skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nemo786; my proof: https://keybase.io/nemo786/sigs/7ZLqAPS0c3fXDv-a5xro5NJzioewaY2eaTW-sqR1p8g ]
> frankly exist in such extreme disproportion to any other ethnic group in elite America

I do not think that this is true at all. A lot of interests converge in the US relationship with the Israeli state, but Judaism as a religion isn't the dominant partner. The US is full of antisemites, and the refusal of the US to take in refugees as WWII was brewing contributed to the intensity of the Holocaust, and the increase in Jewish support for the Zionist project.

You can easily become a pro-Israel politician if you are an antisemite who is taking money from a contractor (who is also antisemitic) who sells arms to Israel, and you're representing a state filled with evangelicals who believe that Israel will cause the second coming of Jesus Christ, who will either convert or condemn all of the Jews to eternal suffering.

Israel doesn't control anything, and the US doesn't intrinsically care about Israel (which is why it's constantly insecure in the relationship.) Wealthy people in the US use Israel for their own purposes, and Israel (largely Likudnik Israel) spends lots of time and effort to remain valuable to those people.

I think that a few old, terrible Jewish billionaires who think that their rabid support of Israel (through donating to US right-wingers) will get them into heaven despite their terrible personal and business ethics get an inordinate amount of attention, and end up characterizing all of Israeli lobbying for a lot of people.
The electric eel is three species, and not an eel
I can't remember the technical details and haven't touched this in years - but, it just wasn't this simple.

It was something about the handover process from EFI to bootloader and it was something really awkward...

We got it working, but, any update seemed to wipe it unless you were careful and it just wasn't "production" grade.
I am trying to sign up for it but it keep saying 'please verify that you are not a robot'
Doctors and lawyers are in a position where folks need to go to them to obtain indispensable services that only they are legally entitled to provide. As coders we're part of the working class like everyone else. Maybe with some bonus perks like free food. Everyday people aren't required to respect us, because we don't have any real power over their lives. We just show up to our jobs in a distant office and build stuff to make life better for people in general.
Telephone providers can't even reliably identify the source of a call anymore. These companies are regulatory capture dinosaurs who haven't made any significant innovations for half a century.

I don't think there is a chance in hell this kind of innovation would come out of any of the current major US telecoms.
looks like its around 40% according to the world bank (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.TOTL.ZS?location...) which is probably based on data provided by the CCP. which kinda makes fact-checking data a fool-errand anyways.
My previous job was absolutely terrible. Toxic office politics, a culture of overtime, micro-management hell, and of course, bad engineering. It got to the point I would arrive in the morning and sit in my car for several minutes because I just didn't want to walk into the building again. The place was a pressure cooker and I usually left angry and exhausted at the end of the (long) day.

When I came down with freaking shingles (at 38, no doubt brought on by all the stress and lack of sleep), I knew it was past time to get out.
Living Vehicle
It's likely that more people with disabilities can use these scooters than can use bikes.

Additionally, people with disabilities pioneered personal electric transportation long before Bird or Lime. The form factor is different, but the technology is essentially the same. Electric wheelchair tech is highly enabling for people with disabilities.
Replacing Middle Management with APIs (2015)
> It's kinda cheating to use an engineering prototype.

Not necessarily. You can use engineering prototypes or track-cars, as long as you compare it against other track cars.

The problem here is: the Tesla S is clearly some kind of modified car (its unspecified, but it is clearly an engineering prototype), and Tesla is trying to compare this prototype against production, road-legal cars.

If you're doing prototype vs prototype, then you've opened up a whole can of high-performance worms, such as TCR series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCR_Touring_Car), which easily smash 1:35 on Laguna Seca. And yes, all TCR cars are 4-door sedans.

Note that TCR Cars are only allowed to have a 2.0 Liter engine with 2-wheel traction only. So formula TCR isn't exactly "no holds barred", its a strict formula so that racers can be on equal footing between different makes and models.

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The CTS-V run from 2016 was a production car on production tires. It was rock-stock, precisely the same vehicle you could have bought from a dealership. That's what made the 1:39 score from CTS-V so amazing: it was a production car that broke the 1:40 barrier. It was fully road-legal: you could drive your kids to school, then get on Laguna Seca to hit 1:39, and then go home afterwards.
First Offshore Flight of Makhani
S'more Club: Share your best stories over a tipi campfire
I've had the setting flipped to always show them since they added that nonsense. It looks a bit more subtle, and isn't brightly colored, but it serves the important role of showing at a glance how long the page is.

The backwards scrolling is way more obnoxious though, and I rage every time I use someone else's Mac or do a fresh install.
We need to stop with this ancient idea that AC is problematic against the environment. There are quite a few uninformed comments on this thread.

Just by using their AC also in the winter to heat their houses instead of traditional heating systems, these people are already having a lower CO2 footprint (even when using the AC to cool down a few weeks in the year) than people that don't use an AC.

Modern AC systems work with in inverter heat pump and are extremely efficient at cooling down and heating up a house since all they do is to move heat from one place to the other.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_conditioning
And a rental bike does not have this feature?
“In his new book, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, Paul Tough explores this divide, and interrogates whether going to college has become a privilege of wealth and whether it can still lift people out of economic insecurity.”

How the hell do you “interrogate” an abstract proposition? We may as well not even have words if we’re going to use them this thoughtlessly.
Automatic drug test, no doubt.
This is true.

Texas for the most part is not prepared for blizzards or icy conditions. We do not have winter tires, we do not carry snow shovels. There are no snowplows that I have ever seen or heard of. We close schools after 1 to 2 inches of snow, and we put sand on roads.

Most people have heavy coats/jackets, but rarely ever wear them.
But despite our under-preparedness, not many people die from cold weather in Texas.

This data is a bit old(2003-2008), but is illustrative.

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/chs/vstat/Hotcolddths/hotcolddths...
Ah, OK, so you build the "checking" in via process and practice. It requires more discipline, but you end up evolving to kind of a similar place, but with more flexibility.

Thanks!
Can't contracts always be terminated or union workers laid off?
> Now we simply need to make the 50-75 miles in-between more bearable.

Mine is 15 miles, and the problem is stops (which top speed does nothing to address).
This is some cool shit!

I don’t know how V8 and JSC compare on memory but I’m happy for this to become a battleground. Nothing but goodness for users if that happens.

(Worth noting that JSC has had a “mini mode” for a while, but it’s focused on API clients. And I don’t know if it’s as aggressive as what V8 did.)
I wanted to show a friend a picture of our cat sitting on top of our TV (which is hanging on the wall). I spent a few minutes scrolling through my photos unable to find it. Ended up searching for "TV cat" and it came up right away. Wish I had started with that.

I just don't trust myself enough to not fuck up and lose all my photos if I self hosted something that was equal. I run a small home lab and I never store anything on it I cannot afford to lose.
Estimating Uncertainty in Machine Learning Models – Part 1
I'd add that Mike Bostock teamed up with Tom MacWright and Jeremy Ashkenas to create Observable (observablehq.com), which is kind of like Jupyter notebooks, except as SaaS, in JavaScript, and both editable and executable in the browser.

Observable documents are a bit less convenient to author than Jupyter notebooks because you have to write in the browser, but they're much more convenient to share around, and it's easier to make highly interactive notebooks and "explorable explanations" with them.
It happens all the time, especially in security and quality assurance testing. It's less common in modern versions of tools and frameworks, but I routinely encounter these kinds of dumps when I am doing security testing work on anything enterprisey.
Why do you think it has "unreasonable influence"? Keep in mind that my response above was to a couple of posts about Israel being "the boss" of the US. These are now flagged which makes me look bad I guess... But I'm not going to retract saying that thinking that Israel is the ruler of US is both idiotic and antisemite.
By park you actually mean litter everywhere, as there are very few designated parking places, much fewer than for bicycles.
California Legislature Passes AB 5, but Uber Says It Might Refuse to Follow It
Calling asm.js a subset of Javascript is a bit of a stretch. It looks nothing like idiomatic Javascript, and was more of a low-level statically-typed language dressed up in Javascript clothing.

At some point they realized that representing this low-level code as Javascript text instead of as specially-designed bytecode added a significant ammount of parsing and compilation overhead, which was one of the initial motivations for the creation of WebAssembly. If I had to sum up WASM in one sentence, it is that it is kind of like the JVM, except that its instruction set was designed specifically for running programs downloaded from the web. Special attention was paid to security and startup latency.
Because it’s perceived as an ethno-state while it’s more diverse than most if not Alon oECD countries.

Because it’s been historically progressive in its relationship towards minorities.

Because it’s not like it’s persecuting a tiny group of the population for sport, it’s that there’s a lot of tugging between a minority and majority which are much further apart in culture, religion and traditions than the whites and blacks in America.

Because it’s reasonable to expect that issues appearing in the American societal fabric such as discrimination would show just as much in Israel with its huge proportional minority share.

It’s not that Israel is racist as much as it is that there are discrimination issues in societies everywhere and this is just another instance.
What does "democratic access to their country" even mean? The tourists visiting their country don't vote, so you don't mean literally. And any random rationing system you put in place will be inherently unfair in some dimension.
Back when I wrote a lot of Python, something I disliked was how one could easily reload a module, but existing instances of classes wouldn't get updated. You could implement the machinery to do so for your own stuff, but of course that could be arbitrarily flaky.

Performance was definitely an issue, but for the sort of programming we were doing it normally wasn't a big issue.

Duck typing could definitely be an issue — one had little confidence that code would run as desired.

Overall, I really liked Python, but these days I'd sooner use Go or Lisp.
What they really want is to find a way to convince their boss to rewrite everything in Go.
> you got a couple C's in stupid-filler-class, guess you're not good enough to work for us?

I get the cosmic justice sentiment behind this, but if there is somebody else who didn’t get any C’s, and that’s all they know about the two of you, how is it unreasonable for them to just pick the higher-on-paper achiever? If everybody had a 2.0 GPA, then employers would have to pick from somebody with a 2.0 GPA, but that’s not the case.
I'm curious how you envision a calculus class that would make the topic more tangible. I think we can agree that typical calculus classes are more abstract (for lack of a better term) than typical english, history, or science classes.
yeah but you know when you want to buy a car and you start seeing them everywhere? it's probably not #1 but your reticular activation system is honed for it by your desire for the car.
No mention of Illinois, which is the state with the only biometric privacy law with teeth.

>The Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) was passed by the Illinois General Assembly on October 3, 2008. Codified as 740 ILCS/14 and Public Act 095-994, the BIPA guards against the unlawful collection and storing of biometric information.[1] When Illinois passed the law in 2008, it became the first state to regulate the collection of biometric information.[2] Washington and Texas have since passed similar laws.[3] However, the BIPA remains the only law that allows private individuals to file a lawsuit for damages stemming from a violation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...

Edit: my conspiracy theory is that the tech industry's lobbyists are pushing for legislation on privacy at the federal level because they know such a law would be more watered down than what states would pass.

And almost certainly much weaker than IL's current laws in protecting privacy in this regard.
A slippery slope argument is not necessarily wrong or poor rhetoric. It would help me understand if you would say why this is a poor use of slippery slope.

Many relationships naturally follow along a curve so pointing out this relationship should be remarkable for being wrong if you pass along some other info like maybe you think this rarely occurs, or is not logical.
(and note that lxd/lxc allows migration based on it. Not sure about copying - I suspect you run into similar issues as fork - who owns the open file handles and other resources?)
I think 2 years post-HS education is probably optimal right now. Trade schools are often 2 years.
Glad you noted this. I also came here to add that I also can't think of a single woman in my social circle (most of my friends are women) nor in my partner's that meets the earlier characterization.

It's OK to think wrong things. We all think a lot of wrong things.

It's important, because our brains are very good at rationalizing and filtering, to be skeptical of the voice that interjects those dark thoughts--to look for evidence that it's wrong rather than evidence that it's right.

Edit: addressing your edit. It's also important to reflect on how (and why) our experiential sample differs from a random sample. Apps, much like physical places, strongly filter who shows up. Just like you're statistically likely to meet different kinds of people at a library, supermarket, dog park, beach, state park, piano bar, orchestra, art gallery, or hackathon.
China hasn't had a financial crisis for 40 years, I wonder how long they can last, and how well their ubiquitous multi-million dollar condos would fare; or can they prove again that nothing communists can't tackle, and capitalism with Chinese characteristics are indeed immune to self-correction.
I recently enabled a feature in Sublime Text and VSCode to make the minimap always show which part of the document is on screen. By default, it only shows this when you hover the minimap.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Saying that radical Islam would embrace USA’s existence without its support of Israel is delusional. USA stands against everything they believe in.

It just reeks of appeasement.
This article deserves a better place than a Quora answer :) Why not a blog post of a proper article in MIT or somewhere similar?
From scratch, maybe. But nothing stops Haskell and Clojure from binding to the same C-libraries every other language binds to.

And I think you're overstating the difficulty of even a top-to-bottom new system. Re-implementing deep learning would be much, much easier than reinventing deep learning. Still probably not worth doing! But your estimate sounds about right for the latter, not the former.
That may be true. It doesn't matter though. My point is that a nuclear catastrophe is waiting to happen, it could happen by accident, it could happen due to some random flashpoint. It's far too risky! We've been lucky so far, it won't carry on forever.
There’s at least one benefit of tourists: you get more and a better selection of restaurants

I live in a part of Oslo with a vibrant restaurant scene, and one of the reasons is the extra business tourists drum up
Makes me wonder what other objects passed by us eons ago, and then due to other objects far out in their orbit that disrupted them just enough so that the next time they come our way, they're on a collision course with Earth...
Crispr Gene-Editing Shows Promise as HIV Cure, Research Shows
Well it isn't built-in, so that's an obstacle to its use right there. You also have to rely on two sets of developers to ensure you can stay up-to-date, and this introduces more potential for errors and bugs.

Furthermore, the static type systems supported by, e.g., MyPy do not perfectly reflect the dynamic semantics of the Python language. So what you really have is some subset of Python that you're allowed to use fully. (This is probably not a big issue for many people, to be fair.)

Another problem is that systems like MyPy require you to actually write the type hints in a lot of places. Manifest type systems are not favored because requiring users to write more is almost never something they're happy with. One of the most common complaints about Java is that you have to write so many types everywhere, and while you don't need that many in statically typing your Python code, you do need quite a few. A statically typed language with good type inference definitely wins here.

Type hints are also not very expressive because they're purely nominal, but Python's type system is actually structural (which is true for most dynamically typed languages, as far as I know). I haven't experimented with this too much because I don't use a type checker like MyPy, but I seem to remember that it treated types nominally. (I think I've also seen some indication that they're working to extend type hints to support structural types, but last I checked it wasn't right around the corner or anything.)

What I'm getting at here is that while external type checkers like MyPy can be considered an improvement over the dynamically typed language itself, they come with a lot of caveats that make me uncomfortable. There are few cases where I truly prefer dynamic types to static ones.
To me it feels more like "more evidence can ever realistically be available, especially on intelligence operations, thus i can just ignore articles with content I don't like". Especially the attack on reputation worries me, since this is pretty much the only thing left to go on for average humans without unlimited time.
This is true, but it's also nice to have that support circle be folks you can interact with face-to-face. It's so much better. Not that online communities aren't also great.

For some reason, not having someone else look you in the eyes with a similar amount of excitement just isn't the same.
As soon as you run meat through a grinder, hasn't it gone through a process?
It surprises me that people can’t bring a PLB along when going to a non-trivial hike.

It’s only $300 and it can transmit SOS both to low orbit satellites and to rescue copters, and it has shelf life of five years (no need to charge).
If not automating jobs that could be automated was better for the world, then we would simply pay everyone unemployed to cut grass using scissors.

Productivity gains help the world by allowing more services and products to be provided at cheaper rates. This software engineer self-loathing I keep reading about is completely misguided, it's like you are expected to hate yourself for doing valuable labor.
Mediation of the acute stress response by bone
> Don't you see? If everyone has a degree, it offers no advantage. The lower performers just end up with more debt.

The problem with this thinking is that it is individualistic, zero-sum, and reeks of "I got mine, fuck you". Society itself gains an advantage when the labor force has a higher level of education, it also contributes to economic dynamism.

The major issue with higher education is the amount of debt that students face, aside from that hurdle we should be doing everything we can as a society to encourage students to consider higher education.

This isn't the 50s anymore, you can't build the economy on folks with a high school degree who get a union job at a factory for 30 years.
> * If you refresh while on a breakpoint it will remain unresponsive for nearly 10 seconds.

Glad to hear I'm not alone in experiencing this. For a period, I thought I had written bad code that caused Chrome to stumble. Guess it's just Chrome.
Ask HN: Do non-tech folks read Hacker News?
Assuming most of the readers are in developer jobs, I'm interested in knowing if people in completely different professions e.g. law, medicine, plumbing, cooking etc read this site.
I'm interested to see how the computation time would progress with the recent V8 memory enhancements.
These days my work is focused on kernel/systems programming, so plain C (char or wchar_t) strings outside the kernel, and whatever the kernel requires inside it (e.g. UNICODE_STRING on Windows).

When I do apps I have my own length-prefixed variant.
For some jobs, tolerance to tedium is considered a skill.
I always clear my mind one way or others before go to bed otherwise I will fall asleep at 4am or later. For me, they key point is to make me think about thing that I don't really know, or happens slowly and has mini pauses. For example watching/hearing a professional DotA 2 match, or snooker match.
Flow: A New Blockchain from CryptoKitties Creators
I've been meaning to try Observable! However, I have the impression that, in its current form, it exacerbates the archival problem enormously, because the explorability of your explanation is conditional on the continued viability of the Observable web site. I can reproduce and generalize the mathematical proof in Plato's Meno today, 2500 years later; I probably won't be able to reproduce and generalize the computation in your Observable notebooks in 2029, 10 years later.
> I've yet to run into a situation where I need calculus

Actually, gradient descent and Lagrange multipliers come up quite a bit in machine learning. Of course, you can just apply them without understanding them just like you can apply the graphics formulas for rotational motion without understanding them, but when something does go wrong, it sure helps to understand the principles behind them.
Why bother with interviews if we can just pick those with highest scores from school?