skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not ridiculous, its makes complete sense. It's because for years we didn't get shit. Intel kept/keeps releasing basically the same CPU with minor gains. In the 2000s we were accustomed to those doublings. Currently we are accustomed to the minor gains. AMD breaking that status quo has lead to the hype.
As you wish, HN is not the place for this kind of quality content anyway.
One of the funniest eras of advertising was the ads for HD TV broadcast on 480p TV. They’d always include all these video clips & that always made me laugh :-)
There's a lot of evidence that taking breaks helps with language learning. And there are several other ways to learn languages. I'll sometimes stop using duo lingo but listen to Spanish language podcasts instead for a couple weeks
> Actions should be penalized, not speech.

Speaking is an action.

> You do realize that your way of thinking opens up gay rights activists to prosecution for spreading HIV?

Are gay rights activists stating incorrect facts that risk the public health, including of heterosexual people?

> What about vegan activists? Babies and even pets have been starved to death because some people followed vegan advice. Should all vegan activists be punished?

No, of course not. Unless they claim that a given diet is harmless or beneficial to babies/pets even though it's known to be harmful.

> What about PR firms who create soda ads? Should we round up all of them and punish them?

Not necessarily, unless their ads contain lies or are intentionally misleading.

> If a journalist writes a story that leads to war ( legal or illegal ) that results in the death of children, should they be prosecuted?

Did they lie?

> Should librarians be prosecuted because libraries carry offensive material that people might read to cause harm?

That obviously depends on the material in question.

> Also, you do realize that your system depends entirely on who is in charge rather than principles?

No, it depends on things like a working democracy, rule of law, and freedom of science.
It's stunning that HackerOne staff use their production credentials to reproduce security reports. Is there no internal instance of the HackerOne platform they can run their tests on?
> After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case.

Better title would be "Donor's DNA travels to unexpected parts of body after bone marrow transplant."
The main weakness I see is that they're still showing the user the generated password. That means the user could reuse that generated password on another site. /s

I expect a followup thread:

"It is for this reason why we neither send you the password, nor ask for it during login."
USN phased out the CGNs mostly during the collapse of the military after the Soviets quit. CGNs are extremely useful, and as directed energy weapons become common, will have a place in the Navy.
If you happen to come across someone touting a point of view that you disagree with, then you decide to try to attack that person's livelihood for it, you better try to find out the beliefs of everyone that you give money to.

Say that you come across some guy on Twitter who said that Quake was a bad game. You click around and find out that he works as Big Company Inc and is probably the only one there with this personal opinion. You decide that Big Company Inc should suffer for hiring this guy, so you decide to boycott them. Now, you take your business to Huge Group Co. However, Huge Group Co has a whole floor of people who believe that Quake was never a good game, and they believe it strongly. But they never announce it. You should not be comfortable handing money to them unless your actual goal is to punish people for expressing themselves in places where you might happen to see it.
Springy bamboo poles help villagers carry more than their own body weight
Had to chime in with a nod of agreement to both brador and 0x445442 .

I'm not being normally someone to comment on such things ( why bother with the effort?). I am making concrete efforts to get noticed by identifying groups/people who might align with my own thoughts/beliefs for my own vested interests.
need a compiler/transpiler that translates to browsers that don't understand these new features. and hope browsers catchup , which could be never.

So this is basically a fantasy what javascript could be no different than any other alt-js languages .
As I like to put it when I have to come up with a “fun fact” for corporate icebreaker activities, “I have programmed in APL for money”. It’s not really that hard.

The notation is certainly a stumbling block if you’re trying to read these articles out of context. How do you even “read” something like “5⍴⍳20” in your head when it’s that unfamiliar? But that’s the same as anything else, what does “for (x = 0; x < 10; i++)” mean to someone who’s never seen it before? So when you can see that as “5 rho iota 20”, at least you can pronounce it. But when you’re actively using the language you know what ⍳20 means as easily as you know what “1 through 20” means. “Reshape 5” is just as familiar. So it takes only a glance at 5⍴⍳20 to visualize a 5x4 matrix of the numbers from 1 to 20.

Once you start thinking that way, the majority of what might seem like show-off tricks or being clever are just the paradigm of the language. The idea of creating a vector of things, applying a true/false test to every element to create another vector of 1s and 0s, and summing those or using them to pick elements out of another vector is a super powerful tool that lets you express a lot of ideas in a compact form that describes the algorithm without getting bogged down in writing explicit loops. What’s the average of these numbers? The sum divided by the count. In APL you just write that down. In many other languages, you write “I wish to declare a variable ‘i’ of type 32-bit-integer. Set ‘i’ to 0. Compare ‘i’ to ...”. What does any of this have to do with an average?

Now of course in an article where the author is actually showing off how clever you can get, and the topic of many items is some obscure mathematical concept, it’s going to be harder to read than the average program.
As an example, can you name a b2b or b2c product that you feel is truly great but overlooked?
I didn’t set out with freelancing as my goal, it was more that I decided to travel. I left my employer to travel for six months. On my travels I visited Japan and decided I’d love to go back there. When I came back to the UK I started studying Japanese and applying for a Japanese working holiday visa. I also needed to get some savings together. I could of went back to my employer but it seemed like a lot of effort as I was at my parents place in Northern Ireland and my employer was in England. Moving over is a hassle and I knew I would be leaving after a few months so I decided to try freelancing.

I am a Python web developer and couldn’t find any work in Northern Ireland. My clients ended up all being in London and I would work remotely. When I actually moved to Japan my client at the time was happy to continue working with me. Which was pretty cool. I have fond memories of that time. Working in a ryokan, sitting on a tatami mat coding Python. So cool.

I ended up working for a company in Japan which was cool. Before my visa ran out my old colleague contacted me out of the blue and asked if I wanted to freelance with him at the same company he was working for. I had my interview over Skype while in Japan so when I came back to the UK I was straight into work. It ended up being more convenient to freelance than to look for a job and I’ve just continued to freelance ever since.
This is kind of shitty, but once the situation occurred (due to the stupid and IMHO inexcusable situation of "An oddity in Teich’s case is that Barclays also appeared to have identical account numbers for two different customers") there really aren't good solutions of the (unintended) recipient disputes the reversal and claims that that's money intended for them.

All the things he initially asked Barclays to do were refused not because they didn't want to do that, but because Barclays can't do that. They can't return the money without a court order (in these particular circumstances the payment was "executed correctly" according to the legal criteria, because the payment was intended to be sent to that account number and was credited to the matchign account number, so any uf the more common justifications of error-fixing can't apply. But the payment laws pretty much implicitly assume that the account numbers are unique, and they weren't in this case), so if the recipient disagrees, then either it goes to court or the money stays there. Furthermore, revealing the account holder's identity would be a crime under banking secrecy laws - again, a court order was needed for that, it's not something that Barclays is allowed to do at their discretion.

What does seem ugly is the obscene legal costs - it should not take 12000 and 34000 pounds to submit a simple claim to the court that (as far as I understand) was not even contested.
Anecdotally, I have heard around Seattle that Amazon employees have been very aware of fraudulent products as their main problem. This was ~1.5 years ago.

I feel like they are one 60 Minutes piece away from a minor disaster.
Haha, the way you just handwave away the last few years of .NET/CLR/Roslyn/DLR changes means I've seen this is a waste of my time and will stop checking for replies

But uh yeah... what percentage of Java developers are still on Java EE 7, 8?

The "business advantage" is in things not changing. If you compare languages by business advantage then Java 1 wins because "we haven't had to waste money upgrading since the 90s!"

I'm going for something a little more meaningful, developer ergonomics, which you hand-wave away as not being valuable to a business (protip: if your developers get to care about their code that's a good thing, you'll find you can get better developers if you look for the ones who do)
-- No, currently TTS always plays on opening dict. It would be simple to put an option, just maybe don't want to overload the user with options. If the issue is that the voice isn't very pleasent, maybe it's better to address that.

-- Just Netflix for now. We'll release a beta version for Youtube in about two weeks. Most of our users are in East Asia (75k in Korea), so, we'd look which services are popular there.

-- Hosting costs, well, not too bad. We use firebase.. outgoing data is 10c per Gb, but, we might add a few nginx catches on a digital ocean VM (in different regions) for some endpoints to get this down, and reduce latency for dictionary. Machine translations are the main cost (it's actually a paid feature already).
Babbel does grammar, yes, as well as explanations of exceptions and idioms, and the sentences and dialogues are culturally relevant to the language
Lot of good comments here. The /r/freelance subreddit is also a good place to ask questions & discuss issues.
In JavaScript there are two types of errors: First class errors that you can return, pass around and bubble up. And then there are exceptions that means the program did something unexpecting. Promises make no exception and does not treat them as first class citizens.
"COLORADO SPRINGS — Biology textbooks used in American high schools do not go near the sensitive question of whether genetics can explain why African-Americans are overrepresented as football players and why a disproportionate number of American scientists are white or Asian.

But in a study starting this month, a group of biology teachers from across the country will address it head-on. They are testing the idea that the science classroom may be the best place to provide a buffer against the unfounded genetic rationales for human difference that often become the basis for racial intolerance.

At a recent training in Colorado, the dozen teachers who had volunteered to participate in the experiment acknowledged the challenges of inserting the combustible topic of race and ancestry into straightforward lessons on the 19th-century pea-breeding experiments of Gregor Mendel and the basic function of the strands of DNA coiled in every cell."

There are scientists such as Richard Lynn and the late Arthur Jensen who do think there are racial differences in intelligence, and there are scientists who disagree with them. A science class should not cover a controversial topic unless it can do so impartially and objectively, but it is clear from the article that the people developing the new curriculum have made up their minds.
Yes, and decades of anti-Russian sentiment due to the Cold War, maybe. Russia’s position in Ukraine is distasteful to the west, but entirely in keeping with their defence strategy which has been consistent for hundreds of years.
Thus the famous quote - Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education.
Literate programming making a comeback! (If it was ever in vogue anyway?)
> It perverts the freedom of movement between jobs that people have a fundamental right to.

I was always fascinated that the US simultaneously had this health care system, and also a cultural obsession with small business (this may have faded over the years, but was a huge talking point in the 90s and noughties, especially on the right).

“People should start small businesses! Oh, also, if you do that you may die” was just such a perplexing message.

Being from a developed English-speaking country, where we get a lot of American media, it’s very easy to just assume that America is pretty much like a bigger version of what I’m used to. Until it comes to the jarring, utterly alien things, like healthcare.
>And for now Waymo's revenue is estimated to be $5M. While Google's revenue is about $160,000M.

Why the decision to write $160,000M vs $160B? Was it so the same as the previous $5M number? Even still, it seems unnatural to me.
The homework has to be just easy enough that every kid can do it, which means that for many kids, it's mainly a test of focus and motivation. This is all the more prevalent today, when homework has turned into drill work for the questions on the standardized tests.

I've got two kids, and so I can attest from limited anecdotal evidence, that it's completely unpredictable how each kid will relate to homework.
Also, they weigh ~6 tons vs a great white at around 2.3 tons. And 4 inch teeth vs 2 inch teeth. And hunt in packs versus loners. Lastly, much faster...30mph vs 15mph.

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/01/63/62/17251480/15/rawImage....
An adult Orca alone already significantly outclasses a Great White. A large adult Great White might weigh up to 1,110 kg (2,450 lb) while a large adult Orca can weigh up to 5,380 kg (11,860 lb). Orcas can reach speeds of over 48 km's per hour, while a Great White Shark manage up to 24 km per hour. The Orca's spine and tail also allow it to pull manoeuvres (sudden dive, climb) that a shark can't respond to. And that's before you even consider the Orca's brain...

And it seems Orca's may have figured out a sharks big weakness... tonic immobility - https://www.sharktrust.org/tonic-immobility
Way ahead of you :-)

http://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/catalogue.html#langua...

(should update the catalogue data though, bit old now.)
My last job's insurance plan cost me $800/mo (family) just for the pleasure of having. Even with the insurance (which changed half way through employment) things like my migraine medication was still $150/mo on top of that (before the change it was not much).

This was actually much better than the job before that because at least the company paid for my coverage (may be confusing but that's still $800/mo out of my pocket to cover my family).

So yes, just the job you choose can be rather drastic changes in take home pay due to insurance coverage, so a huge impact on what companies you decide to work for.

You can imagine the headache each year when it comes time to have to choose insurance plans again.
Yeah, it really depends. I've done it all different ways.

- Bill the client for actual expenses

- Paid out of pocket for travel that was baked into the day rate

- Had major travel (air/hotel) paid for directly by a client's travel agent. (Which I actually preferred to avoid when reasonably possible because now you're dealing with your client's travel policies.)

I'm not an accountant but I tend to agree you shouldn't be billing a broken-out travel line item that's not actual expenses or expenses plus explicit overhead [or a standard per diem].
That’s a long way of saying Waymo isn’t making any money.
My favorite Joel article is: "Whaddaya Mean, You Can’t Find Programmers?"

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/15/whaddaya-mean-you-...

"Now, let’s review some microeconomics. In a free market, it is almost axiomatic that the market always clears. That’s a technical term that means that when somebody tries to sell something, if they are willing to accept the market price, they will be able to sell it, and when somebody wants to buy something, if they are willing to pay the market price, they will be able to buy it. It’s just a matter of both sides accepting the market price."
I just spent three weeks going through your research. Thank you for that work, especially the supplementary materials.I wish I'd known how much the ideas in the pluribus paper depended on reading the libratus paper.

I see what you're saying about the real time search (which took me quite some time to understand). I came up with a way to do that from disk due to memory limitations. It limits the number of search iterations but doesn't seem to have a huge negative impact on quality so far.

Anyway, thanks again!
Most European countries modernised their health care systems at some point in the chaos of the early 20th century, typically shortly after ww2. It was a time of huge social upheaval anyway. The current culture is less tolerant of sweeping change to how things are done.
As an Americam, I'm free to move about, but I don't move jobs very often. I consider healthcare benefits when I move, but only that I have them and that my new salary pays for them completely. If the new employer pays a smaller percentage of my healthcare bill, then my salary must increase by that amount. I've never switched jobs and had my overall salary decrease.

I wouldn't stay in a bad job for the benefits, but I'm a technical employee, who happens to have lots of choice.
I wonder if Google’s project Sidewalk Labs in Toronto would be affected as well.
no one has any clue that someone's living inside

The secret is out these days, you can camp quietly but people will know what you are up to.
Show HN: JS2HTML – Formatting JavaScript as HTML
I haven’t gone too far down the rabbit hole yet but I find it similar to React in complexity ceiling. I’ve built some extremely complicated UIs in React. You just have to break up your views as complexity grows.
Many UK banks will issue IBANs (they are trivially calculated from the sort code and account number anyway), and payments can be made to IBANs - but for transfers within the UK, there is no need to provide an IBAN.

Note that it is still possible to check an account number without an IBAN: https://github.com/AntoineAugusti/moduluschecking

The issue here was not the account number being wrong, but rather the combination of sort code and account number being wrong - for which there is not necessarily a checksum digit covering the pair.
Meta: I can't bear watching this video, I find it infuriating. It's a mix of many shots, with no temporal continuity. I don't think there is a continuous shot of more than 3 seconds. The music is annoying (wouldn't natural noise be much more impressive) and over the top. The attack scene is not even clear because of all this. And most of the time is spent watching someone boasting that her "scientific" film is marvelous.

I don't have TV at home, and I rarely watch youtube and modern videos, so I suppose I'm just not used to way TV is nowadays. Even the BBC. I hope it doesn't help inducing ADHD.
> The astute observer will notice that the rate was inversely proportional to the actual difficulty of the work

This is gold. It happens far too often.
Nonconsensual porn combining deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated
So i have been looking at architecture and security lately. Is it a thing that you automatically start noticing what is not right in a sight? For instances first thing i saw in that link was that the site runs on http not https.
This system already exists and is called the IBAN (although it has only two checksum digits, mod 97). I thought it was used for all bank transfers in the EU now, but apparently the old system is still in use in the UK.

https://www.xe.com/ibancalculator/sample/?ibancountry=united...
Could you explain why you think it's fraud (and where you're from might help too).

In the UK there's, for example, a standard "mileage charge" which people tend to claim for driving to a place for work. It's not "the cost of travel" it's an approximate.

When a company charges for sending an operative to a site, they pay the operative £10 ph, and charge the company receiving them £100 -- presumably you think that's fraud too?

How about when Guchi (made up company) charge you $500 for a plain white tshirt made by people who aren't paid a living wage, wouldn't that also be fraud under the same sort of consideration?
See also Framasoft [1] which has a collection of self-hostable free software services to replace most of Google (and other walled garden companies) products.

[1] https://framasoft.org/en/
It does depend. When I was a consultant, we tried to charge based on value (by engagement). OTOH, clients often still thought in terms of hours. If we were on-site for one engagement that was only going to take half a day, they'd often try to hook us up with some other group as well given we were there and had the time. (Typically we'd go along as these were long-time clients.)

And some areas like law are very hourly-based. The one time I did some legal work it was strictly based on time. (At a very good hourly rate including travel time.)
Consensus is that they were likely outcompeted by whales for sure, though mostly by relatives of modern sperm whales. I hadn't heard anything about predation by dolphins/orcas.
> Elon has shown us that you can reduce manufacturing costs of rockets by a factor of 10 to 100 in a mater of one to two decades, if you put your mind to it.

Well, it's better to say that he reduced the price of the launch, not the cost.
> but the fact that access to healthcare _EVER_ factors in to your career is manifestly wrong.

ABSOLUTELY. I should be able to independently choose my healthcare coverage. I purchase my home/renters insurance, my car insurance, my liability insurance, my life insurance, etc. separately from my employer. Why not health insurance???

Employer-tied health insurance is literally federal law in the U.S.

It still boggles my mind how widely supported the ACA employer mandate ("Obamacare") was by my fellow Americans.

And disappoints me that the mandate wasn't repealed in 2017-2018 when it appeared the right politicians were in place.
That’s probably over simplistic. The current US system doesn’t actually benefit most well-off people; the person who wrote the article probably qualifies as rich by most metrics. There are obviously companies which benefit, but on the whole it’s like it is because large-scale change is hard. Note that even the modest reforms under Obamacare were politically poisonous at the time, even though its somewhat popular now; making a change with long term benefits but short term cost and inconvenience is always hard politically.
>After they axed Reader, I stopped using anything from the G

I never used Reader, but did anything else come along to fill the void? I ask as I am curious on the market when G kills a product. When G kills off a product, does the rest of the world just assume that if G couldn't make it work then it must not be worth doing? I know HN readers were vocal about the death of lots of G products, but HN readers are edge cases in the grand scheme.