skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey everyone, author here. I built Superposition because I think too few people have the access to the benefits that having a design system gives them, either due to time and budget constraints, or due to (client) design maturity.

I want to make it possible for everyone to enjoy the benefits that a design system gives them, like speed and consistency. And I'm releasing it for free.

Superposition is the first step towards this vision: A super easy way to use the design tokens that are already part of a website. You can export them to code or use them in our Adobe XD plugin, with more coming soon.

The end goal is for Superposition to take you from website to design system in a single app.
Insidious Bitcoin Scammer Masquerades as John Mcafee
Bitcoin price sees largest spike ever in Argentina following market crash
USGS Elevation point query service with an API:

https://nationalmap.gov/epqs/
The retro desktop of an 80s Floridian pornstar
I hope so too. There should be a service that allows game developers to just import the real world. On top of that they could then customize specific locations according to the story or gameplay. Especially valuable would be an algorithm that automatically creates interiors (ideally infered from the shape of the building).
Which random number generator to use can be a heated discussion, with strong opinions. math.random() and rand() can have issues using poor random number generators like LCGs instead of good random number generators.

The default “good” random number generator is the “Mersenne Twister” (most of the time, the 32-bit MT19937 version). It generates numbers which look quite random while not being cryptographically strong (the problem with crypto-strong generators is that they tend to be slower, and can still cause legal issues in some jurisdictions). A lot of languages use this for the default random number generator.

Some people really like using xorshift generators; with the right parameters, xorshift can generate high quality numbers while being much simpler than MT19937. One version of this which some use is JKISS32; it’s small and makes good numbers.

Random number generators can be tested using a series of tests called “dieharder”; another test for RNGs is “bigcrush” which takes hours, sometimes days, to fully run. These tests make sure the random number generators are statistically random, using a large number of tests of the generator.

My favorite pseudo random number generator is a cryptographically strong one: RadioGatún[32]. It’s simple, fast, doesn’t require special seeding of its state (unlike MT19937), and allows the seed to be an arbitrary string instead of just being a number. It passes all dieharder tests, but I haven’t had a chance to test it with bigcrush yet. I have a GitHub repo with implementations of it I have done in various languages (C, Python2, Python3, Javascript, C++, etc.)
It’s the government that often prevents market forces from taking advantage of such opportunities.

Most regions limit how many competing providers may operate in the same area, requiring that they possess a license - of which legislation allows only a few or even just one to exist.

Vested interests, of course, won’t want to make serious investments in new infrastructure until they absolutely have to. Especially if they’re still making payments on their debt for building the current architecture.
I know it can create a bad vibe, but calling people out directly can work. I always do this when i see people throwing rocks off cliffs (people die from this all the time), and no one has openly opposed me. I made a kid cry once by scolding him a bout this. I hope he remembers.
> What is this article about, anyway?

Privileged people making lots of of money acting like spoiled kids despite having limitless alternative options.
If it makes you feel any better, I work at Google, but have found toilets with pee all over the floor and toilet seat and much worse I'd rather not talk about. :-)

Googlers are the first to admit we're spoiled. _Most_ of us are conscious of our privileges compared to other workers.

But as others have pointed out that doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to issues of sexism and lack of diversity, attitudes towards minorities, etc. which are issues more _parallel_ to the privileges you're describing than in contradiction to it.
The first thing this brings to mind:

> Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United...

The article on Judge Cicconetti doesn't mention how many of his alternative punishments have been challenged on appeal (or if that's even an option).

Let's say a judge wants to do something similar, but in a more malevolent way supported by the local community. What checks the power of this judge other than an appeal through the court system?
Have you tried charging for commercial licenses? They can be the exact same as whatever you license it as now, but with a price tag. Relatively speaking it’s very hard for a company to donate money, but very easy to buy things. I know you said it’s not about the money, but if you -do- want to make more from it, maybe give it a try.
Wow ! thx
Really? To me it is like being asked about carpenters who don't know what a hammer or a nail is because they use a nailgun to assemble prefab panels.

Last time I checked data structures and algorithms were core CS/SE curriculum at most education levels. Then again, I also have grey hair.
Snap launches Spectacles 3 with dual HD cameras for 3D capture
It is Trump who called it a riot.
I can't help it, my government doesn't allow me to read critical Chinese resources that could convince me that what I learned was actually wrong.
My eyes are hurting from seeing these articles whining about their misery while collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Most companies have issues, and these issues are not "Company" issues but PEOPLE issues. Once you're large enough, you are going to have people with differing opinions, beliefs and values. These are going to clash. If you happen to be on the losing side and don't learn to accept it, you will find yourself miserable. Accept it and solider on to change if you truly believe in your fight.

There are folks out there working minimum wage jobs who are truly miserable, back breaking labor, standing on their feet all day, standing in the hot sun or out in the cold weather, avoiding dangerous machinery and avoiding trying to be maimed or worse loose their life. Dealing with stupid harassment and constant abuse from their boss who makes a $1 more above minimum wage.

Folks out there are really going through it. It doesn't mean that we don't have tough challenges in tech, but we have become spoiled and a bunch of whiners. The majority of the population are outside the industry and they roll their eyes when these type of articles come out and these incessant complaints don't endear them to us.
Looks like it’s only python 2.7? Is there any plans to move this to 3.7+?
I'd love to see more people donating to charity. With my software, it's MIT open source, but pre-packaged it's pay what you want ($3.50 minimum) and $3.50 of every purchase goes to my favorite charity: Against Malaria Foundation.

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Thanks, Foomandoonian. A lot of things to be considered. I agree with you on every mentioned aspects. And yes the English language is still my problem ))
This is the problem with unregulated power. If you do stuff like this judge does and have good judgement the outcome can be very positive. But it can also go horribly wrong if done by the wrong person with the wrong motivation. Same could be said for dictators. A well run dictatorship can probably be managed better than a democracy but it can also go very wrong if power gets into the wrong hands.

That’s why in the end we are in the long run probably better off with a set of rules that make sure that things are predictable and the same for all people.
I don't understand why people are down voting you. Your post rings 100% true for a lot of folks out of silicon valley bubble.
Right, but Wikipedia still has lots of issues with vandalism. They do a good job, but it's just not accurate to keep something perfect at that scale. Here's the difference: wikipedia gets vandalized and people laugh. Mapping data gets vandalized and people could die.
You mean latitude.
We have the best brains!
How do you write or give your instructions to this trusted friend ?
Not really, self-driving cars must never rely on maps to prevent injury.
Not quite what you are describing, but Universal Radio Hacker is a useful tool for reverse engineering protocols.

https://github.com/jopohl/urh
So, Slack?
Yes, thx, I will !
Oh wow. At some point I've thrown up my hands and just used Pcg64 because people I trust but can't possibly verify recommended it. Your post reaffirms that that was the right decision (trusting others).
+10c
What's the TL;DR?

Spend 5 min reading the first few blocks couldn't make out what's this about.
Did you remove the filters on your lime?
The other option is the standard one: jail. So, I don't see anything negative in it.
I feel like we're in a moment of cultural shepard tone - there is the sense that we are barreling towards something and yet also the sense that nothing can or is changing.
> you shouldn't just pick pieces at random, that's not how Tetris works nowadays.

It's a purely abstract game with endless possibilities for how it can be made. That's what makes it timeless. There's no reason you have to use bag randomizer in your own personal projects. That is, unless you feel some strange need to check off boxes to comply with what the current IP holders happen to prescribe at a particular moment in time.

In fact, there's an argument for using a memoryless randomizer: it maximizes variation, unpredictability, and increases challenge.
Cost Based Optimizer for Couchbase N1QL (SQL for JSON)
How can you be sure that you update the paper records?

Good question. Anybody ?
I just did and I couldn't find the thing you mentioned, mind to share the link?
It's so easy to make excuses for ourselves and others but I don't think making 35k vs making 150k is really anything like being a peasant vs being royalty... but maybe I don't know enough about that topic.
Sad, yet fascinating - reminds me a bit of this story about 'off the grid' people in Colorado: https://harpers.org/archive/2019/08/the-last-frontier/

I happened on ads for those lots myself when looking around Zillow for odd or interesting places. You can see a bunch of them here: https://bit.ly/33tqbVM

Even Klamath Falls doesn't have a great reputation in Oregon. Life that far out has got to be rough.
BGP super-blunder: How Verizon sparked a ‘cascading catastrophic failure’
> Based on this article, there is absolutely no way to distinguish "Hypersanity" from just plain old insanity.

I don't see it this way at all. Plain old insanity can manifest as typical (or atypical) behavior combined with absurd, easily disprovable beliefs. Hypersanity as described leads to atypical behavior and worldview via a reasoned dismissal of widely accepted values, but nothing wrong on it's face or disprovable. For example, insanity is believing you are covered with spiders when you are not, hypersanity would be not feeling the need to disturb a harmless spider that is sitting on your nose.

> Rationality is systematized winning. Unless your actions are benefitting yourself in some significant way, you cannot be considered rational.

Now I see why you can't distinguish between insanity and hypersanity, you are conflating epistemology and ethics, and they just aren't the same thing. A 'true belief' is one which enables you to achieve some goal, but whether that goal is 'good' or desirable can only be determined when evaluated via some kind of ethical framework. For example, if I decide that the most important thing is to make sure the Canadian flag never touches the ground I will have a very different concept of what 'winning' is compared to someone who's goal is to make as much money as possible, and both of us will have a different concept of winning compared to someone who thinks the most important thing is to teach others that their widely held assumptions are not true or important, such as Diogenes.
Scrolling this page causes Safari CPU usage to jump to ~120% and the fans in my MBP to turn on...
You're being downvoted but I agree with you. Most of the work here at Google is frankly of the very boring day to day software engineering slog -- bisecting crashes, fixing emergency issues, reading and writing long documents. Coddled geniuses doesn't really describe how things get done. It's more like, keep the geniuses (or not-geniuses) coddled, so they don't get annoyed with doing what is really not-very-sexy work :-)
It sounds like there are multiple OSHA violations at your work so you could report them.

You could buy your own chair for work and I believe you can write it off in tax as a work expense.

Given your long years of work experience you could almost certainly get into a distance learning Master’s degree in the U.K., e.g. the Queen Mary University of London MBA.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mba/

If you don’t have managerial experience of any kind I can recommend CeFIMS

https://www.cefims.ac.uk/programmes/ipa/

You can start with an individual professional award and transfer to a Master’s proper and be done in three years for ~£10,000.

Alternatively you can get a US Bachelor’s for far less than tens of thousands of dollars through transfer credit and credit by examination like the community on degreeforum.net. People have done it in under a year.

It sounds like you’re in a bad situation. I hope things get better for you soon.
Apple locked me out of its walled garden. It was a nightmare
The Dutch are quite good at dealing with that though, or else they'd already be underwater.
Don't forget Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing#Usage...
My experience in high education tells me that if you see shit being wiped on the walls, it's generally a sign of mental health issues - in the case of workplaces, this is definitely a sign of depression or some form of anger toward the company.

When people get to the point where they literally smear their feces on the walls, they're grasping at ways to make a statement about how god-awful their environment is.

Source: Our toxic geology department constantly had shit on the walls, until we completely gutted it and restructured/replaced the administration and policies. Better workplace, no more shit on the walls.
Yes - things like that are a huge problem. For a field which often calls itself engineering I’m frequently disappointed by how many significant calls are based on superstition rather than analysis.
Is Your Sleep Cycle Out of Sync? It May Be Genetic
I wonder if the new people will do anything about the "site is actively hostile to photosensitive people" thing. I used to use tumblr, and we reported, pretty much every year or so, the thing where login pages or "not found" pages always had full-page flashing or fast-moving animated GIFs, because that was a horrible source of seizure-inducing experiences, migraines, etcetera.

I always assumed it was a considered and intentional choice by the tumblr staff to actively drive those people away.

I also note: I didn't go there for porn, but I left over the porn ban, and will not even consider returning while the porn ban remains. I had >40k posts, I met the kid we ended up adopting there, and so on. I had a lot of engagement with the site, but while porn wasn't emotionally important to me, the side-effects of the porn ban made the site completely useless.
I'm not an expert, but I see misandry generally defined as "hatred of men", and not including devaluation in the way that the "incel" sorts of communities describe the attack on masculinity.

> To see it as caused solely by internalized misandry is limiting.

I don't think I've described toxic masculinity in terms of misandry. Actually I cautioned against klipt's association of the two, as I don't find them to be dependent on each other. My working definition of toxic masculinity was:

> Toxic masculinity is stereotypical or reductive modes of action or thinking perceived by men as expected or required, which can be harmful to other men or other people.

I see a purposeful intention from you to remove gender from the discussion and talk about sexism instead, but I'd further caution that this is a mechanism for distracting from the discussion of these harmful modes of action and thinking. Changing the way males are raised, so that they learn a broader way of approaching the world, has to include a specific discussion of the things that necessitate the conversation in the first place.
Someone in the know - why do you need a supercomputer for this? From an amateur position it seems suitable for commodity compute and a big ol map-reduce.

Getting chunk edges to align might be tricky, but the usual solution to that is to stagger the chunks and throw away the edges.
This is not bitcoin is the peso devaluating, USD also climbed 20% after the election
Javascript doesn't allow setting the seed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
IME getting a license is not really that valuable unless you care about phone or CW.

Also, if you do get a license, register it to a PO box.
this looks interesting... im wondering if you can use multiple GRE tunnels back to them...
I think the premise has merit. I work at a Big4 with a, as of yesterday, larger market cap than Google and our company culture isn't dysfunctional as this article would suggest.

The Schmidt idea that they have to keep their "divas" like Andy Rubin seems not to be yielding results.
Assuming a modern protest has anything that can be called 'top' is extremely naive.

There is no hierarchy that can be suborned.
The crux of the article is not cruelty to animals.
How does sound affect us between receiving via headphones vs a speaker?
I find the German language funny because "mit" just means "with". I remember search engines having trouble with this in the late nineties.
Article mentions he wants to make the seed explicit so he can reproduce the same (randomly selected) environment.

You can use any stream cipher you want instead, of course, but in my experience for video games the problem isn’t “I need a random bit” (which AES CTR is very good at but MT or any PCG/LCG is really just as fit for purpose) but “I need to sample from this weird distribution”. Stuff goes wrong as soon as someone needs to do something as simple as sampling from a set of cardinality not exactly a power of two let alone something more complex.
there is, oddly perhaps, an R package of all things that does this: https://github.com/ropenscilabs/tic

I personally find it almost scarily ambitious and am a bit skeptical because of the medium-term maintenance load.
The courses will vary with the instruction and how much effort you put into them, just like most university courses do. I don't think you will go wrong if you want to learn more, even a so-so course will bring up topics you may not have thought about and you can challenge yourself. I obviously like the best courses I can find, but I have sometimes learned the most from courses that were not rated as high by others. Given the costs are relatively modest for most of these style courses, I think you'd do well to try any of them that fit your area of interest and have decent reviews.

Also if you are interested in security there are conferences dedicated to it nearly year round, and they generally offer pre/post conference training and specialized information. That is obviously the more expensive option usually, but my guess is given you are already experienced you'll get a lot out of these sessions.

I'd say university is really not worthwhile, unless you just want/need to add a degree to your title.
No. I think that the author genuinely believes that colored lenses make it easier for him to read; I know that several carefully conducted clinical trials have found no benefit.
Sounds more like Buddhism to me ("all existence is suffering" and so on). Stoicism has you recognize that (to simplify dramatically) you cannot change other people, only yourself. Stoicism consequently places a large emphasis on getting your mind and body in order, so it probably would not argue for allowing yourself to starve.
In developer words, it’s zeroth world problems.
Are you telling me airlines have to order and directly buy the engines themselves? Surely not?
Flycast – Open-source Dreamcast emulation no longer requires a BIOS
When I read statements like this, I always think of a quote by Noam Chomsky:

"Violence usually works."
They still are in a sense. That portion of the company is now called Keysight.
I think I’m one of those people you are talking about. I don’t hang out in a secret place. I hang out here, subreddits for languages I’m interested in, many Slack groups for things I’m interested in, iMessage/SMS with current and previous co workers whom are enjoyable to talk to. I also hang out with my family and read a ton of programming books. If you find a secret place with more of these people I would love to know.
A dive into RI5CY core internals
I believe so, but yes... this script was a one off I wrote just for myself as a proof of concept. Not really cross platform yet :D
U.S. defense lost dominance to Russia and China in hypersonic weapons technology
Supercomputers are exactly the wrong sort of tool to use for this- nearly every supercomputer has crappy disk IO and tons of fast CPU and RAM and network. Using a supercomputer for this would leave the expensive elements like the GPUs nearly idle, and the IO subsystem would be the bottleneck.
Same thing when I worked in a convenience store in Norway, bananas were far and away the most sold item, even during very busy seasonal peaks.
Perceived frequency = incident frequency * report frequency

What's the random vs. nonrandom variable?
Estonia, Salvador, Bulgaria, Moldova, Albania, Ukraine, Denmark, Czech Republic, South Korea, Tonga, Azerbaijan, Singapore, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Macedonia, Latvia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Mongolia, Georgia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, Thailand, Philippines, Iceland... and some more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93...
The Dumbest Task I Ever Outsourced
The thing is, none of those things were terrible at all.
So...you think regulations should allow renters to modify someone else’s property, even if against the owners wishes?

If a proposition for solar panels is actually realistic and a net positive, the owners should be easily convinced without resorting to force.
A Mysterious Explosion Took Place in Russia. What Happened?
Most of Google Earth is just based on publically available data from Nasa. They have suplemented it in places with commercial data.
Pakistan believes that China is the only reliable partner when it comes to geopolitics. Due to which the establishment suppresses and doesn't allow any protests against China. In a recent interview when Imran Khan(Pak PM) was asked about mass detention of Muslims in China, he replied by saying that frankly, I don’t know much[1]. I've seen several Pakistanis criticising this stance because Pakistan was formed on the basis of Islam.

1. https://www.thequint.com/news/world/pakistan-pm-imran-khan-o...
Because we had a government owned company with a monopoly that the EU forced us to sell. So now we have a private monopoly instead of a public one.
Russia seems to be trying to build crazy dead hand nuclear cruise missiles and America is talking openly about militarizing space. I would say we are back on the entrance ramp to that route.

Maybe we both figure it's a way to get GDP up...