skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the feeling that many elements of your story don't add up. How can you work 10-12 hours a day and only have $1000 saved up, especially if you're in a tech-related field? I know kids can be expensive, but they're not that expensive.

In life, unless you can learn to put away a huge pile of cash, people are just going to walk all over you. When you are vulnerable, it sends a signal and they pounce on it. Your boss will stop abusing you the moment he realizes he can't use it to control you anymore.

Save your money. Pick up new skills. Become less dependent on others. Bike instead of driving. Cook all of your own meals. Learn about investing. Get out of debt. Maintain your own vehicles. Plant a garden.

Take literally any step to make yourself more independent and your boss will lose power.
#authentic <- I don't think that means what they think it means.
This is indicative of a larger issue - testing is probably as difficult as solving the halting problem i.e. code could be generated from proper tests, yet teams tend to trust their tests completely. I see high profile websites having severe usability issues or being outright broken in ways that would be immediately caught by "interns randomly click here and there" usability tests. But these version got deployed probably because testing did not show any regressions.

I tend to believe that if user complaints about new problems or regressions increase over statistical noise - there is a problem.
45 if you remove the trailing }.
A.I. Could Delete HR and Recruiting Jobs for Good
Why a Chinese Bitcoin mining ban is good news:

* It kills the narrative that China controls Bitcoin.

* It severely diminishes the Chinese state's ability to disrupt the Bitcoin network by commandeering hashpower.

* The Chinese miners will move their operations overseas, leading to higher geographical/jurisdictional decentralization.

* It becomes relatively speaking more profitable for Chinese ASIC manufacturers to directly sell their miners compared to mining themselves. This will diminish their oversized power in the ASIC market and decentralize mining in terms of operators.

* BTC itself isn't banned, OTC demand will stay, causing a premium. This means some mining will likely continue in smaller, less obvious operations outside the reach of the state. Everything about that is healthy for the network.

* The biggest source of Bitcoin blocks won't be behind the biggest firewall of the globe anymore.

* The article mentions a phasing out, so the two-week difficulty adjustment period can more than likely gracefully handle this.

* Although a lot of Bitcoin mining is done with hydropower in China, it also has a significant share of cheap coal-powered mining. This likely makes overall Bitcoin mining greener, hurting the Bitcoin climate change FUD.
So is this meant to be a security enhancement website? If so, why aren't you using HTTPS by default (or even outright blocking HTTP)?
This is why you should never use Facebook as your comments system: it allows people to just randomly say ignorant shit that any reasonable adult would never even have thought of that as something have said in the first place.
Wage slavery and closed source code while companies invest in surveillance technology to work with an over-reaching government while also buying out US government to form an oligarchy is what isn't ethical about closed source products from large corporatioms.
The article confuses the differing responsibilities of airlines, airports and air services (ATC) who then work together to deliver a realistic schedule.

Airlines are motivated to maximise fleet utilisation so the narrow focus on padding is a misleading and overemphasised element to judge the intent of this specific delay mitigation.

The industry is moving towards increasing collaboration, the article I think avoids mentioning the IATA recommended ACDM approach instead pitching a companies PoC from one of their sources.
For starters, did I condone any of them being justified? Me making a statement about Gauntanamo Bay does not automatically imply I am defending the re-education camps in China.

So, here is a very basic lesson in maths:
If a => b is true, it does not necessarily mean b => a is true.

Besides, does America not also have one of the highest incarceration rates in the worlds?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

I mean China has a lot of catching up with America (just order by per 100,000):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
Edit: even less mysterious when she reappeared, although that invalidates most of what I wrote!

Hardly mysterious: she was "disappeared" by the authorities. Given the total lack of communication she is probably dead. We are no more likely to find out what happened than to find what really happened at Tiananmen. Perhaps in half a lifetime's time one of the survivors of the next revolution will tell us.
This is exactly the issue with these arbitrary gates in the hiring process. You were taught to do it. Someone with a different background (maybe they grew up in a different country or had parents that worked in a different industry) wouldn't necessarily even think to send a thank you and would be unfairly disqualified from the position.
> I'm very much against hidden criteria used to filter people.

I'm not, or at least, not everything should be spelled out; what you want to avoid is people 'cheating' at their job interview by trying to bullshit their way through the application process.

We have a technical assessment, but look at (and ask a lot of) things outside of what was asked exactly; basic expected software development skills such as unit testing, documentation, a grasp of technology used, a drive to keep up to date and learn new things, that kinda thing.

I guess you could fake those? But I think that if you've got the drive to "fake" learn a new technology you've got the drive we're looking for.
> This likely makes overall Bitcoin mining greener, hurting the Bitcoin climate change FUD.

It's not FUD if it's true, which you're implying with the first half of that there sentence...
Thought so. And that’s why I would not give your opinion any weight.
I’m a frequent Twitter user, although I only use a third-party client but I’m not sure what’s difficult to follow here. The linked tweet is commenting on (parodying) the original tweet, the text of which is in the small box immediately below the text of the linked tweet. There’s no thread or “conversation” happening.
> Object Pascal/Delphi

It has a sane subset which is basically C with a slightly saner syntax than C (the begin...end and lacking data initialization syntax are terrible though!), and with a proper module system and much better compile times.

On the other hand, it was crippled by missing a usable preprocessor and an ecosystem that has bought into each hype since the 90's, resulting in 23 incompatible kinds of strings, 101 different dynamic arrays, and about 5 (really) incompatible object models with different kinds of memory management. Programmers with many years in the language don't really understand all the ways memory is managed in this language.

Now try writing something on top of the broken RTTI for that. Even official guides basically concede the fact by writing quirky code that easily breaks.

Also you have to declare typealiases for every little thing like pointer-to-types, before you can use that type in a function signature. This alone renders it almost completely unusable for my purposes.

It has a culture of goto-considered-harmful where people like to indent 13 times instead of using return/continue/break, which would yield readable control flow. If you want to return something, you need to write two lines - assigning to the result and calling exit(). You can't call exit() though when the current class has a method called exit(), since that method is closer in scope (REALLY REALLY WEIRD).

I know what I'm talking about. I've been paid to work in it, and refactored a subsystem written in idiomatic Delphi to be halfway maintainable, achieving real speedups of 100-1000x by following a straightforward "data-oriented" approach, just like I would write it in C, writing complicated code only where the straightforward approach was not feasible in the language. Despite completing the project successfully (there hasn't been a single problem since the rewrite), in the end I was burnt out due to having to work with the original code. Didn't work for 5 months afterwards.
C Lint Tools Analysis
Totally agree. No strong reason how CO2 emissions are affected by padding - yes IF there is additional time circling in the air, but then the airline is rarely solely responsible and a clear financial incentive exists.

Note that the bottom half of the article is a sales pitch for his business flow product!
At the edge of deception: Experimentally testing journalistic accuracy
Filesystem Is Broken
>* The Chinese miners will move their operations overseas, leading to higher geographical/jurisdictional decentralization.

I feel like you really don't get the... particulars of being a Chinese national, on multiple levels
I don't really see how protection against invasion helps you maintain a fiat currency. I don't think an army is either necessary or sufficient. These just seem like two different issues.
> In fact the core premise of the article is clickbait

I feel like basically all the BBC articles I've seen posted here recently are nothing more than clickbait. Does anyone else feel the same?
I’m sorry, but a thank you is now considered arbitrary? Come on, seriously? What environment are you not taught to respect someone that gave you time of day?

And does it matter if they are truly thankful? It’s not like people share things on the internet to truly SHARE, out of their own good will. They either want fake internet points, recognition, or traffic to end up selling something down the road.
Probably just bad experiences with it in the past and the lacking IDEs. e.g. PyCharm makes writing Python a breeze.
Thanks. I misread the increase in ESR as a governing effect, rather than a secondary effect.
Percentage of jobs openings relating to AI at big tech companies
> As for CO2, the plane flying slower is more fuel-efficient. Isn't this lower CO2 emissions?

Possibly lower emissions per minute, but if they are in the air for significantly longer, then that may be cancelled out by the extra time.

Often, although fuel efficiency drops off sharply as you go above a certain speed in a vehicle, going slower than that speed is not significantly more efficient per minute, and can therefore be less efficient per distance.

Driving a car for 100 miles at 30MPH is typically less efficient than doing so at 60MPH. Driving that distance at 90MPH is even less efficient.
Boeing 737 Max: What went wrong?
Theoretically a plane may have to sit in a holding pattern if it arrives too early, either due to congestion at the airport or not having a landing slot.
Do the numbers in that article, uhhh, add up?

The article estimates the total number of ATMs at 3 million, with an average daily power consumption of 5Wh, for a total yearly power consumption of 13Twh. Except if I punch [3 million * 5Wh * 365.25 to terawatt-hours] into the Google, I get 0.0055TWh. If I assume the author meant to type 5kWh as the average daily power consumption, you get 5.5TWh, which is closer, but still not the stated quantity.

[EDIT: OK, so I if I punch [3 million * 500W * 365.25 days to terawatt-hours] into the Google I get the 13TWh the author estimated for ATM consumption. So the author is actually assuming that the average ATM is consuming 500W?]

Likewise the numbers for how much electricity bank branches consume doesn't seem to add up (it seems like the author assumes branches consume an average of 10kW, not 10kWh/day?), and I can't replicate any of the numbers given for bank server energy consumption (just multiplying the numbers given in the article together in different ways).

Can someone else get the numbers in the original article [https://hackernoon.com/the-bitcoin-vs-visa-electricity-consu...] to add up?
Ask HN: GitHub notification spam using private forks?
I noticed a couple of emails from GitHub that I have been subscribed to two UnrealEngine forks, which contain garbage / an ad for some project. Both of these private repositories have well over 100k watchers now.

Seems to me like GitHub lacks in the validation department not only for for GitHub Pages...
> Cleverly not mentioning that many issues were fixed on ISO Extended Pascal and other dialects.

Yes, Kernighan was “clever” in 1981 to ignore ISO Extended Pascal, a standard published in 1991. (I'm also not sure if there was ever more than one implementation of Extended Pascal, though Free Pascal claims it as a planned future feature.)
She pissed off the government by using 'yin-yang contracts' which is both illegal and tax evasion. Of course she's not the only one doing it, but she is the most famous actress in China.

They probably have her in an re-education center. She's also being made an example off to make the other actors/actresses more honest and take less salary for social stability.

Basically by law in China, only 40% of a movie's budget can be for actors/actresses. A max of 70% of the 40% for actors/actresses can be paid to a single actor/actresses. But you have these huge stars like Fan Bingbing who wants more, so what do you do? You have two contracts, an official one with lower salary that is also reported to the government and an unofficial one that's really how much they are paid.
Why can't they be worse?
Here's why I downvoted you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

...

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

...

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
It's actually been more than a few years now that www.bbc.com has been full of click bait. Scroll down to the "Editor Picks" and it's not very different from what you would see on something like Mashable.
"If the home computer was not protected with up-to-date anti-virus software, the Angler would search for vulnerabilities and, if possible, deliver the "ransomware" that seized control of the machine."

It is amusing that they don't mention that ad bocking extensions also protect against this sort of thing. In fact, defense in depth against malicious ads are one of the best reasons to run an adblocker.
>Don't get an insurance that is capped at a low number, otherwise you will go bankrupt if shit hits the fan.

But shit will not hit the fan for the overwhelming majority of people. There's no good reason for someone in their 20s (or 30s) with, no dependents, no history of medical problems and doesn't partake in a dangerous lifestyle to load up on coverage. Loading up on coverage in that situation might make you feel warm and fuzzy. It might win you internet points. It is not financially sound.
I remember mine being gray too, but I don't know - that was a long time ago!
> literally unusable for their purposes.

Unless you get the $9 adapter discussed here. I get your point, I use iOS devices as musical instruments, but it's a niche and as such a fair trade-off most consumers don't care about.

I'd rate the healthy app ecosystem for music creation on iOS much higher and more valuable than the somewhat annoying necessity to use adapters for niche applications.
Yeah I think part of the prerequisite is that they either contribute more than 300k of wealth or are plausibly a threat that can statistically do more than 300k in damage.
Okay, so you sterilize the air and then pump the sterilized air out. Where do you want to get the air to replace that air with?

What good is sterilizing the air if you've got to replace the air after you've sterilized it because it's contaminated with ozone? Is this just a case of not wanting to vent air with more parasites than the atmosphere outside the ER?
Date formatting is backwards for a UK audience might be worth using the browsers locale
> I was taught in high school to always send a thank you email to an interviewer after an interview.

Ah yes, the folk-knowledge from high school. Always offered by the academic class with no background in having real jobs.

IMO, thank you letters seem desperate for anything other than an entry level job. Interviews should be testing you for fit (primarily technical) for the role. If you pass this criteria, they will be very excited for you to join with their team because there is high demand for skilled workers.
> How is ethical defined here?

Yeah, I'm not sure I follow this at all. Is it just being open source or not (directly) run by a huge company?
Because there's a barrier to entry with some of these "less ethical" tools, especially analytics, hard to compete with free or having to self host. We can/need to do better?
The Problem with Programming (2006, Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup)
It was a long time ago, but I’m pretty sure CDC doesn’t auto-enumerate on Windows. Mac and Linux is fine. I think you still need a .inf for Windows, and for it to work generally, you need WHQL signing ($$, time).

The free (money-wise) approach we ended up doing was to use WinUSB and marking the device as “vendor specific”, and using libusb to talk directly to it. That was a bit awkward, but covered Windows, Linux, and OSX for us.

This was 5 years ago though. Windows 10 might directly support generic CDC devices, but Win 8.1 didn’t.

Edit: sibling mentions HID. HID does work like this, but we needed more bandwidth than HID provided. CDC was perfect for what we were doing but it didn’t auto install. Mass storage auto-installs but didn’t fit what we were doing.
Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data:

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/04/08/boeing-737-max-...
"too small to be evil"
Browsers don’t have JavaScript disabled by default. You’re going out your way to disable it. The modern web expects JavaScript to be enabled.
you missed a word there it seems?

Edit: seems like you've edited your message. next time try to be more polite and mark your edits.

i'm not saying efficiency doesn't matter, i'm saying primary goals of bitcoin are different.
Additionally, airlines might choose a more economic route which might take longer but save fuel due to better weather conditions/jet stream.
In my benchmarks Bazel was the fastest of the lot, including Meson with Ninja.
> Turbo Pascal

Was not abandoned, it was rebranded to “Delphi” and is still around.
I would agree with this predictability point, except that they still find ways to undermine predictability down the line.

For example, the latest thing American Airlines seems to be doing is changing schedules in radical ways between time of purchase and day of travel. The last three itineraries I've had on American, I've gotten an e-mail weeks after buying the ticket saying that one of my flights now had a schedule several hours after the originally booked and ticketed flight. What then, predictability?
Instagram used by incoming college freshmen to make friends and find roommates
They havent and they increased the cost of electricity. You need to factor in what they get from other countries too.
>That how government works.
Not in Germany.
Crypto Genius Has Gone Viral – How It Works
Both gold mining & forex consumes magnitudes more energy than Bitcoin mining.
Whatever the chinese rationale is, it ain't about the climate.
I Stumbled into a $300K Business Framing Tweets
Nuclear is not generally seen as a renewable is it? It’s a really efficient extraction based source.
>Given the total lack of communication she is probably dead.

Hardly.

Quotes from OP:

Since her release last October, Fan has consciously kept a low profile. (She and her agency declined to speak with VANITY FAIR for this story.) Her first post on social media after her public apology was an overt display of fealty to the Chinese government. On November 17, when a director made a pro-Taiwan comment at the Golden Horse Awards, Fan shared a pro-China post from the Communist youth league. “China,” she said, “cannot miss out on any inch.”

Fan, for her part, appears to be quietly plotting a comeback. Throughout the crisis, her production company never shut its doors. “Of course she lost a lot of money,” said Fang, the producer. “But she’s not completely depressed.” Fang and Li, Fan’s best friend and frequent collaborator, have been discussing future projects for their favorite star. When I asked Li why she would risk casting Fan, she told me that the anguish Fan has gone through would become the well she draws from. “Nobody can be a better actress than her,” Li said.

Not long ago, Fan had drinks with her friend Li, who told me that they discussed Fan’s ordeal. If the best art reflects its times, the two concluded, who better to cast as a lead than Fan Ye herself?

Fan laughed at her luck. Perhaps there was an upside to becoming the world’s most celebrated missing person. “I worked so hard,” she told her friend, “and this is how I become famous.”
No kidding, an internatial route I take was 8.5 hours 8 years ago and now it is 11.5. I am not sure this is a result of padding or scheduling.
Winter Is Coming for Java Updates
I don't like the term Web3 and I think a lot of people using the it are basically pushing snake oil.

However, I really like the idea of eventually having client-side decrypted data, and censorship-resistant "torrent-like" distributed content. Whether cryptocurrencies must play a role in this or not remains to be seen.
The weather is more extreme than it was 30 years ago. I don’t feel the need to cite ever-increasing broken records and such like; there are too many to report. We’re already suffering very badly.
Hey I know, we could package these Income Sharing Agreements (ISAs) together to reduce the risk of investing in duds. Then we could resell those. I'm sure the rating agencies would get on board. Tranche the sht out of that stuff, and it's fun times until we realize that people don't actually have jobs anymore, and your AAA CISA is dogsht. Sign me up!

OTOH... I just went back to university and am getting straight As or A+s after my first year doing Physics, Chemistry, Biology. So ... investors ... my trajectory will put me somewhere between Elon Musk and Ted Kaczynski. Who wants to bite?
Different industry? Different background?

Like Eastern European immigrant that could only afford to live among white trash blue collar folks? I should be too stupid to know how the great big American economy works then since my high school was surrounded by cattle farm. I’m pretty white trash still to this day. But even in our retarded educational system, we knew handshakes, pleases and thank yous were still important in a cooperative, functioning society.

You know what, that's funny. The poorer folks I know that escaped their poverty, we all know our pleases and thank yous. It's actually the people that grew up with money that are social idiots and ungrateful bastards that like to complain about every little thing under the sun.
> As for CO2, the plane flying slower is more fuel-efficient.

It's counter-intuitive, but an aircraft can be more efficient at higher airspeeds. The reason for this is that, unlike a ground vehicle, an aircraft in level flight must expend energy generating lift to balance its weight. This loss of energy shows up as lift-induced drag [1]. As airspeed increases, the losses to lift-induced drag decrease, while the losses to aerodynamic drag increase. Where the point of minimum total drag lies depends on several factors including weight and altitude. See [2], which contains a chart for a generic aircraft which is 5% less efficient at Mach 0.72 than it is at Mach 0.80.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-induced_drag

2. http://atmseminar.org/seminarContent/seminar11/papers/481-Je...