skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most publications including the New York Times allow for a limited number of free article views before a paywall is imposed. That approach allows for casual viewers to get a feel for the content, without open access to all the material.
At least when it comes to pirates in the anime scene, people are really astonishingly picky about encoding quality.
I guess what I mean to say is that sex and exercise (not to mention drugs) are more like quick fixes. You can just do it and feel happy for a while. On the other hand, producing something involves more investment and when this investment pays off, the resulting "high" feels more earned or deserved. To my mind it also feels less buzzy or chemically induced (although I am well aware that triggering your reward centres by making something is a chemical process as well).
I'm interested in knowing what you think about my response to someone else below who was inquiring about my 'Deep Schizophrenia' AI model -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537047
It mentions UWP support in readme, but that is wrong. WinHTTP C++ APIs are not present in UWP apps.
pathetic article. what's with this tone of superiority? I'm not even french and I had to stop reading it.
I don't think this is true, asking for a higher wage will implicitly prompt an evaluation. No other words are necessary to complicate the situation. If you start justifying your request, you are already playing some sort of defensive game. There is no need for that and I don't believe it is professional to do so.
Funny thing is, I have the exact opposite problem to you. I have zero issues with packaging or Nuget in .net land. But I (along with my co workers) are regularly stuck in hell in java and scala package land. The tooling for java and scala builds is absolutely shit, whether you’re using maven or sbt. It really takes days to on board a new developer into this ecosystem just to get their build system and ide (IntelliJ) working correctly. I’ve never had to do anything like shading with nuget but we regularly have to do it in java world.

For personal projects I would never ever use java just because the amount of friction around builds and packaging is so terrible.
Ask HN: Tesla electric cars: is the business in the battery?
Noticing that Musk dropped the swappable battery model with a very weak reasoning ("people don’t care about pack swap" [0]), and sealed the battery in - like Apple (and others) do with their iPhones - a friend of mine stated that in his opinion the real business was obviously in the batteries. Considering that having a swappable battery may resolve what I consider the main inconvenience of an electric car, namely the charging time, dismissing so lightly the swappable option seems quite odd. What does HN think? Can the total control of the batteries be the real business in electric cars? Thank you

[0] https://insideevs.com/elon-musk-comments-failed-tesla-battery-swap/
That was not a release, was a code dump. It died and nobody cared about it.
> but is informal and hidden.

Which I feel would somehow be even more annoying..
They have in some countries and not so much in others depending on the regulatory system. In the US yes corporations have enormous direct political influence due to the campaign finance and lobbying system, but other liberal democracies have very strict campaign finance laws that make that much harder. It's not an inherent or inevitable attribute of the system.

There are also plenty of examples of governments breaking up, trust-busting and punitively regulating big corporations so they clearly don't always get their own way.

In contrast I would argue that ossification and stagnation are inherent features of distributism and a lot of alternative economic systems that don't have good answers to the problem on innovation and economic dynamism.
They should feel very guilty of confusing "numerique" and "digital" all the time.

In French, 'numerique' generally means 'digital' and 'digital' only means related to fingers (e.g. fingerprint is 'empreinte digitale').
NPR's Freakonomics Repeats Charlottesville Hoax
I have seen my fair share of candidates who can talk just like you suggested, but literally cannot put even simple solutions into code. Like, can't write a for loop or an if-condition but could walk through a problem like you describe and can even talk about tech trends.
Ask HN: Multiple Monitors vs. One Big Screen
I’ve always bought 27” iMacs (or used 27” or larger external displays on GNU/Linux boxes) but I see setups with two side-by-side monitors (or every three) everywhere. What are the pros & cons? Don’t the bezels drive you nuts? Does anyone use a vertically oriented monitor? (Portrait mode). (Side note: remember that CRT monitor from the 1990s for use with the original Mac that you could rotate to landscape or portrait mode?)
The one distinct advantage of wireless charging is that my Galaxy S5 has the same waterproofing flap over the USB port, and I've already worn through one of these (thankfully Samsung had the foresight to make them very easy to replace when the clip breaks), so the charger does not require opening the flap.
What do you think about my response to someone else below who was inquiring about my 'Deep Schizophrenia' AI model -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537047
Can you get funding for your startup with just an idea?
Is China Evil?

I think we always approach news like this with the concept that it is, indeed, evil.

Especially when it concerns censorship, which us in the democratic world view as paramount to freedom.

I'm not convinced that China is outright evil. I think they're just taking a different approach. Speech can do good, and it can do very bad (as we've seen in the information age - people are increasingly prone to believing falsehoods).

While I don't agree with China's approach to speech, I can't say that they're straight out evil b/c of it.

For those that might reply, I do know that they've done terrible things - and you have to admit - our country has too.
I know you said "all the fans were spinning" but my power supply fan starts hitting it's own frame when it gets too cold, did you check that fan? I forgot to check that one myself the first time I diagnosed. In my case it's just super loud but doesn't stop the fan or cause a shutdown.

If that's it, loosening the screws holding the fan in place just a little bit worked for me.
https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-power-consumpt...
A Simple Way to Talk to Your Website
This is interesting. I'm wondering if this might be good for making immutable development environments.
How would that interact with the situation where a smaller system just about works OK, but a larger system works better?

For example, we could devolve wireless spectrum management to cities. But it would be jolly inconvenient if San Francisco and San Jose required mutually incompatible wifi hardware.
My point was putting AI knowledge in the hands of people with a morally dubious history, but then I thought about tech executives and IT management, and maybe nothing's different..
> Is it inconceivable that each part works to its own goals and metrics consistent both with its own values and those of the wider organisation?

Beyond a certain number of people, absolutely it is.
I think the parent comment was referring to IBM in the Holocaust. Foreign powerful companies that would really have little to lose for not helping the Nazi regime.
WSL is quite slow indeed, compared even to a low performance VM like Virtualbox w/ a bit of hardware help.

Much less to something like KVM with paravirtualization drivers, or even Hyper-V likewise.
How to Not Use the NTP Pool
To me, the best life hack for productivity is "Sleep". If I sleep good, the day will be productive enough. If I don't, it might not.
Generating Training Datasets Using Energy Based Models That Scale
Thanks for confirming. This is what I expect my experience to be like. I could purposely put the display off-center so I only use 2/3 of it with something minor in the side.
Dang, ban this.
How does this compare to cpprestsdk?

https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk
Mondragon is an example of a large-scale Distributist enterprise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
From the article: “Perhaps the most worrying finding in the report is the threat of a feedback loop between severe weather events and carbon emissions. According to the IEA, a hotter-than-average summer and colder-than-average winter led to greater use of heating and air conditioning, which together were responsible for about half of the rise in energy demand in America and roughly a fifth of the worldwide increase”

In the same article it points to US and China as the worst offenders. Sure the availability of cheaper energy may cause increased consumption, but the idea of this vicious cycle is pretty scary.
Uber started awarding RSUs at end of 2014
So, "people who do good things well, will do good things well".

It always boils down to what to measure, how to measure it, and how to deal with gaming that. "Boils down to culture" is just weasel words.
I haven't been a part of the community for 3-4 years, but whenever someone had a question or issue with Ruby on the Mac, severeal very knowledgeable people were always quick to point out the issue's cause and a fix, workaround, or explaination of why it was that way.

Now, random, "Why did my mac start/stop doing x", I'll give you that. Especially on a site like Macrumors forums or Apple's useless support site.
Engineering Students Should Have Magic Marks to Score Well
The thing I find interesting is that to the Romans, Augustus (Octavian) was not the first emperor[0] at all, it’s only in hind sight that we call him that.

Let me explain. The Roman people has a very strong aversion to kings for centuries, it was legal for any citizen to kill a man who was trying to make himself king. This is part of what got Julius Caesar killed in fact, and while he was typically very popular his moves towards kingship were not received well at all.

Knowing this, the first series of emperors cloaked their imperial power in republican forms, even though they’d already killed the republic. They typically went by the title “Princeps” (first citizen), and wielded massive back room influence to accomplish their goals. Oh, and they also owned Egypt personally, and probably commanded around 20% of the empire’s wealth. It’s arguably not until Claudius, who was selected as emperor despite of his perceived idiocy specifically because of his relation to the prior emperor can we say that the political classes knew they lived in a monarchy of some sort. (Claudius turned out to be a competent emperor by the way, he and a very bad stutter that the Romans took for him being stupid).

What’s the point of this? The point is that republics don’t have to die in sudden and dramatic fashion. Sometimes they go in a Reichstag Fire, but they are also likely to rot from the inside while maintaining the old forms for a few generations.

0: They actually did use the title imperator, the root word for emperor, but this was originally a military term closely related to “commander”. This slowly merged into its modern imperial meaning roughly co-incident with the emperors slowly dropping republican forms and ruling in their own right.
2019.13 No Jokes Today – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
You should definitely move your domain name to your own country's registrar, or at least to a registrar that's known to show resistance to such legal abuse (targeting legal firms and big corps playing the big guns through this sentence).

As always, Privacy Tools have some good resources: https://www.privacytools.io/#dns
> A computer is not something that gives holy orders.

Unless it's running HolyC and TempleOS, of course! Rust and RedoxOS may be the best human-made solutions, but a computer with TempleOS is the only true "ordinateur", because it directly communes with G-d.
You clearly didn't read their response on it.
Five Thirty Eight also had a great analysis on baseball modification last year, except the changes are by manufacturers and the MLB.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/juiced-baseballs/
The reverse of running Windows in a KVM is actually equal or faster on disk IO than bare metal Windows. Given paravirt drivers of course

The tax is due to lack of the converse in Windows just yet.
>> but they have zero interest in participating in the support

It doesn't help that if you post any kind of technical instruction or information to the Apple site that doesn't involve a "Go to system preferences and uncheck this box", Apple will delete under the reason "this coiuld amage another users Mac"
Conan, C/C++ Open Source Package Manager
Major US airlines coming back online after systemwide outages, delays expected
It is almost like the impressions you leave with former colleagues and managers matters. Who would have thought that is what a reference call is attempting to uncover.
I used that 43UD79-b monitor for over 2 years at work. It was too big to actively use it all, but I had a cheap window manager for macOS that could snap windows to squares. The upper squares and far right/left squares would hold docs or chat windows I had to look at infrequently, while the main part of my work happened in the middle and bottom of the screen. I liked the built-in USB hub because I could “dock” my MBP with 2 wires: usb-c to the LG and a power cable.

When I needed s home monitor, I chose a 32” 4K instead. It’s certainly smaller but I can use the whole screen without drying out my eyes.
nostalgia overload
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/01/southwest-delta-united-airli...
I know some companies have solved this type of problem by computing some "seniority number" based e.g. on date of graduation / years of experience. So person A and B graduating at the same time -> A goes to work for FooCo, B works somewhere else for N years, then joins FooCo, both get the same salary for the same position. I.e. quitting and re-joining does nothing.

Then the mechanism for rewarding high performers is to give them a better position (e.g. Engineer -> Senior Engineer -> Chief Engineer) instead of just raising their salary with the same title.
Australia recently took the opposite approach and tried to roughen one side of the ball with sandpaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Australian_ball-tampering...
> Is there something unethical about hiring people to label data?

Inherently, no. The question I'd ask is - if labeled data is so important, would we pay them equitable benefits of the outcomes we achieve after the usage of this data? Or, do we simply fire them once they fuel our algorithms. It reminds me of "blood diamond" like practices.
>The problem is: what is success of the product?

Agreed. If it's measured in a metric, like bugs for every check-in or number of check-ins or numbers of lines of code, then reducing it down to metrics doesn't do anything to achieve the goal of the success of the product.

I'd - cautiously - argue it actually favours success of the individual over success of the product.
Stop wasting time using Lean and Agile, start measuring before building
I've got enough technical knowledge (I was a co-creator of the Tarski WP theme available on WordPress.com for several years) to know that this doesn't have two sides: https://twitter.com/nickstadb/status/1112479746972151808
The work they did on C# in the eighties where they tried to come up with a way for programmers to to program (control) Windows, has nothing to do with .Net you mean, not even as a tangent?
Mark Zuckerberg in discussion with Mathias Döpfner (CEO Axel Springer)
New Facebook tool answers the question “Why am I seeing this post?”
You are jumping to a lot of conclusions about my consumptive habits there :)
Something about 'unofficial drivers' for a security device like a fingerprint reader just doesn't sit right with em
What options are left if you need a simple website builder that's not

a) Wordpress, which is a swamp filled with mines in the form of plugins
b) Wix, which forces hosting and bad HTML on you

Basically I want a Wordpress-like frontend + the rich template ecosystem and for it to spit out static HTML files.
It is always that 'needing a team' thing that gets me.
88% complete, on target to hit 92% of targets.
> but the idea of this vicious cycle is pretty scary.

And I suspect it doesn't stop with increased air conditioning. Efforts to provide relief and rebuild communities after natural disasters will require more energy still.
Fitting My Head Through the ARM Holes (Substitutes for SSE's Pmovmskb on Neon)
Apple AirPower mat cancelled, Apple unable to meet its own standards of quality
This is a very popular YouTube format and I hate it
The temperature people set their thermostats to hasn't changed, but the volume heated and cooled has increased dramatically and will continue to increase, and new uses will start to become common. For example, sidewalk heating to melt ice.
Thanks. Do you know if there are a list of these paradox or counter intuitive theory?
>it's imperative to spend time only on tasks that require critical decisions to be made, and to delegate the rest.

Nobody ever points out the privilege in this statement. Someone has to be the unfortunate grunt getting delegated to, instead of delegating. If a delegator depends on the grunt, can we really attribute super high productivity to the delegator but not to the grunt? That certainly seems to be implicit when CEOs receive 100x more than the average worker. Perhaps they would be equally competent as delegators given the same opportunities some x years back.
> Beyond a certain number of people, absolutely it is.

that's because of the lack of trust, and the flow of responsibility and control.

If you structure a company such that the employees themselves has to be responsible for their output in such a way that higher output leads to more money for them, you'd not have this problem. For example, contractors who work on a results basis.
Facebook removes many accounts in India, Pakistan for 'inauthentic' behaviour
Video is pure distilled clickbait. Nothing ruined them. They slowly became less relevant and got absorbed into Time Warner. That's it.
> French speakers feel guilty when they say 'email' instead of 'courriel'

"Courriel" is the word proposed by the Québec institution (OQLF). It is used in France as well, but not as much as "email", which nobody feels guilty about.

Courriel is also a newly coined word, and an elegant one as well, so it fits right into your "languages are fluid, living breathing things" remark.
Interesting. That’s probably the best reason I’ve heard for why calculus and computer science prerequisites should be similar, even when the latter doesn’t use the former: if you don’t have the abstraction capacity for calculus, you probably won’t have it for programming.
Saw this on Twitter:

> Phil you need to stop with the lies. Not only do you outright lie about having the ability to kill sites with your plugin, you state that this was implemented in response to a security breach you experienced in July 2018. The code was implemented in November 2017.

https://twitter.com/nickstadb/status/1112444919409446912

Unfortunately, pipdig wiped and recreated the repo an hour ago, so that history is no longer available there at least.
Who are you with? This sounds really nice.
You would be right if the article had some unique exclusive information. It doesn't.

Maybe HN should ban paywalled sources.
I would offer something in return for the employer, because if you take their side it is illogical to give you more just because you would like to. You can tell your employer that "I would like to take more responsibilities" and actually take it even before talking of any raise, then try to ask, at this moment you have proven to be valuable and trustworthy. Earn your raises and direct them for your own growth.
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Why should I be outraged at this? How is this much worse than any other prison job?
You know what rubs MY nose? When people misuse language and then treat any correction as something snobby.

Typical argument from someone who just wrote "could of", or mixed you're with your:
"Oh but language is to communicate, and you understood what I'm saying so it worked so stop being snobby about it"

gah, makes my blood boil
I'm wondering if people in China can see this website in Google.

Edit: to people who are downvoting this... check this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19540562
Busyness is not a virtue. The consequences of your actions being good... that has always been the definition of virtue.
Yeah, as in parents should commit to donating them a home pre-birth, along with insurance on it and they should not be allowed to sell unless they own another home

Then no one will ever be homeless.

That's the only non-state solution that guarantees this outcome (well, barring major catastrophes that destroy the home and cause the insurance to not be effective at replacing it).
This is a LitRPG novel waiting to happen
Julius Caesar was a populist threat to the Senate aristocracy and his social / monetary reforms put him at further odds.
transparency could be enhanced by a public ledger such as blockchains
Interesting. A decade ago I observed something similar to the article while traveling in Nepal / Tibet.

Me and friend both had iPods (of different generations) that got 'altitude sick'.

At two points in the trip we got about 5,000m. Each time both iPods went totally unresponsive. Both times we'd only be there for a few hours and once we descended they'd stay working again.

Obvious thing was something to do with the cold and battery, but both times the battery came at the same charged once they started working.

Can't remember exactly what the ambient temperature was (we were in cars both times) but it's puzzled me whether it was cold or altitude.
I think their re-education centres are evil, so by that extension, yes.
Dependencies

C++ REST SDK
curl
Microsoft's use of pcode in BASIC predates even Visual Basic. I believe the first use of it was in QuickBASIC 4.0 (~87-88), which had an adversing campaign built around the fact it could compile at some ridiculously high rate.

What was happening, however, was that part of the compilation process was built into the editor and run incrementally. When you typed in and completed a line of code, it would be shipped off to the compiler, analyzed for errors, and then represented in the editor. This was easiest to see in the fact that the editor would automatically capitalize keywords, but also visible in the fact it would immediately report certain kinds of errors and make other minor code corrections. Heady stuff in 1988 when running at 4.77MHz. (The same was true for the interactive debugging tools built into the IDE.)

In any event, this was the precursor for similar functionality in later products, ranging from MS BASIC 7.0 to the Visual BASIC series.

BASIC 7.0 was also interesting in that it was at the tail end of Microsoft's BASCOM product line for DOS. For years, they'd offered a BASIC compiler product in parallel with the interpreted products that got most of the press ant attention. The compiler product was what you used if your interpreted BASIC program needed more execution speed or better packaging. It was BASIC 7 where the QuickBASIC IDE officially converged with the full machine code compiler. BASIC 7 included the IDE, a full compiler that could also target OS/2, and an ISAM database library. It was really a precursor to all the uses of VB to build line of business apps, etc.

> I was told that many office applications (on windows 3.1) were 90% pcode and 10% assembly.

The C compiler (at least) had options for compiling C into pCode that would be interpreted at runtime. I've forgotten most of the details other than that it was mainly sold as a code compression scheme of sorts. This was on the observation that pCode was more compact, but slower. (The pCode and the interpreter itself were all bundled into an x86-specific binary file, so there was no pretense of any of the cross-platform aspirations commonly associated with pCode.)
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