skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And somehow it's supposed to be more efficient to totally duplicate the effort like Firefox does?
No matter how you cut it, you will round edges that don't fit together with any other edge.
But why? Why does it cost as much as a full time teacher to get extremely part time access to university faculty?

This stinks.
I worked at Chevron when they were first toying with 4/40s and 9/80s. The firm decided people could either choose Monday or Friday off. It was glorious! Suddenly 40% of the schedule was free of meetings since there was no way to get a quorum on Monday or Friday.
Right, you and other developers were more productive and were able to make quicker updates. But was the company as strategically aligned at a high level? Was the engineering team as a whole able to react quickly and efficiently to strategic shifts that are more a matter of communication than coding? Were different teams able to juggle competing priorities as effectively as before? These are all elements of running the company that could be negatively impacted by remote work, and they are also areas into which many developers will not have much visibility, if any at all.

To be clear, I'm not actually trying to argue against remote work in general. I think it can be done very well if the company is built around it from the bottom to the top. My point is just that one has to examine the effect on the entire organization. It might be the case that some groups benefited but at a cost that wasn't worth it at a high level. For instance, it could be that the organization needs a much more rigorous planning process rolled out to every single team before remote work becomes a net positive.
If you have the trailing slash on there, it takes you to the root domain. https://facebook.design/companybrand should work
Pretty easy to see how, just look at the Python equivalent in Django. You're so far abstracted away from what is actually going on that it's no wonder no one understands it. There is a lot of gotchas, that most probably never investigate, particularly multiple calls to the database for very simple join operations that aren't made apparent in the ORM unless you're watching SQL logs(they aren't).
That's my experience as well - 30 years under the belt and I don't see interviews like this nor do I give them. I think the audience here is a bit different, startups are by definition immature and usually don't have the experience or means to set up a proper interview team that screens for the right things.

The flip side is that in mature companies like the one I work for, where professional interviews are more of the rule, we don't get the best candidates, at least not right now. I could imagine that super attractive startups can afford to set the bar higher and still get enough applicants.
There are command-line options to limit the amount of memory Windows sees. See the video.
Component Reusability Techniques with Angular
> All of the policies that drove this mess are local. Which means solving the mess can also be done locally.

Could be, but at this point it makes more sense to pass statewide legislation, like SB50, which California failed to pass, or Oregon's successful HB 2001.
I would think it probably also subconsciously signals that someone is ready to serve that table quickly and getting you your food faster, as opposed to an equally clean table across the room with no staff near it.
> A signed cert has to depend on someone you dont know.

No, it doesn't. If it's signed by my own CA, then I clearly know who signed it. Likewise if it's signed by a CA run by someone else I actually know.

The point of the signing is to have someone I trust validate that the cert they signed is trustworthy even if I don't know the entity that made the cert they signed.
Tesla is coming out with an all electric pick-up and semi. Hopefully others will follow. But at least a few years before mainstream uptake.
What strictly necessary cookies does the BBC use?
If Dostoevsky is not difficult to read, then there exist only a handful of authors who are. Maybe it isn't difficult to find enjoyment in his works, but there is a hell of a lot more going on than just depressive psychological drama.
I'm with you, though I'd go further and say that 3 day work week is probably the maximum I could be content with. I'd gladly trade half my salary for half my work hours back.
I'm not sure how well this will help differentiate the corporate entity with the Facebook service from a public perspective. Might have been more effective to rename the corporate entity like Alphabet did. Besides that, kind of boring and looks like it was thrown together in 5 minutes, lol.
The Internet was always at capacity. Until we had the pervasive networking we have today, there were always more people wanting to have Internet access more persistently and with more performance than what was available. Almost everyone who had the opportunity to use the Internet, would. As a result, enormous advances in technology were made to implement today’s pervasive networking. New use cases manifested immediately all the time. Nobody ever said “we implemented this world wide network thing, now we are looking for use cases”, there were, and are, always more use cases to choose from than resources to implement them.
Well, there exist carbon capture and artificial fuels. I imagine those will take over crop ethanol as soon as solar gets cheap, for no other reason than that one can extract 100 times more fuel from the same land and there is no upkeep of a biologic system.
Digital Rai stones: why do you need the actual mining at all, as long as everyone agrees that it's happening up there in space? ;)
It’s a little trickier than that, but you are generally right. The relaxation can involve many different things though, not just piecewise differentiability.

For example, when processing images that themselves may be intensity functions over a spatial domain, and the intensity function can have cusps, edges, occlusions, etc., then you need different weak-sense differentiability conditions, such as from Sobolev spaces, to guarantee that numerical gradient operators will succeed / converge where needed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobolev_space
With the prevalence of password managers, you really shouldn't ever have this problem.
The problem with this is when a group cries wolf, are the people going to continue to listen? Eventually, Machiavellian tactics turn your credibility to mud. You end up in a place where folks don't believe anything a group says. Then you're stuck shaking your fist at "the stupid general" public when your organization's tactics are largely to blame. This is where both sides of the environmental discussion have ended up and why the issue is so polarized (in part).
Easy classes and grading aren't going to help people not default.

The school can really only improve the education they provide or make their admissions more stringent. If they are going to do the latter, we might as well go back to direct government support, no need to have a loans process and all that noise.
> Jobs are abundant all over. If you want to solve the housing problems in the bay area, start programs that give people $10,000 to go anywhere else. You'll enormously increase the quality of life of the people who leave.

This is such a good idea that some places are already doing it! This article describes several implementations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2018/11/13/thi...

On a personal note, it's been my experience that the number of people willing to suggest that such programs should exist is perhaps not quite the same as the number of people willing to take advantage of the same.
I can see past the cynical fine. I've played it. It's alright, that's honestly my impression of it. The shooting mechanics feel a little loose, the framerate can jump around a bit, vehicle controls are wonky and change depending on the vehicle.

It's not bad, it's just aggressively okay. If this had a list price I doubt it would've been nearly the success it is. It's the upper echelon in quality for free-to-play.
Seems like the key (obvious?) difference between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" is the speaker's transparency about the source of the message. Disclosing who you are and your relationship to the topic: Acceptable. Hiding or obfuscating who you are or pretending to be someone else: Unacceptable.
How not to buy running shoes, according to science
It's not just zoning laws it's the building code that essentially makes it impossible to build anything affordable.
My primary school had morning and afternoon shifts rotating every week.
Could be Forbes trying to make things really look catchy.
Looks like a hug of death, here's archive.org for convenience: https://web.archive.org/web/20190423162658/http://ampm.flood...
So... stop hanging around ycombinator? no u
> It’s the epitome of “designed by committee”

I disagree with this, Fortnite figured out how to deliver a video game in an agile way.

The techniques developed around building and combat are top-notch, the game manages to feel very challenging without being miserable to play. It might not be your cup of tea.

> I don’t like how it’s shoved everywhere imaginable via advertising

Not Epic’s fault. You can thank the tech industry for figuring out how to put ads on everything, I don’t see how this is Epic’s fault. Don’t shoot the messenger when your problem is with online ads.

> I don’t like the fact that “default” is now used like a slur

Again, Epic didn’t make those kids shitty. When I was a kid, it was all who had which Pokémon cards, the fact that the goods are digital now doesn’t make a difference. That behavior existed when I was a kid.
I've haven't seen a bios that would allow disabling all cores except for one since at least intel 2xxx series - there is almost always a switch to disable hyperthreading, but a switch to disable all cores bar one?
Of course it is - yet governments and investments are showing early signs of divestment, including by pension schemes. If regulations to require carbon impact become a consideration in investment, or market listing - there's early signs some are thinking in those directions - then those pension schemes will start voting inconveniently or divest more significantly. If one of the top 5 blocs bakes climate into their approach trade, things could change fast.

Exxon have the mass that it will take a great deal to actually impact, but large industries have been abolished or turned into niche industry before. No reason to believe it won't happen again.
Convince California homeowners of that. Good luck!
and as someone undiagnosed, but very probably with it too, someone with less variable productivity than me, and in the same time not my manager, would be of enormous value to me. That shouldn't be a "dedicated personnel", as an assistant or whatever, but project manager for example would be helpful for other people too. I'll certainly try to have such an arrangement at some point.
In deep learning, you generally don't require differentiability on the entire domain, only on most points you're likely to encounter. So a finite number of non-differentiable points is fine: You just trust that you're never going to hit them by chance (the probability that you do is 0), and if by some miracle you do, you just use a subgradient.

Case in point, the currently most used activation function in neural nets, the rectified linear unit

ReLU(x) = max(x, 0),

is clearly not differentiable everywhere either.
Mergesort sticks in my memory better, for whatever reason. And yes, definitely agree that in real life, avoid those allocations. For a whiteboard interview, declare an std::vector and call it a day, no need to manually call new and delete.
Because if you build the rows and rows of gross generic condos with corporate shops underneath that ruined Seattle, it will no longer be such a desirable place to live.
110% this.

My worst professional experiences have all revolved around product people pushing aggressive deadlines.

The best shops I've worked at have had product people who are subservient to technology teams.

Product exists so that developers can focus on code and implementation and not have to play politics and attend endless meetings.
American farmers are grease monkeys, they like big machines but know approx. jack squat about agronomy. If I could have a dollar for all the nitrogen farmers waste because they don't know how to manage soil properly I would be a goddamn trillionaire.
The Big List of Data Visualization Books
https://nosystemd.org/

The most popular non-systemd distro I hear about is Void linux, which is a rolling release style distro that's pretty comparable to(though not based on) Arch.

As a tangent because you brought up distro's and difficulty, I know Arch has a reputation with some as being too difficult for regular skilled users, but as a regular skill level user myself, I find that the Arch/Void style rolling release paradigm of doing stuff makes things easier for noobs like me, not harder.

Once you get past the initial hurdle that is the first hour or two of install and setup(which you can do just by copying youtube tutorial instructions line by line) then everything after that is much simpler.

For me, I find that the majority of everyday linux problems all boil down to trying to install or update some kind of software. Either software you already have has a bugfix or feature you want in the newest update, or you have some new software you want to install. And because developers like new shiny things, often times the newest version of whatever has a dependency of some other new shiny thing.

Installing new software in a fixed release distro often quickly gets too hairy for me, but in Arch I can almost always a simple install directly from the main or user repositories. This has so far eliminated 95% of everyday problems for me defying the usual narrative I hear of it being "harder" to use for normal Joe's like me.
This is from the company that came up with .NET to describe an intermediate bytecode and runtime.

Then later made a new thing called .NET Core which was the same as .NET Framework but more multi platform. Which was confusing so they came up with .NET Standard which was an interface describing compatibility between the other two .NETs

They have their top people working on the .NET jit and compiler, and the VS Code editor. None left for naming conventions.
i think it works in closed networks. not in the open net
What this article fails to mention: there was recently a case discovered where one of the clients of these troll farms was... Ministry of Justice. They used to slander judges who were not in the political line of thought of the previous / current leading party.

The knowledge of this was as high up as Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the man who appears to be driving the whole country from the back seat.

One of many, many articles available in Polish press: https://www.rp.pl/Sedziowie-i-sady/309239933-Farma-trolli-w-...

Edit: added „line of“ in „ They used to slander judges who were not in the political line of thought of the previous / current leading party.“
That's impressive. As someone who works in Robotics, I rate them very highly. Does it cost the same for international students?
It's a nasty line.

Really, I think this site underestimates the value of "Go fuck yourself" when someone says stuff like that. Being polite isn't going to help them pull their head out of their ass.
What if housing crisis should be approached from other end - controlling population growth.

Building more housing just converts beautiful places into ant farms with terrible traffic. Do everyone want their grandkids to live in 100sqf cells like in 5th element?

All our major problems are because we got too many people on earth - global warming, plastic contamination, air pollution, food and water availability, etc.
Ask HN: Why can't I tweet?
I have a personal twitter account with around 2k followers. But I haven't tweeted in over a year. I really kind of want to. It looks like fun. And it's good for building an audience. But there's something about posting a pithy opinion in < 200 characters that feels smug to me. More than that, I guess, is the feeling of permanence with every opinion. There's not been a time that I haven't looked back on something I said or wrote x number years ago without thinking, wow, I was an absolute moron.

How can I overcome self-consciousness and just tweet without GAF? Or am I doing the right thing and the people who tweet 100x/day are actually the weird ones?
It's important to note that even with electric cars, it will still take a long time until most electricity is produced without the use fossil fuels.

Getting all of the required cobalt out of the Congo to make millions of large batteries isn't exactly ideal either.

Storage and long distance transport abilities make natural gas extremely attractive.
This is more of an attitude but I like it when "we're in it together" so to speak. Rather than the attitude that I've frustrated or upset you due to an unexpected system complexity, for example. When people feel like they are in it together, they are less defensive. I love going to a PM I trust and saying "hey man we have some problems cause XYZ is harder than expected" and knowing they will help us work through the problem, find areas to descope, and manage communication for us.
Facebook rebrands as calls for government-led breakup continue
I think the right to communicate is a part of a right to freely express oneself, which would be much more meaningful to codify in my opinion.
I totally agree but unfortunately a lot of people can take the same situation and twist it up to fit their own views.

Where I live we just passed a minimum wage increase. A fairly substantial one that keeps up with the rest of the country by increasing every year until we hit 15 an hour in a few years. It's been a couple of years into it and someone asked why local restaurants are ending services, closing some locations, increasing prices, shrinking their menus, and basically cutting costs. I saw a lot of answers that boiled down to "greed" and my favorite was "labor costs are increasing" because of "late stage capitalism".

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of answers you see in the wild involves doing exactly what we've been doing but on a larger scale.
I don't understand this point of view.

Developers generally agree that it's better to spend some time writing tests, as even if it increases our latency in the small term, it will improve output it in the long term.

Yet, we also seem to think that it's totally fine to sacrifice mental and physical being for the sake of short term gains instead of long term ones?

I am not saying one should not do the occasional push, but surely as a founder it's better to work 40 hours a week and keep yourself sane, than push yourself into burn out after 1 year of 70h/week and no holidays?
Student debt isn't likely to cause a 2008 crisis since the vast majority of it is held by (or backed by) the government.
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Skims the article.
Sees no mention of Prop 13.
I guess this is just another PR move..
It's always cool to hate on the biggest player in the field.
Bitcoin Spikes as China Embraces Blockchain
Daughter wanted some songs uploaded onto her iPhone 5.
I am going to try it out ASAP. This might be really empowering for backed developers who want to ship stuff fast because of the ease of customising components in Tailwind.
Financial aid is code for student loans. If they meant a scholarship they would have said so.
> String length in Python is maybe too much exaggeration unless someone hasn’t wrote Python for a long time.

Or they use several languages. Say you have client side code in JavaScript, with the client served by PHP on the server. You've got some log analysis scripts in Perl. You've got some SOAP services in Java. You've got some machine learning stuff in Python. You've got a mobile app in Swift.

It's real easy to get confused about which of foo.length, strlen($foo), length($foo), foo.length(), len(foo), or foo.characters.count is the right one for the language you are dealing with at the moment.
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> Texinfo

Note that Texinfo was originally meant to generate output for the info file format (viewed by the GNU info viewer as well as GNU emacs and a few other less used viewers) alongside TeX, which is probably where it got its name (tex+info output). The info format is essentially a primitive hypertext format with support for hierarchical nodes and keyword indices packaged in a single file (essentially a primitive text-only form of CHM, though later versions of info also support external image references). The HTML and other output formats were added much later.
Prediction: Bitcoin will crash together with a general financial crisis / recession.

People hold their bitcoin, because they don't know where else to put it right now.
With low interest rates everybody is apparently doing well.

If the market crashes, some people are worried, or have some assets outside of bitcoin which they have to offset.

They will start to dump their bitcoin, but where is lower bound? There are no hard assets backing it like a stock.

Maybe it's a few "believers", "whales" and exchanges who value bitcoin no matter what. But what is their total buying power? If there is a strong devaluation, those people or companies would be the ones who were hit the hardest, so how much can they afford to put aside for preppin up Bitcoin?
I think you're looking for a more direct (verbal) story, and mistaking the absence of such as a fault of the game.

The point of the article, as I read it, was to describe how Fortnite uses its play area over time to build a lore, without words, and as a pretext of "battle royale" happens around it. The novelty here is how immersive the experience seems to be, from the author's perspective, which is something he doesn't believe has historically been possible with writing as we understand it currently.
Of course. There's a subset of the population that is eager for Bitcoin payments, and if you have a service that either targets those users, or is a service they'd already use, you'll see usage. (Even that's a challenge, with the "hodl" mentality that's prevalent)

I think we're still a long way away from general purpose adoption however.