skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, that is an extremely important consideration. But in the US, smoking has been on the decline. At the rate of decline it could approach nearly 0% in the next 20 years or so. Vaping may reverse that trend, keeping people would have been risk-free in an (albeit lower) risk category, at the same time it converts people who never would have been at risk into a risk category. It's not a simple equation to balance, not when the gains over the short term may work out to be losses in the long term.

I'm not offering this up as "the way it should be", that a ban should be instituted, I offer it up as an important consideration. Personally, I think we might do best by reaching for the best of both worlds-- get rid of flavored vapes the same way we got rid of flavored cigarettes, continue to push traditional smokers into the healthier option, at the same time convert our anti-smoking education & awareness campaigns into ones that include warnings against vaping.
My freshman year of high school, some seniors got in trouble for changing their grades (I'm almost positive we used Blackboard). Ironically, the kids who did this were all excellent students and the modifications were things like "A- is now an A". The teachers talked about the kids being hackers and that recording grades in software wasn't safe because it meant hackers could always get an A.

Turned out, there was an admin account (u/p: admin/admin or something equally trivial to guess) with superuser access that someone learned.
I wonder if this has real case law behind it. I’m not a lawyer but have done a bunch of HIPAA training and one of the key elements of that federal program is that where states are more restrictive with privacy and security, this takes precedence.

More restrictive emissions laws are to protect individuals and task corporations to be better, so it seems good to let states enact their own more restrictive rules.
Are we talking about internet archive or archive team?

Different groups/orgs.
Agile is "adjust your process". Your process is one of the variables, not something handed down from on high. If you aren't adjusting your process, you aren't doing agile.

Many places say "We will be agile according to this rigidly defined process". The contradiction is obvious.
Unfortunately, that's not actually an uncommon management practice (maybe with different numeric targets) for big companies.
Edit: Hmm. Honestly not sure if it was IA or archiveteam. I think IA.
Thankfully, nobody cares what you think.
Not always. See https://www.pindrop.com
It's derived from French "côtelette", literally "little rib". It's etymologically related to "coast", actually. It being spelled "cutlet" is probably the result of a phonetic spelling of "côtelette" in English being reanalyzed as "cut-let", though, since "a cut of meat" is itself a thing.

It originally referred to the same thing "chop" does today, a slice of meat perpendicular to the spine, containing a single rib. Then it started referring specifically to a boneless chop. Then it started being used to refer to any thin slice of meat. And in a lot of the world it was introduced specifically as a breaded and fried thin slice of meat. And that's how we got katsu, the Japanese version of schnitzel.

Language is weird, isn't it?
A revolution would imply there has been a breakthrough that would potentially lead to new theory. However, as with most modern physics experimental breakthroughs, it seems gravitational waves provide just further support for existing theories (with a few minor exceptions.)

Not to say that this isn’t exciting, but it seems long overdue for us to stumble upon something major that is unaccounted for.
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Personal anecdote... after a 77-year old lady who was a family friend lost her husband of 45 years, I called once a year on her birthday to check up on her. At first she seemed to really appreciate it. But in the 3rd year, it took 20+ rings which concerned me. When she finally answered, she said, "Oh it's you! Oh how are you!!! You know, you can just text me!"

I took the hint. Think about that... a 77-year old was lecturing me to use the newer fangled texting technology.

In addition to the convenience of multitasking, the issue is that robocalls have made everyone wary of answering their phones.

ETA: forgot to add some color context. My personal rule is to never call anybody and only text. I only made an exception for the 77-year friend because I thought she was "old school" and would prefer a real phone call. I was proven wrong. I still chuckle about not seeing how pervasive the norms can change.
They can also choose not to include stuff in their archives, sometimes in ways that assist folks who've been spreading misinformation. For example, they've manually excluded all Snopes' content from the archive, effectively helping them memory-hole old versons of their fact checks. I discovered this after Snopes falsely claimed that an EPA rule tightening asbestos restrictions in the US was actually allowing prevoiusly-banned uses to be approved for sale and convinced a bunch of HN readers of this. A month or so later, the EPA pointed out that the very document Snopes had linked said that only uses which were previously not restricted at all could be approved for use and that the previously banned uses remained unconditionally banned.

Rather than correct their error, Snopes deleted the part of the article which claimed the ban was being removed, pretended they'd never said that, kept their original now-unfounded conclusion, and wrote a blog post accusing the EPA of lying for claiming that they'd made an error in the first place. Good luck finding the original article with the error online now. (There should be a copy on archive.is, but they're having uptime issues now.) The Internet Archive basically helped one of the trusted sources we're meant to rely on to spot misinformation rewrite the past to gaslight the US government.

The Internet Archive also took the decision not to allow government websites to block content from being archived or removed around about the time Trump took office. So they're very selective about who gets to hide their past errors like this and whose pasts are permanent public record for all to see.
This talk brings up some convincing arguments about the role of the government in innovation.
> fu Zuck
> we are scared

In my opinion both completely reasonable reactions to Facebook attempting to set up a private currency.
I think the point the parent was trying to make is that the concept is way more important than the specific notation. Someone that doesn't know Big O could still tell you why one algorithm would be better, it just might be slightly less succinct:

"The execution time of algorithm A scales up with the number of items, while algoritm B's is constant."

vs

"The execution time of algorithm A is O(n), while algorithm B's is O(1)."
No I did not.

It's a university.. there are a broad array of departments and courses, and I am saying that a handful of them at a multitude of universities have the potential to close minds and lead to more ignorance - this broad statement isn't too controversial - witnessed by the very vocal debate about it. I am not going to jump into the pit of the specifics of that debate though.
Long term role, 40h/week. I'm have 4 years of experience and we are going to be using react.js and d3.js
You don't have to implement every possible solution all at once; you pick one that works for you. If you prefer Plex, use Plex. If you prefer keeping everything on a thumb drive or your phone's SD card, do that instead. With non-DRM media you have the option to implement whatever solution you find preferable, not the obligation to implement those that you don't prefer.

And if my family can do it, I am quite sure your family can too. I think the attitude you're demonstrating here exemplifies a problem with the industry in general these days; giving non-technical people too little credit.

None of this stuff is complicated, but when a technical person such as yourself tells a non-technical person that they're incapable of wrapping their mind around something, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy as they're now scared of even trying. And without trying, neither of you will ever learn what their true capabilities are.
Maybe the worker could parse the JSON to build an index and then send over just the index. The main thread could then use the index to access small substrings of the original giant JSON string, parse those and cache the result?
>would be the supposed quantum supremacy

True. Another way he could have responded is: We don't care if quantum computers actually do anything useful, only that we can use the PR to get positive stock price movement.
Ill-advised for sure, especially considering the current outrage culture, but insensitive seems a stretch.
> “one small step for man..”.

From the same magazine.

"Neil Armstrong's One Small Misstep"

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezzmzj/what-neil-armstron...
They don't. They do this with their Great 78 project as well. The way they go about borrowing collections, digitizing them, then returning them (which in itself is illegal reproduction), and then posting them online (also breaking copyright laws), is very sketchy. In in addition it is frustrating to watch (I hesitate to say "unfair") them do this when, say, university or publicly funded archives cannot get away with doing the same and are much more constrained in their methods. There is a whole other can of worms to do with long term sustainability and preservation but I won't get into that
I really enjoy laowhy86's wife's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzAxQ3vGD6Unk1GyxjJ9bmg

The other guy's channels are in fact insightful, but hers is more interesting because she was born and raised there, but also has relatives in HK and an American husband. She is completely unemotionally attached to all the propaganda and nonsense so it's fun to hear her take on these things.
How about Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way?
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This talk makes some convincing arguments about the role of government pushing innovation.
What in the unreliable airspeed checklist would have saved the flight?

Once mistrim happens, there is no possible way to get either of the two flights in question, to either 4 degrees pitch up and 75% N1, let alone 10 degrees pitch up and 80% N1. Any power reduction will cause a pitch down and make the problem worse. All your advise would do is kill them faster. Mistrim must be avoided at low altitude, and in these two cases MCAS induced mistrim faster than it could be identified and avoided. It takes significant altitude to recover from it, assuming you even know the procedure, which hasn't been in the 737 FOM for decades. Neither flight had sufficient altitude for that procedure.

If all of this were just about training and checklists, these airplanes wouldn't be grounded around the world.

I also find it hilarious you misspell your insult.
>It's always cheaper to build two of the same thing than two different things.

Not if the second variant is cheap enough and/or will be sold in enough volume to recoup the fixed costs (engineering, tooling, etc) and still turn a profit.

If that weren't the case you'd only be able to get cars in black.

Edit: Is my math wrong or is reality inconvenient today?
GitLab published what they're interested in: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/acquisitions/. It's an amazing, one-of-a-kind doc. One of their constraints (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/acquisitions/#what-we-offe...) is quite limiting, though:

> The total purchase price of the deal, paid in cash, will not exceed $1M and will be the total and only compensation for the entire deal.
Ma said Tesla stands out in the second-hand market for this very reason, because it has developed a clear standard for pricing and inspecting its used cars, which are often still covered by warranties (link in Chinese).
>You can get gigabit now for around $100/mo, if you commit to a year. I'm just sitting on 120mbps for $90/mo, because people the next neighborhood over are getting door hangers saying the city fiber is coming soon.

I'm in FoCo and I think that gigabit is now $70 bc of the city announcement, but that is only an "intro" price (love that about comcast). It is also AFAIK not bi-directional gig. Uploads are still capped and you have a data transfer limit as well.
If California loses this fight, the next step is to just impose a 100% (or more) sales tax on any car that doesn't meet whatever standards it wants. Sales taxation is firmly established as state authority and the federal government could go pound sand.
Thank you for the excellent explanation!

I think of js entirely from a node.js perspective where I conceptualize it as an async task. Is this also wrong?
Very possible that cutlet means small cut. I don't know the etymology of that word. I was just commenting on the etymology of かつ
"the 45th president’s often-contradictory statements"
I actually think the previous title of this article which was something about JSON.parse being faster than object instantiation or something like was clearer because in English the cost of something implies that it is a negative, whereas here the performance cost is a benefit relative to another solution with a higher cost.

maybe I'm being picky though.
Hmm. I wouldn't call that a very very small part. It's not pervasive. But it's still better than the competition in most cities.
A productivized scraping service - useful! Entire companies are built around scraping certain popular sites - this is a disruptive idea indeed. A growing catalog of up-to-date scrapers for popular websites would put of lot of freelancers out of work. I would invest in this.

However, the ML claim is highly suspect. There is no way that a machine could reliably understand the semantic content of a website - that would require Artificial General Intelligence. If anyone could do that, it would've been Google. But even Google relies on human-edited structured metadata to define the content of sites (i.e. Rich Snippets and the like).
They most likely saw a bunch of charges from the same place at the same time and yours was one of them. They were probably card running and got caught.
Because it costs a whole lot more to lay down fiber across the US than it does to cover a fraction of it.

The sheer distances between everything makes it incredibly difficult to build infrastructure like high speed rail, fiber across the country, etc.
Has anyone tried this for careers pages? Would be interested in how this performs on a random sample of ~50 crunchbase NYC startups’ careers pages. I dunno how much time would have to be spent training data...
Yes, rust has a runtime. Even most assemblers have runtimes these days.

Take a look at this: https://imgur.com/lPOPj1G

You see that difference? That's not rust producing less-efficient code. That's the more complex rust runtime.

Think it's an artifact of static linkage? Guess again.

https://imgur.com/KsrApXC

But IIRC rust doesn't statically link glibc by default.

So the difference in runtime overhead is more than 10x the machine code size. That doesn't translate to a 10x slowdown and a lot of that is probably baked-in optimization but rust certainly has a runtime and associated overhead and it has a lot larger runtime than C.
I am afraid we get both...

Otherwise, I enjoyed your insightful reply.
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What recession?
So, IOW, it's not purely a point of style, it's more about what's a sane way to write things given the requirements of the language's syntax when you're dealing with pointer declarations?

Which would explain why it seems so odd to me; I spent a fair amount of time in C-style languages, but typically only ones that lack pointers.
And about 2/3rds of the population
My lack of degree has never been relevant in my 12-year-long coding career, I have never had issues getting jobs I want and often seen them choose me over someone with a degree.

Side projects, my obvious passion for coding, and eventually, of course, my experience got me where I’m at, making a triple-digit salary as a senior iOS developer at a major bank here in Canada.

I’m so very glad I avoided the horrors of student loans that half the people my age I know are going through.

I was able to see ‘higher education’ as the debt trap it was like I can see the sky is blue on a clear day.

At the age of 18, it was:
1) make $50k a year doing something I’ve been doing for ten years every day, know how to do well and love, or
2) go $50k in debt every year for four years paying to struggle through the school system - I hardly passed high school, the way school works just does not click with me or many others.

If you are a coder without a degree, even if it says a degree is required - just apply. This is how I got to work as an iPhone developer at LEGO, Winners, Universal Music, et cetera, until the list of these names became so notable they’d essentially be dumb to not at least look my resume over.

The other most solid piece of advice I can give - just keep doing side projects. If you’re going for your first job, an impressive side project is actually a way better way to get their attention than the dozens of people who will apply with degrees. It’s different, it will always be different, because you made it your way.

A degree isn’t anything unique, and is not actually any serious indication of actual programming talent. A degree in CS basically gives your potential employer the promise that you at least understand the fundamentals of computer science enough to slog it through school. Whoop-de-do. You meet the basic requirements and can even be considered.

Coded a custom instant messenger client while you were in your teens? Played around with ROM hacking, assembly language? Created a Mario fan game? Show them this.

You, your passion and your side projects are. I know this from the utmost experience - because those examples I just gave, I did all of, from the ages of 9-16, which got me doing web sites for real estate agents at 16, which got me working in software at Chase banks at 18. I’ve never looked back and watched my salary and experience grow year by year. :)
global energy use is unfortunately growing quickly so the most likely outcome is that we continue the trend where new power sources don't replace dirty older sources, they live on beside them.
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It sounds like the best way to land a job is to talk directly to you and show you what (a candidate) is capable of, filters and applications be damned!
Interesting! Do have a link to an example?
It would be nice if there were layered language approach, with a core Datalog/SPARQL-like core language specified first, then the sugary language that target it.
1.3T/yr doesn’t seem terrible for energy for the entire world.
Complexity in what terms? For a classical computer?

Besides, the empirical data shows otherwise. It takes 12 qubits to factor 15. We're up to 53 now.

With quantum annealing, a 20 bit number has been factored with 97 qubits. Not on a real quantum computer yet, of course.

So I have no idea what you are talking about.
I'd really like to see the details of who these 200-300 contractors are. There is a major problem with Egyptian government contracts being awarded to the military or companies owned by generals.

I hope it was as competitive and efficient as the article alluded to but have my doubts.
"about 20 (British) cents per unit (or 30 percent)"

Britain doesn't use cents, the linked article used cents without clarification, so it may be US cents?, or possibly Euro cents??, I don't know where the 30% came from, because I couldn't find that mentioned in the linked article either.
The DMCA safe harbor provisions give middlemen/service providers some protections. So long as they are storing things at someone else’s direction and comply with takedown requests, they are protected from most copyright claims. This protection doesn’t extend to the person that provided archive.org the content originally.
I think the parent comment was less about the capability of Rust, but more about the overwhelming momentum that C has.
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Nobody ever said that :)

Although abstracting over this stuff isn't possible in any imperative language unless Scala or maybe advanced C++ template count. But that isn't due to their imperative nature exactly.

But local reasoning is very hard to count on in most other languages - that's for sure. It's easier to just run a VM in your head.
I don’t mean to be rude, but there’s no non-obvious “algorithm” for reversing a linked list in-place. If you can keep the details straight, you’re done. If a candidate had trouble with this problem, that would tell me that either 1) they have difficulty working at a fine level of detail, or 2) they aren’t comfortable with pointers. Either possibility is problematic for jobs that require attention to low-level detail or manipulating pointers or references.
All tech startup CEOs require some element of snake oil salesmanship. You are selling something to investors that doesn't exist yet.
Fewer/simpler emissions systems would mean cheaper maintenance, no?
Complete opposite of my experience. I have no degree either. Interviews with 2 of the 4 you've listed, google as well. Only 2 years of experience.
I'm not aware of Peter Singer's work, but from my reading of Scott Alexander and Steven Pinker, as well as rebuttals to their writing, I'm not sure I'd consider them authoritative.
I was under the impression that this has been pretty well established for a while.
True, but consider that they're equally productive for any discourse, that is to say a net negative. Therefore it would be pertinent to treat them similarly.
I've found that the readability of fast code vs. slow code is often negligible - certainly it is in the specific example under discussion. I prefer to make a habit of using faster idioms in that case, so that when speed does matter I'm already covered. I don't consider that premature optimization.
I have used both in production, and Java/JVM is far superior.

Concise is not a word I'd use to describe golang. I can't count how many times I've come across code that would be 1 or 2 lines in Java compared to 15 lines or more in golang. It's quite ironic given the unsubstantiated claims around golang. Lots cruft with "if err != nil" littered everywhere is barely scratching the surface.

Java is getting a green thread implementation by means of project Loom. However, the JVM already handles very high concurrency systems in production by using libraries like Akka, Vertx, and Reactor. It is already used by major corporations to handle extremely high load systems. It's already proven itself over decades.

I don't know what you mean by Java being a computing platform from the 90s. If anything, golang is at a similar level as Java when it was first released (no generics), except worse (error prone error handling, poor design of interfaces, and many bad and unsubstantiated design decisions). Not to mention the JVM having state of the art GC, as well as performing optimizations way beyond what golang is capable of.

OpenJDK is fully open source, no licensing there. Not only that, but Oracle has open sourced previously closed source projects pertaining to the JVM and tooling around it.

The main reason for golang is the hype behind it. Proof is that some of the same authors worked on its predecessor a long time ago, and nothing ever came out of it because they didn't have the Google brand behind them. People today follow hype without substantiation.