skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a similar argument in a previous HN thread [1] and people were absolutely incredulous over this idea that not only do companies try to own everything you do but that you don't have to be guilty to be sued by a vengeful employer.

I'll repeat here what I said there. A lot of engineers cannot work on projects in their free time due to being locked into horrible contracts that assert copyright and ownership over anything they do in their free time. Which has a chilling effect on engineers who would otherwise contribute to FOSS. Even if those provisions are illegal, it still costs a lot of money to strike them down in court and the court system is generally always stacked in favor of the corporation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771325
What Is Medicine For?
> that forced a sort of realpolitik tolerance

Jizya tax was imposed in large parts of India on non-Muslim populations[0]. Not sure how you can call it tolerance?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya#India
I'd lean towards the group that's obviously larger than the other (as evidenced by node count and market cap), and isn't a hard fork.
The Truth About Open Offices
The Baby Yoda mania is powerful indeed, but how much will it boost Disney+?
OK, but you need a stream of comments and submissions to moderate, and most attempts at creating on online discussion site never achieve that.
Am I missing something -- shouldn't "panic = <some_c_func>" (in Cargo.toml) solve that problem?
I suspect in Germany not informing your employer about other jobs would end badly for you
Many private companies also have high fee funds in their investment fund options and pensions. A lot of people running these things aren't always aware of all the options they could be taking because they only meet with sales people.
> Moving the production to a different country would be a solution, since the Netherlands is currently producing way more nitrogen per area of land than other European countries.

Isn't this just because it is producing highly efficiently, at least in terms of land use?
If you move the production elsewhere, it will consume the same amount if nitrogen on a wider area, so with worse impacts on wildlife and biodiversity.
You need to tell Marshall this. ;-)

It seems entirely possible to put voice recognition on local machines with downloaded updates, but of course they're never going to do this.
Maybe, maybe not. She's 16 and doesn't sound like she really thought about the consequences. I doubt previous conviction records would've deterred her from doing it.
> The $2.93 trillion that the New York Fed will funnel to Wall Street over the next month consists of up to $120 billion each weekday in overnight loans through January 14 and $440 billion in term loans ranging from 3-days to 32 days.

We're talking about an overnight loan of $120 billion (that is, a loan that is paid back the next morning, lent again the next night, paid back in the morning, etc. This article is treating it as a cumulative loan - that is, the second day, it's now $240 billion (never mind that the first $120 billion has been paid back by then), and the third day it's $360 billion (never mind that the first $240 billion has been paid back by then).

That's either incredibly stupid, or propaganda. My money is on propaganda.
It is a great book for self-taught programmers. But the book is about programming language concepts and paradigms, and explores these though the development of multiple languages, interpreters and compilers. It is fundamental to the book that you have to learn a bunch of small languages. Scheme just makes it really easy to implement new languages.
Add to that the recessions and stagflation of the '70s and the fear that the Japanese would overtake the US economically in the '80s.
It's also an incredibly easy position to take when all you have to do is say it's wrong. I think that's what they are getting at.
My employer subsidizes my health insurance and contributes to my 401k and a pension. It's a nice perk and part of the reason why i work for them. It's a win-win
Out of couriosity, do you know how they do it? Just port blocking?
Mossberg: Tim Cook’s Apple Had a Great Decade but No New Blockbusters
Yeah the ability to get any character would really show more of how this works
> is this money earmarked? Will it be traced? Are the books open and available to everyone?

Yes, it's earmarked. Yes, it's traced.

No, the Fed's books are not "open to everybody". They are, however, open on a delay to a ridiculous level as you can find from their website. (As in, if you want to know how much each institution has borrowed on what terms, you can do that.)
Have everyone sign their own work. Then we can judge for ourselves.

Any unsigned work is just gossip (or worse) and should be treated as such.
Kudos to Redhat for backporting the kernel 4 and package changes needed to RHEL 7 which is still on a version 3 Linux kernel. Rootless containers with podman was a technology preview in RHEL 7.6 and it's now supported in RHEL 7.7 [1].

There are some caveats - specifically copy-on-write filesystems aren't yet supported but Redhat says it's on the RHEL 7 roadmap. And you need a fresh of install 7.7 to get the right behavior out of the box, otherwise there are manual steps required for upgraded systems. Specifically stackoverflow examples should if there is a usermapping to unprivileged IDs and the user aliases or links docker to podman.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/three-new-container-capabilit...
This overlooks a huge part of data science which is cleaning your data. The rest is relatively available with off the shelf tools.
I stand with Google in this case. What if google goes down tomorrow? Is your human rights violated?
Then perhaps the big tech and battery makers are even more culpable for this child exploitation...if its as easy as just digging a hole and chipping out rocks, they could be a little more selective in their suppliers.
I found a video about the paper: the presenter claims the author of the paper (not the same person) did a double-barrelled correlation and that no metric had better predicting value than "simply doing wc -l on the source code".

See minute 39:30: https://vimeo.com/9270320
> What is ignoble is the fact that they have exempted Muslims from refuge

That is the problem, this whole issue is being misrepresented. The law is about bulk/en masse citizenship of people based on a certain criteria.

Other refugees are still accepted, only their cases are dealt on a case by case basis.
This, from a WSJ article linked in the post, would seem to be important context:

> Fed repo operations take in Treasury, agency and mortgage bonds from eligible banks in exchange for short-term loans of cash. They are effectively collateralized loans from the central bank, and they are designed to ensure the financial system has enough liquidity to keep short-term rates relatively steady.

> The Fed has used repo operations, as well as purchases of government securities, for decades to control short-term interest rates, which is key to its ability to influence the direction of the economy.

> The Fed’s response to the financial crisis and its aftermath, however, put repo operations on the shelf for just over a decade. The Fed started using them again in mid-September after interest rates in the repo markets, where firms borrow and lend securities and cash short-term, unexpectedly spiked.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-fed-again-upsizes-liqu...

I think it matters quite a bit whether these operations are an unusual emergency measure, or the Fed is merely resuming common operations that it paused in the wake of the financial crisis.
In case anyone thinks the advent thing is super weird, FastMail is known for doing advent blog series: https://fastmail.blog/2017/12/01/fastmail-advent-2017/
Just out of curiosity, do you know how regular people could know more about supply chains that are not hard to track?
Here is my admittedly ignorant question about this: is it possible that the institutions borrowing these funds are actually using those funds not for relatively low-risk purposes (e.g., paying taxes), but instead to trade "overnight"? Similar to how a high-net-worth individual can borrow against their assets for a very low rate and then turn around and invest those cheap-interest-rate funds into higher-return (i.e., riskier) investments?

This is wholly unsubstantiated, but a link someone posted on this issue in a previous submission on HN (I can't find it) suggested that hedge funds in particular are the main institutions causing this, that the too-big-to-fail banks (JP, BofA, etc.) are unwilling to lend to them in the repo market because the hedge funds are taking too much risk with those funds, and the hedge funds are in turn forcing the fed's hand by telling them that they either step in with funds or they'll either be forced to sell assets en masse or, worse, fail. I'm probably using the wrong language to describe the mechanics of how this would actually take place (e.g., I'm not suggesting a hedge fund actually calls up and forces the fed's hand).

I have seen multiple people assert there's a reasonable explanation for this and others suggest this is just more QE and that the market, after years of QE, can't function properly without it, and so I'm floating what is likely a conspiracy theory as an attempt at getting an explanation from someone informed. Nearly impossible to believe this is a benign event. The parties (the fed, the big banks, hedge funds) haven't earned that trust so if it is benign then maybe there's a first time for everything.
It looks like we hugged the server to death. Does anyone have a repost?
If you don't like using your phone, theoretically anything with bluetooth would work with the bridge, or you could just add a microcontroller and a little keyboard and display to have something self contained. Something like the toy messenger everyone is hacking to open garage doors.
> 'profit-seeking is more effective and expedient' for the people that can afford it

It doesn't matter if you can afford everything in the world if the thing you need is never developed in the first place.

Some of the treatments me and my family have had were not available in Europe, Canada and other universal healthcare countries at any price. I would have probably lost almost two decades of time that I got to spend with my mother because she got treatment in the US the first time she got cancer. She was British and at the time the NHS had the 2nd worst success rates for cancer of all OECD countries and the US had the highest success rates.
Even bigger problem with 2.4 GHz is that the frequency is oversaturated and most Zigbee channels at least partially overlap with WiFi channels. I had pretty bad interference in my home before I moved my Zigbee and 2.4G wifi channels as far apart as possible.
Sure there is: it lets you express loops immutably.

Rather than `state := null; while condition do: mutate-state-and-recompute-condition`, you can do `let loop(state) = if shouldContinue(condition) then loop(newState) else resultOfTheLoop`. Rely on the tail-call optimiser to compile this to a genuine imperative loop.

This looks very odd the first few times you see it, but it's much harder to get wrong.
His nationality is Zambian but he's Indian....not from one of the local ethnic tribes. With that context I don't think there was any ulterior motive mentioning his nationality.
They're already there on my part. Between their firing employees who organize or complain that their corporate slogan apparently now is "Be Evil", their chaotic product decision making, and their toxic internal politics, I have absolutely no interest in working for Google. Furthermore, I've noticed that the Google workforce seems to be becoming less.... Googly.... recently (disclaimer: I work down the street from the Googleplex and see many Googlers as they do their daily migrations). As in, they're now hiring a broader selection of people who aren't just the top 5% in class. What that tells me is that they're having more difficulty on the recruiting front and having to cast their net wider.
I don’t have the time to dive into specifics like the other comments are asking for, but I can say that all three of these claims are false. Swift has significant performance penalties for a lot of its functionality; Rust is significantly safer and lower overhead (Swift doesn’t do anything about thread safety or mutable aliases, for starters); and Swift’s type system, as far as I know, is not as advanced as Haskell’s (and also significantly less ergonomic when it does match functionality, imo.)

I will say that I think the language made compromises in all three of these directions, though.
I imagine the not-dying part goes something like this: Keep the long well researched quality contributions in sight and the [what I call] "guaranteed audience" type of submissions out of sight. Some people just make a ton of noise. One should probably encourage that but limit exposure (not let them drown out the rest of the users) or make quality posts hard to find.
For 90% of my transportation needs, I use a bicycle. For the rest, I take a cab. I'm fully aware that my cab rides are tracked.

> I guess I’m just not seeing what you gain? Your movements are very likely still being tracked.

Sure, but there is still great value in reducing the amount of data leakage when possible. And in this case, the data is going to the car manufacturers and the companies they share with (marketers, etc) -- entities that have no legitimate need for any data at all about me.

Cutting them out plugs a large data leak without causing any inconvenience or hassle to me, so why wouldn't I?
> There is no need to import food, we could just start exporting less.

Are you going to pay the unemployment salary for the people who currently work in the agricultural sector?
Well that case is just semantics dispute on the definition of "murder" and "human".
First, the Smartphone Changed. Then, over a Decade, It Changed Us
Radiation breaks connections in the brain
Thank you for introducing me to EarMaster :) I never knew such a software existed.
The real reason there aren't massive protests is because the truth is the situation isn't nearly as dire as the clickbait and propaganda would have people believe.

If people were actually being evicted on 1 day notice, there would be mass protests. In reality, evicting someone who doesn't pay their rent takes months and a significant amount of time and effort for the person renting out the apartment. People love to claim that they "work 2 jobs" to get by, omitting that their 2 jobs only add up to 30 hours a week of work.

The US has tons of problems that could be improved - lower-cost housing options, changes to healthcare, not letting 18 year olds go deeply into debt for degrees with no real value, but it's not nearly as bad as the people trying to manipulate the American populace would have one believe.
Why not? They look pretty, come in many shapes and sizes, and have industrial applications.
The more I hear about how computers are taking over the car market, the more I appreciate my "App" free Honda Fit from 2013.
I agree about FSA. It’s stupid in every conceivable way. But don’t they roll over now? At least to some degree.
As others have noted, this is a neat-looking solution but breaks a lot of things. In addition to copy/paste:

* Middle-clicking to open my webmail in a new window

* “Right-click > Copy link address” because my browser doesn't know about my email client

* Possibly screen readers (I don’t know this one for certain)

* Keyboard accessibility: I can tab onto the link, but Enter doesn’t activate it

* Probably some other things I haven’t thought of

Since you’re requiring JavaScript anyway, here's a better solution that doesn't decrease resistance to scrapers¹ and fixes the above problems by turning all of your .cryptedmail tags into proper links that work the way users expect them to.:

document.querySelectorAll('.cryptedmail').forEach(a => {
const email = `${a.dataset.name}@${a.dataset.domain}.${a.dataset.tld}`
a.href = `mailto:${email}`
a.innerText = email
})

¹If they’re running JS, they can also just tell Selenium to intercept navigation and then click every link on the page.
> I've been coding for half my life, out of pure interest for the building things and never got into it for the money

stick with it. that there is money is CS is icing on your cake. so many folks have to do something NOT their passion because there is no money in their passion and they weren't born with silver spoon.
If Michael Kerrisk is reading this: would be great to have a small supplementary book to the great "The Linux Programming Interface" that handles namespaces, capabilities et al.
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D.A. Wallach discusses his article on the pricing of pharmaceuticals in the U.S.
Ask HN: How are you managing sharing your current life / achievements?
Obviously we all have landmarks happening all the time. I started with orkut / facebook long ago - posted a bit of funny stuff and life events. Eventually pretty much stopped sharing anything with the massive monetization of the same. My snaps today are test snaps or keeping in touch with folks and stories are small jokes. I use my Whatsapp just to keep in touch with my fellow Indian community.

I have been operating under the assumption that no one really cares about my milestones or my family's for a few years now. But seeing recent christmas cards from friends triggered this thought. I don't want to sound like bragging when I talk about these (which I assume is how it will come off to folks who aren't focusing on the same stuff or are having a hard time), I also am trying to see if being nuclear and insular is the future. As vain as it sounds, I did derive happiness from sharing AND I am happy to see these christmas cards.

Considering I have a lot more like minded folks here rather than reddit and I have a job related interest as well (I work for Snap) figured will ask! How are you sharing your life with friends and family?

Happy Holidays!
While I certainly wouldn't call JS "great", I actually do genuinely like a lot of parts of it. I like the Lispey style of embedding data structures (hashmaps and arrays) directly into the language, and I like that it has somewhat popularized some functional techniques and made them mainstream.

While callbacks aren't a great way of doing continuation-passing, at least we can credit JS with making continuation-passing mainstream.

In combination with the fact that JS actually does work pretty well on both frontend and backend, it is a language I use semi-regularly for prototyping, given its flexibility. Granted, if I decide to make a "real" version of the project, I'll probably do it with a more functional language, but I think JS doesn't suck too bad.
I don't use ride-sharing or public transport. That I occasionally use a cab and fly in no way means that there isn't value in reducing my data leakage in other areas whenever possible.
Master Yoda put it pretty succinctly. "Do, or do not. There is no try."
Musican and actor are winner take all (or most markets).

Economics would predict the 10 guys really really good at singing would tour, as they make many millions of dollars.. and the guys that are only OK at singing (but also good at math), go on to be accountants and sit in a desk somewhere. Global demand for accountants is much higher than singers.
> is it possible that the institutions borrowing these funds are actually using those funds not for relatively low-risk purposes (e.g., paying taxes), but instead to trade "overnight"?

Yes. That's the purpose. You want banks repo'ing Treasuries so they don't dump them (or their mortgages) to pay taxes (or employees or creditors). Repos finance the asset side of the borrower's balance sheet. Tying fungible dollars to specific liabilities is a losing game.

And if someone wants to repo Treasuries to take a new risk position, that's fine. The cash is still injected into the money market through the acquisition of the position. That's the point of the Fed's repo operations.

Note that hedge funds aren't at the Fed's repo desks. They're at the banks'.

> this is just more QE

Repo pre-dates QE. And the Fed supporting money markets goes back to its founding purpose. QE was novel in its scale and the assets it supported, not its act per se.
I don't think it is major corporate backing -- for example, neither Perl nor PHP had one, and they still are (and always were) vastly more popular than Forth.

It seems to me that Forth only works for certain people, and those people are quite rare. For the majority of programmers, almost every other language will make them much more productive.
The oreilly site to buy is not http :yuck:
> Alternatively, you can use a computer program to write music, but the choices are a bit intimidating.

MuseScore is free and open source. Totally fine for casual use.
Would have been cool if they weren't already called recommendation engines. Introducing side effects into data loading or DBMS scheduled tasks is not the future but the past.
It's less ridiculous than it sounds. AWS is super careful about not using competing clouds - I think because if AWS employees use other clouds, it opens AWS up to some sort of legal liability/claims of copying.
A Failed SaaS Postmortem
And human resources departments, and finance departments, and investors, and people with 401ks, and people who depend on taxes, and anyone who sells goods etc... They produce a lot of value to the US economy
The PC is dead. Long live the cloud PC
Huh, interesting. I have an amazon echo. My problem with it is not that it activates when I don't say trigger word, it's that I have to try very many times to get it triggered (usually by speaking louder).
No, because the concentration is a big part of the problem. If things were more spread out, but with the same total amount of nitrogen, there would be less of an issue (and this is why Germany has less strict rules on nitrogen).
No actually in the Eu its pretty much legal - with restrictions.

EU law is fairly common across all states so there will be something like the "Masters and Servants" laws that US and UK law has.
Except it's not all overnight now.

>"The $2.93 trillion that the New York Fed will funnel to Wall Street over the next month consists of up to $120 billion each weekday in overnight loans through January 14 and $440 billion in term loans ranging from 3-days to 32 days."
I would Swift is more complex than Haskell, though much more familiar to many programmers. Pure Haskell is pretty simple, all in all. Maybe using it isn’t, given the ecosystem ;-)

Swift and Rust are definitely similar in complexity, but Rust actually merits most of its complexity imo. It gives strong guarantees and a strong foundation for the future; I don’t believe that Swift has that. Swift adds a lot of features for the sake of having them, and I think that will catch up with the language quickly (see C++.)
AWS CDK was what came to my mind as "next gen" infra as code, sounds like Pulumi has somewhat comparable approach
To be a good software engineer, become a French skeptic
> Squatty Potty are offering us revolutionary new ways to sit on the toilet.

revolutionary? new?
Visual neurons don’t work the way scientists thought, study finds
> It's just unrealistic. Here's a challenge - cut cobalt out of your life. I'll bet you can't.

"Realistic" is determined entirely by the values of the overarching system. The fate of the people at the long tail of the supply lines isn't valued. That's the single, solitary reason that this shit is still happening. Change that, and the system will adapt. The mines will get better, or they will be replaced with other mines that do it properly.

Stop settling for what your corporate overlords tell you is doable. We can do anything as a species if we choose to, good or bad. Our history shows it. Industry has every reason to tell you it's impossible because they don't want to spend the money to insure supply lines are ethically handled.

If we can mine coal in the United States without children and with relative safety, they can mine Cobalt in the same damn way. Cobalt doesn't by virtue of being cobalt need to be pried from the Earth by children.