skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would be ridiculous to have a short encoding for `mov rN, #imm` where the immediate has to be in the range 0-7.

Such instruction didn't exist but I wouldn't call it ridiculous. It would actually be quite useful as setting a register to 3 is far more common than setting a register to 7911.
Since they told the IT department, I assume their grades were changed back.

They did it to show they could, I guess.
Yup — these are HIPAA violations that can carry jail time if malicious, an certainly large fines if not.
Dude, people in your country die regularly because they can't afford basic medicine like insulin or have an easily treatable medical condition.
Will we? It's been almost eight years and I see nothing.
Are cigarettes banned in India?
Most dev time for people refactoring code - yes... but not for new projects.

And as you say some people do write at scale.

> code readability and maintainability are just as important (if not more).

This is wrong, that’s all I was saying. Code right and it is readable anyway
Developers could have discounts when the game gets older.

My point is that in some cases Steam or Apple taking 30% is too much, now that Steam has some competition they made some deals with big publisher but this big percentage are to large for some products.

In this debate though many people ignore the creators and feel entitled that the app,game or movie be on his preferred store and using his preferred payment method.

I am sure there are cases where the store works great too.
> Is GQL already used elsewhere?

GQL (for “Google Query Language”) is the SQL-like query language for Google Cloud Datastore, and has been around since it was just the App Engine datastore.
Pete, just a heads up your copy in the about says $50 for a post and the button says $99. I don't have particularly good input on which price point makes more sense but you probably want it consistent to avoid confusion.

That said, slick looking site. Best of luck.
Any government that bans e-cigarettes without banning normal cigarettes should just give up and dissolve.
538 trucks is compared to a "tow", which is several barges linked together.

The more instructive comparison would be the number of truck miles currently due to agriculture and the additional truck miles that would come from removing a given dam. That way people would be able to estimate the future situation based on their current impression of how many trucks there are.

I suppose for heavily impacted cities, the number of trucks per day would also be interesting.
If anyone has any questions about the method then just let me know.
> You have no idea how utterly janky Plex and torrenting is.

Compare these experiences:

1. Search Netflix. Discover it's not there.

2. Search Amazon. Discover they have it, but it's not available for free as part of your subscription.

3. Search Hulu. Leave Hulu, because it's not there.

4. Finally go back to Amazon and rent the movie, not sure why you're paying for Prime if you still have to pay on top of that for half the stuff you watch.

5. Watch your content, with network interruptions if you're new popular releases (i.e. recent Game of Thrones).

6. Pay three monthly bills every month, a large percentage of which gets you overlapping content, but only pays to the content creators for the service you watch it on.

Versus:

1. Search a torrent site.

2. Select a save location in your torrent client.

3. Go make popcorn.

4. Watch your content uninterrupted by network issues or ads, for free, even if you're not connected to the internet.

Which is the janky experience?

And this is if you remove regions and internet connection reliability from the equation.

I'm not arguing you should torrent, incidentally. My preferred experience is to purchase content directly from the content creators when possible.

[1] https://help.hulu.com/s/article/how-much-does-hulu-cost?lang...

EDIT: Okay, sure, there are some use paths where streaming services are easier. But my point here isn't to say that streaming is worse, it's to say that torrenting is absolutely comparable and not some highly technical, difficult thing to do.
Those domains have value, too, to the owners, for one, and perhaps to its visitors.

> there is no reason to continue its actual existence at this point.

I might as well just reply: there is no reason to not continue. Why should we take away people's domains just because you think there is no reason to continue its actual existence? Put yourself in other people's shoes, please. Imagine if someone used this reasoning to get rid of or take away whatever you are fond of.

Perhaps these domains have no value to you, which is fine, but we should not get rid of anything just because they have no value to you.
To my understanding the cable tv network

1) wasn't on demand
2) there were competing cable networks not a single one sharing profits based on which production network's shows people watched
Trump: California's Ability to Set Its Own Emissions Standards Will Be Revoked
I think it could be. E.g. when making a low-cost consumer appliance. They must have had some idea of what they were building, enough to say that the upper bound on the number of buttons they need is N. This just creates a design constraint - they now have to figure out how to do something useful and ergonomic using no more than N buttons. The exact shape, form and placement of those buttons is orthogonal to the electronics and software part, so they didn't limit themselves there.

This is unusual to my taste, but thinking about it, I half expect cheap appliance and toy vendors to work like this - decide on a microchip, and only then figure out what to do with it and how.
Public transit is not viable in most of the US.
I think you nailed it! From the Wiki on 'Cargo cult programming' but I think 'programming' can be subbed out for anything.

> Cargo cult programming can also refer to the practice of applying a design pattern or coding style blindly without understanding the reasons behind that design principle.

> Cargo cult programming is typically symptomatic of a programmer not understanding either a bug they were attempting to solve or the apparent solution

> The term cargo cult programmer may apply when an unskilled or novice computer programmer (or one inexperienced with the problem at hand) copies some program code from one place to another with little or no understanding of how it works or whether it is required in its new position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
It's kinda sad because it's not as bad as real cigarettes, and makes quitting them a walk in the park for those that want to quit.
You are not the only one. "Says more about you then it..." blah, blah, blah. The fact is, Asciicker is not a word, is absolutely weird phonetically and asslicker is a close appearing viable compound word. Good for those so pure of mind they do not see it.
(I don't live in Colorodo)

But this rings true. My building has some sort of an arrangement with Comcast. It's only Comcast and AT&T that are there right now. They pretend to work with other ISPs I bring in but usually cite "something something safety" and prevent them from setting it up. I have given up for now since Comcast has got the price down to $50 for a 75Mbps line for me.

Point is, while I don't know how and can't confirm, I have a strong feeling that Comcast pays off landlords somehow.
I’m personally more the consumer type here at hacker news.
Leto is talking to Paul, and he is talking about either a region or a chemical process that is important for the production of film stock. then he sardonically says something like, (paraphrasing):

"Film stock is very important. we have the finest propaganda offices. The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?"

he means it sarcastically, but propaganda is important to keep useful people on the planet and to win the general populace over. Leto knows he's backed into a corner on Arrakis and he's focusing on what he can.

I also could only find the part i posted originally online, its not one of the more frequent quotes from the book.
My company Unwire in Copenhagen has committed to the digital strike today!
At least it's not too easy to transport electric energy long distances. Maybe this will mitigate the exploitation you are fearing.
That climate benefit from a carbon tax would only start indirectly helping the poor in decades, while a carbon tax is a direct immediate burden; and you can't just tell them to "take one for the team and wait it out" as that just ends up with them burning down your capital while wearing traffic vests. Using the carbon tax for regular infrastructure purposes is also a bad idea because when it is working it will go down overtime as the public optimizes their carbon use, as it should. Tying it to unrelated societal maintenance creates a pervasive incentive for the government to somehow force the continual use of carbon (probably through questionably legal means) while sustaining the tax in order to get income up.

And all this also avoids the core issue in actually deciding if the unpaid externalize of a unit of carbon is $200, $20, or $0.02; if you can't even get people to universally agree if there is a crisis in the first place than how on earth are you going to get them to agree on the monetary value of said crisis.
Bloomberg will move historic trading data to cloud
Run your own private CA and ACME server using step-ca
Can we have a search uniqueness tag, like 'GQL19'?

We have search terms, meta data keywords, urls, but no short optimized for humans search uniqueness tag?

Seems like there should be some standard or convention at least, given it could be opt-in. It would help any site or content that referenced the tag and anything that didn't would still work as well as usual.
You can also pretty easily use a web worker now, they work well. Here's [1] an example with React hooks.

Example fibonacci worker code that doesn't block the UI, even at larger calculations

const fib = n => (n < 2 ? n : fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2))

onmessage = msg => {
console.log('fibonacci worker onmessage', msg)
postMessage({ num: msg.data, result: fib(msg.data) })
}

[1] https://github.com/bharathnayak03/react-webworker-hook
Everyone's Putting Their Faces in the ImageNet Roulette App. Here's How It Works
It's not the norm, but I was once offered a job where if I declined health insurance they'd pay me the difference - it was a 4 person company.
One of the problems is that many of the medical devices on hospital networks have badly outdated software, that runs proprietary applications. There should be a better job done by vendors to clean that up, but no-one seems interested in supporting this once the sale is made.

Sometimes the IT staff simply have their hands tied, and network isolation is the best they can do, at least for medical devices.

Billing and file sharing vendors should on the other hand have active maintenance contracts to prevent exactly this.
Sign. India in the lead on this one and US lags behind.

I'm disappointed that with the big tobacco settlement (1998) they didn't start automatically raising the legal smoking every year by another year - and basically phase out tobacco forever.
On this particular one, probably only research code that tests various small scale optimization algorithms and tests ways to "calibrate" the hardware. In a couple of years, on the next gen of such hardware, the hope is to run things like optimization algorithms and chemistry simulations that just begin to outperform what is possible with classical hardware of reasonable size and cost.
I'm a life-long straight-edger who knows next to nothing about e-cigarettes except that it looks like they're much better nicotine-delivery systems which don't have the extra harmful stuff cigarettes have wrapped up, so please take all I say with multiple grains of salt.

IMO is a good decision. And I say this with full cynicism; I really don't care either way. I don't have many people in my circle who're smokers or vapers, and I've never done either, so I can't really relate.

I feel this is a good decision because:

- Cigarette and beedi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beedi) companies have been entrenched in this society for long, so they can battle things out for the existing products. Most people have started to wisen up to these though, so the effects on mass population are reducing day by day (education and those large images of cancer help). In e-cigarettes' case, getting something out before it becomes entrenched, is IMO, a good thing, however unpopular. It took so damn long for people to realize tobacco is dangerous. Better this info gets out quicker now, especially in a country like India where accurate and well-rounded information is hard to get.

- E-cigarettes still contain addictive nicotine. While the current war against normal cigs/bidis might be about the smoke and other stuff, the central hook is still an addictive substance. E-cigs have the potential to dial up delivery of this addictive stuff up to 10. This isn't good for most people.

- Say whatever you want about e-cigarettes. It's known that it's seen as a cool thing among kids, and the packaging is damn near perfect. a country could do better to avoid getting its future generations getting hooked up with a snazzy-looking thumb drive before realizing too late that their parents' money is now captive to fruit-flavored pods. I've noticed juul usage amongst teens in the US, and some seem hooked beyond repair (just like smokers are today).

I don't really care however this goes, I'm not going to be the one who'll be vaping or smoking or whatever so I don't have much of a stake in this (I don't even like the current politics either). But to me, getting something out of the picture before it becomes a huge issue might be a good idea (unless, like in Harry Potter parlance, where the best thing Umbridge did to make sure The Quibbler was read was banning it...)
Nobody, because it doesn't support JSON. I think you've misread the comment you're replying to.
Am starting to feel this trolling is an industry (like troll farm) of its own - there are people or bots dedicated to trolling and reporting people who raise voice against the discrimination.. I recently had to report an unfair service by virgin atlantic staff after an emergency landing - I tweeted the pictures and video of the incident.. I was immediately trolled by twitter accounts about how i should be happy that I am alive - I was complaining about how the staff handled the issues after the emergency landing .. wish the social media companies could raise voice against companies or countries that use their platform to discredit real concern - guess people do not matter anymore
This is good, myself being a no CS degree who worked as a lead in a high performance company, I appreciate if more of those can surface.

But I made a comment on another job board show hn that's relevant here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20973309

> What's the relationship with the employers? I find the main issue with job website that are posted here is that there is usually zero relationship.
Meaning it's mostly information copied from the career page of companies. That's why most these job boards disappear after a couple years.

> I suggest if you gather enough interest here today, use it to get actual connections with employers, even if it's a handful.
Currently finishing up a job search and I've gotten some disappointed looks and noticed some cooling of tone when its revealed that I have a humanities degree. It's not super common (maybe 1/5 interviews?) but it is deeply frustrating given that it's on my CV.
I can't figure out where some of these labels are supposed to come from. I uploaded a photo and got one label, "assenter" -- i.e., a person who assents; and another one, "psycholinquist". Does ImageNet actually have photos of human beings labelled "assenter" and "psycholinquist"?
As an American, I would say you've basically got it right (IMO). What is most troublesome to me is how easily and consistently these dynamics are exploited.

And I'm not just referring to the disinformation campaigns of the previous presidential election cycle. I'm referring to the longer term trend of "wedge issues" that have been used to distract and divide.

For example, You can take a group of people who might be fairly homogenous in terms of, say, opposition to the U.S. military "adventures" around the world, but are very easily divide and distract them with abortion, guns, etc., thereby preserving the status quo with respect to the military issue.
Not saying everyone does it, but wanting to show your chart in a web page isn't particularly unusual.
Does it matter? This is about vapes. Pointing at something else that is harmful and saying "What about this though", is unhelpful and lazy.
Which documents?
Communism was such a disaster you can barely tell whether its genocides were intentional!
> then not having to go through the first 1-8 set will save you a tremendous amount of time...

Well, not quite. If you allow say capital letters and numbers only (36 different characters), and you have to go through all 9 and 10 character passwords, skipping the first set of 1 to 8 character passwords saves you less than 0.1% of the work, if my rough back-of-the-envelope calculation is correct.

That was precisely what my statement was about - longer passwords are just so much better.

(Note that this assumes that the cost of computing the hash is by and large independent of the length of the password, which is a very good assumption for the lengths we are talking about here).
New Mexico Announces Free College for Residents
> As of July 2017, Columbia River Basin hydropower dams have a total nameplate capacity of 34,318 megawatts and produce, on average, 16,254 megawatts of electricity. This is 54.4 percent of the total generating capacity and 55.7 percent of the total average annual energy produced in the Northwest electricity supply.[1]

There are also 7 hydro dams on the Snake [2]. I don't see anyone removing them any time soon, without first replacing these major power sources the northwest depends on.

[1] https://www.nwcouncil.org/reports/columbia-river-history/dam...

[2] http://www.cbr.washington.edu/hydro
Joe Rogan Experience #1350 – Nick Bostrom
How stupid of me not to spot this ...
Constrains end user capabilities. Harder to live stream or heavily use something like Dropbox with under 5Mbps up.
There's much more evidence for fast food being bad for your health, and we're not up in arms about that one (collectively). I'm not _for_ vaping, necessarily -- and I don't like it in public: I'm for smoking in general to be banned from public spaces because of the way it affects other people -- but if you want to choose that in your own house, go for it.
That's rich considering their literal rivers of garbage.
Was super confused by the name (was reading it as Noc Sok) until I clicked through to the about page which formats it as "No CS OK".
Fridays for Future: Tutanota joins the climate demonstrations
How much do you spend on recruiting? Genuine question. I was told to price it at that by someone who is a self-taught developer at a fairly small company in America and he said even that was cheap.
This is what this article says to me. A poorly researched piece.

I'm not unsympathetic to the need to run computing from renewable energy, but this article seems like a stretch, especially when it tries to link in government surveillance, etc.
How Much Is Your Privacy Worth?
It will be simpler to just take that reference out of the title.
If you earned that grade honestly a few ideas may stay with you for your entire life and that may change your life, even if imperceptibly. Anything you study has the potential to make you a better, more well rounded, knowledgeable and less ignorant person.
And I’m sure that everyone who currently uses e-cigarettes in those countries will simply shake their heads and give up the habit. Which history clearly shows is what happens when we ban a substance. Right?

Yeah....

Not only is there vanishingly little “evidence” that e-cigarettes are harmful to health, most of the evidence we do have is for knock-off street THC or cheap Chinese juice. That’s hardly a logical reason to ban e-cigarettes entirely. Especially given the fact that many of these people will go back to smoking real cigarettes.
Not when they're directly related to each other.
Same with alcohol and caffeine and addictive prescription drugs.
It's a legal requirement to give you money when you say they should give you money? You do not really expect me to believe that, do you?
We don't know what Eich supports or opposes, all we know is that he contributed money to a campaign to oppose a particular law. Maybe he thought the law was unconstitutional or that, as written, it would cause more harm than good.

And even if he were opposed to gay marriage, if you cannot imagine how someone can philosophically oppose something, even if they are wrong, and yet still practice tolerance for that thing in their own life, then you cannot be reasoned with and should probably delete your account.
Fair enough, various forms of interval training have been commonly used to condition for endurance sports all the way back to the 1950’s. It’s all about building aerobic capacity via anaerobic exercise.

But, the current spike is probably going to go away.
Steal is correct. Pirates steal.
How would one look "at things integrally from a systemic point of view" in the case of gun laws?
Yeah, I have to be honest. If you've taught yourself to code whilst working as a waitress you are going to be motivated like hell!
Real-Time Flu Tracking
Most of the DICOM providers I've worked with assume that the clinic will be handling security, as the images are stored on a local DICOM server, though lately there's been much more emphasis on setting up a VPN between the clinic and the PACS/DICOM provider's cloud-based system.
So are you saying that all of the media streaming companies are wasting money creating mobile apps based on the "people you know"? Is the whole industry under the delusion that their apps are needed? Should they focus on just “people you know” or the entire mobile market?
Which other risky activities should be banned? American football? Alcohol? Unsustainable consumption of natural resources?

I don't see a need to ban things that don't hurt others. I'd rather plow more resources into educating members of society of the consequences of their actions.

Edit: I was under the impression that e-cigs don't produce second hand smoke harmful to others like old cigarettes, but if they do then I would change my position. I was under the impression e-cigs are harmful to their users only.
Ah, I forgot his HN handle is idlewords and not pinboard.
A layered grammar of graphics [pdf]
not to mention alcohol
It matters because, if the law drives people to smoking tobacco then this could have a net-negative health effect.
Obligatory link to the emails:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...

Read them first.

There really wasn't anything remotely like what the press seems to be focusing on in there if you take the comments in context.
It classified Sam Smith as a rape suspect when his head is cropped, but the full image classifies him as a non-smoker... poor Sam.

Prediction: https://imgur.com/a/KooOsjR
Source: https://imgur.com/a/htjSKnB

Prediction: https://imgur.com/a/wvIpEnC
Source: https://imgur.com/a/QPRyjh2
Similar niche job boards charge many multiples of $99 to list an open position.
What is a "regular" developer then?
Congrats Fort Collins!

The only other successful municipal broadband offering I'm aware of it Chatanooga, TN which is sited regularly when discussing municipal broadband. So its nice to have two examples to hold up to other municipalities considering similar.

I hope the Fort Collins rollout receives the attention it deserves and perhaps inspires other municipalities to take the same initiative.

Kudos to everyone who got this done!
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