skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul was one of the very few people I consider to be a hero in this world.

He had an unbelievable ability to stand up to the existing power structure by convincing people he had a better plan and then executing to perfection.

I don't know if it would be possible to have another Volcker in the central banking world these days but we certainly need one.
Do Image Classifiers Generalize Across Time?
To me a PC is an obvious choice - you can build your own based on your requirements and do it at a fraction of the cost of a laptop.

Having said that, my Linux Mint tower is now gathering dust as I had to make the switch to a Macbook due to the lack of decent design apps. The only reason I went with a laptop in this instance is due to the outrageous prices for Mac towers!
Tech recruiters were once welcomed on campus. Now they face protests
Liquibase "Hello World":
https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/demo_liquibase_hello_...

--liquibase formatted sql
--changeset alice@example.com:1
create table person (
id int not null primary key,
name varchar(100)
);
They are sponsor segments like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8apEJ5Zt2s&t=33s
But how are you fitting it in your stomach, or achieving the caloric density that allows you to do that? Unless I ate that meal over the course of about 3 hours I don’t think I could physically manage it. Usually I feel full or over-full from a meal of 400 to 600 calories.
Udp2raw and similar software could be used to bypass UDP restrictions. Basically it creates valid tcp headers and sends those packets with them through raw socket.
Many times a plane is the only mode of transportation. Eg flying over a body of water. Etc.
Four (4)

- Work, run through the company's IT team

- Personal (via gmail)

- Private personal (custom domain)

- Volunteer group email
IMHE, a language that fights against 'make' is generally poorly designed in that regard. Typically its functionality gets replaced/reinvented by a bespoke and buggy behemoth, which becomes yet one more thing to learn.
Americans sacrificed millions of foreign lives.
I've bought into the idea that all major museums should have free admission or pay what you will. They are all well-endowed enough to do this, but are restricted from selling pieces of their collections to make ends meet. And what's the point of a museum anyways...is it just preservation or is it to allow the public to view and engage with our shared cultural heritage.

Part of the issue is the museum mafia puts onerous restrictions on the extent to which museums are allowed to sell off bits of their collections. That's why so many items are stowed away never to see the light of day. If they sell off items, they will be blacklisted from ever receiving a touring/visiting collection, which is the big money maker for additional admissions fees and bringing folks in who have already seen everything normally on display.

The code of ethics of the American Association of Museums explicitly forbids selling items from collections to meet operating expenses, and they will ban museums from receiving loans of artwork if they do so.
Ask HN: Has your Gmail priority inbox been broken since last week?
Last week, starting Thursday morning, my Gmail priority inbox has been marking some spam as priority, and missing some important messages.

When they first launched the product I spent a bunch of time training it, and it's been 99%+ accurate for me ever since.

But starting last Thursday, I keep getting things like Groupon mails and other offers marked as priority, and direct messages to me in response to messages I've sent marked not important.

I was wondering if it was just me or if they changed something last week?
UltraSoC Tackles RISC-V Support Challenge by Donating Trace Encoder
Why would the code be "nowhere near as elegant"? Lack of a functional / persistent map?

Because I'd expect all maps to provide roughly similar interfaces whether they're assoc lists, hashmaps, btrees, HAMT, …: iterate all entries, presence of a key, get value for key, insert (key, value), remove key (and value), possibly some other niceties on top (e.g. update value in-place, merge maps, …) but those are extras.
"Chinese banks are supposed to shift from International Business Machines Corp. and Oracle Corp. to more diversified X86 architecture suppliers"

Well, I sure can't fault anyone for wanting to dump Oracle.
Yes, which is the whole point of my question: how is this data compiled?

Just because it requires effort does not mean it can't be done in an open source way.
Souundness bugs in Rust libraries: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
My $2.6B Ecosystem Fail: An RJMetrics Post Mortem
Reminds me of the time we found out a team was running O(n^2) code, but in terms of SQL Queries, that is to say, not O(n^2) of comparisons or anything, and were trying to blame the other team when a client sent a request that never ended.

And they tried blaming them for migrating data to a new server with an SSD that shaved 20 minutes from their processing time.

And if you're wondering, they refused to fix it because "it would need too many sprints" and "maybe we'll talk about it in a workshop".

It's still not fixed.
it's the sort of thing that happens at 4:10 in this video: https://youtu.be/jxICCEoiq74?t=240
O(2n) = O(n)
Where I was, it could be turned off on a per-call basis only. Probably because the telco charged each time you did it.
I remember when caller id was introduced, there was a rush to call the phone company to have your outgoing caller id blocked by default because after the initial rollout there was a fee to enable the block.

Then after some time they added an option for caller id subscribers that would block blocked numbers.

My dad had his outgoing caller id blocked for a long time and I remember having to dial *82 for almost everyone I called.
The SF Bay Area was designed like LA... to require burning as much fossil-fuel as possible by spreading residential and commercial areas out far from each other, making walking impractical. Heck, even local trams and bus systems were destroyed by General Motors.[0] I remember seeing the remnants of a defunct local tram platform about ½ mile / 1 km west of Gunderson High School in San Jose across the way from where the first Light Rail line was installed.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
Hey, I don’t think anyone was invading Afghanistan on behalf of Israel, nor would anyone consider Afghanistan a significant security risk to Israel. This is a poor read of the situation
Microsoft Getting Closer to Cloud Crown
You'll notice that kids don't get as excited about other things that are just as big, or bigger, though. For example, my son can barely even be bothered to look up at 18 wheelers. He sees them as common and boring.

But a garbage truck? It's loud and interesting. It does stuff with its tusks. Honestly, garbage trucks are still fascinating even to me, as an adult.
And, it's doubly ironic that those are the places where it's citizens want the least amount of growth. In SF for example, there's a lot of tech hate.

I think it's time to create incentives for companies to move to cities that actually want to grow. where jobs go, people WILL follow.
I've never been questioned by the Feds on anything, but my state disallowed a deduction with value to my taxes of <$0.50.

My uncle was in a few cash-heavy businesses (laundromat + plumber) he was audited annually, especially on the laundromat side.
What is the point of storing the hash of an external file instead of checking the file into local version control? You're making it a part of your sources either way.
We've successfully made numerous cuts to social programs with no negative consequence. Like, what was the political cost of 1990s welfare reform? Well, President Clinton was re-elected by a landslide and the Republicans who helped champion the bill won control of the House.
Open Source as Business
> Does anyone know how this compares with OpenVPN?

Much nicer to use in pretty much every aspect.
Strange Loop : Voice Driven Development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuRkGkf5HU
These are sponsor segments that are part of the video. There is no tracking involved that isn't also part of the video, because it's part of the video itself. This is not about privacy, but rather about being annoyed by ads.
> Volcker showed that focusing on and killing inflation by raising interest rates, even to extreme levels (briefly up to ~20%), you end both inflation and stagnation.

Another thing jacked up was the unemployment rate - to 11%. Bad for the people doing the work and creating the wealth, good for the heirs receiving dividends from the expropriated surplus time if those who work.

Jacking the interest rate up to ~20% so that unemployment goes to 11% is not a stroke of genius, it's just something no one was politically capable of doing beforehand.
There is a way to for sponsors to tell whether the segment was skipped or not, it's what they're all using: Counting how many purchases they got from a specific ad.
Maven is just as opinionated, jealous, and terrible, but its impact is restricted to JVM packages, mostly (hopefully) in the development stage, and so the consistency issues don't come up.

I ultimately agree that the system package managers do a poor job of wrapping language-specific package managers. But you lost me when you suggested Maven has a good user experience compared to most OS package managers. If that was a sly joke, then it was a good one.
What about the non-American deaths?
Further, the recipient didn't even need to sign for the money

I'm guessing a bunch of that money never made it to the intended targets.
> Many times, especially in agile-world, you get away with things as fast and as reasonable as you can.

Which has led to the ridiculous software bloat we have today. This always MVP, break fast, break often garbage needs to die.
I'm in the United States and have used contactless payments at restaurants already.
Perfectly understandable. Having re-read what I wrote, I apologise if came off as criticizing your past lack of action! I wrote more from the position of wanting to provide advice for anyone else who finds themselves in a similar situation and isn't sure if they can do anything about it.
Hospitals fly heart transplants across town because time is so important.

Don’t undervalue the importance of time.
There's one in Ithaca, NY too: http://www.sciencenter.org/sagan-walk.html
That's exactly what could force us to rethink our technological architecture from the ground up. No way is what we have now even close to optimal in terms of using existing resources. But it's been good enough thanks in no small part to those predictable performance gains won at the hardware level.
Maybe the warning on Metamucil is about not being woken up because you have to use the bathroom.
O(N^2) is strictly better than O(2^N). Per the article, this algorithm fell over at 3 billion bytes of data, but wasn't especially noticeable at 300 million bytes of data.
I've found it useful to see what country someone is in and know if you should be taking GDPR measures for the user.
If the government is correcting an error for $500 on your taxes, its almost certainly doing that using an automated system with very little human-time-per-case for oversight. This is possible because of developed-world infrastructure -- all relevant numbers are digitized and entered into computers, all people are documented and contactable, etc. -- which is missing in Afghanistan, so it's not super surprising.

Edit: Woah, HN, you have truly gone crazy. My comment is an explanation for why accountability is so much harder in Afghanistan than the developed world. It is not a general defense all US tax-collection procedures, and it is especially not a place for you to vent frustration about how the lack of pre-filled-out returns in the US benefits tax software makers.
Agreed. You could make a similar point about race when it comes to sport abilities. It would be horrific to offer sports activities to children based on race, even though, in effect, some children will have a much smaller chance of becoming professionals at some sports than others. But let's never discourage a kid who wants to try whatever he or she likes!
Verizon: Hey, what's this thing?
Yahoo: Oh, just something we made years ago
Verizon: Is it making us money?
Yahoo: Well, no
Verizon: Kill it
Yahoo: But people are still...
Verizon: Kill it now
Benchmark Surprises
FYI, in the Titan project (https://titan-data.io), we solve this problem by running a privileges storage container (with ZFS on Linux) that then is able to export volumes into other containers, giving us ZFS snapshots and clones under the hood. This was inspired by the approach taken by dotmesh (https://dotmesh.com/) but is definitely tailor-made to our use case. If someone was sufficiently motivated, I'm sure you could build a different CLI on top of our server and use it simply to manage docker volumes without the Titan trimmings (e.g. push and pull).
I thought this is to skip ads, but no, it is to skip sponsored content inside the video file. I loaded a Veritasium video to check (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDek6cYijxI), the video started playing, I looked at the bar and saw no yellow markers, and figured the extension is useless for me.

Then I clicked "unskip" and realized it had already skipped over the Veritasium sponsored content straight to the start of the video.

Magical.
We merged "Frankenzinc" for 5.5, some sort of contorted compromise solution. I'll be working on fixing lingering warts during the 5.5 and 5.6 cycles there.
Top AWS Services That Are Must for Digital Transformation
A school district is arming its teachers with 600 miniature baseball bats (2018)
Upcoming Browser Behavior Changes: What Developers Need to Know
> Off the top of my head, this could be mitigated in a couple of ways:

Or the third opportunity of not piping curl to bash and using a proper repository that has all these integrity and authenticity checks built-in.
https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/sections/360001508894-Custo...

Other popular publications that use custom domains on Medium:
https://m.signalvnoise.com/
https://medium.economist.com/
https://blog.coinbase.com/

It's now deprecated for new services, though.
Well this wouldn’t happen if creators were more picky with their sponsors and there was more variety. As it stands, there’s only a few legitimate sponsors (so you would’ve already heard of them from other videos) and the rest is dubious garbage like VPNs and pay-to-win mobile games).
Why Licensing Huawei 5G Could Be a Bad Idea
Yes. I believe the split is the same as with ad revenue - 55% to the content creator and 45% to YouTube.
Blech. That explains the (willful) ignorance.
You have to think beyond the accounting. Think of the opportunity cost.

Many people stay at their jobs because of healthcare. Period. Either they don't want to lose it, or don't want to lose some aspect of it. How many startups aren't started? How many dreams aren't filled? How much value isn't created?
When he was talking about the sim-to-real problem it reminded me of a talk I went to on neural networks. The presenter's company identifies retinopathy (diabetes damages the retina). When they first were training the CNN, they only jpg images. However a clinic used slightly different equipment and uploaded pngs and it caused it to not work at all (false positives and false negatives).
The thing that impresses me most about this writeup is how much instrumentation there is on Windows now. I stopped using Windows about 15 years ago, but I don't think this kind of analysis was possible back then.

Or maybe I just didn't know the tools well enough?
Being a web app, everything we need is delivered to the browser or can be inferred.
Just read The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
$100B/year divided by 0.3B equals $333 per year.

That’s not enough for one full monthly premium payment on the ACA exchanges.

However, the average ACA subsidy per person on the marketplace varies tremendously by State, but is typically well above $333 per month.

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/average-mo...
> Then again, we don't know the economic benefits we gained from the Afghanistan war so it's hard to balance the sheet.

Oh, but we do. All the 5000 sq ft McMansion houses in and around the DC area (NoVA & Potomac mostly), built and owned by employees of defense contractors, and the inheritance that their kids will get in a few decades.

And some trickle down of course, in areas where those people choose to spend their money, restaurants and hotels.
Corp IT is still on AD as AD is literally the foundation of everything MS based. No matter if Exchange, workstations, file servers, even Office 365 - all is stored in Active Directory. Even their cloud services, even Microsoft Partner Program, it's all AD under the hood.

Sure you can use Samba / OpenLDAP / half a dozen of IMAP/SMTP servers for groupware but holy hell administering it is an utter hellhole of a mess compared to the MS offerings.

Corp IT cares about two things: retraining costs for employees and admins, and efficiency. And Apache Directory Studio just doesn't cut it compared with AD Editor.
It's sort of unclear why 3 billion bytes needs to be processed in an O(N^2) algorithm in the first place, but seems especially egregious in that it also blocks other processes from running.

One other aspect of the issue is that it's unclear why that database is now so large. It seemed like different machines had different sized databases — perhaps one angle of the solution is trimming and vacuuming.
WMI is not a diagnostic tool. It’s an abstraction/API and lots of developers unfortunately the build over it rather than directly against the underlying WIN32 APIs.
This is exactly right.

War in the United States exists now largely as a money laundering scheme to transfer taxpayer dollars to military contractors.
Again, in the theme of "features every group messaging system had already, but Signal didn't, because they hadn't figured out a way to implement it without turning Signal's central servers into a database of who's talking to who about what". Signal didn't even have user profiles until recently, for the same reason. Here, they've slightly expanded the state of the art in MAC-based anonymous credentials to accomplish their goal.

One interesting aspect of this is that Signal gets to do this, because they have immense goodwill with the cryptographic research and engineering communities; though it's no guarantee of soundness, they have the advantage of having the feature designed, implemented, and ultimately reviewed by cryptography engineers that aren't generally/economically available to other messaging projects.

This is either a reason you love Signal (raises hand) or can't stand Signal. My take is, if you're in the latter group, that's fine; I use Slack, too.
Waymo: Ghost Riding in a Driverless Car
Thanks for the papers you suggest! I'll try and have a quick look. I'm
actually interested in the subject because my research does touch on Datalog
(exactly because of the decidability guarantees).

Agreed about the definitions of decidability and formal correctness. Agreed
also about the expressivity of the pure subset of Prolog. Oh, I remember now
about Datalog and deciding equality. Yes. Well. You hit these kinds of walls
anytime you try to do anything intersting with logic above the propositional
level. The history of logic programming is a history of one negative result
after the other and the compromises that must be made to avoid them. C'est la
vie.

But we persist because there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and
what best way is there to spend your life than chasing rainbows? :0

>> So the question is, how much reasoning a.k.a. how many decision problems
can you actually do/solve on Datalog and Prolog. For Datalog, I'd say quite a
bit, but not everything, and for Prolog I'd argue very little. But both give
you a lot of power in return and that's the price you have to pay.

Yes, I agree absolutely about that.

For example, my code doesn't _need_ the impure constructs. But it's a lot more
efficient with them. So it's a trade-off. And a trade-off very common in
Prolog which, to my opinion makes many pragmatic choices that sacrifice purity
for the benefit of having a useable language.

That goes for reasoning about correctnes, also. The fact that you can
sometimes reason about program correctness, given you can accept some
restrictions to what kind of programs you can reason about is already miles
ahead from what is possible with anything that isn't a logic programming
language. That has to count for something.

>> Edit: And yeah, I don't envy you, on having to work with side-effectful
prolog code. At some point it's just writing C with extra steps, ground
through the Warren Abstract Sausage Machine. ^^'

Aw, I enjoy writing Prolog. So much so that I left my lucrative career in the
industry to do research that would let me write a lot of it :)
I don't think nurses are going to be earning an average of $150k/yr under any system.
Afghanistan is not a security risk to Israel; Iran is.
Thus it's helpful to have aligned governments on both sides of Iran.

There is virtually no benefit for Americans to be in Afghanistan.
A ton of debt.
Indeed and Haskell still has this issue today, because member access is a top-level function.
Not a chance. I choose whether and to turn my video, end of story. Most of the time, I choose to match the team culture, which happens to be video for dev team calls, no video for just a couple devs chatting or for larger groups. But people frequently make a different choice... maybe they are eating or don't feel well, or simply don't want to be on camera that day.

But taking away that choice changes video.... instead of it being a friendly gesture of openness to the team, it is now a constant threat of interruption.
A practical advice video on the topic by the (formerly) RVing couple Gone with the Wynns:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYR6GPmDzVM

They actually switched to a sailboat a few years ago for their travels and are now partly across Pacific (per recent episodes). Still use a composting toilet on the boat.
France's impressive government startup organisation
C++ coroutines: Getting started with awaitable objects
The 100B/year would be as well as current health spending, not instead of it.

What would the additional costs of universal health care be, and would 100B/year cover it? Currently about 27m Americans do not have health insurance. 100B would yield about $3,700 per person which is probably about enough to do it.
I'm aware of this. My point is that the war made no sense from an American point of view, which is why I'm focusing on the costs for America.
Might be related to how boys' play tends to be (I think) more often explicitly about selecting winners and losers, so most men are quite accustomed to defeat. Feminism, when it laments about how men are brought up into dominance roles, is conveniently ignoring all those men who did learn that lesson.
I think you've nailed it in your last paragraph. If you are thinking about what and when you eat, you are probably thinking more about your diet than you previously did.

A lot of people experience similar changes when they write down everything they eat in a food journal. They aren't necessarily changing the types of food they eat, but thinking about it more decreases mindless eating.
oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that I stop the running docker container before I do this
What it's like to be a new software engineer at Stripe
Thank you for posting this. While reading the obit I kept thinking, there is no way this guy could have been able to do what he did without having the backing of the neoliberal system.
> that $90MM mostly came from the 99%

Is that really surprising? The 1% still pays ~38% of taxes by the way.

> We definitely don't have a modern day Robin Hood.

And we shouldn't. Stealing from the rich is still stealing.
On my experience, moving away from a list of pairs add a parsing stage that one may be able to omit otherwise.