skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, if I understand the ads pretty easily, then I'm apparently already a better fit for the job than the tweet author?
Ransomware Exploded in the Age of Bitcoin
This is GREAT. I have always had an issue with tone 2 and 3 but it turns out I have this tiny dip before the rise in my tone 2. It took a while looking at the tone patterns before I worked it out. Now give me something for that stupid ü or u-umlaut and then I might actually sound ok.
You think that, after a company has had a worker doing good work for them for years, they should fire the worker and replace them with an unknown, possibly of lower quality? Why? Who does this benefit?
Bohemian Grove: Where the rich and powerful go to misbehave
It's a heavy pricetag considering other free alternatives exists. If you look at the features page, I could replicate that with Asana easily.
For clarity: I'm using "/dev/urandom" as shorthand for "the non-blocking interface to the kernel entropy pool" and not the literal device node interface. As others have pointed out there is a syscall to get that for you if you can't use the device.
US Congress has the authority to block such acquisitions.
I wanted to try it but I couldn't get it going using docker. I tried `docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up` and then `docker-compose exec monicahq php artisan setup:production` and I get an error about /var/www/monica/storage/artisisan not existing.
Ahh, fantastic; good to hear that that got somewhere
3 feet? or inches?
Visit any infinite scrolling site and click on the link associated with an item in the list. Hit the back button.

Q: Where are you in the list now?

A: It is impossible to know because no two sites behave the same way. You will not be anywhere near the item you clicked on in the majority of cases.
haha yup, Go actually understands its community, Scala is more concerned with doing really "smart" stuff
I think it's partly due to many university lisp courses focusing on the symbolic end of lisp/programming languages - rather than on the performance side of computing theory.

For common lisp, for example, it's probably fair to say that an over use of lists is "wrong" in the general case (ie, if your problem is data driven, which would probably be the case in most applications/utilities).

Now, if all you're doing is improving the language/honing a DSL - the you'll probably be using lists a lot, as that is what constitutes the abstract syntax tree you're manipulating.

See this for a brief discussion on collections in common lisp:

http://gigamonkeys.com/book/collections.html
How aware of the uncertainty were those “experts” who recommended they have surgery? Was that uncertainty effectively communicated to this family? Surgery carries risk and costs as well. And it’s becoming more likely that the risk assumed by these women might have been needless. Is there no accountability to be assigned at all because all is well that ends well?

Throughout my life, and ESPECIALLY in medicine, there has been constant change in understanding but never a shortage of confidence by “experts” assuring me we got it right this time.
An American financial service that I had multiple accounts with was just bought by a Chinese organization. There was nothing obscure about the service nor was there publicly available data about my accounts.
Some people (including myself) just really really struggle with names. I've found that people who don't struggle with names don't quite understand how it just doesn't click for other people.

I have to write down the name of everyone I meet in a day and review it before I go to bed in order to even have a chance.

Plus, I have a paralyzing fear of using the wrong name so I don't practice that often unless I'm completely confident.
What sort of performance have you been getting?
The intuitive explanation I like is this: Suppose there are 10000 boxes. You pick one. Monty Hall knows where the prize is. He opens 9998 boxes, leaving just two closed: your original choice, and one other one. Should you switch? Before Monty Hall opened any boxes, the chances of the prize being in one of the boxes other than the one you chose was 9999 in 10000. This probability does not change when he opens 9998 of these. So you should choose the remaining box, not your original choice.

The same argument applies with 3 boxes, but intuition is much less reliable in this case.
Instead of the government paying money to publishers for adminstration of peer reviewed publications, the government should directly produce peer reviewed publications as a public benefit. Neither the model of requiring the submitter to pay nor the model of requiring the reader to pay produces good outcomes for the dissemination of scientific discoveries.
does it have some connections (in term of inspiration/algorithm etc.) with speakgoodchinese ? (an opensource project to help practice tone)

http://www.speakgoodchinese.org/
https://robvanson.github.io/sgc3/
Hack
Hacking account
Europeana Releases an Industrial Heritage Colouring Book
wouldn't surprise me if the military makes you strip naked, put your clothes in a microwave, then put them back on before getting on the plane to the black site. Each and every time.

Anything less than such ridiculous methods would be insecure. You can literally embed chips in the fabric of your clothing. https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?11587
Marketing and they understand how to build communities, this is actually the most important thing. TF isn't a great product so thats showing through now, Go and K8s are and you don't see the backtick there.
If the desire to not use JavaScript is widespread, is that a sign that the pool of software developers are all wrong or maybe it's a sign that there is something truly distasteful with JavaScript?
More likely they just never read the site in the first place.
It isn't for H1B, it's for green cards.
Why's "ban" needed?

Government should have full control over government issued devices and only whitelisted modifications should be allowed.

If it's not this way - someone at government should be held accountable for jeopardizing the security of the nation.
Machine Learning education after Coursera courses
Sounds like the interview process is what is really failing.
I stand by my previous comment. I was like you once, thinking everyone else who isn’t on the bleeding edge is an out of touch idiot with an outdated, irrelevant skill set. There’s a time and a place. It really depends on your requirements. Maybe your experience has been more focused so that you haven’t had to deal with much with more diverse requirements. Or maybe you’re not the guy on the hot seat who risks budget, company performance and people’s jobs with tech decisions. Call me a dinosaur. I don’t care. I use the right tool for the job whether it’s new or not.
I was looking for a mobile version of a personal crm, so I ended up building one for myself (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prim-relationship-manager/id14...)

There’s a lot of improvement to make apps like these less tedious with data entry. I’d also love to see more examples of products that excel at balancing the data-driven nature of technology with personal, empathetic human relationships. It’s a difficult line to walk well.
Sure there are use cases for Scala, they are just few and far between nowadays. If your looking to experiment with crazy functional stuff have fun, just don't write actual software in it, which was unfortunately the outcome, and a bunch of companies paid the price
A Longing for the Lost Landline
In light of GDPR et al., how legal is this here in Europe? To store detailed personal data on people and even their children without written consent, and host that data on some company's servers, maybe even in the US. Is there some GDPR exception that allows private individuals to store as many personal details about as many people as they like?
Yes, this is the first question that jumped out at me when I saw this article. How accurate are these genetic tests? Can they give us a confident assessment of reliability so as to allow us to meaningfully do a cost benefit analysis of surgery
I'm guessing because the content/comments are generally lower quality/effort.
Just delete the .bib file. arXiv only needs the .bbl file. What is confusing is even if you have both the .bib and .bbl, arXiv doesn't ignore the former, it raises an error anyway. Bad error reporting.

Another tip if you're using overleaf: make sure your bibliography related warnings that overleaf points out, are gone too. Overleaf is resilient to these but arXiv is not.
That’s reasonable. Personally I doubt the stimulant effects come close to zeroing out the lost productivity from heath issues and early deaths. But, at these scales it’s a multi billion dollar effect and needs to be accounted for.

Also, if you object to wildly off base that’s fair. I would call even the 3x difference between the CDC’s 170B and my simplified 500B sanity check as wildly off base. But, that’s just my scale +/- 50% is fine, 2x raises read flags for me, but out at 3+x is a fundamental incompatibility in different estimates.
How many of those papers were making exceptional claims?
No, the Redux and NgRX teams are completely separate. We've occasionally chatted briefly online, but that's it.
Was it really the experts that suggested surgery, or was it the patients that based on the genetic testing seeked out surgery? (I'm actually asking, as I'm blocked by the WSJ paywall.)
AIUI, those websites are only hackers like you crowdsourcing that info anyway.
Do we have to install keybase to see it? I'm not familiar with it, so hesitant to install till i have some time...
Not going to disagree that there are clearly differences in intelligence. However, the same intelligent humans managed for tens to hundreds of thousands of years to not destroy their environments until all of a sudden that became their imperative. In numerous parts of the world during the last 10,000 years there have been plenty of humans living within their means until they were assimilated or eradicated into the culture that dominates and destroys.

People hopefully say, "at least we're becoming a space-faring society." As if we're really going to be able to outgrow this planet and move on and destroy another one. We're definitely an exploring species, and for that space is gratifying, but there is no indication that there will be another Earth to colonize anytime soon.
Quick problem, It seems to have a difficult time with deeper voices. Please fix. I do like it. Is there anything for whole sentences?
Architecture Video on Kubernetes Ever
Then set up a mock-up site at https://10.3.42.8/, and just show a journalist on your laptop. Ask to remain anonymous, then switch off your web server and let them know that "it has since been taken down, but anybody else could make a new one".

That's their story. They can then go on to describe the actual issues, namely the plain-text broadcast that made your proof of concept possible, and state in all honesty that it'd be ten minutes work for a bad actor to set up another, similar, site – and less to just gather (and later sell) the private medical data. Plus, it's not wildly unethical! (Might still be illegal, though.) This is drawing attention to an issue that they're well aware of, and are doing nothing about, in a way that minimises public access to these medical records – one could argue it's positively ethical.

… Though, actually, it'd probably be better to do to somebody in charge first, since perhaps only with such a mock-up would they truly understand. They might genuinely not be aware, thinking it's just some obscure issue.
What is the story with Scala on Android? Years ago I thought it was a matter of using too much memory. There’s not much talk about it but it does seem to be possible:

https://scala-android.org/

Will Scala 3 help?
The lawyer pool isn't "in addition to" it comes "out of" the settlement amount that was already decided previously. I.e. the difference between 80 million and 800 million in lawyer fees is exactly 720 million that was supposed to have gone to compensation going to the lawyers instead.
It's not a shadow immigration system. It's an explicit, intentional aspect of US immigration policy that you're allowed to recruit skilled people from abroad if you can't fill your staff with Americans hired at market rate.
Apple Documentary Exposes fraudulent company behaviour[video]
It was a popular book that has many dimensions. The subtitle "An Inquiry Into Values" hints at Pirsig's core thrust: a philosophical exploration of what we call "quality". The title and Zen references made for me, a techie-nerd, the concept of Zen very concrete and my personal Zen tagline, "mindfulness through mastery, mastery through mindfulness" applies to most things I care about. The book was also my gateway to Plato and ancient Greek philosophy.

It's not touchy feely. Pirsig is a scientist and technologist exploring Zen and quality. It is the best example of what John Brockman calls "The Third Culture" in reference to C.P. Snow's famous essay.
And the race to the bottom continues...
To be frank, if your monthly value comparison for something like this is Netflix, you aren't the target demo.
It's not a definition of country, but your country. It can still be a country, but if you share it with the whole world, it's not yours.
The more I read about Scala it makes me wonder why (1) I am not using it (or my team) (2) Java teams across the world are not at least seriously considering changing to Scala. It seems likes it's miles ahead of both Java and even Kotlin.
I'm personally not really interested, I'm stating that the website needs to define this term if they want many people to understand what their service is. If you're trying to sell a product, don't force the customer to look up basic information about the product.
If I understand correctly they want to retain someone, not hire someone.
Entropy Measurement in Strongly Coupled Complex Plasmas
I assume it's just the list of examples he uses in his pep talks to startups and product teams. "Second prize is a set of steak knives."
That sale was blocked due to security concerns, so no.
It's a moat.
When you spend some time at the playground with your kids, you need to keep track. Otherwise you're telling your spouse "That lady with the shoulder length black hair said 'hi.'"

To be honest, I learned this tip when I worked at a large international organization, and I needed to familiarize myself with a large number of new people quickly.
The citizen of the country in which is job is located... or at least currently located.
Conference presentations and academic publishing
Why? This seems to be an uncommon opinion.
That doesn't help them. Explain it like it is. Lisp is different from what they are used to.
If they're already on react, and consider moving to rust.. Sounds like reasonml would make more sense?
But this concept of "market rate" itself depends on the immigration system, which artificially restricts supply. In a genuinely free market, with no immigration system ("shadow" or otherwise - but both are part of the same immigration system), you would find lots of engineers willing to work at what we'd consider a modest salary in the US.

The "realities of the market" are that part of why Apple engineering salaries are what they are is because of how national borders got drawn. Had California been an independent country without an open border with the rest of the US, salaries in Silicon Valley would be significantly higher, and people would be saying that "the market" set this rate. If we got rid of immigration restrictions entirely, which are certainly government interference in the free market, we'd get closer to seeing the actual market rate.
Also, while Rust does bring additional guarantees to the table, I wonder if they are really the ones that matter (much) in web dev.

Having a strongly typed language is a bonus, but a) there is TypeScript and b) the maintainability nightmares I have encountered had nothing to do with the language itself, but more with core programming principles like separation of concerns, state management (well, I'll admit that existance of MobX doesn't help there...) and similar.

So I don't buy the motivation, but it's still interesting to see what can be done in Rust.
* If you use even half of Scala's functional capabilities, Kotlin isn't really an alternative.

* What Google does with Kotlin and Android is completely irrelevant to the Scala ecosystem and its users.

* On the back-end side, Kotlin doesn't intersect that much with Scala. I haven't met anyone migrating from say, Play to Spring thanks to Kotlin's support.

* In the big data world, if you rely heavily on Spark, Scala is still the preferred option on the JVM. Python is a much bigger threat there.

* Lightbend and the Scala center have been seriously working on tooling, which is the biggest issue to address compared to Kotlin (Jetbrains has a huge advantage here).
Show HN: Heroes and Merchants – Dungeon Crawler
That anyone here would disagree with the above facts, let alone see the possibility for them to be widely controversial, is a searing indictment of our situation as a community. Why talk about collective stress if it’s a faux pas to mention the actual real source of it for non-rich non-Californians?

Ah well I guess it’s delusional to imagine a more realistic and engaged grappling with political reality to venture here. There’s too much money to be made I guess. Don’t want distractions like using our massive power to help save our democracy to free in.
oh shit look at this guy with his HACKING ACCOUNT
The Navy has a serious, serious leadership problem. Their seals have also been fucking up left and right.

This would all be comical if it wasn't so tragic.
Should a nation's immigration policy be dictated by the needs of the HR department of large tech companies?
Yes, we have all seen Silicon Valley.
If you only look at the costs but not the benefits of something, it will always look tragic.
It doesn't take much to run Nitter really, the nitter.net instance is currently sitting at 310 MB of memory and the CPU requirements aren't too bad. It's running off my dedicated home server with fairly low specs (i3-8100) tunnelled through a cheap VPS to bypass firewall restrictions. It hasn't crashed or (to my knowledge) experienced severe slowdowns despite the huge traffic increase today. Invidious's story is a bit different as the main instance load balances between 10 VPS instances.

Regarding usage stats I don't have any accurate numbers, but the database that stores preferences has 30k rows.
The Kubernetes Book by Nigel Poulton is the best audiobook adaptation of a technical book that I’ve come across.

https://nigelpoulton.com/blog/f/kubernetes-audiobook
Schizophrenia Symptoms and Diagnosis [Mental Illness]
I've read an article How Leaders Create and Use Networks: https://ivypanda.com/essays/how-leaders-create-and-use-netwo...
That's a point of view I never thought before about. Really interesting.
Shape of the universe: could it be curved, not flat?
Sorry those just aren't legitimate analogies. As I mention before every feature has a cost, Go is highly concerned with how those costs impact the community. In doing so they have created a language thats highly maintainable and efficient. Even at small companies there is turnover and you being 'really smart' with some abstraction has an impact, I've seen this plenty first hand.
Not surprising. For several days now TikTok has left the information of 700 million of their users available via an open S3 bucket. It is online now at this very moment and includes IDFAs from Apple as well as interestingly, although I bet American companies do this to, the MAC Addresses. This is significant because my understanding is that Apple rotates / randomizes the MAC address because those can be used to, quite effectively, track individuals anywhere in the world (I would say it is better than GPS often at this point, especially indoors). Storage is cheap so maybe everyone stores them these days, or perhaps someone has found how to guess the rotation pattern (completely unproven theory that is likely wrong but only thing I can think of).

The coverage that Skyhook claims to have for instance is extraordinary considering this is totally reliant on Wifi points and cell towers: https://www.skyhook.com/Coverage-Map
Not related to software.

I have to feed and give fresh & vitamin water to birds almost everyday. I wish, I could automate that somehow.
It could only mean that if it were hyphenated. Given that "Open-Source" is hyphenated, one can assume that hyphens have been made explicit, not left implied, and hence this title does not contain that ambiguity.
Its pretty concerning that lines between desktop and web are blurring and the oses are platforming. Some additional things I feel are pretty hostile.

* Paypal - defaulting fee based payment options rather than "free ones" or allowing user to set a default.

* Google maps - Searching for "jiffy lube" will show you the business entry and its reviews. If you search for "oil change" it will show you a jiffy lube "ad" that looks the same as the entry but if the reviews are bad they are hidden. In this particular case the location had several thousand bad reviews.

* Google maps - restaurants "menu" button takes me to a page of a bunch of customer uploaded images.

* Amazon app - why isn't "returns" a main menu item for amazon mobile app.

* Uber eats/grub hub/favor - app carts hide fee increases to account for minimum spends meaning you are loosing out on another item for the same amount, and make it harder than it should be to remove items from cart.

* Nordevpn desktop app - hides the logout button in right click -> preferences.

* Apple/Google stores - make it difficult to view recurring subscriptions, and to request a refund.

* Chrome - over the last year I've had to go into settings and tell chrome to not allow sites to offer me notifications so many times. I don't understand why I have to keep resetting it with sync and similar.

* google images - pretty worthless thanks to pintrest, and that I cant download images cause bs corp ip laws.

* Image sharing - still getting more difficult in 2019.

* App notifications - more and more apps push unimportant notifications or spam for engagement while lacking granular controls. I find myself disabling more and more notifications outright only to miss a notification that I actually care about.

Remember that we are techies, "hyper" aware of these decisions and their implications. What about nana? We are loosing digital agency.
The obvious solution to this would be to charge them for the apprenticeship, financing it yourself with a loan from master to apprentice (which then immediately goes back to the master as "tuition"). If they are immediately poached at a high salary, they'll have to pay back the loan.

The traditional solution, enslavement, has a bad reputation today.
touch -d 'Jan 01 2030'

I initially thought 2099 but 2030 lets you poke it again in ten years :>
Where? I can't find anything about salaries on the USCIS data hub.

It's hard to trust a non-governmental data source since there is no penalty or fines for misreporting.
No content gets edited by Nitter except links being expanded and twitter/youtube links getting replaced (unless the user disables that)
Its actually not designed to meet Googles requirements, that just something people who don't know Go say. They have a survey they put out every year and take feedback from customers on issues that arise. They try and fix those issues with as little code as possible, because code and features have a cost.
Declarative Rendering Pipeline in Nim
This is a really neat idea! Was there an inspiration for this? I think something like this could be very useful!
I'm not sure it's working for tone 1. I played back the teacher's recording and it thought it was tone 3. i was able to get 2,3,4 right though, and i think it probably helped my tone2
The large FANG companies are always hiring. If you can pass their interviews, you would probably get an offer for, if not exactly the same team, a similar position in another team with open headcount.