time failures or accept run-time stack failures on new threads), and the strategy with global containers and references into it is unsafe. Even when rust would remove its unsafe keyword, and disallow malloc via ffi.
Maybe you should fix your attitude towards your unsafeties.
Explore Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes' Track by Track
Even China is not that crazy, except when dealing with Uighurs.
If the number of searches for each key isn’t uniformly random, then instead of random replacement, you can bubble sort the bucket values into an LRU eviction scheme. Each time you do a lookup that succceds and the element in the hash entry isn’t index 0, swap it with index - 1. Replacement should always be done on the last element in the bucket vector.

This has 2 advantages:

- scanning the bucket aggregates to theta(1) if your searches follow the Pareto law

- popular keys are less likely to be evicted

Because your buckets are more relevant, you can also make them smaller, reducing the k time in an O(nk) complexity over n searches and decreasing the amount of cache thrashing.
> If you want to change your flat tire you need to unload everything in the bed, which will be a huge pain in the ass on the side of the road.

aren't you already supposed to unload your vehicle before you jack it up on one side? maybe it's different for "work vehicles", but my car comes with a puny little jack that's only strong enough to support the weight of the car when there are no people or heavy items inside. I suspect the hardpoint on the car itself isn't designed with much more headroom than the jack.
Dark skinned people from Asia are from a different race than dark skinned people from Africa.

For example if you have a dark skinned person with epicanthic fold, chances are that's a person from Indonesia or its whereabouts.

Race is not ONE trait, it's a set of traits, and all of them are encoded in DNA.
Sure, because species collapse and your ultimate demise are a better outcome?
Well they get upset if you tell them to learn how to code, could even get you banned from twitter.

I prefer independants these days, folks on bitchute and youtube and etc. The "organized press" has been gunning for shutting down independants with crap like six degrees of hitler, like what happened with gab. But ultimately it has next to zero overhead to start your own "channel", and you find people that actually do a pretty decent analysis without being obvious political tools or otherwise completely manipulative all the time.
You may want to use this small script: "Like 'go get' but with pinned package versions. A tiny shell script".

https://github.com/joewalnes/go-getter
"Why will AR require a persistent full-scale model of the globe?"

The 'Mirrorworld' described here is not just an AR application. It's an indexable, queryable database of "everything" that is built.

Don't think about nameplates above people.

Think about service crews coming to inspect the local sewer network, who get an "xray" view of the pipes running under the street.
Why are dotfiles generally considered "hidden" and not to be served (such as .htaccess, .env, etc) but .well-known is expressly intended to be served? It should have just been named well-known, IMO.
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