skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Firefox, open

about:reader?url=https://www.birdguides.com/news/millions-of-birds-vacuumed-to-death-annually-in-mediterranean/

It won't show the comments, but at least you can read it.
Funny story, as a Venezuelan and having toilet paper shortages I was forced to go water and soap.

Never comming back, not even with all the toilet paper in the world

The feeling is shared with alot of friends (we joke about this as a way to keep the good mood agains the crisis) but a lot of people have realized that toilet paper is not the correct way plus a huge waste of money (we have to pay around 0.5$ per roll nowdays)

Bidets are not a thing here but since alot of Venezuelans are on my same position and also alot of venezuelans have migrated to Argentina, a country where bidets are pretty common, I foresight it becoming a thing in the next few years.

Invest in bidets!
Because it has been a smokescreen and a chaotic mess, there is no trustworthy source of information of what the plan is or the agenda. For that reason alone it should be axed.
Hang on - paid holiday is a legal requirement.

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights

This applies to people on zero-hour contracts as well.
Most personal blogs don’t usually have a lot of content on a continuous basis. People starts blogs with enthusiasm, then life catches up (or writer’s block or distractions). They usually don’t get a lot of traffic either (including from search engines). Of course, there are many personal blogs where people put a lot of effort to write often and grow the audience. But that’s a minuscule percentage. With that perspective, and considering that most personal blogs are primarily text and don’t use too many large images or embedded videos (storage is not a big concern), I’d say that $10 or €10 a year would be sort of ok. I’m just throwing this pseudorandom figure to get it close to what some of the cheapest domains cost and how much some of the cheapest paid email services cost. This is not intended to be a (de)valuation of the software behind the platform and the effort to maintain the platform.

WordPress (wordpress.com) provides a custom domain and an ad free blog for less than $20 (AFAIK) a year.
Are you suggesting that most simulators get control forces wrong for things that can realistically occur within the recoverable flight envelope after one single sensor fails? I'd have thought that that is something you'd want to get right.
It's not even in the top 10 most dangerous occupations: https://www.ajc.com/news/world/these-are-the-deadliest-jobs-...
Linux workstations, Office 365 -- skip LibreOffice.
Racism is on the rise and ironically one of the worst offenders is Israel, a literal ethnostate that has sterilized Ethiopian Jewish immigrant women without their consent and forced male Chinese laborers to sign “no sex” agreements
Windows 7 also had lot of exploits. It runs many services like network file systems (NetBIOS) in kernel which makes it easier to gain access to it.
How do you turn work off? I have worked remotely the last several months and I feel like I am always at work to the detriment of my family life. I find myself sitting at my desk working when if I was in an office job I would be spending time with my kids or doing things for myself.
The TSP solver is vanilla C and the Python extension that wraps it only needs "Python.h".

I use scikit-build which is a setup.py alternative and builds and bundles together the solver and the extension. The build system makes a binary version for most platforms.
If I got shit on my hands I would do significantly more than spray it with a bidet.
This is a tough situation to be in. I've been there myself and it's not fun. If I were in this same situation again, I would ask myself a few questions:

* Who is my customer in this situation? It could be your boss, your boss's boss, an important stakeholder, end users, etc. Make sure you have clarity on your customer so you can focus on their problems first. If you have find you have multiple "important" customers, then prioritize the most important first. This is likely the person who has the most influence on your immediate success.

* Are any of the problems you identified "your" customer's problem? If so great, time to get to work. If not, consider reprioritizing. You should reach out to your customer and get their feedback on priority. Be careful not to lose sight of the big picture.

* How do I know the other engineers aren't right? If you work with smart people who know how to get things done, then you should take their feedback seriously. Maybe they're right and you're wrong. Always validate your assumptions.

* What would happen if I just solved the problem myself? If you can then do, seriously. Submit a PR with your solution or build a proof of concept. Default to taking action. Don't wait for someone else's approval to get shit done.

* How can I measure and bring transparency to these problems? You'd be surprised how powerful emails with data are. If you can measure the problem (e.g., MTTR, rate of failure, response time) and more importantly the impact on customers, then you may be able to indirectly "motivate" others to solve their own problems. Send regular updates to managers, Directors, VPs, Execs, anyone important who will listen.

* At what point should I just let this go? Time box your efforts and once that time period has been reached, just let it go. This very well could be a situation where the "problem" is not the top priority. You may have to let this one burn so you can focus on other things.
I assume you mean well, but it’s not about your residence (or for businesses the place where they are incorporated) but rather where you do business. Just because I’m in California doesn’t mean I can do business in the EU without complying with their laws. Same goes for Chicago.

You’re not required to do business there, but they can fine you for non-compliance if you are doing business.

Note: all of this is in reference to “software companies” as the GP said, and doesn’t touch on “corporate nexus” and stuff like that.
> "going on all-in" with Intel on the Chromebooks

Weren't Chromebooks on ARM before x86?

> Google broke one of the most basic business rules: never rely on a single supplier. You're always worse off in the end, even if the exclusivity deals seem very tempting in the short-term.

I don't think this is universally true, although I agree that it's probably prudent. Diverse options/suppliers are a risk mitigation, but they do have a cost.
Likely it's simply Ubuntu + some custom repos + different graphics (because why not).
Oh, now I understood your question. I lost my physical backup, and now I can't recover it from Google.
That’s good to hear. But I haven’t had the luck to hear back from them. So my guess is still that it’s a tiny team with many other priorities than this platform, and so misses responding or acting many a times.
I can assure you, you're the only one here being defensive and showing poor social skills.
As someone who likes Linux and genuinely believe that software that was paid for by the public should be open source, I just have to ask you why that is.

I work in a Danish municipality with 100.000 citizens. We operate more than 300 IT systems, some of these are one of a kind systems that have no alternatives and some of those only run on Windows.

We also have 8000 employees, a lot of them couldn’t tell you if the smartphone they use each day is an android or an iPhone. They know windows and they know office, switching them to pages and macOS would be almost impossible, Linux and libre office is out of the question.

We have an IT staff of skilled people who were willing to skip pay for ideology they are all certified Microsoft and have little other education. They could all easily leave for other positions in the Microsoft infrastructure. It would cost around a million to replace just one of them.

We could easily switch our tech to Linux, we would need to build a lot of replacement software but that could be done in a reasonably manner, but moving the business side to Linux would be the most expensive thing we ever did.

Which is why I’m a skeptic of something I believe should happen. We pay a tech tax to Microsoft, by we can’t stop. It’s just not doable.
Considering Google uses Linux extensively, I doubt that'll happen any time soon.
Most 3D games don't even have to be toned down. Because if you stream video, you don't care if you send a video of a 2D game or a 3D game. And that's the main appeal of such services: you don't need to spend large sums of money to be able to play modern games in high or ultra high settings. All you need is a beefy internet connection with low enough latency.
Yes, Netflix chooses to serve Chicagoans, and if they’d prefer not to, they can. There have been a few “make the customers angry, so they write to their representatives” attempts throughout history, but I doubt a 99 cent tax for Netflix is enough to risk it.

As a related thing, look at Spotify vs Apple on the App Store. That 30% is material.
I got into playing more aggressive openings after watching analyses of Paul Morphy and Tal and never stopped!
Tasks, Techniques, and Tools for Genomic Data Visualization
Obviously both kinds of experience can bring different perspectives. There's not just one way to do things. You want someone who has faced some challenges, had some failures, had to recover, things sometimes worked out. That works for both sources of experience.
Me too! One thing I am noticing is that because I often just use it to destress, I am not improving really, because it's all instinctive on 3 minutes.

The problem with improving seems to be that while I can play a few blitz games, taking time to work on game is more a separate occupation. I occasionally do the lichess practice thingies but without seeing much impact. Anything that can be done that helps but that is on the timescale of a few blitz games?
Did they try WINE or ReactOS?
I'd call that a "public holiday".
Could they raise more money by locally legalizing more "sins" and heavily taxing them? Something of a cross between Las Vegas and Colorado could pull in a lot of revenue.
I’ve switched to libreoffice from excel and find it totally viable as an excel replacement except for lack of vba support, but it has its own scripting language so even that isn’t a deal breaker. It’s just so much faster and less bloated than today’s excel.
None of them are happening. What is happening is a vague statement that left a void where futurists like yourself have filled in with hype fueled imaginings of their own.

The basic economics deny all 3 of your suggestions. The TTC doesn’t have smart buses. Garbage collection is regulated through citywide contracts to private collectors who are not going to waste their own margin on off schedule collection. Same with parking, which is run through a city agency Green P that would have to adapt its systems for one neighbourhood?

While all are theoretically possible it would require a lot more economic infrastructure than one corporate neighbourhood.

So set your expectations to more mundane levels. Public wifi and surveillance cameras like in Beijing.
Nearby in Greece the pipes are 2 inch diameter, not 4 inches as is expected in the UK. Apparently the pipes were a British addition to Greece, I would like to know the story and if in nearby Kosovo you have the same diminutive pipe problem - 2" diameter.
Good story! Knuth's nickname of "Yoda" is well-deserved.
Using Ed25519 Signing Keys for Encryption
Yeah. I'd love it if we had recall power for POTUS like we do in California for our governors.
“Do things that don’t scale” but how do you know which unscalable things to do?
The other way around :)
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> when posting to HN I collapse the code into a single line

If you just put two spaces of indentationo on every line, you get a verbatim block in typewriter font,

like
this.
I believe that what I described above is actually the way that private data is defined today: for each sufficiently large data set, there exists a K such that K-anonymity means the data is public.

If you find it concerning that it's possible to predict behavior based on demographics, I don't know what to tell you. Do you think that psychology studies are an invasion of privacy?
> Many nights you kiss your family good night and then while they are asleep you sit slumped at your desk just trying to get a few more hours in before you collapse for 4 hours of sleep and then get up to do it again. This is obviously not all the time but it is for the most part at some time in all software jobs.

I've been in software for many years, including 5+ years as hands-on developer, and I've never ever stayed up this late to do anything. I've worked in startups, including failing startups. Maybe i'm just naturally zen. My career is doing great btw.
Disclaimer: Shameless plug for a friend's work on GPU based packet classification: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1899529
Slightly OT, but this whole article is about nitpicks so I don’t feel guilty...

Shouldn’t the dollar sign be before the 0x?
partial counter-point: many large companies, universities, schools etc have switched to things like Google Docs. Most use of office software is simple enough that people can transfer (afaik a big part in the Munich migration was making sure all the templates used for common documents where ported properly and people could easily access to).

Specialist software is a big problem of course, likely leading to a parallel Windows infrastructure of some kind, either dedicated Windows workstations for the workers that need it or a terminal-server setup of some kind - I know companies that used the latter to keep Windows XP applications available in an isolated environment too. But it's all a bespoke process.
The employer isn't liable for the pension at all. Neither is the employee. All they do is pay into the fund. Instead, there is an entirely separate legal entity (the pension fund) that controls and distributes the assets. The fund releases reports regularly on the health of the fund. The contribution calculations are usually included in those reports. The investments by pension funds are usually in long term infrastructure assets like highway 407 in Ontario, or various property management companies such as Cadillac-Fairview. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Teachers%27_Pension_... the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is probably one of the best examples of a well run pension fund. All public employees in Ontario, as well as federal employees are all part of a union, whether it be OMERS, PSAC, CUPE, caisse or otherwise. These unions protect the employees from the 4 year swings of governments and instead look after the long term health of employees.

I suggest you research the laws surrounding pensions in Canada. Answering the questions properly here is too lengthy, but they could probably be answered by 30 minutes of research. Pensions are incredibly powerful for looking after retirees. In fact, Canada has a federal pension plan called CPP which pays out to all Canadians based upon their contributions over their lifetime. Pensions are not the enemy my friend, it's elected representatives who look out for their short term interests instead of the health of their electorate.
”In 1960, Karatsuba attended a seminar wherein Kolmogorov pitched his n2 conjecture. 3) “Exactly within a week” Karatsuba devised his divide-and-conquer algorithm.
[…]
Thus the error is that 1962 should be 1960.”

Based on the information given, the correct year _could_ be 1961, too. When, exactly, was that seminar? Were Soviet universities at the time closed over Christmas?
It does, but boycotting a search engine that returns garbage in favor of another search engine that returns garbage is easier than if the former actually worked properly.
Nobody Gives a Shit about Your Software
The “Founder-Market Fit” Deception
1. Businesses have to incorporate the local tax code to any area they provide services in. Same as any brick-and-mortar business right now.

2. It becomes burdensome for businesses to comply so they ask the federal government to occupy the field and standardize.

I don't really know why people expect businesses that deliver their products digitally to be treated differently from everyone else.
Perhaps it would be clear if it was $0x3.00 , but I see that 0x$ is the way Knuth writes it on his reward checks... I wonder if anyone pointing this out might get one too.
$75k income, increasing at 1% a year, saving 15% each year, investing at 7% average returns over a 40 year career would give you $101k in retirement.

That doesn’t seem unreasonable.
In the US a “pension” typically means a fixed benefit regardless of investment performance. Many pension sponsors reduced contributions to their plans when markets were up and have had large shortfalls when markets have gone down, which has contributed to the “pension funding crisis”.
Plastinated blood vessels of a human face
Can't you just skim over that stuff?
I wonder a bit why you write 'IE6-10ish' as IE7 was a big change already (not talking about IE8 or IE9, or what the other vendors did during that period). So when jquery was released, we had the split between standards and IE(6) compliant implementations already and the whole browser development started to get traction again.

So yes, the standards didn't really change during that period, but the real world implementations did. And jquery gave you a way to learn just one thing and don't care about what all those browser vendors were doing.
$7.68 USD
What about new hires who haven't had employment and ran through whatever savings they may have had? Another scenario is that one emergency can wipe out a month of savings when you are low income.
That's apparently how Knuth writes it, so feel free to ask him. Maybe you'll get a reward too? ;-)
This is awesome! I'll second the advice to try out the book. I'll have to watch for small errors like this to point out, as well. :)

I'm currently reading this with some folks at work that simply run circles around my ability in the mathematical sections. It is humbling, but also very fun. The best is seeing the process on how to get through these sections. If you are like me, you assume it is someone doing a straight forward walk through the steps. My colleagues don't hesitate to just start with an idea and see where it can go. Often, it is not necessarily algebra or anything else that gets to the next part, but a simple question of pattern recognition on the series we have put on the board. But, as often as not, mistakes are made and have to be tried again. The folks that get things right the most are not necessarily those that make the fewest mistakes.
Funny! In English, it just sounds kinda gross.
As mentioned downthread, this is the unfortunate combination of the British English term (“holiday”) which American English replaces with “vacation”.

There are a set of Federal Holidays, but the Fair Labor Standards Act does not require that all workers get them off nor that they are paid [1]. There are some holidays that are Federal Holidays but are generally not observed nationwide (e.g., Colombus Day), however, banks and financial institutions including the stock market may be closed for them.

Most workers get about 10 weekdays off per year from these federal holidays (Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, etc.) but at the low end (think fast food worker) that’s often not the case. Particularly part-time workers often get nothing. A comment downthread suggests that 23% of workers get no vacation time, but that might or might not also mean “and no Federal Holidays”.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/holidays
I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1.7 per hour
If you want a real answer to this question, look at how well adopted kids' incomes correlate with their adoptive parents', compared to kids raised by their biological parents.
It's analogous to an autopilot of an airplane. It keeps going straight, direction, speed, altitude. An airplane can fly straight and level right into an airplane. For some reason (partly Teslas'), people look at a tesla autopilot and think it does everything reliable. They used this misleading name, but people should understand it same way they understand a plane's autopilot.
Yeah finding talent and making good choices way outside what your traditional IT competency is pretty risky.
I am sick the “lawful authority” excuse.

In most of the countries involved in this, and plenty of others: hacking or arresting HRAs is lawful.

In some, slavery is lawful.

In general saying “we aren’t violating human rights because we’re not violating the law”, is not a meaningful arguments:

* slavery was (and in some places is) legal

* the holocaust was legal

* Japanese interment camps were legal

* the walk of tears (I think that was the name?) was legal

* the destruction of parihaka was legal

* gender discrimination: legal

* race discrimination: legal

Etc, etc

Legal does not mean “right”, and hiding behind that when your product is clearly being used against HRAs is a deliberate attempt to hide responsibility.
News to me! Perhaps I was ripped off.

I've either done short-term stints or been salaried for over a decade now.

Cheers for the link!
Pretty likely actually. A case in point is the tangled history of identifying the first inhabitants of the Americas.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/ancient-d...

This article skips gently over what was a more than 40 years of denial and academic exclusion of people advocating (with evidence) for arrivals earlier than Clovis.

There is something about human intellect, that seems to repeat this pattern time and time again, of those with an established belief fighting tooth and nail against evidence that they are wrong.
DOS isn't even an operating system in the modern sense. Once you add preemptive multitasking and memory protection, you're simply going to end up with a normal modern operating system kernel again.

On the other hand, the stuff that takes "gigabytes of disk and memory" isn't even part of the operating system kernel, so there's no need to start from DOS to get rid of that stuff. It's possible to run linux from a few megabytes of ram.
Yeah, quite remarkable. Celebrating a 0.1% annual wage increase over the last 4 decades, one week (!) of paid vacation, and "help" with health insurance as progress. In 2019.

It reminds me of the Onion article rejoicing that "Chinese Employers To Grant 15-Minute Maternity Break".

https://www.theonion.com/chinese-employers-to-grant-15-minut...

"Of course, this measure wouldn't need to be taken at all if pregnant workers could schedule their due dates for the annual holiday of May 1," Huang added.
Sir, this is a Denny's.
Why, time and time again, does Guido seem incapable of reasonable debate, or ideas that challenge his own? It's completely rude to interrupt a presenter with 'what is your point?'

Years ago I was in contact with the author of Nuitka, who was very excited to share his work thus far. During his presentation, Guido kept huffing and making snide comments under his breath. All because he disagrees with the premise behind Nuitka.

I like Python, and can appreciate his work and contributions. That said, I can't help think the community can become less toxic without him as BDFL.
> (couldn’t find an English one)

Here are Wikipedia pages in Ukrainian[1] and English[2]

[1] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataman
Students Were Advised to Claim to Be Minorities in College-Admissions Scandal
That's the one!

Just find it so hard to concentrate on it, almost wish I hadn't started it but don't want to give up on it now. Will have to try and get into a habit like you, good luck with it!
I don’t see what benefit the table elements are providing. It’s just convoluting the grid with hidden CSS rules. Why not just use a div for the row and spans for columns? The inline and block behavior of those elements is what defines and distinguishes them. Paired with CSS reset there are no hidden CSS rules affecting their behavior.