skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. There's a popular book they recommend around here for learning linear algebra, which they say its very related to coding.

I found it to be not the case. Upon reading the first chapters I started wondering how could this be useful for coding. So I jumped to one of the last chapters where they show you practical applications. Upon reading those I thought: "I can do all this in code just fine without using linear algebra".

I never touched that book again.

About two years ago or so I started to make little games for the pico-8 fantasy console. There's some math involved there but almost always you don't use the math formulas as you would in a text book, for example, for something simple like drawing a straight line or a circle, finding paths, collisions... there are very specific algorithms for that, they don't look anything like a math formula, even if they are derived from those.

Just my point of view.
As a current H-1B applicant who received RFE to prove 'specialty occupation', this is giving me anxiety. All my friends in the same company with exact same role, level and education got their H-1B visa last month or so and I'm still waiting for a response to my RFE. Eh, at least I still have my OPT STEM...
How would your new OS/hardware know when the "use" of the resource is complete ? Maybe the dev wanted to read just 10 bytes from a 1 GB file, maybe 100 bytes... maybe its a telnet connection which is never supposed to be closed and just kept in a pool ?

For a very small benefit of "automatic closing of resources" this looks like a huge trade-off.
Dell Precision 5xxx or 7xxx series. They're intended as desktop-replacement workstations, and as such are fucking beasts -- upgradeable to 64 GiB of RAM, full-sized keyboards with TrackPoint analogues, etc.
Do rents/housing costs truly ever dip or do they just stagnate while wages catch up?
I came across an article recently about Joel Spolsky believing there was no gamification in SO and then realizing there 'was a little'.

Which is 100% disingenuous, when Jeff Atwood was first working on SO, gamification was high on his list of things he wanted to do, and it's been a part of SO since day 1.
Agree! It looks great — I assume they did it pretty much how DMD (Digital Mirror Device) chips in DLP projectors work. The mirrors already have a mechanism to track sun (mentioned in the article), and adjust the direction its reflection should point. they could activate tracking partially to create the image.
Does anyone know what’s under the hood? React? Vue? Something I don’t even know enough to ask about?
A New Espresso Machine That’s Basically a Barista-in-a-Box
Thank you for this! I wonder how long I'll be able to get away with this trick. The new twitter is terrible!
> I'm starting to make a computer security course right now and I've chosen to put it on pornhub. The monetization options are better for creators

I find this hilarious, but at the same time I am wondering whether you're serious? I'm confused now..
relevance?
I read a number of martech and marketing sites (because it's good to know your enemy), and the discussions there strongly indicate that this isn't the case.

They've been spending quite a long time freaking out about the impending death of the cookie, and talking about ways to mitigate that.
All that work, and still I had to use right-click "open image in new tab" to see the text of a meme?

Is anybody in there actually using that thing? (those in user-facing changes authority?)
Insightful blog posts! IMO a better memory comparison would be between a Spark executor and a DataFusion ... container I guess (i.e. graphing query time vs spark.executor.memory). This would give you a better idea of memory TCO on a cluster.
>almost the same with their 1080p screens?

Purism Librem 15v4 has a 4k screen.
It's a tough problem because certificate pinning kills a lot of legitimate use patterns; it's not something I'd like to see being the default everywhere.
> Google built its entire empire based on contextual advertising, not behavioral targeting.

True. But why do you think Google goes to a great length to track you all over the web? They literally have thousands of engineers doing just that. If there was 0 value for Google in behavioral targeting, and given their monopoly on search and the great value contextual advertising already brings for search, they surely wouldn't bother with tracking.
Which I think is more than a moot point. It's more honest, and it opens up a category for companies who genuinely want to offer a "one month free trial" that doesn't require a credit card and auto subscription.
> If you're going to call me out on BS, then state your claim.

Sure. The title says “Microsoft's Hypocrisy on DACA”, and the article focuses on Microsoft.

Meanwhile, many other companies did the same: Facebook, Google, Motorola, Verizon, Home Depot, UPS, Accenture, GE, Comcast, Siemens, and many others.

You ignored the rest of them. You have cherry picked a single data point from a large publicly available database, and based your article around that.

May I ask why?
They are leading questions. You're assumptions about single-payer, based on what you think "some politicians" said, are baked into your questions. Again, there exists hybrid systems. Take a look at Spain or Australia. Canada almost exclusively works off it's public system, yet private insurance still has a minor role.

Maybe I'm "crazy enough" to think that there should be zero profit-motive in health insurance, but even I can confidently say that a public policy scenario wherein all but a government plan is prohibited just isn't realistic, nor does it reflect what many other western countries have done for 30+ years.
How does got get "local" time zone. I sometimes commit on systems set to utc. And I'm unsure how many people accurately set time zone in online tools like github. And many devs esp famous ones travel a lot. Not to mention moving.

All this to say, there's too many unknowns for me to trust this "study"
I mean, honestly, if I'm using Grindr, it's what I want. I am a bad cisgender gay male who sometimes doesn't need to see full-screen ads about genderqueer art while cruising at 2am.
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Yes, it's proper to blame everyone involved in this.
I believe "Hola VPN" did something similar as a browser extension. (You join our free VPN, you act as a node in our commercial residential IP pool (botnet).)
Search results in reverse chronological order is Twitter's killer feature but, bafflingly, it seems like they've been going out of thier way to prevent that for years now, especially on mobile. Why? Also, if there's any Android app which lets you do that without having a Twitter account, I'd love to know about it. I used to use a nice little app called SearchBird for this, but it's disappeared and I can't find a replacement.
Maybe compare to some of the free-non-hosted options?

Like where are we with OCR? Last I checked it was CTC magic. Any progress?
That would break the spontaneous nature of "live-tweeting".
This isn't just a UK thing. Well the 999-year lease is a UK/Commonwealth thing, but I've worked in NYC real estate, and a lot of projects have multiple hundred year leases.

And interestingly enough, there is a 99-year lease which the 99-year term was not literal, but merely an arbitrary time span beyond the life expectancy of any possible lessee (user) or lessor (owner). [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99-year_lease
Dang, I was hoping to see a comparison to ABBYY's FineReader Online in there: https://finereaderonline.com Maybe in the 2020 review?
8M lines of hotel-related code exposed – Elasticsearch DB configuration failure
Ugh, these cases give H1B's a bad name. I do wish there was crackdown on crap like this.

Where I work the H1B applicants (who don't get selected) have masters, from a US university, for a degree that applies specifically to their job. These folks should be on the red carpet to US citizenship. They have checked every box. Instead they get treated like crap.

They should SHUT DOWN these other players who clog up the process.

a) outsourcing firms that are just numbers game body shop mills.

b) set a minimum comp for the jobs that is reasonable (but include retirement and other benefits in calc).

c) allow all employers one applicant before awarding more slots, so the body shop mills have to compete with small business who have real jobs for real people and are not just playing percentage games (100K applications with 5k actual jobs available).

I'm a HUGE fan of lots of immigration - but saying H1B is highly specialized for real jobs, then having the body shop mills apply for 100K slots (they don't have those jobs), so they can dominate the selections and then profit off the salary / visa arbitrage is disgusting for all involved. And yes, I sign real applications that never get selected (and am willing to pay well over Level 1 and Level 2 wages).
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At this point, basically your plan needs to end with "and then move to a non-extradition country" or you're fucked, sooner or later.
Does Michael Phelps deliver 10x more value than the slowest guy on the US team? The multiplier is for value to the organization.
> Following that logic, every datapoint is a privacy concern.

Yes, every data point is a privacy concern.
Azure has a separate service to read forms and formatted docs. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
By fun hotel action, you mean sex right?
Companies will typically want their employees to know they are being monitored for legal reasons (as well as deterrence), so it seems like they'd have no reason to want to hide this?

Maybe clicking on the red dot could show a page with company policy.
I know art is subjective... and that is why lists like this are garbage.
I wonder if some implementations just use nearest neighbour words to increase accuracy in the common case of normal text. - Decreasing performance on random strings considerably.

The tested corpus only contains relatively common words, so this aspect is not tested.
On this machine I get "likely" in firefox, "unlikely" in a firefox private window and "unlikely" in chrome. Not sure what to make of that.

(Also all of the installed extensions are also enabled in private mode. I know that changed recently so I checked. Also the certs the browers claim I'm getting in all three scenarios seem to be the same...)
That doesn't fit in with what we have seen. Many sites start socially engineering when they think they are big enough to dominate. I am not an expert on dating apps (especially ones for homosexuals), however the language quoted about "creating a better place" etc. Is exactly the same language I've seen by other sites that want to socially engineer. It cannot be a coincidence that many of the companies use a lot of the same phrases and language.
Typescript makes writing large codebases in js actually possible. But it's still missing a few things and there's not much they can do about it. Pattern matching, and real support for sum types (not just having a 'type' field w/ a string) would be at the top of my list I think. Working with type parameters can also get a bit unweidly, and bounding them with the 'extends' keyword is a pain in the ass. IMO of course.
Best practices are being followed now; but a large sales team at its worst more than ten years ago might be caught out in bad behavior.

Less plausible is the scenario of failing as a result of ad-pay for search-play. If the equation is proven out, then he, a rational and effective founder, would’ve paid!—And his site would’ve played another day.

Or are we supposed to read an implication that it was worth burning the company to the ground to take a principled stand against 2008 Google?

Meanwhile, the traffic claims defy belief. Livevideo failed to launch.
That interpretations are of significance suffices to imply that no prescriptive definition is universally acknowledged to exist.
This is also another way to dodge laying off people as well. Because with that company looks bad on books
> It never ends.

Yeah. Fangs vs shells. Microbes vs white cells.

It's just the way this universe works. The struggle is eternal. Probably built into the root parameters of the Big Bang, if you could somehow trace it that far back in time and causality (which you probably can't, I dunno).
It was antivirus in my case. It has web scan feature that MITMs https sites locally. Disabling the feature made it "MITM unlikely".
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A relative difference between two regions in terms of loneliness and religiousness doesn't really signal anything quite frankly. There can be a negative relationship between the two with other things affecting them. Or there might not be, but that evidence is rather thin.
It's less sexually compromising photos and more

"Mr. Smith that works for government/corporate office of company, we have chats of you trying to solicit other men, tut tut, what ever will your wife and daughter think, we don't have to tell them but you'll have to do something for us in return".

This is literally the kind of stuff that agencies like the Defense Security Service looks for when investigating people to issue security clearance, in the case of DSS for stuff under the Department of Defense umbrella. It's just one way you can be exploited.

Similarly, I have a bankruptcy, that makes it difficult for me to ever have a security clearance again, especially anything greater than Confidential. My poor credit choices make me a 'security risk' because I might amass debt again and be easily influenced eyeroll.
> But without cookies, I don't see how you would recognize that visit as the same person as yesterday and integrate the sports and economy interests into a persistent profile.

If you gather enough of that "anonymous" data, and particularly if you combine it with other data sets (as they claim they are intending to do), then it's not that hard to recognize individuals based on their usage patterns and metadata.
javascript also has C style syntax, which you claimed to be familiar with. It's subjective, so I can't say that you're wrong. I just don't get it.
I think this is why employment lawyers exist.

Sadly this is not a new practice; people used to joke that IBM is short for "I've Been Moved".
I'm less pessimistic. The practical result of this is likely just going to be more business for the cottage industry of Great Firewall VPNs, which already compete with one another in traffic obfuscation against an adversary far more sophisticated than the government of Kazakhstan. Thankfully, this is currently a case in which the incentives of the market happen to align well with the goals of defeating censorship.
This is what I love about HN - a simple question about a somewhat rare technology and a detailed answer.

I tried running Cockroach DB a few years ago too, also on Kubernetes. It worked but today we just use Postgres. Turned out we didn’t really have the problem Cockroach DB is designed to solve. We just needed a reliable performant SQL database.
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> I am old enough to remember being bullied in school for being into computers.

Yep, when I was young, even some of my teachers and other adults tried to dissuade me from computers and programming. I remember being mocked and ridiculed by other kids, and no one was incentivizing it when I was in school. If anything, people were avoiding it because it was uncool. I always thought it was the social stigma present in their own peer groups that were keeping them away from it, and not gatekeeping, at least from what I witnessed.
Yeah. It is easy to people with no university-level math background to think math is a deterministic, conscious effort to execute what are basically algorithms, like long division with pen and paper.

Whereas actually ”mathematical thinking”, like coming up with a proof, is an incredibly intuition-guided process, a parallel heuristic search in the solution space, a fundamentally creative endeavour. And as your intuition comes up with promising paths through the search space, you write them down, formalize them, probably discover some corner cases you have to handle, and either continue down that path or realize that it is a dead end and you have to backtrack.

At least to me, this process is incredibly similar to programming effort. You come up with subsolutions, formalize them, fix issues revealed by the formalization, carry on with the next subsolution or realize that approach can’t work after all, and come up with something else.
Why would they be limited to three digits?
Tried it before. Compatibility depends on how complicated your SQL is. There's a detailed list of supported syntax which is getting better every release but it's best for simpler OLTP scenarios. [1] Horizontal scaling and reliability are great. Security setup and certificate management is horrible, and if you don't use certificates then you also can't set passwords for any user so its all or nothing for some reason. [2]

Performance for OLTP queries with high-selectivity using primary keys/indexes is pretty good. Will not be as fast as PostgreSQL because there's consensus required to get the latest data, although it now supports timestamped queries so you can get stale data from replicas for faster reads. Complex queries can slow down or stall the server. Deletes are handled by tombstones so heavy update/delete workloads will cause increasing amounts of slowness in queries until compaction happens so it needs tuning for your workload. [3]

Treats all the servers as one giant global cluster instead of multiple sub-clusters for each regional location so there will be very high latency for writes if you're running in multiple regions. I recommend sticking to a single region with multiple zones instead, or very close regions like US east + central.

Overall its a good solid database choice for core operational data that you want safe. Skip it if you need fast low-latency key/value (use redis or scylla) or large analytical queries (use numerous data warehouse options).

1. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/detailed-sql-suppo...

2. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/32448

3. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/32522
Here is the paper:
Nanophotonic media for artificial neural inference

https://www.osapublishing.org/DirectPDFAccess/41E7D08F-B350-...
Meaning what exactly?
> as long as it doesn't explicitly mention them by name I guess people don't care.

I should not be subjected to spying just because most of my neighbors don't mind being spied on.
yeah but in your example, nobody would call a 1 year lease an 11 month lease, because you have the thing for 12 months not 11
Burn it at both ends?
The simple solution is to give every h1b worker a temporary green card or somehow allow them free mobility of work within the United states. Being allowed to move jobs at will, vs being beholden to the hiring companies for sponsorship, will quickly kill these body shops and also let us know if tech firms really are being honest about a shortage of skilled engineers.
This is generated code to use in your project before transpilation - that's why it generates declaration files also. However that points me to a conclusion I need to export query generator in generated file so you can use it together with Apollo query
So you commented on an article disputing the use of a term with no universally acknowledged definition and when someone disagreed with you you posted an article that includes THEIR definition as a decent example. Bravo. You're kind of proving my point here.
LexisNexis Moves into Doc Analysis with Axiom Spin-Off Knowable
> Why did the guy suddenly get himself arrested? Why didn't he at least get rid of the wallet first? Maybe there's no connection between the two, but people are complicated.

Most likely, stealing your wallet was part of impulsive behavior. Your was not first wallet and him being threatening or obnoxious was not his first such time. Most low level criminals are like that.
To be fair, LI uses dark patterns with the same gusto that a wolf has for a lamb ranch. I thought they were widely known for their scummy tactics.

https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae...
Not when the cert has been previously CT and Staple preloaded I suspect?
> A referrer header is not an outrageous amount of information.

But it does reveal information that is none of the website's business.

> It's the store-equivalent of asking "Where did you learn about us?"

No, it's not. Actually asking that question would be the equivalent. What this is is surveillance.
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Possibly. But, at the same time, "it is reasonable to assume" is the epitaph carved into the gravestone under which economics's credibility got buried alive.

I'd feel better assuming that question's answer is simply unknown until a few different people have performed a few different field experiments.

For my part, for example, I pretty much never click on ads, because they typically get shown to me at a time when I'm already busy doing something else. But, if I later perceive a need to buy a product of that kind, there's a decent chance I'll remember the name, and therefore be more likely to Google them or take a closer look when I see them mentioned on Wirecutter. I have no idea how typical I am on that front, but, tangentially, I do at least suspect that, if clicks were really the end-all-be-all of hawking product, then there wouldn't be quite so many billboards by the side of the highway.
Scott Chen should've been fired a long time ago.

Given his actions on these issues that we know about, what about all the stuff we don't know about?

For all we know, they've had tons of data breaches and covered them up. I wouldn't put it past this guy.

Is it okay for a CTO to give HIV data, photos — probably explicit photos given the nature of the platform — to China’s government, without permission of the user? I don’t think so.
> It amazes me how young many of the people were.

Maybe not so different from startups today?
I believe the international buying in southern california has been a drop in the bucket compared to places like Vancouver. Housing costs in CA have surged due to prop 13 limiting turnover and NIMBYs refusing to allow supply to be built in their neighborhoods. Housing demand follows job growth, so as long as CA is doing well and hiring a lot of people, housing costs will be surging if sufficient supply isn't built.
Are government/military personnel somehow entitled to being able to cheat and solicit casual sex? If someone does that while possessing top security clearance or sensitive info, they have clearly demonstrated themselves as vulnerable to exploitation. This is first and foremost an internal personnel problem. If such behaviour happens on U.S.-owned platforms it is still problematic.
I think the boomers mostly wanted to be astronauts when they were kids because the whole space race was going on. It was the cool (groovy?) thing to want to be. YouTube and Twitch streaming are the 'cool' things now.