skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more oddly, modern Arabic uses a different set of numerals[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
No no; I’m trying to explain that “obviousness” is a bad idea to prove anything...

Like “an infinite te has an infinite branch”...
California exactly understand the state and have voted what they like. And that's why the Democratic party have a supermajority. Californians have voted for the 5th largest economy, huge budget surpluses, unprecedented economic growth, huge investments in clean energy, high minimum wages. This has resulted in unprecedented wealth creation, economic value, innovation at all levels. We went from a 27bn deficit to $30bn surplus. We went from Prop 8 to leading the country in LGBT laws, decriminalization of minor drug offenses, protection of the most vulnerable communities. California population is actually going up (up 2 million over the decade) and conservatives are getting replaced by wealthy residents. So excuse me, that I will keep voting for this, while at the same time working on local zoning reform. We don't need Trumpian politics to solve local zoning
Everybody(in tech) knows that most of the time certifications are worthless in terms of real technical skill...
that being said - it gets you through the door. you will get more interviews if you have something.

Since you mentioned Networking and Security and let's assume you want to work in this field. - I would take Cisco CCNA/CCNP etc.

Disclaimer: it's been a while since I looked into them so do some research which ones are relevant to you.
It's not crude oil but natural gas which has been replacing coal in the US. Natural Gas is much better, and given that there is no cost effective practical grid level storage solution, it is likely to stick around in any region which see's high levels of solar and wind power generation.
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Not if you're colorblind
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Why risk installing an add-on when you can achieve the same end just by using about:config to set media.peerconnection.enabled to false?
If a country’s citizen are so receptive to foreign influence, then those citizen are not at the required level to vote in a democracy, or the ideas are really good. We all know the flaws of democracy, but foreign interference through ideas is either a problem of the homeland having ideas that should be repelled, or really gullible people. Raising education levels is the solution, not asking other countries to « not interfere ».

Especially with the track record of the CIA.
> The basic Internet is still there.

NAT and asymmetric connections beg to differ. Also email.
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> but things like mentoring, quality of code review, etc. are hard to measure if you are not observing them directly.

They are still hard to measure even when observing directly.
As per this article[0], "The eastern provinces rely on an oil supply that's imported from Saudi Arabia, Africa and Venezuela."

Canada, an oil rich country, imports oil from Saudi Arabia... how does that make sense.

It would be better for Canada and the environment if a pipe is built. First, Canadian environmental standards vs. Saudi, Africa, Venezuela. Second, less tankers burning diesel and oil tanker accidents. Third, Canada keeps the economic benefits.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-imports-oil-while-ba...
I have one of these and am very happy with it. It works well and is a nice, compact computer.

The only real fiddling I had to do was disable the lame 'windows sleep' that kills the battery quite quickly.
Back to Windows after twenty years
This is pretty much in line with the other rent control studies I’ve read. It succeeds only in its stated goal of keeping incumbent renters from getting priced out of their homes. It is long-term counterproductive in basically ever other way.
But what about time dilation?
> For some reason, my alarm clock requires that I install an app on my phone. And the app required me to create an account

The larger mystery is why he didn't immediately return the clock as soon as he discovered this requirement.
> Well, one of them is illegal.

I would argue that both of them are illegal.
Looks like the US is now trying to increase the division between East and West Europe, huh?
The notion that the online world is deeply disconnected from the offline one strikes me as hopelessly ancient. It was certainly true for me when I was a kid calling BBSes from my basement. It's manifestly untrue for me now that I conduct most of my business and much of my recreation via video call, email, and social media tools.

It has been a gradual change, of course. But if I were to pick a date where your notion became wrong, it'd be June 29, 2007. With the launch of the iPhone, the internet forever stopped being the thing inside the big box on your desk. Once it was in our pockets (and very often right in our hands), it stopped being cyberspace and became everyday life.
Writing an LRU cache for a new language called Ballerina
"Question: Who was the dumper in this pump-and-dump game? Tether was clearly the pumper."

Look at who holds the most crypto holdings AND has the ability to manipulate the market due to sheer size of operations. China. This isn't really a big secret, either. Anyone that can read/write/speak Mandarin knows about this. Just watch their crypto boards and you'll find the manipulation very, VERY easily.

Answer solved.
Those are overwhelmingly described as socialist nations in conservative media and is the north star of 99% of democratic policies

Edit: rest of your response. Where do I even start. Hundreds of millions of people are not looking to move to Europe ? Do you even read the news ? Have you heard about the refugee crisis in Europe ? Have you read about the divide between immigrant community in Europe ? Have you read about boats crossing the Mediterranean every day ?
> that isn't memoizing an array map

"memoizing" is a pretty computer-sciencey word, so not implementing a data structure exactly, but still requires knowledge beyond "plug these APIs together."

> The only time I even needed algorithmic complexity was implementing a drag and drop control, for a list that could have several hundred thousand elements, and my naive implementation was n^2.

And if you didn't have an intuition for algorithmic complexity, how long would it have taken you to figure out the problem? And how many times have you instinctively avoided having an explosion in algorithmic complexity, by intuitively picking a suitable data structure or algorithm?
A bit cheeky from a company that won't let you use your desktop computer without an online account
With Dell it's mostly a marketing exercise since they don't really write any of the software or drivers, they're just packaging the products (hardware and software) that others produce. They are no different than most of the other major PC manufacturers in this regard. (some of the smaller specialty Linux PC companies do go at least a bit further than this)

You can get Linux running on the vast majority of PC (desktop and laptop) models. There's value in this sort of bundle for people who want to buy a Linux machine with components known to have driver support and/or don't want to be bothered with installing and configuring it themselves.
Why hide basic configuration in an under-documented use-at-your-own-risk settings editor?
I'm not sure about the particular model from the article, but I could see wanting to use Pandora or Spotify as your alarm instead of a predefined sound. It could also get more features further down the road.
Here’s a really cool, very fun intro to stats article I recently came across:

https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/

If nothing else, it’s amusing.
Climate change is an issue that people talk about a lot, and nuclear power is a carbon-neutral form of energy, so it might just be a relevant and popular argument around the circles you frequent.

If I had to guess at any motivation other than a lot of people actually liking nuclear power, it would probably be that nuclear power is one of the few controversies where a reasonably intelligent person can easily grasp a series of basic arguments and then virtue-signal about being more scientifically literate than the unwashed masses. It's basically the same social dynamic that used to motivate the type of people who argued with creationists and climate change deniers.

It's also the Generically Dumbest Conspiracy Theory On The Internet to say "everybody who disagrees with me is a paid shill". People on the internet tend to hold and express opinions because it's an emotionally compelling thing to do, not because they're being paid off by Westinghouse or George Soros or whoever. It's literally an accusation you're making without evidence--I could just as easily suggest that maybe YOU'RE a shill for the photovoltaic industry? ;)
It half rang a bell, the name, Illumos. Then I saw the "next gen OS" was ZFS (and DTrace was the other buzzword-thingy) which gave it away.

I'm trying to help here. I think they can do better marketing when being maximum transparent from the start. As someone whom just chimed in says: they think that refering to Solaris is bad marketing. I believe the opposite.

Also to get people to take you serious could be done by other means than hiding your origins. Like testemonials and contribution stats.
> It gets even worse with remote where you don’t know if somebody is at least working or just sitting around.

People sit around in an office just as easily as they do at home. If seeing a butt in the seat is proof of working, you have already been fooled.
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> [...] it does seem that women’s rights are limited in Saudi Arabia compared to most other countries.

I would like to nominate this for comment for 'Most Valuable Understatement' of the day.

Trolling aside, yes, it is very restrictive for females living in Saudi Arabia compared to pretty much any other country on Earth. I have hope that in my lifetime this will change.
Show HN: Perceptual hashing tools for detecting child sexual abuse material
I'm a graduate of Uchicago (from shortly after you), and to offer a different perspective, I'm still paying off my loans (and will be for another 6 years), but I'm incredibly glad I went. I thought the undergraduate experience was perfect, and about half of my friends from around the world are people I met while I was there. I did get much worse marks that I had ever gotten before, but the University being very difficult is part of the package.

One question: I think a large part of the social experience for me was based around the house system. Even though I moved out of my house when I was a second-year, the house and dorm I was in provided a big chunk of my social network. Did you not have a good experience with your house? And if so, were you placed in the house you wanted to be in?
Or just require that people keep a schedule for your timezone. So you can be in whatever timezone you want provided you're working 8-5 UTC-8, for example. Requiring someone be in a specific timezone is just a slightly less of a burden than requiring they be local enough to commute it. You're still excluding a huge swath of potential employees.
Probably he didn't want to drag another (specific) brand through the mud on the official Microsoft dev blog. Deserved or not, it would be unprofessional.
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Is anyone working on a translator for pandas dataframe syntax to SQL?
The Yellow Peril in the west is going crazy. Let's see how they justify this anti-Chinese behavior.
Real talk: you do not and are never going to have privacy if you have a mobile phone. You are carrying a tracking device and feeding data to at least a dozen different companies and government agencies. No mobile app is compatible with privacy because the phone itself disintegrates privacy.
Some hope for getting rid of patent trolls
Should businesses stop flying to fight climate change?
Go to your HN settings and turn the showdead setting to yes.
Sure, it is not a new problem, but we have to solve it again, and perhaps with a different solution given the new medium.
That might make sense if social media didn't change reality.
Raymond has always had a policy of not naming-and-shaming companies in his blog, for better or worse.

Edit: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=40523

>Things that increase the likelihood that your comment will be edited or deleted: ... More generally, comments that identify a specific company, program, or person.
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Do you have a source for tesla being a net producer of CO2? Your assertion goes against my understanding that even when powered by coal plants, it is less CO2 per mile and over lifetime of vehicle as well.
Dark patterns on the packaging that obscure the need for a cell phone app. I've seen this kind of thing show up all the time.
> defend Nvidia the closed-source drivers

My NVidia experience was like:

1) System upgrade

2) NVidia driver falls

3) Revert old kernel/gcc/etc

4) GOTO 1

After doing this 5-10 times I had very strong feelings to break my NVidia GPU upon the wall, but sold it and never buy it again.
The generation gap within mobile and desktop Ryzens of the same leading digit model number is really atrocious marketing. Almost like AMD is trying to take advantage of people by pretending mobile is a generation ahead.

What purpose does it serve?
It says "Mon 4 Nov 2019 16.04 GMT"
What about the people near the new mixed-use developments? Thats where the issues come in, if you are adjacent to it, there is noise, traffic etc which do not increase your value
They accepted ad contracts from both sides, while the leadership directly supported DNC. The pendulum was definitely on the DNC side when it came to support from tech companies.

Just because they were giving some support to the Republican party, doesn't disprove my assertion at all.
I wish software patents were eliminated as a whole but here at least something.
>The electric vehicle also reduces efficiency by adding weight to the vehicle - being electric doesn't change physics.

The battery adds weight, but that's more than outweighed by the tremendous efficiency of an electric drivetrain. The EV equivalent of a gas-guzzler (e.g. a Tesla Model X P90D) still achieves the equivalent of 90mpg.
Yes of course, but let's be realistic, would the people doing this type of clueless work, bother to seed a database? It's a self fulfilling prophecy of naivety. It's like all of the investing and saving advice on Yahoo Finance. The people reading it are already the ones doing it, because they are interested in learning more about it.
Developer fashion is moving towards more restrictive, explicit, static languages that reduce bugs. The traditional drawbacks and ceremony of that approach are being mitigated through inference and better tooling.

This is likely one reason Ruby is falling out of favor while Python is hanging on and still gaining.
I disagree. It should be illegal, like fake paid product reviews, except instead of losing some money you lose your rightful political representation.
Seems like something GraalVM could do at runtime!
This is a big one, but don't forget about Worker's Compensation.

When your "contractor" gets hurt when working/travelling/etc at your direction, the "contractor"'s health or auto insurer will likely figure out that the contractor meets the test to be an employee and will pursue action against the company.
> The trim(8) utility has been added, which deletes content for blocks on flash-based storage devices that use wear-leveling algorithms. [r344688]

Is this replacing an older utility or is FreeBSD way behind on supporting SSDs?
Yes, and no

Yes, because I dont want to live in a world or a country where someone can go bankrupt and/or end up in poverty because of medical problem - this is still possible in the US unfortunately (though I suspect vastly over stated), Regardless, I would never support forgiving of debts for elected/vanity surgeries.

No because I would not want to just forgive all medical debt without fixing the system, which currently seems impossible in the US, politically. Because of lobbying, big pharma, etc. , free heath care would just be too expensive to implement. Obama changed some things, Trump repealed some things. It's a political hot potato.

Fixing our system is like trying to turn the titanic at this point, and any changes we make alienate a large portion of the population.
Will you migrate back to Netlify when Zeit will suffer a similar downtime?
And how do we make that happen? I, as an individual, already know social media does not reflect reality... however, I also know that it does AFFECT reality because other people believe it.

I can't simply decide for other people to not be influenced.

I always get frustrated at these kinds of suggestions; "you can solve problem X by just having people stop doing y!"... well, how do we get people to stop doing Y? You can't just wish it.
I don't agree. All this activity whether its legitimate volunteers OR trolls has not generated any real sustainable outcomes.

Both are just mindlessly trying to hit metrics(like/views/clicks/upvotes etc). And everyone is very satisfied hitting them.

But nobody has yet proved in any country, in any part of the world all this mindless metric hitting activity (amplified robotically by the news media) is actually producing a sustainable outcome.

Doesn't matter what problem domain you pick where are the outcomes that justify all this activity? One guy gets the likes today, another gets the likes tomorrow.

It's a trap. You see the same dynamics play out in Poland, Brexit, Modi's India, Duterte etc.

That only goes away once the Like/View/Click based ecosystem is dismantled.
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I think you're missing the point. We're not comparing Safari with IE6 -- that would be absurd, we're just saying Safari compares to it's peers (Chrome, Firefox, heck, even Edge) like IE6 used to compare to the other browsers back in the day: stuff would mostly work on everything else but always needed special attention/polyfills/workarounds for IE.

On the project I currently work on the codebase is _littered_ with workarounds and hacks to get stuff to work on Safari.
I can't tell if you're being cynical or serious, but if the latter I can't see how this is correct.

From "Pharmacy privacy Requirements here [1], I don't think "business associate agreement [with] some vaguely care-adjacent purpose" meets the standards for information-sharing. Rather the information must be being shared as part of specific treatment for a patient (discussing actual care) or payment.

[1] https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/hipaa-privacy-security-...
If you know SQL you can get the best of both worlds though. You still use the ORM for basic queries, but if you know you need to, you can apply optimisations like eager loading basically for free (dev time wise). The issue is devs not understanding what's going on underneath creating unnecesary performance problems
Is it implicit that these rules apply don't apply to the workplace or other situations that aren't public?
Public hospitals too. True story. Even though TBH, it's not shocking to me, considering how good public transport is around here. State-run public transport, BTW.
In the linked article, which I'm assuming this refers to:

> The city will require companies to share information on the start point, end point and travel time of each bike or scooter trip within 24 hours after it ends, and whether the vehicle entered zones where riding or parking are restricted.

I know for at least all of the scooters I've tracked, you can identify each scooter by a unique ID. Assuming you pull your data on a minute-by-minute basis, you can retrace the start and end of a scooter ride.

For example, Scooter 123 is available at x,y at 12:05, It's not available from 12:06 to 12:15. It becomes available at 12:16 at x,y. The ride was approximately 11 minutes and started and ended at those two points.

I don't think the city wants real-time data, and frankly I don't think these companies would be willing or even capable of producing it.
I looked at that page and I just wanted to clarify something for myself. Does this mean you can't do a headless server since you need VS Code and some plugins? I like the idea and it would definitely be a strong argument to go back to VS Code but I was hoping I could just run some kind of server on a terminal-only VM.
I agree that face to face is important. Part of how we handle remote work is that people have to be comfortable doing video calls. This doesn't mean someone has to be available for surprise chats, but everyone has to be comfortable hopping on a video call when necessary. Gitlab has the rule that if a question/topic goes back and forth 3x, then it's time for a video call. I think that is a good place to start.
It could be survival instinct instead of egos. Most companies have too many managers. There are places where you have one manager for every 5 engineers. Bonkers!