skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let them use a plain text editor like Notepad++.

My kids are both in their late teens. When they were in elementary school, they had to use word processing apps for their written assignments, and there were specific formatting requirements.

I observed: 1) This software will be obsolete by the time they need to use it for a job. 2) Formatting is extraneous to the process of learning to write, and the myriad of distractions in the word processing software (all of those settings and buttons to explore) actually made it worse. 3) They were given formatting requirements like "margins" and "pages" for documents that would never be printed.

Adding to the irony, these archaic formatting requirements came from an organization calling itself "modern language association."

Fast forward just a few years. Today, nobody uses word processing, except for documents that will never be read, such as HR pronouncements and dissertations. People just use the e-mail editor, and graphics are pasted in via screen shots. The kids are allowed to use any app that will capture their text, and they seem to prefer Google Docs. (Don't know how that would play out with German privacy laws of course). They actually use the collaboration tools.

I suggest: Let's just get rid of word processing for students. Problem solved. The big problem is training the teachers.

If they want to talk about job skills, they should find the average wages of people who use different tools, including both word processors and text editors. I'll bet that emacs tops the list. ;-)
I bought a falafel wrap from a basic market stall the other day in London and they didn’t take cash at all. Makes sense- less germs, less chance of robbery, easier accounts, better chance of adhering to tax laws, and better convenience to me as a customer.
My 2p: I think an atomic clock has failed
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425
I would say ease of use and cost. A friend of mine has been using Google Sheets for years to power some small bits of data on his website. Maintaining and running his site costs nothing but the domain since he uses Netlify for CI w/Github and hosting with Google Sheets for dynamic data.

His "credits" section and song list uses Google Sheets: https://www.pontusrufelt.com
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"Does his end makes him more of an icon for disenfranchised minorities than the immense contributions this genius made over his life".

Yes.

"If history were different and he were hit by a bus or lived a long life, he would still be an icon, no?"

Yes, but in that situation he would not be such an icon for disenfranchised minorities because the nonsense gay people had to deal with back then wouldn't have been so visible. Are there any other people from that particular point in time and location who are remembered for suffering and dying as he did?
Pretty easy to implement tail recursion though. Sometimes it’s hard to know if a language that automatically compiles to tail recursion will even always do it.
You clearly have zero understanding or empathy for what living in deep poverty actually entails.
The article is paywalled but I'm fairly certain that Microsoft are currently no better than second in the "cloud wars"
Steve Kerr is the best 3 point shooter by percentage in NBA history. He was definitely a super star even though not recognized for it. Certain positions and teams really highlight a player I think. He also has transitioned into becoming one of the best NBA coaches.
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>>That’s because Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said companies buying data on Floridians are not allowed to use that information for marketing.

>What did they expect it to be used for? Genealogy reports? /s

When I worked in government, the forms for FOIA requests always had a disclaimer they couldn't be used for marketing, but the laws were never enforced at all and thus widely abused. The only way to really fix this is to enforce laws, and given that currently those in power to enforce laws can selectively choose which laws to enforce, justice will never be the result.

The only fixes I can think of that aren't band-aids only covering the symptoms are drastic enough changes that I doubt those currently comfortable have the stomach for them.
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Glossed over electronics. Good or bad to recycle?

Or do electronics fall under metals and are worth recycling. Or if tossed we could always mine landfills for iPhones in the future, which the article touches upon.

As an aside, this article seems to only be about minimizing energy use or cost and not about maximizing sustainability.
SNOBOL: Was the first language that opened my eyes that there was more to computing then numbers. Up to that point, college was all FORTRAN, Cobol, and a bit of CDC 6600 assembly.
Agreed. How do you compare a software project that succeeds with another that fails? Isn't the successful project infinite(X)-ly better? Therefore isn't the programmer who doesn't fail actually immeasurably better than the one who does fail?

If most software projects fail (ests: 55% to 90%), isn't the 10x programmer really just someone who consistently avoids failure? If so, a label like '10x' seems to measure concrete skills that don't really matter, yet fails to measure those abstract skills that really do.
>To believe this, one must believe that journalism exists only as a happy byproduct of the advertising business that supported newspapers throughout the 20th century - that journalism does not exist as an independent good.

This is a rather positive view of journalism. Are you a journalist? The approval rate of the journalism industry in the United States right now is at all-time lows https://www.knightfoundation.org/reports/indicators-of-news-...
How does this work legally? I don't remember signing T&C when I got my licensed renewed last. I'm sure there are some legal forms I filled out but given that it's a requirement to have a state issued license to drive a motor vehicle how could this be remotely legal without an opt-out option? It seems like a monopoly if the state gets to profit from selling data without consent that a citizen is forced to use. I don't live in FL, but... Curious how this plays out now.
FWIW, after reading Hodges biograpy on Turing, I don't think its anywhere near as clear that his death is due to suicide as is commonly stated, or that if he did commit suicide, that it was due to his (unjust) indecency conviction.
Not trying to be funny here, but I would not be surprised if an automated Windows update borked something. Recently heard about an Antarctic base that lost heating for 36 hears after a Windows Update triggered a several GB download over the base's modem downlink.
Poe's law strikes again?
This is really how general computing should be taught. Go deep on a few things, but make sure to expose students to a wide enough variety of different paradigms a d systems that they can glean some of the commonalities. From there, they should be able to figure out most of the rest.

It works pretty well in programming languages as well. So long as you don't go too far afield. Lisp fefeated me until I wrote a toy one and I'm still pretty stuck on Haskell, but I've had far fewer issues with some of the more traditional languages.
I’m curious why they didn’t just retire it.
It is the original title. <title> and <h1> often disagree.
In 240 V split phase, each phase is 120 V.
copying from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20427544

Guenter Hein, Professor Emeritus of Excellence at the University FAF Munich told us, “As far as I know, it is a problem of the PTF [Precise Timing Facility] in Italy – time has an impact on the whole constellation!”
My anecdote: I've been what one might call "10x" on some projects, and 1x on others.

In a position where I built the system/product from scratch, I'm the "10x" person. This is because I know the system's ins and outs better than I know myself. Of course I'm more productive with it. Of course I know exactly where to look when a bug arises. Of course I'm 10x better (across whatever arbitrary productivity dimension) than the new hire. It's not because I'm magical, it's because I was there when there was nothing.

Drop me into a new stack, with a new system, and I'll be -1x for at least a few months. Eventually I'll work my way to productivity, and that's fine. It's expected.

I think developer productivity has a lot less to do with technical skill than many people would like to think. I agree heavily with the article's points that "work environment matters a lot" and "productivity is a combination of inherent traits and acquired skills."
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Sounds like an opportunity to help him get those things at work and mutually benefit the engineer and the team -- or, since he's already "essential," to acknowledge that he's doing his job and not judge him for failing to give 100% of himself to the company.
I've seen the same in Amsterdam, but I believe it's important to understand why they do that.

According to additional anecdotal evidence, no cash what so ever is their way of reducing the odds of a burglary. Within myriads of shops, one shop that doesn't offer cash payments is way less likely to be broken into.
The title of tfa even says 'poised to win' - not sure why OP changed the title like this
I opted out of the redesign on my account. That way, I use the old design on my account, even if I'm not using old.reddit.
Given that the project is funded by €10 billion of EU taxes, I hope we'll get transparency sooner rather than later on exactly what's gone wrong, regardless of who it might embarrass.
Perhaps the takeaway is we do not incentivize bettering the world enough.
From my experience, for long-tail queries, DDG also a lot more NSFW results than Google.

Bing does have the reputation of being better for NSFW searches than Google, so I guess that it's normal to have more NSFW false positives as well.
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They remember what happened to Digg.
BI is really clickbaity and often wrong.

https://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/02/09/1a47f155-12...
This sounds like it'd fit the accuracy continually lowering before the system was turned off.
Ye and anyway you could return x10 worse results than Google's current results and still become the new dominant search engine if you've got infinite $B a year to outbid Google to be the default on browsers and operating systems and a big salesforce to onboard the advertisers. Man this is the exact playbook they used to become the search engine in the first place. They literally were Yahoo's search bar at some point two decades ago.
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Isn't it a bit premature to say that anyone has won the cloud wars? Most assume it's a two-horse race between AWS and Azure but Google is aggressively marketing their cloud ($750/month in GCP credits for 3 years, trying to get you hooked) and IBM's acquisition of Red Hat might be more about OpenStack and bolstering their cloud efforts than anything else. And don't forget "third tier" providers like Digital Ocean, Linode, Rackspace, and many, many other small companies who have long-standing relationships with local and regional IT decision makers and who have benefited by acquiring the best IT talent leaving companies upon "migrating to the cloud." Azure certainly has momentum but I think it's far too early to call a winner in this race.
that was my first thought as well but surely they can replace it faster than this? also, the search and rescue signal still works. search and rescue signal are in a different band, so maybe antenna issues, or it has its own time reference. or maybe it's being jammed like the gps signals in the middle East, they are the same band.
But the satellites should be carrying their own clocks?
Title: microsoft-chairman-explains-how-satya-nadella-won-the-cloud-wars
Kotlin is easier to work with for large projects. You're less inclined to write messy code than JS.
They take a decent technical concept aspect (Crispr is a subversion of existing cells running itself as opposed to something we must do manually every time like scissors), an extended metaphor that makes a bit more sense (bodies as cities of interacting cells - changing one still leaves a whole interacting system to keep in mind) and then proceed to butcher it needlessly instead of going anywhere sensible sadly.

Still their start had promise and raises some interesting semantic questions. Even if Malware is the wrong term for the intended use of the tool it is certainly what it would be flagged as by the immune system because of where it treads - just like Anti-Virus software in many cases. Even so Anti-Virus is such a misleading term for Crispr both from scope collision of computer and physical viruses. Even if it how it works literally it risks confusion.
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Google's search isn't even that great, to be honest. I use DDG for search, and use the !g operator when the DDG results aren't satisfying. But my experience with that is that the Google results are never good for those searches, either.

The thing the article misses is that search isn't really Google's crown jewel anymore. It's their position at the top of the adtech ecosystem, and while they bootstrapped that with search, I kind of doubt that search is the main thing driving their ad views today.
EE Job in CA
Just graduated with my Ph.D. in EE and looking to move west. I co-founded a hardware startup out here on the east coast building products for the Air Force.

I'm looking to work hard with a group of other passionate engineers.

Anyone know who is hiring in the hardware world?
How many of those are confirmed to be of human origin?
You're curious why they're not retiring a film franchise that consistently pulls in hundreds of millions of dollars of profit with every installment? :)
We have a bottom up model for very simple animals. But, even a fruit fly has 250,000 neurons that’s a lot of complexity.

So, saying we understand some reflexive human behaviors from the ground up is actually a lot of progress. We are even applying that knowledge in many useful ways.
There is an ethic commitee (the IRB) at every university that reviews all academic research involving people. In order to conduct a user study, researchers are required to compensate participants fairly. The reason you can pay MTurkers "far less" is that a study may only take 5 minutes, and researchers typically pay $10/hour. People won't participate in a study unless the minimum payment is decent. I can't imagine many people would want to take the time out of their day to show up at a lab, work on a computer task for 10 minutes, and get paid $2.
I think about the concept of rationality a lot, and you touch upon a frequent topic of rumination. Does interestingness always have to be subjective? I don't think so, I think we can reduce it down to the contextual, and identify an ideal middle ground between the two. In that, we can make objective judgments that, given some context, a particular item sticks out and is therefore interesting. And that any interested curator could look at any new entrant and discover almost immediately what makes it interesting.

I think many machine language workloads boil down to searching for signal amongst noise. A human can then go look at the anomalies.

I wouldn't want a survey of a bunch of coders barely interested in curation. I want the guys who have been dealing with these things their entire careers and really care about the differences.

Not quite fully-automated discovery, but with a minimum of human fuss and a maximum of deliverable rational information.
Because these products are well designed and built - 100% value for money.

Many school students aspire to work in the companies which build these software, or go and work in places where these software are used and those companies expect students to know these.
Microsoft Chairman explains why Microsoft CEO "won/will win" the cloud wars. It's like getting my son to explain why I'm "The Worlds Best Dad". Could be true, but probably subjective at best.
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I took it to mean "within Microsoft" and that made sense.
Also this part:

sudo chmod +a "$USER allow read,write" /etc/hosts
alias monday='sudo -E monday'

Sketchy much? Looks like half rooting oneself, half setting the stage for various phishing attacks.
> the Hofmeister kink is said by BMW to suggest that all BMW models have rear-wheel drive

And yet the 2 series active tourer also has it :)
Precise Timing Facility

That sounds like something for the Swiss, not Italy
Fiction or non-fiction writing. The difference between Terry Brooks and the average wannabe fantasy author is enormous and the difference between him and JRR Tolkien is greater again.

Mathematics. Terence Tao is as far ahead of the average Math professor as they are of the average high school Math teacher.

Law. If you give the average lawyer twenty times as much time and all the research resources of a partner at Skadden Arps the Skadden guy will still come out on top.

Finance. Whether you’re talking VC, PE or Hedge Funds the people at the top are a lot more than ten times as good as the average, never mind the marginal member of their reference class.

All of academia as far as research is concerned. Research impact as measured by citations is a power law. People at top departments routinely get hundreds of times the citations of those at no name ones.

In any human endeavour that isn’t limited by severe bottlenecks in material input you get people who can do much more with much less than others can, and who are capable of doing things that those less skilled simply can’t do.
Yes, I remember this. I wonder what a proper historian would do with modern life? Court intrigues didn't go away with Royalty: they just more pervasive. Yes, I feel like a prophet mentioning this before Epstein was arrested again....
Not sure about CEO, but I do know the owner of the one in my hometown (and a few others) started that way. He worked in one and was frugal and was eventually able to buy his own franchise.
>2) 20 years of experience fighting SEO spam.

Tangential - but does anyone else feel that google results are useless a lot of the time? If you search for something, you will get 100% SEO optimized shitty ad-ridden blog/commercial pages giving surface level info about what you searched about. I find for programming/IT topics its pretty good, but for other topics it is horrible. Unless you are very specific with your searches, "good" resources don't really percolate to the top. There isn't nearly enough filtering of "trash".
It will be worth it to see if they'll still pull that much after this change. Can't wait
Classical paper maps yes. I manage to trash them after one hike even without rain.

But nowdays you get them coated in a plastic layer ... very nice, water proof and durable.

edit: or like the othe commenter mentioned, it is not a plastic layer and rather plastic itself called Tyvek or similar
Where are you getting $750/month in GCP credits for 3 years? I'm not debating you, I want to go get that!
"better chance of adhering to tax laws"
That wouldn't be seen as an upside for the majority of small traders I've known.

Plus its only convenient because you had the payment method they accepted.
Can you provide a link to that Antarctic incident? I'm curious how a network outage would affect a system as critical as heating...
All cars I can remember seen have a little arrow next to the gas symbol that much more explicitly tell you which side the cap is on

Which makes this redundant, and therefore mostly useless :-)
>if we consume and bury 'stuff', then we'll just make more 'stuff'

There is also a flawed assumption here that these are connected. We will make more stuff whether or not we bury other stuff.
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Its the same with voter registrations. Anybody can request it for free. And Indiana charges 5000$ for every voter in the state.

Its also the same for property deeds. Public record. Its also the same for courts.

I find this practice to be disgusting, but there is precedent for open access to govt record.
In my brief experience, bursts of actually quite a lot (My favourite being one where you got £1-£2 for "Does this sentence make sense" Yes/No) surrounded by almost nothing.

I've seen some people on Reddit who are effectively gaming it well enough to actually make consistent money, but that's clearly the exception not the rule.
The sad thing about left or right bias is that it is all the same thing. The left doesn't care about what the right says, and the right doesn't care about what the left says.

Unfortunately, there is no more compromise in today's world. People just want to win because even giving up even a small amount of ground to an opponent is considered a complete failure.
Yes, that’s why I said “many types of work“, not all types of work. I don’t expect any single genius working alone to put man on the moon or build modern cloud service or entire smartphone OS. However, I also don’t expect any committee to invent great programming language or font or new architectural paradigms from scratch.
Yes I have noticed. Perhaps they are catering to the tastes of the majority of their user base (whatever generates a flurry of clicks). And this is the... result.
The heater required an active internet connection and available bandwidth?
> Sometimes it’s hard to know if a language that automatically compiles to tail recursion will even always do it.

I wish more languages that do not always compile to tail recursive methods had something similar to Scala's `@tailrec` annotation (which forces the compilation to fail if the tail calls cannot be optimized).

It's not a very elegant solution, but at least it works.
According to the infographic, in Chicago in 2018 they had 22,700 vehicle thefts, which if divided by 365 days = roughly 62/day. 75 vehicles stolen in one day doesn't sound completely abnormal?
Why would you receive a £50 paying in cash?

There’s larger note for which you could be receiving it as change.
Claiming it's not used for marketing is blatant newspeak. I'll try and explain what they mean. This sort of data is frequently used by trading firms to try and get a more accurate picture of how auto-companies are doing, or the local economies. Insurance firms also use this data. Experian and Equifax almost definitely use it too.

The data is terrifyingly granular, most DMVs do this. The company which I currently work for, has a database of all the currently registered cars, with their owners addresses and ages in America.

While not used in marketing that you see, it's used in aggregate market analytics.
Honestly thinking back, I can only really learn nowadays by doing, and I have to be genuinely interested in it. Furthermore, I've found only by jumping in can I retain the attention needed to learn.

As an example. I recently tried to learn a programming language I had some interest in. Initially, by attempting to follow a book chronologically which I grew bored of by the 4th chapter. Later, I had something I wanted to make, and decided to jump in using the book / docs as a reference when doing something I wasn't familiar with and amazingly, I was able to keep focus and actually learn.

Unfortunately recently, many of my learning projects are coming to a halt because I find I need to purchase X and wait for it to ship, usually temporarily losing interest in the meantime.
As far as I'm aware, here in DE they have to take such large notes as long as it's proportionate to the sum owed. Coincidentally, Germans do love their paper money more than most.
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