skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, scientific publishers represent institutionalised theft of tax payer money:

- Academics (most often publicly funded via grants and university salaries) do the work for free.

- They are expected to learn to use LaTeX and to typeset their work for free.

- They are expected to copy-edit the papers for free, or else pay a copy editor themselves with, you guessed it, public funds.

- Volunteer Academics (on university time and therefore, again, public money) are expected to review the work for technical accuracy and novelty. If done well this is extremely time consuming.

- Finally, the Journals have the temerity to charge the same universities who produce their product millions of pounds a year in journal subscriptions and Open Access fees.

- Finally finally, none of the Authors are ever paid for their work. Not that it matters, because again: public funding should mean public access.

The most frustrating part is that Academics themselves are locked into this system by the career prospects conferred by prestigious journals/conferences.

I’m not normally one for beating the “nationalise them” drum, but if there has ever been a case for businesses to be dismantled and put in public hands it’s these parasites.

Sincerely, a Scientist :-)
America used to be the free of autocrats but is now run by a faux fascist who is openly jealous of other dictators around the world. What a time to be American. I guess I’ll have my chance to make a change in November of next year. Until then it’s shame all the way down.
Technically, the authors are allowed to send you copies if you contact them directly.

Can't we outsource that to a service so authors can work on more important stuff?
Other than dual-booting Android on the iPhone, I fail to see any other credibly useful reason to run the Linux kernel or some Linux distro on an iDevice.

To each to their own I guess.
The question "Why do you want to work for our company" can always be answered with "I want to work with great coworkers and I've heard you have really great people here" no matter what company it is.
High Output Management is required reading at my startup. But so is Horowitz's book [0], which I think is actually better.

[0]: https://smile.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp...
My two cents:

> He warned of the dangers of the use of artificial intelligence “to circulate tendentious opinions and false data that could poison public debates and even manipulate the opinions of millions of people, to the point of endangering the very institutions that guarantee peaceful civil coexistence”.

The current relation between AI and opinion manipulation is actually more nuanced than what I think the Pope perceives. On the one hand, large companies use algorithms (some falling under AI) to shape conversations on their platform, and do so with intentions that cannot easily be called immoral. On the other hand, the primary purveyors of manipulative content that weaken civil society exploit the algorithms in ways their design did not anticipate or intend.

Example: FB's algorithm for surfacing content is not clearly immoral, but malicious groups SEO content that is harmful to civil society when deployed large-scale, so that the content is deployed large-scale on the platform.

Edit, addendum:

I think the Pope's understanding of the relationship between AI and manipulative content is influenced by the news cycle's reporting on matters such as GPT-2, deepfakes, Musk's wild claims about AI. My understanding is that AI being used for clearly immoral ends is not widespread in SV companies.

On the other hand, reporting on Xinjiang frequently describes facial recognition and other AI technologies being used to surveil, discipline, control and punish the lives of minorities there. If there is a current and successful user of AI technologies for clearly immoral ends, that would be the PRC in West China. If there should be an audience to which technological advances enables

> a new “form of barbarism” where the law of the strongest prevails over the common good

it would be to the PRC.
This seems reasonable, though the administration is likely doing it for the wrong reasons. Genuine question: Is sentiment more important than correctness, or is the opposite true?
Ah! Yes! That's much more accurate. I couldn't edit the post, but edited the API description. Thanks for the feedback!
This highlights something most devs don't understand. Product development is about developing a product not about writing code. All the choices we make should facilitate making a good product, writing good code is a side effect.

In this metaphor the colour of the wall is equivalent to the product. The code is equivalent to whether the painters used brushes, pads or rollers or whether they used ladders or scaffolding - the customers do not care.

By asking why choose php you are asking why use rollers to paint.
Would that just mean the securities will just trade on pink sheets? Or would it be more likely that trading would migrate to a stock exchange in another country?
You remember correctly.

https://nccih.nih.gov/health/colloidalsilver
> If you want equivalent costs to the rest of the world, expect the US expectation of care, turnaround time, and time-to-service to decrease drastically.

I'm a Canadian that moved to the US. My wife has bilateral hip dysplasia. One side was corrected in Canada, and the other side was corrected after we moved to the US. We have great health insurance here

In both instances, wait time for appointments and surgery was the same, standard of care was actually better in Canada, she had a team of orthopedic surgeons vs in the US she had one surgeon and a handful of nurses and so forth.

But the US hospital had a better food menu, so there's that I guess...
I'm not sure the point is expression per se, or always being emotional, but rather being okay with introspecting on emotions when they do come up and more to the point, what's causing them.

I'd compare it to a tooth abscess. It's not like it's so painful you need to scream. It's just kind of there, occasionally causing problems. But if it goes untreated long enough, the bacteria in it can kill you. There are some parallels there with loneliness, which a lot of men suffer from.

So I'd say this is more the realization that "Oh, this pain is because of this source. I'm gonna go deal with that source." The process of dealing might involve making your emotions known (such as when breaking up).

Of course, if you're legitimately not in any kind of pain, then great. But most people are, in one form or another.
I really don't know if it's open to the public or not but windguru definitely has the dataset that you described. You might want to contact them to figure it out :)
The way I see it the user agent string is just a way of telling bad actors what exploits are going to work on your device -- google chrome gives away your phone's maker and model without a thought.
Open publication generally mean you have to pay even more to get it published.

Thanks god more people are using arxiv.
I always knew I was building a cool thing. And a MMO by one guy is a hard sell until it is finished and amazing looking. People have always been supportive, they just don't post on my blog much.
A business like this that doesn't really rely on technology would be far better run if it was helmed by MBAs with operational experience.

This entire business is basically a gigantic spreadsheet where you move things around to optimize profitability. Believing that this is a "tech" startup is where you start to fail.

I see so many businesses fail to make this distinction.

Stripe is a tech company, as is Boston Dynamics. But Wag is a tech leveraged business.
Ask HN: Hiring contractors vs. Employees for remote teams
I'm building a product - https://www.carrom.io - Payroll and compliance for remote teams.

I'm trying to understand how many people want to hire full-time employees over contractors for their remote teams? And not doing it because it is hard?
Im sorry but just reading this almost feels like an April Fools joke, except sadly its September
Semi-related question: Do you still take the "original title" rule seriously, and if yes, what's a good way to refer articles that don't follow it? For example this popular post from yesterday doesn't have the original title or anything close to (or better than) it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082757
> responsibility of 1000's of people's livelihood,

There are plenty of workers for whom responsibility for other people's lives is a lot more literal than paying wages. Nurses, police officers, even teachers fall into this category, yet somehow we don't see reason to pay them magnitudes more than software developers.

In fact, many of them have much more education and a more qualified at their respective line of work than the average bootcamped software developer. Wages are mostly cultural, not some intrinsic value of work. Aliens would probably find this system one of stranger parts of human culture.
That is absolutely not true. Do you think mothers, sisters, friends, etc. can't be capable of concern for the "moral well being" (for the lack for a better word)?

You don't have to be that conservative to find it at least a little uncomfortable or grimy. I'm not saying that should be the basis of law, but you must understand there's generally stigma associated.
> If one of your strongly held beliefs is "spaces over tabs" and you think that belief is information that has sway in the interview AND you take the advice to not reveal the information, then how are you not misrepresenting yourself?

In your example, yes, you would be misrepresenting yourself. But the OP's example is different. Anyone who believes strongly in "spaces over tabs" would/should also know how many silly unproductive flame wars they've started, and also how there may be reasonable arguments on either side. If you do indeed believe strongly in something, then by all means go ahead and say it. But you'd better be able to talk about it intelligently and have considered both sides of the argument. If you're not as educated on the subject, then it's probably not the best idea to wade into the subject during an interview.

That's all this is. Just know your own positions relative to others.
I don’t know much about this topic, but I would guess that it’s the structure of society doing most of the coercing in most cases. Which the government has at least some power to fix via improved social safety net programs.
It is, but it is also leading to tremendous inequality. My monthly income is the same as the annual income of the teacher who taught me maths in school. I don't really think I offer enough value to society to be paid that much more.
This site already does a very good job of that:

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/

(I prefer it to SciHub as you can search by keyword or author, or browse issues of journals etc, but I think the same papers are available–almost everything.)
Emmmm, this is crazy. Capital will find its way just not through US exchange
Sonic the hedgehog is also blue.
She single-handedly fulfilled one important part of Google's mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." A part that a company like Google could never fulfill itself.
Tried on Android 9, installed the VPN and turned on "always-on" mode and "disallow non-VPN connections". Telegram and Instagram stopped to work, so I uninstalled.
> This seems reasonable

Does it? The U.S went to wars, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to force open markets to its products, it has been preaching the free market mantra for decades. Regardless of everything else about China, they're now starting to make some actually compelling products so the U.S is acting out.

I know the argument is that Chinese companies are just an extension of the state, but you could say the same in reverse about the U.S.

I just assumed it's going to be more subtle than this, as an EU citizen, this sends a clear signal to me that the EU is only an 'ally' as long as it keeps buying American products.
Ok, now WH is exploring all creative (and unprecedented) ways to fight against China. I have to say this seems to have crossed a lot of boundaries, either clear or vague ones.

And we've also seen WH is doing similar things (though at a different degree) to close partners like Mexico.

So let's extrapolate, if there're some conflicts in interests between US and major NATO countries, will WH do the same thing? Make America great again even no one wants to talk to US?
Max of 3 apps at a time, side loaded apps expire after 7 days, sideloaded apps also have limitations on what they can / can’t do.
I would it expect to work a bit like Anki.

Why would I get many emails?

I would get an email in the morning with today's questions (or one email per question), and I'd reply "easy", "normal", "hard".

That's all that's needed. Timing is unnecessary.
The London stock exchange would be an obvious candidate.
> Frankly, scientific publishers represent institutionalised theft of tax payer money ...

All the issues you raise are only slightly problematic. If scientists need to typeset their own research papers or volunteer for peer review are minor compared to the real problem that people can't read tax payer funded research.
Those are things humans do to other humans, it's not the emptyness of space, the harsh reality of the universe, doing that to us. To "stand guard" at the edge of humanity as if to ward of some outside intrusion of evil just doesn't make sense. There is still plenty of suffering to be had even if all humans were excellent to each other, but that would take so much bite out of it.
Sadly they fulfil it in the most restrictive manner: google scholar is given access to every publication, in order to advertise their paywalls
Kobalt’s edge in changing the music industry
> I know the argument is that Chinese companies are just an extension of the state, but you could say the same in reverse about the U.S

What
Are there US companies that are listed on mainland Chinese exchanges?
> Choosing pretty fonts, promoting good stylistic standards

I m sorry their standards can be crazy nitpicky and huge time wasters. Some uniformity is desireable, but their guidelines span tens of pages.
I wonder if a religious education resulting in some positive effects might be akin to the "any diet is effective" thing, i.e. it's not the specific upbringing as much as being exposed to _any_ moral thinking in general.

I don't mean to imply that there aren't moral a-religious educators of course, just that it seems likely to have less discussion of ethics for any kid once the temple/church/mosque/whatever is removed.
Sentient: a high-level, declarative programming language
The problem is how fast and how frequently can you get that information back to the one more nodes making load balancing decisions? The local measurements, no matter the mechanism of collection, are usually the easiest/fastest part.
I disagree with the "always typedef structs" part. Personally I often find it nicer to have the "struct" there as part of the name. Partly because people sometimes typedef a pointer to the underlying struct type, and that can cause some issues.

The part about the author's take on RAII is interesting, but it would really merit a separate post with code examples.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange offered to buy LSE recently. I wonder if these are connected.
I've thrown out the TV years (it'll be decades soon!) ago, so I don't know whether the local TV channel in the metro area where I live is doing something, but from what I remember when I still had one, they did not. And I get it too, the costs to provide hyper local coverage would be immense. Maybe there's a chance for a mix of citizen journalism with more polished & professional distribution.
The Nordic model stops the law abiding customers. It doesn't stop demand, it just leaves the only customers being the abusers and actual criminals, those with no qualms about illegality.

And there is never, ever, ever a UBI or "retraining"/"back to the workforce" program paired with this to get them out of SW.

The Nordic model is at best ineffective virtue signalling and at worst actively increasing the danger SWers are exposed to.
Yeah, I certainly wouldn't start at that end.

A useful metric for "load" is just as hard as doing the load balancing itself.

Requests can be vastly different, unless you have only one application they're also constantly changing and there are more load balancers involved (both horizontally and vertically as a single request can pass multiple). There are also numerous failure conditions under which responses are very fast.

In that situation it's easier to design for an even spread, then work to improve that metric as much as possible as more information becomes available.
That's arguably one of the worst things about rape. Your body can betray you.
Is it just me, or is this article talking about load balancing, not sharding. My understanding of "sharding" is to split up a database into groups, either by time or by some index key (e.g., A-C on one shard, D-G on another, etc.). This article seems to be about splitting up web traffic, not sharding.
Can VR exercises improve my -6,5 vision? See results on 10/10/2019
If I receive a warning, I need to find out what it means.

If my primary device is the one displaying the warning, the only way I can find out what it means is to dismiss the warning and then 1) google it or 2) ask someone.

1) doesn't tend to happen outside of the tech bubble. 2) happens way way later, if it happens at all, as the odds of someone you can ask being around when it happens is slim. And more importantly, you need to make a phone call / check your email / do something with social media which is more important than the warning, as the warning can be dismissed and life can go on.

Odds are you forget about it entirely, and remember weeks later to ask a friend about somethingsomething boot warning insecure and then hand over your phone to them to have a look, at which point your friend loses their mind over what's happened, while the phone owner remains unconvinced it's really an issue since everything is still working correctly, and refuses to let their friend rebuild their phone for them as it'll take too long.

Source: happened to my friend's android phone. they still wont let me fix it.
The growing confrontation between the West and China seems to me to boil down to a philosophical problem:

- Should free markets/societies/cultural entities allow participation by all actors, even those which (in their own spaces) obviously don't play by the rules of the entered market/society/culture?

- Or, should entry into the entity be restricted to those that themselves (in their own space) follow the rules of the entered culture?

It seems to me that there are definite advantages and disadvantages to both approaches and it's probably something that game theorists have addressed. To use a convoluted, over-simplified metaphor of a playground:

- If we allow kids (that have different rules in their own playground) into our playground, we run the risk of their rules overcoming or having a negative effect on ours. We also enable them to play with us while having "bad" rules on their own playground - some of which might give them an (unfair) advantage over us on our own playground. However, we get the benefits of having more kids and toys to play with. And, maybe the kids will choose our rules (which we perceive as better) over their own.

- If we don't allow them into our playground, we have less kids and toys to play with. We also have no real direct influence on them - they can't see that our rules are better in person, and we can't threaten to kick them out of our playground if they aren't in it to begin with. However, we avoid the risk of having their rules overwhelm ours and we worry less about them having unfair advantages over us on our own playground.
I'm guessing that Chinese companies are somewhat similar to statutory companies. I've heard that large Chinese companies have strong CCP oversight, with a party member involved that the CEO/founder has to defer to.

So the question is - does it make sense for not-actually-public-companies from other countries to be listed on the U.S. stock exchange? It could be potentially misleading otherwise.
Insurers are absolutely villains (But not the only villains in this game). They are the reason that hospitals have such bloated billing departments, and who gets to pay for all that? Well, I, as the patient, do.
As did I. I used this a lot at university and learned a lot from its solid network of users.
The US state being an extension of US companies, thanks to all the lobbying, collusion and some underhanded moves.
My parents and their parents again did it. I don't know what you're talking about.
Thanks! That’s an absolutely fantastic description which clears up several of my misconceptions.
To be fair google scholar lists arxiv preprints as well if available.
Wow, predictable HN snark from a jerk. Someone releases something beautiful artistic creative and free and you have to heap shit all over it. That says great things about you. No compliment, no appreciation. Just come here to make fun. Guess you got triggered by the creativity so you have to make yourself feel better by diminishing it, huh?
Oh boy, this thread needs to be locked down. All the conversation has turned into political short outbursts and I only see one comment actually remotely talking about the topic.

Even the thread title is not what the article headline is. Maybe the title is at fault for off-topic conversations.
(rant)

Startup idea: take away home assignments for a fee. You send us your code assignment we make it for you. We also provide you with code highlights so you can understand the code and architecture faster and have something to talk about on the onsite.

Most of the work is not done by us but by "volunteers" .

Who are these "volunteers" ?

Desperate engineers looking for a role, who are thinking that our fake company is really wanting to hire them.

We also get in touch with hiring managers and convince them to send take away assignments in order to increase our market.

(/rant)

I don't like code assignments because they can easily be abused by both companies and candidates and regardless of my opinion on it I think Firebase is awesome. I was an early adopter before you got adquired by Google.
Probably correct, however from a user perspective it’s much more convenient to charge when parked overnight or at work. Installing an ordinary AC charger is quite cheap, and the goal should be to have lots of these, to make EVs more practical then fossil fuel cars.
They are running rival concentration camps, I can't imagine the competition is welcome.
Funny, I visited a doctor while in Barcelona, it was a much nicer experience than any of my recent experiences with US doctors, I was able to get in same-day with something not particularly urgent, and it was a $50 CC swipe at the door. My friend’s mom broke her hip in Italy, and she was extremely well taken care of. I guess I just don’t see where they’re failing at standard of care.
The mistake in your reasoning is that the employer would be looking for the most skilled candidate only. Personal traits are as important or more important. Being an introvert is a personal trait like any other and it can be a strength or weakness depending on the team and position. It’s not somehow irrelevant to the ability to perform a job in a team.
That's basically what ResearchGate tried to do, you upload your pdfs and then get an email saying "Joe Bloggs has requested your article", you can then click accept and they get sent a download link for your paper.

Unfortunately they tried turning it into a linkedin and stackoverflow for scientists and it seems like a bit of a mess.
In Norway McDonalds have chargers in many locations already (and significantly more EVs than Sweden)