skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will respond to this only because I've heard it before. That view is impossible to justify because

a. Slavery is an evil, repulsive act, and if it's linked to capitalism, then that will (for good reason) lead to opposition to capitalism.

b. While it was economically good for some, it was bad for others, and you can't write down a sensible economic model in which ownership of others leads to an efficient outcome.

That's all I'm going to say about this crazy claim in an attempt to prevent its misuse.
I live here (Rogers, AR), it's fine. May was rough though, with the crazy weather. The area is growing substantially. Heck, we're getting a Top Golf!

I love the low cost of living; coming from D.C. and its crazy housing situation, it's a breath of fresh air (figuratively and literally).
Dude looks pretty damn thin for a T2D. Yes, thin people can get T2D but it's not common. Hope he had his antibodies checked.
The actual effort of writing one line of code in the specific language doesn’t mention in the article.
Write one line of rust is extremely difficult than one line of Python, or even C++.
I think it's an attack in the network/technical sense but not the strategic sense. There's a bit of a conflation of terms here because there are at least two layers to any operation like this; the system intrusion itself, and using the access to achieve some kind of real world objective. Militarily or strategically, this would just be something like reconnaissance and preparation, I think (I know almost nothing about militaries though). So it's a system attack but not an "attack-attack".
Maybe not a developer job, but for jobs that actually require public presentations asking candidates to give a talk on some topic seems very reasonable. And, yeah, if they fumbled through it that would be mark down if that's something they'll do as a job.

Writing may be more important, but presentation skills are absolutely important for some jobs involving communications.
Texas demographics are changing. I don't know if they would be able to add eight right senators now, and definitely not in the future. Of course that may depend on a definion of right (right of center or right of Bernie) .
> dark mode is often billed as an accessibility feature—but the research hasn't been entirely conclusive. Mayr calls it an “open research question.”

It is absolutely an accessibility feature. It is critical for some types of vision impairments, and is also preferred by many people with dyslexia who are distracted by "white rivers" that appear in standard text (especially when formatted justified).

Calling this an "open research question" does a disservice to people who unquestionably benefit from and rely on dark modes.
Q. Where was the Lord?

A. Where is the Confederacy now?
I’m in some Slacks that have thousands of people all on the same page. It’s impressive and inspiring how the communication style and culture has developed and is enforced.
From it’s wiki:

“Of note is the story of his first wife, Arline, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She died while Feynman was working on the Manhattan Project; the book's title is taken from a question she often put to him when he seemed preoccupied with his colleagues' opinions about his work, which echoed his earlier words to her.”
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "that's basically just network maintenance" - could you explain?
"Everyone who builds a team of developers, and I do mean everyone, rapidly gets used to people turning up to interview who cannot actually program computers, even under the most generous definitions of the term."

I've started doing a small whiteboard coding exercise during interviews, and over the past couple of iterations it's devolved down to something simple...and I mean really simple. And I'm watching senior developers fail the test.

For example: I'm trying to fill a bootloader developer position so I get a couple of senior embedded developers to the table. Passed the screen, HR likes them, yadda yadda. Some even have U-boot experience. Should be easy, I think.

So I'll ask them to perform a simple bit-flipping exercise on the whiteboard. Nothing insanely tricky and it's usually something that any register-level developer should be able to blurt out without thinking twice about it. And they are choking on the question.

It's kind of freaking me out. Is the test that hard? Is the developer that inexperienced or distant from doing this kind of work even though they're applying for it?

What am I missing here?
I can still brute force your iTunes backup without a rate limit and distributed in Amazon GPU compute instances. Combine leaked pw databases with smart software (I use Elcomsoft), and you have a fair chance at getting in.
If you decide to approach people to find out about their business problems, they'll take you much more seriously if you already have some knowledge of their industry. They're not going to have confidence that you can solve (or even understand) their problems if you don't know the first thing about what they do.

I'd guess that every industry has its own specialized news sites (something like TechCrunch.com, but for bankers or civil engineers). You could try finding some of these on the web and reading them. You can also learn a lot about different industries by reading a good business paper, like the WSJ or the business section of the NY Times. There are also locally oriented news sources, like Crain’s New York Business.
All the data in a CSV is already strings.
I’ve been using BEM for about a week now and my first impression is that the readability of my code has improved a lot. It’s only a small project though.
Why would you consider changing what you're doing if you are healthy? I don't think your comment makes sense.
Don't bother, the echo chamber here is pretty bad
Thanks for taking the time to share all of this. Definitely something for me to review a few times and think about.

For me the argument for was: maintaining a component tree and a style tree is a non-start. Too much for me to keep sense of.

But admittedly I didnt think too much further than that.
Guessing it's related to people streaming on the Artifact section on Twitch. Basically, there was a popular streamer who would joke about how nobody was streaming the game, so people start streaming porn, Avengers: Endgame, etc, so they'd be at the top of the list of Artifact streams when the popular streamer looked at the streams. It lasted for a few days, with Twitch doing nothing about it. The lawsuit seems like they're trying to save face because they failed to do anything about it for way too long.

https://apptrigger.com/2019/05/28/artifact-twitch-channels-p...
Nationalistic flamewar is not allowed here. Please don't post like this regardless of how strongly you feel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah. It's unlikely to work.
In the event that there's a phase mismatch, I assume that gets physically transmitted back to the generating device? (Mode subject to type of device) Or am I over-trivializing it?

E.g., will an out of phase turbine have a physical resistance against it, as a consequence of the rest of the grid?
Garages – The New Affordable Houses?
Propaganda? You mean like CNN and Foxnews?

Good luck finding true independent and fair media.
The format is .import CSVFILE TABLENAME [0]. If TABLENAME already exists, it would use that schema. Otherwise it will all be TEXT data using the first row as column names. However, SQLite uses dynamic typing (they call it "type affinity") so it kind of doesn't matter.

I like SQLite a lot, but one of the funniest things about it is how they try to sell you that type affinity is a great thing [1] when really it's not at all what you want in 99% of RDBMS situations. There's a reason that everybody from MySQL and PostgreSQL to MS SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 use static typing.

[0]: https://sqlite.org/cli.html#csv_import

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
I like dark mode at night, but during the day I find that it makes my phone (iphone 7 plus) too reflective. I end up having to angle the phone in strange ways to be able to see what's on the screen.
Learn to Write a Bare Bones Operating System Kernel
> I don't know what is your motivation to use a throwaway account to publicly lie on this

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Commenters on HN must remain kind to one another (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), regardless of how wrong they think they are. They also must assume good faith.
We just went through a couple of outages in Venezuela. The first one was 5 days, the second one 3 days.

After day 2 you start getting worried because everything failed, including the water service (they've been badly maintained and they don't generate their own power) and cell phone service. Lots of already scarce food was lost because people had no way to refrigerate it. At least it made for some nice neighborhood cookouts were everyone cooked and shared their food in the street.

Getting in touch with my parents in another city was like sending messages in a bottle. I sent an SMS, once a day they moved to one of the few places where there was still cell phone service and replied.

Since the main issue that caused the huge outages hasn't been resolved yet, we still get daily power rationing. I'm sitting here in the dark typing, 4 hours so far without power.

Hope the situation in Argentina gets resolved quickly!
A back door to iOS has been found by Cellbrite
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, regardless of how frustrated you are by other comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Beautiful story. I have a daughter too who shows interest in technical areas and its my honor to help her reason about all the options available to her. Another daughter I have prefers more emotionally driven subject matter and again I'm just as proud and appreciate all that she will offer our world.
>How could someone with 10 years experience on their CV be unable to start a new project in their own editor

Said nobody with 10+ years of experience. Starting a new project in an editor is as obscure as changing the color scheme in your editor.
Lol there are no fair coverage period, you just choose to believe things that fit your political view
Are transformers like these standardized, or are they generally built as one-off customs for the specific site?

(I'm not an EE, so not sure how many variables one needs to contend with in grid-scale transformer design)
Reconstruction is where the US south shows their true colors in history. If there is any doubt in your mind about what the US Civil War was about, what happened in the years immediately following the Appomattox court house surrender should clear things up.

Please lookup Jim Crow laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws ,

"Lost Cause" history rewrite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
Even then, it’s sometimes hard to know how you’re supposed to be allocating that time.

Suppose the challenge is to scrape some movie reviews and cluster them. On the surface, this is fairly reasonable. If you’re familiar with some relevant concepts and libraries, it isn’t too hard to get something up and running. On the other hand, measuring document similarity is still an open research problem. Should I do something fancier than a bag-of-words representation? What about the clustering algorithm? Evaluation?

I should show some kind of result. Is a simple tSNE plot enough to cover “visualization experience required”, or do I need a GUI that lets people tweak hyperparameters?

Maybe this is a sanity check to make sure I can code, so I should focus on documentation and tests. Or maybe I should make the scaler incredibly robust and scalable, since they kept talking about Big Data?

This isn’t an insoluble problem. Companies just need to be very specific about what they expect and how it’s going to be evaluated. If the point is code quality or ML chops, come right out and say so.
I'm not qualified to comment on whether Earth will eventually end up looking like Venus, I'm just pointing out that in the short term there will be places that gain from climate change as well.
I don't think that people should gain rights when they ban together into a corporation. So perhaps some adjustment is necessary.

In some cases, this adjustment would necessitate increasing the rights of individuals.
Atari ST had a similar hires/hicontrast black-on-white designed for text display monitor available. If Commodore sold anything similar, I never saw it.
If you want a distraction-free writing environment, there are companies attempting to offer just that: https://getfreewrite.com/
I've been to mainland China recently, both rural and the fast changing cities like Shenzhen.

Chairman Mao is universally revered. No one ever questions his track record on economic growth was, even though the evidence is everywhere to see.

Similarly, censorship is rarely questioned.
I'm a freedom-focused user that prefers BSD licenses.
I'm from a similar area, I have a feeling you wouldn't consider it as nice if you were nonwhite, had a nonwhite SO, were LGBT, or got involved in the community outside the tech/corporate bubble (e.g. for kids). Or if you like more urban living. Or if you like more vibrant art/music communities. Or...

Of course some people like it and if they do there's a big COL disparity to take advantage of, but there are lots of reasons you might not want to live in a place like that.
Read their industry trade publications and go to their trade shows, that is the fastest way to understand some of the problems and industry is facing. There will be other problems an industry is facing that don't surface in those areas, the problems being discussed are the easiest ones to sell a solution.
Lol. I'm a computational material scientist, so take everything w/ a grain of salt.

My dad's a power (line protection) engineer, everything I know is from talking to him.
Half the members are elected directly as representatives of geographical constituencies, while the other half are elected to "functional constituencies" where voting is restricted to individuals working in certain professions and companies/organisations in certain industries.

The functional constituencies create an imbalance that favours the pro-Beijing side.
Second this support for Hong Kong Free Press, where I have been putting money where my mouth is.

You can judge for yourself from their reportings, especially related to the current protest.
A think a longer (but more clarifying) statement would be "slavery was the primary motivational reason for the War for the Confederates." Saying "the reason for the war" is already misleading because it assumes there was a reason than applied to both sides. On the contrary, the Union didn't conquer the South out of the goodness of their hearts because they were (mostly) fervent abolitionists. I think that's the misleading thing your summary implies.
Wow, what a disturbing read; that's so messed up. Thanks for sharing.
I naturally eat once a day most days. I don't call it "fasting 23 hours".

This is not an "extreme regime".
And of course they’re doing in a way that’s also reasonable. The HK law isn’t about political crimes... it just happens to be an extremely slippery slope and of course China wants that incremental movement towards total control.
There are times when the victors win by allowing the losers to write 90% of the story. Thus, the Catholic saints. Many of the saints were previously pagan gods, and the Catholic Church decided that, rather than fight about it, it was easiest to just accept the old gods as saints, which made victory much easier.

http://biblelight.net/verita.htm

http://www.articleseen.com/Article_pagan-gods-and-goddesses-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_saints_and...
Alive and well, but using other names.

The KKK was formed after the Civil War (and the Confederacy). Jim Crow Laws were long after the Confederacy supposedly died.
The Civil Rights movement (specifically in Selma Alabama) was long after the Confederacy.
"The user is probably a transmission level grid operator. "

Close. My dad's a power engineer, specifically grid protection.
>It might be better thought of as a way to filter out applicants who have poor innate ability and/or poor learning skills.

It’s a way to filter out people who haven’t had time to study leetcode style quiz questions. It has no relationship to learning skills or innate ability. There is no way to distinguish between someone who hasn’t spent time grinding algorithms and someone who had with poor learning skills.

>I would argue that being able to study leetcode and then apply that new knowledge you've learned is an important skill in and of itself in this industry. Isn't that what all of highschool and most of college is?

Nope, it demonstrates that you had time to waste, nothing more. Candidates that built actual software to accomplish something are much more impressive because it shows they can write software attached to reality.
Yes. Dark mode saves power for OLED screens but not for backlit LCD screens.
It's also worth mentioning that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850[1] made it a crime for police and private citizens in slavery-illegal states ("the North") not to arrest and return slaves to the estate that they escaped from. In effect, the "good people" in the entire country were still culpable of the continuing existence of that "Peculiar Institution".

I wonder what an average Northern jury person would think of prosecuting another Northerner who was charged with harboring a runaway slave in a Northern state (where slavery was illegal at the time). If the law says that the jury can only consider the facts of the case, not whether the law is just or moral/ethical, what are we to make of our legal system?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
How much should you be paying your auditor?
Envoy was built for that purpose and has more functionality around it, as well as better support for service discovery (developing the now open standard APIs), more protocol introspection and observability, full-duplex connections (no upstream/downstream split in what's possible), and easy interchange between protocols.

Envoy is also used by Istio and has a lot of infrastructure support for deploying in Kubernetes and such which HAProxy doesn't currently have.
G20 agrees on international framework to reduce marine plastic pollution
What’s probably more important is where is the information being published and in what language. If something important is happening, but it’s not in the NYTimes or HN AND in English, I’m likely to miss it.
Runit Island
tbh, there is another issue with twitch imo that no one discusses (and i have the strange feeling that twitch people themselves are onboard with it).

ladies are very manipulative on twitch. especially towards teenage males who don't know better or don't care much. from what they wear on stream to vague promises of more perks if you donate to them.

strangely enough, it does not work the other way around. people actively support male streamers mostly for their skills, talent or just cool personality.

now, i may be wrong, and wanna give all streamers the benefit of the doubt, but it just bothers me sometimes. especially with older female streamers. they have to know what they are doing to these young kids...
How can you say that with a straight face with recent news like Cambridge analytica is beyond me
I don’t need to “prove” that I can write code by memorizing an algorithm. I have made more than enough code available on my GitHub which I’d be happy to explain in depth with anyone who is interested. Not interested? Great, you’ve made it easier for me to make my decision.
I'm not 100% across Chinese politics, but from what I understand the Politburo[1] (where the top leaders sit, including Xi) are voted in by the Central Committee [1].

But the Central Committee isn't really an independent body, and the people who sit there are selected by the Politburo - effectively the Politburo members just vote themselves in.

(P.s. as mentioned I'm not 100% across the politics in China so happy to be corrected)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Commu...
And just like the standardized test rigamarole, technical interviews can be gamed by investing in prep courses and materials for those who are willing to dump the money and time on them.
https://blog.independent.org/2017/08/18/southern-state-seced...
Will doing a where clause (ex: where column_x > 3) actually work if column_x is now all strings? I recall my query executing and returning incorrect results. I figured out it would work if I explicitly caste the where clause as ( where float(column_x) > 3) or something like that (this was a few years ago).

Edit: I assume most databases like Oracle (it's SQL packages looked bizzare to me until I started learning Ada and figured out it has the same syntax) use static typing for performance, query optimization, and error checking? Note that although I use SQL almost daily, I am no expert on the innards. SQLite has a different use case. It seems to be for embedded and ad-hoc analysis where dynamic typing makes more sense. This is just a guess though.
Japan's anime industry in crisis even as its popularity soars
The high-stress environment of job interviews blocks thinking.
I wonder how many companies Google has killed by entering the market , setting the price to free and then walking away when bored.
> padding also scales if they have a increased font size due to low vision.

rem: automatic for the people
Try this https://www.racket-mode.com/
Alcohol damages brains of all ages, as well.

I don't write that to dispute the point of the article. However, many findings do dispute the age of adulthood.
So what? Civial engineers don't use cutting edge physics, but the construction they designed won't collapse bc of that.
"In the event that there's a phase mismatch, I assume that gets physically transmitted back to the generating device?"

In case of phase mismatch, you have a short circuit and the weakest element along the short gets fried.
> The damage is measurable with an I.Q. test.

IQ tests only measure how well you perform on IQ tests. They are meaningless.
As a native Chinese living overseas (well US, the location might matter), I could add that it’s not necessary true oversea Chinese students will wind up pro-democracy, because 1) most were having a utopian view of US and most will be disappointed/delusioned after a few years. 2) most if not all never lived in a multi race society before, so the smallest discrimination can be 10x magnified 3)Anti-China news are often mis-interpreted as Anti-Chinese, which myself still struggling to get out sometimes (e.g. “we shouldn’t do business with mainland China” look very offensive to me)
Have projects available online that showcase your ability/ingenuity/creativity. Just reject the technical interview and explain your reasoning, offer an alternative.

Works for me because I don’t want to work anywhere where interviews aren’t being conducted by people competent enough to handle fluid requirements.
The Runit Dome is reportedly leaking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/20/us-put-nucl...
someone is backed up.
Maybe for comparisons between people and populations, but change in IQ score across an individuals time seems much more meaningful.
you say it doesn't work the other way around, but there are plenty of male streamers that dangle perks in exchange for support. 1:1 coaching sessions, allowing them to play vs. or coop with them on-stream, sending in-game gifts, signing in-game items, just to name a few.
The threat of HK is that the mainlanders might start wanting some democracy for themselves.

In a way China made a mistake asking for HK back. While it was British they had a convenient boogeyman to point to, now it is part of China, Beijing has nowhere to hide, and the only option they have is to destroy it. This will be a painful process for both Beijing and HK.