skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for cleaning up the data: I don't think that's a large task. Whatever is published now has either been cleaned or is just as problematic from a legal standpoint (possibly more so because it's shared publicly, not shared with a contractually obligated third party).

You're probably right though regarding "not doing anything isn't doing something wrong". But still, saving lots of computing resources, get good PR and friendly news coverage, that has to be worth something.
Has anyone made a syntax converter for COBOL to make it read like C-style language? At the very least, it would be trivial to make a macro to get rid of the magic column numbers.
What's high quality depends on your requirements and usage. But, for example, you can use a Feistel construction to generate a random, non-repeating sequence that is as unpredictable as the mixing function. I've used this technique instead of a Fisher–Yates shuffle, trading higher CPU for lower space, for generating 16-bit DNS QIDs.
How does this work? How are all the drones capable of locating themselves in space with such precision? Anybody have any information on this?
That resume is something else.
Let me guess: you have never programmed in Haskell?
I'm really surprised to see so huge amount of misunderstanding of basic Bitcoin principles here on HN. These things were discussed 10 years ago. The Bitcoin Core team cannot change rules just like that, they are not the central bank of Bitcoin, while the elected group of economists have done that a couple of times before just to save their own asses. Talk about accountability...
Every thread.... Absolutely. I'll have to set aside some extra time, but if that's what you want, every thread. Coming right up.
This (primarily American) attitude to encodings is why we're in this situation.
That chart you linked states in the middle that 1 flight from NY to LA equals 3 chest x-rays.

Don't know how you did your math.

If NY to LA is 3 chest x-rays, imagine 3x as long at a higher altitude and higher latitude.
Compression is best applied to data, not humans
https://www.wired.com/2013/09/vintage-voyager-probes/

"Practically all of Voyager's redundancy is gone now, either because something broke along the way or it was turned off to conserve power. Of the 11 original instruments on Voyager 1, only five remain"

Though I did wonder if they updated the firmware/code in all this time and als no definitive answer stood out: https://www.quora.com/Was-the-opportunity-to-update-the-Voya...
Of course not. You have to learn how the type system works to get it.
There is a tremendous book called "Where are all the customers' yachts?" on how the middlemen used to be the people making all the money: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Customers-Yachts-Street-Investment-...

Very rarely have individual investors from the "masses" done well out of the markets. If they did, they were usually upper-middle-class to start with. Until the 80s and the internet age there were distinct barriers to entry. What did happen was fund investment, at one remove - especially pensions, but also products like life assurance and annuities. The funds are one of the groups deploying machine learning now.

> if we want a stock market that has any resemblance of fairness and democratic influence on the economy?

I'm not sure that's the correct place to deploy the fairness levers against overall economic inequality. We come back to the need for a wealth tax to address dangerously large concentrations of capital destabilising the economy like cargo shifting in a plane.
https://github.com/easylist/easylist/pull/1855

The PR to add the site to EasyList never went through, it currently isn't in EasyList and never was.
I really like the photos. It reminds me of the internet how I remember it before it was taken over by the mono-culture of social media. Where blogs was a means of personal expression. She (I assume) doesn't care if the photos turns a few people away, because that's the way she choose to write the blog post.

I miss people just expressing who they are with all their quirks and originality. I feel that the internet is too bland these days. Or maybe I should just stop frequenting medium.com....
It's actually common enough in Japan that they have a word for it. And if you start to type "Japanese word for dying..." you get auto suggestions of "of overwork" and "at your desk," among others.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-karoshi-japanese-wor...

(Which I not commentary on the article under discussion per se. Please don't infer such.)

(Edited for clarity.)
I could not care less about how hard is to repair them as long as they do not need the repair. The only repair I had to do in 13 years of owning Apple products wast to replace the battery on my 2015 MB Pro. Now it is like a new.
>I have a hard time thinking that wheat and barley are that addictive

Suggest to a few people that their inability to lose weight could be due to a low-grade gluten intolerance, and I predict you'll start to believe it fairly quickly. I try not to evangelize anyway, but dang people get defensive around their carbs.
Also technically correct.
Amazon actively, proactively, and reactively busts all forms of labor organization, including unions.

Hourly wage workers do not have the time, or runway to protest.

The deaths are only witnessed by a handful of workers, as their zones are spread very far out in these enormous warehouses. Word of mouth flows very slowly as a result.

During their shifts, workers are lonely and interact with more robots than other humans.
Fermat's little theorem: a visual exploration
An occasional random death at work is statistically inevitable. Six deaths in as many months is something else.

A week before Billy Foister died of a heart attack, he went to the onsite clinic complaining of chest pains. They said he was dehydrated and told him to drink some water and go back to work. The article links to the NCOSH Dirty Dozen report, which describes a well-documented history of Amazon mistreating sick and injured employees. http://nationalcosh.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2019_Dir...

Don't write this off as a series of unfortunate coincidences.
Between the costs of health care and the general indebtedness of many, risking your job in that way is a tough sell, especially since it would only be effective in large numbers.

I also suspect that if you’re working in a hellish warehouse, it’s probably more of act of desperation than a career choice.
It would be great to add links to "RealmDB" and "GraphQL" for the uninitiated. (I have no idea what this project is about.)
Phone-based VR is officially over
If I remember correctly, stack overflow is CC BY-SA, so were we to make a new site we could just migrate large portions of the existing content.
Yes, I know many nice algorithms with "high quality" properties. My question is about actual implementations: is there a canonical github repo that everybody is using for this need, or I have to write or adapt the code myself?
Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it seems like Mozilla plans to remove custom search engines from Firefox, except through WebExtensions. So you won't be able to go to a site and easily install a search engine for it. The site author has to build a web extension and submit it to the firefox addon site.
Mutant receptor reduces sleep duration with preserved memory consolidation
> In most cases, this is actually done to create feed crops like soy and corn.

Soy and corn, particularly corn, have many uses beyond animal feed.

> Most of the agricultural fields in the world are used to feed animals either used for slaughter or for dairy and not to feed people directly.

Please support that statement.
If CCG's like Magic: The Gathering is not gambling then I cannot fathom how loot boxes are.

With loot boxes you cannot cash out. That changes the dynamic completely, in my opinion.

When one gambles you put in a small amount of money in the hopes of getting out something of greater value. If that value is perma-locked in a video game, non-transferable, non-redeemable, then I don't buy that it is gambling.

At least with MTG you would pay for a pack, maybe get a rare card worth some money and you could sell it / trade it and get monetary value for your "gamble"
> I question the well-being of anybody who subjects themselves to the pain and torture that is Haskell.

I question the well-being of anybody who refuse to learn anything that is hard to learn. Learning is like body building. No pain no gain.
Careful. Chanterelles has 2 lookalikes, one is poisonous (Jack o lantern)
Road Accident Fund Claims
Discussion of this on /r/machinelearning:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/dj5psh/n_n...
It's true that I lack a good understanding of religious thinking, thank you for helping out there.

> That is all true even if there were nobody listening because they believe it to be true.

I absolutely agree, whatever contributes to the patient's positive attitude helps. As does the involvement of friends and family. This is why I felt that I shouldn't criticize the perception of the overall effect so much, because I do agree that there is a positive mechanism at work here.

It is with the metaphysical aspects themselves where I have trouble, and in a sense that's how this whole thread got started because it seems a stark contradiction.

But coming back to your explanation, I agree, if your god wants to see signs of compliance from you and your social circle, it does stand to reason that people would believe this would cause him to intercede in the universe's processes in order to spare your life when he would not have seen the necessity to do so before.

SuoDuanDao's point then was that the idea that your god would change his mind on account of prayers is not theologically bankrupt (in hindsight this was a very poor choice of words by me) because it works. My thesis however, was that even if prayer works that doesn't mean the specific reasoning behind it is automatically valid.
I would love to know if this is cheaper than fireworks for municipal displays.
> I have taught both Haskell and Java and there is no comparision in difficulty.

Interesting. How much real world experience did you have with both languages before teaching it?
I wonder whether exclusivity contracts are really ever positive. It seems like their very nature is anti-competition. From exclusive ISP contracts to non compete agreements they end up essentially made to be abused.
If atoms in star A and star B are moving in opposition - away and towards one other in a steady-state oscillation - this would cause destructive interference between the emitted photons. No energy will be exchanged and they will be blind to one another.

If the atoms of stars A and C are moving back and forth synchronously in the same direction at the same time, the photons they emit will add constructively and they will see one another.

If you want to, you can make stars A and C stationary and just let star B vibrate. The result is the same.
ReactNative for Windows uses WinUI and XAML Islands, which is UWP, aka COM.

I really don't know what kind of COM you have been writing, because COM from VCL, MFC, ATL, UWP, Delphi, .NET surely doesn't fulfill that description.

As for what COM is good for,

"Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming"

https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Object-Oriented-Pr...
Of course economy. Environment is just one of the externalities. Also, environmental issues are mostly just a pretext for geopolitics right? Say, real deal about global warming isn't saving some turtles or some Pacific islands from sinking, but crippling bad guys such as Russians and Arabs who export oil, right? It's a way of putting liberals, unknowable to them, in the same directions as conservatives are.
Having worked with the committer, I can tell you that he’s definitely a native English speaker.
> That implies the philosophical concept of morality.

Not seeing how it could even possibly be considered philosophical, but okay...

And sure thing.

Consider that me casting said first stone... :)
Do a string search for "APL" in this webpage then: https://www.simcorp.com/en/career/product-development

(A friend of mine worked for www.apl.it which was later bought by simcorp.com - the original company worked on actuarial models for insurances and funds).
Qatar to Abolish ‘Kafala’ Labour Next January Before 2022 World Cup
>And we have it too via lactose intolerance, which is normal.

Globally seen yes. Locally it depends. Living in i.e Europe and having lactose intolerance is not normal.
The `randombytes_deterministic()` function from libsodium or libhydrogen does exactly what the name suggests.
I think this applies to some companies and not others. In my personal experience, if you aren't interviewing for an exact role and you don't speak with the manager you'll be working under before going on site, you're going to have to impress random people in the room and convince them that you're some kind of superstar.
And yet it pretty much works.
I don’t mean to be hostile, I just want to make it clear that it is wrong to say “DoT is end-to-end” and wrong to say “there is an RFC for authoritative servers running DoT”. It might possibly happen at some point in the future but there is a lot of work still to do before then.
The photos really creeped me out. I like ice cream too, but sometimes there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
So you can lie as much as you want as long as your agenda is justified? That is why I am saying stick to facts and do not resort to slogans.
Cointelegraph Banned in Russia
Isn't one of the core characteristics of a NSL that you can't tell us?

It's also not the only attack model; it serves only as an example of the sort of power Five Eyes has within the five nations they wouldn't necessarily have in Iceland.

Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Colocating in Russia comes with its own issues.
> I'm not familiar with any agency by the name of OHS.

Sorry, I'm not American, assumed you'd figure it out from context. And you can frame it how you would - either way it's rules about what's safe and not.

> First of all, 'time off' isn't a thing for many people. Many people are unemployed, so time off costs them nothing.

Sweet, so now we're giving unemployed desperate people a couple grand.

> Secondly, obviously the person purchasing the kidney would cover all aspects of care related to the operation.

How is this guaranteed? If this becomes a buyers market, what's stopping the buyer from saying they won't cover it? Are you suggesting government regulations as such, or hoping that the free-market capitalism of organ trading will do it just because they are decent people?
> You could have the project finished quickier in Javascript. Would you disagree?

That very much depends on the project (I have a lot of experience with Javascript, Typescript and Haskell).
Hidden characters again. The answer on stack overflow I am the most proud: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41061400/perl-join-strin...
Well I know they never tell you we don't have any. which would be the truth most of the time.
How about Deep Dive?
as easy as riding a bike
>> Same here. Why is documentation standard so low?

Because those who control resources make a conscious decision to prioritize new features and/or bug fixes rather than documenting what exists already.
I've been trying to get my head around a particular Swagger project. Here is a funny email exchange from my request for documentation:

...
Hi, I reaching out to to ask if I could get my hands on some documentation because the API is somewhat a black box to me.

...
The api documentation for [product] can be found here: https://api.[product].com/

...
Sorry. That's not what I mean by "documentation". It's certainly non-linear. I don't know how to "read" this site to gain an understanding. It's kinda sparse:

GET /v2/adjustments > Implementation Notes: Fetches a list of adjustments.

GET /v2/reportCategories > Implementation Notes: Fetches a list of report categories.

...
Hm, I think swagger documentation is pretty standard among APIs I've worked with before. I'm pretty sure it's all they have.

...
"Swagger Documentation" is a special class of documentation for sure; Nobody likes writing documentation.

Talk about insider (them)/outsider (me).
Let’s hope the SaaS issue tracker you’re currently using never goes out of business or changes the product in a way that makes it worse for you. Or, if you host your own, that it keeps you satisfied in perpetuity.

Referring to the issue ID in the commit message is a fine practice in addition to writing good, comprehensive commit messages. Commit messages that consists only of an issue ID are – in my experience – utterly frustrating to deal with. They tell you nothing more than this change is somehow related to this or that bug or feature, but not how or why.
It's the ice cream, not the woman. Why so much ice cream? It's creepy.
Fifteen Years of Google Books
A voice of reason. There is no point to having machines that have to stay up at all costs. You didn't design something correctly.

I use Kubernetes every day and the cluster we're on is not the most reliable and yet, because of Kafka and how pods in K8s restart themselves, we have yet to lose any data or fall behind in our process because we designed it to be resilient to failure. It's sad, but that is our reality.

Clearly Voyager could not accomplish that with its packaging, so it is that much more impressive.
Git is particularly poor in scenarios such as two people working on the same branch. SVN handles this with ease, but with Git it takes a lot of coordination amongst both contributors to keep things working.
A 3-Step Plan for Taking Advantage of Rejection
Commander X16: Philosophy and Specification
You can add two new columns to your Kanban board called "Documentation" and "Documentation Review".

Then tasks cannot move to your "Done" column unless documentation is written and passes review. If you enforce column limits documentation it will also block other tasks if not completed.
Large Ceramic Tiles
I really liked Metalsmith, mostly because it was fairly agnostic. It's a simple pipeline with pluggable components.
Totally coincidental collection of cases about

> delayed medical attention to a warehouse worker during a cardiac arrest

I'm not trying to say that Amazon warehouses are a good place to work for, but if you want to be taken seriously make an effort to bring meaningful numbers.

How many workers work at Amazon's warehouses ? 6 out of 125,000 [0] seems like a rather low rate

Were there any laws or regulations broken ?

What is expected from a nominal workplace before and when a worker suffers from a heart condition ?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18516004/amazon-warehouse...
AI Can Affect Public Opinions Online
Some Thoughts on China
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime#In_...
> Still, in the end, the economic incentives for that farmer to produce more milk are the same. The farmer would be incentivized to use better milk yielding cows, get rid of the males, feed the cheapest possible food to the animals.

American here, but I feel like this has to be a very American ideal. Scandinavian countries have this idea of Lagom which is a sort of balance that's right for everything. Italians have this idea of high quality ingredients nurtured in the best way. French have this idea of doing things the exact old way and protecting that. Sure there are places in those societies still for factory farming, but the ethos that profit must rise above all reasoning is something I only see in my culture.
> You have to just hope (trust) that at least 50% are honest an cant be compromised at the same time. How is that any better than (optional, yes completely optional) choosing trusted Nodes?

51% attack exists for all cryptocurrencies. don't try to substitute "colluding 51% of selected validators" with "colluding 51% of global hashrate", you're being disingenious.

i don't have any trust in miners, all they do is send me block signatures and if the signature satisfies proof of work requirements i can be reasonably certain one would have to burn some amount of energy to override that.

you on the other hand have to trust third parties to know which chain is the "right" one exactly because PoS lacks this universally objective measure that is PoW.

> You can very reliably define the "majority of validators" its defined as 80% it doesn't matter if or how many validators colluded.

80% of what? 80% of the couple hundred ips that i will send you as "totally not colluding validator nodes"? you can't even know who's online at any point in time.

> By "universally objective measure" you mean you choose the longer chain? Fully aware that this can later change? Whats point?

universally objective measure is proof of work. you can't fake it without burning similar amount of energy.

> Having just one chain that is final doesn't need "universally objective measure" doesn't need comparing and makes final a binary option instead of "final" but better wait some more blocks to be sure.

who decides what's final? how much does it cost to bribe them? how much does human factor matter? how do they know they have quorum to make such decision? what if there's a network partition and two quorums have finalized two chains?

that's the thing with PoS - it's politics based currency. we've had that for thousands of years. it's not like some genius read satoshi's paper and thought "hey what if we just kind of like vote on which chain is the right one and lets name it proof of stake?", PoS was known long before PoW, it just doesn't solve the problem that bitcoin solves, that's it.
Life Sciences Data Business Analyst
There is this illusion in european countries that factory farming is a thing of the US, when in fact for example in Ireland factory farming it exists too - https://beyondthepaleireland.com/2017/07/28/factory-farms-on...

And it couldn't be any other way, its economics. If one farmer starts feeding the animals with cheaper food and have better milk yielding cows, he would have a competitive advantage over other farmers, and start taking over a larger part of the market.
It seems like you're claiming 1,000 chest x-rays/ year is fine.

An x-ray still damages your dna, guaranteed, and your cells then have to repair it. The older you are, the harder that is to do, and the more times your cells have to repair dna, the more you age [David Sinclair's theory of aging anyways]

I don't think you will find a health practitioner who would think that's safe for 1 year, let alone decades of doing it.
Hawthorne was a place.
They even maintain internal tools that are similar versions, but better. Google uses Borg internally, but they open sourced the cheap knock-off known as Kubernetes instead.
No, I'm not saying that. Can you point to the exact sentence that confused you?
> If that's supposed to be the way to write production code in the future, count me out!

Eh? Sorry but the code is really clear to me? Which parts do you find difficult to read?
> No shit sherlock! I admit that this is a contrived example, but you get my point.

Not a contrived example. There are an absurd amount of libraries that do this and call it documentation. There will be a nice, tidy example of how to use the library with a toy example. That's fine. The intro probably doesn't need to go that deep. Then I move to the technical documentation or API, and that's what they have to offer.
I discovered not that long ago that it is normal to become lactose intolerant in adulthood after a prolonged period of not consuming dairy.
As long as your tutorials aren't so basic as to be useless in practice you can roll them together sure.
Please explain how I did and I won't. Mentioning Trump does not equate to "ideological flamewar". I know you cant explain what you said because you are HN's biggest troll.
This guy needs to go back and watch/rewatch wargames.