skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant "The IT Crowd" scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGFGD5pj03M
However there is nothing to stop California from indexing new car registration fees to some sort of measurement of MPG, pollution, etc. If they tack on HUGE fees to some of the worst offenders, wouldn't it have the same effect?

That's a great suggestion and actually one of the ones that has been tossed around in the Capitol if SCOTUS upholds Trump's decision, and possibly even if it doesn't.
Eh, it's a gedanken experiment, it's done all the time in physics. The cautionary advice ought to apply without saying.
Why? I guess it's because some interpreted languages are also compiled?

"Compiled" traditionally means "not interpreted", or rather "compiled to machine code".
> Human progress depends on the open source community.

(Non native speaker here). Am I misunderstanding something, or is the author explaining that humanity can not progress without the open source community?
To add flavour in the guise of figures:

The largest city in the UK is (Greater) London, population ~9M. This is an outlier.
The next largest is Birmingham, population ~1M.
The smallest city (by population) is St Davids, population ~1800. This is also an outlier.

Most cities are 100k to 1M. However, there are a decent number of towns >100k.

The largest town is Reading, population 230k.

There possibly isn't a smallest town worth defining - there's no objective divide between villages and towns.
Maybe be saw this interview and thought himself the next Steve Jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yh7ikSQwKg
Or from my mom: "The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get!"

EDIT: Apparently my mom is Lewis Carroll.
I recently lived in Germany and was impressed by the security mandated there. In order to do anything of note (meaning where you could lose money) you were challenged to produce a TAN, one six-digit number from a one-time pad of ~100 that the bank mailed you. You produce that number, cross it out, and never use it again.

Also available were SMS TANs, where they texted you a code. I avoided these after reading about SIM swapping.

But, further, was a photoTAN. The bank mailed me a private key that I entered into a reader app. Then they would present me with a QR-code-like image that the app could read and decrypt into a six-digit code via the secret key. Type that in, good to go. The reader app and the banking app also had some message-passing thing where if you were banking on your phone (and couldn't take a picture of your own screen...) it could still work.
Glad some companies are coming around to to this. People have different values and work styles, and for too long there has been just one option on the white-collar work menu: 40-60 hours, mostly at a desk.
It should be about learning. I think finding exploits should be encouraged and rewarded.
Sure, except for the part where C is a language that uses English or English-based keywords, designed by native English speakers.
This “report” and article based on the report are obvious hit jobs against experienced pilots on behalf of a major defense contractor trying to push the blame off their shoulders. The truth is that the system, both the software and hardware, was faulty and unreliable and the pilots were not informed of its complex problems (many of which Boeing didn’t even know about) and because Boeing wanted avoid having their customers to pay to retrain them in addition to having the FAA recertify the plane.
Thanks for protecting me, paywall!

/s
you can buy them on amazon uk for around £50
I see some potential in this for accessibility. There are some websites which are impossible/very hard to use with a screen reader and don't provide an official aPI, mostly for corporate lock-in reasons. Using this tool for API generation and then writing a super nice to use client would be awesome. My life could be so much better with solutions like those.
spoilers... Ugh.
Supercentenarians: common in regions with no birth certificates, short lifespans
Yeah. A bunch of 50x's here.
Door-in-the-Face Technique
While I'm sure these are most likely some sort of military drones or other type of classified technology (don't ask me which nation's), I will note that the description of these things sounds an awful lot like a Culture drone.

Just saying.
How do you decide how much to work in a week, or when to stop working each day?

Personally, it feels like having unstructured work hours leads to an implicit competition between everyone to do the most work humanly possible, and any leisure hours begin to feel almost sinful.
It really disturbs me how these two constantly get touted as authoritative sources on China in western social media. I could not imagine a more misleading introduction into what daily life in China is like than the videos produced by these guys.
I haven't tried these, but they claim to do what you want:

https://sheety.co

https://sheetsu.com

https://sheetdb.io

https://sheetlabs.com/
It's hard to shield them.

But bandwidth would probably suck.
Yeah, it reminds me of the principle of how the harder you work the more work comes your way to meet your level of efficiency. It's basically the same thing but applied to when the work gets done.
Critics Challenge the Health Benefits of Alternative Meats
I've never turned down a request for PTO from someone who had some, including at a company with "unlimited" vacation. I don't see why my priorities about what one should do with their free time should apply to others. And if it were ever a problem that a person wasn't fulfilling their role adequately, it doesn't really matter why as long as we can get on a remediation plan.
The worst case scenario for rich kids, regardless what they do, is so much better than the average scenario for "average to bad public school" kids that it makes no difference exactly if your friends play chess, golf, or, like the ones at my private school, mostly do drugs and buy stuff with their mother's credit card.

Kids at average to bad public schools never meet people who own investment properties, don't learn how to pitch ideas, and don't treat their bank and insurance companies with the careless veneer of superiority that convinces them that whatever has happened to you is merely bad luck, a challenge on the way of better things, versus proof of your moral and genetic worthiness. Kids at average public schools think they can fail, and not merely that the world can fail them. Kids at average public schools think it matters that they be good, and not merely surround themselves with people and circumstances that are good to them.
For 60$ you have a Freebox delta in France (sorry only in French https://www.free.fr/freebox/freebox-delta/ ) . It includes 10 Gbps (via fiber cable) + a sound system ( from Devialet, an equivalent to Bose system) + Alexa on the remote controller + 500 Go HDD for video recording or music playback + 200 (international) TV channels + Netflix SD , all inclusive ?!

For the little story, french people said 60 $ for all of this Freebox delta was sooooo expensive. After reading the Colorado Town news, I stay amused.
Confidence in one's job skills and confidence in other people’s willingness to disregard what they describe as “requirements” are not necessarily linked.
> I just ran across Real Engine looking for Architectural Visualization software (note that Twinmotion is free until Nov!)

Thank you!
This has been tried many times and it never seems to gain traction to become a relevant concept. Off the top of my head, I remember Kimono Labs that looked quite promising. Then it was acquired by Palantir and shut down. I also have seen many solutions that are similar (basically most scraping companies, like Diffbot which also claims to use machine learning for their extraction techniques)

What's the plan here to really become differentiated? Why is now the right time for this concept and not before when others tried it? Also, how do you plan to address the concerns of companies that don't want their data to be accessed programmatically? That seems like a big challenge to overcome in order to become commercially succesful.
Were these effective teams/companies? It doesn't sound like it. What went wrong? Could you see it working right?
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I routinely take PTO for 'mental health days' and have for many years. No, the company I work for doesn't need to know that; just that I need the day off. I am a very firm believer in taking these days off of 'doing nothing' help prevent my own burn out. Highly recommend for others in the office life.
Just take a day off with no responsibilities and nothing planned. Relax, sleep in, enjoy it.
Curious! Instantiation by means of the language is actually slower than parsing stuff and instantiating the objects that way. Didn't ever think of that possibility before. Anyway, I understand that JavaScript is much more complicated to parse than bare JSON, but still, that just feels odd. Good read!
Would be cool if this could be tied to SSL keys. Being able to serve requests with the same SSL key could be used as verification. (obviously some edge cases like people that are behind some kind of common SSL cert like a subdomain with shared hosting)
In a capitalist system you are either an asset that can be leveraged or a liability.
If drivers are signed into both Uber and Lyft waiting for a ride, does that mean they are acting as employees of two companies at once?
Barack Obama’s Biggest Mistake
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I guess I was lucky because in my field I was able to do well without overworking myself. I enjoyed my project and how much I worked was based on how motivated I was. I did leisure activities when I felt the need to. I know people who are grad students in deep learning though, and it really seems way more competitive than what I'm used to.
I have 2 fortune 500 companies, one of which is fortune 100, and many large companies including fintech on my resume. I don’t have a fear of my skills or anything, but I do know I don’t have a degree. Guess what, you state that you need a degree, I will skip your job.
Am confused here, is there something I am missing ?

Brute-forcing bcrypt-hashed passwords on GPUs has a ridiculously low success rate even on most commonly used password data sets.

Failure rate on passwords outside the most commonly used list is more than 95%

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/crack...
Now I feel bad for fixing the typo...
Last I've read from someone who knew what they are talking about, he said it's still very early and we don't yet know enough to apply treatment level stuff with biomes.

A lot of people are optimistic for the future and there's some useful research available currently such as helping identify certain issues, but it's not yet a serious clinical option being pushed anywhere as far as changing or influencing the biome.
"No one" in the next ~70-90 years.
Yes, before it was believed that the bacteria came from the vaginia, but now it looks like it comes from the gut.
It's a calculated move to get/keep support of automotive execs and investors.

Except that the main way it might do so is if they're afraid of being targeted by Trump of they don't support him.

In practical terms the auto makers likely need to meet California's desired standards as well as international ones in order to sell cars globally, and if they don't meet them domestically they're vulnerable to competitor ads "$BRANDX, so bad they're illegal to sell in most of the world," etc.

Even without those factors, a following Democratic (or Republican, frankly) administration is likely to return to the standards in question.

This is "respect mah authoritah!" spite.
Very basic ones:

- Strong test suite

- Delete duplication as much as possible by using any techniques such as method extraction and keeping classes and methods small.
I don't like California having a unique exception on an issue where every other state has been preempted by federal law.

Which isn't the case. California has a unique exemption because the federal law was inspired by California's existing law, driven by CA's unique needs for strong pollution controls due to a combination of population density, climate, and geography. The federal law actually grants CA an exemption only so long as CA's standards exceed the federal government's standards.

Which is something that our current president doesn't quite understand. It's not just that CA wants to have higher standards to give him the middle finger--it's that CA is legally required to have higher standards to maintain its legal exemption.
Many of us Caesarian babies didn't get "vaginal seeding" at birth, but have been trying to catch up ever since.
If gravity waves exist, does that mean we could theoretically produce a gravity wave laser?
If you decide to do this, please document heavily and report back on results.

Anecdotally, I am Norwegian genetically, and it has been said that the scandanavians are the group that developed the gut biome to be able to eat cheese/dairy - and I eat a TON of cheese each year (and I suffer no ill affects (I’m super lean and tall and skinny))

Whereas one of my exes was Asian and would get IBS whenever she ate cheese.
I didn't understand the gist of the GP to criticize bank actions, but wanting to point out that banks do indeed have alarm systems in place beyond simple IP-change rules.
I don't understand anything about this. It makes vague sense to me if I replace "need" with "heed". But not much.
I wouldn't exactly call it slavery, but it's indentured servitude at the societal level. There's no company forcing anyone to work for them, and society technically doesn't force you to work, but if you want to be a part of society you're almost certainly going to be doing something you don't like from 9 to 5 and commuting for 2 hours. You can stay on the plantation and have your basic needs met if you willingly serve the system. I'm not making a value judgment by pointing this out, but that's the way it is.
Yeah, that's fair. I shouldn't diss on state schools. I had a specific one in mind when I wrote this, but it can definitely come off as elitist. My apologies.
Should GQL be pronounced with a hard or soft G?

Is "geequel" going to take off akin to "sequel" for SQL?
the scrolling is messed up. has some kind of pseudo smooth scrolling javascript thing. really unnecessary.
This seems like a very honest way to ask. They're just trying to take a day off to have some fun and relax (which is perfectly reasonable). But they're not making up an excuse about being sick, or having a family obligations, they are being clear that it's a low priority bit of fun giving their Boss a chance to say something like "We're going to be swamped today/then, how about Monday when we'll be slow?" I wish more employees/employers could embrace this level of mature honesty.
It's an invalid assumption that all banks use random user names instead of user-supplied names.
> They are doing everything they can to protect their existing infrastructure and do as little as possible to upgrade services.

Well, that's how rent-seeking works.
Nonsense. If you sell bread at $10, but at the end of the day (when you'd have to throw out unsold inventory) someone offers $6 and you accept, you aren't lying about your stated price.

As with any kind of transaction in business, the terms of employment are negotiable. A job posting is simply an initial ask.
They don't have any written material, this is just from talking to the guys. Turns out starting an ISP isn't hard if you can lease last mile from one of your local big boys (and here, by law, they have to make last mile available for lease at a reasonable price).

Basically rent a quarter cab in a colo, get a router (or two), a switch (or two), and a server (or two). Negotiate with last mile provider and a pair of upstreams. Get your DC to x-connect you to your upstreams and last mile provider. Do some marketing (elevator ads in residential apt buildings are apparently basically gold). Buy a pallet of cable modems, spend a few weeks configuring your crap... $50k later, you have an ISP, and you can offer service at 50% of the big boys' rates while still raking in a substantial profit.
US Navy Confirms 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon’ Seen in Leaked Footage
I may have lost people with lower confidence in their abilities and a greater fear of failure.

That HBR article I linked in the other thread actually addresses that. Their survey indicates that people are deterred less by lack of confidence in their abilities, and more by lack of confidence in your process to assess their abilities in the absence of a credential. The top-given reason (from both women and men) for not applying was “I didn’t think they would hire me since I didn’t meet the qualifications, and I didn’t want to waste my time and energy.”

Now maybe you're actively looking for people who hustle and won't take no for an answer (which isn't quite the same thing as "confident in their abilities"). Maybe that's your team culture, or your company culture. That's certainly your choice if so.
As a developer I find I'm paid very little for lines of code. I'm paid primarily for making decisions and for recording those decisions clearly.

Application source code is one way those decisions are recorded. Call graphs, data flow graphs, help text, application documentation, API documents, troubleshooting guides, monitoring code around production applications, tests, configuration and build management files, and commit messages are others.

Given that point of view, here's my advice.: Make the source and the other artifacts as simple as possible, but no simpler. Cross-reference where it helps most, but not excessively. Compose things from modular pieces rather than building monoliths when you can. Document the parts and the whole.
Might have something to do with the fact that you can get 1-year of WeWork included as part of the American Express Business Platinum card right now ($595 annual fee).

Would love to see the cost share agreement on that one.
Go drink in the evening when the company isn’t operating

Edit: so sensitive! I guess I’m the only person here that gets PTO :)
const int isn't a declarator; it's a list of declaration specifiers.

Though these can be reordered, it's clear they were intended to follow English.

In a compiler implementation, it's troublesome to enforce the order compared to processing a simple list and setting/checking flags in some data structure, diagnosing invalid duplicates or mutually exclusive situations.
I'd be ready to put money on the fact that GitHub has access to all repositories, even private ones!
> You need to have some protection against brute-forcing. Whether it's limiting the rate of guessing or whatever, the attacker is still "modifying the state of a system."

You could just make brute-force searches unproductive, for example by requiring a hardware security key or client certificate rather than a mere password or PIN. Good luck brute-forcing a 128+-bit random secret.

> When someone stole my credit card number and ran up charges, my bank called me to verify them. How was that not "modifying the state of a system?"

The state of the system was modified when an unauthenticated (never mind unauthorized) individual managed to run up charges on your account using only your credit-card number—which is "sensitive" information but not actually secret. That should not have been permitted in the first place. If the rule had been applied properly then this remedial step would not have been necessary.
I thought the same, but No, as the original hypothesis was the bacteria came from the vaginia, but this study shows it comes from gut. It maybe because during delivery women often have anal fissures.
"Crunchy Karen" is a stock character who advocates dubious medical practices and preaches moralizingly, patronizingly to others to do the same.

Where I got the term from is a friend of mine is part of a Facebook support group for women who have particularly unproductive breasts and are tired of being told to risk starving their babies by adopting a breastfeeding-only policy or face moral recriminations.
>I think it's useful to hear multiple sides to an argument

I don't disagree with this, but it's annoying how much casual western internet users will rely on glorified travel youtubers when there are many veteran China watchers with much more substantial things to say. I.e., Bill Bishop Sinocism (cost $$$) newsletter is widely regarded as one of the best English newsletter on Chinese developments. One would be hard pressed to find a weekly brief this extensive and well thought out for most countries, yet it's available for anyone curious about China. There are also tons of podcasts and articles by established western think tanks and subject matter experts (of various agendas) out there since China has become increasingly topical.

Without commenting on quality of these experts which vary greatly, because China is a big place and confusing, even to it's own technocrats, I find it a little unsettling how much these Youtubers inform discussions on Chinese culture to lay audiences. I know it's unreasonable to expect people to become experts, but these "sources" needs to be contextualized and called out for what they are: slice-of-life clickbait expat travel vlogs.
That's the meaning I took from it (USA native).
Well, it would seem that when it does happen it’s a 50/50 split
It is often easy to find a person by name, then determine the monikers they use.
Securing Software, Together
https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190329

https://news.softpedia.com/news/gnome-and-gimp-receive-400k-...
https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/08/gnome-foundation-receives...
https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-1...
You don't want to select for people who are confident. You want to select for people who are competent.

Unfourtuantly, these features are often inversly correlated.
Lol. Was the title such a giveaway?

But broadly speaking, having more end-to-end encryption is still better than what we had before.
No, the 54.5 mpg goal by 2025 was from the Obama administration. The Trump administration nixed that and set the fleet fuel economy target to 37 mpg.

Several auto manufacturers actually came out against lowering the standard because it would put them in a worse place for global markets and they've already made big investments in alternative drivetrains.

California decided that they did not want to lower their standard to follow the Trump standard and 4 manufacturers made an agreement to a CA standard that was a bit less aggressive than the original Obama fuel economy target.

Then the Trump administration sued those 4 car companies, and moved to rescind California's exception under the Clean Air Act that allowed them to set their own emissions standards.
UFO videos of UFO’s spotted by military pilots are real, US Navy says
I’d be interested in seeing the correlation with the existence (or not) of trashcans. Huge swathes of commercial/retail areas in SF have no/few trashcans, and I would assume that there’s a limit to how long people will carry trash/empty containers before just dropping them on the ground
because languages are specification, "books".
they are not interpreted nor compiled.
The most common implementations of the C language are compilers, yes, but "compiled" it's not a language property

oh, and btw: there are multiple c interpreters