skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Since 99% of Mg is intracellular, serum Mg testing of the remaining 1% found in serum will produce misleading results (Mann and Truswell, 2002) and it should not be used in future research."

Elsewhere in the article they reference testing being of "negative utility"
I am not an ultra PC tech startup fantron and I found your comment hilarious. Keep striking, rattlesnakedave!
> I was very disheartened to see the Linux community's and other GPL projects' attitude to enforcement actions brought by individuals.

Can you share some examples of what's happened that's disheartening? I'm assuming based on context that the reaction to individuals enforcing GPL violations have been negative, which I would agree is disheartening. If you don't enforce the terms, the terms are valueless, and you might as well just use a more permissive license.
Everything you say sounds extremely reasonable... but still, there are plenty of stories (mostly online, so they might not actually be true) of people hiring a person that aces (mostly non-technical) interviews only to show absolutely 0 actual technical skills on the job.
> that only converted 'simple' numbers, i.e. no scientific notation, only one (fixed) decimal separator, etc. [...] Anyway this simple implementation was ~10 times faster

What about numbers with a large order of magnitude? e.g 1e234. Is making very long strings still faster than switching to e notation?
All that, plus high "values" (prices) make them convenient objects for money-laundering
People use tabs as bookmarks and as history and back button. Users want bookmarks and history and the back button, but apparently the tab feature is better at this than the actual features.

Maybe browsers should embrace this instead of fighting it. Make tabs better suited as history and bookmarks. Users reflexively middle click and then go to that tab because they don't want to lose the page. The problem is that you lose the pages that you visited in the first place. Maybe the default behaviour of a link shouldn't be to navigate away from the current page and hide the current page behind the back button (where you'll eventually struggle to get back to it) or in history (which also isn't easy to get back to).

Maybe the default behaviour of clicking a link should be to open a new tab, so to speak, but to focus it while attaching it as a child to the tab it came from, thus creating a tree of history. Closing a tab just means hiding that part of history. Viewing history is just unhiding those closed tabs. Bookmarking is just reorganising that tree of tabs.
I haven’t tried to install VB6, but you said yourself that it is getting harder every year to install the IDE. What happens when you can no longer install the IDE?
Would be really cool to use this to predictably build images for booting from PXE.
I remember GameMaker from the 80s on the Apple ][e!

Also had Adventure Construction Set by EA (before they went all sports-crazy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set

I also had a cracked copy of Pinball Construction Set too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set
I've had interviews start very positively with such an approach of questions, but then "just to be thorough" I have them code something simple on the whiteboard and they completely fail.

Some of them couldn't even get nested for loops to work correctly.

If you're hiring someone to write code for you, you need to have them write code in the interview. There's no substitute for it.

Obviously, you can improve the experience - let them bring their own laptop and code on it, no problem.
What is link building supposed to be?
Damn I take tums after every meal and 5 pills of chelated magnesium throughout the day...
We don’t “look away”, we grant large mammals a huge degree of respect. They are just old foes in a war we resoundingly won. Allowing them a degree of parity without restarting the conflict, is just challenging.
I first read about magnesium supplements in a random Hacker News comment a year ago. Taking them cured my insomnia. If anyone thinks they might benefit from Mg, I definitely encourage you to do the research.
Valid point. I couldn't easily find data on that, though I do think that at a certain point cars became one of those things you find a way to afford (even if you don't have a lot of money) because of how useful they are if you live in a rural area.
I live in a neighborhood of Washington, DC, where it is clear that old streams have been buried. Buildings, roads, and sidewalks shed water that would have gone into the ground, and storm drains carry a lot of it off. But you can see houses that have settled, almost certainly because they are where a stream was filled. And a neighbor found a sinkhole under his driveway some years ago, probably from an old stream.

One can sometimes gauge where the streams were by the spacing and ages of the houses.
All programming languages can be reduced to an abstract syntax tree as the canonical ("equivalent") representation of a program, with visual and textual views. I'm sure there are prior examples - HyperCard, Max/MSP, ..

Edit: Gotta say, I love x3 the design/aesthetic/presentation of the Luna language.
My view is: if you don’t care what people do with your software and just want anyone who finds it useful to use it, including anyone from Stallman-esque ideologues to cogs in the FAANG machine and everyone in between, then use BSD, MIT or similar.

If you care about “free software” as an ideological movement and only want to give your software to people who are, in exchange, willing to help advance it, then use copyleft.

I am sure that some copyleft fans will have different interpretations or motivations. I’m just giving mine :)

(This all applies to contributions done in an individual’s free time. Companies contributing to open source for strategic reasons might think about these decisions in different terms).
Normally the language for doing this kind of system building would be .. Bourne shell. Or Perl/Python.
The title of the article suggests that Siri is not privacy-minded, but that is definitely not true. Having more choice in virtual assistants would be great though. And, if it's good, hopefully it will not go the way of Viv.
Wasn't trying to be confrontational, advice from the other side of the table is always appreciated. :)

And you're right. 9/10 times it'll just be a fizzbuzz proxy and not worth the risk of a direct question.
That heat is not wasted if you live in a place that has seasons. I’d like to see EVs with a petrol burning heating system that could provide cabin and battery heat during winter. Many gas stations sell untaxed kerosene that I think could be used because it’s for heating, not motor fuel.
I also have one near me. I don't find it intrusive or annoying, and while it may get in a customer's way now and then I do not consider it dangerous in the least. I often find it sitting in front of a spill of some sort in produce trying to page a worker to come clean whatever it is.
Surely you can target adverts based off of searched terms (as in immediate, not past), current site(eg: the article and not the reader).

Beyond that you get into grey territory, and most of the time down right predatory.

I can run a campaign based on location of search and keywords, that's fine for me. I don't need the user user data. That information is non specific in relation to an actual user. What excuse does anyone have for needing a users history?
Company use leetcode style because is not useless. it make the interview process more streamlined, scalable and predictable.

For the me interviewee, it also make the interview process more streamlined, scalable and predictable. I practice once and I can use it for many other company, thus save my time.
Hi Imglorp!

Simply use a standard JavaScript/WebAssembly/WebGL/Canvas/HTML based web browser as the window system itself! And use WebSocket/SocketIO/RTP/HTTP instead of the X-Windows or VNC protocols.

Microsoft kinda-sorta did a half-assed inside-out version of that with Active Desktop, but Internet Explorer wasn't powerful or stable enough to do it right, and it didn't eliminate and replace the whole Win32 / MFC layer, which misses the main point.

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

There was recently this discussion about a browser based Mac window manager project (now offline), and there have been others like it (Slate), but the ideal goal is to completely eliminate the underlying window system and just use pure open web technologies directly on the metal:

Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers (sephware.com):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794928

Site archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190101121003/https://sephware....

Comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18797587

>I was also quite inspired by Slate. Unfortunately there hasn't been any activity with it for about 5 years or so. It's great you're picking up the mantel and running with it, because the essential idea is great!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18797818

>Here are some other interesting things related to scriptable window management and accessibility to check out:
This is (kind of) fine if you’re a well known company with thousands of applicants, but my experience so far has been that finding qualified candidates in the first place has always been the hard bit. I can’t imagine throwing arbitrary hurdles in the way of getting good people into interviews and talking to them!
Hm. I spoke with Amazon (AWS) recently (haven't interviewed yet), and they made the express point that if I were to accept an interview that I should brush up on my algos and HackerRank questions because they loved HackerRank and would surely use a series of those-style problems throughout the interview process.

My last in-depth interview was a take-home/collaborative project (paid) for a smaller company here in Canada. It was a great experience. So good on you.
I remember when Opera (around version 4 or 5) was known as "The Tabbed Browser".
The Gig-Work Bill That Has Uber and Lyft Spooked
The actual question involved:

> So basically it was a variation of the exact change problem (I realized afterwards). You had to validate a string of size n. 1 chunk of 8 characters could have 1 format, 1 chunk of 16 characters another, and 1 chunk of 24 characters another. You essentially had to determine if the string was valid. So in other words, find a combination of these sizes in which the string could be validated. I had 30 minutes

> It can be a string of size n. It needs to form a valid combo of 8, 16, and 24 char strings - each of which have an expected format. Result is T or F

This sounds like a pretty basic parsing problem to me, not dynamic programming, and likely to be a regular language. There’s a standard tool for this sort of thing, a “regular expression”. Not recognizing this much is a huge red flag for any kind of systems/integration role, like DevOps.

The answer here is just matching against this regex, with “fmt1”, “fmt2”, and “fmt3” replaced by regular expressions for the different packet formats:

^(fmt1|fmt2|fmt3)*$
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So, there are still reactors getting built in other parts of the world

The map shows three currently under construction in the United States, which is more than any other country with under a billion people.
Entropic is about the registry, not the CLI.
I think the original statement is defensible. Many of the original OT papers proposed algorithms that have since been shown not to converge in particular cases (especially the TP2 puzzle). It took a while for the fog to clear, in part because TP2 requires concurrent edits from 3 peers.

I also highly recommend the talk "CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency"[0] from Martin Kleppmann, which I believe surveys the landscape in as clear and accessible a manner as I've seen; much of the literature is pretty dense.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NULPSiOGw
I propose that this is primarily a failure to invent ways to use surplus electricity in places with poor infrastructure.
Custom in-app keyboard for crypto traders created by BitBay
Russia used social media to keep EU voters at home, report finds
Well. The benefits (monitoring, telemetry/observability) are nice enough that I might think about running it on k8s in prod. But only after sufficient number of dev/staging clusters have been sacrificed.
Unlike a centralized ledger, a distributed ledger could not exist without cryptography.
I'm not involved in those communities. Do they generally dislike when people go after individuals legally for violating the license?
You seem to be extrapolating that since refined grains do not contain Mg, no foods do. This is not the case. OP can eat other foods instead of processed grains to obtain Mg.
Did you test your magnesium level by blood tests? Less than 1% of magnesium (AFAIR) is stored in blood and its level can fluctuate a lot depending on your body state.

Correlation is not causation but what HN readers should remember is that most researchers are aware of that fact.

So yes, I'm pretty sure you've missed it among those 350 pages, especially given that results of treatment are mentioned in the abstract.
"Incendiary" is relative to tribal group though. Sure the Venn-diagram overlaps a tiny bit in the middle but for the most part what the far left and the far right get angry about is different.

Back to advertising potential, imagine some 10sec no-context dashcam video of some racially ambiguous dude who allegedly did something getting run down by a cop car. Whether an ad for a Ford Explorer is appropriate in that context depends totally on the tribe viewing the video.
It's working for me using Steam Play (Proton 4.2-7) on Xubuntu 19.04.
I use it, but not often enough to make a real dent, my issue is that it isn't integrated into the browser, it's a feature that with some UI tweaks could really make everyone a poweruser, the concept itself is powerful but the un-extensibility of chrome (and browsers in general) holds it back from being a true first party app.
> suggestions and observations that I will address to the author that I hope is seeing this

The author's site has a contact page (http://web.evanchen.cc/contact.html), you could send them your feedback directly.
Everything is saved as plaintext, but it is not meant to be readable really. here's an excerpt from some of my code.

#N canvas 340 73 884 380 10;
#N canvas 0 0 1362 686 sendchord 0;
#X msg 241 135 60;
#X msg 240 167 64;
#X msg 241 200 67;
#X obj 191 173 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144
-1 -1;
#X obj 283 450 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144
-1 -1;
When interviewing people I usually push until I get the candidate to answer "I don't know" on SOMETHING, just to see if they can do it. Not everyone can, and a lot of people will happily come up with a technical word salad to hide their perfectly understandable ignorance on some obscure technical problem I just came up with. That way you get to hear how they ask technical questions. Asking questions is a valuable (and largely separate) skill too.

It's important to have someone who is able to stop and ask for help instead of going further down a blind alley. I've found it filters out a lot of the know it all types who never mange to get anything done.

I doubt that was the intent of the OP's interviewer, but you never know.
First, I'm not a lawyer, but I've always seen the MIT license as being more "free", whereas the GPL is more "fair". Both licenses are pretty much the same for users of the code. Where they differ is that the MIT license gives you the freedom to make an awesome change to the free code you were given, and add it to your closed source application with no obligation to give those enhancements you made to the code to anyone else. This is more "free". You made the enhancements, why shouldn't you keep them for yourself? It's not unethical since the developer chose that license knowing what it entailed, but it's just less "fair". The GPL is all about making sure that those awesome changes you made can be used by others so that they can make other awesome changes to the code. You were given free code that benefited you, so you should pass on any changes you made to the code to others so they can also benefit from it. And so on. That's my basic understanding of the differences, anyway.

I personally prefer the GPL way, but I have yet to use either license on code I've written.
For MP work in Python, gmpy2 - https://pypi.org/project/gmpy2/ comes with a much better selection of MP functions, backed by MPFR, MPC.

Also, the buit-in Decimal class is horribly slow by comparison to gmpy2.
Sorry I was under the impression copyleft meant that commercial users must purchase a license and normal users could use it for free. Is this what CockroachBD just did?
E3: Entailment-Driven Extracting and Editing for Conversational Machine Reading
Hyundai is working on fuel cell cars as well:

https://www.electrive.com/2019/06/05/hyundai-to-sell-their-f...
Capitalism is the most selfless economic system. It’s predicated on providing others with things they want at a price they are willing to pay for it. If you aren’t making a product or providing a service that others value, you do not succeed. Socialists like to frame capitalism as selfish, however, it’s exactly the opposite, you must provide value to others in order to succeed. The downvotes of your comment (and the inevitable downvotes for this one,) suggest that there is a fundamentally misunderstanding of capitalism. Capitalism requires that it’s participants provide value. Capitalism rewards providing others with things they want. When markets are distorted, often by government mis-regulation, it is then that capitalism struggles; it is then that the goal becomes not one if providing people with what they want and are willing to pay for, but one of providing government with what government decides what people should want.
Honestly, I pass on companies that do leetcode, I'm simply not going to do it.

In my day to day I am working on mission critical applications, creating web applications that rely on legacy databases, writing SQL SPs. I'm decent considering my short career, i try to improve on every previous project. However, when I go home I'm not wasting my time grinding leetcode, even though I was top of every class in college, algorithms, data structures, theory of computation and so on. I'm competent and pick up new stuff very easily. I tell recruiters I will pass on an interview if they are doing leetcode/hackerrank. I'm okay to solve some coding problems that they have day to day, talk about architecture/design, talk about what I'm good at and where I want to improve. I also wish other people would stop grinding leetcode and that everyone was realistic about the job at hand. Most developers won't be writing the most efficient code, but start easy and refactor if certain part of the application becomes a bottleneck.
On the same vain, there is: https://github.com/vmware/vic a docker engine for esx/vsphere.

Note work at VMware but not on this project.
Breaks in the Perfect Symmetry of the Universe Could Show Completely New Physics
What? If you were to take the standpoint of an American that desired emulating other first world countries, how would that standpoint not be in favor of further healthcare regulation and government involvement? Considering the majority of other first world countries have heavily socialized healthcare systems or universal healthcare?
Wikipedia states both, operation for profit and private ownership, as defining characteristics:

"Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit."

Classically free software works more like a gift economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

No capitalist society ever worked without a state that enforces rules and social constructs (such as private property or contracts).

Simple example of how simply talking about (some abstract notion of) freedom misses this: A gift based (ideas) economy could work without a state enforcing copyright. A capitalist (ideas) economy requires a state enforcing copyright.
In Go "Numeric constants represent exact values of arbitrary precision"

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constants
Deregulation is free until something goes wrong. The estimated $187bn cleanup cost of Fukushima is certainly very far from free.
> and the browser has no way to account for changes that have been made server-side in the meantime

It doesn't matter. Store and index what I read. Content could be destroyed and altered in the server.
There's a category error in treating commons as property.

Even though Wikipedia copyright is nominally owned by the respective writer of each individual edit, the fact that it's licensed as copyleft allow anyone to treat it as a public good an benefit from something that you don't own.

See a framework like the Universal Basic Assets (UBA)[1] manifesto: it distinguishes between Private assets, Public assets, and Open assets - each having different roles and expectations in relation to society and how each resource can be exploited.

Trying to reduce everything to XIX century economical and political concepts is limiting in terms of discourse; we have acquired much better understanding of society-wide dynamics since then.

[1] http://www.iftf.org/uba/
You may be confusing the GPL with the Creative Commons "non-commercial" restriction. (I do find the latter a bit confusing myself.)
Are spills so common in grocery stores that this is really worthwhile? Sure, I've seen spills, and staff cleaning them up; I've even reported a spill to staff when it didn't seem to have been noticed yet. But it's hardly an everyday occurrence, in my experience.
If the US hadn't stopped building nuclear

The map shows three facilities under construction. I'm not sure that counts as "stopped."
Slip & fall claims are a big liability for stores like Stop & Shop. One avoided per year pays for Marty.
Sure. I'll agree with your definition then!

*Ah, what the fork! I just realized you're a GIMPer. You think that thing I said about the 1998 drama is what inferiorhuman was referencing?
You're doing the Lord's work reustle.

Really irked that they bill themselves as a solution in the public safety (emergency response) space while objectively being detrimental in that domain.

There are better services out there.
I really like sentry, but I'm sad that the URL scheme changed (from sentry.io/<org name>/<project name>/ to sentry.io/organizations/<org>/issues/?project=<meaningless int>)
>Capitalism is about enriching yourself - not enriching your users and certainly not enriching society.

Is all capitalism bad? I bought Alfred, Fantastical, Little Snitch and Better Touch Tool. I certainly feel my life has been enriched because of those tools. Does all enrichment have to be direct and linked, by say, bartering code or work? Such a binary representation of ideologies very conveniently forgets that humans operate on shades of gray. Crony capitalists need to be dealt with but that doesn't imply the system itself is shit. Even in a socialist system, the power gets concentrated somewhere and if you try to implement a flat organisation, a lot of projects slow to a crawl because everyone has different needs and expectations. And if I'm enriched, isn't the society also enriched? If paid software improves my productivity so that I can focus on more important tasks that help improve society, isn't that an indirect benefit? Does all "enrichment" have to be direct, linkable and traceable?
The iPhone 11 Will 'Struggle' and Be a Yawner, Analyst Says
According to the FAQ, the snap you get from uappexplorer.com is actually from Canonical's central app store.

https://uappexplorer.com/faq

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