skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure it's wrong; that's how the clique on top remains on top. It works similarly to a forced card or misdirection of attention in a magic trick. You keep the little people angry with each other; calling each other names, denouncing each other over issues the powerful don't really care about. So nothing changes.

You're allowed to have "choice" in any of these heated micro-issues, but the national security surveillance state, the rule of the oligarchy, cheap labor, cultural atomization, the petrodollar and empire and eternal war are beyond question. I don't see anything changing short of an actual "fall of soviet union" style revolution or dissolution of the country.
Cleaning Your Glasses with Technology
>And the bank _freaks out_. Omg omg omg hacking hacking! Quick to the 2FA mobile! Should we call you? Can we text you? Do you prefer email?

That seems like a melodramatic way to say they asked you to authenticate by a second factor, which my banks do on any unregistered device.
Kind of a tangent, but there are some folks working on a "model-driven graph database" written in Prolog, TerminusDB:

https://github.com/terminusdb

https://medium.com/terminusdb

See also: Categorical Query Language (CQL) https://www.categoricaldata.net/

Not Prolog, but it's a mathematical treatment of DBs with Category Theory.

A paper by these folks was mentioned in a sib comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005452 ) "Algebraic Property Graphs"
Joshua Shinavier, Ryan Wisnesky
(Submitted on 11 Sep 2019) Last week!

> In this paper, we use algebraic data types to define a formal basis for the property graph data models supported by popular open source and commercial graph databases. Developed as a kind of inter-lingua for enterprise data integration, algebraic property graphs encode the binary edges and key-value pairs typical of property graphs, and also provide a well-defined notion of schema and support straightforward mappings to and from non-graph datasets, including relational, streaming, and microservice data commonly encountered in enterprise environments. We propose algebraic property graphs as a simple but mathematically rigorous bridge between graph and non-graph data models, broadening the scope of graph computing by removing obstacles to the construction of virtual graphs.
Short or long term role? Full time? How senior are you? What tech stack are they using?
> I think I would be more comfortable with it generating test files that I could keep beside my other tests.

This is a very interesting idea I might explore more!

`auto_pytest_magic` is only made available if you have pytest installed. You can enforce this by doing:

pip3 install -U hypothesis-auto[pytest]
I feel like this can't be the whole truth? I wouldn't, for example, start reprinting bestsellers and merely stop when asked. Imposing an opt-out system on others isn't really how copyright works.
As truculent noted, the friction involved in doing any of those things is pretty much enough to just not do anything at all. Aside from sending SMS messages (or I guess, WhatsApp messages, once you manage to actually login to WhatsApp), the whole process is so painful, it reminds me why I haven't owned a T9 phone since the Motorola Razr -- and why I ultimately moved from that device to a BlackBerry (and then to an iPhone). I genuinely have no idea how I used to send so many text messages in high school and college.
Because of this problem, do we have recourse now to hide license plates until requested by law enforcement? Is there an opportunity for us to update (change) the old law?
Averting systemic collapse or managing it
You are assuming that vaping is comparable to smoking in terms of danger. It isn't. Vaping is incredibly safe. The only people who have gotten sick or died have been using black market THC cartridges. Smoking kills around 400,000 Americans per year.

If you make vapes harder to acquire than cigarettes, you will cause mass death. Cigarettes are available without a prescription. You can get them at any gas station, corner store, or supermarket. If vaping isn't as convenient or as available, you will get more smokers and worse health outcomes.

Again, a 2% increase in the number of smokers in the US is 9,000 deaths per year. I understand where you're coming from. It certainly doesn't feel good to let a bunch of teenagers get hooked on vapes. But you are weighing a hypothetical, unlikely harm against a concrete ongoing harm that is several thousand times larger in magnitude. One's intuitions simply can't be trusted in these cases.
Good for KFC for sticking to their policy of not giving in to the healthy options pressure crowd that some fast food joints seem to be caving to. Although I'm with you, keepin' it savory only for me please!
So I'm guessing they'll be merging what they have now with Semmie's tool? Because they've had the free vulnerability check for a while now.
It takes a lot more than 16 months to design a car.
On the other side, the vast majority of applicants are completely unqualified. Do I want to increase that problem? Not at all.

To be fair, I may have lost people with lower confidence in their abilities and a greater fear of failure. That doesn't sound like a great loss. I'd rather encourage people to have confidence and get over their fear than lower the requirements.

It's not as if these aren't important requirements; everyone in the department has a CS degree right now. If we put background in a technology, it's because we use that technology. But I'd open to the possibility that an applicant who isn't a perfect match might still be a great candidate. That's all. I suspect most hiring managers feel the same way.
In the late 90's with dial-up connections, most ISPs would not do this, hence the search for .su proxies. Today, it is much easier when you can spin up a VM in the cloud and control DNS entries.
That's a great call! I'll update this to use trailing underscore in a later version
Really neat !
You misunderstood. I didn't say that e-cigs were, by themselves, higher. I said they may be causing a higher overall use of tobacco (well, nicotine) products.

Health risks are less clear. Vaping hasn't really been around long enough to examine life-long vapers for the really long term effects. Still, based on available evidence, I'd guess the risks are much lower than smoking. But if it converts non-smokers into vapers, that will increase the overall number of people at risk. Of course it can (and does) convert smokers to vapers, which may not reduce the raw number of people doing something risky, but it may decrease the overall pooled risk of that whole population.

So I don't know. From a public health policy point of view, it's not an easy equation to balance. What amount of new people with health risk is worth it to reducing the overall risk? Should there be such a utilitarian calculation? Should they try to reduce both the number of people with risk and the overall risk pool by both banning vaping and making traditional tobacco products harder/more expensive, or more education to prevent initial use? What about freedom to make these not-so-great choices, people make bad but not illegal choices all the time, why should this be different?

I don't propose answers to the above. I'm simply saying the India ban may not purely be a case of moral panic. That's all.
You really don't have to do this. No one believes a person with a vested interest anyways.
I want to be able to consume nicotine in an enjoyable and safe manner. It's not my fault youth are able to buy/access e-cigs, cigarettes, alcohol, weed, etc.
Not going to lie, it's somewhat validating reading a +1 on this from you. It's usually one of my more unpopular opinions and I work in ops.
All the more reason to use an agile approach! The only reason you would be making those major changes is in the face of new information: a change in requirements, an unforeseen challenge, etc.

It's impossible to foresee those all in advance—better to adopt a system that is structured to anticipate them. "Unknown unknowns" are a fact of life, no matter how disciplined we believe we are with our preparation.
> It clearly makes sense to tie the session to the IP address...

At one point that might have been true but not any more. Mobile devices are the norm, and handoffs between cell towers and WiFi access points are handled transparently without any user interaction. Consequently, people expect their sessions to continue working despite changes in their IP address. Use TLS connections and set expiration times on the session cookies, but ignore the source IP address.
I would use rate my professor to make sure that I didn't end up with an over-the-top difficult general class that I didn't really care about but needed to fulfill a requirement (Art history, public speaking, etc). That way I could optimize my study time to focus on in-major classes.
That's a great solution -- as you say, the bad UI/UX would make it a great detox device. In my experience (I bought one too, though I imported it and so it doesn't work on most US 4G bands), it's so hard to use that I don't know if it would actually let me detox from a device or just drive me back to my iPhone.

(At least I'm down to only using one phone at a time. That's progress, right?)
We as a society have failed and I don't think we can recover. Every single one of our systems not only enables those with sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies, but literally promotes them.
Asia GDP Will Exceed Rest of World GDP in 2020
I would suggest The Makioka Sisters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Makioka_Sisters

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun'ichirō_Tanizaki
I'm mainly asking the question because the article implies[1] that they're mainly archiving Trump stuff, not in general archiving misinformation.

[1] yes, I know it doesn't say it outright, but I don't think it's a stretch to get the gist.
I would recommend (as I've done before) Kip Thorn's book _Black Holes and Time Warps_ (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393312763) to learn more about LIGO.
Years ago I had an internship, in the lab there was a couple airgapped PCs with some confidential stuff on them, at least above my pay grade of $0. I was bored and tried logging with admin/admin and it worked, basically giving me root level access. I reported it, IT security interviewed me and I wasn't allowed near the PCs for the remainder of my internship.
New eco-friendly game packaging could save tonnes of plastic every year
Thanks for the feedback! We were thinking about creating individual learning paths, that group these talks together.
>and the company that published it is defunct or doesn't care at this point.

Nintendo? They are hard on shutting down ROM sites yet almost all of their catalog is up on IA
I wouldn't call syscalls anymore "C" than "Rust". Neither language can make them without library support or inline assembly. Both can with.
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In terms of overall language design and semantics, Rust owes a lot more to ML. I'm not sure there's really much of anything that it owes to C.

Agreed with the commenter elsewhere in this thread that Zig seems like a more reasonable contender for a modernized descendant of C.
Here's a question:

Are there any studies on the relative addictiveness of various forms of tobacco? IIRC, cigarettes have been explicitly engineered to deliver a high, short-lived dose quickly, while cigars and pipe tobacco, and apparently vaping liquids, do not have the same psychoactive effects.
It's far more than 'ignorant', Bushnell knows better than that. He's demonstrating a severe lack of empathy - and let's just say, he's not the only person who has shown tell-tale signs of this trait so far (and leave it at that). What I have to wonder is whether the radical activist politics that's becoming all-too-common in academia and elsewhere is making people less empathetic, or simply selecting for the least empathetic of us.

(As an aside, the notion that Aspergers sufferers "cannot cognitively" reach "the emotional maturity to treat people decently" is a deeply, deeply unfair stereotype that reflects a severe misconception as to Aspergers behavior. Autism and Aspergers has nothing, zip, zilch to do with sociopathy! The way sufferers might treat people may be less-than-satisfactory to us, perhaps even socially-impaired in some sense; but to say or to even imply that they they lack decency is simply outrageous. Sorry for the admittedly-pedantic nitpicking.)
In fairness, there's a difference between fraud and investors just not doing due diligence and being swept off their feet by a charismatic and manic hard-partying founder. Investors do need to be responsible for their choices. My understanding (based on the HBO documentary) is that Theranos went so far as to present fake test results to investors.
A cheaper car to buy, not a cheaper car to own
The point is that it's pretty clear that overfishing plays a larger role in salmon decline than dams. Tearing out dams isn't going to stop China and Japan from decimating the fisheries, and they will continue to decline. Dams are just more visible to us.
> It sounds very much like California overstepping the government's authority to regulate interstate trade.

The federal government allows California to set their own standard, and allows any states who want to follow the California standard. How exactly is that overstepping?
I have to agree. I also think it's crazy how california is blocking old trucks from being registered. Imagine you have a 2009 truck, sorry it's 2020, you can't register it here.
In Fort Collins, CenturyLink only offers 80 MB down. Fiber from CL in Northern Colorado isn't even on the table.
> What are those? What have we tried so far? Btw, cigarettes are still perfectly legal!

Why do you think that is? Even after all those full-pack warnings! Don't people know they're bad?! And to answer what we tried: Gutka (a form of tobacco) banned in most Indian states. Ban on advertising of alcohol and tobacco products. Full scale cancer pictures on cigarette boxes. Why not a blanket ban? Because, well, people want it, just as much as you're vigorously defending now... the ban on vaping is before the majority starts wanting that too. It sucks, but in the eyes of the government, it's something which is easier to defend.

> and let's not forget that this all began with "VAPING IS KILLIN PEOPLE!"

No, it began with people getting hooked to nicotine-delivery substances and not being able to stop.

> How so? We have no reason to believe that vaping is harmful long term. It's a risk, sure, but "car crash"? Based on what exactly?

Vaping might not be bad health-wise. Nicotine addiction is bad, at least on economic consequences (remember, this isn't a rich country, so for many people it's a choice between nicotine and other necessary goods), and might be multiple-packs-a-day bad, because you know, addiction. I'm not sure if I want to wait for multiple generations to get hooked up to addiction before the health results of multi-decades of careful research (sometimes sponsored by vaping companies) are out.

> Smoking rates are way down. Why do you think it's your responsibility or right to dictate whether or not I can smoke?

Yeah, and look what that took. Millions of people dying before a dent in the numbers (and let's not attribute that to vaping, at least in India, because it hasn't caught hold on that scale yet). A developing country can't see people die for that long for addiction risk declines. And yes, it is my right as a citizen to support something I know is curbing a bad thing before it gets hold in my country. You might be benefiting from vaping, but I don't see an issue in preventing large companies peddling more bad stuff to people, kids or otherwise.

Again, the last thing I would say is helpful is banning things, and I'm kind of starting to understand your points as well. But vigorous defense of nicotine isn't the right way to go IMO. We can trade arguments all we want, and honestly, I'm not fully antagonistic against anything here, but it is my belief that I'd like to make a smoke-free person's opinion heard alongside people who are struggling with quitting, or don't want to. I enjoy a smoke-free and addiction-free life, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, but it took me a lot of fighting peer pressure + manipulative advertising to be in this position today. It shouldn't have been a fight at all, but there's no company which is going to profit from non-smoking/teetotalism/whatever, and governments aren't going to see revenues from it.
six-dimensional chess at its highest levels.
Considering the average streaming service cost is a $12-15 subscription, once you start subscribing to 2-4+ of those, the cost becomes comparable to basic cable. Welcome to a la carte cable.

More precisely, I would say it's the balkanization of streaming services that's the real problem. If I could sign up for one service that offered everything I wanted to watch, on demand, for $50, I'd consider that. Now, Disney stuff is on the Disney service, some shows are on Netflix, others on Hulu, and a few on Amazon. On top of that, you have to consider that all the major TV streaming services also produce their own content, which is exclusive to their services and not licensed elsewhere. Even keeping track of what's on what service is a chore.

My personal compromise has been to use Prime Video and Netflix, because I already subscribe to Amazon Prime, anyway, and Netflix is a good incremental add. But, I don't want 5 subscription services and to have to keep track of what's on what service. It's bad enough with 2.
I would second 21st Century C, it's an excellent book. It has a very pragmatic approach, skipping features like unions that are not used in modern C, but going into great detail on the important things like memory management.
To be fair, you can actually give money to WeWork and get some office space. They seem massively over-valued, and investors seem weirdly OK with Neumanns using self-dealing to feather his own nest, but its, like a real company with an actual business model, and so far as I can tell, they aren't really making objective lies to investors to get them to hand over crazy amounts of cash.

On the other hand, no could ever actually buy an "Edison" blood test machine from Theranos. They were purely a fraud.

I guess its sort of an interesting question about wheter it looks worse to lose money investing in a billion dollar product that would legitimately be worth billions but doesn't exist, or one that does exist but isn't worth billions.
On the flip side, in college you learn why stating something is true 100% of the time can be problematic.
Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing
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You can try, but you might not get an honest answer. Depends on who you talk to. Depending on how much time you have available, I'd suggest reading through CustomerCentric Selling[1] by Michael Bosworth. It goes really deep into handling this kind of situation.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/CustomerCentric-Selling-Second-Michae...
They are NOT exactly known for doing a "good job" in anything related to handling people. Just look at how they handle Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjian, etc.

Yes they are good at amassing people to build infrastructural projects. But that is very different than having to convince people. The regime is hard-coded to do things with brute force.
So the point of a constitution which sets up checks and balances is what, then, without the checks and balances? And what does another country operating without a ruling document have to do with whether a nation founded under one then re-founded under a second one should follow its ruling document? As a nation state, the US is the Constitution and the government provided for within it.
The point is that interviewers should not be looking for a "specific" answer. They should be looking for how well a candidate matches the expectations of the position. Asking for specific algorithm implementations is objectively bad interview practice.
My understanding is that the preferred term now is "fire fighter", though I do hear "fireman" on occasion.
My thinking is that if your sim is kinda realistic, then once it works you can fine tune on some (expensive) real hand labeled data. But the sim helps you develop the training process etc.
Cool thanks, now let's do an article requesting that Baby Boomers please learn how to read & write emails.
ESA turns to NASA to assist in crucial ExoMars parachute tests
Well, we're talking about injected variables...

const injectedValue = JSON.parse("$SERVER_JSON_VALUE.replace("\"","\\\"")");
// vs
const injectedValue = $SERVER_JSON_VALUE;

generally for a single value in the codebase is emphatically NOT a huge issue... and if it saves 80-120ms or so on the load, that's a significant impact. Not to mention the lower memory overhead while doing so.
It takes a month to put together a software patch to limit the amount of regens a diesel engine has to do, or how much DEF it sprays into the exhaust. Suddenly the big three could have diesel trucks that perform 10% better on fuel economy because California isn't forcing EGR crap down their throats.
I used to think that. Then I tried volunteering via their IRC channel and was met with some next level hostility.

My read is:

a) They're doing a job that needs to be done.

b) They're relatively flush with cash from donors

c) They're not nearly as efficient as they could be.

d) The people there seemed more concerned about competition than collaboration.

e) Probably most controversial: The organization seems like it has stagnated.
Maybe that is because NATO actually has capabilities to act, rather than just sitting around writing lofty platitudes ;).
> Nobody is doing anything they don't want to do.

And yet, one party is making all the profit, and a different party is putting in all of the work. That seems like a non-ideal situation?
We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF
Speculation here too, maybe it has something to do with very little willingness to put up with missing songs from users, while it's somewhat acceptable to go to another site to watch a new show?

I haven't wrapped my head around how this could influence the creators and services enough to work together, though.
A Tesla’s residual value—basically the future value of a car after a certain amount of use—at one year is more than 70% of its original price, far higher than the value of any Chinese EV model at the same mark, according to an August report from a Chinese automobile industry group studying leasing and resales.

“Except for a Tesla, we won’t take any other pure battery car,” a Beijing-based second-hand dealer told auto blog gasgoo in August.
Sounds fine to me. Just because it's a state and not a country doesn't mean you can do whatever you want there.
California is the fifth biggest economy in the world.

I would daresay that its impact on the country is too small, given its contributions.
Bingo.

I don't want to keep track of what's on what platform, or pay $12-15/month for 5 different services. I would much rather pay ~$50/month for one service that had everything I wanted to watch on it, alongside some kind of good mechanism for content discovery (both recommendations, and search).
It’s inspiring to see that picking up litter consistently had a big impact on a neighborhood. We were also surprised to see the strong effect the California Camp Fires had on litter. Hope you enjoy!

Background: My friends, Elena and Felipe, and I have been picking up litter 3x per week on Polk Street for year now. We logged all the litter we picked up to see what we can find. After a year picking up we decided to see what we can learn from the data and we wrote an article with the results.

We used the https://www.rubbish.love, which I helped program, to track all the items.
This is cool, looking forward to trying it out. Manual scraping is doable, but there have been plenty of times that I've just decided not to do something because I'd have to spend an hour getting/scraping the data. Hopefully this will take that time down to 10 minutes or less.