skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the new design require a link to the old design? By your opinion sure, but they don't think that do they?

Which is to say, if you own a site and decide to cut a feature, isn't that okay? It may or may not be a feature users want.. but that's another story entirely, no?
As long as the concept of infinity exist it's impossible to say that existence is deterministic or not. It's rather determinism wrapped in indeterminism and that wrapped in determinism so on and so forth.
> I wonder if they just got lucky with (or perhaps strategically chose) the specific codon substitutions to perform? Would a different set of synonym substitutions have been nonviable?

Recoding scheme was strategically chosen. They cite 2016 paper (PMC5035903) which showed substituting AGA with CGA (synonymous codon for arginine) on E. coli was nonviable.
The strong version is trivially disproveable - if they had got eaten by a dingo as an infant you would never seen any success regardless of how smart said poor illfated baby would be.

That said talent, genius, and drive certainly are factors even with priviledged upbringing like needing money for education, seed capital and ability to dedicate their timr without side jobs. While self-made men, women and nonbinaries are rare and rarer still without posers - there are some who if they were born poorer would only have had their rise delayed by a decade at most.

In contrast others who are peak "idiot heir" prove that it isn't /just/ privilege that brings success as they find ruin no matter their connections, starting wealth, and a futile attempt by their parents to teach how to perpetuate their birthright.
Ask HN: Should I teach my kids to type with QWERTY or Dvorak?
While I'm not training my children to become programmers, it's a virtual certainty that any job/profession will require the use of a computer, and that means the ability to type. I keep reading that those who can type using the Dvorak layout are faster but have always thought "I'm too old to switch keyboard layouts at this point" -- but what about my kids who haven't even learned to type yet?

Are there downsides of learning something other than QWERTY and, if so, do the benefits outweigh the negatives?
You are welcome to your wrong opinion, just like Pythagoras.
I've not studied this language yet, but if its syntax is in any way saner, that would still be a net gain.
A.k.a individuals who accept whatever deadline is imposed onto them and work round the clock to meet it instead of telling management they failed to properly assign time and resources to the project.
> Even if you chuck out determinism, you still can't say what free will is a supposed to _be_. It just evaporates while you try to examine it, no matter what sort of framework you put up around it.

I don't see why. Free will is a choice made for our own reasons that isn't coerced by another actor's will.

No doubt there are nuances to this when you get into the details, but it's a big leap to say it simply evaporates. We can clearly see it doesn't because we can make meaningful distinctions between the behaviour of people and that of rocks.
Ben Eater has a most excellent Youtube series in the same vein.

https://eater.net/8bit

He even sells a kit with all parts and schematics included. It's easily one of my favorite projects of all time and has inspired me to continue learning more.

It's not close to MyCPU's level of complexity but is great to get you started.
> #2 aggregated the bugs rolling in for more than a year to minimize impact.

When the impact is new microcode for every out-of-order CPU going back to Sandy Bridge that's not on its face entirely unreasonable. The date for the new microcode for my Ivy Bridge workstation I'm typing this on is 2019-02-13; if testing followed that.... Could even be they wanted to further delay release until they could do more testing.

> They had enough time to fix and release new silicon!

And properly test it?
Most Americans have smartphones worth about as much as a monthly salary in Europeans countries. Should people feel embarrassment about that?
These definitions better be correct, becaus I will use your post as a reference from now :)
> We then gave the interviewee four days to complete the task with a recommended time of 2 days.

How magnanimous. Who the hell is subjecting themselves to this?
The argument is never that the disasters are a positive, they are disasters.

The argument is that the disasters typically demonstrate that even when things go horribly wrong nuclear is still better than business as usual (once considered in an appropariate global context). Business as usual is basically a disaster every year, when compared to nuclear.

The economic costs of mining coal/petroleum alone are catastrophic if there was a way to avoid it (eg, by mining uranium instead, which requires a fraction of the effort). Extraction is a huge waste of time and resources assuming that there is a way to avoid doing it. All the personpower and capital could be deployed to doing other things if it wasn't being used to dig big holes.
There’s a fortune to be made in the global freight industry.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/15/convoy-flexport-automating-t...

There are tens of billions that can be carved out with automation. Electrics near large urban areas will definitely help air quality.
Am I the only one doubting this Chinese moon landing? They are a communist dictatorship and have been known for faking statistics
Thanks, Yorwba. I guess I've been desensitised to the whole Taiwan issue. They do go on and on and on about it and any company that refers to it separately rather than as part of China.

There was the issue about the airlines recently as well. I just skip over those stories but there are a lot of them.
I used the same method to see what is the blocking mechanism in Iran. I tried to connect to www.bbc.com which is blocked in Iran.

The DNS injection is obviously in place. But something strange happened when I checked the SNI filtering. The curl command stopped at "TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, Client hello (1)" and never exited when I tried to connect to www.bbc.com but with a --connect-to that is not blocked. Nothing strange until now. If SNI blocking is in place, they probably drop all the remaining packets of the connection. The strange thing is that when I try the opposite test and I connect to www.kernel.org (not blocked in Iran, too!) but with www.bbc.com SNI it still stops at TLS client hello.

First I thought they blocked the IP address, but I was able to connect to 212.58.244.210 (the IP address of www.bbc.com) on port 443 with telnet command. So, is Iran's regime using some other blocking mechanism that I'm not aware of? Or am I doing some kind of mistake?
I think it's right. He seemed to be describing hollow pins with threaded holes. The pins hold the sections together, the bolts screw into, and steady the pins.
The title makes me want to up-vote but when I click through the link all I see is "noibrs noibpb nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1 l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier mds=off mitigations=off"
Have you noticed the behavior of markets, especially big companies? The only things they seem to be doing voluntarily are those that help increase their profits. CEOs are getting paid tens of millions of dollars while laying off thousands of people and closing factories. Companies do every dirty little trick to avoid paying for healthcare/pension. And so on.

We have already tried the "markets will fix things, markets will regulate themselves" blah blah strategy - it doesn't seem to work. When was the last time a big company voluntarily cleaned up its own oil spill or other environmental disasters?

There has to be minimum wage laws (and environmental laws etc etc) and they have to be sensible. It boggles my mind that you'd argue against this. If you want to encourage small businesses to start, there are other ways to help them - interest free loans, tax free zones etc
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ is wire wrap 16 bit computer that in fact serves the web pages and has telnet access.
Like how you compare a live woman with a history and thoughts and dreams with a few micrograms of cells that a body may or may not spontaneosly eject via well-characterized biological processes?
Oh a start-up, you say?! WOW!Please post again when your startup is successful. Until then, good luck.
You should check out my strength tracking app, Riker:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/riker/id1196920730?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rikerapp.r...
> but a crowded room is terrible for me.

I'm in the same boat. Too many Motorhead gigs in the 80's have taken their toll :). I can hear a pin drop in my house, but as soon as I'm in an environment with background noise - a pub, a busy street or even a restaurant (though I think restaurants may be problem for many folks[0]) - I find it difficult to hear people speaking to me. Semi-jokingly, I've often thought about taking up a pal's suggestion that I should give in and get myself an ear-trumpet :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17629497
I guess the important point he's making is regarding sensible minimum wages. If a company, whether startup or not, can't pay a reasonable minimum wage then it shouldn't be trying to hire.
“t makes no sense to me why the CEO and higher ups of the company I work at still work there. ”

My theory is that they simply like their work and get satisfaction from it. They get paid a lot but they also work a lot and I can’t imagine anybody doing this to themselves if they didn’t genuinely like it.
This is just cover for racial discrimination. Applicants should be able to see the "adversity scores" that determine where they get in, just as you are now able to see the credit scores that determine whether you get a mortgage. According to the article, only colleges see the adversity scores.
This is correct. My roommate worked for a landscaping company that had 5 employees. They did not have to pay overtime.
Good luck editing these WordPerfect and CorelDraw files!
Uvw v1.17.0 (header-only libuv wrapper in modern C++) is out
Another article said 20% as loud as a helicopter.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/16/electric-fly...

Edit: Also this article says they expect to be integrated with existing transport hubs with last mile done with conventional ground transport.
School is very much the case of "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down", be thankful you didn't have nuns or christian brothers.
Great story - well done!
At least they didn’t tether it:

https://youtu.be/shlZySkGq6g
> grade 3, handed in assignment in basic, we were supposed to write a story, and I wrote a small program with arrays of words, and arrays of indexes to print the story.. Teacher told me it didn't count to "write some hieroglyphs", I told he it was a program, she explained to me "it's not possible to just make a program".

yeah, i'm with the teacher on this one. you didn't complete the assignment. At grade 3, a lot of the value in homework is simply in learning how to do homework correctly. You didn't do the homework correctly, so it absolutley shouldn't have counted to "write some hieroglyphs".
>maybe it is time to start asking some easier interview questions

Why? The big tech companies offer high salaries and get lots of applicants. They can afford to be picky.

And by the way, OP went above and beyond what they asked of him. In fact, there's a chance that this hurt his chances.

>This is a visceral demonstration of how absolutely ridiculous interviews have gotten.

This kind of format isn't standard across the industry.
HN is a strange place
I don't agree and I think the original article severely underestimated top-end hearing aid technology. Newer hearing aids from top manufacturers like GN, Oticon and Phonak do a very good job of isolating a particular voice in noise - sure its still far from perfect but it light-years ahead of "making all things louder".

I have no doubt the suggested brain-powered hearing aids will be much better but models like Oticon's OPN have smart directionality and localisation features for picking out specifics in noise. Most models also allow you to control the direction of sound enhancement to improve things further - by default most will use a 360 degree, or at least 270 degree field of listening but with an app you can change them to have a very narrow field and target specifically the person directly in front of you.

I have a severe hearing loss and wear GN ReSound LiNX Quattro in both ears, without them I cannot hear anything useful, i.e. I hear no voice even when someone is directly in front of me and no background noise. With them I can hold a conversation in a fairly noisy pub, its hard work to listen in noise but they do an amazing job for me. Technology has moved way past the old analogue amplification that really did just make everything louder.
as opposed to the illusion of choice provided in de facto two party "democracies"?
I read the grandparent as: The task should take 2-4h and be done within 2-4 days is how I read it.

I’m still not sure why people expect it’s easy to fit this in and it’s the last thing you want to do after a hard day of work.

I’ve just started taking a full day off for programming exercises I do when interviewing. It allows me to give well thought through and tested solutions even if I make some small mistakes or misunderstandings. Crazy I know but necessary usually these days.
The top 1%-2% who are willibg to actually complete the challenge. Probably not even then, as some of the top candidates who do complete the challenge may hold themselves to the explicit time limit.
"partner, children, family, home, job"

I found all of these "ordinary" things in life to be quite extraordinary when they happened to me!
I used to live in Clerkenwell and usually walked a bit north and East. Eg towards the Earl of Essex, or even just the side streets in the City itself.
Bear in mind there's no point switching to a Dvorak keyboard unless you also teach them to touch type. A touch typist on a regular keyboard is still going to be a lot faster than a non-touch typist on a Dvorak.
I can flip a coin every time I have an opportunity to make certain minor choices. Some of those choices will turn out to have major effects (my whole life changed once because the batteries were low on my Walkman and I tuned into the radio instead of playing a cassette tape like I otherwise would have). Most will not.

The point is, I can do this, and I have. Other times I have chosen not to leave as much to chance. For all practical purposes, to me this indicates sufficient free will for me to comfortable believing I have it.
QWERTY 100%

Living in Germany and being used to QWERTY it's really hard for me to use someone elses computer, because it will most likely be QWERTZ (German layout) and that alone annoys me to no end. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to be used to a completely different keyboard.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recogniti...

(Adding a link to a news source from the other side of the aisle to the Mail.)
Nobody said it was a perfect system. It can be abused, especially when legal precedents haven't been set, but there are also means to challenge the legitimacy of such decisions.
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I can't tell if this is brilliant or sadistic. On the one hand, it really tells you who's smart enough to realize the task can't be done in the allotted time. On the other hand, not being able to do something as simple as adding a button in 45 minutes has to screw with the candidate's mind. That sort of thing would shatter what little confidence I have. I'd probably tank the rest of the interview.

> I learned a lot about interviewing people that day.

Could you share what you learned?
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>No one acknowledges the fact that in reality, you’re about to dedicate up to 5 working days on this task, with the potential for them to ghost you straight afterwards.

Is this as common as the author makes it sound? This seems like shady practice. I've heard of marketing firms doing this as a way to get 'free' ideas/work
You solve all the nuclear reactor bullshit by demanding full insurance coverage - nobody can effort this. Problem solved.
The legal world works the same way too. They're amazingly low tech. A lawyer in my family mentioned that it's basically a combination of:

- everyone can do it with any software (or even a typewriter)

- consistency with legacy documents. The format doesn't just change on you as you're reading through legal history

- it works fine, why change it?

I'd also add a guess:

- There's no room for implementation detail to affect formatting. Last thing you want is a whole bunch of formats that are similar but not identical, just because someone's software is a bit different.

- could you imagine trying to get everyone to change? We should be so lucky that everyone's already this consistent
I’ve heard Dvorak users complain the regular shortcuts are geared up for QWERTY. I’ve also heard that Dvorak isn’t any faster. All anecdotal of course.
In the early 20th century, vegetarianism in Europe and North America was utterly outside the mainstream, its practitioners considered total weirdos. So, no surprise that vegetarians would overlap with Esperantists, another bunch of weirdos.

(I am former member of the Esperanto movement, very heavily involved in it. When I say the Esperanto world abounds with weirdos, I know of what I speak. Yes, I know, that claim might mean I was/am one too.)
I'm not sure about Word docs, but FWIW 90s era Excel files have become progressively harder to open.
Travis will come back and Uber will be huge, just like every time this happens.
> People just want to have this free will so much that they always intentionally conflate the terms.

It's a matter of denotative vs. connotative definitions. Free will proponents are saying, "hey that thing we all do when we make a choice that rocks can't do, that's free will", and you're saying "free will has such and such properties, so whether we have it depends on whether our choices have these properties".

I'd argue that most people reason denotatively, in which case merely pointing out the thing we're trying to define suffices as an existence proof. What remains is defining what it is, logically.

> 1. Determinism or not, free will doesn't exist in either case

It sure does!

> The whole idea of "me" being a singular, well defined thing is purely an artefact of human language. We are a process, not a thing.

Agreed. I don't see why this poses any difficulty. The behaviour of the process is largely governed by free will, just like a process on your computer will often sort lists.

> If free will is so real, can you freely choose never to choose again? Of course not.

Sure, via suicide.
Flexible solar cells bring us closer to kicking the fossil-fuel habit
How do they enforce this on people wearing hijabs or other religios clothing that covers the face?
FriendDA
Wait...so you're saying you can have free will and determinism?

Can you elaborate more? I'm genuinely interested.
>>Police say they know of human rights concerns but want to make London safer"

Alrighty then, just wanted to make sure that they know of human rights concerns.
I've found that UPX triggers AntiVirus programs more often than uncompressed binaries on Windows.
It’s arguably a very common problem. Just google “raspberry pi corruption”
Pythagoras thought beans were people.
The CIA, their job is to protect Americans

The Chinese are our enemies they want to hurt us

We need to trust the CIA and distrust the chinese
People who are between jobs and whose bank accounts are running perilously low.
How do you open word documents from the 90’s?!? Do you have a Windows 95 VM or something?

Even with modern Microsoft Word, the formatting of old documents is often mangled.

To this day, up-to-date PowerPoint can’t reliably display presentations made with up-to-date PowerPoint on a different machine, let alone OS!
Further, you could shave off a couple of bytes by inserting

<body onload=F()>

before the canvas element, instead of having

<script>F()</script>

after the canvas element
1. Flix ... takes inspiration from F#, Go, OCaml, Haskell, Rust, and Scala.

2. Flix compiles to JVM bytecode and runs on the Java Virtual Machine.

3. Flix performance is typically within 1-3x of equivalent Scala code.

So... it's mainly just a faster Scala -- but without the ability to integrate with Java, Scala, or Kotlin?
Its very interesting that people are prepared to wear "cool" AirPods but still shy away from hearing aids because they don't want to look old or disabled. Hearing aid manufacturers are starting to catch on and market aids more as lifestyle accessories rather than medical devices that fix a disability, which will help a lot. Also, aids are much smaller and sleeker now, they look pretty cool, the tide will turn eventually and more people will start to accept them - i'm not sure they will become as cool as glasses but they'll at least become acceptable.

BTW: the live listen on Apple devices is a nice feature but it nowhere near being a hearing aid.
Because I was replying in a thread about a man how had kidnapped a five year old to make pornography. My understanding from the literature is that such an offender is very likely to offend again, and likely to escalate (which would be murder in this case).

I don't believe these things apply to so-called sex offenders in general, and I know some of the laws around sex offences are utterly ridiculous.

The slippery slope argument is still a logical fallacy, you're saying because some push things to unreasonable levels, that the reasonable ones can't be supported. So, using the slippery slope argument the other way, should we be releasing prolific serial killers because they might not kill again? Where would you draw the line? (Of course, as you'll no doubt realise, the slippery slope argument will apply no matter where you draw that line, which is why it's a logical fallacy).
Removing the perversion is a good goal IMHO.

(PERL = Perversion Excused by Random Lispiness)
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I had no idea this was possible. Thanks, will give it a try.
I recently went through an interview with a company posting on HN and was shocked by their challenge.

They provided their current UI (barebones dashboard) as well as instructions to launch the backend server locally and requested I upgrade their UI to include a side panel for filtering a data table.

The task itself wasn't difficult, but the realization that these scum bags wanted me to upgrade their current product under the guise of a challenge. I instantly knew this wouldn't be a company I'd want to work for even if they did provide an offer.
Well this guy who bragged to me one time that he had an IQ of 100 was definitely something.
compare the resume of xi jinping with that of donald trump and tell me who is qualified for their job: https://qz.com/1103045/chinas-19th-communist-party-congress-...
doing well in a popularity contest a.k.a election is not necessarily an indicator of competence
This incorrect. The vast majority of their properties are leased on long-term agreements. Which means whilst these leases might make them money if they can rent them out for a good price, they're actually a liability since they're obliged to pay the leases even if they can't rent out the space.
Thanks, exactly what I was hoping for!