skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was the point I thought it was a parody but then by the end I realised it was not.
Magnus Carlsen was defeated, but draw remains dominant in chess
Not identical, but this fuzzy match is a life changer.

https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/flookup/5938060149...
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Grocery stores are getting into the fast food business, so the line isn't as clear. Ingles (a regional chain) is rolling out pizza, Chinese food, and Starbucks to all its locations.
Like that scene from Goodfellas, where Tommy's wife smuggled those diamonds in.
A turning point in social media
https://www.arqbackup.com/ Works with a bunch of providers and is really solid.
So what? I welcome facial recognition as an additional enhancement to home security systems, especially if it can work across the network of other customers’ cameras to help track criminals’ movement and if it helps lead to their capture. Property crime is rampant here in Seattle and goes entirely unpunished - making it cheap to solve these crimes using this technology would be a huge benefit to quality of life. I really don’t understand the backlash against Ring and others - it just seems like the latest outrage for people to be irrationally upset about.
“Simplicity Is the Mark of Truth” [video]
> mostly because of random file writes.

That's not an issue in CoW filesystems since you need to write out the whole modified block. You might as well hash it.
I have always been puzzled as to why Brian Oki & Barbara Liskov's earlier (1988) "Viewstamped Replication" has been shadowed by Lamport's work. Isn't the RAFT that rocked Paxos's boat not a variant of their work?

I would appreciate knowledgeable insights about this.
related: population is shrinking and many properties have no buyers

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/japans...
-- "Over 8 million properties across Japan are unoccupied, according to a 2013 government report. Nearly a fourth have been deserted indefinitely, neither for sale nor rent. In Tokyo more than 1 in 10 homes are empty.
And that figure is expected to soar in the coming decades as deaths outpace births"
I like the idea of multiple tracks a lot, but I think you need to be hiring at sufficient scale that each track has a fairly high rate of interviews, which makes it hard to support tracks that aren't commonly chosen.

If you don't had that scale, uncommon tracks will be full of interviewers who are out of practice for your question, and poorly calibrated to evaluate the candidate.

Also, some companies might not want to allow any of these methods, since they each have their own tradeoffs/blind spots.
It’s a metal core sandwiched with layers of plastic on the front and back. Mine is starting to peel.
144–146MHz Removed from French Proposal for Additional Aeronautical Applications
To be honest, it sounds like quite a lot of big 'luxury' blocks of flats (gym, pool, cafe / restaurant, concierge) with a slightly higher class of building management than usual (the centralised cleaning and interior decoration).

Heck, this is basically the modus operandi of most luxury student accommodation in London.
And that’s the only major part of the network where Amtrak controls the tracks. Elsewhere, it’s hamstrung by limited capacity and bad/illegal behavior by private operators. The Office of the Inspector General put together a fairly comprehensive report about this: https://www.oig.dot.gov/sites/default/files/Amtrak_Root_Caus...

In principle, this could easily be fixed—-and cracking down operators ignoring the preference rules did help a lot—-but people have to want it.
With changing climate, entire regions which may have been formerly hospitable, were not. Settlements may have been small and largely ephemeral. And they're now flooded under 300' of water and miles out at sea.

As an example: the initial human settlement of the Americas likely followed sea routes along the North, Central, and South American coasts. The region near Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, with the Channel Islands, extended much further out to sea, with some of the islands being connected to land, others being only a short distance (rather than 20-30 miles) offshore.

Settlements along both the coast and shore -- the most viable parts of these regions -- would now be utterly flooded. There are few or no traces of the initial migrations, save for a few inland settlements and venturing / foraging parties, though later settlements may exist.

Much construction and many artefacts would be of earth, wood, hides, and plant fibres, most rotting or melting away under water. There are simply few surviving remains, and those which might exist are hard to find and access.

The climate change itself would have occurred over centuries, with multiple moves and resettlements, or disappearance of entire cities. It's rare for even preindustrial civilisations to endure at their peak for more than a few centuries.
This is pretty innovative on their end.
Maybe someone can come up with a decentralized search infrastructure. Something agent based perhaps. Otherwise the search is both centralized and in the position to make money from ads.
[California Assembly Bill 5] would suck Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy platforms out of their legal vacuum and into well-defined orbits of labor law. It would be doing so in a way that tracks with the reality of their businesses and a common-sense definition of what an “employee” is.

I don't think that a common sense definition of what an "employee" is includes "show up to work whenever you want, take whatever breaks you want, knock off whenever you want, show up wherever you want, work for another company at the same instant you're working for us, get paid for jobs completed rather than hours worked, have a genuine prospect to show a profit or loss, use your own equipment" and likely several other key elements of the Uber/Lyft driver-company relationship.

I agree they're not 100% independent either, but I tend to view them as more independent than employees.
The official rules[1] are somewhat ambiguous, so this might be an interesting Court battle. The key bit is probably "A worker is an employee when the business has the right to direct and control the work performed by the worker, even if that right is not exercised."

[1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/understanding-employee-vs-contr...
I guess we will next see the protesters spraying the police with blue dye so the police can all question each other if they are protesting when not on duty?
It doesn't natively run typescript, it just includes a webpacked version of the typescript transpiler.
It's really your choice whether or not you want to name intermediate expressions. Just use plenty of `let` if you are concerned.
By the way you can cruise 24/7 with all of this for $2500 a month if you plan it right. (NCL has a high quality 7 day cruise from NYC to Bahamas you can buy for $499)
>> Don't be. I've done it for 7 years and counting. Have met awesome people and never hassled or bad interactions.

Did you have this experience as a minority?
The protesters are smart. I hope they capture (or trace the manufacturer and counterfeit a batch) some of this dye and spray it onto local CCP-oriented politicians and police officers.

(My assumption is that the CCP/HK police used a chinese-made clone of something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SelectaDNA rather than just a random blue paint.)
Depends if the initial budget and schedule were accurate, or massively padded.

Under promise, over deliver.
I do. The only thing I hate more than unencrypted messages is vendor lock in. There is no way I'm going to willingly lock my self into some companies chat ecosystem if there is a widely adopted federated alternative.

It's the same reason that I'll never switch from email to slack.
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Check https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Reddit is affected: https://reddit.statuspage.io/
Security policies must be changing all the time due to changes in fraud patterns. The $9 transaction getting flagged in a different country isn’t a surprise anymore since banks figure out that fraudsters “test” credit card numbers with small transactions and then sell that to others (for more fraud) or use for larger fraudulent transactions. This doesn’t explain why the same transactions from the past weren’t taken into account, but must be related to this fraud pattern having a higher weight in flagging transactions.
should. ought. ....
Programming Option for Overtired Parents
Copy that. Happy Labor Day weekend everyone.
Metaheuristics – The Metaphor Exposed (2012) [pdf]
To add...

If you have enough money for that, the hotel can easily be accross the street from your company. Why commute when your commute can be two minutes.

If you need to focus on a different office, just move to that office.
They could also spray bystanders so that there's plausible deniability
> Any tips from clojurists on getting the repl (and readline) working fluently? I'm using Leiningen but it's not responding as I'd expect. I would think this would all set up more effortlessly.

For me, Boot[1] has completely replaced Leiningen, and I wish it was used by all new Clojure projects, when deps.edn[2] is not enough.

[1] https://boot-clj.com/

[2] https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli
Compound bow requires very precise metal work and advanced material. You can invent the compound bow earlier, but you can't craft it without required tech.

Other example is the ski. We have to wait until 1970s for modern ski, metal edge(good adhesive between wood and metal), polyethylene, modern wax, safe bindings... all requires various technologies and we had to wait until 1970s.
I'd be happy to continue discussion over email. I don't like the HN comments overflowing the side of the screen. My email is eric.holloway at google email setvice.
They have Amtrak service along the west coast, and I've taken the Seattle to Eugene and Seattle to Vancouver trains. I was unimpressed, because the maximum speed is about 80 miles per hour, like most of I-5 (edit: I mean that's effectively how fast people drive, not the speed limit), and the fare is so high you could actually rent a car for a few days instead, especially if there's more than one of you traveling. (Seattle -> Eugene, a 4 hour trip, one way starts at $78 according to their website.) I've always suspected it was a critical mass thing, and if more people used the service the price might go down, but for a self-interested individual, it just doesn't make sense right now.
Fraud and spam are two separate problems.

One of the best solutions for spam for a new system is to impose a proof of work requirement on sending the first message between any pair of users, or any (new username, hosting service) pairing for federated services. For any normal pairing that happens only once, but for a spammer they have to pay the cost for every message or else you can trivially block every message from that sender.

Fraud protection is harder, but it's also something that lends itself well to being an independent service. If you're buying from someone trustworthy or dealing in small value amounts then you don't need it. If you're not, you require the seller to carry insurance from someone you do trust (or don't buy from them), and then it's the insurer's problem to deal with fraud.
www.facebook.com now redirects to web.facebook.com
It's really great for that to be honest: I don't have to worry about the games once I upload them (unless I decide to update them or make changes). I also run a site with music games for teachers that's subscription based and that takes up more mental bandwidth from day to day than the apps since I'm always trying to improve it to help keep customers subscribed. If you head into the App store with modest expectations, I think it can become a decent source of income. I talk to relatives and friends and they seem to think that having an app in the store means you'll get millions of downloads a month, but I think that skewed perception is created by the focus on the really big apps in the store (that seem to get a lot of help directly from Apple in how prominently they're placed in the store).
One thing I've come to realize is that it is not enough to write code that's merely compilable. That's a low bar. A team needs a consistent style and that has to be enforced automatically. Automatic formatting is a good first step but that's also not enough. Say you don't want too many nested s-expressions. Then write a tool to reject code that has too many of them. Run the tool together with the compiler. Prevent merging if the tool complains unless a special exception is noted.

Tooling is important.
I wonder if the blue dye will get abused the way swatting is in the US.
I don't know about that. Authentication mechanisms seem within scope of any protocol, and if an implementation refuses service based on some extra requirement (such as being signed in to Facebook) then that implementation is simply not up to spec.

> Facebook could start using an open protocol today

Richard Stallman would prefer you to use the term "free protocol", which I think is what we're all trying to say here ;)
Defrosting Surfaces in Seconds
High speed internet would the problem.
The inundation of the Black Sea may have occurred during early human times and have been passed down through myths and sagas.

There are, of course, numerous other possible events, a synthesis, or even pure fabrication, as the basis.
DepC: The OVH Platform for Computing QoS
There's also some cases where you don't care about the devices that develop errors.

Wear-leveling delays wear errors until the end of the device's life. Once these start to develop you will eventually have storage that's unusable. The cheapest option may be to just let the device crash when it has reached end-of-life.
The point I am making is that a qualified software engineer will eventually figure out something to do with their life.

Not, however, if they stick dogmatically to the idea that it's Google or bust.

I'm not talking about a lucrative job; a middle class existence; a big fancy company; any of that shit. I'm saying that an intelligent human being needs to realise that the world is not necessarily set up for them and they either need to fit in, or carve their own path.

And about debt? Yeah, don't do that. The US college system looks like a racket to me.
You can't be serious to compare US infrastructure to Germany. In my experience living there, the Deutsche Bahn is not to be trusted to be on time, or run at all. And while Amtrak isn't the shining beacon I'd like it to be at least it gets me from point A to B reliably.
Maybe you got luckier in your career than I have been or you've only ever worked for very large businesses. Once you've learned the types of questions that tend to work better you immediately notice when whoever is interviewing you isn't asking them. Interviewers who mostly ask these types of questions and go on to dig deep enough to understand your contributions and the rational behind them are few and far in between.
I did not intend my comparison to be a compliment!
If you have any ideas to keep people from forming socioeconomic hierarchies, we're all ears. It's quite unfortunate, but this is what people do.
My dad told me about police doing the same during protests in 80s Poland
Many of the hotels in Las Vegas allow you to buy condominiums on the highest floors. Often the top 10% of floors are permenant rooms and suites that are sold as apartments. You purchase them like a house, you can sell them any time, and you are the sole owner of that room.

Most of the hotels also have private elevators only for condominum owners so you don't have to mingle with the guests.

You pay an ongoing fee each month for the hotel services and utilities. But this is flat rate and is surprisingly affordable. Comparable in price to a high-end HOA fee in an upscale planned community ($300 - $400 per month). Remember this also includes utilities, access to hotel amenities, and house cleaning on a limited schedule (usually just 1 time per week). Additional house cleanings are sold at a fixed schedule of around $50 per cleaning.

I have a friend who has an apartment in the top of Las Vegas Trump Tower (yes yes, i know all the political presidential comments will follow now, but really the hotel is incredible). This caused me to look it up for myself. I live nearby in Utah and visit Las Vegas frequently. I considered purchasing an apartment in a hotel for myself.

Like any other house, these are listed on the MLS. You hire a real estate agent, etc. I looked at Cosmopolitan, The Palms, MGM Signature, and a few others. They are all surprisingly competitive. Prices start around $250k (which gets you a studio style room). $350k seemed to be the average price for a 1 bedroom. And $500k seemed to get you in the 2 bedroom range. Penthouse suites are also available in the > $1M range.

But all-in-all you can basically live in a hotel for roughly the price of buying a home. Even the ongoing hotel fee isn't too far off what I pay for utlities alone at my home, and also includes the hotel services.

Vegas is not alone in this concept. I know that New York does the same thing and there are similar ones when I was visiting Vancouver, Canada last weekend. Look at most premium hotels and they will often have this option available to a certain amount of their rooms.

Tl;DR: for anyone wanting to live in a hotel, it is INCREDIBLY realistic.
That’s the federal definition. The State of California is codifying it’s own rules to remove the ambiguity.
What a weirdly insulting straw man of a developer you set up. Many engineers including myself would be thrilled to have somebody else highly skilled around, and "selfish/vain" isn't the default in our industry.
I've never been trained on how to write, test or debug code. But I've gotten pretty good at it - you can self-train and learn from experience.

Of course, the difference is that the feedback loop is at least two to three orders of magnitude faster for writing code than for figuring out if you did a good job hiring.
Though Clojure jobs tend to be the highest paying.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#top-paying-te...
Typo in the title: it's "ipecac".

Interesting article, thanks for sharing.
Have you read anything by Pieter Hintjens, the creator of ZeroMQ?

He wrote quite a lot on organising people, particularly software development, but instead of focusing on how to make people efficient, he focused on how to organise the group to protect from opportunistic outsiders / psychopaths coming in and taking personal advantage and destroying the group in the process.

After having his early work ruined several times by other people taking unearned credit, taking money out, causing projects to fail, ZeroMQ was organised around his ideas.

“Coops that get coopted” or are less durable, might be failing to protect their structure well enough.
>To classify someone as an independent contractor, the court said, businesses must show that the worker is free from the control and direction of the employer; performs work that is outside the hirer’s core business; and customarily engages in “an independently established trade, occupation or business.”

This is a bit unrelated, but how would this affect software contractors?
https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1892 - it appears Heroku is being particularly affected. We've had multiple sites on multiple accounts go down in the past few minutes.

EDIT T16:31Z: It appears Heroku has failed over their dashboard, but dynos are still failing to come online. We had assumed that they had multi-region failovers for their customers. Incredibly disappointing.
Essentials of Compilation an Incremental Approach [pdf]
It’s okay for a fine to be insignificant. Parking tickets are insignificant fines too, but in aggregate act to control parking behavior.

What’s needed is better enforcement, not more stringent fines.
Yes. Popular loaded, but my feed doesn’t. Just did, but was short.
What about having a discussion on how the candidate would solve a given take home?

You could check if she would think of the required parts. For instance, would she think of unit tests? If she wouldn’t mention tests, you could ask „How would you ensure that your program works as expected?“

Thus, solving the take home theoretically.
This criterion is ridiculously out of touch with reality. I just hired some people to trim my trees. I told them exactly which trees to trim, in some cases, which specific limbs to cut off. That doesn't make the tree-trimmers my employees.
Why wouldn't you be able to use a 3rd part RCS client. There are loads of 3rd party SMS clients and I'm sure many of them would also work fine with RCS.

Your carrier just provides you access to the SMS/RCS network, they have no control what software you use to access it.
> but we are still able to hire mostly good/trainable people

Wow, you're actually training people? Kudos to you, I haven't seen that in a looong time.

In my current area, everyone only looks for seniors or experienced devs. New grads without connections can suck it basically.
You're absolutely right that, depending where you live in the world, the environmental and economical cost to run a computer 24/7 can be non-trivial.

An average computer doesn't really consume more than a couple 100W light-bulbs worth of wattage when idling, and so if you live in a region where energy is clean and cheap (e.g. myself in Montreal) then there is very little overhead.

On the other hand, there are certainly plenty places around the world where energy costs are much higher to both the consumer and the planet, so that is indeed something to consider.
I'm going to caution drawing the wrong conclusion there: I would not be surprised if those same people would be involved in accidents if they didn't have large screens, because they'd simply be looking at the phones instead (mounted or in hand, makes no real difference).

Just because your center console _can_ play a film, or show that sportsball game you want to watch, doesn't mean a responsible driver will use it for that. Blaming the screens for irresponsible drivers is probably blaming the wrong thing entirely.
It's not much of a difference in terms of consequences, but always-on bounds checking could alleviate OOB'ing the JIT at least.
They protestors could get Fünke and blue themselves.
Flash over SPI isn't very predictable. There's a boatload of internal state -- they silently do R/M/W, there's internal stepup converters with unknown voltage levels, temperature variation greatly impacts write time, and, depending on your software stack, you might need to do an erase.

Assuming you only need to execute one Flash transaction (doubtful!), covering all of the variation might take upwards of 50ms.

So, yeah, you could just throw a massive cap on the power rail. Except that that conflicts with the other power, cost and size constraints implicit in the context of microcontroller systems.
Those are just some conditions of work,typically contractors would have similar conditions.

The point of qualifying them as employees is offering the (little) protection the state grants those, acting as a negotiating agent in a relation that is typically disproportionately favorable the larger party, i.e. the company.

Most drivers I've met don't do that for fun but because they have to. They are usually not part of the upper or middle classes but or the more vulnerable. And as such, getting some status that prevents companies known for their bad hr practices to do whatever they want is the human thing to do.
>It’s legal for Perry to search people without probable cause, a warrant, or a dog because travelers supposedly realize that they have the right to decline to submit to his searches.

We need to extend the Miranda Warning to circumstances such as these. "You are not under arrest and you have the right to refuse a search. If you consent to a search, and something illegal is found, it can be admitted into evidence against you in court." If every interaction started with those words, you'd see a lot more people exercising their right to refuse.