skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you going to get China, a huge consumer of soy, to play along? Chinese investors are making significant investments in Brazilian agriculture. I'm fairly certain they will not welcome Chinese government tariffs on imported soy, nor do I think the Chinese government has any interest in those types of tariffs.
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Are we? Because articles such as this seem to blame 8chan and 4chan (they never mention the rest of the site which has stuff from /g which is GNU stuff and the transexual and gay communities on there). Back in the 90s they blamed Doom, Heavy metal and Rap music. In the 1950s and 60s they blamed horror / slasher comics.

As for giving them a platform and an audience bringing more followers, firstly this is terminology used for justify soft censorship. Secondly in the UK back in 2010 Nick Griffin (a notorious anti-semite/racist and leader of the BNP) was allowed to speak on Question Time (a very popular show on the BBC). Afterwards we didn't hear from the BNP again because the ideas were exposed for what they were. The BNP party is effectively dead in the UK.

Almost every-time one of these racists are actually spoken to the vast majority of the population reject their message. Every-time it is repressed these ideas resurface because these people create their own echo-chambers and makes these ideas sexy as they are considered taboo.
I'm a bit baffled why sci-hub has generated so much controversy, yet library genesis is much less frequently discussed afaics in the anglophone internet. It seems to me that sci-hub is doing something more easily defendable than libgen. (They're related right?). The scale of libgen's copyright-violating operation and vision is staggering, it's like a free amazon for books.
Enough information to hero worship, apparently.
You're right, I should have used the term "era" in there. ust to be clear though; 160 bc was certainly the Roman era. The city of Rome was founded in the 700's BCE. The Punic wars were fought between 264–146 BCE. Rome conquered Greece in 146 BC. Rome dominated the seas for generations before the mechanism was made.
Ugh, I honestly couldn't tell if this article was a joke or not (it seems to not be). The more you read the more absurd it becomes.

I've not heard of JPEG XL before now. Why would you name it that? XL certainly doesn't make me think "wow that sounds like way better compression".

JPEG Blockchain: come on! Are you really so worried about being relevant that you have to talk about blockchains in your press release?

JPEG AI: I could image that this is real, but I'm fairly skeptical of anything that is taking about machine learning and blockchains in the same context.

Its so unnecessary too. A 3x quality improvement is massive. Why not just let that speak for itself? This press release makes me hope just a little bit that JPEG XL loses out to WebP or HEIF.
It would if they didn't have sufficient compute, RAM, ROM.

Something that can buffer and edit 2 lines (~160 byte, and not necessarily 8-bit ones either) does not necessarily want to add hundreds of kilobytes of dictionary and the code to look things up in it.
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Reading some comments here, and having recently gone through a number of interviews, I'm contemplating taking my own CS questions to which I know the answers to see how the interviewers solve problems, and what happens when they don't have the answers to a given problem.

I'm not sure how it would be received
The costs of a chip have very little to do with what is in them. It's a $100 chip for a good reason: profits. Because if you can't hear then $100 extra is very little money. Once the first silicon samples are in and the numbers are large enough it is very rare to see a chip that would command such figures in other fields, there is no reason that I am aware of that would justify this price.
I did not assume neferiousness, but profit and value is there. TV-networks get more voewers and money.
I won’t disagree with you there. Even this recent election of the neofascist Bolsonaro was essentially a self destructive act, very much grounded in identify politics (particularly anti-homosexual).
Oddly enough, there are institutions devoted to the curation, preservation, and circulation of written matter.

Not publishers.

Libraries.
"The company blamed it in part on some of the usual factors. Subscribers failed to reup after their promotional discounts expired; competition took its toll. DirecTV Now increased pricing, which undoubtedly led to some customers leaving."

The last article talks about a study including the type of people OP mentioned. They don't mind cable and commercials but end up being cord cutters anyway because of loss of control over the channels included.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2019/07/24/yikes...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2019/06/29/portr...
I'd love to see a norm develop where the 'authoritative link' to an article is expected to be the most open. So, if there's a closed journal and an Arxiv pre-print, Arxiv gets the link, with the journal's publication status considered 'about the article', but not the thing itself.

I think it moves us towards a clearer understanding of Academic Journal publication as peer review's 'stamp of approval', rather than the explanatory event per se. And this will make easier to move towards long-term, sustainable practices for publication and science.
E-books in PDF and ePub formats across a wide range of technology stacks, topics
I don't quite see much difference between Chinese government surveillance and US corporate surveillance at this stage. The power structures are different, but the result is the same.

Google knows everywhere I am and reads all my email.
>>Still the Govt is investing:

To get emission cuts back on track, the government announced in July that 20 new research laboratories will receive a total 100 million euros ($110 million) a year to test new hydrogen technologies for industrial-scale applications. Even more money is earmarked for labs in “structural change” regions, or those most affected by the nations’ shift.
So is drinking alcohol, but you don’t see stop drinking commercials on TV.
Those algorithm test platforms are completely useless. I stopped using them long ago. No engineer I hire has to sort shit or filter out duplicates. I assume they know the sort functions in the language. I ask engineers with a blank GitHub to implement a small demo project which shouldn't take longer than 2-3h to finish and they have 2 weeks time (or actually as long as they need) to deliver. It gives me a lot of insight, I can see how people structure their code and if the code looks sloppy etc. You don't get a normal day at work result if you put people under pressure with these pseudo-hacker platforms. Most of the candidates have a life and I don't expect them to spend their evenings on some platform to impress potential new employers.
Can tourism save wolves in Germany?
Nine killed in Dayton, the second US mass shooting in 24 hours
It's been, along with some other *chans, scrubbed from Google search results for quite some time now.
Yeah, it looks like $15k in 1974 is ~$80k today
I like this, but it looks tricky to setup. There is an old dogma that has existed for a long time where people are advised not to run their own mail client because it's rife with show-stopping quirks that require lots of heavy Googling to fix and amend.

Interesting that their FAQ says it's easy to setup, but I don't buy it, at least from previous experience of setting up clients. (I once had to harden my VPS server rather substantially because they are juicy targets for hackers)...And I also once had to make it survive a reboot incase of too many connections were made by people trying to boot the machine offline (DDOS)

(https://www.mailpile.is/faq/#int-6)

> How hard will it be to install Mailpile?

> It should simply be a double-click to launch an installer on Windows, or dragging an app to the Applications folder on the Mac.

> On Linux we hope to provide native packages for most of the popular distributions.
> 3c. The business model is always selling subscriptions to libraries, mostly university libraries (but also regular ones and research outfits in industry)

The main criticism I read about Elsevier is that universities can’t subscribe to just the most important Elsevier publications but have to subscribe to a big package while the content producers aren’t paid by Elsevier but work at the universities. This only works, because Elsevier is a monopoly and this is the reason why science hub is a thing.
Flywheels Create Moats
It can't give you the one thing that is more valuable than sound: silence. I wonder what happened to practical applications of 'anti-sound'.
New poll finds the US generally trusts scientists, with some exceptions
This is easy. You sue the companies with money.

https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1986/06/22/
Obviously they are going to argue that section 230 doesn't apply.

Section 230 subsection d:

> (4) No effect on communications privacy law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the application of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 or any of the amendments made by such Act, or any similar State law.
“We made a mistake, don’t make the same mistake” isn’t moralizing nor is it hypocritical.
Pay attention to the $15K salary he wants- that's about $75K in today's money. Not much has changed,even though companies nowadays make many tons more money from the dev work...
So when you export your notes, I have provided a page that you can use to password protect/encrypt using AES256 on your machine using your password that you choose for that notebook (notebooks up to 40~50 mb). The data also is encrypted on our servers so that if someone steals the disk, it will be useless to them. The server data encryption’s key is not per user though.
No one actually likes the parens of Lisp. I mean, just look at Racket2. Even the dedicated lispers who work on Racket think they suck.

I’ve written both Racket and Common Lisp professionally and consider myself very competent in both. In fact, I think they’re both great languages and one of the best around.

It’s not because of the parens though, it’s because what the parens give you: namely homoiconicity and easy macros.

Without these things, the increased syntax burden of parens don’t buy you anything except visual noise and being forced to type extra characters.
The alternative approach here would be to gernerate code for things that need genetics rather than using empty interface. Of course as with all things there are trade-offs... as there will be if/when generics are introduced.
this person is pulling out the old saw of "no mention of new sexy technologies like node graphql etc" about resume from a 1974 Harvard student. lol. newsflash those were all hot tech in 1974 and besides any year in the last 100 (including 2019) a Harvard student gets priority rather than binned.
Using emacs doesn't mean you have to use the default keys. I don't, because I find the defaults bad. I use the arrow keys and other bindings changed to my taste and my hands don't hurt.

Emacs is only a bunch of defaults which you should adapt to your needs.
Shared e-scooters aren’t always as green as other transport options
And I think it should be made more accessible.

Automatic firearms are so restricted because they didn't think a complete ban would be upheld by the courts, yet the restrictions are essentially a ban since I cannot reasonably get access as a mentally stable (I hope) person without any record.

Automatic weapons are fun, and at least in my area, I can rent them at local shooting ranges. But going the extra step and buying them it apparently way more difficult. The net result is that only the military, police, and criminals have automatic weapons, so average gun owners are the only real people affected. It makes sense that gun owners are against new regulations, because these regulations seem to just restrict their rights without solving anything.

Another silly thing is that guns tend to get restricted based on how they look, not on how dangerous they are. "Tactical" guns are considered "assault weapons", while the exact same gun without the trimmings are considered "hunting equipment" and not subject to the same restrictions. Does a pistol grip and some black plastic/metal decorations really make a gun more dangerous? No, but they make a gun more fun to own.

It seems people aren't really interested in actually solving problems, they're just interested in looking like they're trying to solve problems, and the average voter isn't educated enough about guns to recognize reasonable regulations. IMO, we should be educating people about guns instead of trying to ban them. Perhaps we need to include gun training in our K-12 education since it's part of the Constitution. IMO, respect for guns is the biggest deterrent to gun crime.
What does any of that have to do with Amazon?
You know you are in a Big Company when there is a procedure to handle when people have the same first and last name.
Ergodox.

In general, we should move away from the standard keyboard because it puts too much work on the right pinky, which is the weakest finger.

We should utilise our thumbs more.

Ergodox achieves that goal and reduces the chance of RSI.
There are torrents of totally recut Mythbusters with all these crappy bits cut out. It's so much better
Online tool to discover your Twitter network easily (OSINT)
Costly too. German tax law is complicated and it will cost quite a lot of money to get all the filings done correctly.
Google does not operate re-education camps which kill people now and then. Correct me if I am wrong. If I am, let's go liberate the people it's holding with the help of the US military.
"A radio altimeter measures a plane’s height above terrain by bouncing a radio signal off of the ground and recording the response time."

If that's the case, how come a negative reading was not assumed as a malfunction? Am I missing something, or can a plane ever be in negative altitude with respect to whatever this radio signal is bouncing off from?

edit: s/never/ever/
Yes, they would. They'd just use NextJS or similar to push down a static skeleton that minimally covers the crawler. (My current company has to provide data to the Facebook crawler and that's what we do.)

Nothing prevents a site from doing that and just loading JS afterwards. Or from still being basically read-only without JS. Which might be an improvement...except within epsilon of zero people care in the first place and Google is building software for a rather larger proportion of the market than that, so it's an improvement for what's barely an audience.

Nobody is really "enabling" it except for a browser. And that's not changing. The shirt-rending is becoming tiresome.
Any success getting a job after mentioning it?
High AOA pitch-up is not a fundamental flaw and sure as shit isn't inherent instability of the airframe.

There's a million things that went wrong with the MAX 8 debacle, serious things that need to be addressed after the industry takes a hard look at itself. But there being something wrong with the airframe isn't amongst them. That meme has no grounds, isn't supported by anyone at all in the industry, and originated from clickbait spamblogs and late night tv shows that feed off FUD.

> The design would be different, and very likely fundamentally safer if keeping the 737 type rating were not a goal

Errrr. The design is may not be maximally optimal (what does that even mean?) because of type rating pressure, therefore the design is fundamentally flawed? Please stop. You're perpetuating clickspam driven fake news and distracting from the real problems.
Just wait 5 years.
I was a heavy matplotlib user and before that used a primitive tool for plotting in C. It actually performed so much better than matplotlib.
If working on those one or two figures for hours for a publication is what you’re aiming for, sure matplotlib is still useful for that (I did that during my PhD and postdoc days, sure it’s interesting). But I think that’s where the problem is. We have too many people stuck on an old tool because that’s all they know. I’m watching lectures and courses every morning before work and keeping up to date. It’s helped me get exponentially ahead.
I think we need to encourage this mentality. This current post was about showing how to understand data. I guarantee you that if you learn to use bokeh the right way you’ll have significantly faster iteration times. Also, in industry where things are extremely fast paced, you need to move and present your information fast.

Again, my disappointment is that we need to encourage a mentality of flexible learners, and I find this post a regression. I’m a bit disappointed at the unpopularity of this comment, but maybe that’s why I’ve moved up to earn an enormous salary.

Try it
Of course they don't affect other queries, these would be non-locking queries on replicas. Or, to be even more accurate, they'd be non blocking queries on indices cached in memory on edge servers and probably several levels of optimization beyond that. There's no reason for these type of queries to lock a database.
Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules
Yet another reason to support other search engines. I haven't used Google in years, and I haven't had any real problems.
Wouldn't you actually be paying more taxes as a one person company? Why does it matter if the company has only one client and one employee if everything is paid properly?
re burning ballots.

If it's possible to burn a ballot (i.e. associate the set of bar codes to actual candidates), shouldn't it be possible to "burn" a ballot after the fact as well?

i.e. we have 4 barcodes, I need a way to associate each barcode with a candidate to burn it, so why couldn't this happen after the fact as well?

I assume homomorphic encryption might help here, I just am missing it.
Would we have had the energy for WW1/2 without fossil fuels? I don’t think so. They were at least in part due to pressures for countries to grow into other countries territories. Without oil, population growth wouldn’t have brought the world to that point so quickly. We also wouldn’t have had airplanes nor jets. That probably would mean the atomic bomb would be developed after nuclear power plants-avoiding a century of associating nuclear power with nuclear bombs.

Kind of a neat thought experiment.
How so? Is there a problem with having a company with only one employee and one client?
I wasn't concerned about locking, but more about resource utilization.

Searches are read-only, so I suppose locking doesn't need to happen anyway.
Much, perhaps most, of the effect we have as individuals in large organizations is indirect and hard to see or quantify. It's not always as simple as we think and changing course of a group almost always takes time, education, repetition, and some redundant effort. It's still worthwhile and effective.

It is entirely possible that this is a success story of a lower-level engineer raising an issue that the higher levels then addressed.

Just because no one immediately jumps and say "by golly, we have to get rid of component X right now!" doesn't mean that the issue didn't begin percolating vertically and horizontally, ultimately resulting in a large-scale corrective effort.
The difference is that Google can't throw you into a camp without trial for what they discover.
Considering it took you that long to be a Lisp convert, I like to know more on how you came to the see the light. I’ve been doing coding for over 15 years, too. And, every time I tried to pick up a Lisp dialect (Clojure was the last) I couldn’t help but wonder what with all the buzz about this. I really wish that I could see the light someday, though.
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... says "a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing."
Regarding your argument about electricity, isn’t that what the US does? It burns coal and oil and has afaik virtually no limits or carbon taxes because “it would hurt American industry”.

Yeah sure if there were tariffs all around. But the US hegemony was until recently sort of predicated on little tariffs and global trade. So your advocating a sort of ... I don’t even know how to describe it - reverse carbon mercantilism where everybody attacks each other’s carbon emissions through tariffs? That sounds like a good recepy for dramatically worsening international relations.
I'm in the UK, not sure I see much extremism here really. We have the brexit party I suppose, but that's not so much extremist as just weirdly conservative.
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> There are a few operations where List is slower than native arrays. One of these is random accessing.

What about sequential access? Surely array gets a benefit from data locality, where CPU caches pull in surrounding values automatically?
Semantic Scholar[0] tends to do this, but their search functionality leaves something to be desired. I tend to use them to discover DOI addresses and find related media if I already know the paper's title (e.g. following-up on a bibliography w/o links, as is the norm in many publications)

[0] https://www.semanticscholar.org
Your statement doesn't represent everyone. I thought that the design of Lisp was a great idea before I learned about its macros. (This was at a time twenty years ago when macros weren't being hyped in programming forums.) I was impressed that it simplified the specification of the language and the implementation of parsing, as well that it eliminated ambiguity. Then came the realization that formatting the code to look consistently good, no matter which way it is broken into multiple lines is trivial, and that it enables great editor support. Oh, and being able to just quote any chunk of the program as a datum!

Also:

Symbols tokens made up of almost any sequence of non-whitespace characters: if you type <->, that is a symbol without having to modify the lexical analyzer of the language to recognize a new token pattern.

Basic math operations being variadic:(+ term0 term1 term2 ...).

Here is an advantage of Lisp syntax: -123 is an actual negative integer token, and not the unary operator applied to 123, requiring evaluation.
On the context of .NET, not only backwards compatibility, performance is also a big reason, text serialization sucks in that regard.

Also the official path forward for WCF is gRPC, which also supports binary serialization.

As per Java, Brian Goetz has spoken multiple times about it, but the issue was mainly due to how the whole thing is designed, not necessarily due to using binary formats.
> 2. The value proposition was that they were the only way to publish research.

Was this ever actually the case? Researchers have always published on their own in one way or another. What these journals added was an established peer review mechanism.
The specific one I remembered was Stacker, the disk compression app. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_law...

I remember there being others, but the only one I can find right now is related to Spyglass (which you could argue was not theft, but was instead breach of contract or deception) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.

There were other stories in the 90s, but now I can't find them (so they may have been just stories). Regardless, and considering some of the other practices of MS in the 90s and 2000s, Microsoft was a very different company from the one some of us actually like and respect now.
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