skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this related to a particular paragraph in the article? I've found this style interesting as well and would enjoy reading about others experiences with it.
The technology is awesome, but I won't use Cloudformation, Azure Resource Manager templates, etc. until AWS, Azure, etc. support spending limits. Getting into the habit of clicking "Deploy Stack" when you're credit card is attached to an account that allows unlimited spending seems risky to me.
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Node.js – v12.3.1
> I don't buy this idea that the programming language you use determines the quality of your work.

I don't buy into fads either but this is not a fad. It is common sense. The quality of your own skill and the tools you use affect the overall quality of your work. To say that one has no affect is illogical.

Just look at the extremes of your statement. If it was true, I should be able to write a triple A game in assembly language because assembly language affects the quality of my work. Obviously this is not true. If I tried to do one in assembly language the quality would be subpar.

> A language cannot prevent someone from making stupid mistakes.

In Elm it is not possible to have runtime errors. The program cannot crash period. The only type of error you can have in elm is a compile error or logic error.

This is an example of a program preventing stupid mistakes.
Nevertheless it also matters when it comes to feelings of guilt. It's easy to feel guilty for things you didn't intend (or cause via negligence). Being self-aware enough to not put yourself through that emotional burden is important too.
It's absolutely possible to continue doing squats + bench + deadlifts in the same workout for a very long time. After about 6 months I moved to deadlifting only once per week, but it was still done on my "heavy day" after setting PRs on my squat and press/bench press.

> Mark's hybrid squat, and low bar squats, put a huge amount of pressure on your elbows and shoulders.

I had this problem, and it turned out to be a form problem that my Starting Strength Coach fixed without switching to a different exercise. You can't do the exercise wrong and then claim there's a problem with it.
I want a finders fee for reporting anyone who makes an illegal proposal to me. It would be a huge moral hazard to pay banks for flagging illegal activity. This should be part of normal procedure.
It's interesting to see how reinforcement learning is used to assist humans. This is a great combination of HCI and AI. Emma Brunskill at Stanford - https://cs.stanford.edu/people/ebrun - has a series of work using an RL framework to teach humans faster. For example, in this work they developed a POMDP to choose pedagogical activities that will maximize student learning, based on the student's current knowledge.
The Token Gallery
The Idea Factory was a pretty enlightening book. I never realized how important Bell Labs was in our technological history. They purposely sought out the best minds and gave them freedom to find the next great tech.
wealth inequality doesn't mean more poor people. I know it's a lot to ask nowadays but please be informed enough about economics to at least know the very basics if you are going to bring it up.

The idea that the food availabe to people is getting worse or less, in Western Europe of all places, is absolutely ridicolous. If anything the opposite is the case. As regards jobs we also have the opposite problem: too few simple jobs.
Where's part 2? That's going to be the thing that's actually non-trivial
Yeah, for a funny example, we seem to have (mostly) stopped reminding Google of their old "don't be evil" slogan, since it became obvious their overall approach had changed ;-)
Apple should reduce the fidelity of targeting so that an online ad is the equivalent of a billboard ad.
>Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.

In part, this is regression to the mean. They do not explicitly mention this in the article.[0]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=IQ+regression+to+the+mean&ie...
Good point. Another problem is that there is a saying "The example comes from the top" which in my opinion applies here. In many countries (also ones you listed) the government is corrupt and can't be trusted by the people, so they do the same.
Mars Colony Power Simulator
Vanguard also offers 2FA with voice-automated calls. I wonder, would getting a landline and using that with a Yubikey be any more secure?

https://investor.vanguard.com/security/security-keys
I'm sorry but this is false. They do charge based on CPM which is why they can continue charging you for serving higher and higher frequencies to the same audience. If they charged based on reach then once you went over frequency 1 they would stop charging correct?
It's entirely different because the direction of control is in the opposite direction. There's nothing comparable at Google to the Communist Party's role in managament decisions at companies like Huawei.
Which is my point - the report's conclusion contradicts a very large number of headlines and stories that the news media spoke of in near-factual terms. We are now in a place where nothing he did impacted the outcome - since the investigation concluded unimpeded, but the fact that he tried is now a new reason to go after him.

This is what I am referring to in my original comment about the quality of journalism and its motivations - it's an endless chase, and to be honest he's right to call it a witch hunt against him specifically.
In case someone misses the point of the article -- I know I did, originally! -- the author explicitly lays it out in a comment:

> "Sadly–and here is the real intent behind my post–many Haskell programmers believe that IO is necessary to do “real programming”, and they use Haskell as if it were C (relegating lots of work to IO). In other words, monadic IO has proved to be such a comfortable “solution” to I/O in a functional language, that very few folks are still searching for a genuinely (not merely technically) functional solution. Before monadic IO, there was a lot of vibrant and imaginative work on functional I/O. It hadn’t arrived yet, but was still in touch with the Spirit of functional programming. With the invention and acceptance of monadic imperative programming, it’s like the Haskell community wandered into an opium den and are still lying there in a fog.

> [...]

> "By relating Haskell+IO to cpp+C, I’m not trying to lower the former or elevate the latter. Instead, I’m trying to waken functional programmers out of the opium fog and remind them how fun and creative genuinely functional programming can be."

I love Haskell but I'm not well-versed enough to know why other alternatives to monadic IO were discarded. I do know Haskell predates the IO monad.
It's fun to think about how it could have all been different. No more sites designed to game search result rankings, designed to waste your time to maximize eyeballs on ads, designed to keep you on the site in a garden instead of surfing the web.

ISPs should have bundled hosting with internet access. Give everyone the possibility to generate their own site. It would be like a large insurance pool where your monthly bill might subsidize the costs of hosting another user who's site gets millions of views, just like how your monthly insurance premium ultimately covers the salary of someone else's surgeon, nurses, anesthesiologists, and keeping the lights on in the operating room. You can still ask for donations or even paid subscriptions if you wanted a well off full time staff.

Instead, we leaned on advertisers to fund our websites, middle men working tirelessly to come up with new ways to extract comfortable profit out of the system. Leeching resources that could have otherwise gone straight to the publisher had we designed the internet to be a little more federalized, a little more universal, with the costs shared among the users of the internet who are already paying for access anyway.
America's Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.
PHP interview questions and answers for web developers
I become increasingly anxious of flying based on the size of the aircraft, not sure that I'm an outlier there. The smaller the aircraft the less stable the flight will be, which is what most people are afraid of while flying.
I’m old enough to serve my static site from nginx running on my server :) No virtual machines.
I'm unsure of what they do for leisure, but when I was an employee, the policy was to pick the cheapest flight that would allow you to arrive to your destination at a reasonable time, departing at a reasonable hour, regardless of the airline / airframe used.
The JS community is adopting more and more concepts but a lot of it has to do with the syntax. If the syntax is too verbose people just won't use it. FP is much easier when working with a language based off the lambda calculus (Haskell, Elm, PureScript, etc). Currying, partial application, and point-free composition is overly verbose in JS. JS has adopted the concepts but they are not used very often because of the messy and noisy syntax.
Yes, those were bribes that Airbus discovered in their sales department and reported to the authorities. The issue seemed to revolve around paying middlemen for introductions in certain countries.
Every state change needs to be reflected as event. Does your function need to save something to DB? Then your functionality should create event which will perform the DB save.
While genetics does play a role in intelligence, culture, context, as well as experiencing adversity that alters gene expression during development, and sometimes inherited over several generations...all these have enormous impacts on intelligence that do not imply that we are losing from the population the genes required to maintain high intelligence..
A very rough approximation would be to describe a wind-up watch (processor) by the smallest tooth of the smallest gear (component of the transistor)
This is mostly a definition game using "intelligence" to mean "reaching the peak of a narrow skill." That sort of peak takes a tricky-to-nail-down combination of innate ability, practice, and environment to reach. When people are talking about IQ, they use the word intelligence to describe, essentially, fluid problem-solving and reasoning aptitude. A lot of disagreement in this domain can and should be resolved with clearer terminology.

IQ says little about the specific skills someone has trained, so more specific tests are useful for that, but it provides a lot of information on the general aptitude it is intended to assess.
“Quacks” blamed for HIV outbreak that infected hundreds of kids
As a member of military, you are allowed to own property, but have to take orders. Same, same, but different. But yes, many people compared the USSR to essentially a huge military organization.

School students are very limited in rights, indeed. Their welfare depends on welfare of their parents. But they can hope to become free adults one day; no such hope for citizens of socialist countries.
Millions of Golfers Land in Privacy Hazard After Cloud Misconfig
> is Google the villain for winning?

No, Google is the villain for abusing their Android monopoly, not for having one.
What kind of job are you doing "requires people to work closely together in the same room on a regular basis" ? Geniunely curious
HTTP/2 is one of those things that only works over HTTPS so it can absolutely be a static site being served over it.
See how far you can get with:

#define int const int
#define float const float
etc...

It makes for some interesting patterns
I think Convict Conditioning is a joke compared to this site: http://beastskills.com

Why? Because no one knows who the CC author is, and the model for many of the exercises is the guy from bestskills, who gives legit advice and has a well known background (gymnast).

He also doesn't try to glorify bodweight exercises like CC does.

Imo, CC is just ineffective - for example the towel method for a one-arm chin instead of just hanging weight on a belt.

There is also nothing you will get from CC that you won't get from beastskills, with more explanations and variations.
That is only so you can shoot targets and vermin. You are not permitted to kill a person who intrudes into your home.

Also, what about a pistol, carried on your person as you go about your day? Here in the US it is generally possible to do that. (variation by state: concealed carry may need a license, open carry may need a license, some states prohibit using it unless you can't retreat, etc.)
Fighting Illini.
Yes but he showed the work and arrived at a conclusion as well. I am not referring to Mr. Barr's letter so the article you linked is not really relevant. The investigation team themselves reviewed all material and came to a conclusion.

The premise is that this investigation team was seen by the entire country as a fair party to conduct an investigation and reach a conclusion. Now that the conclusion is not what the news media was suggesting all this time, there's all kinds of skepticism and wanting to see the work.

This is an echo of 2016 again. The news media alluded to an entirely different election result, the result was the complete opposite, and slowly everyone started to question how the media could be so wrong again.

It seems like everyone's standard for truth is "if reality contradicts the media it means something is being hidden" as opposed to "the media was wrong because they are bad at this"
I've been using KDenLive and it's quite competent for what it is.
This is the comment that suggests, speciously, that many of the other comments demonstrate the process presented in the article.

The key omission from the article was any hint of a number. Without numbers there is no way to evaluate the claim. Is the purported decline within the range of noise of the measurements?

The lack of numbers is usually a red flag indicating that the author does not want readers evaluating his claims for themselves.
Why do all video players these days start with volume on full blast? Even worse, on this player i cant find the volume button.
It seems fitting that someone who works on rocket engines would be called Isa.
I don’t think I said any of those things?

Crypto happening in the browser (or any browser-based “app”) is not ever going to be ok from a dozen different security perspectives. That makes Node the only possible platform where it makes sense, and that’s what I said.
Embarassing... You mean like wearing surgical masks out in public?
There is a paper describing the technique here: http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/GST/gst.pdf
This page wouldn't display for me, even after disabling the CSS.

I don't care for this attempt at redefining what privacy is. I could go step-by-step with this article, but I don't care to. These cretins want to track people more and more and we're all asked to voluntarily make concessions for their benefit; I disagree.

I'll continue blocking JavaScript and performing almost all of my WWW browsing through Tor; I won't weep for these advertisers; they're owed nothing.
> There are rumors that much of Huawei’s network stack was stolen from Cisco and Juniper

These rumors may make the U.S. feel good, but the reality is that Huawei has 5G tech that Cisco/Juniper do not. In fact, the U.S. does not even have 5G tech at the level the EU does, so maybe you just simply got out R&D'd?
Can you explain the reprimand? To me baron816 comment reads perfectly reasonable. The subject is hot, but the delivery seems ok?
Fastest-Growing Nuclear Business Is Tearing Down U.S. Plants
>I need to get from A to B

This kind of analysis assumes that the destination is independent of the mode of travel. We only consider going from NY to LA so often because plane travel makes it practical. But this doesn't map well to the general claim that "airplane is the safest way to travel". A per trip metric seems like a more accurate measure of this claim, but then bus is the safest.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...
Are you sure?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-rev...

There's good reason to believe most of the "single gene affects complex trait" stories are false.
I do mean that, and I do mind it a lot when I'm so used to just being able to erase the generic.

There are performance implications to type erasure, to be sure, but when our computers are mostly all future machines from beyond the moon, I'm more interested in minimizing the impedance between my brain and a solved problem.
I'd probably choose this method of entering eternity if it was available where I live, but still I wonder: is this safe?

Edit: Ok, I better clarify, I was thinking of the risk of infectious diseases and other toxins to the people still alive.
Netlify requires your entire domain moved over for custom hostname/ssl. a deal breaker for most.
Microsoft expands 'Girls in AI' hackathons to draw more teen girls to STEM
Yeah, I was just emphasizing your point that you arrived at organically while doing the calculations. Definitely on the same page as you.
It's in the works! I needed a few more days to polish it up. It'll probably be up by early next week.
I mean… it's pretty transparently intended to make the adverts less obvious still, isn't it?

The giveaway for me was that when I saw this headline I got the same feeling I did when my bank sends me a "good news about your interest rate" email – everything's about to get a bit worse and there's nothing to do about it.
Don't share pictures of your kids online
Reversing, not declining.
I think most of the assumptions I have made a pretty reasonable. We are talking about the evolution of possibly thousands of different genes which could contribute to IQ. This can't be compared to altering the pod size of a pea plant, a rather simple genetic selection, which still takes many generations to take effect.
I'm fine with paywalls as well. I even pay for websites that I use heavily, if they allow me to, even though paying isn't necessary to access them.
Took it with Leahy myself, I feel like the material was absolutely essential to me, even though I work in web dev. Understanding the basics of how it all works under the hood, down to the ticks of the processor and how it all gets flushed through the pipeline was an eye opening experience.

P.S. Bill retired a year or two ago :(
Seems like you have little to lose. You're not going to die again, after all.
> because it made sense even back then.

That was necessary for performance back then. User-defined value types weren't, and Java has done well without them.

> Object has semantics, and that was a mistake, because it contributes to the bloat.

I think most of the RAM bloat is due to the GC trading off extra RAM for speed rather than object headers, and I'm not sure trading off complexity for headers was right 25 years ago (JS is doing fine on the client without value types). What changed was the performance characteristics.

As to object semantics, it may be a fixable mistake. The goal is to get value types without today's object semantics while preserving a single class hierarchy at the same time. The Valhalla team thinks that's achievable.
There's 1
As long as you're completely dead, it's definitely safe for you =)

For everything else that lives and dies on this planet, it's sort of the natural order of things.
Don't forget that most of the kernel's codebase are drivers and some of the most impactful additions were made by employees of corporations (on top of my mind - cgroups and namespaces by googlers, and not only as a base for containerization).
That's not necessarily true, it could also be that the results are skewed and the argument is bogus.
A fully open source phone OS would be very nice, one can hope.

As usual, I am sure we will just get another dose of vendor lock-in.
This is interesting though I remember seeing a ted talk on covering the corpse in fungi to detoxify the corpse while composting because human bodies are generally highly toxic...
Monzo Competitor Loot Enters Administration
Ask HN: How Much Is Oncall Worth to You?
At my current job I'm in an oncall rotation. Like most companies there is no compensation for this time.

I've been interviewing for a new job and some of them say I would not have to do any oncall rotation (I'll get that in writing if I accept the job) where as others do have oncall rotations.

How much (if anything) would you value not having to participate in oncall rotation?

Let's say for example your manager said you could be relieved of this duty but you'd have to take a pay cut. How much of a pay cut would you accept?
I like them too, study them every week. No coupons though where I live.
The appropriate comparison to London is Manhattan, or at least New York City.
The quality of discourse in the comments there is amazing. I miss old-style blogging/commenting...
> In 2019, there is a strong bias to write Web service applications in the same language as the client.

Really? One would have thought that this was true a couple of years ago. Now? Does it really matter which languages your backend is written in, since you are going to interact using APIs anyway? And the backend is going to be composed of containerized microservices, so not even runtime installation is an issue now.

Not sure who in the right mind is still advocating for writing backend code exclusively in NodeJS in 2019.
Only for private repos, public repos can use github pages for free.
Mostly, no. Usually it all comes down to understanding and implementing business requirements correctly. Implementing those is a somewhat straightforward (also tedious) process in any language.

The main inpediment in my opinion is:

- knowing the standard library

- knowing the available libraries

- syntax quirks

in that order.

The main advantages you gain from using a language is familiarity with a language and the three points above.

I will be much more productive in JS or Python than in Haskell just because I’m already familiar with thise two and I’m not familiar with Haskell.

The rest of advantages come from the ability of a language to express a programmer’s thoughts rwadably, concisely and in a maintainable manner (where “maintainable” means “a new colleague coming in to the project six months later”).
Alkaline hydrolysis is another preferable option to ground burial. Much more environmentally friendly and allows large plots of land to be used for the living.
If I should die before I wake,
All my bone and sinew take
Put me in the compost pile
To decompose me for a while.

Worms, water, sun will have their way,
Returning me to common clay
All that I am will feed the trees
And little fishes in the seas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJRiCHhciY
Ultra-private Tor browser officially arrives on Android
> Tech jobs in San Diego pay terrible
Is this commensurate with cost of living? I know SF pays more in real dollars, but cost of living in bay is also much higher than SD.
so you’re saying the value of bridges is a “social construct”.
If genetics played a roll in intelligence don't you think we'd see some intellectual differences between groups of genetically similar people(i.e. races), like we do with physical characteristics? Some races of people are taller than others on average, and some races are more resistant to certain diseases. Obviously we don't see differences like this when it comes to cognitive ability though.