skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny...

As I write this, the office I work with is abuzz with game of thrones talk. Does Arya fullfil the prophecy. How winter fell to the Starks. If it gets to pints after work it'll be the war of roses, white walkers as a symbol of climate change, dragons as nuclear weapons...

We delve into art we like, insert meaning and extend the stories with our interpretations. Sometimes we hope, imagine or expect that the artist intended it this way. Sometimes we don't. We know this is our own embellishment.

I don't think the stuff the writer is describing is a problem really. It's fine that people understand poems in ways that are unrecognisable to the poet. I think the medium of standardized testing is just awkward applied to metaphorical babble about (possibly) metaphorical art.

You can standardize-test arithmetic, because they's an objective answer.

Poetry & literature classes are about making students engage with stuff. Most teachers won't care if the kids read their own crazy theories into a poem or whatnot.

But... imagine forcing someone who isn't into game of thrones into articulating a metaphorical theory about it. Awkward.
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"202.345.117 Years until GWEI fully owns Google."
You don't need the SEO for your name in particular. Here is why:

1. People who know you have your url.

2. People you meet have a business card or SMS from you with the URL

3. People searching for you can find you on social media, but most social media allows you to link to the site.

4. People searching for the keywords you use in your posts will find you if they are unique enough.
I think they might still have had "don't ask, don't tell" at the time.
Openrefine is for data wrangling. I want js library like filepond [1].

[1]: https://pqina.nl/filepond/
that's entirely possible. I left re-enactment 10 years ago. Things could have changed since then.
> Europe’s biggest phone company identified hidden backdoors in the software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy, a system that provides internet service to millions of homes and businesses

I think it is enough to be called a "backdoor".
I agree. I suspect most people would be a lot happier with a dozen or two commands customized to their personal use cases.

Instead we have companies shuffling data back to their servers attempting (and usually failing in my experience) to handle arbitrary commands mostly for the company's benefit
>Free-market fanatics see this all as a good thing but I'm really not happy with this rapid return to piece-work, which was outlawed in favor of hourly rates and minimum wages.

Funny thing is that US has minimum wage and til recently had mandatory union participation. Sweden has neither. Yet, Sweden has a much better working conditions and more free market.

It's quite funny to observe US people got used to crony capitalism blaming free market for bad working conditions.

Labourism is doing better under free market, you just can't into labourism, that's the problem. When Britain abolished mercantilism in favor of more laizes-faire policies in mid 19th century, the labourism flourished, and the working conditions (which were nearly stagnant in the previous 50 years) improved dramatically.

Regardless the regulations you would impose you wouldn't have good working conditions until you achieve basic consciousness. Labourism is not about regulations, it's about consciousness.

Otherwise there would be a few in power dictating to the many, and it doesn't matter if these in power would sit in the governments or in corporations.
A Crisis of Cognition
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There are two things. 1) what the author wrote, and 2) what they meant to write. Whey may have wanted to communicate something but failed at it. As long as the author is alive, or as long as they left notes or explanatory works, you can learn it. But going beyond these two things and claiming "this is what's in the text" is where literary criticism becomes bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_OK_to_be_white

> The slogan has been spread by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and racist groups including neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

> A report by the ADL states that the phrase itself has a history within the white supremacist movement going back to 2001 when it was used as the title of a song by a white power music group called Aggressive Force as well as fliers with the phrase being spotted in 2005 and the slogan being used by a member of the United Klans of America.

Sure, you can say it's ok to be white but perhaps if you pick a fairly well known white supremacist dog whistle, you should expect people to (fairly) tar you with the same brush.
Read the article the whole article.

The author was the interviewer, and the comment came from a candidate that wanted to research his interviewer as preparation for the interview.

The reasoning why he thinks one should have a personal website follows in the paragraphs "Practice" and "Learning".
For macOS, there is a small BasicTex package: https://tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html

It is missing most packages though, but only ~76M.
Never-the-less, Chrome is pretty spec-compliant as far as flexbox goes.
Kind of.

I was deep into LaTeX during the 90's while at the university, my Lamport's book copy state reflects how much I used to refer back to it.

Nowadays I rather prefer the convenience of something like FrameMaker.
In theory, the maximum encodable compressed unsigned integer, as used by GenParamCount in MSIL, is 0x1FFFFFFF.
Wow. Nanoscale vacuum tubes.
It's a form of Goodheart's law [1]. If you use the test scores to select for gifted students and the requirement is this high you will only select for highly test prepared students (the set of prepared and gifted or prepared and capable students). You're final student selection will be higher correlated to preparation and less to how naturally gifted a student is. This is not necessarily a bad thing though.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
Guy that handled my mortgage said many the houses he's dealt with in the more desirable neighborhoods have a lot of 'odd financials' going on in the deal. Sources of money are odd. And stocks and other types of paper are being traded for the house.
Show HN: A minimal test library for Go
Oh, you need to do more than "nothing special" in Prolog to get anything that is mildly useful. The very notion of constraint programming was born in Prolog community to handle... well, to handle constraint programming better than regular Prolog handles it.

Let me bring you another example.

In case of parser combinators over lists you can have a greedy alternative:

newtype P a = P (String -> [(String, a)] -- a parser is a function from input to remaining input and result.
P a <|> P b = P $ \s -> case a s of
[] -> b s
xs -> xs

The regular alternative is this:

P a <|> P b = P $ \s -> a s ++ b s

You can use combinators like that:

many, some :: P a -> P [a]
-- possible empty parse - returns empty list for that
many item = some item <|> pure []
-- parse head item and tail list of items and combine into a list
some item = (:) <$> item <*> many item

This greedy thing above helps greatly when you are dealing with mostly regular grammars (which are aplenty in wild) - it does not hold input for too long, it is faster for no parse situation, etc.

You put a change in a single combinator function and get wastly improved result.

In case of Prolog handling grammars you would have to put cuts all over your grammar definition, risking either loss of specification equivalence or performance.

I have more practical questions. For example, how would you design online parsers - ones that consume item by item and produce intermediate results on the go? How would you design a tree of parsers for editor to speed up reparsing after change?

These kinky Applicative and Alternative combinators let you not to worry about details when specifying the grammar. You specify it with class (pun intended - abstract getting an item into a class and you are done) and lay above the implementation which can be wholesome, streaming, with partial parses, deterministic, etc.
Does anyone have a link to a decent primer on PostGIS please?
Has anyone else noticed the increased "scrutiny" the US has been putting on Chinese companies recently?

Huawei seems to be the biggest example and its worrying me because they are starting to strong arm EU allies to follow in their footsteps. Both Germany and the UK have cleared Huawei to take put in 5g rollouts against the USA's wishes.

I'm not sure who to side with here, the company with multiple allegations against it or the country which is known to do exactly the same thing except maybe worse...?

Try not to dismiss this because its not dripping in pro-usa sentiment, i'm interested to hear what people inside the bubble think.
Everyone is super excited about this and I am sure its going to capture a significant market, but you have to realise what are alternatives and how much they cost.

I expect them to be utterly unaffordable at least for first half of decade.

Their biggest competitor is Iridium which offer similar service at $150 per 2kbps. I will let you extrapolate real life prices from here.
I (did) feel excatly the same. Now after working for 17 years I realize that I barely ever use this stuff, and when asked this stuff in an interview I do a lot worse than I did straight out of university. I am however a lot better software engineer than I was then.
I'm always curious if one day one of these "solutions" is actually correct. I'm definitely rooting for the author, although probably have to wait until Terence Tao chimes in.
I agree with this comment.

I'm wholly in the US, so maybe my experience is unique to me. Bit I was freelancing for quite a while and then one of my clients ended up buying all my time.

IMO, there weren't any benefits from remaining a contractor once I was working full time. We ended up cutting my pay a bit to account for a shift in taxes and that worked out better for both me and my employer.
No, the roads belong to everyone not just motorists, building a cyclist ghetto and kicking cyclists off the roads so that motorists can have them all for themselves is just wrong. Motorists should be responsible for their actions.
Can't Huawei just license their technology to a US firm, so this hardware can be implemented and produced under US supervision?
I feel super fortunate that I have a relatively common first and last name, and you pretty much cannot find me through search engines. I have several name-doppelgängers out there that do ample SEO for themselves. Plus we have the rapper now. I have close to zero presence on social media. You would be hard pressed to find a single photo of me by doing basic name and location searches. Really didn’t have to do any scrubbing or “reputation management.” I consider it a real, rare blessing in this world where online privacy is disappearing.

I have no doubt a highly motivated and technical individual (or nation state adversary) could find and dox me, but the average curious HR person or run-of-the-mill stalker will likely not have much luck.
Minecraft creator Notch unwelcome at 10th anniversary due to online conduct
I can’t tell if this is true or an organized smear campaign against Huawei for monetary reasons.
Why? I think there’s a reason behind it. I always imagined it to to be shifting bits along the stream.
Amazon doesn't have to profit on ads. Amazon can profit on actual product sales.

Google lacks that luxury.
> firstlast.com seems the obvious choice, but it gets pompous

I'm not sure why that would be seen as pompous. It is your site, why not have it associated with your name?

I'm lucky enough to have got <last>.<tld> many years ago as my surname isn't that common (though common enough that <last>.com was already gone). Not that I currently have anything hosted on it (I had a personal site with photos and such, but that long since fell to bit rot as life got busy) but it is still handy for email. I have plans to resurrect it for a small amount of "about me" stuff (on <first>.<last>.<tld> maybe aliased as <first>.<middle>.<last>.<tld> to) and to hang some techie/professional projects off (<project>.<last>.<tld>) when I get of my lazy arse and actually implement some of them instead of just thinking about it all.

Unfortunately, for most people <last>.<tld> is very much no longer an option though. For many <first><last>.<tld> is most likely already gone too. If not to an actual person using the domain, or holding it for future use, then to someone who wants to sell it to you with a 900% markup.

> Create an unrelated but brand-able name

This works. It doesn't even need to be meaningful given that most of the time people aren't really aware of URLs the way they used to be, and many brand names are not meaningful beyond being brand names anyway. Your content matters much more than the name, as long as the name isn't in some way inappropriate to the content. Heck, if you don't need the name for branding purposes just pick a couple of random words from the dictionary until you find a pair/triplet/other that scans nicely, and use that.
ITT: you're all feeding the troll.
Telecommunication is of strategic importance and the West has had a monopoly on it.

This monopoly had ended and that makes some people uncomfortable.

> Both Germany and the UK have cleared Huawei to take put in 5g rollouts

France has as well, as they said that all suppliers will be treated equally and subject to the same security tests.
Could you please list some of the type I companies? I'm at the other end of things and find they are non existent, but maybe I'm searching in the wrong places.

Remote is not a protected group [0].

[0] https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
Intel ME _is_ a backdoor.

The funny thing is that there are many more. Interesting how the EU is dealing with this - most media seems to focus on how badly china could be spying while the US proved they aren't trustworthy long before.
Try having an RDP session to fix Windows servers based in Australia with 400+ ms latency (Europe is unfortunately nowhere near Australia) on your GUI, the ordeal will leave a permanent scar on your psyche.
Guess all this data gets shafted if you live in the UK but drive a left-hand side vehicle though!
Internet was supposed to change everything yet we are stuck in cesspool of misinformation.

100% sure Tesla will either apply great firewall in China or just shut sats down while they are there, because China will threaten shutting gigafactory.
I'm lucky enough to have a quite rare name, at least in that specific orthography. There are probably a few dozens of us around, and I have a remote idea of who everybody is.

So I manage to get my name.TLD quite easily (one of them was owned by a distant cousin until recently). I think firstname@name.TLD is pretty much the cleanest email address you could have. And I can spin other addresses for members of my family if needed.
As Jon Gruber says: "Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services."

"The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources."

"By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true."
> Abandoning Huawei for 5G, with Europe already lagging behind China and the U.S., could force them to rip out the supplier’s 4G gear

Does anyone know what this is about? Both the need to rip out 4G gear if they don't want to use the new 5G stuff, and also the statement about Europe being behind China and the USA?
I suspect that a lot of Myspace content was scrapped, and is floating around in databases to this day.

Storage is really, really cheap these days. Cheap enough that you can host Wikipedia and OpenStreetMaps in your garage if you wanted to. And this is before you even get to stuff like Amazon Glacier, for data that you don't know what to do with today, but which might be mineable tomorrow.

I fully expect that any shred of personal information, down to comments, is going to be recorded somewhere. Not necessarily with public access, though, and almost certainly not to the public benefit.
Past malpractice shouldn't be the reason for no future improvement. It's simply the time to relearn.
I moved offices within a company, due to a restructure, to sit with my new formal "team". My actual job was unchanged though so I didn't work with any of the people I now sat next to. For personal reasons I was super anti-social when I just moved which resulted in much the same experience. I didn't have much work interaction, and no social interaction, so I was just a guy sitting at a desk in an office surrounded by strangers.

I feel like the issue isn't something that can only happen in co-working. Enforced socials without common ground are the same whether you are nominally in the same company or not.
Rayon: Data Parallelism in Rust
Can your team be more productive?
Asking what questions they would ask. You can tell a lot about a person by the questions they ask.
The Line of Death (Web Security)
Alternate headline:

Chinese intelligence joins US and Five Eyes coalition in public-private partnership global surveillance program, information sharing agreement to be discussed in upcoming trade talks.

Whataboutisms only work when the accuser is assuming something un-ordinary is happening, after knowingly or unknowingly exempting themselves from the behavior they already practice.
Well, how do you know this isn't true for your favorite game?
Having kicked both, sugar is definitely a physical withdrawal and weed more of a psychological withdrawal. Hard for me to say which was worse though.
Note that a game with a "write word to memory" function would still need to be able to break out of the sandbox.
It's about violating the principle of least surprise. If you create a culture of redefining any and all operators all the time to effectively create DSLs, you can't infer what anything does. You can even override operator, for some reason. Just looking at a piece of code you have no idea what it's actually intending to do.
Ah, but the article said that the telnet server "could still be launched," not that it was necessarily open. It could be one of those "magic knock" packets that 'launches' telnet, like the backdoor found in some Cisco routers a while back.

Also weird is that Huawei insisted on keeping it open until they'd completed testing... does that mean it's phoning home? Or that they have their own technicians coming around to service it?

Such a crappy article. Bloomberg should have learned from the Supermicro fiasco to include more details and not parrot a single source. At this point if IC is serious about Huawei posing a national security risk they should arrange a leak of their actual intel to force real public discussion..
Why not both? Many routers have had remote access vulnerabilities, but there's a clear reason to write about 2012-era vulns about Huawei and not some other manufacturer.
thank you. That's the first decent rational explanation I've heard for why anyone would sort anything by UUID.

I use UUID's for keys, and always sort my results by another field (any other field). If necessary, I add an index for that other field.

I guess I'll have to change this strategy if I get to the kind of scale where the append time matters. I hope I get to that scale, it seems like a good problem to have :)

I also have another metric asstonne of problems I'll need to solve at that scale. But then, premature optimisation is the devil, so I'm happy I'm not dealing with any of that until I need to :)
Same here. It also makes it harder to find you in gigantic password db dumps.

It's an interesting consideration in naming a child.
So like any other media publication? They are all in the business of lying, for profit or otherwise. I assume people at Bloomberg shorted Huawei stock before they published that.
This gets the dynamic wrong though - WeWork has long term contracts with their suppliers and short term contracts with their customers. So what actually happens in a recession:

1. Businesses cancel their WeWork spaces because they're laying people off with 0-6 months notice.

2. WeWork has to eat the cost of low-occupancy buildings until their leases are up for renewal - which could be 5, 10 years down the line.

3. As the market heats back up WeWork change charge a lot for the office leases they established cheaply during the recession giving them low cost, high value rental spaces.

Notice how at stage 2 you're going to have a few years where you've got a drop in revenue but high fixed costs? Normal office rental companies plan for this because of the cyclical nature of the market. The question you've got to answer is can WeWork weather that storm - and I would've though it obvious that it's in a bad position since right now they have $6.6Bn cash and lose $2Bn a year.

Also I've got to challenge you on this:

>3. Other companies will look to close down their own satellite offices and transfer workers to WeWork sites for cost savings.

I think this is just utterly implausible. Companies don't shut down their satellite offices to move workers into smaller more expensive per head offices. What is far more likely to happen is that they cut head count and use the spare office space in their head office to close down satellite offices and move them to headquarters and close down small offices and move them to regional offices. That effect will reduce demand for WeWork, not increase it.

Take Intel as an example of this: When they wanted to reduce head count the first step was to shut down failing projects and fire under performing employees. Their second step was then to use the spare space in their large offices to shut down small offices and consolidate into their big offices. All their big offices are offices they own or have extremely long term rents on, all the offices they didn't were much smaller and much more likely to be rental spaces - which is why it saved money to shut them down in the first place.
Doesn't surprise me. The value of their ad products is deteriorating rapidly. For instance just today we found that one of our UAC campaigns, which supposedly is super smart and will automatically find the best channel for you decided to switch to a new channel with 14x higher CPC than the other channel that was working very well. That new CPC was 2x our target CPI. Why on earth they don't put in limits to prevent stupid bids like that is beyond me.
The reason this isn't the same is that addition is associative, so you can parallelize it like this: `((1+1)+1)+1 = (1+1)+(1+1)`.

A fast way to calculate something like `g^x` for some large `x` is to iteratively square:

g^1
g^2
g^4
...
g^(2^i)

and the puzzle is designed so that `i` is large (`79_685_186_856_218`)

Of course, this doesn't prove that computing `g^x` is sequential, but it does show why it is different than computing `1+1+...+1`.
How anyone trusts Bloomberg after the Seamicro chip story is beyond my understanding. (and specially the way it was handled and not retracted — anyone can make mistakes, but owning them is most important).

Even the title could have been something else. Like this excerpt from the article:

> "Vodafone has defended Huawei against the U.S. onslaught"