skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First sentence, yeah undeniable.

Second sentence entirely ignores the reality of regional Australia and it's overwhelming influence on politics to make terrible decisions that is a burden on the nation as a whole. A single marginal electorate left out of the final station decision will mean it's a nonstarter. And I can name 3 right now.

Also ignores how hard it is to build infrastructure in Australia today, the entire landscape is full of parasites. As much as I enjoy commenting about American lobbyists and it's negative outcomes, the reality is our lobbyists are infrastructure behemoths who probably do more damage to society keeping the status quo. The entir tender process is broken beyond a few million on offer.

You simply can't build big infrastructure projects in Australia anymore, the entire process has been hijacked by corporations.
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Love how smooth it is on mobile as well. Great project.
To be honest it seems like a bug (which is totally not uncommon with fb)

I've actually uninstalled the fb app because it was more buggy than using the mobile site.

It seems that notification doesn't get cleared for a while in the mobile site. Since the messenger app does notify of new messages and the notification does get cleared (on the app) once you read it, something is not right on the backend.
Thanks for you answer; but I caution you to consider not assuming, blaming or accusing victims of abuse to having brought it upon themselves. When you say I "messed with the wrong person," I would hope to be able ask you not to assume that. In my case I did not recall even having interacted with this person before it started.

By the way I hope you are wrong in your judgement here regarding opportunity, but I fear that you are right.
Taking attention from a free community project to market your for profit company certainly isn't a purely altruistic thing to do.
Given that Morris Worm is 30 years old and we keep using UNIX derived OSes, those ransomware people have plenty of opportunities still.
I'll leave this here: https://sci-hub.tw/ FTW
They have zero incentive to reign in their so called 'radical elements', they live in an apartheid state.
By the way we are not headed for some measly 2°C degrees warming. That's just the threshold where irreversible feedback loops happen. After that the warming will accelerate even without human action.
This will come if you like it or not - like billboards you have to look at... Just a matter of time. I guess 3-4 years from now on
good point, so, here, it is exactly syntax sugar as, unlike in C++, nothing else except syntax is different from the pointer-based version. Not to mention that, in the article, I was mentioning the general concept that has one (and single) variant, in C and Java, and 2 in Pascal or C++
But I think it's unhealthy if it comes at the cost of not being able to walk or bike anywhere. Kids need to be able to get around on their own, as should poor people who might not have a car. Cars have a tendency to clog up city centers, and their main value is outside cities, so designing a city so that cars are mainly for getting out of the city, while most places are easily accessible on foot or by bike, I think that creates a healthier, more fun, and more integrated city.

I admit for me personally it's mostly aesthetics, but this is also the direction that many professional city planners are working towards. At least in Netherland. It wasn't always like that; the 60s and 70s were very car-oriented, until people started to realise what the impact of cars on living spaces was.
Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning
I agree, I prefer to use the term 'modern capitalism' to refer to the current implementation.
I don't think Israel wants to acknowledge Palestinians as human beings, frankly
No? A lot of us don't keep paper around, and while some people do it, most people I know don't add restaurants to their contact list.
The level of pragmatism/resilience in statements like this is always baffling as an "outsider" who has never been in even a remotely comparable situation
I worked on internationalization extensively before (Pootle, specifically).

The good:

The library's API seems pretty well-thought-out. A good i18n API in JS/TS is highly needed, even more so one that works well with React. I use i18next in my projects but it's mediocre, although I don't know that the difficulties I end up facing with it wouldn't show up here.

The bad:

Pricing. Sorry but translation services are extremely competitive, and players that have been around a long time such as Crowdin, Transifex and Weblate have the benefit of being already trusted by name by a huge community of devs and translators.

You also talk about open source a lot but I'm disappointed your web tooling doesn't seem to be open source & self-hostable. This is one point where you really could differenciate yourself.

The ugly:

It looks like you've pretty concretely tied your i18n API and your translation UI together. I can't see your UI or whether it's any good, but I'm likely to want to use your API with a different translation service, or your translation service with a different API.

Also, please, Google oauth is basically a requirement for any b2b service.

(I'm happy to give more thoughts on a video/screenshare chat if you like, feel free to reach out, email in my profile; always want to help new players in the i18n space)
1. Calculate terminal velocity of an empty rocket on a parachute

2. Calculate thrust and fuel reserve of solid rockets to reduce the speed of the rocket stage just below the speed at which it can survive hitting the ground

Such schemes were used in Soyuz for half a century, Zenith for 30 years, and other parachute landing system for tanks and other military hardware.
I read a lot of bad things about Elsevier, so who is supporting them? Why aren't editors moving their publications en masse to some free and open platform?

You'd think a reputation transplant would be possible if you just took the key people.
From a pure efficiency point of view, if you are bisecting like this it is best to divide in halves, which gives you 1 bit of information each time regardless of the outcome.

Of course, this assumes you can continue to apply the same method many times, which probably doesn't apply to this case, as you can only fool Light with a similar method a limited number of times (possibly once only). In that case you probably want to do it more fine-grained than 1/3 so that you get more bits of information once you get to the first (and therefore last) successful attempt.
> standard IQ tests not being able to measure relevant skills for tech companies

I am basing this on what the HR department for the company that I work for tells me. They have been administering them for years and they have never been a reliable indicator of company performance. That doesn't mean they're not used - management loves them.

> The psychometric research is clear

Do you have some sourcing for me? Perhaps I can read up and improve my own professional experience with new colleagues.
There is also ExceLint [1] for fixing bad data in (Excel) spreadsheets. I never tried it.

[1] https://github.com/ExceLint/ExceLint
The papers they hold hostage have not been fully backed up [1] and made accessible for everyone. Elsevier does deserve to go bankrupt, but we must ensure that the information they have amassed gets salvaged.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832410/
I don't even want to read the article. I am on UC's side whatever happened.

Hearing someone is having a dispute against Elsevier is like hearing someone is fighting polymetis. I just know which side I want to see win.

The fact that no politician ever moved to destroy Elsevier destructive behavior that impairs research shows how little interest they have in scientific research.
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This is a SIMD library (vector in the sense of doing many things at once), what you linked are maths library (vector as in mathematical concept). There’s clearly a bunch of overlap, both are used to do calculations and afaik the libraries you link also use SIMD when they can, so the practical difference is that this library is lower level and more generally applicable (but presumably more complex or difficult to work with).
Lately, I have been coming across a lot of really cool crypto projects that seem to get very little coverage in the ProductHunt community. They have a crypto topic but I think we are getting to a point where there is so much going on in the crypto space it might justify a daily list of it's own.
And thanks to that Microsoft has put in place several security development based procedures that still aren't fully followed on the FOSS world.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/securityengineering/sdl

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/michael_howard/2006/05/19/a...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/how-t...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern...
I was waiting for the "but". Reaching the final period of your sentence was deeply satisfying.
> Still much better than C++ though.

Well, no. There is zero reason to use Rust if you already know modern C++. Rust's only benefit is being newbie-friendly.
The clincher is, a cassette tape is fairly chunky and can be ripped off the front of the magazine and lost.

Records are comparatively thin (though quite large) and could be made as flexible sheets which can be stapled into the magazine as a tear-out or pull-out insert, removing the issue of them going missing.

Catch is the paper-thin ones don't last for many plays, and you need a fairly well-adjusted record player to use them. Some recording formats are more tolerant of speed variation than others. FSK-based ones like CUTS/Kansas City should be fairly tolerant, pulse-timing based ones possibly less so.
Their model is to leech out public funding through catering at decision maker interests. There are strong incentive to keep the system as it is and no one is paid to organize to fix that problem.

In theory that's when you would like to see politicians put an end to these practices but corruption is legal in US, so...
While we’re doing “as well as”s about Elsevier...

I hate how soulless the journals feel. Recently, I wanted to read a quite old paper as it connected to my recent research. It was published in the 60s, in a journal that has housed some extremely ground breaking work in my field. But you wouldn’t get that impression from their elsevier site. Where is the history? Where is the pride? Instead it looks just like any old rubbish journal, and any reader who stumbled upon it would think the same unless they read its history in Wikipedia.
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Stigler's law of eponomy says that no scientific law is named after its discoverer [0]. What you're describing is far more common than you might think!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
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People forget Twitter is a publishing platform.

Can you run a newspaper and be in the public service?

We are so used to twitter we forget it's a publishing platform.

You want to tweet and hold a job you must do it in private.

But equally the rules must apply to all, if your employer allows some views published and not other then it can be an infringement of rights.

If the abc.nat.au (Australia's public media) actually cared about free speech they'd talk about section 18C. This is a 'chilling blow' because it goes against ABC's slant, you won't see them defending the other Australian who got fired for tweeting.
Yes, orientation. The orientation doesn't change on screen, and yet it's going thrusters first to the right, which looks like where it's come from.
Oculus Co-Founder Doesn't Believe in VR Gaming Anymore
A single kid going to two different schools is extremely rare here, but as it happens, that's exactly what my son has doing since he was 8: a regular school just around the corner, and a "day a week" school for gifted children which is a bit further away. I take him there by bike. A car wouldn't add much value for me there.

But Amsterdam is a sizable yet compact city, which makes everything easy to reach. In a differently designed city, or a smaller town where you might have to travel to another town, things can be completely different.
Just to highlight what is already well known is a big downside of securing the “lifetime financial remuneration” is the sheer length of the training and juniper years. I’m not going to pretend that those in other careers don’t work hard (they do and reading some of the things on this website makes me feel I have it easy), however I can see why it’s not for everyone. The path in my country (Australia) is shorter than in America which at quickest is as follows
5 years medical school after finishing high school at 17/18. 2 years being a junior (average workweek is 50-60 hours which isn’t too bad). Then training for a specialist takes 5 years average workload is super variable anything from 40-80 hours a week. Then sometimes people do 1-2 years overseas to gain an edge on a certain area within their field. Then finally you come back as a boss (hopefully earning the big bucks at this time After securing a job in what can be a saturated market). Oh and don’t think about claiming overtime during this process, you get paid as if you worked 40 hours a week regardless.
The above mentioned includes evenings public holidays night shifts etc.

It’s a long road and I can see why it would be hard if not impossible for others to carry through until the end depending on their age and life circumstances. I think once you consider not only the high income once you made it, but the long path (what I described above is streamlined assuming everything lines up perfectly and you outcompete your competition) it’s moderate to above average compensation at best. I contrast this to my friends in engineering and law whom have secured 6 figure salaries 1-2 years after graduating, have their weekends off and told me they haven’t studied since university.
I do get the impression at least US software engineering may be the best way to secure a great income at a young age these days, hopefully it stays this way for you guys. Just wanted to stress don’t go into medicine for the long term financial remuneration because there’s likely something better for the work that you need to put in.
> For example, one that would be easy enough to defend ...

I'm sorry, but at this point, I think you're being pedantic. I have no interest in that here, and while I could have been exhaustively thorough in my original statement, I just didn't think I needed to and thus chose to be terse. I continue to believe I was clear then, and also believe that in the example you cite here a scientific basis (either for or against) can be clearly tested and observed.

> Thus, you judgment of the friend's discrimination against the drink ...

No. My point is I do not judge my friend on their discrimination against the drink. I judge my friend on their discrimination against the person. The drink is just an object, it's only purpose is in being 'not a person'. Replace it with anything else (say, something edible, or, a greeting) and my point still stands.

> If they did so because of a property of the drink it is fine.

No, that doesn't matter. If they did so because of the time of day, or their mood, or the colour of their shirt that day, would be the same. The difference lies in whether they did so because of the person offering.
At one point, that's a coward's stance.

Alexandra Elbakyan's contribution to scientific research at this stage is probably higher than any university's library.

Recognize that everyone uses it because none of the legal options are acceptable. Say it and urge a long overdue change in copyright laws.

It is abnormal that Elbakyan is the outlaw and Elsevier the respectable institution here.
Publishing in high impact journals is vital for a scientific career.

Only the very top has enough individual reputation that they can ignore Elsevier & co. And they still like their articles published in Science, Nature, or whatever the most prestigious journal is in their field.

Some top dogs are already boycotting Elsevier and the situation is very slowly changing, but the publishers hold a lot of leverage because of self-imposed academic incentives.
It is hard to say this, but Russia is helping the world fight against Elsevier and all those money funneling institutions... (with scihub, for anyone not knowing that it is a russian 'service')
You mean only allow people to "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" a place, and then aggregate the results to form a sort of star rating?

I mean because you've either had a good experience or a bad one, and if you've had an average experience why post a review?
To be fair - I don't think the comment was criticizing Tolkien. It was just making an observation.
Everything about this is bizarre. It spends a lot of time explaining what a pair is, but then just assumes that computational complexity and O-notation are known.

Union-find is a strange choice as a first data structure, but OK, maybe it could be made to work. However, none of the variants presented is like union-find in actual implementations. There is no path compression. The second variant of uf-add looks like it tries to do something path compression like, but it's in the union or (usually) find operation where it needs to be.

And then, the uf-union operation: No practical union-find implementation accesses the list of all entries in this operation. A linear traversal over all entries defeats the purpose of having all operations be amortized almost-constant time. (Also, uf-add seems to allow adding new entries to the data structure but does not add them to the points list. There are some bugs waiting to happen.)

I won't try to judge the Lisp part of this book, but the algorithms and data structures part is deeply flawed, and nobody should try to use this as a first or primary learning resource.
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> A hypothetical system where everyone owns some means of production, would still be capitalism.

No, it wouldn't, because it is marketable ownership of the means of production that defines capitalism; that is, it is the buying and selling, not the ownership alone, that is key (particularly, historically, the marketability of the means of production is a key factor distinguishing capitalism from feudalism, in which much of the means of production was owned but attached to entailments which the current owners were not free to alienate.)

For a version of your example, if everyone owned a fixed, equal share of the means of production which was not marketable, that would be an implementation of socialism.
This. This is what regulators should be concerned about.
Endorsing a US-law breaking site like SciHub could place them on the hook for legal repercussions.

This non-endorsement endorsement achieves the same goals without the above liability.
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I am a 27 years old Software Engineer from Central Europe. I want to do something good for humanity.

Given my skills, how could I help society the most? I am not seeking for fame or fortune, I would even work for free in some cases (I have savings to survive for a year or two depending on a country).

I am tired of this capitalistic materialistic society, and just want to give something back as I feel I've been very privileged in my life and already experienced quite a lot (heartbreaks, travelling, working at different companies, living in different countries).

I am a hard-worker, so almost nothing is impossible (as long as you put lots of work and time into it).

I feel I need some guidance, and I can relate to this community a lot. So if I can find any online, it is here.

Thank you very much.
> These. People. Deserve. Asylum.

Why? Those people are _economic migrants_, we don't have a duty to welcome them (unlike, say refugees from Syria)
They are a distinct ethnic group, which we usually call a race. Seeing as race is a fundamentally arbitrary distinction, I don't see why using it in this way can be called wrong.
Yet

https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/10/20/netflix-tests...
Might be WLAN Identification ...
Demon Domain
They aren't as comfortable in hot and/or humid areas.
This is quite similar in some ways to my own theory that I posted recently at https://whatismusic.info/blog/HypothesisMusicWasALanguageSys..., because it postulates a sudden transition from non-recursive language to recursive language. The one difference in my theory is that I assume that the original non-recursive language was musical (with one tune equals one meaning). And musical language could not evolve into a more efficient and expressive recursive form of language - it had to be replaced.
Taken literally, the unpaid component isn't gardening leave, but informally people will refer to the whole period of down-time as gardening leave.
This reminds me of the way Amazon will try to get you to go to smile.amazon.com when you follow an afilliate link to amazon.com.
The rot starts at the top: https://www.elsevier.com/about/management
Academics really do not have significant insight into the history of their own field.
The problem is really, that history makes for a nice introductory paragraph and by the time you can call yourself an academic you are very confident in your knowledge of history of the field because you read hundreds of times the introductory paragraph.

To make matters worse, the introductory paragraph was written by someone who has no training as an historian, and therefore also just paraphrases some tradition of introductory paragraphs.

As a concrete example, Newton's laws are actually not in the principia, but instead only appear a hundred years or so after his death. ( It is actually not unreasonable to still call them Newton's laws, but the argument is a lot more complicated than "Newton wrote Newton's laws.")
"Apartheid state" is an incendiary and useless label, though the comparison is indeed useful.

Unfortunately, the continuing violence of Palestinians against Israelis and the rhetoric about the destruction of Israel are the main argument for maintaining that oppression. And a particularly good one, as far as reasons for oppressing people go.
Ummm, do you not see a difference between forcing people to pay you money on threat of violence, vs. choosing whether to allow people to market on your platform?
It comes with a high toll on the locals mental health.

This is a place that is home to 1.8 million people. The blockade has been on since 2007 (and in some other form before that).
I wonder who is doing these expeditions, is it the Egyptian government?
Yes, I came here to say precisely that. It looks like it has about the same things available as coq as far as syntax is concerned, so what are the differences?
I actually kinda like the idea. The concept of (limited set of) "reserved keywords" always annoyed the mathematical purist in me.

On an unrelated note, this-is-a-valid-identifier also in Lisp, but weirdly enough, the parens "( )" require shift. I think Lisp should use "[ ]" as parens because they do not require shift on modern keyboards.
I'm Portuguese, and we eat a lot of octupus over here...
They seem to be wrong about that “last” prophet thing, since everybody knows about Joseph Smith, who came after Monammed.
Growth mindset study finds no impact on student performance (n=5018)
I have 2 kids and live in Berlin car-less without trouble.

We use public transit and bicycles (lots of parents have cargo bikes for transporting little kids e.g. https://www.babboe.de/lastenraeder/big).
Sure drop me an email > valentin at onload dot ie
All "cleverness" usually comes from struggle with parser generator. It's too many languages in the wild with weird syntax due to lack of interest/skills in proper parser.
Depends on their motivation. If they're genuinely concerned about your health they're probably a good friend.
s/baked/brewed/ and you'd have had me at "hello".