skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was young, in the US, there were equal numbers of men and women on the bus. As I got older, I stopped taking the bus. But on the random occasion that I have to, it's still just filled with... young men and young women in equal ratios. I think it's just an age thing, not a gender thing, that people stop taking the bus.

That being said, it's not just because I have a car that I don't ride anymore - and safety isn't the reason. I get overwhelmed with either Marijuana or Perfume both of which are awful smells. Then there's the people that play music out loud for everyone - or in some cases a game on the phone at full volume instead of through buds. Lastly, and this doesn't need explaining, but the pee-seats. It's enough to make me want to always own a car or have a personal transportation option. If you can outlaw perfumes/marijuana/noise and figure out the pee-seat problem I'd be down to use it more.
the scunthorpe problem will never die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
You understand that a political characterization is just that, right? Actual human belief is nuanced.

Just as all democrats are not green-deal loving firearm ownership rejecting hippies, not all republicans are church going fox news watching SUV drivers.
Would you do your day job “just for fun” after you just quit?

The reality is that most of this technology — especially around infrastructure — has become so complex at scale that the tech strategy and the business strategy are the same thing. So infrastructure software has to match your business architecture which is largely dictated to a technology org. Which is why “tech ops” these days is largely just “ops” — the technological complexity is a reaction to increased business sophistication, not the other way around.
Huawei has nothing to do with the OSI layer 1 challenges of getting access to communities currently dependent on geostationary satellite based access.

Lower cost to launch satellites will help.

Starlink, Kuiper and Oneweb will help greatly, assuming that all three get built and put into production use.

For many places the present economics of construction, and going at least 15-20 years into the future, there will be no terrestrial PTP microwave link to southern Canada nor will there be a cost effective way to link these communities by fiber. They'll remain dependent on some form of satellite access for a WAN uplink to the rest of the world.

We do not need Huawei to build robust last mile wireless point to point and point-to-multipoint radio access networks in these communities. Lots of good non-LTE and LTE-based solutions exist for PtMP radio systems in bands from 600 MHz to 5.8 GHz.

Huawei marketing and sales trying to say that Canada "needs" Huawei to develop 4G/LTE and 5G services in arctic communities is just silly. There's tons of good equipment vendor alternatives with platforms that are just as fast for PtMP last mile systems.
I wonder if there is an interesting lesson learned here for future language maintainers.

One of the reasons for the 14 year deprecation windows (imho) is that the language maintainers didn't have control over much of the core platform libraries/ in everyday use. This created a lot of community angst against the upgrade path.
Windows had 97% marketshare. MacOS, BeOS, OS/2, DOS, the various *nixes and Linux were NOTHING in that market.
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Hah, my friend and I did nearly the exact same project in college, though minus the publication. We had an open ended project for an intro to machine learning class we were taking.

We ended up using the million song dataset, because I'm not sure Spotify gave out this data six years ago, which includes various info about roughly a million songs including artist, length, and supposedly Echonest api results for things like "dancyness". We then merged this with a list of something like 250k results of play counts. We then found out the Echonest data was quite literally all just set to null, so I went out to their api, signed up for a developer key, and spent six days querying to fill out our dataset.

We were massive novices to machine learning, so we basically were just script-kiddying it, and pretty much none of the models we made over a 24ish (because we were dumb college students doing things last minute) period had any significant accuracy. Finally we made a random forest model that was able to, with 80% accuracy, predict the "magnitude" of plays, ie roughly whether a song would get a million plays or a thousand.

When we broke it down (model explainability is an awesome feature) we found that out of everything interesting we had done with feature investigation and data cleaning etc, the model was about 90% based on which artist made the song. In retrospect, that makes sense, in a sort of cynical way; even a great song by an unknown artist rarely makes it big. The moral of the story I guess is that machine learning isn't magic

I still have all the data, and I've been meaning to revisit it now that I actually have a better understanding of the field. It's on my list of things to revisit/do, a very long list
Technical interviewers aren't going to know HR policies as they apply to other people - its HR's job to give them that information. I don't know how much time off a new hire might get, for example. But a helpful technical interviewer might say "oh we start off at five weeks a year" because that's what they started out with four years ago.
Step 2: Train a GAN to try to fool the classifier: instant hit generator?
What can you get for less then $1? 23B database ops
I've watched see video on this very interesting subject a while ago. Take a look at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNh7x3lVWc

My opinion is that we still don't know for sure, and anybody who pretends to be sure about a certain position doesn't have a clue in reality.
Web apps are nice, because most people have multiple devices nowadays. Having your data located on just one device can be rather annoying. Or having to setup a desktop app and a web server for synchronization isn't as nice either.

It also might be, that lots of people don't even know how to create desktop applications anymore, but most will have done something on the web already.
Regarding 2, I think the landmass location would be predictable, but the sea levels wouldn't.
How is that any different than Nintendo's first-party games? They don't pay a license fee to themselves (and such an action would be a pointless accounting fiction if they did).

When you buy a Switch it means you can only play games Nintendo has approved. Unlike the app store, the policies are much more restrictive there. Random Joe can't put a game on the Switch. When you develop for the Switch it means if you have a game similar to a Nintendo game _they won't sell you a license and your product is dead in the water_.

People love to forget: The App Store was the first major distribution mechanism where anyone can join the program, no pre-vetting required, and so long as you obey the rules you can sell any app you want. Prior to that every distribution mechanism (sans selling it yourself on the web) was far more discriminatory, restricted, and took a bigger cut of your sales.
If there are any Age of Empires II fans around here, please could someone let me know how to install a Chinese language pack? I'm using AoE II HD on Crossover on a Mac. I've installed the Traditional Chinese localization ("Zoey'sWork") but only see "???D??" instead of normal text. I'm not sure whether it's an issue with Crossover or AOE.
>Repeated for emphasis: it's irrelevant that there are other mobile app stores, because you can't sell iOS apps on them.

Repeated for emphasis: it's irrelevant that you can't sell iOS apps on them. Selling iOS apps is not a basic human right, nor a market right. As long as you can still sell apps, there's no judge who cares if you can specifically sell iOS apps.

You can't sell your physical products at Costco either unless they accept them, and even if they do, they are always free to promote and prioritize their own brand over yours...

>Authorities can and do segment markets based on meaningful distinctions ,like the fact that iOS apps wouldn't work on an Android phone.

Only for authorities that's not a meaningful distinction...
Your comment doesn't explain why the British wouldn't have democratized Hong Kong when they did for all their other colonies at that time. And the SCMP is not a reliable source when it comes to British rule of Hong Kong.
That's not 'only' that's absolutely mind warping huge for the time when it was made. The physical dimensions of that memory were such that you could see the individual bits as tiny little ferrite cores.
Well it would have helped if the TPP didn't give the Copyright Cartel everything it wanted.
I just see a general "dont vape" trend and that is good. Until we know more, lay off.
Quantum Darwinism
Yea, that's what I've come around to. Thanks for confirming that's a good path.
I haven't used it at all, but I've heard good things about Appian from friends/colleagues.
Hi all, author here. I built RSAS as a "drop-in Icecast replacement" after working with a handful of streaming radio companies, who were all impacted by Icecast bugs and missing features. I wanted an alternative with a better foundation, better out-of-the-box support for the modern web (eg. CORS, easy metadata access), and that was easier to integrate with.

As a drop-in replacement, it reads your existing Icecast config file, and writes logs in the same format as Icecast. It doesn't have every feature of Icecast, but all the major ones are implemented (relays, fallbacks, etc), and I've been using it to power my own audio CDN for the last year.

If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them!
The lingua franca for Google's building needs is (more or less) bazel, where you say target /a/b/c depends on /dep/v1_1, /dep/xyz, /common/foo, etc.). (There is a filesystem-like hierarchy parallel to, but not necessarily the same as the corresponding repository's directory layout.)

Bazel is extensible via rules [1], so if you really wanted to use NodeJS on your team, you might create a `nodejs_binary` rule that put everything in the right directory and ran some NodeJS packager on it. You'd probably not put it into production.

Also, third-party code lives in a single third-party directory, so yes, internal users could pull down code they wanted (and for which there wasn't a satisfactory internal version already) into that directory: https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/

[1]: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/0.29.0/skylark/rules.html
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the zero benefit is where you show that you didn't even try to think about it. missed opportunity to stay silent.
It's good to be cautious. (It would be interesting to find out if the author did eventually publish the work.) It's certainly plausible, as you point out, that while life expectancy was plummeting in Turin and Paris, it might have risen in Britain. We just have no written records from that time period — not even graffiti or runestones — adding to the uncertainty. More than All Creatures Great and Small this bare fact makes me think of Threads.
After leading a team for the first time this past year, I've been reflecting and feel like there are a lot of misconceptions about leadership. Things like being confident, being incredibly sure about your decisions, etc.

I wrote this article to think through what I consider to be the fundamentals of good leadership. Would love to get some feedback and hear what others think. Are there any that are missing?
You mean as a chord? It depends on the particular pianist's finger geometry, but also, the span of notes depends on the bottom note -- sometimes you can't reach that black or white key, and note that the black keys aren't exactly in the middle of the white keys, so the distance changes. The span from B to D flat is easier than that from C to E flat.

Also, one finger can press multiple keys. For example, this is necessary to play three FGDF/FGDG chords in Chopin Op. 10 No. 12.
Huh, I didn't realize their Texas location was an offshoot. Good catch!
But if someone doesn't have plans to cease smoking should they continue to smoke cigarettes instead of switching to vaping?
I'm pretty sure there will be more than one commercial offer for Python2 support in the future.
Yes.

I love the table-turning style of these questions; but the fact is, they can always answer "No, we can't think of any such examples. Are you going to walk away from the job?"

That is to say, hiring is usually a buyer's market.
"90% based on which artist made the song"

Doesn't that demonstrate that the actual business case of producers discovering new artists doesn't even factor into the model's case of discovering which new songs will actually be hits.

It seems like the former is much harder than the latter in this case.
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Keep protesting. I'm sure this time it will work.
Show HN: APOD Chrome Extension by The Trav
Faggot is still a pejorative in the UK, it's just _also_ a food.
I agree that unit shares don't make sense, I was referencing the volume % which seems less absurd. The % of volume that LP had in 2018 was similar to the late % in the 80s. My point was that in the late 80s vinyl was "dead" and it's still "dead".
Anyone know of a good continental drift animation/video?
Over the past few years I've built out this Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) Chrome/FF extension that shows an APOD as your new tab page. Just recently I've overhauled it with React to try and reign in the features I had built in Vanilla JS originally.
Anyway, with these updates I've added a service worker to make it load as fast as possible and in case there are others here that really love the APOD I wanted to share.

Here's the Firefox version:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/apod-by-the-t...
> Corparate-speak that makes its way into common language is frequently justified post-hoc by subtle differences in meaning like the ones you allude to.

You seem to have reversed cause and effect here. New words/phrases/jargon comes into common usage when it is useful for communicating something. The difference might be subtle, but people wouldn't use the word if they didn't think that it was an important distinction to make.
That's a cooperative synchronous bus, something quite common at the time. It's a bit like a 'yield' instruction in a cooperative multitasking environment.
Agreed on flight benefits in US. If flying alone can JS, but with family that doesn't work. Wasn't sure if the Euro market had more standby availability.

That said, pilot pay goes up to about $400/hr at Delta as an example including profit share.
It seems pretty variable for me. First time I tried it, took 6 seconds on a two year old Macbook Pro (2.8 i7). Tried again and it took 18 seconds.
Have you found that you're reducing your vaping usage?
FTE dev, fully loaded, is what? $250,000 per year? More?

Are the improvements worth $125,000?
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The irony of banning a UK ad because a word is offensive in the US, while letting other ads for the same place which name includes a word offensive in the UK (but not the US), is delicious.

The internet is American, apparently.
I don't personally know - but it would have to be a setting within the Gmail app itself AFAIK.
If you track Cancun from 200 million years ago, it shows the Gulf of Mexico opening up as the Yucatan block rotates clockwise. The Florida platform stays pretty much stationary. This likely accounts for why there are no oil wells on the Florida platform south of the panhandle.
The word is a perjorative for homosexual across the UK and in the private boys schools since the 1700's, fagging has been the term used to describe the practice of senior pupils enslaving younger ones, who are then known as fags.

The perjorative is the most common use, however it also describes a food and small bits of firewood. People generally seem to work out the meaning from the context relatively easily, homonyms being a thing.

To illustrate, here is a picture of a man with a giant cock - http://cdn.ecommercedns.uk/files/5/227995/1/5014991/kmk023-h...
> To your point, writing 2-3 compatible code has a real cost, but to the GP's point, it's the obvious solution to the "can't do anything until deps are migrated" problem

Q: Ten years ago how would you have explained to your manager that you needed your team to start writing 2-3 compatible code, which obviously takes considerably more time and effort than sticking with 2 compatible code?
Ah I see now. Yes.
On a relative basis, I would say Ireland has done well. There are hundreds of countries which are worst off. It's easy to be critical. Name any major top 10 country and I could give you a litany of faults...
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> What can you do about this? Pretty much nothing.

A lot. And what you can do depends who you are.

Hongkongers can keep doing what they are doing. I'm sorry, but killing everyone in HK is not an option for China. Not only would it start a global war, as genocides tend to do, it would create unrest in the mainland, and frankly people are a resource. You can't govern the dead. I frequently hear the arguments from Americans "well you can't fight the military". Except that's been done for centuries, caused many countries to come into existence (including, ironically, America), and caused many countries to have large economic pains (cough Britain fighting America cough, Vietnam, Iraq, etc). That idea just doesn't match history, because of one simple thing "you can't govern the dead". People are a resource that governments need. You have to ask yourself "why hasn't China brought the military in already?" They are flexing, but there's good reasons they haven't brought in their military.

In fact, they want you to believe nothing can be done. They want you to give up. (I'm not just talking to hongkongers here)

From the Western side there's also a lot we can do. There's a huge amount of economic pressure we can put on China (for now, the still need us more that we need them). We can grant asylum to refugees. There's a lot of political pressure that can happen. There's also a lot of military pressure that can happen behind the scenes (I wouldn't be surprised if this already exists in some way, because China certainly does it to us), be that propoganda, cyber, or training.

There's even more that can be done. But I find this notion of nothing can be done as ridiculous and backwards. It is giving up hope and ignoring both history and reality.
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If that was their mission (rather than to hire someone), they succeeded in their personal mission, at the expense of the company's intended mission for them.
I'd avoid a name like ProjectPSX to be more distinct from the 100 other PSX emu projects.

PSX.NET or PSX# would be good.
I've found 1-2 years is also about the time it takes for me to become bored and want a new project, new responsibilities (promotion), etc (I've only asked for a raise once during my entire career, so it usually isn't about the money when I leave, though I do usually get a nice pay bump for switching companies).

I'll ask for what I want, invariably get told some version of "no", and start looking for a new job.
One huge problem with infrastructure is people are building it where it shouldn't be without climate change. We just love building in flood zones in the US. We love making more and bigger food zones with suburban expansion. Then as the climate gets worse the problems get worse at a much faster rate than one would expect.
The US can't easily absorb so many people unless they're dirt poor and willing to live 20 to an apartment. That many middle-class people will make the traffic situation far worse, because the US absolutely refuses to build more densely and build more public transit to make cities walkable. It's not a good place to live at all.
Did you even read the article? People leave the shop after seeing tofu being sold for $2 instead of $1
> seems equivalent to me to wondering why you're you and not some another person in our own world.

Indeed.
I have a privacy concern. Does this send the image (or the URL to that image) to their server for processing, or does it happen in my browser without their server receiving any information regarding the sites I visit, or the images I load?
So interesting! I think that on a philosophical level it matches the trend that, while the world keeps on being more and more caught by fakeness and mediocrity, there's a counter culture and counter sentiment that yearns for something authentic again. There's still hope guys!
Zig is not able to output c code that could be consumed by an alternative [optimized|verified/proofed] C compiler like Intel along with other questionable decisions such as "Zig does not support RAII or operator overloading because both make it very difficult to tell where function calls happen just by looking at a function body. Zig tends to avoid syntactic sugar except where it would have a significant effect on the semantics of a program. Zig does not have a C-style for loop, because you can just use the more general-purpose while loop instead with only a little bit of extra code. [1] The compiler is free to inline non-extern functions, change their parameters, and otherwise !!do whatever it wants!!, since they are internal functions." [2]

[1] https://ziglang.org/download/0.1.1/release-notes.html [2] https://andrewkelley.me/post/intro-to-zig.html
> It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe.

There is no data to support such an assertion. It's confirmation bias stemming from the belief that climate change will lead to such an effect.
The goal isn't "ease of deployment", the goal is "infrastructure as code" so that application infrastructure can be managed in a way similar to application source code (e.g. PRs, blame, code reviews, CI, rollbacks etc). This helps ops people because it allows them to think about infrastructure as abstract resources rather than as a collection of individual machines with specific designations. With k8s, individual machines become a homogenized resource that do not need specialized provisioning depending on the application they will host.
Google algorithms could use some improvement... Searching for "faggots and peas" in Google correctly identifies the dish. Even the urban dictionary (linked by Google) describes the dish first. Looks like they went with a simple word list rather than use their own engine.

Or maybe Google finds the dish itself offensive, a recurring theme with British cuisine :)
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Eh. That hasn't been my experience. FWIW, having seen the codebase you're referring to, I don't consider a huge ignore list exactly a success story. The bulk of the work is merely deferred as tech debt at this point.

To be fair, many Flow upgrades are easy, yes. But some are absolutely nightmarish. The 0.85 upgrade was especially painful - it involved some very non-trivial codemods, we couldn't get it right in all cases, and it involved some loss of type safety as well :(

I've also found Flow to be painful to work with when dealing with a multi-repo setup which exports types from source code. It becomes unnecessarily hard to make libraries interoperable because a Flow upgrade in one project can cause a cascade of errors deep in another project's transitive dep. One basically has no actionable recourse other than waiting until all her deps are version-aligned on Flow (or never upgrading).

In that regard, the Typescript pattern of using .d.ts files as a boundary between a library's tsc version and the consumers's tsc version is quite nice and something I'd like to explore more w/ Flow.