skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone mentions a neat hobby or a food you haven't tried before, you run the other way and vow never to attempt that experience?

They important keyword here is 'someone' and not a huge corporation or state actor. I would open myself to people, especially if they don't have anything to gain from influencing me and are purely passioned about the subject they engaged in. Much of what is good on the internet comes from such people doing what they love for the sake of their passion/hobby (such as Wikipedia, parts of YouTube, Arxiv, HN and specific subreddits).
Sure. I'd even allow that you could share that experience with all the steel being smelted for both cars.
Big news should happen this afternoon. Trump will probably wait until after market close. Monday might be brutal
Blue eyes and white skin are two obvious examples of non-fatal mutations. The article is factually barren.
What is your end goal?

C-level executive? Having your own start up? Retire early? Researcher who goes to a lot of conferences and applies state of the art techniques to solve problems?

Sounds like most of the things you are working on are just making you a more efficient cog in large organizations. But in terms of compensation, sounds like the skills you are pursuing will have diminishing returns for increasing your compensation, with out a clear goal and road map for where you want to end up.
We use it at work as well. It's a bit ponderous when starting, being written in Java, but has a very good conflict merge window.
> What about telling them to never answer a call from an unknown number.

Just yesterday, I got a call with caller ID for Chase bank, audio in Chinese. Trusting caller ID is a bad choice (at least currently)
Hi, any thoughts on what would be a good place to start if someone was looking to write a terminal shell variant these days? Also, many thanks for all the useful things. :)
> from a privacy perspective I have no reason to be made aware of the fact that one of my old bosses who's number is in my phone is on Signal and neither should they know that I am on Signal for the same reasons (or lack thereof).

I agree that there are some contacts that I would rather not know that I was on Signal, but, unfortunately, this is an impossible problem to solve when the goal is to create an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform where your identifier is your phone number. The server has to know when a number is not a user so the app can fall back to sending unencrypted SMS (although why Signal falls back to SMS is a mystery to me) and it also has to carry the current public key for each user so that you can be sure that you're talking to who you think you're talking to.

Put another way, even if Signal didn't advertise that, "So-and-so is on Signal, say hey!" you could still theoretically determine whether or not a given number is on signal by sending a message to that number. If it fails, you know they aren't. And if it succeeds, well, then you know they are.
I just interviewed a bunch of folks for a Haskell position at my startup. We started with a video call, then I sent them a real world take home assignment. It was a list of requirements to solve a problem in our actual domain, slightly vague, with a simplified set of functions they’d need as a library to get it done. It wasn’t technical, just a general problem.

It was surprisingly easy to see who had both practical problem solving skills and technical ability. I could see how they modeled the data and the functions.

The best candidates emailed me to ask for clarification about the requirements. I was able to see how effective they were at communicating.

Some of the candidates said they loved the assignment. I think we need things that are closer to real work to gauge how good people will be at real work
Better yet: Use the Air Force to nuke them from afar.
Then don't accept it. What's with the number of packages or size ?
The Linux port is what I've been looking at. I didn't realize it was ported by someone else, it would also explain why that's the only one of his games that comes up.
> just to save a few bucks by buying the cheap Chinese version.

Or not knowing they're buying a cheap chinese version.
I have a kid and this is a real issue - he eats his toothbush.
The majority of Teslas are made primarily of steel, with some aluminum parts. Just like other cars.
It sounds like an interesting idea, but I'm really apprehensive about entering an email immediately. Perhaps you could have a message saying you won't sell that info (or even better, a privacy policy). Also, it'd be cool if you explained what the user is getting before signing up.
Nobody is irreplaceable.
I always thought “fizzbuzz” was sort of an obnoxious “gotcha” sort of test - it’s actually a test of whether or not you're familiar with the “%” operator. I wouldn’t have a problem with it myself, but I can easily imagine spending an awfully long time coding without ever coming across a modulus operation, especially if you didn’t have a CS/math type background. OTOH, I posted on here a few weeks back that I had a co-worker who expected candidates to come up with the binary search algorithm in an interview setting, which I thought was unreasonable, and most of the commenters thought I wasn’t being harsh enough… maybe I have low standards?

However, we can talk about overuse of the “singleton pattern” abomination…
The value prop likely varies greatly -- if you're making a living off being a "Facebook Influencer", or are running brand awareness through social, you'll be willing to pay a lot, possibly thousands, even millions, of dollars.

For the long tail at the bottom, a few bucks is too much.

And if you're just socialising with a small group, ultimately, the next available free-tier service, or Frank or Francine spinning up a Friendica node or Mailman instance is a viable alternative (or if not that than something else).

Keep in mind that FB started as a small exclusive network (a few hundreds of Harvard undergrads), and grew largely through cache and aspirational appeal. (danah boyd has developed this idea at length.) Now, it has at best neutral appeal other than it's where everybody is, which, if they go somewhere else, it instantly loses. And sticking everyone with a high fee will do that.

Also, the costs of revenue -- of simply billing for and collecting on services -- will almost certainly exceed all other costs of service, as will new-user recruitment. Which is why "free" keeps on winning (until it doesn't).
$1.45 billion was European Commission (EC), and Intel not only never paid that, but actually managed to fight and bribe their way to possibility of overturning it altogether. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/06/victory-in...
but if there was no easy way to circumvent it, the website admin is much more inclined to fix it up...
> E.g. he had a bulk data transfer tool that would only transfer 10 items.

I would have pointed out that if you happen edit this tool to transfer 15 items, or any number more, the programming language still obligingly executes all of the larger program, which is because that language implementation contains loops for processing the tokens and statements.
I think it is because the changes are, currently, considered esoteric and slightly experimental in the sense they want to reserve the right to make breaking changes to them. SQLite has a relatively slow cadence when it comes to things like this. Other reasons may be that they're still working on the tests to validate and support those features - as well as documentation. I am hopeful BEGIN CONCURRENT and WAL2 will make it into the amalgamation at some future date.
Why Making $ on Medium Is a Fun Challenge
This is a common misconception.

Cargo ships pollute more SO2 and NO2 than personal automobiles. Those two gases cause acid rain. Acid rain is a problem, yes.

They pollute a lot less CO2, though, which is the gas that is actually going to kill us if we don't stop emitting it at the rates we emit it today.

A cargo ship is the most efficient form of transport, in terms of CO2/kg/km.

A personal automobile is the least efficient.
The thing is, you don't need mod. You can, in more steps, arrive at the same output just using arithmetic. But everyone... non-programmers too... should understand the concept of "remainder after division" (of whole numbers).

If the test is interactive, the candidate can express, "I need to find out if this number is evenly divisible by that number; if so, then blah blah". Interviewer can remind them that x % 2 is "remainder of x when it is divided by 2". The point should not be whether someone can remember %, but whether they have any idea what minor goal they are trying to achieve.
definitely. Tools like coderpad naturally lend themselves to dynamically typed languages.
It helps determine the price of the ad they are showing.

So first you need to join an ad network. Then you could be paid more for higher revenue visitors.
It can't happen soon enough.

And the legislation will also be developing outside the US, notably in Europe and Asia.
>>Eating insects...is disgusting for most people

The several billion people of the world would like to have a talk with you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy
I hate the way this article is presented.

It takes an interesting and intuitive effect that we couldn't explain mathematically and now can, and tries as hard as possible to shove every fucking clickbait word in as possible.

Kudos to the author for presenting this material in possibly the least consumable way imaginable. I hate it.
Fund publishing as a public good.
I find it personally helpful in forming my own opinion to consider that the people saying "everything is fine" have a vested interest in everyone believing that and do not in my opinion have a reputation for honesty.
From :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773297

> This exactly the kind of Bot problem which another HN post was talking about, the user patwalls recently boasted on reddit/twitter about automating reddit submissions & gaining a boatload of views & is doing the same to HN with clickbait metric laden titles of obscure stuff.

> https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1164708441216077825

So I have the feeling that this is another HN automatic submission.

I don't mind if other find the subject interesting, but personally, I am not too keen on having to read spammy, but not totally spammy, blog posts. Moreover, if this becomes a successful strategy, it will only lead to more automated submissions. I am not too naive, and there already plenty of people optimizing the time of posting and content, but getting a spammy post about how to spam is a bit to tautological for my taste.
and sell before facing trials. Should we have empathy for Bayer that has made a very bad purchase ?
All animals are essentially worms with some appendages here and there. Might want to avoid them too.
>Phone numbers are terrifyingly easy to port to another account.

Which is precisely why they should never be used as an identifier.
Based on my limited experience of visiting Walmart, I think most of their low end products are of significantly better quality than low end products from Amazon.
“Wall-mart” is a store near the Spanish Wall in Pohnpei. Walmart is Sam Walton’s huge chain of stores.
Blow up their planet.
Neither Google Reader nor Talk had been shutdown until 2012, so the whole storyline of Google constantly shutting down stuff hadn’t started yet, this seems like a false recollection.
It is an exception because it is not representative of most assault charges in the US. Getting charged for assault, and then a pat on the wrist, for punching a Nazi is by definition an exceptional event. Rolling Stone, a cultural icon, does not gamble advertiser money on boring, unexceptional events.
The trade war is one of the most hated policies of the President. It polls worse than the immigration camps (sadly).

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2622
I can't help myself: In Python to reverse a string (or other sequence)...

In [1]: "?he ,taeN"[::-1]
Out[1]: 'Neat, eh?'
> Not sure it has much to do with the developers at all.

Harsh but fair. I keep thinking that if we just make good app development easier, we could bring some of those well designed apps back to the native desktop instead of losing them all to the web. The reality, as you pointed out, is that the underlying technology is irrelevant. This is a marketing issue.
Hey Thanks for reaching out. Answering your question there's no way we would ever consider that.Your email is used in order to create a profile for yourself. Nothing is being sold or given to 3rd parties etc.
For me this has not been working well because I go to Walmart or Best Buy and find out they don’t actually stock anything and end up wasting my time and still having to buy online.
But all of the extras parts that are not under the LGPL are things that GTK (nor Electron) doesn't even have, so I would argue it's still an unfair comparison.
> they all come from China and I pay Western prices for the privilege of having it shipped to me faster

that's a pretty decent description of the Amazon business model.

(i guess the only thing to add is that Amazon accepts product returns. but almost every retailer does that nowadays.)
Nowadays the majority of caviar is farmed and the eggs often harvested using no-kill methods.
Elon Musk isn't part of OpenAI any more. I don't think his stance should hold that much weight any more.

> Sikka argued that "openness" was the fundamental reason he supported the project.

I believe the relevant quote is this one

> Sam asked me if I would be ok with the fact that such an endeavor would be untethered and would produce results generally in the greater interests of humanity, and he was somewhat surprised by my reaction, that indeed I would only support this venture if such an openness was a fundamental requirement!

https://web.archive.org/web/20151222094518/http://www.infosy...

I'll leave this open to interpretation; I think there are multiple ways of taking it and I'm not convinced which are accurate.

> OpenAI was heavily criticized by other AI risk researchers for its public approach, and argued strongly that it was doing the right thing. It specifically invoked the threat of AI tools being abused by small groups of people in secret as more pressing than the threats from self-directed or public-use AI.

I'm not sure who you are referring to here. The only critics I've heard claiming OpenAI are too open are those who believe in Bostrom-style AGI risk, which is the idea that (far-term) AI is intrinsically dangerous, rather than being dangerous predominantly because of malicious use.

> If OpenAI thinks state actors can't replicate their work,

I don't believe OpenAI believes this.
Though I don't know the specifics, isn't it commonly advised to not rely on docker for secure isolation of potential malware?
Yes perfect regulation is impossible and yes it's an arms race but it's one we have to keep fighting. The alternative (less regulation) is far worse. We've tried that.
Apple wasn't previously a government regulated monopoly and iPhones aren't a vital service in a developed country. Government regulated monopolies are different though. Regulations forcing a specific price, or even a specific "profit" margin aren't unheard of. Thus, the premise isn't entirely unreasonable!

There are details to be quibbled over, but the history of AT&T is where that premise comes from in the first place! (In particular, the 1982 DoJ mandated breakup and resulting fallout from that.)
> why use certificates If you can use plainkeys?

TLS is for use to connect arbitrary peers on the Internet, which means you're going to need a PKI. So that means certificates.

I don't happen to agree with Noise's philosophy about agility, but that's one of those things where we'd have to agree to disagree in the short term. In terms of replacing TLS, Noise just isn't in the picture at all.
> Cuba... isn't that the country with the best healthcare system in the world?

I don't know. Is it?
You know, I've seen countless times when, say, Walmart or some other retailer gets caught and body slammed for stocking a product on their shelves that was known to be manufactured under substandard working conditions. It's possible that I'm just not seeing the same frequency of articles lobbed at Amazon, but there's no doubt they are guilty of the same thing on some level. Is it because Amazon found a way to sort of diffuse the responsibility, perhaps by claiming that they're just :the platform" shrug? I'm curious though, what kinds of consequences does Amazon actually face for stocking products manufactured under unfair working conditions, stolen intellectual property, and so on? I'm sure their official policy is that they don't tolerate it. Of course. But in reality, what are they actually doing about this, what incentive do they have to do anything, and how effective has it been?
Nation-state actors aren't the only people who can do damage. You also have to worry about the script kiddies. There are people who will do bad things for the lulz, but only if it's easy.
This is addressed in the 10-k. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872419...

"We Could Be Liable for Fraudulent or Unlawful Activities of Sellers

The law relating to the liability of online service providers is currently unsettled. In addition, governmental agencies could require changes in the way this business is conducted. Under our seller programs, we may be unable to prevent sellers from collecting payments, fraudulently or otherwise, when buyers never receive the products they ordered or when the products received are materially different from the sellers’ descriptions. We also may be unable to prevent sellers in our stores or through other stores from selling unlawful, counterfeit, pirated, or stolen goods, selling goods in an unlawful or unethical manner, violating the proprietary rights of others, or otherwise violating our policies. Under our A2Z Guarantee, we reimburse buyers for payments up to certain limits in these situations, and as our third-party seller sales grow, the cost of this program will increase and could negatively affect our operating results. In addition, to the extent any of this occurs, it could harm our business or damage our reputation and we could face civil or criminal liability for unlawful activities by our sellers."
NYT published a story/video recently featuring interviews with children and parents whose parents have overshared pictures of them on social media. I couldn't finish it because of the irony.
also https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/22/electric_vehicles_w...
That's the thing... you feel fizzbuzz is effective but the fact that it filtered out CS students from top 10 schools says more about the test then it does the student.

Think about it, it takes way more work, way more intelligence to get into and graduate from a top 10 school then it does to learn how to pass a fizzbuzz test.

I can 100% tell you that ALL CS grads from top 10 schools can pass fizz buzz given a day to do it. That being said I can also say literally most of your coworkers who are administering the fizz buzz test will not be able to ever attend a top 10 school given a lifetime to prepare.

It is incredulous to me that people can literally dismiss an MIT candidate because he didn't pass a fizzbuzz test. Do you not realize that it is 100x easier to learn programming then it is to get into MIT?

People need to get it through their heads. Programming is actually really, really easy. That's why there's so many people who can learn how to do it without going to college. But instead I see most people thinking that they are so intelligent they didn't need to go to college because they can just learn programming.... That may be partially true, but most of what I see is actually just people learning programming because they COULDN'T get into university.

But it still begs the question... what is making an MIT student fail a fizzbuzz test? It's like failing to recite a paragraph out loud with zero stuttering to an audience who is judging your future career. How could one possibly be so stupid and not stutter? If you stutter it must mean you can't speak english, just like how if you fail a fizzbuzz test is must mean you can't program.

To be honest I don't know why so many programmers fail. But I'm honestly pretty sure fizzbuzz is so dreadfully easy that there is some other factor that is influencing this high failure rate.
The development programs in Toastmasters are fine, but I think the real value is in providing a venue to practice and experiment. You don't get better at things without practicing in a realistic environment, and that's hard to do without something like Toastmasters. We have a chapter at work and it's been really helpful for a lot of people.
With internet companies sometimes being held responsible for illegal content they host (provided by third parties), shouldn't Amazon be liable for facilitating the sale of or directly selling counterfeit goods?... especially when they have been alerted many times that a particular item is counterfeit?
+1 I've bought lots of stuff from revzilla. Satisfied customer here.
>this is an impossible problem to solve when the goal is to create an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform where your identifier is your phone number

Right, the use of phone number as identifier is flawed by design, and not secure
Physical stores fight Amazon with tech makeover
> There will end up being extensions to regularize the timing of your keystrokes and mouseclicks because they give away your identity

.. and these users will be flagged as bots :) .. :(
If I take hanniabu's numbers, that ends up with 8000 ft. zeppelins--the length of airport runways. That's probably not going to be operationally viable: going by the space the largest seaports take up today, you have space to berth only a few of them--maybe 5 at best--at the very largest of them. There's therefore going to be very poor operational flexibility for choosing routes, and with the sheer size and capacity, multi-destination itineraries are going to struggle with long dwell times to partially load/unload them.
On why entanglement in general cannot be used for FTL communication, BUT you can get some FTL "correlations" out of it which are impossible with purely classical methods: https://medium.com/@ahelwer/walking-the-faster-than-light-ti...
And thank's for the feedback, will take on board.
I'm much more likely these days to go to either ebay (e.g. for the replacement phone battery I got a week or two back) or to a vendor that doesn't do Amazon's commingling of stock (B&H, Target, etc.). This is particularly true where I think it's something likely to be counterfeited (any high-value commodity, thank god I'm not ordering something like baby formula).

I'm willing to pay a premium for the trust factor, because if I get burned with a bad product on even 10% of my purchases the value of my time dealing with it is probably more than I've ever saved ordering through Amazon - particularly if it's something I wanted quickly where I can't afford the chance of "Oh, sorry you got a counterfeit, we'll ship another and you'll have it in 2 days, hope it's legit this time."

Edit: And I don't think I'll EVER purchase a MicroSD card through Amazon.
Additionally it just simply makes sense since anecdotally we are aware that many chinese live in extremely rural situations with no heating/cooling, or live in dense buildings with shared resources.

These things cost money, and the median Chinese consumer does not have the budget for these items.
Fair points, I tend to conflate agile and scrum since they seem to be coupled together. I get that the dedicated part isn't a requirement, it just seems to be part of most implementations I see. I guess my problem is more with people's implementations.
HTML & CSS (via Electron)
Isnt the only way to defend against dns rebinding to add authentication to your local server?
This reminds me of the ansible machine in Orson Scott cards Enders Game.
Westworld is also a fiction that can construct any model it wants regardless of how people actually behave, so I wouldn’t use it as a counter to actual researched theories