skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my mental health what contributed most is to volunteer at a NON-TECH position. YMMV

I was on a SE-Asia trip when I fell in love with a small town here; my organize trip was so bad I decided to abandon it. Found out there is a half-pruvate English school for kids.

I notified my friends, rebooked my flights and stayed for a month to teach school children English (around 100 of them in 5 classes every weekday).

This was probably the most rewarding experience in my life, although it didn't really help my professional career. However, I learned a hlot about

* cultural differences

* language differences of Asian vs Western languages

* the English language itself

* kids

* ways of living a life

* myself

Effectiveness? Questionable. I saw many of the teenagers to improve their pronounciation drastically during this month. Also helped the local management to rethink methods of teaching etc.
I seem to remember a fallout clip where the character is trying to have a conversation with the NPC but then a monster is also attacking the NPC or something and the NPC is just oblivious. Kind of breaks the immersion when you are having a normal conversation and the NPC is taking mortal wounds at the same time.

It would be hard to make believable interactions when unexpected environmental side effects can happen at any time
The 4 people recently fired that were labour activists had tenure of 11, 8, 4, and 1 years.

I think it’s honestly ridiculous to suggest people are trying to get hired into Google to be political activists. We have no evidence of this and I’d need a lot to start believing it.
Top Posting and Bottom Posting
most of the standard metrics of fairness for machine learning don't just just try to equalize proportions of positive/negative labels. they look at error rates.

under these measures of fairness, a perfectly accurate predictor is regarded as perfectly fair, regardless of a disparity in base rates in the two populations.

some of the predictive policing models still fail under these metrics -- they are more prone to make errors on black defendants.
Well, it runs everywhere, for one. That's an attractive quality to a language.
Wait, so let me get this straight: nine people lost their jobs over this and it's front page HN? Are we gonna have a nuclear war the next time a startup closes up shop?

Is there something special about The Nine that separates them from the hundreds of thousands of scientists and doctors and engineers and burger flippers who get laid off everyday?

Y'know, like, other than having journalist friends?
Thanks for sharing!

Why don't you publish releases?
> ISPs don’t make 75% profit margins, so that’s really not possible.

You're assuming the only place price reductions can come from is lower profits and there is no room to e.g. reduce waste or increase efficiency, which monopoly providers have a long tradition of not even attempting to do. Which usually means there is a lot of low-hanging fruit there.
We’re there ever attempts to skin Usenet with friendly interfaces like old reddit?

Any resources you can point me to? I’m really interested in these concepts.
Find a lawyer, ASAP, that specializes in employment and / or IP. This is a legal issue and you need to solve it with people that know the law. Talking, signing, admitting things, etc, only hurt you.

Depending on your country and state, as well as your employment agreement, there are a lot of impactful variables. Intuition and personal relationships are not going to help you solve this issue, especially, absent knowing the law and your position.
Oh, you mean Cunningham's law.
Has anybody ever encountered a password rule that disallows any that are -similar- to previously used ones?
Also https://fdocuments.net/document/suppressing-innovation-bell-...
Please don't post like this. If you see a [dead] comment that shouldn't be dead, you should vouch for it (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or email hn@ycombinator.com so we can fix the problem
I like the description on the bottle opener:

> Safe, will not explode.
First of all, it really shouldn't take any brain cycles to figure out that problems were caused by an 'automated upgrade from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.2' (who does that anyways, and why?).

Second, it's almost 2020. Why there still isn't a better way to debug PHP than using die()?

And third, "mysqli" has been the defacto method for SQLing, while "mysql"was deprecated years ago.

I'm not sure why this is even in HN.
CityLab is a popular publication on HN, with over 1400 submissions and usually over a hundred comments on each. It's normal that people care more than about other companies.
This is an old story and much has changed since. You can find just about any technical title in seconds, and in clean pdf format - not scanned.
Noam Chomsky with Lawrence Krauss
There was actually a 64bit version of Windows XP which I inflicted on my dad for a while - sounds like you did well to avoid it ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Ed...
TIL about liquid metal cooled nuclear reactors. Wikipedia makes lead-cooled reactors sound pretty amazing, and yet lead-bismuth seems to be preferred, presumably simply because of the lower melting point, despite the disadvantages of bismuth (polonium byproduct, high cost). I'd be interested to hear if there are other reasons pure lead cooling isn't being more actively pursued. Especially for small, single-use reactors, it seems like it would be perfect.
This has been going on at least hundred years, and likely 200.
Heh, this article is 15 years late...
For a relatively brief, glorious period in the middle of the 20th century, the majority of Americans held--or at least were kind--to the idea that independent, objective, professional journalism could exist and was valuable. During that period publishers could profitably compete attempting to sell that product.

Today most Americans, learned and unlearned, are significantly more cynical, habituated to reject the idea that independent, objective, professional journalism could exist. Regardless of the philosophical truth, what's certainly true as a practical matter is that it cannot exist even aspirationally unless we believe it can exist.
In the US a law saying a newspaper owner isn't allowed to control editorial policy wouldn't make it past the first amendment.
The publisher who does three of a four part series but not part four (ipr dispute with right holder usually)

The author who is dead, has one seminal work online and four other not online. (Randolph Stow)

The author who is dead, has four minor works online but not the seminal work (c.m. kornbluth)

The author who is in dispute with epublishing as a protest against ipr contract terms (Ursula le guin, Philip Pullman) and has their work ripped anyway.

The bad OCR conversion.
That’s an incredible statement, but aligns with the popular idea that anything published should align to the desired political narrative.
That $300 on Google Cloud is exactly what enabled me to learn as much as I know now about cloud computing. And to Google’s advantage, it made me really like the platform.

Luckily, at this point someone else foots the cloud bill for me, but I’m still loyal to GCE just for giving me the opportunity to explore.
If you take as a given that I’m going to see ads (as I do), I’d much prefer to see ads that are relevant and interesting or amusing to me.
Calibre is not bad if you stick to the CLI utilities and avoid the GUI. ebook-convert in particular is pretty much all I need from Calibre. I normally run it with the following options:

ebook-convert input.someformat output.mobi --remove-paragraph-spacing --change-justification=justify --enable-heuristics --unsmarten-punctuation

(It's picky about the ordering of the input/output vs the flags)
I wrote "computation", not "arithmetic". Human intelligence goes beyond computation / mathematical logic, and you seem to ignore all of that. We haven't got a clue how consciousness works. It's a total mystery.
Interestingly you can design a wastewater treatment plant in arizona without a PE license, but there are no exemptions for any type of engineering except that which would be done by a civil or structural engineer.[0] At the same time though, the word "engineer" in isolation is not protected in Arizona the way it is in some other states.[1]

[0] https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-32-professions-and-occupa...

[1] https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-32-professions-and-occupa...
This argument is called a heuristic. It's not actually a proof.

It is an extremely persuasive one, however, and and as result of it, nearly all mathematicians believe the conjecture is true.

The persuasiveness of the heuristic is one of the things that makes the problem so confounding. It's obviously true; it's silly to argue that it isn't.
This may sound a bit silly, but depending on the story needs, these can potentially be completely separate entities. That way you wouldn't need to create a weird crossover entity that switches between friendly and enemy AI components etc.
I started riding a motorcycle two springs ago. In that short time I went though six pairs of gloves. Turns out, buying gloves online sucks. Sizing is terrible since the only size is the width of your palm. Fingers too long or too short or different lengths? You are out of luck. Thick fingers or thin fingers? Nope. Glove fits well but has an uncomfortable inner seam? Gotcha again. Love the glove but not the closure system? Oops. Glove fits but you hate the thickness of the material? Material breathes too much or not enough? Manufacturer put logos everywhere?

Yeah, I learned my lesson and buy gloves in person.
> I can't understand your support for failing to put in some defensive measures when they couldn't recreate a frequently reported bug

From the tweet series: "There were one or two cases before launch where this issue seemed to happen, but no one in QA ever managed to reproduce it and despite our best efforts we couldn't learn anything concrete about it"

Assuming this is true, before launch, it was NOT a frequently reported bug.

After launch, they dove in and figured out what was happening AND what triggered it.

Your complaint appears to be that they (1) had a bug, and (2) didn't resolve boundary checking in the production code. Given the number of "fall through the map" bugs in countless games, I assume #2 is, in fact, hard. Writing non-trivial code without bugs (to avoid #1) is also hard, based on...all the smart coders I've read.

Regardless of the source of the bugs, I'm cheering that they didn't just put in defensive measures and called it a day. To the point that defensive measures can be a source of bugs, consider how many "violent vibration" bugs we've seen in, say, Skyrim, Fallout, and GTA. (While I don't play, based on clips I've seen from GTA and Red Dead, those engine(s) spam duplicate entities when the boundary overlap is detected, where Skyrim/Fallout just vibrate and rattle). I find it very plausible that attempts to "warp" characters having positional bugs without understanding the source of those bugs will end up a source of new bugs.
Awesome. Nuclear is a necessary step as we move away from petro-energy.
Yeah but that's a self reinforcing feedback loop. Only showing programming ads to people that write "I love programming" is like only showing religious ads to people that write "I love God". The advertisements do not help outgroups break in and in fact may push them farther away.
True, but that's not really an excuse for having none at all.
WIP: Node.js QUIC Implementation
I really can understand how you have gotten to such a bad place with packaging. What are you doing that needs lots of PPAs?!

Snaps are actually a great security and packaging advance that decouples package dependencies from a common library set, while maintaining a mechanism to patch and upgrade otherwise dangling library deps. It also starts down the long road to confining software, because what you run shouldn't automatically assume all your privs. Basically iOS style apps for Linux.

People who pipe web content to a privileged shell are on their own at present. Arguably they should be warned, but that assumes taint tracking at every level of the operating system, and no production OS has that. If the software is a dependency shit show then putting it in docker (and then into a VM) is a better compromise.

Windows is already deprecating the installer model for the app store and cloud concept, they just didn't make it stick the first time round.
Full context:

Henderson then pressed the ex-mayor on how Bloomberg media would cover him during a campaign. The billionaire said he had already engaged in discussions about the issue with Bloomberg’s head of news, John Micklethwait.

“We’ve always had a policy that we don’t cover ourselves. I happen to believe, in my heart of hearts, you can’t be independent and nobody’s going to believe that you’re independent,” he said.

“And quite honestly, I don’t want the reporters I’m paying to write a bad story about me! I don’t want them to be independent. So you’re going to have to do something,” he added with a laugh.

Bloomberg said his companies would either completely divest from political coverage or pepper news with frequent disclaimers about ownership.

(From https://www.thewrap.com/mike-bloomberg-says-hell-sell-his-me...)
> morally hazardous or worse

What does "morally hazardous" mean? Something that is at risk as being perceived as immoral? In that case, do you have examples of something that is not morally hazardous?
> This is true, PCI DSS still requires password expiry.

We’ve been using a compensating control of “our password policy is exactly NIST SP 800-63B (2017) plus two more characters in Min length” for our PCI audits since the revision was published in 2017.

It’s been accepted three times so far.
What do you mean "there still isn't a better way"?! There are plenty debugging tools, many with integrated support in most IDEs. But, honestly, the only time I needed them was to figure out the place for performance optimization, var_dump() + die() are really perfect to debug anything. In fact, I feel that the nature of PHP being "fresh start on every call" + no compilation needed makes it probably the easiest to debug language out there I know.
L.A. wants a hydrogen-fueled power plant. It's never been done
The debugging is to reconcile "Observation: quests are failing because companions die" which contradicts "My understanding of the game rules: companions can't die". One of the ways the companions don't die is that the companions are revived after combat, and it's only non-companions that are 'really dead'. The other way is "could die from fall damage on the ship, but there's nothing that high".

Turns out the flaw in the logic was that the NPCs can reach great height on the ship. But the flaw in the logic just as easily could have been in the combat. (Or some other way that the tweeter didn't mention).

In any case, it's really fun to read the "aha! got it" moment.
Wouldn't you rather be sure and run the passwords through JTR or HIBP?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21204297
> what I want is for the world to be small again

In a nut shell, what modern age humanity will desperately wish.

I wonder how digital native kids handle this?
I don't see how you could even have ads that aren't discriminatory if "proxy characteristics that correlate with age or gender" is enough to be discriminatory? If you put an ad next to a barbershop, then that ad is targeting men through "proxy characteristics that correlate with gender", because it's next to a service that men are much more likely to visit. Is that illegal discrimination too? Are there officials that somehow calculate the locations where you are allowed to put advertising so that it wouldn't discriminate (close enough to shops that both men and women visit)?
Bloomberg News likely does not make money (I.e. a profit).

The terminals do and very likely subsidize the news.

If the News side makes money, it’s likely because they get to share all the administrative costs with the terminal side.
Any rule that reduces the posterior of a breakthrough is generally going to be an improvement. Unless your definition of "breakthrough" is extremely generous.
You'll find lots of "how they did it" in the biography/business section of the library/bookstore.
If you continue to post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments, we are going to have to ban you again. Please re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.
Please don't either.
Maybe nuclear reactors will be easier to deploy in China, where the government has more control: https://twitter.com/sampenrose/status/1162772916125126656
What do you mean? In the 90s they had targeted advertising... if you wanted to target people who liked cars, you bought an ad in Car & Driver
No example in READE - sad!
No mention of ActivityPub, Mastodon or Pleroma?
The Blundering Brilliance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Expect protests when Palantir recruits on college campuses
What’s a terminal in this context?
I knew it was probably missing context, but even with more context it’s not that reassuring.

I agree wholeheartedly that it’s a positive move to abstain from political coverage when your majority stakeholder is running for office. However, the messaging doesn’t sit right with me.

Even if you can’t be truly independent, you should still strive for integrity.
Or the enterprise software industry
Whatever feelings I may have about the CIA, good, bad, or indifferent, I have to say that someone there has a wickedly delightful sense of humor:

https://www.eaamoc.com/BIB-UNDERCOVER-OP-WH-BL.html
Only 49%? I sure as hell didn't come up with a completely original password when promoted by a 90-day-expiration. I just incremented the appended number.
But then when you kill a potential companion it wouldn’t cancel their quest.
Vogtle is a jobs project, an odd, almost absurd artifact of the high costs. I have family members working on that site. The Summer units across the river were canceled. Vogtle barely survived. The loss of Vogtle would have caused too much unemployment in the region.

I'd bet money the others are jobs projects, too, presuming they're still ongoing. But they'll be the last such nuclear jobs projects.

I hope modular reactors work out. I just don't think they'll work out in the U.S. or most other democratic countries, not until they're so well established elsewhere that nuclear becomes boring again. Failure to appreciate this--to shift focus to applications and regions where they have a viable, near-term future--will only ensure the total death of nuclear.

I had the same criticism for Rolls-Royce marketing piece last week about starting a modular reactor project in the U.K. I hope it works out, but Rolls-Royce claimed they were going to install the reactors in the U.K., which I believe is highly unlikely--certainly much more unlikely than if they attempted to first install them somewhere with less organized political opposition.

My complaint is that popular science pieces such as this Wired article create the wrong expectations. Articles about modular reactors are formulaic and periodic, exactly like articles about flying cars many years ago.
Makes sense to me. I do not think that was their goal just a side effect. I'd think this is to make it harder to brute force gmail logins or otherwise automate the use of gmail accounts.

This bit especially leads to think that.
"Use automation testing frameworks."

Perhaps things like selenium
You’ve just described SQRL
Seems like an attack against free speech.
As always with PCI, it depends on your auditor.
This Wikipedia article is clearly not neutral in tone. It reads like the CEO wrote it.
I never wrote my password on a post-it on my screen. The post-it had tallies of the number of times I'd incremented the number at the start, and the number at the end.

And I worked on my IT department, and then went over their heads, until they got smart about password expiration.
Comcast told me they'd be able to add my house to their service - no big deal, we promise - until I actually bought the place and called their bluff. New story is that they want $500 for a site survey. And no word on whether it'd be possible to run service. If it is, I get to pay for the wire to buy the privilege of paying them for service. And I wouldn't own the wire. Others a few blocks away were quoted $13k per home. High enough, I thought, to make it obviously-stupid to pay for a survey. Three out of five of my neighbors have Comcast gigabit service.

I can get AT&T DSL. It's not cheap; sticker is $50/mo, and it has more asterisks than a mail-in-rebate form. It's not fast; 20 mbps download max. Who-knows-what upload. So why shouldn't that be included as a data point? It's my only wired option, despite decades of subsidies towards universal service.

Instead I opted for a 4G modem, but now I don't have a public IP address. Didn't expect that, and it's honestly pretty annoying to be unable to ssh home. I just moved in, and this weekend will be getting set up on some hosted VM to work around this shortcoming.

I work for Alphabet in Mountain View. I live less than five miles from my office. You'd think I'd be able to do better.
Probably referring to the Bloomberg Terminal [0] as in the hardware/software product that offers real-time economic data and enables a large portion of the market’s electronic trading.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal
From what I can tell, it's not a very big company, so they should be flexible. So I would try to turn the tables around and get a non-exclusive deal like this:

* The company agrees to pay you for adding some extra features to the project

* You keep control and exclusive rights, but give them a license to use it (but not transfer it to others)

Edit: even if they legally can claim full ownership of the project, you have the full right to resign and go work on something else after they do so. And if this is not what they want, you will have pretty good chances negotiating a non-exclusive deal instead.

One last piece of advice:

=== DO NOT AGREE TO ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER ===

Many companies would consider it business as usual to agree on your terms verbally and then slip in a clause in the contract that would completely change the balance in their favor.
FYI - on your recommendation I just picked up a used paperback copy for under $7 bucks.
Here is a link to a summary, and a tool to search for colleges: https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/collegeroi/
If you don’t want to, and won’t be fairly compensated for it, then how about using the word “No”?

I agree with others that talking with one or more lawyers should be a high priority.
Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015)
Actually there is a link to the online examples at the top of the readme: https://neomjs.github.io/pages/

This is a new paradigm: you can now include JS modules directly into workers inside the browser. This will be fully supported in Chrome 80 (already works in canary). The concept makes debugging extremely convenient, since you get the real code without source-maps and the multi-threading gives a relly nice performance.

I just donated 1.5 years of my full and unpaid working time to the open source community with this :)
It's a computer Bloomberg produces with access to data, news, and tools used by workers in the finance industry. A subscription for one is around $20,000 per year, and there are currently 100,000s of active subscriptions.
What's with the super-high graduation rates for supposedly "hard" colleges like MIT and Yale? In a "hard" college I went to the graduation rate was _at best_ two thirds.
"War led to the institution of slavery, especially for the women of the defeated side (defeated males were usually slaughtered) and stamped the entire female gender with the stigma attached to concubines and domestic servants. Men did better, or at least a few of them, with the most outstanding commanders rising to the status of kings and eventually emperors."

Yes, other than being parenthetically slaughtered, men did great. I enjoyed imagining Bill Burr tackling this bit.
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