skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is being abused, but not "massively"; it's working just fine in many other cases which are just not explicitly salient to us. Only the very best manipulators are able to fool others about being sufficiently empathetic and even then, only just barely; many, perhaps most people can see through the ploy but go along with it for all sorts of recognizable reasons. (By and large these are not good reasons, of course.)
I did 3 months hard core full time Yoga in an ashram some years ago. As part of the program; I didn't speak, read or write for a month. Or cut nails or hair, but that's another story :) As an added bonus; the entire group followed the same program, which meant that I didn't have to listen to them either.

The main take home for me was that most of the things that I feel are really important to say in my daily life aren't. Once it was over, being expected to speak felt like a burden.
Some people find our service valuable. There are devs that would prefer to be freelance but don't want to spend the time doing sales to make sure they have consistent work.
I'm not the parent, but I maintain services on both AWS and Azure, and in the last few years, I can definitely say the outages on Azure have been more frequent and more severe. The only AWS outages I recall are S3 and the Dyn DNS issue that brought many other providers down too.
Did that only apply to new grads with no experience to judge? Or does degree still trump a successful 5-15 year track record?
That was PART of the apostle Paul's admonition about keeping order in a gathering of the saints, from a wide variety of angles. I think the context is explained by the next verse: If they have questions, let them ask their husbands at home. Ergo: don't disrupt the proceedings with distractions. (And even if you accept this interpretation, you may now commence criticizing Paul for inferring that only women needed to be told this.)

People who look down on Christianity love to bring up this scripture, but do you actually know any significant branches of Christianity that enforce this? I'm a fan of one of the most stringent denominations around, and even we have A LOT of women speakers and ministers in our organization. I honestly don't know any which abides by a literal application of this scripure. I've only ever seen it used as a wedge issue against strict biblical interpretation.
The Web site redesign is looking really good. Clean and minimalist.

One point I noticed: under "Small, simple language", you mention that Rust and C++ have operator overloading. But D does as well:

https://dlang.org/spec/operatoroverloading.html
it would actually, biometric ids etc are allowed for various regulated reasons -- identifying folks who cross national boundaries is likely one of them
I wouldn’t say it’s “just” a benefit of their business model; it’s the entire point. I don’t see Samsung making any of these moves.

Any good product organization (and Apple is one of the best) focuses on their customer. We all know that. But Apple goes further and takes their customers’ side — the iTunes Music Store was an absolute disaster for the recording industry but a huge boon for the consumer (and, of course, iPod sales).

Apple is only in a position to do this effectively because they have such a large and loyal customer base. They have a large and loyal customer base because they have consistently driven innovation in personal computing while making high-quality devices that people are willing to pay a premium for. Why would they betray that loyalty?

Apple’s business model is simple and easy to understand. I look at their balance sheet and see where the money comes from: hardware sales to consumers. You can do the same with Amazon and Google too — which shows you why their definition of “customer focus” is so different from Apple’s.
It seems completely crazy.

I spent $18k on what I still regard as a really nice car a couple years back, and it felt like a completely over the top extravagance.

I can't imagine what would compel me to spend 37k on a car...
Reading through some of the examples in the documentation, I love the look of this. It really does feel easy to read.
If someone is married to a woman they can't be a misogynist?
Understanding write-through, write-around and write-back caching (with Python)
Unfortunately, no. Explicit racism: making negative assertions about specific races. During the interview. :|
The first digit is the general area: 18.0x are mostly intro classes, 18.1x are analysis classes, 18.7x is algebra, etc.
As a developer MS has treated me really well, IMO.
They churn out as much short-lived tech as the next company but I think their windows-based culture of backwards compatibility carried over into the developer ecosystem, and the future of .Net Core running in Linux containers with docker and k8s, against SQL Server on Linux would make anyone who's been away from their tech for the past 5 years think they stepped out of a time machine.
I love how not only did he get downvoted to hell for providing actual video evidence that Milo is a literal fucking Nazi, you got downvoted to hell for calling people on that shit. Unfriendly note to all the alt-right shit-for-brains: you're going to lose, because you stupid fucking cumstains always lose. And you in particular will be an especially pathetic footnote in the history of white supremacy. Nobody will miss or even notice when you're gone.
Assuming that "Singing Karaoke while Richard Spencer & co throw up Nazi salutes" qualifies as "associating with white supremacists": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNLPIRS62g
> the IRS is unlikely to dig into your deductions and credits with your fervor, so they will likely compute a number that is "quite suboptimal"

Which would be fine by me, in all honesty. Let the IRS compute a "basic" return for you. If you want one that digs deep and actively minimizes your tax bill, then you can get your taxes done in one of the more traditional ways.
I was really hoping for a flute imitation on a guitar cause I'm really curious how that would be done. But it seems like he's just doing imitations of other string instruments excluding the piano.
Maybe not "any" instrument, considering all the ones imitated except for the bagpipes (which were questionable) were of other stringed instruments.
I highly recommend Episode #760 of Planet Money, which talks about what happened to ReadyReturn, which was a proposal to have the government send you a pre-filled tax return.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...

Transcript: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
I'm a Brit, so ab outsider - but isn't the big issue here that a private company has been able to successfully lobby to get laws changed to make it illegal for tax filing to be free?

I'm not aufait with the US tax system, so please correct me if I've got that wrong.
I like watching a lot of conspiracy theory "documentaries" because it is like science fiction.

Also suppressing information makes it "sexy" it is the same as the Barbra Streisand effect it amplifies it.

Also lets not forget trusted sources aren't that great either. Remember the Iraq War and WMD? We didn't find any.

So I haven't seen any evidence that suppressing these is "healthy". All you are doing is creating a new clergy.
Same. West US here.
Why would you need to "defend" him in the first place?

Aside from the fact that big state and private powers want him out and accuse him, preferring radio silence on their deeds and crimes, I don't see him as having done anything bad at all.

A state holding secrets is not worth of any defense. A state holding bad secrets of crimes and misdeeds even less so.
> are they deleting that data?

Also, are other "global observers" deleting data extracted from Google?
This reminds me of the Clonk series [1], which both has destructable terrain and a fluid physics simulation (lava/oil/water/earth). There is also an open source remake available [2].

[1] http://www.clonk.de
[2] http://www.openclonk.org
Why not mention that cancelled plant? Construction started in 2013 but it became to expensive so the contractors abandoned the project. Why there was a 17 year gap, I don't know. Big cost overruns and time delays plagued nuclear construction projects in the 80's. So perhaps the gap was because that is how long it took politicians to forget the previous decades failures and give the nuclear lobby another chance?
The government already sees all the flight manifests. Assuming that it also has a database of photos from passports, the matching process doesn't violate anyone's privacy, since they opted in to have their photo matched in the first place.
Nah, guys like this just find video evidence kinda inconvenient since it gives up the game.
It is still a clear message of dehumanization.
The general rule is, if the letters are pronounced phoenetically together as a word, it counts. That's why Scuba and Laser are in. It's the difference between AWOL (in) and MIA (not).

OK was never accepted before because it's not said as "ock". UV isn't pronounced "uhv" so should also be excluded. I guess now the distinguishing feature between those cases is that UV is an initialism while OK isn't. I can't think of any other example like OK, a word that is not an initialism and is said by naming each letter rather than pronouncing them phonetically.

Ko is in for being a (loan)word in its own right, not as the two-letter abbreviation for "knockout". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_fight
> Can this person code at all? How well?

He's trying to draw the distinction between these two questions.
I don't think it's that bad. The worst interiors I ever saw were circa-2010 Prius, but then again you get great fuel efficiency and a good shot at 300,000 miles with regular maintenance. Bolt has tradeoffs just like the Model 3 - not just the headrests - but it is a good car. Just happy there are EV choices and it's practical now. I'm grateful for every company that sells one.
What is the retention of people who do vs don't skip the onboarding? Is it a wide disparity?
yes.. they split fiber pipes, if encrypted they use undisclosed zero days to steal encryption keys or try to break the encryption with super computers. these tactics are are all well known.
AWS has had a couple cascading EBS failures in us-east-1 years ago which affected a lot of services since it's a foundational building block of the whole system. It's been a reason to prefer instance storage for quite awhile imo.

I've run most everything in us-west-2 Oregon the last 5+ years and I can't remember a similar sort of outage there in that time-frame.

A widespread world-wide outage like is happening now on Azure is a red flag imo.
It's more complicated than that.

There are very influential anti-tax and small government think tanks that vehemently argue against it, from the perspective that it reduces oversight.

Their position is that people just won't pay much attention to how much taxes they're paying if they don't have to fill in tax paperwork themselves each year. Their position is that if you make it invisible to end users, governments will just keep creeping up that tax percentage on end users and people will just accept it.

They're not wrong as regards to visibility, in the UK where tax is PAYE (Pay As You Earn), I don't think I ever paid more than a moments glance at the P60 (but I'd often check month to month that things were in the ballpark I'd expect. I'm a little more unusual in that regard probably). In the US I've had to pay close attention.
What are the current standards efforts for blockchain data interchange?

W3C JSON-LD, ld-signatures + lds-merkleproof2017 (normalize the data before signing it so that the signature is representation-independent (JSONLD, RDFa, RDF, n-triples)), W3C DID Decentralized Identifiers, W3C Verifiable Claims, Blockcerts.org

W3C Credentials Community Group: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/community/work_items.html#draft-sp... (DID, Multihash (IETF), [...])

"Blockchain Credential Resources; a gist" https://gist.github.com/westurner/4345987bb29fca700f52163c33...

Specifically for payments:

https://www.w3.org/TR/?title=payment (the W3C Payment Request API standardizes browser UI payment/checkout workflows)

ILP: Interledger Protocol
https://interledger.org/rfcs/0027-interledger-protocol-4/
> anything capable of less than 120kw-150kw

Shouldn't that be enough to charge a mostly empty battery to mostly full over a 30 minute lunch break?
It's also not really fair to Balmer to only evaluate performance over his time as CEO - he played a huge role during Gates' tenure as well.
You're saying it's free money for the bank. So the banks would have all the money and nobody else would have any and the economy would collapse.

Look, how do you know you're not the equivalent of a flat-earther? Is there any doubt in your mind about whether you have correctly understood the situation? When did you become convinced of your views?
The thing that gets me about coding challenges restricted to such a short time frame is that what might seem like a simple problem can actually be pretty nuanced. This gets even more tricky when the interviewers encourage you to be "creative", which can be interpreted as meaning that one should try to be less conventional with how they code, which may mean they address an issue in a less than pragmatic way.

Last year, I interviewed with a well-known media company, and they gave me a take-home coding challenge which was essentially about building a notes application in Rails that philosophically replicated a file system; notes could exist in any part of a hierarchy of directories, but no same file could exist in multiple directories at once.

Seems pretty simple, right? Anyone with a fair amount of experience with Rails would probably whip up some models for folders and notes, folders would has_many :folders and has_many :notes, and notes would belong_to :folder, etc. A solution along those lines would probably have sufficed for the coding challenge, as it would demonstrate knowledge of Rails.

But I couldn't just leave it there. That kind of solution would have been extremely crappy in a situation where there is a huge amount of notes in deep directories. After a few hours of careful thought, I came up with a solution similar to how Amazon S3 works, where directories are really just keys in a database and the stored files(or notes in this case) are the values of those keys.

My solution had the advantage that directories and their files could be queried through simple string matching, meaning that queries scale linearly with deep and complex directory structures rather than exponentially. The only case where things might be less optimal is during directory renames, in which case all sub-directories and files would have to be found and updated, but I considered that a compromise since renames happen less often than reads and writes.

They liked my solution enough that they flew me out for an on-site interview, and they said that nobody else came up with that solution.

Would I have come up with that solution if I was given 60 minutes and had someone looking over my shoulder? Probably not. Such limitations prevent taking time to think and letting the mind ponder, which is valuable.

If that challenge was done in 60 minutes, they would have assessed that I knew Rails but probably wouldn't know how I actually approach problems.
Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel laureate noted for his work in judgment and decision making, stated in an interview earlier this year that interviews are terrible at choosing the best candidates. Unfortunately, he didn’t articulate alternatives.
For more me that is a real software management "bad smell" that your boss thinks their job is to isolate you from "bullshit".

If that's your goal (as opposed to "facilitating communication" or something expressed positively) you are as likely to make things worse rather than better.
Two numbers like 18.XX means that it is intended for non-math majors so 18.02 is the basic multivariable calculus that every MIT alum needs to graduate, 18.022 is multivariable calculus with an emphasis on theory and 18.023 is with an emphasis on application and usually taken by people considering math majors (though also fulfill the core requirement)
The class numbering schema is by field:
http://math.mit.edu/academics/classes.php

18.1XX Analysis / Calculus

18.2XX Discrete

18.3XX Applied

18.4XX Computational

18.5XX Logic

18.6XX Probability and Statistics

18.7XX Algebra and Number Theory

18.8XX Just project lab

18.9XX Topology and Geometry
Well, I think one issue is that evolution acts on base-pair mutations and not traits. So (to wildly make a possibility up) suppose that mutations X, Y, and Z are each individually beneficial, but having all of them at once gives you autism. Then the population probably converges on a distribution that has some nonzero probability of X, Y, and Z.
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"
> I am not really in the camp of blaming either of these companies or any tax filing companies for issues like this.

I am. When companies behave like scumbags, I have no problem with calling them scumbags.

I agree with you that Congress gets a heaping helping of blame as well, though.
Nuclear Propulsion in Space (1968)
There is no strict system after the “.” however the 3-numeral course numbers tend to be advanced/grad classes. There are some smaller patterns within each major but nothing knits those together.

6.82x tend to be systems classes like networks or OS.
But 17.828 isn’t like an intro to constitutional law and 6.42 isn’t Causes and Prevention of Software Project Failure.
> you mean how social media is akin to a pressure relief valve, and how actual violence has gone down since it took off?

I would love to see sources for this. It sounds very interesting and I want to know more.
To the new owner: Bring back the porn. Thanks.
I've got a 2016 mbp, I got my keyboard serviced twice in the first year because of sticky keys, and then everything went fine and still is (finger crossed...).

I must say I actually love the butterfly keyboard, and I wouldn't change it back. Obviously, a working one.
All these people promote toxic communities that drive away users and lead to harassment and doxing.
It appears scammy because in 99% of the cases you hear about or see, it is. There are plenty of people doing things "legitimately", but they aren't the ones selling SEO services or writing books about it.

Think about all SEO actually is: optimizing your content to make it easier to search engines to get it into the right hands (your readers/users/whatever). In the most basic sense, this often equates to providing accurate metadata to the search engine so it can better understand what it's indexing, so it (not you) can make the decision on who to share those links with.

This very quickly turns into a game of "well, if I just add this extra keyword, I'll show up in more results". And then you add this extra keyword, then that one, then you start creating entire landing pages to rank on specific keywords just so you rank a little higher than competitors, and then you start looking up other tactics and moving your personal goalpost for which ones are acceptable (see: not too shady).

Soon the same people advertising SEO services to you are advertising them to your competitors, saying, "Well, they're doing something shady; what are you going to do to compete with that?" The shadiness normalizes into "the game" and everyone progresses more and more down the rabbithole of who's doing more to game the system so they can appear higher on search engines. If you're not scamming end-users yet, you're still scamming search engines.

Even "white hat" SEO [1] has become pretty corrupted with grey-area tactics over the past 5-10 years. Stepping into current techniques now gives off the impression that it's all scammy pyramid schemes because, well, it pretty much is.

[1] The fact that SEO is even separated into "white hat" SEO and "black hat" SEO (and "grey hat" SEO if you want to get edgy) is a good illustration of what's wrong about how SEO is seen and perceived.
The timber industry was decimated by improvements in productivity, automation, international changes in taxes, tariffs, lumber supply and demand, and, most importantly - because it logged in an unsustainable fashion.

But blaming a bunch of hippie environmentalists is, of course, easier, then taking responsibility for its mistakes.
The UK tends to do its tax incentives a different way.

The government favours them as subsidies at point of purchase, rather than something you do at the end of the year. That actually works out a lot nicer as a tax payer, as you don't need to have the full amount of money up-front, and also means you're way less likely to miss out on some of them.
Ask HN: I own stock in a startup that shutdown, what can I do?
I purchased my ISO options in a startup that recently (publicly) shutdown, what can I do to get information about what happened?

No attempt was made to reach out to me or any of the other (ex-employee / non-investor) shareholders with information. As far as I know, the founders and executives may be absconding with money that could be returned to we shareholders.

Do I have any legal recourse? Does anyone have recommendations for an attorney or accountants that specialize in this sort of situation?
I’m using the deployment method to the gh-pages branch documented on Vue CLI’s website [0]. Works pretty well.

[0] https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/deployment.html#github-pages
>We have had terror attacks carried out in Europe by refugees or asylum seekers that have killed people.

For some bizarre reason, people get angry when you bomb them.
> Potential is also difficult to spot.

I think that’s true, but I also think that hiring managers rarely try to look for it.

I was on an interview, and one of the reasons I didn’t get the job was because in my current position I manage a “small team.” That team is 5 people. They had 8 people to manage. I understand that each extra person adds extra challenges, but 8 is only a little bigger than 5.
MacBook Pro 2018.
Issue of repeating keys 2 weeks after I bought it.
Then more keys. Now it’s “settled” to O, I and R.
Unshaky, a small app that prevents double firing of a key, fixes the issue for all keys, but somehow the O still has issues.
I started observing the weirdest phenomena. Such as: amount of failures change based on the material of the surface I’m writing on.
Glass is better then wood. Also, the position of my hands while writing has an effect on that too. While writing on my lap, I see less misfires.
I went to the Apple Store here in Berlin. They said they would try and repair it under warranty. They have a 7 working days intervention time for this issue. Unbelievable.
“Do you know that people actually work with their laptops, right?”.
Sad face of the Genius, vague excuses, no actual answer.
This is a mess, and a big one. It’s affecting Apple’s most loyal customers. Up to the point that for the first time in 15 years I’m thinking of switching to a Windows laptop, if not for the fact that everything else about this computer is so damn amazing :(
Is it really that useful to identify someone who has overstayed their visa when they are leaving the country? Sure, you then know not to let them in next time. But it seems like a lot of effort when there are so many people overstaying their visa and not leaving out of the airports.

That said, even as a libertarian, privacy-conscious person, I'm not sure I have a problem with exit controls like this. It's important to know who is crossing the border, in both directions.

But why do they even need the photo? Presumably the name is already on the ticket... surely they can detect overstays from names + address alone, not just photos?
> What problem did you attempt to solve?

Two problems.

1. Finding a senior freelancer is hard. I've been unhappy with sites like Toptal and Upwork.
2. Being a senior freelancer is hard. Finding work, getting paid. We offer services for freelancers to take care of that.

Some people find it valuable.
The passenger seems surprised that her picture has been taken and stored... I wonder if she realizes her picture is on her twitter account?