skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a Googler so I can only guess. But it seems like Google did try to treat Cantonese as a Chinese variant in the past, eventually they dropped it probably because they realised they're too different.

I know Google is actively working on the Cantonese version of Google Assistant, though not sure when it'll be officially released.
Algorithmic HR has ruined any chance you won't see an SEO centric resume ever again.

"I need my resume to show up in your filter, relevance to the actual job functions be damned."
On the other hand it could also be a scam and the public money wasted could be used for far more interesting experiments. Experiments that at least make sense on a conceptual level or where we really just don’t know how things would pan out in a real world scenario.

Solar roads are not that kind of experiment. Even given an ideal execution solar roads would give you the combination of suboptimal roads with badly used solar panels.

Unless glas turns out to be a superior road surface (which I doubt) and unless solar panels perform better flat on the ground under a layer of dirt than raised above shadows and with a well adjusted angle (which helps the rain to clean the thing and increases efficiency) — unless all of that, putting solar panels on the side of the roads or roofa will be way more economical and ecological.

This is literally bad design: something that looks good or innovative on first glance, but is totally inpractical and maybe even destructive the longer you ponder about it.
Yikes, please don't do that here, regardless of how provocative another comment was. We ban accounts for personal attacks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Every single company I worked for installed AV on our work computers, which was a huge resource hog and made the highest-specced MacBook Pros feel like cheap netbook.

I suspect it is mandated by some sort of compliance requirement, and the IT departments are just ticking a box. Maybe that's how this industry is still alive.
J can look like APL or English
Not only that, a common problem round here (UK) is that trucks park partially on the pavement. They routinely crack two-inch/50mm thick concrete paving slabs. I'd like to see a solar panel that can withstand that.
If you’re doing keto, guess you could fortify it with oil for some cheap extra calories
Agree with you, on Windows. But when you go into Linux and Mac territory, there really isn't any OS Vendor specific security solution that does what many people need.

AV is still super important to have for people who don't understand that downloading a fake flash player to watch the newest game of thrones episode isn't the best idea. And there's a lot of those people out there.
Please don't post like this. It's off topic and once the comments get vouched for or unkilled by mods, it sticks around as a dangling reference that never gets garbage collected.

If you a [dead] post that shouldn't be dead, you should vouch for it by clicking on its timestamp, then clicking 'vouch' at the top of its page. This is why we added that feature. There's a small karma threshold (> 30) before vouch links appear. Alternatively, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take care of it. Moderators review many of the software-killed comments but there is a time lag before we get to them, since we are not software.

Edit: also, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
The lifetime is better than 20 years. They produce 80% off their original power after 20 years but it's not like they stop working. Nobody would bother replacing them at that point.
> I can say that I've never regretted a hire I said yes to, so the method works to my satisfaction.

This may just mean that you say a lot Of wrong “No”s. To get very high precision or very high recall is really easy... what you must measure is your F-score
Yeah, this is the real point.

Python is an interface to C, C++, and FORTRAN for a lot of stuff. There are even crossover libs for running R.

This is like comparing apples and steaks.
Must be a letter and password cannot contain spaces or most punctuation.
"Despite Joseph's assertions, the middle-aged engineers who were laid off didn't go away and become software engineers – they largely landed up in worse jobs or on the scrapheap."

Reminds me of something a popular 2020 candidate says regularly about retraining failures as automation arrives to suck up jobs.

UK might need a Yang like $1000 pound/month citizen's dividend.
Globatio – search/download/create peer-to-peer content – win64 app release
There's lots of 'Do we need Kaspersky' type questions in here already. The more pertinent question is whether AV is actually effective, or if stronger countermeasures like application whitelisting are needed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcgHkeZ1i4&list=PLqz80p7f6d...
Cramming Dual Sims and a Micro SD Card into Your Phone
Sidewalks are still flat on the ground, which is not great in much of the world (like Normandy) where sunlight comes in at an angle. You would still get some generation, but would it be worth it compared to cells mounted elsewhere at a better angle, with less need for hardening, and less accumulation of dirt? Doing this on the sidewalks would add a lot of costs and complications.
The actual level of service, speed and response to faults I get from them is pretty good.

The password policy though?
I think you're being unnecessarily dismissive of discussions surrounding python's fitness, and I find your remark "that's exactly how it should be" confusing.

Python is an ok interface language, in that it's script-like, dynamically typed and simple to comprehend. It's popular, which makes on-boarding efficient due to the sheer volume of tutorials online. And, it has built up a large ecosystem, because of the last two points.

That said, it's naive to suppose that python is the currently-ideal or future-ideal interface language. It's just ok, plus it's popular.
This article provides no evidence that deindustrialization is the cause of any of the ills it reports on, it just lays out facts about the economy with a few sentimental appeals to serve as tentposts.

I personally think that the UK has outsourced manufacturing without investing sufficiently into STEM to make up for it.
It's hard to see that changing when the political and media classes are filled with Oxbridge graduates.
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I like to read news like this. Shows positive progress in the world.

There should be a minimum percentage of positive news every day :)
Where this narrative of German driving the EU comes from?

Please note that I am not taking any position, I just want to get more informed about the internal EU problems.
The regret metric is different for a false "no" compared to a false "yes." I'd rather say "no" to someone who could've been great than "yes" to someone who wasn't, so I would say that it isn't that important.
There are people working on language features that will get Rust closer to parity with C++ for numerical computing, most prominently "const generics", which will make it more ergonomic to write numeric libraries (see C++'s Eigen) that use static array sizes. This will ultimately be important for how aggressively the compiler can optimize the code, via eliminating bounds checks, etc.
Lol chrome routinely takes up 100+MB per tab
Exactly.

IP addresses are PII under GDPR, for example. And it's well known that many HIPPA-level "anonymized" datasets have been deanonymized.
I do apologize dang. I let my emotions get the better of me and hijack my reasoning abilities.
Would you please stop posting flamebait and taking threads in trollish directions? You've been doing it a lot, and we ban that sort of account.

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And Branson only owned 3% before that
Every Hacker News post has critical comments at the top, if you took notice of those you would never attempt anything.
One of my first jobs while I was still in uni was working for a small ISP. It was really fun, we had many base stations and mostly provided wireless connectivity. However it's all okay when it's summer to go and deploy/fix antennas but when it was -20C outside and you have to climb on the roof and fix cables or mount a new antenna.. Well, at that point I understood that I need to change jobs :)
>>>Britain makes the best cars in the world

Which ones are the those, the unreliable McLarens, or the unreliable (but at least beautiful) Aston Martins?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGK7XPNFhpQ
It's not always easy in the US, either. Michael Dell famously got his start by selling PCs out of his dorm room at the University of Texas. As could be expected, as his business gained momentum his grades took a dive, and eventually he dropped out. Later, when he realized he had a real business on his hands, he tried to go back and take some additional business courses, and the university told him to get lost.

Ultimately he ended up with George Kosmetzky, the dean of the business school, as a board member, so I guess there were no long-term hard feelings. But still, this episode showed where the school's priorities really were.
Why not tax the merely rich too? I'm probably going to be one of them in a few years. I want to pay more tax to help benefit the society that let me get to where I'm going, but I absolutely want everyone else in my position to pay too.

Anyway, I agree with your idea about the south east. As the article points out, Thatcher's policies focused on the south east and ignored the "North" (part of the problem being no one can agree where the North starts or ends). Ideas like HS2 pushed by the new Tories are also just making it possible to live in the north and yet still work in London, not solving any problem.
The next step is back channel reference checks
Those wanting to "tax the rich", what is their definition of rich? I would hazard a guess it's much less than Richard Branson, and therefore the numbers would be much higher
I do agree with that.

Except that I do use Windows without trusting Microsoft. I use install disks that I've purchased ~anonymously for cash. And I only run VMs, which hit the Internet via nested VPN chains, and sometimes Tor.
Isn't that mostly down to the low fees?
> Pearson Engineering's Tom Clark has a good story about how the firm's previous owners used to handle industrial relations. Every time the workforce went on strike, which was often, one of the Pearsons would buy a new Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud and drive through the picket line, waving two fingers at his own staff.

That does rather sum up 1970s industrial relations. Can you imagine managers like that implementing the Toyota Production System? Or anything else where the workers have an individual autonomous contribution? Of course not. So that's why the remaining large car factories are foreign-owned.

What has survived and flourished is the small high tech manufacturing industry - McLaren, satellites, etc.
I've had a few Rust lovers come and mention this project to me recently. None of them had any data science or ML experience. None of them knew that Python is just used to define the high level architecture.

At the same time, comparatively tedious languages like Rust will never attract data science practitioners. They don't care about the kind of safety it brings, they don't care about improving performance in a component that's idle 99% of the time.

The bulk of the load in an DL workflow is CUDA code and sits on the GPU. Even the intermediate libraries like cublas would only see marginal-to-none benefits of being reimplemented in rust.

This is a cool project, but it has no chance to displace or even complement Python in the data science space.
for the prices described you could go to a real Indian place and get some fresh naans as well.

Speaking of which, I think I know what I'm having for dinner tonight.
Largely you are correct. It works like this.

If you are a net exporter, you are essentially giving away your own output to a foreign nation in exchange for bits of paper. The reason you can't spend that paper is that it would destroy your exports (your own currency would go sky high as the system tried to eliminate the imbalance) and you'd have to find something else for the people working in exports to do, or you'd get a Dutch Disease problem internally (and likely end up in a situation like Venezuela)

So Botswana sells its natural assets to the US in exchange for US dollars. Those US dollars find their way into the bowels of the financial system and are discounted into the local currency. Either directly - like the Chinese do, or indirectly via some fancy financial system (normally a Sovereign Wealth fund, or Pension schemes with compulsory contributions). They then sit there (the Norwegian fund for example cannot spend anything - ever) - largely to avoid a Dutch disease in the country and to stop the local currency appreciating against the export target.

The result is that the rich countries get stuff essentially for free from the poorer countries so that the poorer countries can issue their own money without people getting agitated.

The whole thing is a conjuring trick. The poorer country would be better putting people to work creating domestic infrastructure straight away and only exporting what is necessary to get needed goods and services required to create that infrastructure. But to do that requires you to operate the central bank in a way that appears 'wrong'. You have to issue liabilities against 'Other Assets' rather than 'US Treasuries' and that upsets people who don't understand how banks actually work.

The GBP/USD gets 'locked' in the financial system. Because it is being used to discount to the scrip used locally you can never get rid of it. To do so would reveal the central bank illusion and explain how the trick is done. Then people might start asking question like: why don't we use our own money in our own circulation to ensure everybody has a job and solve unemployment permanently and forever? And that would never do ;-)
As somebody who programs in both Python and Rust (and likes both languages) I think Rust's place would be parts of the code that have to be fast, and that you want to get right.

Calling Python code from Rust or Rust from Python is totally doable, and there is in my view no reason why you shouldn't use both in the use cases that suit them.

And the speed part is serious. Some guy once asked for the fastest tokenizer in any given language and my naive implementation came second place in his benchmark right after an stripped down and optimized C variant.

So using Rust for speed critical modules and interfacing them from easy to use Python libraries isn't exactly irrational.
I use the same technique (and I'm 26 now, so relatively young) and it's how I've always interviewed others. Granted, I've only worked at smallish startups, but, either way, the company didn't care about my technique for evaluation, and just my final "yes", "no," or "maybe." So, I think it depends on the engineer.

If someone can keep up in a technical conversation about their background with me and answer every question I have about a technical project they did, then basically they pass. It works especially well even if I'm not familiar with their project, because I have an opportunity to learn, so I can ask any question that comes to mind until they teach me what they learned.

I did hire someone that I regretted, though, but to be fair, this was among my first interviews. The mistake I made was getting too easily caught talking about programming and technical things without specifically diving deep into his past project. He and I vibed quickly and I liked him, and that felt like enough, but after only a week it seemed obvious that he wasn't going to be producing much code, and we let him go. Otherwise, I've been happy and my ability to discern has only gotten better as I became more experienced.

I got a little offtopic, but my main answer to your question was "if the company leaves the decision up to a majority of engineers saying 'yes', then a lot of companies do this." Google does this, the startups I've worked at do this, and some of my friends companies do this.
Or maybe Rust can be compared to Julia if Julia is used for custom machine learning rather than just calling into pre compiled CUDA kernels?

Also, does Rust have a GPU/CUDA backend yet?
I misread the title as "Why doesn't Britain make things any worse", expecting another Brexit article.
Browser vendors are paying less and less attention to EV anyway [0].

[0]: https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-ar...
I guess this is a nitpick of limited vs. fixed. Even if you grow the stack, at some point you can't grow anymore.
Can anyone tell me how kaspersky is injecting a script into an HTTPS site?

From the screenshot in the article, there doesn't appear to be a kaspersky browser extension in use.

I guess it would have to be a MITM of some sort. Either by installing a cert or by getting the TLS keys from the browser, I suppose?
This is my thinking too. Having to prove, over and over, that I understand how linked lists and binary search trees work is just tiresome. Doing it once and then being able to refer to a trusted credential that certifies it would be a blessing.

I understand nobody is going to hire on the strength of one exam. Every job is a little bit different and some of them call for particular skill sets. That's fine. By all means ask questions tailored to the job at hand. But let's find a way to skip the really generic questions.
Have there been any trials on creating a solar roof over highways? It seems like a much better option as the panels don't need to be reinforced, and they can be angled towards the sun to aid cleaning. We already know how to build stable metal framed structures (and panels aren't that heavy). In somewhere like Spain it would reduce the requirement for AC while driving, making it even more green. During rain it would increase visibility and reduce water on the road, making the road safer.
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The biggest saboteur of the Chinese economy was Mao.

If you're going to pin this on the west, then pin it on Rousseau, not (say) Adam Smith.
My immediate reaction is that the problem with that approach is that it’s simply too expensive for the hiring company, in the same way that take-home programming challenges are too expensive for the applicants.

A company trying to hire engineers can easily give a take-home programming challenge to a dozen engineer applicants and take very little time analyzing the submissions. That’s pretty unfair. But it also feels a bit untenable for a senior engineer at a hiring company to have very deep investigations of each applicant’s work history.

Another problem is objectivity. If your company’s engineering hiring process relies heavily on a senior engineer’s subjective impression of an applicant, you’re going to have big problems with your own engineers’ biases, whether subconscious or not. Expect to hear a lot of evaluations like “well, the applicant did seem to have good knowledge and experience, but I just wasn’t impressed for some reason.”
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I like the for loop code thing. Imo, good hiring process for hiring programmers must involve small piece of code. Not difficult or algorithmic, but something to distinguish those who can't do anything at all.
In a Ponzi scheme you commit fraud. You make false claims about returns, and then use downstream investors money (enticed by those false claims) to pay off upstream investors to keep the scheme going.

This is a stock sale. The "mom and pop investors" buy into it with full knowledge of what they're buying. It might be a bad investment, but I don't see where the fraud comes in? I'm not convinced that WeWork is a sustainable business which is why I won't invest in it. Others might disagree.. we'll find out down the road who is right.
Lets see the easily falsified napkin math then
ISO 27001.

It doesn't mandate it explicitly, but your auditor may get fussy if you can't answer questions about the relevant controls with a clear answer.
Just a reminder. If you are doing these experiments on an external display, make sure you are doing so with your laptop lid closed (its screen off). Mac OS (and maybe other operating systems) do not properly operate its vsync synchronization from a laptop when using an external display while the laptop’s screen is also active. I have run into this problem multiple times.
There are also over 100 million Cantonese speakers in China.

It’s like the interesting fact there are more Mongolians in China than in Mongolia.
Although I share this dream I’m unsure whether Apple is pursuing the security and privacy of their users for intrinsic reasons or just to be not Google. Meaning that when they get all users and Google is gone that they can turn all the tracking they like.
The sad part is that it would have been cheaper for decades ... had someone been willing to make that move. Big windmills had been built by the 1880s (e.g. Charles Brush), and a century later the technology was well within reach. But 'alternative energy' (as it was known) couldn't get heard about (Carter tried).
The examples given are all defense projects, but the article does not ever limit its claims to defense projects. Its thesis is stated and re-stated in general terms and it consistently makes broad claims like:

> Today and into the future the best way to ensure that a new system's software architecture supports needed capabilities and also system evolvability is to involve software-knowledgeable personnel--specifically software architects--in the early system decisions about breaking up a system into acquirable parts. At this early stage, many software problems are either caused or avoided, and software architects are needed to ensure the latter.
Getting rid of AVs is old news. If almost no one in infosec trusts using them then why bother?

https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/802491391121260544

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-your-antivirus-...
Ask HN: Comforable VPN Setup for some services but not others?
I'm thinking of getting a VPN again (PIA or Mullvad, leaning PIA) but I was wondering what setups do people have?

E.g. I am not sure if I want everything to go through the VPN - for example stuff like games will just have a higher lantecy, but also it seems nicer to be able to choose which sites to be accessed via VPN and which not.

I'm (mostly) a Chrome user in Germany.

So what Setups and advice do people here have?
I also noticed this. To be fair Mozilla is mentioned. I wonder what the motivation is, are they planning on building revenue through Brave’s reward program?

Anyway, I wanted to give this more airtime so I upvoted you ;)
I'm not an expert, but I expect that a lot of that seemingly free space to the sides of runways is kept deliberately clear in case of emergency landings and whatnot. Cluttering it with solar panels would probably be a no-go; imagine a plane crash-landing into the middle of a huge electrical installation not easily accessible for firefighters.
Right.. does he really believe he is experiencing a level of persecution like being a "gay Jew in the Nazi party" for his whiteness? He doesn't know what it means to be persecuted.
Hey thanks for that info - I will check that subreddit. I will stick to mysql. I agree that it would be more portable but I dont really intend to take it with me anywhere.
Not really, because they're only talking about amateur investors.
Then Malaysia (or some people there) is not in the business of buying plastics, but in the business of selling a cheap solution to get rid of plastics. They are not buyers, but sellers.