skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe those people feel grateful to escape hell they experienced home and take advantage of all the opportunities America provides for them? That's surely true for part of my family that emigrated to US.
You kinda feel you get a new shot at life if you suddenly find yourself in a country so rich, full of opportunities and free as USA, especially if you came from war zone or a communist country.
I linked to modeled organisms, I always feel the HN crowd expects academic level of precision and discussions, but that kills regular discussions I would have at dinner tables with friends, I wish it would be a more casual place. Yes, I meant "behavior of simple organisms" :)

Since everything here is loosely defined I feel it's totally pointless to discuss AI, but it's still an intriguing topic. If you look at those insects, they tend to follow brownian motion in 3D, get food and get confused by light, we can get an accurate model of them and more [0].

The key word here is to model, not replication. Simulations are just that, simulations. Given current examples of what's already possible if someone wanted to, could model a detailed 3D environment with physics, scents and food for our little AI fly.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/ai-fly-by-artificial-intellig...

Is that a terrible attempt?
They call this “trickle down” and oppose it pretty strongly.
I think infinity in the gp comment could well be defined as, "the new AGI regime will or won't obliterate me." The gp comment is just Pascal's Wager, with AGI taking the part of God, and "infinite returns" taking the part of an eternity in Heaven or Hell.
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A fantastic idea. We've recently designed a button for websites to show users that they care but I really love this idea of a 'zero retention' button :)
So, I've always wanted to write novels, and after some nice feedback on some vignettes, I've decided to give it a go. But, not quitting my day job as a programner. My wife is a visual artist: I know how that goes. The realities of the market are sobering if you think this is gonna be a lucrative side gig. But I like how writing creative fiction makes me feel; it'll save me mental health bills I guess.
Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux's Dominance [pdf]
fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. Install from https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/. Example: to find all files with .md extension in current directory : fd -e md
It is telling that the person arguing in favor of native C/C++ has to use a throwaway account for fear of going against the dominant force of opinion in our industry. We should be able to have these conversations openly without wondering if it makes us less employable.
How about any of the following headlines.

India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission after brief delay.

India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission after a week's delay.

India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission.
thanks for reporting, seems to be a bug.
added to GH issues and will fix asap
They advertise 20 MB instead of 180 MB and not being Electron, so I would bet it's Slack's web client wrapped in macOS's built-in WKWebView, plus some custom CSS to support dark mode.

>Sblack works exactly like a browser with small tweaks. We inject the dark mode style at the end of the Slack’s html, and that’s it.

Another benefit of this is that Safari/WebKit does better with battery life than Chrome. I'll have to give this client a look.
Valency (Linguistics)
I guess Johnson then took the honor of being blamed for getting the country into Vietnam:). And it broke him.
I thought csound was a pretty competent package for generating music with computers. A lot of these newer music packages seems keen to evolve independently than build upon the considerable amount of work done on csound for decades.
I'm not super familiar with code signing, but if alternatives are expensive, could OP maintain a checksum value on their download page rather than go with DigiCert or alternative services? Or does code-signing solve a different problem?
Would you mind inviting me? cfin @ secure email based in Switzerland dot com
Normally I'd just upvote and continue on my way but with the expectation that maybe someone from Amazon is reading and thinking "surely not everyone feels that way".

We all feel this way. Inventory co-mingling will have major long term costs. If you think about it, it is pretty crazy how big of a reputation hit Amazon has taken in the last few years.
> the classical limit h->0 also exhibits an arrow of time

That is certainly true empirically. But it is much more difficult to explain why this happens in classical terms without begging the question -- you can't just invoke the second law of thermodynamics here. You have to derive the second law from Newtonian mechanics. That is an unsolved problem.
Shell pipes are like this. Elixir took inspiration from it for its |> operator, although it works only for the first argument. You should check it out!
You can get LTSC with just an MSDN account?!?

That's neat. I was under the impression Microsoft had made it significantly more exclusive.
You shouldn't make assumptions about why someone's account is named throwaway.
I would disagree that our on street political conflicts are at the same level with internal citizens.

We don't have protests at the same scale, nor organized crime being hired to beat people.
> other nations are unwilling to take sides in the conflict.

As soon as a foreign nation takes sides, then those in the country on the same side can be easily cast as collaborators, or just tools of the foreign nation. E.g. it turns Protesters vs. Chinese Government into Tools of US Imperialism vs. China.
now, Degraded Performance for now only on API, Issues and PR
KDevelop 5.4 beta 1 released, testing appreciated
My non-cynical guess is that with people in them, you can't visually see much of a difference. The same way way I can't really eyeball the difference an extra inch or two of legroom will make for me.
AskHistorians is far more anal than HN with regard to maintaining serious discussion; maybe not quite so rule-bound as StackExchange ("delete this question with five answers and 100 upvotes it's off-topic") but strict about being a sourced, on topic, no memes or humour -type of place.
I’m always puzzled at this idea that humans, at whatever age, are learning things with a small amount of information. The full sensory bandwidth of a baby from pregnancy to toddlerhood seems huge to me. I suspect that helps, as does the millions of years it took to create the hardware it all runs on.
This is called Reverse Polish Notation. Forth uses it, as do a few other interesting languages.
it's indeed not possible, that's why there is a `map` module for rendering lists.
Alteryx would be my guess.
I am one of the recruiting managers here at GitLab. I would agree with @sytse that contributing to GitLab would be the strongest signal.

While we do keep the bar quite high from a technical perspective, we also do so as it relates to our values. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/ With us going through this current hyper-growth phase we have to make sure that everyone who comes into GitLab aligns with these.

For Engineering hires in the month of June we averaged ~65 days to move someone all the way through the interview process.

I am more than willing to set up some time to chat with you 1:1 if you have any more questions.
I think the argument is that decision theory and goal alignment can be worked on without knowing all the details about how an AGI will work.

https://intelligence.org/2016/12/28/ai-alignment-why-its-har...
Your comment made me check whether it was MS that started HTML e-mails. Well, this doesn't seem to be the case, unless I'm missing something.

According to wiki, only Outlook 98 added support for HTML emails[0]. It's not difficult to find Outlook 97 users asking how to support HTML[1], so the wiki changelog doesn't seem to be wrong. Outlook 98 was released in June 1998. Outlook Express doesn't change this picture - version 4 didn't have HTML email support[2], and version 5 was only released in 1999. MS support date appears to be June 1998.

Meanwhile, Eudora 4.0 release announcement[3] at December 97 already mentions HTML support. So at the very least, Eudora had it first.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook#cite_ref-11

[1] https://www.excelforum.com/excel-general/396121-outlook-97-m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_4#Bundled_an...

[3] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/1997/12/08/qualcomm-s...

Rich HTML Messages - Users have the ability to view and compose rich HTML messages, using graphics and stylized text. Emails containing HTML look as if they would on a web browser and include graphics such as embedded images, tables and java applets.
Game development is heading in the same direction. Great fun as a hobby, but it’s getting ever harder to make a career out of it
A Superstar City Is Born
a group from germany did that on a regular basis. all the trips were by bike. for weekend trips the whole group would stay on a farm. for holidays it was two weeks into the netherlands or denmark. groups of 3 would walk door to door to ask for a place to sleep.

i then adopted the idea for trips on my own travelling through europe. but instead of knocking on any door i'd search for local scout groups and ask them.
Over the past 2 or so weeks, I’ve been getting 500 errors from GitHub quite regularly. A page will take a while to load, then finally fail with an octocat error page. Reloading the page usually succeeds with the correct page, so it seems to be some sort of intermittent issue. In the years I’ve used GitHub, I can’t remember this ever happening – I wonder if this incident is related? Has their user base expanded a lot lately and they’re having difficulty scaling their system to meet demand? I know that I have been noticing a seeming increase in activity and new users as GitHub becomes more and more mainstream, I wonder what their growth looks like.
What happened to http prefetch or server push? Does anyone use those things?
It depends on your definition of success but 70% accuracy for classification problems with 50/50 odds is at least useful. In this case, "guessing the more common one" would not be a problem as the data were evenly split between indie and RH.
Yes, last month for example: https://healthitsecurity.com/news/amca-files-chapter-11-afte...
> Tracking page views alone, without visits, is completely useless and means that you won’t have insight into how many people visit your site / pages each day.

What's the difference between a page view and a visit?
The rule of law, indeed. What a travesti of the word.
Pennsylvania school threatens foster care for families with lunch debt
I'm much younger than you, but I also interviewed with Google last year, got rejected after on-site, apparently a "close call" too. Did you grind leetcode enough? ;)
This looks really cool! Thanks for sharing, I can't wait to test this
Recently the Danish company KMD was caught utilising a no hiring of anyone above the age of 36 policy. A practice they’ve apparently used for a decade. That’s illegal and they’ll likely be punished, but the interesting part is that they are doing terrible.

They have the largest amount of scandals, the largest amount of settlements for not meeting what they promised and the largest financial drop of any major Danish IT company.

This could be happening for a range of reasons. With hiring practices like that, their management is probably questionable, but hiring young certainly doesn’t seem to have helped them much.
The user experience doesn’t matter that much, because the primary target of Windows is businesses, governments, etc. who buy in bulk and can be persuaded by Microsoft sales teams.

Considering that Mac systems (the only alternative with support for Excel and Word) are so much more expensive than comparable Windows systems, and it’s clear why companies use Windows.

And that doesn’t even take into account that most consumers are entirely unaware of the privacy implications of telemetry and online accounts.

So, Microsoft can just get away with this kind of stuff.
Several years ago I wanted to learn Olympic Weightlifting. So I hired a trainer and have made good process considering that I was in my mid 30s and have never been active in my life.

These folks are gaming the system and getting something for free, that I've paid thousands of dollars for. That really grinds my gears. As far as I'm concerned his clients are just as complicit in this fraud as he is.
The fact that nobody's gone out on their own and built a native client means at least one of four things is true:

1. Slack is too restrictive, and its API is too poorly supported for anyone to create a port. I find this unlikely, given that the API is extensively documented and that an Emacs port already exists, but maybe there are problems I'm not aware of.

2. Good native ports are actually a lot harder to build and maintain than typical HN posters claim.

3. For all everyone complains about Electron, maybe the current app is good enough for pretty much everyone, including the complainers, and those complaints are largely just hot air.

or 4. A few good, Open Source native ports already exist, and people are just unaware of them.

Regardless, the HN crowd is made up of developers who know how to develop things and use experimental software -- most people on here know how to extract a login tokin, and a lot of people on here are willing to put in a lot of effort to solve problems. If there isn't a native port already, there's very likely a good reason for that.

If there isn't a good reason for it, and it's just that somehow nobody on HN has thought to sit down and build a native app yet, then I'd welcome one, I suppose. But obviously I'm not annoyed enough by Slack to do it myself, and I suspect that most other people posting here fall into that category as well.
Thank you so much. Marriage will be coming up fairly soon in my life and I've been dreading the expense. I hope my girlfriend finds this article as eye-opening as I did. The amount of many spent on a ring, ceremony, and reception have no correlation with our love for each other.
That's a good question. About a year and a half ago I compiled a large anthology of the history of logic and computation, and I remembered coming across that during my research. What I've been able to find now is the following section from Hodge's Turing biography (p 507-8 in the edition I have):

> Wiener regarded Alan as a cybernetician, and indeed ‘cybernetics’ came close to giving a name to the range of concerns that had long gripped him, which the war had given him an opportunity to develop, and which did not fit into any existing academic category. In spring 1947... Wiener had been able to ‘talk over the fundamental ideas of cybernetics with Mr Turing,’ as he explained in the introduction to his book... Wiener had an empire-building tendency which rendered almost every department of human endeavour into a branch of cybernetics... Wiener delivered with awesome solemnity some pretty transient suggestions, to the general effect that solutions to fundamental problems in psychology lay just around the corner, rather than putting them at least fifty years in the future. Thus in Cybernetics it was seriously suggested that McCulloch and Pitts had solved the problem of how the brain performed visual pattern recognition. The cybernetic movement was rather liable to such over-optimistic stabs in the dark.

So if this passage is indeed the source of my recollection, while very poor and perhaps exaggerated, I think it's pretty true to the spirit...
So, if I understand correctly, you make a UI mockup and then shoot a video of it in action? I'd be interested in talking about that. What's the best way to contact you?
Tell that to people who want to use modern services on a Linux workstation
Well there goes my last hope of ever getting a native slack client in my lifetime. I miss hipchat often. They had enough sense to make the client native.
Amazon has a big counterfeit problem. The reviews are entirely gamed, so can’t trust those any more , even the 2-star or 3-star ones.

So I recently dropped Amazon prime and ended up buying popular name brands. Even those you can get price matched with other retailers and Target even gives you 5% percent discount and BestBuy gives you points.

Unless you are a person who is not mobile, there are several options now.
TPP was little more than an attempt to get a bunch of countries to stand up to China. Trump is hardly the first US president to do so.

Arguably, Trump's economic actions and continued threats against the EU has led to EU countries cooperating with China in ways they refused to before.
Neat! I was also unaware of this.
You have more faith in the US government than I do. I really, sincerely hope you are right about that.
If I came onto your website and refreshed one of your pages 500 times, that would count as 500 page views but only 1 visit.
I dont like this "what if" apocalyptic event. I'd think the Linux kernel would be a big one.
This is a common solution to the problem of PII, but without any information on returning users I would argue that it's value as an analytics platform is limited. Few are the tools where you can grow the business without knowing the difference between a first-time and return user which is the reason cookies were invented in the first place.

However, since such businesses already need to collect personal info as part of your account creation it shouldn't be hard to build analytics on top of that existing PII. If they are already collecting PII it doesn't seem to save much to have their analytics tool avoid it?
I used the Salarium [0] for base comparison (unfortunately, the actual calculator is only available in German/French/Italian).

As an example calculation, [1] are the statistics for a 30 y.o. university graduate in the Zurich area. At 13 monthly salaries, the median yearly base compensation works out as 110k to 150k CHF.

I'm assuming that at 30, that person might have around 5 years of work experience, so that would land them around 150k using the Gitlab calculator as well. So a bit above median for Swiss citizens, not so much above median for expats.

[0] https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/work-income/...
[1] https://www.gate.bfs.admin.ch/salarium/public/index.html#/ca...
Git is fine, and the outage does not affect you and your team if you already have the source tree anywhere.

What it does affect is the ability to do code reviews, work with issues, maybe even do releases. All the non-DVCS stuff.
Inside Coinbase’s Executive Turmoil: Conflicting Visions
I don't think that's the whole picture. Unless they are actively consuming foreign news, they are likely to be underinformed at best.
I bet a bunch of PR's were built up from the weekend which weren't deployed, and some guy who came in at 9 decided to deploy them and broke things. Always scary to be the one to deploy if no one has deployed in a while.
Things often seem magical until they're understood.

As far as humans not being able to ever understand it, I guess that could be true but I wouldn't bet on it.
It’s an easy to use and pretty wrapper around Supercollider. Which is neat because once you get deep you can graduate to more custom SC setups. I spent a lot of time with PureData. It sucks that it’s no longer maintained. Supercollider and Sonic Pi are very worthy successors.

Here’s one of my fave public PureData patches, even though it’s dated. Generative dubstep that builds towards a drop that is triggered when you hit the drop button.

https://github.com/dropship/special-delivery
You're putting too high a bar on what we need to understand. We don't understand physics in its entirety either- we can still say lots of things with confidence.

That we are our physical body is pretty certain. You press a certain part of the brain, and predictably our personality changes. Of course we can't be certain of a lot of things, but I am much more certain of this than I am of of other things, and Godels theorems don't apply.
A Letter to the Future
There's also that story about oil companies sitting on the secret of perpetual motion...

Also, those companies happen to build products that are needed and can actually be afforded by people who need them to, you know, make a living, unlike Elon's shiny toys.

This conspiratorial mindset on part of Tesla's fans is far more detrimental than any mythical shorts' conspiracy or anything.
This makes it sound like it's quite common to use docker containers operating in a heavily stateful fashion. Is that indeed common nowadays? (Though, the state in this case is only counted on to persist in the named volumes.)
That's fair; although I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to have such a consistent and unique look-and-feel with React Native (you can correct me if I'm wrong). It's debatable whether that's a good tradeoff, but it's totally one that some people would make.
I really-really hope you are not relying on Docker only when protecting 19G of data. Docker volume operations are the equivalent of playing with sudo rm -rf, shit's going to happen once in a while.
Fathom Analytics is intentionally limited, and the limitations you point out are 100% intentional. There are many businesses who can't use our product, but millions that can :)
What is your use case for the Pi? That’s a very short lifespan.
Lots of different ways to do it, and of course github and online code review is tremendously useful to people, particularly on large projects with lots of collaborators, and where a history of reviews is required.

For lots of small projects though, it's perhaps not as necessary as people think. I run tests and linting locally on save and don't really use the code review/CI features of online hosts much. That won't suit everyone of course, but it is one possible path.
I'm sceptical that there would be a distinction between "alien species themselves" and "AGI of alien species". But I also think we should send better adapted machines to Mars instead of air-breathing mammals, so maybe that's just me.
Yup. By this criteria, if I (an adult-aged Canadian) decided to take my startup to Silicon Valley, it would be an 'immigrant' founded startup. My situation would also be completely unlike the scenarios that are dominating the immigration debate in the US at the moment.
You Are Going to Need It
I'd say they already know the paradigms & architectures so they don't throw themselves at the latest fad as easily and above all seem to value family more highly and lets be honest. Back in the day you had to learn some pretty amazing tech (assembler and low memory data structures) just to get by.

But yeah, just today there was a comment here on Hacker News saying (I'm paraphrasing): I learnt C then C++ then Java, then enough was enough. Which is just sad, that's like going from oatmeal to porrige.
Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech
That's completely fine given that the important state is on volumes (named, persistent, bind mounted, whatever).
It doesn't really mean anything actually, but you verses the 'competition' depends on your public profile as a software engineer and how you market yourself.

There are devs who joined FAANG because of their knowledge in their small beginnings in open-source software and their contributions. They get straight offers if they are well known in their communities if they switch jobs. For them, it is no contest.

For the rest of us coming from a bootcamp/university/self-taught, it is the Leetcode/Hackerrank/Codility/Data Structures and Algorithms route since they assume everyone else is an unknown dev.

Sorry to break it to you, but as far as my friends at those companies keep telling me, it is completely rigged in favor towards famous programmers.*

* Unless you have serious open-source projects used by large companies in production and you present them in a conference/meetup/etc, which is the EASIEST way to get a referral/offer via an engineer from a FAANG company IMHO.
Google AI Could Challenge Big Pharma in Drug Discovery