skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I honestly can't understand how this is anything other than copyright infringing piracy.

The ethics are "If your article returns in Google, I should be able to read it." If I can't read it, it shouldn't appear on Google.

Unfortunately, I can't enforce this, personally. So, I'm quite happy with these sites that bypass paywalls like these.

When I find a site that has a paywall but doesn't show up in my Google search results, we can talk about ethics again.
For most users, if it's not Google-able and in nice HTML format it doesn't exist ;)
Promises make future exceptions. If you aren't paying attention "in the future" to catch those exceptions, they bubble to an error handler (window.onUnhandledRejection [0]), so it acts as both types of JS errors, depending on how you want to pay attention to it.

async/await syntax lets you catch promise rejection exactly like you would any other type of JS exception with a try {} catch {}.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/unha...
I'd say it's more about how thieves have started to use bluetooth scanners to determine if something very valuable is in your car. If they can tell a macbook is in your car, but your glovebox, center console or trunk are locked, they'll go to extra lengths to break into them.
Administrators. Not to one super administrator that's soaking up all the money, but to an array of administrators in various, emerging roles.

Anecdotal: When I went to undergrad, all of the student advisors were tenured faculty members doing it as part of their job responsibilities. When I went to grad school a few years later, the advisors were all full-time advisors, and all the departments had instructional designers to consult when creating courses.
A tool that finds tech alternatives (beta)
Really great to see Vitalik working with Glen Weyl's ideas. Weyl's collection of "radical ideas" may actually become more than just thought experiments.
Hundreds of fake McDonald's coffee stickers found in man's car
The UC budget 2019–20 suggests:

68% staff + faculty salaries and benefits
15% financial aid
17% equipment

From page 7, https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2019-20...

If someone knows a more detailed breakdown of the budget, I’d be curious! :)
This perception has been around since the early years too. I've even pulled out the Voltaire joke about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670004.

In fact, the guideline against downvote complaints predates the guideline against "turning into Reddit" complaints by a couple of years: https://web.archive.org/web/20080706144102/http://ycombinato...
It would be good for KDE to get stronger backing, but I've heard RedHat avoids backing KDE and focuses on Gnome, due to aversion¹ to contributor agreements², is that correct in that case?

1. https://opensource.com/article/19/2/cla-problems

2. https://www.qt.io/legal-contribution-agreement-qt
>Its all free anyway, its not like they are taking people’s money upfront.

More than "free" right now it is either "null" or "negative".

If the non-product (in Beta stage) is given to the beta-testers for free, it is actually "null", Beta testers get (for free) an incomplete/unusable/unuseful product. (we are talking of a "serious" product that in perspective is to be used to manage "serious" matters, i.e. company money)

If the non-product (in Beta stage) is given to the beta-testers (for free) AND it is (or even if it was at the time the testing began) in early Beta (as this seems the status from the narrative) it is actually "negative", beta-testers are spending or have already spent their time/knowledge/experience on actually making the product (not materially, but providing ideas, asking for needed features, reporting bugs and errors, suggesting enhancements or changes, etc.).

So not only the testers have spent time (if not money) on it, they actually made a bet on the whole stuff, not even knowing if the product would have been ever delivered, let alone the actual future (monthly) cost for it.
The staging area^W^Windex^Wcache is a terribly designed mess, that's why.

The best way to think about it is it's just a half-finished commit, i.e. one without a message and an author and a date. But otherwise git treats the index like any other commit. Adding stuff to the staging area is like amending that commit. Actually committing it is like amending that commit again, but without changing the files, only editing the metadata (message, author, etc). And then moving the current branch to it.

You could totally simulate the cache by doing exactly this, i.e. a series of `git commit -a --amend` commands (just make sure you don't push halfway). The idea behind the staging area is that you obviously need this all the time, because reasons, so let's force you to go through the hassle for every commit you might want to make.

Because it's just a commit that hates your guts, it has all the same side effects as making a real commit has.
Wouldn't a diversity initiative improve the situation for those of us that aren't height or width challenged?
The Aramco IPO while huge only raised about $1200 per Saudi Arabian citizen. That's not going to keep them going very long.
Reading this as journalism I still wonder, why is the English speaking world so trashy?
There's a bit in the article where they directly ask for a CSV dump of transactions, only to get denied. What I thought was somewhat odd/ironic/funny/etc was that the thought of "hey give us your financials in a csv" was untenable, but effectively doing the same through a banking API was OK.
Cult Followers – is your workplace also a cult?
Perhaps the idea of not having a training set means that one should use other datasets such as image net and use transfer learning.
After a certain number of reads of medium, you aren't allowed to read any article without giving them a social login.
There are about twice as many teachers per student as there used to be:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/bl...
Yea. I doubt we'll see it, but there should be criminal negligence changes in there somewhere.

There are so many people involved it's easy to distribute blame or blame the entire process. But if the right email can be tracked down, there's going to be someone(s) in that loop that fits the charges for 200+ counts of manslaughter.
I love how the banner tries to undo the confusion: PENislandPENS.
Thats the problem. The companies that cannot justify their own valuations are very quick to take the VC route to grow at the speed of light. For many, all of a sudden their balance sheets are riddled with negative numbers with no profit to be seen whatsoever. Their products alone have the equivalent impact of a rolling tumbleweed.

I think SoftBank is starting to become sober from funding these dreadful, unprofitable startups like Wag and the infamous WeWork.
I did link to a book on informal fallacies. And I do not agree with your classification. It's narrow and doesn't reflect the history of the field. Logic is a tool for mathematicians, philosophers, and computer scientists. Like any versatile tool, it can be adapted for different — but related — tasks.

On the topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/
Yes, instead of designing several different motherboards Apple just has one very expensive, very high-end motherboard. This hurts customers who don't need all those capabilities.
OP here, was working on this project for a while now, i need some feedback and tips for improvement :D
Can you get a bluetooth signal from a MacBook when its sleeping?
We don't have a generally recognized doctor-patient privilege in US federal law.

The Fifth Amendment, as I understand it, was added as a protection against torture.

Attorney-client privilege, which is much more limited than people think it is (see: current US drama), is fundamental to the working of our legal system, which depends on attorneys to function.

All you're really observing here is that we order some principles above the entitlement of the state to evidence. That's certainly true! But nowhere above that entitlement is there a countervailing general right to personal privacy; my understanding of the system we live in is that that right, to the extent it exists, is ordered lower than the state's right to evidence.
Using GitHub Actions to Keep Node Dependencies Up to Date, Automagically
Apple's completely crazy with the pricing for the new Mac Pro. $6000 for an 8 core Xeon with a Radeon 580x is a mid range machine nowadays thanks to AMD and the Ryzen/Threadripper CPU's. The old towers were far more reasonably priced. Unless you are really tied some Apple specific app, I can't imagine justifying purchasing one of these machines.
The whole purpose of cloud chats would be broken if e2e would be implemented this way. Search for example basically impossible to implement anywhere near the way telegram does it.

Also from all my group chats and I have hundreds 99% are public or semi public (not searchable in telegram but can be found on the internet) it make no sense to encrypt this.
Catalina broke some big applications for me. Microsoft has put a lot of work into making things compatible to almost absurd levels (Windows 95 is still an option on running apps)
Ask HN: What Makes Network Solution's DNS Propagation so slow?
I really don't get how if I do a DNS update on GoDaddy it is almost instant for the change to be propagated through out the world. However, I do a change through Network Solutions and it take HOURS even DAYS for the change to complete. What gives? Is this intentional or just incompetence on their part?
I really like that first one. Yeah that's what I was talking about.I've seen more often than not programmers just learn language syntax but very little about architecture aside from, for example, how to use MVC. Also, for example, we might pride ourselves on memorizing http response codes but I would do a double-take if a developer said to me maybe we should try a decorator pattern here.

I guess they are more codified then I realized and I'm definitely going to read through that list.
Conquering Code Generation in Dart – Part 3: Implement a Static Blog Generator
The Saudi's are definitely pissed with Son, and they are ruthless.
Then I guess I'm a kid because those trucks are friggin sweet. What more of an explanation do we need?
The author goes out of their way to mention something off-colour. That's trashy. It doesn't add anything to our understanding of the paper or the topic.

In particular, referring to cross-breeding of related yeasts as "illicit" -- what could be the real purpose here, other than to be off-colourful?
That doesn't generate any consulting fees for their friends.
Move on and get an agreement you can use it privately to showcase when you look for a new job. I did that exact thing and it greatly helped in interviewing.
Are these unethical contracts made (or at min. shielded/supported) by same folks who once had mini / side hustle of own and now gone big?
Or is it a different populace altogether?

(edit: might just turn out to be a rhetoric)
Explain the mechanism, please. It seems wildly implausible to me that someone's facial features change (let alone in a predictable way) once they've committed a crime.

However, I can easily imagine this "working" by keying off things like age/race/gender, which will get you a value that's "better than chance" but isn't, really. Ditto for differences in the photos; nobody smiles in a mugshot, after all.

(And yes, I know about the paper purporting to show this [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135.pdf] I just think it's ridiculous)
SAG protections also benefit movie stars. It was created by a group of stars to challenge the enormous commercial leverage of the studios back in the "studio system" era of Hollywood.

Stars have surprisingly little leverage against studios. Only a few actors can consistently sell a movie regardless of quality--currently, only Dwayne Johnson and Tom Cruise. When stars have leverage in negotiations, it's generally because other putative participants (usually investors or producers) have hinged their participation on the participation of one or more specific actors.

I’d like to see stats on union participation among doctors and lawyers. I’d bet it’s vanishingly small, especially for lawyers.

Almost all public sector lawyers belong to a union. This includes those working for the county, state, and federal governments in a legal capacity, as well as those working at most major cities.

The same is generally true of doctors working for the public sector. Notably, in contrast to the legal field, there are a number of doctors unions for doctors employed by private sector employers.
I'm reading Charles Petzold's book Code right now and I would highly recommend it if your kids are interested in computers. I'm about 1/3 of the way through it and even though I'm not learning a lot, it's a great read.

Actually, I learned how Braille works and that's something I always wondered about.
Lessons Learned from Developing ML for Healthcare
> American Express cards also have a higher fee than the standard Visa or Mastercard and plenty of retailers complain about that or refuse to accept Amex.

American Express isn't Visa or Mastercard, they are all on different payment network. I have no issue with them having different fees because they are different.

The Apple Card is a Mastercard. Does Mastercard have different fees based on the type of card? I would certainly hate Mastercard more if that was the case.
To bring things back on topic: async/await syntax in JS inherits its magic almost directly from Haskell's do-notation and is exactly an example of why exploring Monads has been practically useful for languages far outside of the "academic ivory tower walls" of Haskell.
SHA1 "is incomprehensible mathematics for 99.999% of the population", yet we do use it to great success. Same with public key cryptography. It doesn't seem to bother people that can't implement ssh/https from top of their heads, right?
U.S. senators threaten Facebook, Apple with encryption regulation
If the money is good there will always be people willing to look away
Seemingly well funded UK cashflow management tool
fluidly [1] also validates the concept I suppose, although I'd guess that they (Fludily) are solving for what the user _needs_ and not what they _want_ (cashflow predictions vs cashflow charts)

[1] https://fluidly.com/
Mortgages and more administration. I watched my school build new building after new building (New Residence Hall, New Chemistry Hall, New Engineering Building, etc.) and then wait for a benefactor to donate enough to name the building after them. These donations never approached the costs of maintaining and furnishing the new building. Just like lots of other things in America larger rooms were in demand as well. An old dorm with 200sqft dorm rooms housing 2 students was knocked down for dorms with 1000sqft suites housing 4 students.
Yep always the Toyotas. We had one in the yard that wasn't street legal any more, the thing was basically a shell of a truck with 700,000 km on it, no hood, whole exterior was just trashed, but it ran beautifully so they kept using it.
Leaders with a technical background will have a better understanding of how increasing the pressure leads to poor workmanship and worsens the chances of finishing on time in the long run.
There's a counter argument here that "ordinary people" represent a much more realistic source of danger than some super-criminals/high-level terrorists. Depressed dude who's read too much bullshit on some forum, so he goes out and starts shooting people is statistically much more likely to happen than another 9/11. This type of lone-wolf lunatics and small groups of ideologically indoctrinated people who operate completely on their own - basically some guys sitting together one night and coming up with the idea that "they should do something about it" - are the future of terrorist threat and significantly harder to spot than large organizations.
Solismed Version 3.3SP1 – Critical CVEs
Not applying security updates puts you at risk. It is in your best interest to make all of the paths lead to eventually reminding you again to update. Nothing forces you to update, it will just remind you again that you need to.
> In case The Qt Company would ever attempt to close down Open Source Qt, the foundation is entitled to publish Qt under the BSD license. This notable legal guarantee strengthens Qt. It creates trust among developers, contributors and customers.

Woah, I had no idea about this. I wonder what kind of new changes would take place if Qt were BSD licensed, such as languages like D embedding it as a solution for UIs as part of the standard library (they already do this for SQLite and Curl).
Actually it’s less like a regulated lottery at this point and more like loot boxes.
This post is the worst drivel I've seen get this high on HN, devoid of any merit. Read overview, use console? Err, yeah, thanks.

Flagged, as likely being boosted by a voting ring.
I don't think the majority of people understand how deep this problem went. Back when they were first grounded, we saw stuff on HN nearly every week. I don't think it got much place elsewhere. Many of my friends are really unaware of how serious the Boeing situation is. Same thing for back when Uber had a new scandal (grey ball, harassment memo, hell map, hiring Eric Holder to run damage control, the other harassment memo). I'd tell friends I refused to use Uber and they were mostly unaware of half of that stuff.
Please read carefully my phrasing.

Using SO for something different than trivial lookup is a recipes for disaster and it says a lot about the quality of the work done.
the visibility in that "car" is awful
Granted, there's enough wisdom produced by really brilliant people that a lifetime probably wouldn't be enough to read it all, nevermind understand and apply it all. So I don't disagree. But still, calibrate? Your voice is still a voice, and it's the one you have. There is nothing new under the sun, but at the same time, nobody will ever have the exact outlook on life and the universe as you do. Maybe your writing is really terrible, I wouldn't know. But your heart is in the right place, so how could it be?

> Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

-- Ira Glass

> If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

-- Vincent van Gogh

> The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

-- Margaret Atwood

> Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

-- C. S. Lewis

> The forest would be pretty quiet if only the best birds sang.

-- Proverb (?)
5 books to read this winter – Bill Gates
When I was in undergrad, a Google recruiter found my resume and contacted me about an internship. Google decided I didn't have enough background and they wouldn't even offer me a phone interview - meaning they made the decision purely on that same resume. Fair enough, they probably sent it to an engineer who disagreed. But two days later, another recruiter with no knowledge of the first messaged me about my "very interesting resume".

I still hear from their recruiters at semi-random, each saying they're my "new point of contact at Google". Sometimes there's nothing for a year, then I'll get two "new points of contact' within one week. Recruiting is always a mess, but it's a bit surprising to see an in-house team get up to the same antics I expect from third party services.

The most recent approach was the most persuasive, though:

Dear [appplicant],

I'm writing to because I saw your resume and I think you could be a great fit for Google. I'm particularly interested in your work with [background], which I think prepares you very well for [position].
Another thing I'll add is that I love when API docs have an export of all the apis that can be imported into tools like Postman. Makes it very easy to import them there and get test calls started ASAP. This is especially useful when they don't have a console UX built into the docs.
Catalina is not a security update.
Everything, including income, is eventually correlated with race. The point I was making counters "does not matter how, just the outcome matters": The model disapproved you not because you are black, but because you have a low income. There is societal racism there that needs addressing with policy and regulation, not by handicapping your model by throwing away non-protected variables. The -perfectly legal-outcome will be that fewer people of color receive a loan.

I know that you can't use just any old variable, but I tried enough to know that music genre would probably be an informative feature (dibs on providing loans to classical - and Judeo-Christian religious music lovers, you are free to underwrite the dubstep - and ghetto rap fans).
Has this actually held up? My understanding is that what specific and specialized areas of work on off-time is considered company IP have to be enumerated, and must depend upon availability of unusual proprietary information.
A better Qt already exists. It's called Electron.
Pretty sure that’s not the UI for major version updates.
I regularly use 'gource' to get a lovely picture of my repos:

https://gource.io
I really wish Apple would figure out how to update my machine without making me turn it off.
> I'm not sure it's worse than alternatives, because screening animal caretakers is a difficult problem.

The big issue is that once you find an animal caretaker that you like through Wag, it is in both your interest to cut out the middle man, and pay the person directly. It will be cheaper for you, and the caretaker will actually get more money.
Forgot what exactly I was trying to do but occasionally you get a apt message saying this package can't be found but is referenced by other packages.

I had assumed that to mean not everything was ported to arm but that's a guess.

Ended up installing from a git repo