skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that’s a horrible idea. It’s the same reason most cities elect mayors but hire city managers, and why we try to pay legislators a decent salary. Otherwise only people with nothing else to do can afford to become politicians or count votes.
Why would you ever feed a balanced antenna with coax? I use open wire transmission line and have nearly zero loss in the transmission line.

A transmatch is a wonderful piece of gear.
>over time slowly boiled the frog

The important detail about the story concerning boiling frogs, is that to stop them from jumping out, first of all their brains were removed. Though I am not sure whether in this instance it makes the metaphor more accurate, or less.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/guest...
Show HN: Simulated Lens Blur/Chromatic Aberration
As mentioned downstream, a cached revocation list could be served. Additionally, certs that expire are not commonly revoked, and revoked certificates may be removed from revocation lists after they expire.
I think a hacker would find this interesting. I know I do.
>Wealth transfer schemes are inevitably unpopular and tend to not work well.

Transfer payments are used as an economic stabilizer along with taxation. They also pool risk. You'll need to back up your assertion since most economists see some benefit to transfer payments, and most developed economies use them.
does this mean we can free leonard?

my idea of justice doesnt include non-violent academics serving life sentences for manufacturing psychedelics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard
British digital bank Revolut at risk of losing European banking licences
honestly this is where math stops being logical and follows emotions. The logical reason one isn’t prime is because we don’t want to ruin theorems that were based on faulty logic so we continue with the faulty logic... yay?
This is pretty harsh. I use Goodfellow as a reference text and then supplement the mathematics behind it with more comprehensive texts like Hastie or Wasserman. Maybe if you sit down and read it cover-to-cover, it will seem disjointed. But I usually read chapters independently - I recently read the convolutional neural network chapter in preparation for an interview and I thought it was fine.
> Drivers speeding is much more dangerous and occurs at a much higher frequency, yet it is much more socially acceptable than cyclists running red lights.

Unless you're on a road which was designed and marked with the expectation of mild speeding, which as far as I understand is most of them. In that case it puts you at the target level of danger, not an increased level of danger.
"B25 is not designed for digging tunnels." Gread old fashioned humour, I miss such things :)))
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746734
This is actually one of the core goals of adversarial machine learning: crafting inputs that trick a machine but look indestinguishable to a human [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07528.pdf
Seeing a supremest message in a comment, and clicking their name, is seeking it out? Jesus then, we’re screwed.
This looks super cool! And I love that this is run by an indie dev and not some VC-backed startup or big corporation.

Definitely bookmarking this so that I can come back to it and see what I can build once I have time.
Ah thanks for that catch! Getting the checkboxes removed for mobile ASAP,

And you're completely right, we are definitely still in an MVP stage but should be more polished now that we're asking for money. Gonna get it cleaned up now! I appreciate this feedback!
When I lived in the US almost all the debit cards were from visa/mastercard and could be used online. I can't imagine that has changed.
I wonder if part of it was the transatlantic style of speech that was the norm for movies & news of the era.
Weirdly, when Unity was first starting out it had this "UnityScript" thing, which was javascript-but-not-quite. Luckily it's mostly been phased out (I don't think newer versions even support it)
I’ll suggest it!

So... about 1 hour?
I refer to it as static hosting because even when using a 1MB database you’re querying it with JavaScript. Also databases are a new addition to 1MB so I’m at this weird crossroads where I don’t know if it’s static hosting anymore. Thank you!
Communication and knowledge should be considered part of the product. You often times still need these kinds of developers to deliver even this aspect. Basically someone who groks the project so thoroughly that they can synthesize disparate pieces of information into something holistic and absorbable.
You're right that people are more likely to use words like 'toxic' when they disagree. But your generalization goes too far, and the cases where it fails are important. I moderate posts on HN all the time whose views I personally agree with. That's probably the most important capacity a moderator needs. Some of those posts I would definitely call toxic.

To pick an example that won't upset any people (ok, not many people), if someone shows up in Common Lisp threads on HN with the sort of chauvinism that destroyed comp.lang.lisp, that's toxic and I'm going to moderate even if I share their views about Lisp. This is a real example btw. I found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9813527, but there have been a bunch of cases.
In general language diversity at a company is a big negative. Obviously sometimes there are even bigger negatives that mandate overriding that rule--you aren't going to use Java on the front end or javascript on the backend, that would be madness--but you never want two languages in the same niche. That's a cost with no benefit.

If you have some developer that wants to write something in a new (for your company) language, or even worse goes off and does so without asking, because he wants to try it out, you probably want to fire that guy. Either he doesn't understand the downsides or he does, but doesn't care.
Ask HN: Sources of remote dev work with minimal human interaction?

140 points

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And that's why I love this community so much...
You can't call a (romantic) love unconditional, if there's lust involved. The lust conditions the (romantic) love. This is not the same as saying lust is a necessary condition for love (but is usually a factor in romantic love), which I have not said nor implied.
A LinkedIn message, an email, and a tweet
But if someone is priced out, someone else come in right? Definitely the population of these places does not fall, it rises. What's the problem if some people have to leave?
How much of a university's budget goes to actual teaching?
Those cameras were developed by an Israeli startup that Intel bought a few years ago (Omek Interactive). Making these sensor low power could enable devices to have 3D reconstruction and tracking. This opens the door for more robust AR/VR applications and cheap devices for robotics. Not only that Intel is in a good position to sell/produce those sensors, but they probably sense that it could be a good market to conquer.
Running red lights is considerably more unsafe than speeding.
My wife got a concussion almost exactly that way except it was the dryer door.
The reason why the web is centralized is that people use other people's computers to host instead of their own. Everyone has a multi-megabit home connection now. Hosting a simple static site is easy and works well.

If this 1MB free hosting ever became popular enough it'd be just as bad as all the other centralized sites.
Some companies specifically work to avoid this by having two "tracks": a management track and a technical track. The management track has many titrated ranks (manager..assistant director...) while the technical one still has salary increases and fewer ostensible title "promotions". So an IBM fellow is as prestigious as being a Sr VP or maybe GM, yet the holders didn't climb the "greasy pole" required of traditional management.

I believe IBM was the originator of this approach, but could be wrong.
Furthermore, the ordered sequence of primes that multiply to any given positive integer is unique. If 1 were considered prime, that wouldn't hold, as you could keep adding as many 1s as you like to the start of the sequence: (1,3,3,5), (1,1,3,3,5), etc. Thus 1 encodes no useful information here.
Jane Manchun Wong: The Woman Scooping Silicon Valley
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, “please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait”
> "Subsequent encounter" is poorly defined.

"Poorly defined" is poorly defined. Explanations of when to use the D make perfect sense to me.

"The 7th character for “subsequent encounter” is to be used for all encounters after the patient has received active treatment of the condition and is receiving routine care for the condition during the healing or recovery phase. Examples of subsequent encounters include cast change or removal, x-ray to check healing status of a fracture, removal of external or internal fixation device, medication adjustments, and other aftercare and follow-up visits following active treatment of the injury or condition. Encounters for rehabilitation, such as physical and occupational therapy, are another example of the use of the “subsequent encounter” 7th character. For aftercare following an injury, the acute injury code should be assigned with the 7th character for subsequent encounter."
> I'm happy that 2^10 is close enough to 10^3 that the whole kB/KB/kiB issue rarely matters much.

It matters more these days when we're more likely to be talking about 2^30 or 2^40 and the difference multiplies. (It's only 2.4% at a kilobyte, but nearly 10% at a terabyte.) In fact it has gotten quite a few people upset, like this reviewer on Amazon who said Samsung was falsely advertising their "512GB" MicroSD card that really only has 476GB as displayed by the reviewer's operating system:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2Q6PRT955GYE/

I wrote a reply to the review that explains the difference between the two numbering systems, as 512,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 rounded down to an integer is the 476 that the OS or file utility displayed.

I suppose it's a shame that GiB and such never took off, but probably they would be even more confusing. (What does the "i" mean, and which is which?)

This may be a no-win situation.
Just occurred to me they were perhaps thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis and mis-remembered/typed.
Before Uber and Lyft came along, did we have either?
Objective-C has "optionals": every object pointer can be `nil`. What it gets right is that it doesn't implicitly treat a `nil` as a logic failure.
Probably. That's why you will see an article next year detailing why they moved from Python to nodeJS.
Huh that's weird. It's been my experience that I see far,far more comments from people like you who are upset over "manufactured outrage" than people who are actually outraged. It's odd how much people feel the need to signal that they don't get Outraged™ like everyone else.
It's all very well to prove they would not have been useful as cells in a battery for electroplating, but it gets us no closer to what they really were meant for. You don't need a copper jacket or iron rod to store a scroll in a sealed jar: you just need to seal the jar.
Andy Rachleff's Silicon Valley Career Guide (2013) [pdf]
This is precisely what happens. The matrix.org bridge has approximately 25k open client connections to freenode. It would probably be a good idea to switch it to server-server connections to save resources, but afaict nobody has experimented with that yet. If you've ever seen users with an [m] at the end of their names, that's the default name for bridged matrix users.
I am a manager as well, and I just recall that there are only so many hours in a day and I couldn't have written all of that code myself. But that's for suboptimal code, not atrocious code.

I haven't dealt with people under me who write truly abysmal code so far, mostly because I am a picky hirer, but that subpar code that my people have written is my fault, because it's my responsibility to make them better programmers.
So can I get an airbnb for super cheap there then?
Judging from the success with clinical research into marijuana, if this is successful we can look forward to a future in which family members of the UK government can sell clinical psychedelics all over the world while still insisting at home that it has no medical benefit and is only used by criminals.
Alaskan halibut provides a glimpse of Amazon’s strategy with Whole Foods
The UK hires people: https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/no-qualifications-needed-how-...

I forget which constituency always returns first, but they make it a point of civic pride to do so; most of the staff doing the count are bank tellers.
So we agree that it is subjective.
I agree and I find it dismaying that so many of the users here are holding cowardice in confidence as a means to erode racism.
apart from questionable choices of data to analyze (open-source has its own specific), the study proves only that heroes are good in hero projects. perfect.
Most companies want more business value, they dont care for better programmers.
Yeah that’s a very interesting observation, and sort of corroborates my own anecdata. More specifically, when projects are in there infancy, and there’s a lot of risk associated with working on them, I feel that management tends to stay away, which is how these heroes originate. Then, after it’s obvious that project will succeed and it’s merits are overwhelming, you see this shift in project governance/responsibility towards a more corporate mode. However, like you said, that’s probably counter productive and just creates stress and tension. If anything, I think sometimes management has an uncontrollable tendency to position itself strategically in these gatekeeper roles, whereas in open source they don’t get to do that simply by virtue of being someone’s boss, so you don’t see that same trend, as the paper argues.

Not sure if that makes sense, I quickly typed this on my phone.
Would electronic or online voting NOT have saved the lives? Or what is your point?
pytest also has helpful tracebacks; though only for test runs.

With nose-progressive, you can specify --progressive-editor or update the .noserc so that traceback filepaths are prefixed with your preferred editor command.

vim-unstack parses paths from stack traces / tracebacks (for a number of languages including Python) and opens each in a split at that line number.
https://github.com/mattboehm/vim-unstack

Here's the Python regex from my hackish pytb2paths.sh script:

'\s+File "(?P<file>.*)", line (?P<lineno>\d+), in (?P<modulestr>.*)$'

https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/p...
13 years on, I continue to reference this class as the gold standard in lab design & execution. It’s the one class I continue to tell stories about to this day.
Decently affordable is of course a matter of perspective. A small home which sells for $400k in Austin can be had for $150 in a Houston suburb.
Exactly, and I disagree on education. People can and must be taught on security (not just phishing). But that also mean some standardization on the browser UI and not trying to make it "seamless" and "transparent". This exploit is the result of voluntarily blurring the lines between Traditional Apps and Web Apps. Well, the threat model being very different, it's not a good idea.

HTTPS is a part of a whole and pushing so hard make people (even tech savvy ones) focus too much on it. How many CTOs are happy with just putting HTTPS on their website so they can check the security checkbox ?
https://web.archive.org/web/20110808075354/http://www.airlin...
I would like a version where you can actually read the information.
Hawai'i is another one I noticed
Oh is this the one with the website posted a few weeks back?
hmm...Mark Z stood his ground well enough. Didn't expect that. Long way to go to work all this stuff out, but there is some depth to some of the things he is saying.
Not just typical corporate denial/defense I am used to seeing. Yuval Harari did a good job. Non-judgemental and just putting the dangers on the table.
> None of the above are (moral) value judgements, but they’re really easy to get accustomed to

Playing economic limbo with constantly updating 'how low can you go?' data as the stick may be possible to get accustomed to, but isn't necessarily very fun. Especially when gameplay becomes long-term and repetitive.

I'm not judging your list of examples in particular, but I think you may be a bit off the mark as to why threads like this appear at all.
It can be complicated the other way around, too.

I donate annually to a local high school in my mom's honour. It's for women in STEM. This was my first donation since the fund ran dry. I was so excited to give out the awards at commencement.

One young lady added it to her pile of other awards without a smile and the other didn't even show up despite being told they were receiving it.

It was really important to me and I inflated it so much in my mind so it's kind of my fault. Had a pretty good cry in the parking lot after just slipping away early.

It taught me how hard it can be to get a reward to the right person who needs it and deserves it. It also left me thinking about how picky can I be. Can I ask them to find people who aren't wealthy or already loaded with scholarships?
Ok. This looks like sound advice.

I am through 1, 2 and 3, I was thinking of learning/going straight for Ketan Mulmuley's geometric complexity theory. So you'd say that's a little misguided approach, right.
You're right, and I don't doubt the value of studying open source projects or that it's the best that can be done given the data available, but there are limitations on how much light this data can shed on the great mass of code being written within organizations.

Maybe the results do apply to the situation you describe, I'd be curious to know that.
Next time said companies complain about a talent shortage, they would do well to remember TANSTAAFL.
> I know there is no price for human life

Narrator: there is
There was a related, but not identical, utility posted to Hacker News a few days ago, PySnooper. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19717786
Both completely depend on circumstances. So much so that it's pointless to compare them without specifics.
The US Federal government sells land/property all the time.

And as a consequence of the old adage "time is money", an indefinitely existing organization has an indefinite amount of money. Those institutions you mentioned have no issue buying whatever they want; holdouts be damned. A government pretty much has infinite money, churches are quite wealthy as a whole, and universities have a substantial pool of donors to tap despite having insanely large endowments that are quite well managed.

I don't think your argument holds up.
Microsoft is a good example
Most older middle managers in my org get pushed out into PM roles.
> Ankur (author of the post, intern) then rewrote it in Python.
Not true. In the US, running a red light contributes to 700-800 traffic fatalities per year [1]. In contrast, speeding contributes to about 10,000 fatalities per year [2].

[1] https://www.autoaccident.com/statistics-on-intersection-acci...

[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/speeding

You might want to look at something other than fatalities, sure, but this simple analysis suggests that speeding is more than an order of magnitude worse.

Edit: And if we look at the total number of people killed in traffic by cyclists each year, I don't even know where to start, because it seems to occur so infrequently that no one keeps statistics on it. I'd be very surprised if it were more than 5 per year.
Most companies don't, for actual executables (PE files) and scripts. So for example:

1. Attackers use documents, because it isn't realistic to disallow documents over email as a matter of policy.

2. Attackers use download links (Box, OneDrive, etc.), because it isn't realistic to disallow URLs in email as a matter of policy.

3. Attackers put the naughty bits in password-protected archives, which aren't realistic for most companies to disallow over email as a matter of policy. Some will, though.

On and on. Policy is great and you should use it as much as possible, but at some point usability always wins out. Obviously there's a business opportunity there, and companies like Proofpoint and Mimecast have stepped in to fill the gap.
Things could have been done differently with the space shuttle.

Note that the crew of the Challenger wasn't killed by the "explosion", they were killed when the vehicle compartment they were in hit the water.

If the shuttle had an escape mechanism the way every other manned space vehicle had, they might have survived. Had they built in an escape mechanism, there wouldn't have been any room for cargo. From a safety perspective launching cargo + passengers on the same rocket was a mistake.

Also the shuttle was designed to do a military mission that it never actually did, which would be launching, orbiting the Earth once, and then landing at an airstrip close to the launch point. That requires a large "cross-range" (ability to turn when reentering the atmosphere) which in turn requires larger wings which are more vulnerable to something like what happened to Colombia.
Another aspect of tuning (and the piano in particular) that is interesting is the duality of intervals.

A fifth is dual to a fourth (a fourth is a fifth going downwards and taken the octave). You can the apply duality also on chords: a major is dual to a minor.

If you would like this to be more rigorous, there are a few first steps. For example, you can look at the cyclic group of 12 elements. Lets call them {0,1,...,11}. Then, 7 has inverse 5. And upon translation of this back to the piano you'll see that 7 is the fifth and 5 is the fourth. (7 halftones and 5 halftones.) To see that a major chord is dual to a minor chord you similarly use the cyclic group of 8 elements.