skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The UK Guardian newspaper breaks even helped by success of supporter strategy
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This pycon talk from 5 years ago, is still, extremely relevant

https://youtu.be/_xpKFWzMceE
Yeah it's not the only way. Windows actually provides and easy-to-use API to change screen brightness (since it's a standardised feature). I made a little physical knob that connects via USB to control mine since those capacitative buttons are a right pain.
True. But that’s not relevant to me if “the long term” is 50 years.
When Should the Network Be the Computer? [pdf]
Who gets <200ms latency anymore when Google analytics and FB pixel tracking scripts take more than that each and most websites have them?
My Tesla (or at least the one from my colleague I occasionally get to drive) blaring out "MINIMUMS" would definitely get my attention quicker than the soft chimes they have now when autopilot disengages.
Looks like a great role. Are you guys open to remote candidates?
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This means you will have a regressive taxation scheme, where poor people have to pay a larger percentage of their income as tax, and rich people a very small percentage.

To be able to run a stable state that actually allows anyone to have opportunities, taxation would have to be pretty high. After all, you need well funded public schools, child services, police/emergency service and a health system at the very least - otherwise you just end up with a bisected society of rich and poor.

But then you need to have a high taxation rate on expenditure (most countries have a VAT, for example, and it would not be enough by itself). So again, this smothers the poors, and they could not, for example, gain wealth themselves.

Why does this imply that taxation is not theft?

I think the most important argument is, that people have accumulated their wealth in either of two ways.
First, they did not earn it themselves. Then, one could reasonably argue that some taxation is fair.
Second, they accumulated it themselves, such as by starting a business. Then you argue that taxation is theft.
However, they earned their money in the existing society. Since they were not rich, they, at that time, used all public services, education, markets and stability provided by the system, while also paying relatively little. They are rich, in part because of a consumer surplus society affords by non-regressive taxation.
It is therefore fair, and and not theft, that they are to pay more of their wealth, which they gained within a beneficial system of taxation, to keep that same system stable for the next generation.
Yes, but

>They will generally work with the product owners

is exactly what the engineers didn't do in this story. The company was completely blindsided.
Do you seriously think people would scrap off their contracts for legacy browser support? This is not like all or nothing. If they think its unfair then the org is gonna complain to the vendor about this. I don't know if any org can decide to switch over to a different vendor without trying to resolve first.
Interesting topic. Here is an anecdote that I found through a simple web search that somewhat addresses your question:

"Few studies have looked carefully at the risk of dementia in vegetarians versus other people, and the data is contradictory. One small study of California residents found that meat eaters were more likely to become demented than their vegetarian counterparts. Another study in Alzheimer’s patients, however, found that adhering to a strict vegetarian diet resulted in lower cognition compared to a pescatarian diet (i.e., a diet that includes fish)."

https://www.alzdiscovery.org/cognitive-vitality/blog/vegetar...
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If the house is expensive (many years worth of income) and a dominant part of your assets, it's a big source of risk, dwarfing any hedge attributes you may pine for. Even in a normal city with diverse economy.
Pretty interesting, I might apply myself when I get the time to fill out that extensive form.

Thanks for posting this.
Doing it right is quite hard.
Doing it usefully is even harder [1].
Getting a good training set without to many biases is the really hard part.
Generating a ground truth that is actually a truth is very expensive.

I have to read the paper carefully again. But for the contact point prediction I think the training set will cover most of the data used in the validation. Due to they way PDB "sequences" are distributed over UniParc as well as how PDB 3D structures are generated experimentally. i.e. there are 120,000 pdb related sequences in UniParc, but they cover 45,000 ones in UniProtKB. Because PDB derived sequences are rarely full length, often mutated and highly duplicative in coverage.

[1] predicting the root GO terms will give you and insane TP/FP rate but is completely useless.
How do I start a group/discussion/meeting in my town?
How do I start a group/discussion/meeting in my town?

I am a software engineer and I live in a not very active town. I like the idea of contributing to the community in some way, and I would like the idea of starting meetings, a group, something like that where we could discuss about technology, learn things, discuss projects/ideas etc.

How would you do that from scratch?
> Imagine working at a medical or financial company and having secretive 'old timer' permissions that basically backdoored the company's engineering processes

Have you heard about Kerviel? A trader that cost his banks a few billions of euros? He was able to do this because he could bypass reviews by his boss and the internal compliance team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Kerviel

Edit: to be fair, it look like he took the blame for all the failings of the company
> Do people use debit cards online?

Yes. Debit is actually more popular than credit for online transactions, according to one survey.[1]

> Should they?

Kind of an orthogonal question. The fact is people use them and there’s an opportunity to process them more cheaply.

[1] https://www.digitaltransactions.net/consumers-increasingly-p...
In torrent when you download something you also announce yourself as a seeder. In ipfs afaik you have to explicitly pin something in order for your peer to be announced as a provider.

This means that even if your content in ipfs is popular it won’t be fast.
OEM: how can we make money on a commodity platform, when someone else controls most of the design parameters and they are dictated to us, and margins are razor thin, because most people who buy PC’s want to spend the least amount of money.

OEM Sales: we have companies lining up to bundle software on our computers and they are all willing to big money to be bundled, and even more money to be bundled and not be removable.

OEM: yay, we can be profitable!!!!!

Not one person really thinks the bundled software is of any value, other than the cash the bundling fee generates. If it was illegal for OEM’s to bundle software you’d see even more contraction in the PC OEM market.
I just don't trust Google enough, period. Yes, I can delete data from their servers (maybe), but has it allowed governmental agencies to collect it first? The question is as simple as that.
Ask HN: How do you not ruin your back (as an engineer)?
Working as a software engineer, I'm sitting/standing (==> not moving!) for ~8 hours a day. Six years into the profession, I'm starting to feel the negative effects this has on my body, especially my back.

I eat healthy food and I do sports ~2x a week, but still I feel I need to go beyond this to avoid a physical breakdown before I turn 40 (or even 35).

So my question is: How do you not ruin your back/body (as an engineer)?
Use mmap with care
Not in a structured way that is easily useable. Swiss-Prot has most of this data but it is not quite normalized in units. If you did this annoying work I would like to talk to you so we can plug it into Swiss-Prot.
It's nice to read blog posts on calculus and linear algebra, but I'm affraid that the author simply skipped some basic lectures on the topic if he was oblivious to the fact that the Hessian reflects the second derivative of a multi-variate function. That's the whole reason why all newton and quasi-newton methods rely on the Hessian (and its approximations) to find local maximum/minimum of a function.

Heck, IIRC Apostol's 2nd volume dedicates a whole chapter on how to derive the Hessian, including from directional derivatives.
The unikernel which Ali is writing is based on Linux. That is indeed quite a big difference, but it's our belief that pulling in all the existing work done for Linux means this unikernel will ultimately be a lot more useful than the other ones.

(Disclosure: Although I'm a co-author of the paper, I haven't done much except help out Ali on a few technical things and run the meetings)
SHENZEN IO was my favourite by a mile. Although looking through a datasheet half-written in Mandarin to understand what was going on, at 2am, to then go into work at 6am and look through more datasheets half-written in Mandarin - well, I swiftly began to question my life decisions.
So if one part of Google is working on the automation of making the calls [1] and another part of Google is automating the answering of calls, does that mean that Google will be on the phone with itself all day?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/08/google-du...
>Doing these kind of reckless stunts just to get Sweden to side with Nato was definitely not needed. Sweden was already on Nato's side, and everyone knew that.

This was Sweden under Olof Palme. They made quite a point of staying neutral and were far from joining the Western Block, let alone NATO. You are making it sound as if they were West Germany.

>That just means that he can neither refute nor affirm whatever has been said.

I agree and wouldnt expect anything else from the current Defense Minister. I would be more interested what the then Defense Minister had to say on the issue.

>That means that you are in fact arguing that the government invited Nato to invade Sweden without letting the armed forces know.

If I had to guess, I would say that the Swedish Government was not informed and the US only said this now to not damage the relationship with the current Swedish government. I would read the comment of the Defense minister the same way. But who knows, maybe some parts of the Swedish Government, having a harder pro NATO stance were involved. But that is a conspiracy theory. But who in the Swedish government knew what is rather irrelevant, as the population of Sweden was confronted with a horde of news reports of Soviet submarines probing the Swedish coastal defenses creating the atmosphere of a dooming Soviet invasion.

>I don't understand your interest in this topic nor why it's so important for you to show that it wasn't the Soviet union

You misunderstand my point, the interesting part is not that the Soviets didnt do it, but that the US and UK manufactured a cold war panic in Sweden, likely to get them to join NATO and drop their neutral stance. Given quite alot of fearmongering in the press yet again, thats a rather important thing to remember. If someone from the Atlantic Bridge tells me that that whale is part of some Russian weapons tests I am a bit skeptic about their motivation. Sure we know Russia does conduct those tests, but we also know that some people really like their anti Russian fearmongering to get people running for cover in the arms of NATO under the command of the big brother overseas. A more sober and realistic reporting would generally be great.
Wireless Markup Language
Perhaps you're not from the US? There is a strong current of sentiment in some quarters of the US that this is exactly what should happen if society's playing field is every going to be leveled.
I guess it's somewhat the same complaint with math and musical notation. Some mathematical expressions are very complex and compact but people use it since it is the best we got.
My brother got it for my daughters, which means they must have been 5 and 6 years old at the time. I remember they loved it, but it hasn't made it across the couple of new Macs we've had since then. I'll have to get on to him for the codes!
This is not precise enough to mean anything. It’s pleasant-sounding emotive nonsense that is true on its face but has nothing to do with the realities of the political situation in the UK.

Who thinks humans are not equal? In what way do they think them unequal? What do they want to do about it? Are they white supremacists or are they just anti-immigration? Do they hate Islam or do they want to protect what they see as the established culture of the nation? Are they prepared to work within democratic structures and appeal for votes the same way everyone else or not?

These distinctions matter when you’re talking about banning people from political involvement.
There must be a similar story about youtube deprecating flash...
I still don't get it. If your house is worth less than your mortgage, then you're gambling on an increase in it's value. It's like taking out a loan and gambling with it to try and pay off a debt.
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> ("that black guy I worked with was terrible; won't do that again").

Terrible comparison. People from 1950 were just as black as they are now. However, people from 1950 were nowhere near as overweight as they are now, even if we control for Flynn effect.

I remember reading a couple of years ago that an average woman today weighs as much as an average man from 1960, that gave me a pause.
There needs to be an "Assembly" of visual languages. Otherwise, we will still be limited if we code them in text languages.
In the UK we now have the capacity to recycle all the 2.5 billion plastic lined cups we use each year. There are an ever increasing number of recycling collection points and many major companies are working to make this happen.

https://resource.co/article/veolia-recycle-120m-coffee-cups-...

> However, two reprocessors have announced this year that they have the capability to recycle coffee cup waste. In March, packaging company DS Smith stated that it could recycle all the UK’s coffee cups at its paper mill in Kemsley, Kent, while on a smaller scale, paper manufacturer James Cropper launched its own trademarked ‘CupCycling’ process in May

> Costa announced its aim to recycle as many coffee cups as it sells by 2020, equating to 500 million cups. The programme involves the chain subsidising a number of waste collection companies, including Veolia, to collect takeaway cups from stores (£70 per tonne collected). This subsidy aims to raise the value of coffee cups as a material in the eyes of recyclers, making it more financially viable to collect them.
Another interesting, and very unexpected, luxury feature is Pre-Safe Sound by Mercedes. In case of an imminent accident, a loud noise is played through the speakers of the car to cause a reaction in the ear which prepares and thereby protects it from the noise of an accident. It is a detail feature but an interesting one.
What good meta programming gives you is that a lot of language features can become library features. A good example of be Julia’s differential equation support or its XLA support. A language like Swift needs to modify its compiler to do similar things.
Eternal vigilance is possible for the unemployed and childless, unfortunately for me I have 15 hours a day devoted to decreased vigilance and the 8 hours devoted to sleeping.
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> No-one would move, ever.

I feel like this post should feature at the top of any discussion on housing.
To be fair, I find the "www" ligature to be a bit unnecessary, but apart from that I love the ligatures in Fira Code.
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or in the original url change www. to amp. and scroll down

Viva la revolucion! ;-)
> presumably you are making less money than those who can.

That’s a bit of a stretch, especially considering that I have specifically mentioned the fact that a lot of people don’t seem to care about their financial situation when having children. And then apparently it is “humane” to take other peoples resources by force through government to pay for their expenses. Who need these barbaric consensual charities anyway.
We all killed IE6 eventually, the big shops and the little shops. Big shops had their banners, us little ones had their banter. Telling those in accounting, marketing, support, and sales to use FireFox, Chrome, or whatever instead of IE6 so we didn't have to #%$& with debugging IE6 on extranets.

Man those were rough days.
Assets are protected by copyright. If you are not concerned about copyright you can just redistribute the whole game.
This would be a good use-case for a bitcoin or alt-coin.
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I think we can update the names of the old "salesman" tropes to be gender-neutral. I'm pretty sure there are many women in pharma field sales, for example.
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It may or may not apply to your scenario since I don't know what your scripts were for, but in my experience as a long time Fedora user, the distro improved in a big way around the 24-26 era.
Render.com broke my site and apparently “forgot” to send an email
I use Fira Code constantly and consistently, with punctuation-rich language (Scala); haven’t found any practical problems yet. Theoretically, there can be inconsistencies; practically, it doesn’t happen.

If it is consistency and perfection everywhere you are looking to find, software engineering in general might not be the best job for you.
Thanks bro.
> Or, reduce demand by spreading out jobs to other cities and states where their more needed.

This does not happen, nor is it remotely desirable. Having a life involves much more than having a decent job. It entails living where the person chooses to live according to their personal tastes and desires.

If you force the decision on where to live based on a single constraint that in theory is only a major part of your life so that you can fund your personal life and personal interests then this leads to poor quality of living for all (including spouces, offsprings and immediatr family) just to cater to a company's bottom line.