skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up with cassettes, and random access (lack thereof) was always the big drawback for me. Even vinyl, their predecessor, gave you that. With tapes you're shuttling the tape for a seeming eternity, then going forward & back by trial and error, to find the beginning of a specific song. The technology is better for listening in order. Hence mixtapes.

Footnote: from hearing certain songs in the same order many times, like on my best & most-played tapes, I eventually grew to expect the next song upon hearing the previous one end. So even though I quickly and enthusiastically abandoned the technology of cassettes, I did recreate some of those mixes as digital playlists.
It would help if privacy policies were brief and clear.
Good information but it rather depends on what the goal of the benchmarking is. Many (most?) of those changes aim for consistency at the expense of making the benchmark server vastly different from the configuration of a normal end-user server, raising the question of how to translate the benchmark results into usable information for the end-user.
Sites using the like button are dumb to begin with, especially if they are in e-commerce. You’re handing your competitors an ability to do lookalike targeting of your customers via Facebook ads. This is one of the biggest advantages of that platform. Surprised nobody writes about this while gasping at Facebook’s profits.
Some /pol/ members have committed acts of mass murder.

Al Queda is also a loose organization without explicit membership, etc.

I don’t see any difference between the two organizational structures from an anti terror perspective (though Al Queda might sometimes organize humanitarian actions — Many Islamic terrorist groups have a recruiting arm that does this sort of thing, and I can’t keep them straight anymore)
A friend was in China on business recently and the local corporate It department told him they were installing government required monitoring software so that he could vpn back to the US office. This might have been a misunderstanding as that guy isn't very technical, have you heard of this?
throughout history, depending on what country/civilization was at the top, a lot of scientific achievements came from there (egypt, china, india, Greece, rome, muslim cultures, portugal, england, france, germany, and finally usa etc...). I'm going to say a-lot of scientific innovation is sociological in nature. Meaning the confidence of a country is directly correlated to the amount it invests in scientific research and corresponding results. Once that confidence runs out, due to a host of reasons, the country falls into a decline and scientific pedigree moves to a different place.
It’s not about getting “likes” on your FB page. It’s used as a tracking pixel to target specific users of your site for retargeting etc
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A search engine is trying to predict which pages will be helpful to you in response to your query. This means it should take "how does the page look to users" as input, which today means executing JavaScript.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, not on search)
How does making guns legally inaccessible in the US stop these kind of people from doing these things? Pirating software is illegal, but that doesn't stop people from pirating software.
He spelled “involved” wrong :D :P

PS - (Please don’t downvote me _/\_)
>> The fact that young women are getting educated is a victory for everyone,

Sure, for those Women it's a victory, and many others in society.

But for everyone ? I'm sure some people in society do lose from that extra economic competition and the lower status they get.
I have an affection for Windows CE devices, particularly those wide-screen clamshell models. The keyboard without wasted bezel space around is deeply satisfying to my sense of aesthetics. It's a shame the DSTN screens are so unpleasant to use.
It matters for Facebook tracking users in exchange for the "opportunity" of increasing traffic. Of course most of this traffic only occurs if you pay for it.
This is a great idea for people that don't have the money to pay their fair share of taxes.
Other than steve jobs, pretty much 95% founders these days come from upper middle class with professional parents (doctors, engineers, professors, lawyers etc...)
The American right believes that it needs guns to protect itself from the government and is terrified that the left will come to take its guns away.

This has gotten more and more extreme to the point that they are now basically against any gun control laws including restrictions on machine guns or any sort of background checks.
> Likelihood of licensing some moron with a tank full of jet fuel to buzz above thousands of pedestrians- about zero %

Well, in the US there are plenty of morons with licensed fire arms, so why would jetpacks be an obstacle?
Desalination is cheap in day to day terms, it’s the scale of water we use that’s the issue.

Sure, we can get ~1,000 gallons of drinking water for 3$ via desalination. That works out to a monthly water bill increase of ~45$ for a family of 5. Unfortunately, crops need incredible amounts of water. So, growing corn etc with desalination would case food prices to ~quadruple.
What Happens When You Give Up Plastic
Yes! It's also software that matters very little if you can't get a good support story for it - it's not customer facing and there are no SLAs, so worst case, everyone's automation fails but they can still get their job done. If you want to build a CLI for handling code reviews or an automated bisection tool using OCaml on a Raspberry Pi or whatever, that's way more acceptable than building customer-facing software (either services or shipped software) using OCaml on a Raspberry Pi.

Also, writing this type type of software makes you an actual 10x engineer (by making 10 other engineers more productive).
You can join any "IT-Genossenschaft" like [0] or [1], which legally saves you from falling into the "Scheinselbstständigkeit" category. One-time cost is about 100-200€.

[0] https://www.4freelance.de/

[1] https://www.it-projekt-eg.de/
It's important to make the distinction between subpixel positioning and subpixel (RGB) rendering. I'd personally say yes to the former, even at high dpi, and no to the latter if you're on a mobile device. The kerning errors you get from quantizing the position of glyphs to integer pixels are, to my eyes, a noticeable degradation of quality.
No, that is not running it on your phone. That is accessing it on your phone.
Use flat-files and plain-old PHP functions to make web apps
You are amusing yourself by assuming (without basis) that the resume would be binned.

Care to explain why do you think so?
they have gone somewhere. batteries are massively better than 20 years ago
How to Reach Out to Someone Whose Career You Admire
Which is why the EU has already mandated that. But privacy is a complicated issue, so there are limits to how brief a complete policy can be; just the suggested template[1] is a four page PDF.

[1] https://gdpr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Our-Company-Priva...
Where does the author get the idea that it's ok to refer to people as "Old Fart" Programmers?
Have you ever heard the phrase "please drink responsibily"?

Besides, it's a different issue. It is general knowledge that alcohol has some serious health consequences.
It's pretty clear that hydrogen-powered automobiles are not going to be a thing -- electric batteries work very well for that use case. There are some cases where I think hydrogen might still work better than the alternatives.

The most obvious one is aviation. There are a few battery-electric aircraft flying today but they have very short range. I don't think there's any conceivable battery chemistry that will allow anywhere near the range of hydrocarbon-powered aircraft.

However, liquid hydrogen has much greater energy density than hydrocarbon fuels. It's also quite difficult to work with. But when you're talking about a vehicle the size of a 737 (much less an A-380), the economics might ultimately be favorable.

It would probably require aircraft models specifically designed for liquid hydrogen -- the tanks are so large that the aircraft will have to be designed around them. That's probably a major impediment to adoption. It's possible that biofuels or synthetic fuels made from CO2 will instead replace fossil fuels in aviation, instead.
I haven’t tried, but are the variables properly captured in closures? LET should have “temporary” lexical scope, not “temporary” temporal/dynamic scope.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599127
Powerful doesn't mean fast. Python is quite slow but C++ is not powerful enough to make so many things usable without -comparatively- a lot of work.

C++ is very fast and entrenched in a few markets ( gamedev, trading, etc) but that's it. As a language it is quite average, encumbered by too many features, too many corner cases.
Jupiter: RISC-V Assembler and Runtime Simulator
Corporation with financial interest in disinformation spreads it through press release. News at 11
Dirt cheap by military supplier standards. Makes a lot of sense as a small drone/cruise missile engine.

Coming soon to a wannabe State Level Actor's arsenal! I'm thinking Da'esh here, but could equally well be white supremacist militias or the New IRA post-Brexit, or just about anyone with a weapons R&D budget in low single-digit millions.

Just as smartphones have given us all a general purpose James Bond gadget in our pocket, so too is the availability of cheap computing elements, drone components, and tech like this going to give every militia on the planet the sort of smart weapons capability that was bleeding edge in the 1990s.
> There's important findings in here, but it also reminds me of reactions to Prius, Tesla, public buses, etc., where people latch on to any viable excuse to continue their wasteful status quo.

I think the point raised in here is that taking the bus or biking is generally more environmentally friendly. Existing solutions are already better for this particular metric.

The one thing this article hints at is that riders may have taken a more wasteful option had the scooters not been there. But it's only one survey.
for this there's a e-privacy regulation in the works[1] but it already took a lot of time... GDPR only got as much support as it did because the snowden leaks happened shortly before the vote.

As I understand it, it will include things like Do-Not-Track and a better cookie banner legislation, which makes the banners less common.

Enforcement is trickier. Let's wait for a few more rulings and see if that's enough.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/proposal-epriv...
Wasn't it because they hit the scale where managing their own data store, renting colo space, etc. was cheaper than AWS? I've heard first-hand from some large players that self-hosting is cheaper. One is still-hosted, but one is on the cloud as a strategic bet.
>Putting Xinjiang on your itinerary would likely result in your visa being refused anyway

1. get a multiple entry visa

2. say you're going to shanghai or whatever on the application

3. go to Xinjiang on your second visit
Honestly, it scares me that this was even filed. Even though we know how ridiculous it is to include Github in this suit, I'm afraid we're going to be left with some weird middle ground that shouldn't even exist to begin with made by people who have no idea how things work trying to fix something that isn't broken.
For this example in incognito mode without me logged in, results are similar, no problems. It is normal that it for changes results depending on user profile. Do you have other examples?
I mean the european continent (not so much the UK sadly) has shown that if you build a connected thought out cycle network it will get used heavily.

I was out with my stepson for a ride today and the UK is failing poorly on this one.
OP here. I am an "Old Fart" Programmer myself, no offense intended :)
I'm not sure and I don't want to misspeak. I know that my company does not do such a thing, and my phone when roaming (Project Fi) bypasses the GFW. However, I do know there are specific different IT infra requirements when connecting from China but none that are gov-monitoring related. It may be a misunderstanding, or it may be a procedure that your friends' IT was following that we aren't.

That being said, foreigners accessing the normal WWW is really not a major concern if you think about it.
It's not a boundary of "fundamental ethical reasoning". It's a balance of societal desire and available resources.

If your startup has assessed the question of accessibility, documented it, not actively worked against accessibility, done whatever internal leads consider reasonable within its cost constraints (eg, where costs allow asking/employing experts), then you're on track.

Same goes for having a store with a step at the front.

If you're making millions in revenue [through your website] but won't create an accessible colour scheme, or provide Aria tags, skip links, image descriptions, and such that are pretty much standard boilerplate nowadays then you deserve to be hauled up on it, IMO.
Why don't you write about it, you seemed informed and we would like to know.
It depends if you think the likes you get are worth more or less than however Facebook can use the data against you.
Sure, but that's already covered - you need to have a data processing contract with Google to use GA while being GDPR compliant. You'll have to do the same with Facebook for their buttons now, FB will provide an agreement and you sign it pro forma and that's it, I guess.
Complete resume:
https://i.imgur.com/jZ5bdB6.jpg
Everyday Economists
Oh, of course it is related. Also, apart from declining mental performance, with age comes valuable experience.
The tanks were in southern England, there were no "friendly locals" to report anything to Germany.
and what about SSN in other countries? like in Mexico we have CURP, RFC, NSS, etc
It... seems like maybe you didn't read my post.
I’m reminded of a webpage that claimed to know your pin for your credit card; just do a find in page to see! In reality, it just had all 10,000 possible numbers listed in numerical order
Fine here.
Or just search for "powered by".
Right. There's no enforcement of visa itineraries so long as your first one has valid flights & hotel. After that, you get 10 years of multiple entry with no required itineraries. I just brought it up as a point, that Xinjiang is not a place you would normally be going. People seem to assume that Xinjiang is just a normal crossing into China that has heightened security. That's not the case at all. You would never accidentally end up there on a trip to China.
Needing consent for sending data to Fb is only consequential and consistent with the law's goals. It's been good practice on decent German sites for a long time to present social media buttons as greyed-out icons to indicate tracking code by those third parties is only embedded on the linked page.
Also in many cases there is a final round of modifications done by the publisher that you are not free to distribute. For journal paper I was told that sometimes you cannot even publish the corrected version after rebuttal.
What advantages do they have over the $150 target model?
Well, he mixed up "selbstständig" (self employed) and "Freiberuf" (a specific tax setup for specific kinds of occupations). Unlike in many other professions he _can_ be "selbstständig" in the CS field without a degree, and he can create a GmbH w/o any special qualification. Which is pretty unusual in Germany :-)

It is very different in many other professions. So yes, you actually have to be an electrician with extra qualifications to be able (allowed) to setup an electrician shop (called a "Meister" ("master") but it is entirely different to the university master degree).
This is even true for seemingly low profile stuff like haircutters, or painting shops!

And the rational should be obvious: You don't want to allow people to run a business which don't know how to write a basic invoice and you don't want an electrician who doesn't know how to properly install electric lines.
Exactly. At Target, their internal SKUs follow the format xxx-xx-xxxx. That happens to be the same as the SSN format
Apple and Samsung earnings show most people don’t want $1k phones
Don't forget ZFS.

I seriously wish Google had bought Sun. Their cultures are so much more compatible, and while the Sun's hardware business didn't really mesh with Google's, it would have saved them some headaches with Oracle, and with the direction custom hardware is headed, might have become a real asset.
Nobody has written a modern, high quality, comprehensive biography of Gates. I'd recommend these three:

Hard Drive (1993), by James Wallace

Gates (1992), by Stephen Manes

Idea Man (2011), by Paul Allen

Idea Man is available for $5 on the Kindle right now and is an excellent read, however Gates is only a secondary major character for 1/3 of the book. It does cover the early days though. And Gates is available on the Kindle as well.
Mapping services are cheap, mobile internet is ubiquitous and everyone has a smartphone.
It’s the same issue as gender or race discrimination. There are often differences in means, but because within group differences are an order of magnitude larger than between group differences, from the perspective of any two individuals trying to understand each other, group membership gives you no meaningful information.

Knowing the averages will actually make you worse at assessment.
Any automated detection scheme can be thwarted by encryption as trivial as ROT13.

You could leave a comment in README: "To decrypt, just run 'l33t-xor-crypt --key bob --file hacked-data.txt'" and Github's scanner is none the wiser.

Meanwhile, it will be finding all the false positives already mentioned, especially test suites with fake data.
sci-hub.tw does work
One way to set this up is using some form of consulting/temporary worker company as an intermediate. I was employed in that form for a while. So legally that company hires you and then invoices the U.S. corporation taking a cut. In my case that was Kelly Services and was hassle free (I got my salary as negotiated in time, only interaction I had with them was signing a contract and terminating it) no idea how hard this is to setup or what the cut is they take.
m.facebook.com is too

Also Facebook messenger doesn’t seem to allow image messages

Instagram seems to be working but DM’s aren’t sending
Could ask said references what I'm like (See "Won't last long in a Japanese corporation if not a good team player").

I don't do self-promotion well. I just state the facts. Apparently, that's enough to "have an attitude."

I spent most of my career at a marquée corporation; surrounded by the finest engineers and scientists in the world, where I was NOWHERE NEAR the top of the heap, and never pretended to be so.

The simple fact that stating that I have a PROVABLE PORTFOLIO means that I "have an attitude" is a sign of how sick the industry is.

BTW: That portfolio is full of errors and mistakes I've made, as well as successes. I'd never dream of getting any work by deception. I want folks to know what they are getting; warts and all.

I know damn well that I'm not a "rockstar." I was a hiring manager for years. This is not a Dunning-Kruger binge. I'm quite aware of where I fit in the food chain.

And I guess that it's obvious. I'm done looking. I wouldn't post stuff like this if I were. Sooner or later, I'll probably be looking to hire other folks. I'm a really, really good manager. You should see some of the testimonials on my LI profile. One of my "golden rules," has always been to treat others as I would want to be treated; regardless of how I am actually treated. Being a working engineer during my entire management career helped me to have a lot of empathy (and hard to BS). I was also privileged to manage a really high-functioning team of top-shelf developers. They knew more than me; and that was great.

If things don't work out...well, I can wash dishes as well as the next guy. I don't really have as much ego tied up in this stuff as it seems. I just love tech.
This might be the first good, non-entitled argument I’ve run across for having some form of software engineering licensure: having qualified people whose technical testimony in court would carry more weight than Larry McSues-a-lot.
A general purpose library for C
I have been working a C library for the past four years. It was originally designed for the compiler I am writing. However, I realized many of the components could be reused, which gave birth to Jez Toolkit (JTK). Currently, the library implements collections, unit tests, file I/O, and other modules. The library is a well designed alternative to Glib. I need some help to implement other powerful features such as regression, networking, concurrency, etc.

You can check out the repository here.

https://github.com/itsonecube/jtk/tree/dev
Listening to the neural network gradient norms during training
Can you expand on that? There may be selective enforcement but a hundred million ssn’s on any platform causes the same amount of damage. If you’re going to hold the platform accountable for preventing it what’s the rationale for excluding a small player? You’d just drive this activity their way.
Hi eregon, I've submitted a fix to ruby/spec already! \o/ (I'm @lopopolo on GitHub.)

One spec I know is missing is how capture groups should not be expanded into globals on `String#=~`. I'll file an issue [0].

[0] https://github.com/ruby/spec/issues/676
Because moot wasn't a censoring type, went against his nature and 4chan in general.
I'd recommend people read this discussion of linked list vs array performance: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/#an-obligat...

TLDR; linked lists' theoretical performance advantages are often negated by years of hardware optimization for dealing with arrays.
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What are you not sure of with Julia here? There are places in the ecosystem to not be sure of, but this isn't one. Julia has probably the most advanced mathematical optimization right now with JuMP (http://www.juliaopt.org/JuMP.jl/v0.19.2/) and some of the most advanced post-DL machine learning with the full language differentiable programming tools (Zygote, Tracker, ForwardDiff) which have showcased applications like quantum machine learning and neural stochastic differential equations (https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07587). Some of it is still in flux, but in terms of ecosystem there's a lot of stuff there that you won't find in other languages.
People are writing about it - saw this trending on HN just yesterday:

https://prospect.org/article/how-digital-advertising-markets...
French inventor makes 'beautiful' flight across English Channel on hoverboard
The world’s best optimizing compiler for a quantum programming language was built in Common Lisp [1], and it couldn’t have reasonably been built otherwise.

[1] https://github.com/rigetti/quilc
SSNs don't have a checksum like credit card numbers do (or like national identity card numbers do), because the SSN is not meant to be used the way it is used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
Maybe the author lives in a world where there's no reason to be offended by every little thing and people can take a joke? ;)

Granted, text can't convey irony, I know.
Does Facebook allow it?

Unless you have rights holders permissions then the social links at the bottom of that article look like copyright and probably trademark infringements. (I'm not saying that's a good thing, just how it appears.)
The problem is they might change that page or file in the future. You have no guarantee that what you're reading is the original version of the paper.