skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often see it used ironically in the United States (for instance, to refer to a large charitable donation with precise instructions on how the money can be used -- surely for the good of the recipient!).
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...
Memory usage.

I know everyone says Chrome is a memory hog, but for me Firefox turned out to be even worse. It kept crashing with the same tabs Chrome was running with ease.
Dunno, sorry, I heard about it from a Japanese person.
Business Insider seems to have mangled the SCMP article they quote as the source: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3012702/huawei-re...

Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that assembles handsets products for many phone brands including Apple and Xiaomi, has stopped several production lines for Huawei phones in recent days as the Shenzhen company reduced orders for new phones, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named as the information is private.

I assume each model is made on more than one production line in parallel, so the quote above seems to imply that production didn't stop completely, but capacity was reduced.
So, 99% of the time to need to be more verbose to handle the 1% case? I’d rather wrap the duplicate code in a function and call it in each instance.
The tone of your response is enough to tell me what i am dealing with.

Basically noone should trust you with anything critical (privacy, health, security), which is funny, because that is like 98% of software. Good to know.

Banks do mistake: micro scale: errors in transfers, account closures for wrong reason, identity theft related problems; on a macro scale: exchanges going down, large scale bank going offline nationwide.

I am wary of people that claims they are against bugs. It happens, get over it
VW to Rework $56B Battery Push on Samsung Deal Risk
Yes. Because of the language safety. This is a feature, and everyone that has written “malloc” and read about rust understands where it comes from. “Lisp --> better browser” is not so immediate.

Re. Pypy, the advantage of “the language you like written in the language you like” is also pretty immediate.

My point being, dont leave the target of the message do the work of researching and understanding. Just selling the language is normally not enough.
Humans have figured out some neat tricks to create hospitable boundary conditions where there were non, e.g. moving water, heat, and themselves around, but so have other organisms. But by definition, they are all subject to “natural population dynamics”, such as the sun going supernova, an asteroid hitting the earth, earth’s temperature rising a few degrees.

Also, I would bet long term survival success (very long term) under various environmental changes to organisms such as water bears over humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Unless we figure out cheap space travel and water production in the next few hundred years.
Tortoises rule on this isolated island
I personally think google's inability to move past the their search and advertising business model is because of their workforce and the incentives to get promoted within the company. Blind hiring of programmers based on algorithmic questions and blind promotion of people for launching new and often poorly designed products has crippled the company.
I remember when this was originally posted, and I am still super impressed with him making his own transformers.
AF447 is fascinating for other reasons as well - on Airbus it is possible for two pilots to provide directly opposite control inputs because there is no mechanical linkage between the sidesticks, unlike on yokes in most other airplanes. It does produce a warning (dual input) but it is not tactile - you cannot feel what the other crew member is doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armavia_Flight_967
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F5bRxTIn24

A pretty extreme UX issue.
I don't understand. I start a company and run it for a year. Then I hire a developer. 3 months later, that developer owns 16% of the company?
In this case it's the opposite. We are sawing off the branch we are sitting on. It's not that we are expanding, we are shrinking the boundary conditions!
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I realize your comment says you’ve already switched back, but should you ever try Firefox again most of these can be tweaked directly from about:config
I'm sure it's how some people are thinking but there are other reasons you might want to self publish even if you take money 100% out of the equation.

- As someone else noted, you can put free eBooks online. If you're writing a book for visibility, being able to distribute free copies (or customized versions of free copies) might be a benefit.

- You don't need to conform to publishing industry length standards. If 75 pages cover the topic, you get most of the benefit of publishing "a regular book" for a lot less effort.

- You're on no one's deadline but your own. This has pros and cons but does let you better work a book around life, work, and other projects.

- The style, format, etc. is all up to you. Again, pros and cons.

I have made (a bit) more money with publishers than self-publishing. I'm also not sure if I'd go with a publisher again barring a strong reason to do so.
Basically the issue is, someone can craft a URL that when you visit it it will allow the execution of arbitrary Lisp code on your machine- a huge problem. The likelihood of someone setting up such a website/link is low, but full disclosure is the policy we've decided to adopt.
Lease the equity (and associated rights) instead of selling it, and include the decay schedule in the contract... Seems fine to me?
> After a year or so of trial and error, we have pretty much stopped using reduce

I see Reduce (along with recursion itself) as the equivalent of a "low-level" construct in functional programming.

It is a great building block for other functions like sum/product, and even those demonstrated in the article, but not something that programmers should be using everyday.

I think it's very appropriate to have a rule to only use reduce (and recursion too!) inside "utility" libraries.
Well, thank you for putting people in boxes.

One can have a considered opinion and still think that playing the "race card" is despicable.

Try not to be so single-minded.
Despite agreeing with your latter points, there's a reason why shrapnel damage is comparably serious.

Although most people who did some porn are most likely not proffesionals, most porn (by volume) is done by people who might even consider your finding part of their CV. So going by sheer numbers alone, there might be so much more cases of false positives. Now, even if it becomes terribly obvious how inaccurate it is, I don't think that matters much when it comes to weaponising it, because people are easily fooled or don't care. As long as you kind find a vid of a girl that looks just like Clara from accounting, you can spread it as a false rumor. Or not even claim it's her; it's just as embarrassing. And that's even assuming you could tell them appart, because the seed of doubt extends the problem to people who didn't even do porn.

For comparison think of deepfakes. Everybody knows it's not actually Emma Watson, but I bet she isn't particularly happy about it.
Agree completely for Android. I've used Focus since it came out and set as primary browser because it is so light. It works great from Materialistic (HN Reader) and Reddit App or for one time website browsing. It also allows opening in Firefox or chrome if site is too broken though that is usually ad or captcha related.

I setup DNS66 easily and that helped with some ad heavy apps as well. Only issue is it cannot be used with actual VPNs.

I open Firefox manually if I want a heavier browser with tabs and ublock or umatrix but focus is usually first.
You're commenting on such an investigation. As for the try-and-evaluate method of matching antidepressants to patients, that is the best medicine has to offer right now. There's not a better way that they're choosing not to use, and the drugs do have measurable, significant benefits for patients once they find one or more that's effective for them. The "supposed chemical imbalance is not being measured" because that's more a figure of speech than a scientific theory, and there is no practical way to measure it and correlate it to mood imbalance, depression or other symptoms. What alternative do you propose?
A New Segmented Virus Associated with Human Febrile Illness in China
Yes, Kotlin as gateway drug into JetBrains products.

For example, the graphical debugger for Kotlin/Native is only available in Clion.

There is even a statement in that regard.
Surveys indicate you’re in the minority. Most people don’t enjoy their job, or want to work less.

We’re long overdue to move past “maximizing employment” at an economic policy level (looking at you US Federal Reserve).
Disabling JS for the site seems to work for me.
how is it that boeing still has not admitted fault? i guess they bet to get out through a loophole in the investigation result; investigation that they are part of i assume? something like "it was 1% pilot error" is enough to make a pr campaign from.
Amazon will reportedly fall under antitrust oversight from the FTC
The easy solution to this is to create a culture of using powerful tools, but requiring REALLY good reasons to go far to their edges in terms of metaprogramming.

It's not that much harder to enforce than it is to enforce conventions in less powerful languages, and the convenience of working in a well-designed language is so nice.
You underestimate the depth of poverty for some people. When you are living under a trash-heap as your home, a hundred dollars is a fortune fit for a king.
We do not maintain the AUR package. None of us use Arch. Libfixposix is a new dependency released a few days ago, we just updated the documentation.

Feel free to add new keybindings in your init.lisp file :)
Its just as hackable as Emacs :)
Five Eyes network, plus more informal relations with various European intelligence agencies. Not surprising or hard to see that the US wants to keep a strategic rival out.
Economic refugees don't have it good either. Starving and dying from disease isn't easy.
> All of this "debate" is pretty absurd.

Your attempt to crudely quantify something as vague as "superiority" of something as complex as a browser is far more absurd.

> Almost everybody seems to consider chromium in the debate as a proprietary software owned by Google.

For many intents and purposes chromium _is_ proprietary by sheer mass of code, if you don't think so, go and fork it by all means.

> Let's be clear, when you look at the technical, chromium is a far superior browser. Chromium has far more active devs, far more features (look at caniuse.com) and has almost systematically better performance. And it has many others kinds of advantages. All of the stated advantages are sufficent to consider chromium as the best browser.

You have a terribly one dimensional view of browsers, do you still measure your CPU performance in Hz? Browsers are extremely complex, chromium does many things better than FireFox and FireFox does many things better than chrome (even from a purely technical perspective ignoring "user" issues as this one).
"new object is created in each iteration"

Not just created, but properties are being populated one by one.

"can be garbage collected"

And what do you think is computational complexity of garbage collector?

Yes, memory allocation in JS (GCable environment) is cheap. But garbage collection per se is not, it is at least O(N) complex.
> FF gaining back a solid amount of market share is critical for the browser ecosystem in the future.

But firefox has shown no indication of gaining marketshare. I'd reckon that a large amount of firefox's current marketshare are people who had pre-Quantum extentions that were critical to their workflow, and who are now using an outdated browser version. One big vulnerability or generally adopted new feature would probably knock a third off even the 5-10% share they currently have.

Firefox's share is so small that the other two-thirds is probably evenly split between google-haters, a constant turnover of people just trying it out for a month or two before going back to Chrome, and people who use Chrome for most of their browsing and switch to Firefox for porn because they are afraid google is watching them.

When firefox was at 40% of the market and shrinking, they somehow decided that their problem was that they didn't look like a cheap knockoff, drop-in replacement for their competitor. They succeeded in making themselves totally disposable.

IMO, their only hope is and has always been to strip their browser down to a virtually featureless embeddable UI component, implement the rest of the current features as a core curated package of plugins against an API that all developers have equal access to, adopt all community-developed plugins that reach a certain usage level, and add a rating system for plugins that communicates the level of mozilla's involvement, e.g. gold for in-house, green for having employees intimately involved with the code, yellow for periodically reviewed by mozilla, red for never reviewed by mozilla, and flashing red for never reviewed by mozilla, has had complaints, and has not responded or been contacted by mozilla.

Other vendors will end up putting together different core suites, and will offer their own ratings, ultimately spawning 5-10 major concurrent firefox versions and swamping chrome out of existence. Through being able to lay off much of the reviewing work to outside vendors, firefox developers can concentrate all of their efforts on streamlining the core, educational outreach about the internet and the web, and lawsuits against the monopolists for adding anti-features to their sites targeted to ruin the user experience on specific browsers.

Instead, firefox has settled into being the token opposition party in a dictatorship that just exists to make sure that there's another name on the ballot come election time, and the dictator only gets 96% of the vote instead of 100%.
In the context of an administrative search at the airport, security guards can already just search whomever. Arguably, the machines are able to clear ~50% of travelers and exempt them from a more intrusive search.
> Noblesse oblige, while seeming to impose on the nobility a duty to behave nobly, conveniently provides the aristocracy with an apparent justification for their privilege.

So too with meritocracy:

If meritocrats believe, as more and more of them are encouraged to, that their advancement comes from their own merits, they can feel they deserve whatever they can get.

They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism. The newcomers can actually believe they have morality on their side.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

Either justification is cognitive dissonance at work as humans try to rationalize injustice. At least a meritocratic system theoretically provides more people access to riches.
Transgenic Metarhizium kills mosquitoes in malaria-endemic Burkina Faso region
Yes, it is akin to randomly trying Game Genie codes.
U.S. now seeking social media details from most visa applicants
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Also compare to some European countries, like the Czech Republic, where all the top universities are free of charge.

Training for a trade job is free of charge, too.

(Paid by the government.)

I got my education there and later joined a Silicon Valley company as an engineer.
Sure, but that doesn't mean any of what's in the anthem is in the citizens' national conscience. Not many other countries have the equivalent of the American Civil religion...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion
> Unless your website is under targeted attack just putting "2+3" on a image will block 99.9% of all bots.

Absolutely.

I did exactly that with a PHP script which generated images with the GD library.

It definitively worked for me.
If you think merely rebranding something will make it more acceptable, then perhaps you've found the real reason people don't like Perl: it is a language that appears to be built around the superficial. Like someone who takes 30 mins crafting their bed hair in an effort to prove they don't care about appearances.
I would think the manager would have a bigger picture view of the value added, but it probably varies with particular cases.
Two pharmacists sentenced for roles in 2012 meningitis outbreak
It's a great opportunity for the rest of the world to stop leaning on American companies and American technology. It would be wonderful for a European and/or an Asian alternative to Android to emerge.
Look at some of the people funding him and ask yourself what their motivation is. It maybe isn't that dumb, at least if your motivation is to destroy confidence in democracy as a system and eventually balkanise the US so it can be openly ruled by princelings. He is pretty good for that.
‘Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Work’ Says New Prime Example of Fake News
Not really, thawing permafrost is unsuitable for building any modern infrastructure. It settles down very unevenly, often sinks catastrophically.
James Webb Telescope Passes Final Thermal Vacuum Test
You understand it perfectly and it's as dumb as it sounds.
Are you giving VC funding for this?
> Is this company for real?

> Lots of executives. Lots of advisors. High powered board. No demo. First prototype due this month.

> Uh oh.

It's like reading Bad Blood in real time.
This makes me think of "Skin in the Game" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I think noblesse oblige arises naturally when powerful people have skin in the game, and it doesn't arise at all when they do not.

Arguably, while globalism may have some upsides, one of its biggest downsides is that the most powerful people have very little skin in the game at all.
Huawei is closely associated with the Chinese government. The Chinese government threatens democracies and good people everywhere with its concentration camps.

Did Europe forget its concentration camps?
Avoiding the use of reduce/fold is a good thing even in teams with more experience in functional programming.

The problem is not reduce itself, it's the code that uses it.
Segmentation Is All You Need
Armed individuals, enabled by the Second Amendment, is largely the reason mass shootings are not a daily occurrence. There's no mutual exclusivity between privacy and a natural right to defend oneself.
Time variation of Jupiter’s internal magnetic field and zonal wind advection
I finally stopped hiding my contempt for this sort of hiring process.

The massive majority of positions out there are perfectly fine with a generalist that doesn't have photographic memory of their old college algorithms book but can code their way out of a variety of bag materials.

Maybe one day AIs will replace that level of software engineering, but we're still far away.
I'm more focusing on this section of the article where the legal source says 2 interesting things:

"just collecting the data is illegal if the women didn’t consent, according to Börge Seeger, a data protection expert and partner at German law firm Neuwerk. These laws apply to any information from EU residents, so they would have held even if the programmer weren’t living in the EU."

#1 the programmer is implicated (it's possible this is in the context of "the programmer" also being "user in Europe")
#2 even if they weren't living in the EU

#2 is the particularly interesting one and also opens up the general question of "what happens if <external group> collects data but does not handle monetary transactions in Europe or deal with money abroad". GPDR is very much written around how to wrangle companies in financially, what if it's not a company?
I think Google may be about to find that a non trivial number of people share that last sentiment.
> With that, how can we distribute ownership of a company to the many, instead of the few? How can we cement worker power and ownership for decades to come?

Anyone interested in this should check out an existing model that's been going for decades already: a workers co-op. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

Having read some of the comments here; I can guess a lot of the objections and honestly the answer to most of them is going to be "Yes, that's the point". It's a totally different model. It's not for everyone and that's fine.

But they come with many advantages (disadvantages too, to be honest, but doesn't everything?). Do google it and spend some time reading up on it if your interested in this question.
>Project Fi has had the best support of all 8 cell phone carriers I've ever used...

There are many reports of Project Fi having excellent support that turned into total horror when Project Fi ended and was replaced by Google Fi. They frequently show up here on HN, they often involve GFi charging people money for GFi errors, and they nearly always center around the fact that the service has only the thinnest vernier of front-line support followed by forced cancellation. The only effective next step anyone has been able to demonstrate is ‘Internet shaming’.

This all makes me sad, as I was hoping to transition to the service late last year. I’m still hoping that things improve eventually, but the trend seems ever downward.
The standards are open. The problem is that browsers don't implement them 100% the same and they add in their own features. Settling on a single implementation fixes that issue. Different browsers can compete based on ancillary features like Linux distros do.
Not sure of your meaning of "Linux void of polished apps." Do you mean commercial apps running natively on linux?

FWIW, I've been running Linux as my primary desktop through 4 companies and 20+ years thus far. I'm not at a loss for applications, native or hosted, that I use in my day to day work.

I'm actually quite happy that I no longer need to worry about installing Microsoft office (current day job uses this suite). Online works great, and when offline, libreoffice 6+ allows me to continue to work with the same docs.

Prior to this, Google docs worked perfectly fine for $dayjob-1, and worked perfectly well across Linux, Mac, Android, so I didn't have any significant issues with it.

Really, Linux is a fine desktop. Seems to be about 2x more common accessing my blog than Mac, and about 1/2 that of windows. I can't imagine all of those are server users. Must be some polished and usable desktop apps in the mix to be able to see that.
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While most comments touch on the developer issue, the significant performance gain deserves more discussion. I guess Java's static type, pragmatic mutability with less garbage produced, and efficient parallelism give substantial boost to performance.

It would be interesting to see what the upcoming blogs have to say about the performance gain.
Ask HN: Do startups hire overseas candidates?
How often do startups (YC or otherwise) hire from outside the US?

I know the H1B process is tough and expensive. What if the candidate was willing to pay the attorney cost and try to get the visa with little help from the company? It will be a good show of faith as well.

Or is it that most foreign talent isn't as good as those in the Valley/US?

Also, what about remote work; are most startups averse to this arrangement or there are so many remote candidates that getting selected is unlikely?
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