skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is very antagonistic but I can say that point 3 rings very true, even using advanced/data heavy SQL got very annoying for me relative to SQLAlchemy and I don't think you really want to try and pull it out.
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I agree. Kudos for starting this project but Swi-Prolog sets a very high bar for implementation quality and a huge ecosystem (given the size of the Prolog community).
Because that doesn't really work. We put the code out there and people start working on it. You think we're going to be able to _not_ look at what's people are doing?
"Reimplement an existing thing" is a decent way to learn a new language/system. People want to learn Rust.
It is a lengthy slog for sure, but I found it a great way to kill some time. Maybe you just have to be in one of those reading moods.
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I was in the same boat, hopefully this will help:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-to-configure-wireguard/

It's actually very easy to set up, I don't know why the official docs make it seem super hard.
Memorization is very important. You have to walk before you can run.

To perform well at algebra, you can't be stopping to punch numbers into a calculator. You can't be constantly making mistakes. The slowness and errors will make you stumble and lose your train of thought, preventing you from reaching any deeper conceptual "mathematical thinking".

Those old-fashioned methods for doing math are reliable and general. If you follow the rules, you get the answer.
People are responsible for making the processe, no? It’s still a people problem.
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Considering that both Tibet and Taiwan are recognised Chinese territories it is odd to see that as expansion.
Taiwan is a continuation of the Chinese civil war with the winner seeking to get the last Chinese territory not under its control.
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We are hiring across all of our security teams. Program Management, Edge Security, Infrastructure Security, and Product Security.

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As far as I can tell, Andrew Yang is the only canidate to extensively outline his positions.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/
I remember having this debate many years ago. Would it be better to introduce a team with no source control knowledge to something like svn first or straight to git?

Svn is easier to understand and use, but then you’d have to break some existing habits to get to git. But going straight to git might be a big step and cause reversion back to whatever system was already there.
Montessori uses clear test tube learning devices with beads. Less abstract and more easy to visualize. This is taught in 2nd grade. In your above example, the blank or variable is an empty test tube, the 4 is a tube with 4 beads, and the 9 is a tube with 9 beads.
I've had the exact same experience at least 5 times. I have been a developer for 10 years in the same stack and currently work as a tech lead, reviewing other people's code every day.

I've come to believe very firmly that any interviewer who asks me to submit a take-home coding project is not serious about my candidacy. I have no idea what they use them for, but it's not hiring.
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> and their leaders only want to secure world domination.

projection?

> the west always focus fire on the Chinese when they talk about human right issues?

we don't. maybe you just pay attention to those stories more though.

> Also, an unbaised standard does not exist when it comes to international affairs.

i'll agree with this, however it doesn't make morally wrong things less wrong, or mean people don't suffer.

> as a Chinese living in the US, many Americans have asked me [...] do I have microwaves/tap water back in China

this could just be a weird thing Americans do, even in Canada or Europe they'll ask if it's safe to drink tap water.

out of interest, how many of your countrymen to have access to clean tap water?
I tried to use it but wasn't able to understand how to keep the original Prolog/Datalog syntax, rather than describe it in Rust syntax.
Not the best day to post a headline like this one :)
Defending against a [lynch] mob
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Speaking as a licensed attorney, passing the bar does not mean that you're competent.
How feasible would getting a federal UBI bill being passed even be? He can want it and push it all day long but if the support from congress isn't there (which it frankly isn't currently), what are the chances it will become reality? Executive orders exist but they have their limits.
>Those people are using a poor emotional argument.

Yes, they certainly are, but those people also vote. You can't just ignore them and their idiotic arguments, unless you live in a techno-authoritarian nation where things like this are forced on the populace against their will (even if their will is stupid). This is the whole problem here; you can't just convince everyone with a technical argument, because most people are non-technical, emotional, and frequently quite stupid, but they also have a say in decisions.
Nothing wrong with some cynicism. And I totally understand the concern, but one thing people always miss with Cloudflare is... follow the money. We get paid by people with web servers and API servers. We have to do things that keep them happy.
Absolutely, that part left a bitter taste in my mouth reading the rest of the article. Feels like they released this on April 1st just so they could make this claim, strange move.
Sure, it was a lot and that’s how they got a lot of people.
Please don't do this in these threads. It's off topic here to begin with, and you already posted 5 of them, which is over the line into spamming.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19544521 and marked it off-topic.
'crashes' seems to be an overly dramatic and popular word this year, people who oppose the UK leaving the EU love to use it too...
I am not saying that there aren't parts of the U.S. government that actively work against free speech - because that is certainly the case.

However the very fact that we can discuss these things (or that there is a book that is freely accessible to all on the subject of a specific instance of institutional oppression in the U.S.) openly and without fear that our doors are going to get knocked in and see us getting swept off to a "reeducation camp" are the signs that we live in a country that strongly values free speech.

The U.S. does not have a perfect track record by any means...but for all of the examples you give of bad action by the U.S. as an institution I am aware of large and public and accessible documentation in the forms of museums, installations and other means of dissemination and availability.

In other words the U.S. airs (or allows to be aired) its dirty laundry as much or more than most other countries. And while this invites "whataboutism" it certainly, in my opinion, helps validate our position to openly question and try to discuss the actions of other nations.
Should have a [Video] tag. Youtube link to same video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHEZX0v-JUo

Link to article which goes with the video:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/science/water-droplets-da...

Link to the paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08919-2
I realize that the consensus is that lots of companies do this kinda thing. I don't know if it's 99% - but the percentage is pretty high.

However what's neglected to mention is the risk associated with a catastrophic software error. If you are say instagram and you lose your uploaded image of what you ate for lunch, that is undesirable and inconvenient. The consequences of that risk should it come to fruition is relatively low.

On the other hand if you employee software developers that are literally the lifeblood of your business for automatic trading, you'd think that a company like that would understand the consequences of treating this "cost-center" as a critical asset rather than just a commodity.

Unfortunately you would be wrong. Nearly every developer I have ever met that has worked for a trading firm has told me that the general attitude towards nearly all it's employees that are not generating revenue as a disposable commodity. It's not just developers but also research, governance, secretarial, customer service, etc. This is a bit of a broad brush but generally the principles and traders of those aforementioned firms are arrogant and greedy and cut corners whenever possible.

In this case you'd think these people would be rational enough to know that cutting corners on your IT staff could be catastrophic. This is where you would be wrong. Most of the small/mid sized financial firms that I have had friends who worked there have told me they generally treat their staff like garbage and routinely push people out who want decent raises/bonuses, etc. These people are generally greedy and also egocentric and egomaniacal, and they believe all their employees are leaching from their yearly bonus directly.

This story is not a surprise to me in the least. What's shocking is no one in the finance industry has learned anything. Instead of looking at this story as a warning, most of the finance people hear this story and laugh at how stupid everyone else is and that this would never happen to them personally because they're so much smarter than everyone else.
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If you’re happy, and oblivious to knowledge that you could be paid higher elsewhere, why would I as an employer bring it up?

More notably, if you’re happy, why would I initiate the re-evaluation process to even find out whether you could get paid better elsewhere?

Would you come and tell me that you’ve been overpaid after self re-evaluating? But you expect me to come and tell you that you’ve been underpaid?

What’s the incentive here? You’re happy not knowing, I’m happy not knowing, what’s the problem? That you might find out in the future that you could have made more money for the last year, but your employer didn’t do the research and offer it you out of his own goodwill? The onus is clearly on you; you’re the only one with anything to gain. If the employer does it for you, then you can be grateful, but it would be absurd to be irrated by his not checking into how he could possibly hurt himself to help you.

>If an agent working for me would also be an antagonistic relationship, then what use is the agent

It depends which part of the relationship is adverserial. There is really no relationship where all your goals are aligned — you position your payment system to align specific components, but you should still acknowledge there are misalignments. Your travel agent is paid to get you good flights; but at the same time, he might make additional money by favoring specific airlines (with perhaps some, but minor, cost to you). There’s nothing wrong with this scenario — you’re just not fully aligned, but both parties still see benefit, so its still worth striking the deal.

In the same fashion, you as an employee are looking to make money (and don’t expect an infinite amount of it) and your employer is looking for work to be done. You dont try to find/create work to do for your company (unless you’re in sales), and the company doesn’t try to find ways to make you more money.

And thats fine. Obviously there are caveats (you can look better / earn promotions by doing more than you were requested, and the company can hand you bonuses you weren’t expecting, increasing moral), but its not part of the core relationship. It’s something the other party can be grateful for, but it would be absurd to expect it, because, well, who told you it was someone else’s job to improve your situation at cost to themselves?

Its the same kind of thinking that leads to absurd situations like putting 30 hours extra per week for free in gamedev crunches, and then being offended that it didn’t really get you anything. It’s not EA’s job to tell you that you’re doing something stupid (not that I agree with the request in the first place, but the entire gamedev industry is so problematic because the employees keep doing stupid shit in the unfounded belief of their all-benevolent employer).

An enployee that doesn’t look out for his own needs is a foolish employee.
Bitcoin’s energy usage: acceptable or otherwise?
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Way too common. So many clients I've dealt with have a deployment workflow that is some variation of this.
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Thanks. It's great to see a comment by a Chinese person.

As I've said, individual rights and freedoms matter a lot to me. I'm pretty radical about it. More or less an anarchist, in the Crowley sense. Or as Stover would say, a Cainist.

But still, I do my best to be open-minded. There's always the risk of infection, I know, but my mental immune system is pretty damn hardcore.
French guy here.

The problem I think most of us have with the Académie Française is the disconnect between their decisions and the reality of the french language. Not that they are completely against change, but that they are regularly missing the point when they actually make changes.

An example is about CD-ROM. They proposed to rewrite it "cédérom". Basically turning an acronym into a completely made up word. It is ridiculous in many ways. CD-ROM is already a stupid word: both audio CDs and CD-ROMs are read only memory, so why keep that? We already had a word for audio CDs that was in common use: "disque compact", which is perfectly acceptable french, why not build on that? We translated many computer-related words in the past with great success: disquette (floppy disk), mémoire vive (RAM), logiciel (software), etc...

Sometimes, a new french translation appears that really sound good. Courriel is one of them: it sounds good and it is definitely french (from courrier (mail) and éléctronique (electronic)). And guess what... it comes from Quebec, like many other good proposals.
And rdtsc is entirely right about that. The Common Core math curriculum has been taken by many self-described "math teachers" and "educators" as an opportunity to just not teach the effective algorithms for doing arithmetic, and expect students to just "discover the results by themselves" via some mixture of trial-and-error, random guessing, and the rare "trick" or perhaps tiny flash of genuine "mathematical thinking". That was an unmitigated disaster, of course. It's probably part of the reason why Algebra is now being seen as way too difficult for Junior High students, and something that only HS students could approach effectively.
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The author was interviewed on the Econtalk podcast last year.

http://www.econtalk.org/jerry-muller-on-the-tyranny-of-metri...
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Right... except a judicial system not only put people in there, they have the ability to challenge it. This is not an analogous situation.
Can/has anyone from CloudFlare commented? This refusal to work with WireGuard has left a bitter taste in my mouth from a company that I otherwise like.