skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your point about regional dialects, I think the main issue is with old or borrowed words. I was inspired by the fact in Romania we had such a reform where the alphabet was changed and the rule of write how you speak was added. The accents are not written and regional languages have their special way of speaking certain words or even some special grammar but you learn in school the correct thing and the national radio/TV will speak correctly so there is no issue except with small children that would make small mistakes in the first year of learning to write. I don't expect this too happen soon and when it will happen the present generations would be the ones that would have to suffer the transition for the benefit of the new generations.

So if you can get objective and think about 150-300 years in the future , do you think there will be no changes to cleanup things in the language ?
See, the thing is though, that they kill stuff that DOES stick as well. There's plenty of stuff in the Google Graveyard that was still widely used, with large user base, and they kill it anyway. There's no consistent logic to their killing of products. Sometimes they simply don't want to update it, sometimes it's purely internal politics (G+), sometimes there's just no reason we can find.
In the original Twitter thread, Google stole ownership of a pre-existing side project when the maintainer filed for approval. That's evil. It may not have been a personal evil, but bureaucratic evil is very real.
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That is all well and good for those types of jobs. But no one can remember how to use all of Excel, and they should be able to search for help and understand that help.
The corporate poo patrol is coming after your precious toilet time
Awesome tool, thanks for sharing!
Don't know, I didn't try to break down the data being transferred. More likely than not internet, so yes, I assume they could change this to third party ads in the future. Or even if it's local, a update could change that. It's a sidebar you can fully close, so it's not annoying in any way...for now at least.

You can read a detailed breakdown here

https://medium.com/@chribonn/howto-use-of-msp360s-formerly-c...
Some of the tests in my current company work like this. We don't expect you to have everything memorized. We give you a problem and then say, "feel free to use any reference you want, help, man pages, google, stack overflow, whatever."

Some people still stubbornly refuse to look for help.

Some people act on the first google search result even though it's obviously wrong.

Some people don't know how to read a man page.

I find it very illuminating, but I don't really have enough data points to say how successful it is.
Finally, a real solution to climate change.
Wow, thanks for asking this question! This is a little meta, but I'm trying to create an online community to _answer_ these sorts of questions.

It's called VC3 (https://vc3.club) and it's an exercise in seeing if I can build a successful online community. If it succeeds, its sole purpose is to discuss and debate the forming of online communities (like VC3 itself.)

We haven't launched yet (because we're trying to get a solid group of people before we start.) If you find these sorts of questions interesting, please join us! It's totally free, not trying to make money with this.
Let me amend that. Are you able to look up information in a manual - either using the index or hitting CTRL+F?
Apple doesn’t tend to hand out their logo for industry groups and open source projects. That’s fine, it’s their support that matters. And it’s not like their name lacks brand recognition!

Here’s another example; same idea, different font:

https://aomedia.org/membership/members/
“I think they’re just losers,” she says of the male plus-ones. “Or cucked boyfriends. It’s a legal fluke.”

I would find the blinding ignorance of hypocrisy amusing if it weren't so sad.
Yeah, it's not better, but it's "captive" since Facebook made it hard to show that the real forum is somewhere else.
this is a really big issue that still stands to date! i Agree
I wouldn't trust this data very far. Lexington, KY has "AC: PREFER" which is a joke. Our humidity is so high it feels like you are swimming when you walk outside in the summer and we regularly have 90-100 days in summer. You simply could not survive without AC...
Ask HN: What is your favourite data structure and why?
Apart from the well known ones, have you come across any very useful data structure which is not yet mainstream?
Yeah, we've really been in the back of the pack on green energy. When you see how much countries like Denmark and Germany have been investing in clean energy, it's embarrassing how little we've done.

Fortunately our eternally right-wing government finally seems to realise that something should be done. Let's hope they actually do.
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In a real situation this usually doesn't cause issues. Most of the zigbee devices that you're gonna have (such as light bulbs) are also acting like a zigbee router and it creates a mesh network.

You can even visualise the network if you're using zigbee2mqtt with zigbee2mqtt/bridge/networkmap
Preserving their rights.
I don't think this makes much sense. The mineral supply chain in that part of the world is ridiculously hard to track. Even when you stop buying directly from the DRC, the minerals flow over the borders (see how Rwandan coltan exports jumped when people stopped buying DRC 'conflict' coltan). That part of the DRC is basically beyond the reach of the Congolese government and the bordering countries have been waging proxy wars for at least a decade in the DRC, specifically for mineral control. The problem needs to be addressed at the local level, not at the international purchasing level - this may make the tech giants purchase minerals from a new provider, but that is a cosmetic change that won't actually impact people on the ground in the DRC.
For clarity, Alexa responded to my comments without being triggered. It's always listening (which makes sense, by virtue of listening for the trigger) but in this case, it reacted without the "Alexa" key word.
Because the direct buyer is the one who has the most information and the most control.

In contrast the end user has almost no information, so punishing them is both unfair and ineffective.
in my case, much of it is tied to equities (retirement account is a portion, taxable account is other). straight cash - probably ~12-14 months. Having lived through a couple of crashes, the idea that 30% of that could be gone (for a long time) still looms.

And yes, it's sort of a complex. I have to remind myself that yes, I can pay the extra 50c and get cheese on the burger if I feel like it. I'd lived 30+ years without being able to do that (meaning that adding cheese a few times would be noticeable at the end of a week), it's a hard mental state to break from. Not 'working' means ... a day where savings isn't going up, etc.

Replenishing the spent money is simultaneously both easier (larger savings tends to grow in larger chunks) and harder (takes longer to earn new money vs the compounding of earlier money, and takes more of the remaining time I have left, which is always depleting).

I'm not claiming it's entirely rational, by any means, and that's why I was saying earlier that it's hard to break out of.

EDIT: I've always taken FU money to mean... you never have to engage in any sort of 'work' ever again, not just for a short time. In some ways, I've been able to use this cushion to say "no" to some situations/jobs/projects that I would have agreed to before, but it's not the same as saying FU to people. :)
Ha. Their Roku app is the best non-live viewing experience I've ever experienced for any sporting event: during live games you can jump to specific innings/plays, change audio feeds between TV announcers, radio announcers, and stadium-only... really impressive.
I'm suggesting non-religious people don't bank on an afterlife therefore don't have an additional incentive to give.
Why not replace the tenary operator at the end with the method call in the or else block?

return Optional.ofNullable(nullableVariable)
.map(v::someMethodCall)
.orElse(fallbackIfNullMethodCall);

That also looks much easier to understand, at least to me.
We Do Not We Just Are Against The Idea Of Not Having Freedom Of Speech Thank You
I haven't, and can't say for certain whether or not I've come across it yet.

Downloading the audiobook as I type this.
you do know the deltawerken were only built with a maximum of 40 cm sea level rise in mind, right ? and we're now thinking of about 100 cm by 2100. true, that does not mean the netherlands will disappear right away, but we will see more flooding than before 1953, especially with extreme weather getting more extreme.

so the question is more whether it will be economically viable to keep the land dry. personally, with the more pessimistic IPCC scenarios in mind, we will come to the point where that decision needs to be made. not in my lifetime, most likely not in yours, but still.

as to your last sentence : we have never seen a scenario like the ones now looming over us.
Our team uses hacker rank or something similar (I forget) to weed out bad profiles (most of them). We combed through their question base to remove things that felt too specific. But I’m happy with the result, because there’s nothing you can’t google, and googling is allowed.

We’re a python and R shop. You can choose either test. As a non R user, I can get a decent score on the R test, because I can read docs. And that’s great.

We have also dabbled in game based assessments, and while I have qualms with it, the same kinds of skill sets seem to be the primary differentiator of success.

My 2c on two types of assessments people probably normally disregard
Life's not fair. Sorry to break the bad news to you.
Turkey did not survive a coup, Erdogan survived a "coup"
We are and we have been for a while now :)

I'm not a fan, but there is one interesting upside--Twitter makes it simple to react to any one of those paragraphs, and spin off another discussion. The emergent graph of reactions is much more fine-grained than what blogs allowed.
> Oh, please. It's standard industry practice for companies to claim ownership of everything a software engineer comes up with, even "on their own time".

I have not yet worked at a job where this was the case, and I would decline an offer to do so. It is unusual here, but I know of a friend who signed such a contract for a video game studio, but then only for games specifically and not IT in general.

Mostly thanks to unions there are plenty of options not to work for these leeches.

> The problem is it's extremely difficult to say, figure out when someone might have invented some super clever idea which can be pantented "on their own time".

On the other hand it's extremely difficult to say that the innovations I contribute to my employer are conceived exclusively during paid hours.

> So anyone who think this is some evidence of Google being, or becoming, evil is either seriously misinformed, or just engaging in unthinking hate of Google, or both.

Without even addressing the conclusion you can surely see how this reasoning is faulty. If all evil things that were ever considered common practice were excused for only that reason, we'd probably live in a pretty shitty world.
IKEA 2.0: inside the furniture giant’s big bet on the smart home
I agree with these, although I do still struggle implementing them.
Do you know if the paper controlled for all the variables in tandem. For example, I wouldn't think line count is necessarily mutually exclusive to modularization. That is to say, I'd expect well modularized code to reduce line count generally.
I am not very surprised given the initial motivation. She gave herself a quest to do political activism by editing Wikipedia, something with Wikipedia project generally looks at with suspicion and hostility.

I am not sure how well that translate to an librarian fixing errors and lifting decent covered topics with expert knowledge.
He said it a bit different "it's no big deal not only because everyone else is doing it but also because the referred company is one that does it the less."
[Turing 1936] pointed out that the theorem of computational undecidability of the halting problem is rather different than
Gödel's theorem of the inferential undecidability of I'mUnprovable. In strongly-typed theories, computational undecidability of the halting problem can be used to prove inferential undecidability but not vice versa because the proposition I'mUnprovable does not exist.
Switched to Mullvad [0] after PIA was bought by a malware distributor [1][2] and hired Mark Karpeles as their CTO [3].

The network is faster. Wirecutter recommends them [4]. If you want it, the Mac app is stable and just works. And they support both OpenVPN and WireGuard.

[0] https://mullvad.net/en/

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-to-be-acqui...

[2] https://restoreprivacy.com/cyberghost/

[3] https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/22/mt-gox-chief-returns-as-...

[4] https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-vpn-service/
People have tried that for Congolese coltan and the minerals just find their way over the borders to an 'acceptable' purchasing location.
My cell is not registered in my name and I can take the battery out. I often do any time I am not on call.
Putin runs Windows XP on his computer that is vulnerable to hacking
The previous generation of smart home devices was called X10, and it used signals over power lines.

I gather it was:

- slow

- might have required you to make a connection in your circuit breaker

- and was designed in the 1970s, when home electrical systems weren't very noisy (apparently all the switching power adapters we have today make a ton of noise and make it hard for the signal).

I don't see why something newer like this couldn't be done -- we have powerline modems, right? Probably not as fast as wifi, but it does go where it is needed and requires physical access to hack.

Some devices are using Zigbee (a different wireless system), but I understand it was developed without security and isn't hard for third-parties to hack into.
Then the solution is taxpayer funded healthcare, not private insurance companies.
We have no real information on the systems targeted or the vector(s), so it’s possible that JLU is currently carefully running a black start scenario.
It is possible that even if the ID cards or something else could be used as a factor, what we don’t know, systems or certificates vouching for the student ID cards are now considered not trusted. This now seems like a painful but responsible way to hand out new credentials.

While a lot more information would be interesting, I gather the sysadmins involved have to priotitize as they are right now. I hope that there will be an interesting post mortem, though.
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This is very specifically a terrible idea.

I passed an analogous interview to this once when I was much younger, and then subjected several applicants to it thinking it was a useful filter.

It's not, it's abusive psychological torture that rewards sadistic amateur psychologists and interview administrators. The only way to succeed is to submit to the interviewer by asking for help. It filters for people who know to implicate others in failure while taking credit for small successes, and bullies people into submission.

The interview I passed was a variation (I learned after) on the bridges of konigsberg, where instead of asking for help, I asked if it was impossible. The person administering it hired me on the spot, but even this was wrong because the place was full of people who thought the reason they were there was because they were intelligent - something they didn't have control over - and they acted
As pettily as psychotically as you would expect.

The problem on teams isn't individuals not asking for help, it's managers who don't have the confidence of their teams to ask.

If you are reading this and I put you through that exercise 15+ years ago, I apologise.
Smartphone 'Night Modes' Might Be Even Worse for Sleep
This is the hypothesis that charitableness can be modeled on a normal distribution, but the additional incentive of religion shifts the mean of that distribution higher for religious people than atheists. It's not offensive to believe there is a subset of the population that is influenced by the dogma of the church to do things they wouldn't already do.
Apple, Amazon, and Google are fundamentally opposed to a model that sells devices that don’t phone home - their whole purpose is to capture value by creating lock-in for surveillable hosted services
YES IT IS BUT STILL WITH 6.9K VIEWS LATER WHOS Bitching the news is out let the people choose and if copy right is a issue for you, you must not be much of a internet savy person after all a small group of people who were upset with the lack of privacy to accounts and constent hacks to facebook we thought we should develop a social network and at least try our run at the go but we do not follow dmca policy's on our website
I think it did, that's the thing. Unfortunately since I cannot find the paper now, I can't tell you :(
Reading though it seems like a common universal standard that fully removes the need for third party services as all devices will adhere to a common standard. (I"m sure all of these will offer third party apps and all that still) but if you look at something like Homekit smart plugs, you can configure many of them without ever using anything but the Home App, just scan and go. Done right, this standard could make these devices never need third party services, just local networking. Seems like the goal, obviously I agree with you that it should be a stated priority.
musictheory.net is an excellent site, and buried distressingly far down this comment page.

you can just click on the link and read for half an hour and you’ll have more practical understanding than you’ll ever squeeze out of all of the comments here that purport to tell you the one critical concept that makes it all fit together. (or the ones that want to tell you how all the existing terminology is dumb and should be replaced. ugh.)
LoRa (not LoRaWan) could be a Method. Or PJON.
I certainly am. I don't understand why everyone here thinks this is a private club for rich investors in silicon valley.
"Since your recent comment does not meet our Community Standards(tm) your account has been suspended for a period of 28 days*. Additionally you will not be able to turn on the lights during that period and your microwave usage will be limited to 90 seconds daily."
thank you for explaining your end of this issue as some people do not see it this way and trolls are trolls i guess
Why is it a necessary part of doing business in the US? What is different about the US compared to countries where this practice is unheard of?
Awkward future-history fan fiction. There's better ways to get this warning and details about how it might unfold.

I recommend On China, World Order, and Destined for War.
I share your need to name all my devices in the controller view. Hopefully zwave has better security support than typical IoT devices. I'd really prefer to use certificates rather than WPA passwords because password rotation requires a) I give vendors my passwords which they may not really secure in any way, b) often requires I use a vendor tool to rotate said password.

It would be much preferable to have a standard way to store a certificate to the device. Today when the inevitable happens and someone leaves customer WPA passwords on an open S3 bucket, or they're exposed via cyber security break I have to update every device. It would be so much nicer to just go update my compromised device's certificate rather than the password for everything. Frankly I'd prefer certificates to passwords anyway because sooner or later I'm sure WEP2 itself will be broken.
I experienced an extremely simple (and IMO effective) version of this.

For a dba-adjacent job, I sat down with a dba and was shown how to connect to a sql server instance and change some particular setting. At the end of our hour of discussing other technical matters and my resume, he asked me to demonstrate recall of this simple command.
If you are required to demonstrate that you can create pivot tables, and you not only know what they are and how they work but also figured out how to do it in a brand new software suite within 10 minutes under stressful conditions, you have succeeded. Committing obscure UX patterns to memory is far less important than your ability to understand concepts and find ways to apply them.

I understand a manager may prefer to supply someone with Microsoft Office 2001 Alpha Deluxe Edition (& Knuckles) and see them hit the ground sprinting but the time spent looking for such a person might be greater than what it would take for a motivated person to reach that level.
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I want to keep this civil and perhaps learn something, but what is the specific objection with respect to complaints of detention? Do folks just want better detention conditions or are we advocating for giving citizenship to everyone who wants it?

EDIT: Why the downvotes? I'm asking a genuine question. How did I manage to offend?
Buy beginner music theory books and work your way up.
NL earns fortunes pumping hydrocarbons, thereby contributing to climate change, thereby forcing itself to spend fortunes defending against climate change.

For some reason I'm reminded of Alanis Morissette.
As a specific example, I'm dabbling in embedded programming (like Arduino) and switched to Teensy for the audio library. I guess the Forth philosophy would be to figure out how to program real-time audio from the microprocessor's datasheet? I'm not really a fan of C++ but I knew better than to go that deep.

Arduino itself is a good example of how a decent, common abstraction can help users get started.
In strongly-typed higher-order theories, the Continuum Hypothesis has _not_ been proved to be inferentially undecidable because Cohen's results do not apply to strongly-typed higher-order theories.
You forget to say these kids didn’t magically lend in jail. They were brought there by their parents that purposely broke immigration laws. They possibly even did it with the idea of appealing to emotion of US citizens to get away with it.
I think this restriction makes more sense in other industries, such as pharmaceuticals, where lab equipment can cost millions of dollars, so employee doing their own "side projects" on it is more real abuse of company property.
There are probably thousands (definitely hundreds at least) of communities for various hobbies that don't fit all the requirements 1-3 of your description yet they have healthy and active online communities.
ARM64 CPUs speculatively execute instructions after ERET
That is not music. That is an audio track.
what do people mean when they say security for smart home devices? if the "launch ICBM" port is open on a device on your LAN doesn't an attacker still have to traverse your router to get to it? Otherwise, an attacker would have to get access to your LAN. Is something like that what you mean?
You could ban/sanction Congolese cobalt; this would increase prices in the short run, while other producing countries adjust supply.
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If I could broaden the question - what have you found useful of the well-known data structures that a self-taught dev may not be fully aware of?
So now that you have the information, I trust you have stopped purchasing these products beginning today?
Presumably they can't just use one dash to avoid clashes with vendor prefixes (-moz-, -webkit- etc.)

I don't think I've ever actually checked, but I always assumed valid CSS property names can only be alpha-dash strings.