skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It runs both ways, yes. In the forward direction, most countries don't play fair and if they have the chance they will wipe out the US as soon as possible. In the other direction, the US doesn't play fair either and will do the same exact thing.

So ? That's just realpolitik. Why this hypocrisy to urgently flag & kill the privilege of the GP. He has a point.

Zoom out a bit.

Levandowski walking out of Alphabet into Uber is the same story as Aleynikov walking out of Goldman Sachs into Teza is the same story as Stanford hiring Nobel economists from UChicago is the same story as Chinese students studying nuclear engineering at US universities is the same story as Bangaldeshi students studying atomic engg in Indian universities as whatever story take your pick that fits this trope.

People move & they carry stuff with them. Ain't fair but that's life. Can't prosecute every single person, so you try to make an example out of the big fish. But for every big fish out there, there's a whole school of little fish swimming covertly doing the same exact thing. Its just a matter of scale.

This needless persuasion to delve deeply into every nook & corner of a cogent argument as though it is some programmatic API & you've discovered some edge case where the unit test barfs...this bloodthirsty impulse isn't going to hold you in good stead. Nuance is awesome, but big picture clarifies as well. Everything isn't about programming.
I agree. I have only developed software for multinationals and did a stint of short term freelancing for same. Titles are important within orgs but don't really translate across them, in my opinion.
You can do this without javascript, you just create a form that sends an XHR PUT/POST request and returns back a 200 response.

You can't do much with the response without JS but a single upvote doesn't change anything on the page so there's no need for the reload.
This is only a partial answer, but I remember the designers of Julia saying that the Scheme spec spends many dozens of pages on the semantics of integers and floats. That makes the language large.

Remember that Scheme is not the lambda calculus -- you need dynamic types like integers, strings, vectors, hash tables, IO, etc. to get anything done.

In contrast in Julia they said that the semantics of numbers are defined in Julia. Julia has a much richer notion of number than any other language AFAICT, e.g. int8 .. int128, uint8 .. uint128, vectors of those, matrices of those, rationals, etc. They're all on the "same level" -- there aren't primitives vs. libraries, as far as I know.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/integers-and-floatin...

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/complex-and-rational...

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/arrays/

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/conversion-and-promo...
>That's an interesting claim to make.

Apparently true too. E.g:

https://ibb.co/gm33zJb
No I mean, rather than using Dropbox for dotfiles, use a bare git repo to manage them
OP: It'd be nice if the game over screen showed the move sequence along with the score
Truman and MacArthur's key policy disagreement was that MacArthur believed taking the war into China would not involve the Soviet Union.
I saw that earlier, I'm hoping this resolves my issues, but we'll see.
It definitely provides a incentive for sales people to be well informed. I’ve never found that to be the case at Frys.
I don't think your analogy is valid unless you at least warn ad-blocking users that you don't approve of it. Otherwise the sign on the jar is more like "Take a cookie, and if you feel like it, leave a dollar."
The only certain way of preventing intellectual theft is preventing foreigners from entry to US universities - and companies.

As for granting foreigners visa status after graduation it depresses the wages of Americans (although helps US companies at least in the short run because of lowered wages).

The risk is that these foreigners can pack up and leave the US at any time and unless their exit is prevented they can theoretically take their know how and mental blueprints with them (for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Li ). Non-competes are rarely ever enforced internationally (and illegal even in California). The father of the American Industrial Revolution Samuel Slater evaded the British emigration ban and was called “Slater the Traitor”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

Policy makers will have to decide whether to ban foreigners (or the undesired foreigners of the day) or accept the real or perceived risk. Simple cost benefit analysis for policy makers.

The reality is that these measures either way will only change things at the margins when looked at from a very long term perspective in terms of the rise and fall of nations and empires.
Only tangentially relevant, but does anyone have any insight on how applicable this broader topic might (or not) be to the "essential oil" industry?

Specifically talking about the business of "essential oil diffusers" and the sales of essential oils. From my understanding, the diffusers are largely akin to ultrasonic humidifiers containing oil instead of water (though several forms of diffuser exist including ultrasonic, evaporative, heat, etc) -- which I would imagine is basically just putting oil into the air for later inhalation...

The article mentions several times, and somewhat unsurprisingly, that the inhalation of oil is not good for you or for the health of human lungs. Is this the case with all types & classes of oils (ie "essential oils"), or are oils used for vaping specifically bad/worse, or is there just not much data on the broader topic of inhalation of atomized oils yet?

I've read the relevant Wikipedia articles and read through the studies/sources that are freely available, but if anyone has any further insight or knowledge I'd really love to better understand it.

FWIW, my personal guess would be that the inhalation of most any non-gaseous matter is probably bad for you -- but if there's any science/data out there on it I'd love to hear about it.
'Being persecuted' strikes me as a crummy reason to put someone on currency, it's more a sign of the times than a sign of gravitas.
Ah thanks man, didn't know about this...
The link between modern day food....
No offense to Obama, but I expect he'll be merely a Jeopardy question in 100 years. Memorable people tend to come from memorable times.
Is this suggesting that modern civilization started with climate change? At the end, he points out that the occupants of these areas moved towards the coasts during the desertification. This would have been immediately preceding the establishment of the first Egyptian dynasty.
> They have so routinely gotten their butt kicked in the arenas of empathy, equality, and compassion

Ah, gloating about "kicking butt", truly the pinnacle of empathy and compassion.

Look, I agree with you, but there's no reason to descend to this guy's level. As old Fred once put it:

> He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Posted a few months ago. Admittedly it’s not a Xeon but these things are becoming commodities.

> Ara runs at 1.2 GHz in the typical corner (TT/0.80 V/25 oC), achieving a performance up to 34 DP-GFLOPS. In terms of energy efficiency, Ara achieves up to 67 DP-GFLOPS/W under the same conditions, which is 56% higher than similar vector processors found in literature.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20126280
Wasn't that ruling about class action suits, though?

As I understand it, that's a very specific status that must be explicitly sought, and while it doesn't seem to be unusual under the US legal system, plenty of other places don't have a direct equivalent.
Ask HN: Where do I find a business partner in New York city
I'm a software developer with 20 years experience and I'm ready to Branch out and create my own destiny .

.I would like to find a business partner in New York city to explore ideas and create a startup.

Anyone in the big apple ?

looking for a partner ?

My email is callagg3@gmail.com
Ok, it was just a stupid post. I apologise. Shouldn't have done it.
At the moment you are correct but if things work out with Korea he could be remembered, rightly or wrongly as the person who started a new path.
Too many negative views against new web. Imo these apps are built for both faster and slower connection with lite version. Sites can support slower network areas but why should that go against new web stack. I absolutely love the experience of spa, progressive webs and heavy client aide apps which do not post entire html every time you click on something.

I do agree with op that HN is built for sharing news and links and it is great that they have not tried to update it with new style and heavy experience.
I think we’re agreeing but we draw the line in different places.

Cloud is great for speed of deployment. But once something is made, stable and has predictable load then it’s a huge cost saving to bring it in-house. Many don’t, probably because they’ve used some cloud only technologies or fear the migration path will take time.

So you just continually line bezos pockets instead of using the cost savings to remain liquid.
Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us
>I was drifting backwards into the power lines and could only see each power line as it appeared from behind me ...

>I was given a physical examination at the Air Force hospital and told that I must be under observation by medical personnel for 24 hours. I told the doctor that I was going to the officers’ club for a drink, if he wanted to observe me there.

Ejectee #2176
A teen shared a video of her own legal sex act, convicted as child pornographer
I'm launching a platform where you can buy and sell SaaS resources
Or compile.
Yeah, I get that. Those people seem like a minority of the degrees. But even there, I suspect there's probably creative paths through the bureaucracies that don't involve degrees, or push the degree costs onto employers.
Putting the data beforealgorithm in big data addressing personalized healthcare
See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession

Because of this precession ("wobble"), it turns out that the "North Star" has not always been Polaris. Back when the Pyramids were built in ancient Egypt north pointed to Thuban.

The Hoover Dam actually has a monument that gives the year it was built using this astronomical fact:

* https://blog.longnow.org/02019/01/29/the-26000-year-astronom...

* https://grahamhancock.com/motlochw1/

* https://www.quora.com/At-the-Hoover-Dam-what-is-the-meaning-...

* https://kottke.org/19/02/the-hoover-dams-hidden-26000-year-a... (via)
I'd really like to disagree but I have to agree. I can think of so many ways that HN could be improved but then to what purpose.
It used to be better with mobile browsers that knew how to properly reflow text (Opera Mobile), so that comments didn't get progressively narrower down the reply chain. Dumber browsers have since taken over as the whole "responsive" thing became a responsibility of the website itself, instead of being taken care of by the user agent, with inconsistent and ultimately worse results.
Should be easy to try, maybe I’ll do it if I understand correctly what you’re thinking about...

It sounds like you’re thinking of a feedback loop, where I pick, say 1000 uniform samples, then run them through the alias map, and then run those results back through the alias map, etc., while each time increasing the number of buckets for the alias map?

I would assume the output distribution range is either [0,1] or we re-normalize the samples every time through the alias map?

Is that what you’re thinking of, or are you suggesting to visualize the map directly, and not a bunch of samples?

For a feedback loop on samples, I guess I might expect the samples to eventually converge with all samples at the function’s maximum. But if you mean to track and visualize all the little intervals in the alias map through itself several times, yeah, that might be a bit wild to see.
For reddit, try old.reddit.com, or you can set your account to always use old in preferences.

It's not as clean as hn, but way better than "new" reddit. (I use it even on my fast connection.)
The photo of tesla battery pack behind the bars is striking.
Sure. The fat has to get trimmed. Short these loans I suppose, if you want to make money during the depression.
I think concentration and magnitude is key. Frying definitely vaporises oils into the air but it doesn't seem to be causing lung issues.
Paper books? That's nonsense.
Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi)
Their Palo Alto lease is expiring, according to https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/08/28/frys-electron.... Hopefully the other stores are at least close to breaking even.
"I think a huge part of it is that getting a “good” job out of college has never been more competitive and more important."

That's an interesting point as opposed to the over-observed fragility of modern college students.

There's probably something to be learned from the different school and employment bottlenecks in Japan.
Secondary? If only. It's more like not even considered at all.
This would make a really cool combo with something like reveal.js, for the world’s coolest presentation transitions.
Honestly it’s just embarrassing when you killed him.
On redhat derived systems, setting up a basic mailserver was never harder (post 2010) than service "sendmail start & & service dovecot start" + adding a couple of DNS records. Not knowing this means not having done one's homework. Which is also a good indication that one should not be messing with email.

And knowing it is still being long way from running an effective mail server.
Without knowing for sure, I guess the concentration makes a big difference. Many things are toxic in high doses. The purpose of a vaper is to get as much oil in your lungs as possible. Not sure that compares to an essential oil diffuser.
I was on a team at Microsoft that was strictly Waterfall; our business reps wanted to release functionality in six month cycles, so Waterfall was a good fit.

We eventually moved to Lean (a type of Agile) which worked well with this six-month requirement. It gave engineers the ability to work on different pieces and in whatever order they pleased, as long as everything landed in the six-month block.
Vinyl is niche but pretty much everyone I know uses paper books/newspapers/magazines and occasionally radio. I'm listening to radio right now.
> https://kottke.org/10/08/us-dollar-redesign

Wow, that redesign is really impressive! I hope something like it gets adopted eventually.
> Oh wow, how do you prompt the interviewees?

Back when I was still doing this, I used to start the interview like this:

- given: a non-uniform, finite, frequency table with actual observations of some real-world phenomenon (and if that's too generic, just tell the candidate you've thrown a dice a million time an recorded the outcomes).
- given: a uniform pseudo random number generator
- please design a pseudo random number generator that will, if sampled for long enough, produce the same distribution (non generic version: RNG that statistically behave like the dice).

Unfortunately, a non-negligible proportion of candidates fail to produce any solution at all :(

Decent candidates quickly produce the standard: "build the CDF once and then at sample time, draw a uniform number in the correct range and walk the CDF until we're above that random number, return the bucket where that occurred"

I then ask for time and space complexity for the sampling phase.

Slightly better than average candidate notice that the CDF is naturally sorted and can be binary searched.

I then ask those if they can improve what we have to a O(1) solution (independent of the size of the histogram).

The top 20% candidates usually manage to put their intuition at work: from the fact that O(1) almost always implies a simple table lookup, they come up with the: "build a very large array, where the index of each bucket B of the histogram is replicated histo[B] times and then sample uniformly from it".

We then discuss when this algorithm is/isn't practical.

The candidates that get to this point within ~15mn can then be gently walked towards redesigning the alias method using some hints.

The starting hint goes like this: what if you were to completely ignore the fact that the histogram is not uniform, and just stubbornly sample from it, can you quantify how much of a mistake you would make ?

The second hint is: for some buckets, picking them will be an overshoot, and for some we will undershoot. Explain when that is.

The third hint: say we picked a bucket that's chosen too often, can we decide to only keep it some of the time (as in: with some carefully chosen probability)

The fourth hint: and if we decide not keep it, why waste the dice throw, why not pick another, carefully chosen bucket

etc ...

The nice property of this question is: it's very gradual, starting with a problem most people with a CS degree should be able to solve, then going to a solution that's less standard and requires more than base regurgitation of CS lessons, to finally get to what I consider to be (at the risk of repeating myself) the non-trivial state of the art solution to the problem.

The point where the candidate start to struggle gives you a nice reading on their strength.

And there's the rare few new grads that would vaguely recall having seen the alias method and could rebuild it cleanly on the white board from scratch and without help. These rare occurrences were very enjoyable.
I don't think anyone (particularly Levine who is/was a lawyer and law clerk) is saying they are in some doubt as to whether there is a criminal law this falls under.

It just strikes people as wrong and kind of scary for it to be criminal and not civil. When things are stolen from ordinary people, and the police don't stumble across the act in progress, they are pretty blase. They don't say "oh, you have a dispute with someone? Well, we'll arrest them and put them in jail for a million years". You deal with it through insurance, and/or lawsuits, don't you? Because as a citizen, the police don't work for you.

It feeds into the anti-corporate feelings these days in a visceral way, so one may ask "how did we get here, and what purpose does it serve?"
was born as an overreaction to _X_ and excessive processes, the generation that followed blindly adopted _Y_ as a dogma

This happens to everything. It's a pattern as pervasive as Sturgeon's Law, and may well be related to it. Musical genres come about as a reaction to the excesses of dominant genres, then become a dominant genre themselves. This happens to books, TV shows, movies, video games -- basically everything in modern culture. It even happens in academia and in startups.

The reason for this pattern, is that it's often hard to understand the underlying forces and the cost-benefit factors and incentives that shaped _X_ and _Y_. The solution for getting yourself out of the churn of rejecting the old "paradigm" or whatever and adopting the new, is to understand the underlying forces and react directly to them. If you're going to react and deal only with the surfaces of things -- isn't that kind of the definition of the "Cargo Cult" mentality?

(also because "agile" is a great marketing word w/ positive meaning, and leaders suffer from FoMo.)

At my last company, Agile was the specific response to smaller competitors having quicker iteration cycles. I think it's wholly appropriate response in that case. Also, at one company I interviewed at, it seems that their version of Agile was going towards the "mini-iterated-waterfall" variant, with the manager advocating that every story be broken down to minute-enough detail that estimates would finally be nearly 100% accurate. Are those mistakes or the right move? Time will tell.

From the article: What Agile actually is remains vague, even more so than Object Orientation ever was, and that’s no simple feat.

Object Orientation is just a vague strategy for code organization. What it actually is depends on the particular techniques and the context of the group actually implementing those. In that, there is a deep parallel to Agile and to religious dogmas and personal philosophy: It's pointless to talk about something so vague, while it's productive to examine specific groups in their success or failure in implementation.

In other words, don't confuse guidelines and techniques for silver bullets and magic. Don't comply with _Y_ just so you can label yourself "Y." Look at your structure of cost/benefit and the team's incentives and figure out how guidelines and techniques mesh with those.
European students who are not under crushing debt are also having difficulties with such mental health problems. The root of the anxiety and the following depression is economic prospects and the terrible status quo.
I have never been to Fry's during its glory days but when my sister visited 2 years ago we had to quickly get a USB cable so went a Fry's close. I was shocked how empty the store was and that they didn't make any effort to hide the empty shelves. It felt a little like shopping in communist East Germany.
THIS!

And I'm really creeped out right now. I was about to type this example too and then didn't at the last.

As a side note - My mind tends to race at night. Life has me so busy during the day that when I'm trying to sleep is the only time I get to do much thinking. Thing is, because I'm already tired I never remember much of it the next morning other than "I had a really good think about something last night". Given that I'll not remember, and no-one else will have known, it does seem philosophically compatible and biologically possible that the current me is in effect "dying" every night to make way for a "rebooted" version tomorrow. This is not inconsistent with what we know sleep to be.

The only difference is that there's still only one me.

With the transporter analogy, though, the physical matter is reconstructed at the other side from different matter, which means its a copy. The film "The Prestige" covers this difference brilliantly if you've ever seen it.

Finally, if this comment makes no sense, it's because I'm in bed and my mind is racing.
Twitter is barely usable with JS disabled. Any time you follow a link to it you'll get a worthless interstitial "would you like to proceed to legacy twitter??" with only one button: "Yes." As of recently, if you have cookies disabled for their domain as well you'll end up in a redirect loop and never be able to see the 140 characters of text.

*As for reddit though, if you log in with an account you can set it to always use old reddit in preferences.
Arizona State Students from China Detained at LAX, Denied Entry to US
Ask HN: How do you query and manage creds for multiple DBs
I've been a developer for 12 years. I work with multiple apps in multiple environments (local dev stage prod) each with their own DB. Some MySQL, some postgres.

Every single time I need to make a query, I need to open the right desktop client or terminal and copy-paste or recreate a query. Wondering if there's a better approach I've just missed out on.

1. How do you keep track of queries for each DB?
2. How do you keep track of creds for each DB?
3. How do you share queries and results with other devs?
Turing was accomplished enough that I think he deserves the recognition even had he not ended up unjustly persecuted for his sexual orientation.

I wish there was more focus in this discussion on Turing's incredible accomplishments and less on the lurid details surrounding his death. I'm fine with taking a stand to promote LGBTQ rights and left another comment here doing so, but I think it robs Turing of some of the respect he is due to frame the discussion here with an excess emphasis on his persecution.
I believe there are heath issues with frying oil. Just the first Google hit...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4881732/

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/food-drink/bad-fry-news-fr...

And a meta-analysis:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.researchgate.net/publicatio...