skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait this is a JSON parser, not a JavaScript parser! Still nice work! There is something "raw" about writing parsers by hand (even if they are recursive descent). Teaches one a lot about clean design and modularity etc!
Who is going to run this board? It's probably going to be the last people on earth you want in those positions.
I looked up if a company can do the opposite - basically poof additional shares into existence and sell them - and found out they basically can and it's called stock dilution.

How is that legal? It doesn't make sense to me that if a share is worth x% of a company that said company can just decide "Nah, you actually now only own half of that" and sell more shares.

Fake edit: I googled "how is stock dilution legal" and found this [0] which explained it well and now it makes sense to me. The diluted stock might be a smaller % ownership, but since the company gained value because of money coming in, the dollar value of the shares stays the same.

[0] https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/58391/why-is-stock...
This reminds me of the story of MP3.com. The creator ran a search engine, which never got especially popular, but it was popular enough to demonstrate the sudden growth of that term, and so he registered the domain name without even knowing what it meant.
I didn’t say law was “fixed.” (To paraphrase Justice Ginsberg, law will be “fixed” when there are nine women on the Supreme Court.)

What I said was that recent progress is the result of work that started decades ago. Harvard law graduated its first women in 1953. But back then top women law graduates were still getting offers to be secretaries. (Justice Ginsberg’s story was not at all atypical for her cohort.) That, along with the prospect of joining a 90%+ male class in and of itself dissuaded women from pursing law. Law schools fixed that by making 50-50 classes an express goal, and then achieving that goal. Then law firms made 50-50 classes of incoming associates an express goal, and achieved that goal. Gender parity was achieved not simply by accepting women to law schools, but by actively seeking to admit gender balanced classes. But once that happened, the new ratio became self-perpetuating. When being a woman lawyer no longer meant being part of a tiny minority in law school, a firm, etc., women self-selected into it when previously they had opted out.

I strongly suspect the same factors are in play in STEM: women who would be good programmers self-select out of the field because they don’t want to be the 1-2 women in a class of 20 men, or the 1-2 women programmers on a team of 20 men.
I've been utilizing the VS Code "Live Share" for remote paired programming. It's been a great help in getting that mentorship aspect.
Wow, so it's even stupider than we thought. Impressive.
I really like Figwheel Main (https://figwheel.org/) for live code reloading as well as a REPL for ClojureScript development.
We're still policing reading.

DRM on digital books, "renting" books on digital platforms, banned books by governments, banned books on shopping sites, religions sentencing and/or cursing the "unclean" reader, communists banning religious books....
I agree that the west doesn't have as many freedoms as I would like it to have.

This isn't binary. While the west isn't perfect, it very clearly has more liberty than China
We changed the url from https://uploadvr.com/facebook-ads-vr/ to an article that links to the relevant announcement.
yes. I left out the details...
Robert Martin talks about how in the 60's and 70's women made up a large amount of the worlds programmers. It would seem somewhere along the way we found ways to significantly reduce the number of women entering the profession. I would argue that any biological reasons have little to no influence compared to social factors. If we accept this alternative theory, then the solution is to change the social culture around STEM to not be so exclusionary.
I admit I haven't tried going this route, but Ting seems to still have at least one they support that you can buy off of their website:

https://ting.com/shop/alcatel-go-flip_Black-4GB-refurbished-...

I guess from the description that it does have some internet capabilities, but I would assume they can be disabled.

Another option if you're just trying to get away from Google/Apple would be an Android phone with Lineage OS and no Google services. You loose access to the usual Play store apps, but still have a lot more capabilities than a flip phone.

https://www.lineageos.org/
Thanks to ALMA’s sensitivity, the team has now been able to determine the distance of this galaxy: MAMBO-9.

“We found the galaxy in a new ALMA survey specifically designed to identify dusty star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. And what is special about this observation, is that this is the most distant dusty galaxy we have ever seen in an unobstructed way,” Dr. Casey said. [1]

[1] http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/mambo-9-merging-pair-dusty...
Syndicate. Now there was a damn good game.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Syndicate_Plus_1994
The government had a warrant for the data. You are able to disable the feature which allows Google to collect this location history. If you had disabled it, Google never would have stored it. But with the feature enabled, and with the government presenting a valid warrant, what would you have Google do?
Architecting Restaurant Wait Time Predictions
The thing I like about hooks is that components can be truly modular in terms of both behaviour and state. They can so be relatively easy to reason about in isolation and therefore it's easier to reuse them with less plumbing needed.

For instance a simple custom hook use_graphql_list(url,query) can encapsulate the entirety of fetching json via a graphql query keeping an array up to date and in sync and present data in a format that is easy to use in a list component.

For instance in rust:

let graphql_query = "{countries {name currency emoji}}";
let graphql_url = "https://countries.trevorblades.com/";
let container_name = "countries";
let (list, graphql_control) =
use_graphql_list::<Country>(
graphql_query,
graphql_url,
container_name);
I had to use some python with vs code recently and for some reason it reminded me (in a good way) of working in qbasic with the little ide/debugger. The same kind of quick simplicity.
Facebook's immense power makes it much more difficult for competing messaging systems, social networks, VR-related companies, and others to enter the market. When they do find any success, Facebook usually acquires them. The effects of monopolies and oligopolies on economies and societies are well-established.

If you live in the US, or Europe, or pretty much any country Facebook operates in, the company is spending millions of dollars every year to lobby your government. While that may not sound like a lot, political influence is surprisingly cheap, and effects you whether or not you choose to participate in the political process. The CEO meets regularly with the president of the United States and his close associates, and has met and spoken with many other world leaders.

Facebook is a major facilitator of violence and ethnic cleansing around the world (https://time.com/5197039/un-facebook-myanmar-rohingya-violen..., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-india-content/fa..., https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/chinse-media-fa...). You might argue that if they couldn't use Facebook, people would just use some other platform or tool to accomplish the same goal. That's possible, but if it's happening on Facebook, the company has a responsibility to take action, and they have failed. I don't think there is any other platform that could be used as effectively as Facebook and WhatsApp for this purpose.

Even if you don't use Facebook, they likely have a profile for you if anybody you know uses it. They collect contacts from peoples' phones, and scan for faces in all photographs (and correlate the results with other photos). If you don't have robust ad and tracker blocking in your web browser, Facebook is tracking your behavior with their ubiquitous like buttons and analytics scripts.
https://www.dosbox.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox
Fake moneyball again
That's not true. We know from history that a much larger percentage of programmers in the US were women before it became a lucrative career.

> Between 30 and 50 percent of programmers were women in the 1950s, and it was seen as a natural career for them, as evidenced by a 1967 Cosmopolitan feature about “Computer Girls.” [1]

[1] https://timeline.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-th...
That's nonsense. It pays very well and can give you great freedom to set your own path.
It's not that other languages don't have async code...they just do it using multiple threads or other patterns that are nicer to work with than JS.
I don't know about you but me and my family like living, you're going handle all the political heat with just a sturdy front door?
It's perfectly possible to consider traits to be culturally assigned to the genders and not biologically determined, and still complain about them. Complaining about innate (and therefore unchangeable) biological traits would actually be somewhat useless.

Besides, nobody denies the existence of biological differences. It's pretty obvious that women tend to have breasts and men tend not to. What's being criticised is:

- Misinterpreting culturally-enforced differences as biological and therefore fixed. Hair length, for example, could be misinterpreted as a difference between the sexes if any aliens did a quantitative study without ever noticing the barbers. Job choices could very well be similar, except the process how they are culturally reinforced are less obvious.

- Making decisions affecting individuals based on group differences (biological, culturally, or imagined): Even if women are 2% at picking stocks, using that information only to hire Alice and not Bob will lead to the wrong decision in 45% of cases because the differences between individuals swamp the group averages.
I believe it is all Google services: search, gmail, android, anything that can determine your approximate location.
Well, to quote the wikilink:

"The original cultural meaning and purpose of these artefacts is not known. It has frequently been suggested that they may have served a ritual or symbolic function. There are widely varying and speculative interpretations of their use or meaning: they have been seen as religious figures,[5] an expression of health and fertility, grandmother goddesses or as self-depictions by female artists"
I agree. Very incremental and I’d be surprise if it’s a meaningful growth driver. However, it probably has most appeal to new investors who are just starting out which seems on-message for Robinhood. My teenager who got interested in learning about investing this past year has a portfolio comprised almost entirely of single share positions. Fractional shares would interest him.
> promotion candidates to comprise 30-50% women or other underrepresented groups

I think most tech companies would go into a full-blown panic if you imposed a quota of non-asians (who are something like 5% of the U.S. population) for technical positions.
Back then we were one of the first brokers in the to provide online trading
What makes Neanderthals so interesting is they split from sub-Saharan humans long before what we now call modern humans evolved. That and the fact they still walk amongst us - everyone who is not of sub-Saharan decent is part Neanderthal.
> Actually, I am unsure how country specific

It is kind of hilarious how different this works in a lot of countries. For example in German, the translation of science is 'Wissenschaft'. It would literally translate to "the thing you do to make knowledge". Humanities are called 'Geistes'wissenschaft and Law is called 'Rechts'wissenschaft'. Math is generally considered to be part of the humanities, and CS is usually either part of the math-department or very closely settled to the engineering department.

There's many more differences between the german and anglo academic culture, let alone all the other ones out there.
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Cruise ships to house homeless in Oakland a possibility
Your phone itself, not a specific app, is constantly recording your location.

From my understanding, in the case of Android (with Google services), if you have location history turned on, that location data is pushed up to Google at very regular intervals.

You don't need to be using a specific app.
Toxic individuals like you should really find some other industry to pollute.
Very interesting.

> The iSmell failed to get the interest of the public. When looking at what went wrong for the iSmell, it is revealed that the missing link was a market survey. According to Startupover’s Andrea Dusi, the iSmell “was definitely a nice idea, but not a useful one”. DigiScents has shut down due to a lack of funding, although it still “continues to license its technology and is looking for funding for a relaunch. [1]

I wonder if with virtual reality, something like this will pick up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell
Burner phones have a lot more info about you than people think.

Or at least I know that in one court case there was a nice big 8x10 of the defendant purchasing a burner phone. Apparently a lot of Point of Sale systems, especially where they sell burner phones, are wired to take a nice portrait of you when you purchase. I didn't know that at the time, and apparently, neither did the defendant.

That, combined with the location of his phone matching the location of his license plate around town did him in.

So if you try the burner phone thing, someone else has to buy it, and you should never take it with you to places where there are likely to be security cameras. And you also might want to refrain from driving with it in your vehicle.
I will reiterate my comment on these types of projects. The regulatory pathway established by the fda for these types of products is woefully inadequate and they are very very hard to properly validate.

I think any application of deep convolutional neural networks should be alongside a radiologist. If we speed up scans and make up for it with convnets it is very hard (practically speaking: impossible) to properly validate that they will not hallucinate away rare abnormalities. It will also be impossible for radiologists your spot errors like this in the wild because of the reduction in quality of the scan.

What happens when the scanners change their behavior in some subtle way that is unaccounted for by FastMRI? It could start erasing a ton of subtle abnormalities and this would not be possible to check for since the original scan will be lower quality.
Why do you think the issue is biological and not social? Isn't this the nature vs nurture debate?
If you look at the scatterplot excluding the four countries at the bottom right (Algeria, Turkey, Tunisia, UAE), you get basically a circle and (to my eye anyway) the trendline is horizontal, meaning, no correlation.

Moreover, there are two countries with approximately the same gender inequality but many fewer women in STEM, namely Qatar and Korea.

It seems to me that reducing this to "the more gender equality, the fewer women in tech" is a stretch! You could have just as easily written a headline to the effect of, "Turkey and three northern African countries have a higher percentage of women in STEM than almost anywhere in the world, including places that have the same gender (in)equality, like Qatar and S. Korea. Why is that?"
I have no idea how to compute active users. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the karma number meant anything, relative to each subreddit.

IMO, pro-Trump/anti-Trump news is keeping many other important topics off the front page.
Here's a no JavaScript version of the article that reduces the page size by 99% - from 3.15 MB to 33 KB: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/768
Maybe the people of the time projected their ideas of that time, today we call it art.
Whenever I like a syntax highlighter theme on a website, I search on Github a few of the hex codes. Like this: https://github.com/search?q=65ddd9+ff767b+ffc312&type=Code

In this case, there's only 1 result… the author's public repo. So I guess the search worked! But the theme seems to be a personalised one the author created themselves.

But the primary colors remind of Solarized Dark, if that helps: https://www.google.com/search?q=solarized+dark&tbm=isch
I love reading about these finds. Animals are drawn with astounding detail and accuracy, while drawings of humans are absent or strikingly diminished stick figure forms. These anonymous drawings seem to predate the ego that dominates our world today.

This is truly the age of pure humanity. War was something that had to be invented, and only came about ~10k years ago. We are all descendants of the survivors of war, the most brutal and feared killers are our ancestors; the predisposition towards violence is in our blood. The humans who worked in these caves and elsewhere, consuming migratory reindeer and avoiding larger and more dangerous fauna, our ancestors slaughtered these men and enslaved these women. How different the world might be if war was never waged, it's hard to imagine as we've become so accustomed to constant warfare.

Many historians feel that the neolithic revolution, with the resulting social stratification and development of warfare that has been with us ever since, was the worst development in human history.
Not really. Minecraft, Unity engine, anything in Lua/python etc uses a GC.
Today I learned there was a giant balloon cow god that existed 44000 years ago.
Epilepsy's Next Frontier
It's obviously bad to hack into a citizen's systems without consent, but there's some kind of value that might be created here.

Ring cameras are basically being used as a gigantic police-partnered dragnet:

Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood “Watch Lists” Built on Facial Recognition

https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-securit...

If this provides a disincentivize to an average user buying Ring cameras, their immature 'prank' may have unintentionally helped the nation.
I kinda like the music but it's so damn ominous that it takes me out of my focus sometimes and makes me question why I am listening to such depressing music. I'm not sure this beats simple upbeat lofi for me.
I like the simple actionable advice near the end in the "Explore the present, past, and future" section.

The authors' biographies just below that caught my attention:

Ashley Goodall is the senior vice president of leadership and team intelligence at Cisco Systems and a coauthor of Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World

Cisco Systems is the kind of giant multinational conglomerate that I would expect to be a (to put it euphemistically) corporate shithole. The kind of place where this kind of forward-thinking management gets lip-service but in the end, for the most part, it's the same kind of Gervais Principle Hunger Games hierarchy we've come to deride and deplore in these type of threads.

Is this not the case?
So segregated public transport is the solution?
Not just society, but women especially. It’s not even an issue of socialization. Unemployed or underemployed men are heavily penalized in the dating pool. You don’t have to be a gold digger to value a stable provider as a partner. And women who are self-sufficient still generally tend to prefer men who are at least roughly equal in their ability to provide.
I'd never thought about why telnet uses ^] as its default escape sequence, but I just formed a theory while looking at an ASCII chart.

The ASCII ESC character is 1B, or ^[ (which many vi users know if they have a keyboard without Esc, or prefer to use ^[ for ergonomic reasons).

Presumably telnet has an important requirement that you be able to use vi -- or other software where you'll need to send ESC -- normally on the remote machine. If you're on a system where you're sending ^[ for ESC, what's the natural similar-but-different alternative for a meta-escape? Presumably ^], which is right next to it on your keyboard and conceptually related. That's the GS ("group separator") character, which isn't commonly used for anything on Unix.
Yes, sadly phones with removable batteries seem to be antiques now.
Hey, sorry about that, don't know how or why that happened but I'll fix it. My email's in my profile, I'll make sure it gets taken care of.
> "arbiter of truth"

They should just call it Ministry of Truth or even Minitrue as a nod to the Orwell.
At Google I've interviewed candidates wearing flip flops and shorts in the summer. I barely noticed, and it didn't affect my thinking on them. Some people dress up, some don't. This isn't "wear whatever you want to an interview" advice, but a datapoint of "I can think of people doing that, and it was fine".

(Disclosure: speaking only for myself)
There is no such dataset out there. This way of thinking is a very self-limiting approach.

In my case, I built my own, through 10 years of organic instrumental input for the system to chomp through.

That's how you apply machine learning to the discipline of music.
wow, the first line in BASIC I wrote was in 1995. (millennial here)
A better version of this might be https://piper.gq/ that I made last month.
I read this and I'm not sure how to feel. This is the real world impact of devices that can actually impact our lives being internet accessible and with security that doesn't match.

That's not to say a simple password and email isn't secure enough, just that there's much bigger repercussions when your nest gets hacked as opposed to your GrubHub account.
Learning vim and reading "Competitive Programmer’s Handbook" by Antti Laaksonen in preparation for programming interviews next year!
I think everyone has different tastes and making a catered list is neat, but probably only going to work for some people. And people have some pretty weird tastes.

For example, I've been listening to the original Resident Evil 3: Nemesis soundtrack on Spotify. Something about 90s survival horror video game themes made for a 16 bit, 24 channel sound chip really gets my fingers typing!
> The carriers have the same data for dumbphones as well as smartphones

This is true. But I'm not a privacy absolutist. I'm willing to sacrifice privacy for some things, and having a phone is one of those things.

But that I'm willing to put up with that from one company in no way means that I'm willing to put up with that from other companies.

> switching away from a smartphone is probably useless if not counterproductive.

I don't see how -- can you explain? Reducing data leakage seems useful even if I'm not completely eliminating it, and I don't see how it's actively counterproductive at all.