skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It focused on arxiv because you need a large set of labelled data (i.e. long documents with summaries). There is not many datasets of that kind out there.
I don't know if you edited your comment, or if it was just my pre-coffee reading comprehension missed the part "because the compiler isn’t always removing bounds checks that are provably true."

I understand now, gracias.
Adaptation works until the wet bulb temperature is above human body temperature, at which point you'll just slowly broil since you can't lose energy by sweating. Not very likely to get there in Europe, but other (hotter, wetter) countries may.
> It'd be malpractice by a major intelligence agency not to attempt this

And the countermeasure is so simple that even the most simple of simpletons can understand it.

"Hey, this room is bugged. Don't talk there if you want a private conversation."
Seems like an odd thing to complain about... I mean you are asking someone to boil down (often) and entire year into 1 of 5 numbers. I don't find it shocking that with such rough granularity people opt for smaller intervals than 1.
My first goal is to offer the under represented report for discussion, and encourage a better public understanding of the context and consequences.

My second goal is to offer opposing information to his account of events, which I though relevant in a post about hist autobiography.
Alternatively, "only white people used to be able to come here".
Yes, there are many other benefits to immutability than parallelism applications related to correctness and ability to reason about programs. See referential transparency, etc.
It seems like you could perhaps write a translator from ACE to TLA+ or another specification language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B

and formally verify properties (but perhaps that's something that the ACE developers already do).
Only down to a 3? lol. That makes it sound like your goal is to always have some fire under them.
I am 'OK' in the sense that I like all of my colleagues and really do enjoy my work as a technical product manager.

What's not 'OK' is that a snake-oil salesman/professional bullshitter who calls himself an 'Agile Consultant' has embedded himself in the organization. He's an all-talk arrogant blowhard with a savior complex centered around rescuing us from 'Waterfall'.

What's not 'OK' in my personal life: I've been having a difficult time attracting and maintaining the interest of intellectually/romantically compatible women in the brutally competitive SF Bay Area dating scene for late 20s/early 30s geeky dudes. That's my fault though... I really need to start working out, eating healthier, whiten teeth, dress better, get a life outside of work, buy a car, and learn how to _have fun_ again.
> How on Earth do people afford a house (I mean, $300,000 is more than 3× my expected salary, and where I am, that barely gets you a townhome)?

Most young people in the world can't afford a house. They rent apartments or stay with parents until their jobs pay more and they accumulate savings in the meantime - or, alternatively, they shacked themselves with decades of debt and get a mortgage (not everyone is mentally built for that though). Also, many people never decide to buy a house, and just get a (cheaper) flat instead.
Society grew because we made laws to protect people from killing and stealing from each other. Now for society to keep growing we have to make new laws that do not allow people to kill others with pollution and its effects.
Dunno if Ruby locked my mind into a certain mode, but I've never felt good doing anything with python :( 2 different projects I tried participating with a lot of years in between, still felt the same. Granted, I can't say I've really studied it properly.
Quite a lot of indoor localization/positioning attempts rested their hope on such use cases.

Almost nobody wants to use it that way (tested, worked and failed). It remains an idea that sounds great behind desks.
>> Over the years, HN has grown more and more in the direction of reddit front page and become less and less like an irc channel where people talk about technology.

Here is HN snapshot from 2008: http://web.archive.org/web/20080105031416/https://news.ycomb...

The top submissions is "Obama's Victory Speech". I don't think it's very technological, at least in common sense.

Probably the only very true HN existed in 2007, for several month. Well, these were good times..
Thanks for asking. Not really, and it's 100% work-related. I dread coming in to work and it's given me awful anxiety that's turned into occasional passive suicidal ideation. Once I leave work, I feel like a totally different person and all the symptoms disappear.

My boss calls me stupid, incompetent, r*tarded, and "like you have part of your brain missing". He grills me on literally everything I do, like why I'm getting up from my desk or why I'm eating what I brought for lunch. He interrupts everything I say and puts me down in front of other people. He took away benefits he knew I enjoyed, like being able to take college courses for free in unrelated areas like music and ceramics, and he banned me alone from making conversation with my work friends, and moved my desk away from them to his office so he can watch everything I do. I'm underpaid ($40k/year) and therapy sessions are $150 each, so I don't have much saved up to just quit and search for new jobs full-time. He threatens to fire me almost every day. I'm not sure how I'll ever get out, this started about a year ago and I've been applying every day since but haven't found anything. It's hard for me to believe that another job won't be the same thing.

Sorry if that's oversharing, but working here is draining my soul.

edit: thanks for all the support everyone, it means a lot :)
No, I'm really not okay. My current job is insanely unfulfilling, but I need to keep up appearances so I don't go bankrupt. I am saddled with a lot of debt, some of it stupid decisions, some of it valid, all of it soul crushing.

I moved to a new city for my current job with a referral from a friend. But I have struggled to make meaningful relationships here in the last year. This is also impacting my career as while there are a lot of jobs here, I have none of the networking.

Trying to work on a SaaS product I intend to launch, but I keep getting paralyzed by the scale of it all. I end up spending most of my time alone in my apartment.
Worth talking about!
Check hackerrank.com - practicing there should help.
If it is I imagine you do what you can to help offset it at work, but ultimately if there's nothing you can do officially I guess you just have to offer your support in whatever way they will accept.
Assuming that 3 is "meh" and 5 is "CATATONIC WITH AWFULNESS", that only really leaves 4 for what feels like quite a large continuum, if I feel at all below par. Having 4 options to fill the "below average" part of the scale, rather than 2 feels necessary to me.
Looks interesting, though the license situation seems less than ideal.

If it's for an internal only tool, does that fit under all the GPL / LGPL requirements?
Why is fputs returning 1?
That explains it, thanks!
Ask HN: What's your favorite corporate power move?
I've never been able to find a list so I figure I would ask y'all.

Examples of corporate power moves:

- Showing up 5 minutes late to a meeting, to show someone your time is more valuable.
- "The Hard CC" where you cc someone's boss to throw them under the bus for not being accountable.
- Having someone prepare a report or do a lot of work on something and then tell them to "simplify it" or just give you the "key points" in a meeting

What are your favorite (or least favorite if something drives you nuts) corporate power moves?
Yes it does, "holidays" is interchangeable with "vacation" in some English speaking countries.
When I lived in BCN there was a certain reputation a type for British and German tourists who used the streets as a toilet. It struck me as odd that so many people seemed to view Barcelona as an "anything goes" type of city while the Catalan people are not that wild for the most part and drink socially but not to get drunk.
I agree with a lot of these things, but actually disagree that Python is good at exemplifying some of them.

For example, semantic whitespace is arguably implicit, hard to read, invites density (compared to an extra line for braces), and (again arguably) is ugly.

Yes, some of these things are subjective, but it's hard for me to confidently recommend Python to someone with these values.
"Welcome to the world of, by some measures, "too many" people having too much disposable wealth."

Or as in this case, a cabal of people for the travel industry managing to capture public funds to direct massive subsidies towards their goals, either directly or indirectly though avoid pricing in massive externalities and even get massive tax benefits.
It is the case in New York City, and also in this California Bill (I don't know the case in Oregon) that you can charge a tenant less than the "legal" rent by offering incentives and discounts.

In other words, it is totally permissible to increase the legal rent by the officially allowed 7%, but increase the effective rent paid by your tenants by only 2% (or whatever you want). There does not appear to be any restrictions about removing such incentives/concessions/discounts in the future.

It also appears that the California law resets as soon as the tenancy changes hands; so as soon as there is a vacancy the landlord is free to increase the rent by as much as they want. This is not the case for NYC rent stabilization; there the increase in the legal rent is a property of the unit, not of the tenancy.
> The notion of keeping independent contractors busy is a strange one. This seems so clearly anti-competitive I don't know how it's even legal.

If my company is paying contractors, they generally want them to be busy; I'm not sure what you mean by that

WRT the anti-competitive statement, are you suggesting that lyft is intentionally making it harder to drive XL for both uber and lyft? TBH, I'm not sure that'd hit on any competition laws but I'm willing to be convinced

Thank you for your post, it lets me see a lot of things I would have never put together. It's impressive how much thought lyft put into their platform to monetize guilt, and ensure "stickiness" of their platform / drivers
In France it's very very uncommon to have AC.
While I don't disagree that it can lead to better systems. Most of those "studies" were very small in their test group and wouldn't scale to work for the entire US.

There is also the problem that when everyone has an extra $1k in their pocket each month the price of almost everything will rise to consume it.
In Ontario the rent control is even worse. It’s set by the landlord tenant board at a number near inflation, this year it’s 2.2%, the last few it’s been 1.8%.

Similarly, i tell my tenants that they should expect the minimum increase yearly as i cannot make up for any lost increases nor can i make larger increases if something about the economics of the house changes.

The real issue here is the cost to provide housing, and the limited amount that exists. I wanted to finish a basement in one of my places, to do this legally, i owe the city $140k in fees alone. This is around 5-6years of rent. You can probably imagine why i opted to put this money in a bunch of index funds and do nothing instead...
I'd contend Twitter's problem isn't infinite scrolling, it's eschewing chronological sorting in favor of algorithmic. There is no objective order to most content on twitter, so deep linking to a place in the feed is impossible, whether you use pagination or infinite scroll. Which is why infinite scroll works - it solves the problem of defining what page 2 even is. Not defending algirithmic sorting of course.
Only with things in which editors exist who feel confident enough (sometimes wrongly) to judge their notability. You can completely make up pages describing concepts in obscure fields, as long if you can generate a citation or three - bonus points if the papers cited are unintelligible to all but a few dozen people in the world, and don't even mention the concept.
That's true, I guess I'm conflating "overtourism" specifically with a wider push discouraging people from travel to decrease carbon emissions. You make a fair point, there is plenty of the world left to experience beyond the big hubs like Paris and Rome.
> We desperately need for someone to finally win this mail client war and some standardization to emerge.

Like all things, we need competition in this field. The Gmail web interface is already the most prevalent mail client. Because of this, Google can and has already started controlling the future of email. Just look at AMP for email. I agree with standardization, but not by having only one email client.
This will still affect new units as it changes the forecasted rates over the lifetime of the loan (usually 10 year balloon) so instead of being able to forecast market rate increases the max value is now 7%. And maybe less if all units aren’t filled right away and you miss a year of increases. It’s not a huge impact but it does put a cap on the upside profits against potential huge losses
I'd say many are but don't suffer from it except lower life expectancy.
The South has nothing to be proud of. It fought a devastating war to preserve slavery, and this is something it's still proud of to this day. They have violent protests to preserve statues of Confederate (rebel) leaders in public spaces.

Yes, people who use "ain't" sound like ignorant dipshits to me. I grew up in the South and I know the English language well enough to know that's ignorant; no one else in the South has an excuse now that it's 2019.

I don't feel shame for being born in a place I don't have much respect for, since as you point out, it was out of my control, but I certainly don't feel any pride about it, and certainly don't wear it on my sleeve like so many do.

"Less kind to out-groups" is an understatement. This is a place that mob-murdered black people by hanging them from trees not that long ago. Try getting a flat tire in the South and being black or Middle Eastern and see how many white people help you then.

As for food, it's disgusting and unhealthy. It's all fried and is one of the main reasons Southerners have so many more cases of heart disease than the rest of the US. American food in general is horrible, and America has never been good in a culinary sense except for things 20th-+-century immigrants brought here (esp. Italians) (American tastes in food have been improving a lot in the last couple of decades though), but Southern food is horrible even by historical American standards.
Never Go “Full Rhino”
Even if perception did not match reality in your case, that situation feels crummy to me. We spend too much time at work to not feel a sense of competence and accomplishment. Maybe it’s time to make hay in another field.
This is probably only interesting for web developers. Maybe a sub-hackernews would make hacker news better? Wait... that's old.reddit.com.
There were multiple times when we were either in a park visitor center or the RV park's pool and I realized I was the only American. It was all (in order) German, Dutch, and French. Everyone was really friendly and we made some good friends at the pools. But we kept noticing all the people doing dumb stuff at the national parks weren't Americans. Feeding squirrels, flying drones, climbing on stuff that wasn't safe, etc. It kinda became a running joke.
That sounds more like lazy loading than infinite scroll.
That's what the LaTeX It! Thunderbird add-on [1] does I think. Good extension by the way. Not sure it will work with Thunderbird 68, I didn't check.

[1] https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/latex...
Indeed, Ecclesial Latin is still the official language of the Catholic Church, inasmuch as documents like papal encyclicals are published in Latin first before translation to other languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin#Current_u...
Wikipedia can be quite problematic if you just look at the page - the way you describe using it, and adding in checking the sources and references, it is a great tool.
Boris Johnson 'faces citizen's arrest' if he goes to Scotland, PM warned
> You start passing bills on restricting tourism, then the natural next step is being hard on immigration, then Brexit

It feels like a slippery slope argument.
>I guess they had a lot better user experience than their failed competitors.

That's like the logic that Microsoft Windows must be great just because it's the most-used operating system. You're completely ignoring all the other factors that are involved in a company or product getting to a dominant position.
You forgot the crown jewel of all: Tech interviews which consists of completely unrelated questions to the position itself
I don't think you need to write the critical part of the driver in C to speed up the swift implementation.

I clicked through to a performance analysis showing ARC taking about 3/4 the time (in the release build).

You don't really need to be doing a lot of ARC in the inner loops if you don't want to.
TBH I dont know.

I go to work every day
When I'm home I hide into my digital life
Work is 24/7/365
I have imposter syndrome, constantly, in everything.
I was looking forward to "The book of mormon" for years when i finally got to see it the other night, i had to pretend to laugh.
I'm an empty husk. I dont know that I feel anything much anymore.
If somebody asks me this question i know i'm coming across in a very negative way and the best thing to do is to leave, even if i am feeling only a bit tired. Generally my only consolation is that the person asking the question does it so that he can feel good about himself.
Have you seen Cucumber? https://cucumber.io/docs It's a system that attempts to enable specifications for a software product to be written in a way that can be parsed by an automated testing framework.

In theory, you carefully say what you want the software to do in given scenarios, human developers understand the spec as-is, and automated tests can read and execute the spec as-is as a test.

I have no professional experience with it because all the docs make it look like something I would run from: lots of in-code scaffolding and talking like a computer just to get the same job done. But maybe you'll like it.
How did we even end up here?

As a greybeard, messing with computers has always been fun for me. Yet somehow, slowly the system has morphed it into a way to grind talented people into the ground with impossible deadlines and insane demands - to the point where we need websites like this.
That's funny as I had the opposite of experience - pulling non-ASCII characters into Python 2.7 caused me trouble - I ended up having to mark everything as Unicode to solve the issues.
Very cool! I currently use https://github.com/netdata/netdata for my monitoring but I like how clean/easy this is.
France says it will block Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency in Europe
If you haven’t checked it out already, you should take a look at Jython. As the name suggests, it’s a Java implementation of Python.

https://www.jython.org/
I'm not saying at all that OP doesn't deserve it, but is it common practice to refer someone that you don't know?
Ask HN: What stories do you know related to doing things that didn't scale?
Inspired by Paul Graham's phrase, I’m adding more to the open list on DoThingsThatDontScale.com, the home of hacks/stories of real founders who did “things that don’t scale” to power through their initial startup days.

What are some of the hacks you have heard or have personally experimented with? Thank you in advance!
I mean this benchmark itself proves it's as fast or faster, the latency is well lower than C# and Java and probably the memory usage too.

Now for some "popular" benchmarks:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

You see that Go is sometimes faster sometimes slower but the memory usage and latency is way bellow both of those languages.
>Israel is the boss, US is the muscle

>If you try to end it, you'll be called antisemites, Holocaust deniers, etc. until you submit.

>> this has absolutely been my observation as well

Have you considered that you've been called antisemites because you are. Not because you have experience with "try[ing] to end it"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Political_antisem...

US is not controlled by Israel and you're idiots for thinking that. There many logical ways to reach this conclusion, but just for fun here's a question:
If it's so easy to control ~350m people of the US wouldn't the controllers be China or Russia? or wouldn't some rich cocaine manufacturer lobby its way to the congress and have that sold in supermarkets?

(I do realize that using the term "idiots" means I'll get downvotes, but isn't there an exception considering that they really are idiots (and antisemites))
I think trying to solve personal (e.g., non work related) problems is a minefield. I would not, as a team lead, go there beyond a generic offer to talk. Most companies likely have standard policies for health and similar personal issues and trying to make your own policy on any serious issue there can backfire badly.

But job-related stress is there and is often solvable (e.g., a developer may be stressed if he committed to a a week's worth of work done in 2 days, etc.). My 2c.
I am of the opinion that you should not mess with my scrollbars. I like them to be visible and wide, because (a) I like to know a page's length and my current progress, and (b) I'm a bit blind and I don't want to hunt for an 'unobtrusive' scrollbar.

There are options at the system level, I find it great that most browsers follow them and sites cannot willy-nilly change them without my consent.
I'm 3 years into my career and I can tell you I felt exactly the same way.

A few things:

- You don't need to buy a house outright, get a loan. The only big cost is just the downpayment (5-20% of the price)

- There are no shortage of jobs out there for you as a new grad, but there are very few good jobs (at least where I live, YMMV). It's ok to work somewhere you don't like that pays the bills for a year and then find something better once you have more experience

- Another point on housing: rent as long as you can because mobility is a blessing. You may find a fantastic job across the country, and if you have a house it will make it that much harder to leave. Imo, stability is for older people who know they're going to work for a single company the rest of their careers.

A lot of this is opinion, so take it how you will.
the news article left me wanting to know more about the hike, and i discovered this ropewiki article[0] which seems to be related, and link to a more detailed trip report[1]. i'm more of a peakbagger myself, but the photos of the canyons are fascinating (many examples in google images).

i'm guessing satellite locator beacons (such as resqlink, spot or in-reach) don't work very well in canyons. you'd need a much more monster antenna and transmitter.

[0] http://ropewiki.com/Arroyo_Seco_Gorge_(Los_Padres)
[1] http://www.teamsk.org/arroyo/seco.html