skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When a choice is possible then people will skip updates which endangers the whole ecosystem.

There is a reason for that. Reason not being just the choice itself, but mostly that automated updates tend to range from inconvenient, through bloating up the machine, to outright dangerous to your data and software.

The reason to install updates is security. The reason to not install them is all the other things that get included. Because of that, I wish it was a standard to run security updates separately from feature updates, and keep the second type fully optional. Yes, it's more work for the developers, but it's better for the users (and our industry is going too far with preferring its own convenience over end-user value).
It's not necessarily a failure when you fail.

This PM exuberates professionalism with a clear and concise message! This is an excellent learning experience, for bystanders, travelers, and employees. Seems to me that this was handled in a good way.

The issue was highly unusual and difficult to anticipate but now you know. Good luck mitigating this issue preparing for the future. You will now be better as a result of this failure.
I don’t know about that, I’ve found that I’m far more likely to have an uncomfortable experience with a small dose than a huge dose.
The problem is the long tail of sellers operating on the marketplace. With a long tail of sellers, you get a long tail of fraud and bullshit too.

When you search on Amazon for random basic goods, you'll get thousands of results from insane numbers of gibberish sounding sellers. But there might be only a few dozen unique results. It's going to be basically impossible to combat fraud when this is allowed.

I'd even consider the "legitimate" case of this (an OEM selling the same product to hundreds/thousands of sellers to resell) to be borderline fraud as well. It's basically reputation/review laundering.
> The musical is performed in costume. Yes audiences suspend disbelief, just as they do when, say, Romeo clearly isn't really dead in a typical performance of Shakespeare's play.

They were asking what specifically the costumes represent. They weren't confused about the concept of costumes in a play.

The cats are anthropomorphized somewhat, or they wouldn't be having proper conversations with each other. This already requires suspension of disbelief, accepting that it's a fantasy world. The question is how far that anthropomorphization goes, in the internal logic/canon of the play.
With a bit of luck, you might also be able to angle in from some other position. I originally worked in customer support, found opportunities for automation, built a couple small tools on my own time, convinced management I was more efficient automating than doing support directly, and that snowballed. No engineering degree or prior portfolio to speak of. But I was also quite lucky and the company (and support department in particular) is constantly strapped for engineering talent.
You may have tried this already, and it may not work for you, but - a daily meditation practice, and general interest in Zen Buddhism, has helped me personally bring to my baseline reality some of the enlightenment I have felt during past psychedelic experiences.
Can't imagine Euro visitors are...at all...cared about by a US local news outlet.
Because custom algorithm on FPGA for each job will work faster than ASIC with universal algorithm.

Make custom ASIC with non universal algorithm is too expensive.
Because quoting it but leaving it out of the quote is a tad deceitful.
Didn't they use to use Mozilla's engine in the past? Brave is a payments shell on top of a browser ui. Maybe in the future they can afford to have both. I think focusing on the rendering engine is missing the point.
Yeah that's incredibly creepy.
If they cared, they would let you filter for items only sold by Amazon.com and not commingle inventory. What they really want is for others to take all the inventory risk and liability and take a 15% cut of all purchases.

They used to let you filter for items sold by Amazon.com, but they removed it, so I think that clearly proves their goal of being a platform rather than a retailer one can rely on for quality goods, as presumably the former has nice profit margins whereas the latter is famous for barely having profit margins.
Micrograms (ug), the legend goes that every little stamp is dotted with 100ug,

its actually also really hard to say how much someone really takes as LSD also varies in strength quality.
I do not any degree, but I do have things on my CV that lead to interviews and offers:

* community contributions - I do not find it special any more, but I learned that it is not the default: I have basically millions of people using text and code I created. Again, it's a side effect of the work, but it's also social proof, probably more so than a degree, since the results are tangible. Some people are immediately amazed by this.

* open source: as said above, have some kind of portfolio - it so easy today - in fact, if I weren't that busy right now, this would be the part I would focus on in my position - have well defined clear fun portfolio projects with tangible goals and a somewhat coherent story, maybe around current topics like devops, AR or ML (which are full of unsolved or tedious problems btw)

* be a great generalist: you need the first job or jobs to find some direction you want to go in; but for an entry it's great to be a generalist; me, you can throw frontend-fixes, search engines, ML data pipelines or web API design tasks; documentation or presentations at me - I'll work it out and help you win. Not sure if that helped, but I see people specializing in niches, and not really learning much beyond their focus field is a bit dis-encouraging

* attend meetups and talk to people; many meetups today are hosted by companies and you can have informal chats, which I find much more relaxing than interviews and whiteboard coding questions

* stand out - be in top 10% of kaggle or any other competitive programming site and I would bet jobs would hunt you, not the other way around

The other way to look at it:

Find work at a place, where other programmers won't go. Many orgs are desperate for a software literate IT guy, maybe you find some entry in such way.

Tl;dr

The software development world today is totally different; you can go out and program something useful and get it into the hand of millions of people simpler than ever. It takes some courage to start and put things out there, polish and nourish them. Good luck!
Is there an account for demo?
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try to find a way to move to the US. the UK doesn't have much of a tech scene compared the US
> Micrograms, most likely

Why most likely? Is it some common drug slang to refer to call µg a unit?
I agree with you that the title is dumb.
Waking from Meritocracy
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I was looking into Zapier and its strategy of creating thousands of landing pages for every combination of tools possible. I was wondering how different the pages need to be to avoid being flagged as duplicate by Google?
I'm most excited for Enumerable#tally for counting occurrences of elements.

From the example in the release:

["a", "b", "c", "b"].tally
#=> {"a"=>1, "b"=>2, "c"=>1}

There's more about this change here (https://medium.com/@baweaver/ruby-2-7-enumerable-tally-a706a...). I probably do this a few times a week:

list.each_with_object(Hash.new(0)) { |v, h| h[v.something] += 1 }
Maybe not in general but the issues with Amazon isn’t limited to .com. We get all the same problems with .co.uk, so I’d be interested in reading what happened
That's peculiar, I suffered basically the same exact delusion from a strong psychoactive experience I had in my teens.
Yes, I do realize that i was very lucky, and very foolish. I felt extreme grief also for what i have done, and felt i was being irresponsible towards my body as if it was a creature on its own.
Why and How Nonprofits Can and Should Accept Cryptocurrency Donations
If you're depressed or something very bad's happened in your life, the contrast of it being a time of celebration and seeing everyone else happy can be especially painful. Kind of like being forced to go to a jubilant party where everyone's singing and dancing the day after your best friend died, for example.
A military coup is where the military overthrows a legally elected government and seizes power for itself. Morales was illegally and corruptly elected, and the military did not seize control: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/472356-dispelling-.... It’s not a coup for the military to withdraw its support for a head of state that’s taking illegal action. (Consider a similar situation. Trump packs the Supreme Court and runs for a third term in violation of the term limit. He wins, but in an election where UN election monitors find “overwhelming evidence” of fraud. Military officials, who take an oath to defend the constitution, would have a duty to refuse to accept his authority.)

More to the point, Greenwald omits all the background information necessary for the reader to decide whether there was a coup. The military didn’t just one day decide to stop supporting Morales after 14 years. It happened only after a series of events—illegal actions by Morales and key institutions abandoning him.
The idea is to ensure that users are informed about the amount of electricity they're paying for. The number of kilowatt hours drawn from the charger is not the same as the number of kilowatt hours that end up in the battery.

Here's a demonstration on an Ionity charger with a Tesla Model 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPrVZtzAqX4

In the end the charger delivered 65.5 kWh but only 61 kWh was added to the battery. 4.5 kWh is a difference worth knowing about.
What do you mean by a separate api for dynamic data?

The data under discussion isn't "dynamic", it's still static, it just isn't known to the schema in question at runtime (since it's only known to a different schema). That means you can't access it by name, since the field names aren't known.
I recall that Harvard employed the "honor system" which required each student to be truthful on all things academic but that it all assumed honor in the student - it had the assumption that the university would not engage in constant surveillance of the students.

A policy of "we'll surveil you as much as technologically possible and we are allowed to harshly punish all evasions of this surveillance" is essentially a "dishonor" policy, indistinguishable from the policies that prisoners face.
Slippage is never pointless but rather an important aspect for any efficient system. If you are setting the deadline at midnight instead of 4pm then you are making most of the students work longer on the assignment. Set the hard deadline to 4pm and then allow a few students to submit late. That ends up being less of a burden on students and society.
It was a failure in communication on my part to frame it as a question as that indeed only lead to flamewars. My intent was to simply voice criticism of the fact that it happened and that it seemed to go on unnoticed for a fairly long time.
Looks nice! Any plans to add support for uploading stacks to Sentry? That's a must have for us and why we are using pkg/errors.
Please email me at alex@gatepay.co

Founder and former homeless here. Have a European/U.K. presence and would love to talk.
Should we trust him to be honest about his Tesla reviews now?
Your site says you taught computer graphics for a while. Do you have any other resources to recommend, or even a list of suggested topics? I really enjoyed my intro to computer graphics course but wasn’t able to take any follow ups
> You've been able to use `send` to pierce the protected/private restriction forever, so this doesn't particularly change the nature of Ruby's method visibility rules.

I wasn't aware, thanks for pointing that out.
Interesting project. What do you think of https://github.com/sevagh/transcribe ? It seems like in your project the word transcription isn't referring to sheet music transcription?
> in the absence of a CS degree you need a portfolio

If you can demonstrate good programming skills I think most companies would still hire you even without past job experience (I assume that's what you mean by portfolio - if you mean Github projects then in my experience nobody really looks at those).

A CS degree is also irrelevant - pretty much all programming jobs in the UK just want any technical degree. In all the companies I've worked in most people did maths, physics, engineering or CS, but CS was still a minority.

If you can program well then the real difficulty will be getting your CV past HR since they probably will dismiss it based on lack of experience. I'm not sure how to solve that but asking here seems like a decent thing to do.
Not sure about that number - they give no details on how it's calculated and anyways it's presented as being sales, not profits.

Edit: https://www.marketplace.org/2019/11/18/how-amazons-counterfe... has more details and is where OP ironically appears to be ripping off from. Says 1.5 million is 4% of sales, so they did around 37 million in sales.
Check out 8th Light in London. They hire through a paid apprenticeship program and hire from very diverse backgrounds, already have some from similar circumstances.
Interesting how our understanding of risks change. I have that Soviet illustrated pop science book about space travel. Published in 1955 - two years before Sputnik - the main concern it had was the harm of microgravity. Huge unknown at the time, there were fears that humans would not able to function properly in weightlessness, so all the designs of orbital stations were with centrifugal gravity.

DNA at that point was barely discovered and genetics remained a pariah science under CPSU for years.

(The book also refers to space pilots as astronauts, not cosmonauts, and describes polar caps and channels on Mars. Wild.)
Real question is, what are we educating people to be?
You really have to expand if you make a statement like this.
Archive to the rescue: https://archive.is/TR6HX
Yep, we called him "Dedek Mraz" in the balkans which also literaly translates into Grandfather Frost.

(Although we did celebrate christmas since the anti-religion clampdown wasn't that aggressive in Yugoslavia.)
> Micrograms (ug)

Why would you think that?

> little stamp is dotted with 100ug

So if a stamp is dotted with 100µg - how much is on a ministamps? and he said 15 ministamps - so ... I mean ... is it that hard to just use SI units instead of "units" and "ministamps" - it seems this is a path to getting ripped off.

> legend goes

When I buy something I don't buy it based on legend...

"legend goes there used to be 10 foodles of potato in a bag of potatoes" ... tell me how many kilograms of potato I'm buying - don't start with some legend nonsens.
I worked once for a company that publishes articles for different countries. Sometimes they would publish the same article in different domains because they were relevant to all. The only thing they would worry about to avoid that duplication problem was to manage rel=canonical element in every page.
Cool.

Back in the ‘80’s there was a game called “Rocky’s Boots” that taught logic to kids.

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/rockys-boots-cp
Emulator Hierarchy
Thanks! We'd love to add support if you need it. I'll make a note of it but feel free to add an issue for it if you have time!
Did he also run the original bugtraq list?
I don't think they care.

There was a story about a guy who self publishes his own book and on Amazon there are cheap fakes with identical title, cover and etc... Amazon just doesn't do anything.
> I've been hearing folks tell me it's definitely fast & nimble while watching it not actually be fast or nimble for north of two decades

You're going to have to get over some perceptual bias to ever understand the people saying thiese things. It's absolutely true that Java's weak points sit in many of the areas that are directly observable (startup time, UI - Swing etc.) while its strong points mostly sit in the ones that aren't (how fast code runs after 10 cycles of JIT profiling etc). But my suggestion is that its worth doing that because just like a million other things in the world that you can't directly observe, it's very valuable to understand nonetheless their underlying properties.

Just for a reference point, I work in a space where performance is very critical and the code I write takes ages to start (where ages = 1-2 seconds) but then competes head to head with C code in efficiency. It's probably half as efficient as well optimised C code but it brings the huge other benefits that the JVM has so it's ultimately easily worth that tradeoff to me.
Not many will care you were homeless in the context of a programming job. All that matters is that you can code and you can convince others you can code. This is both good and bad. One one hand no one cares about your particular story, just that you will be useful to them, but on the other hand this means in many cases people don't care whether you have a traditional education and/or experience. Work on a portfolio that proves you are good at what you say you are in your resume, and then the rest is being a good match as a person with the team.
Being billed for kWh at all and not time seems like a far more important part of regulation.
Well, storage lockers are a quite recent thing.

And in nature you do not really have much big objects that could fall on you if you climb them.

Maybe a large boulder loose ... but they are very rare in my experience. So I guess it makes sense we are not prepared for it. What is much more likely, a loose rock which breakes off at climbing .. we are prepared for. Instinct reflexes are pretty fast in that case, I noticed ..
For Wolf3D, the player was the only one using full hitscan. Enemies simply decided hit or not based on a dice throw, adjusted with distance to player. Worked well enough until you start noticing they shoot trough almost-closed doors, eaxh other, etc...

Doom did a lot better, hence the monster infighting
Totes this. I got no degrees too fam but the way I approached it was to do side gigs in making websites for small businesses while making small github contributions.

Higher-paying gigs want some bit of track record and those small websites and github stuff are the lowest hanging fruits for me imo.
Same. But despite years of practice, it took reading The Mind Illuminated and sitting 45-60min every single day for 4-6 months before some walls started really breaking down. I lost my social anxiety and a lot of fear in general. But just a word of a caution: serious meditation practice is NOT all sunshine and rainbows. Most people eventually encounter a "washing of sins" or "dark night of the soul" phase that can be pretty gnarly if you're not expecting it. I didn't think to would happen to me but it really knocked me on my ass when it happened.
I've written that article a few years back. Today things are worse for SCTP - there are thoughts and a general intent in replacing SCTP altogether with QUIC. Didn't happen yet, but probably will in a couple of years.
Merry Christmas to all! I hope 2020 is a good year for everyone everywhere. And Happy Hanukkah, too.
I'd agree with what you just said, but your original post can be construed as (and many claim) that if Facebook is a monopoly, the first amendment protects your ability to post on Facebook, since it's a public square. But that doesn't follow.
https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=ru&t...

click the speaker
Don't get me wrong (I hope you'll find a job in a blink), but I see you created an account an hour ago, so this could be useful (from HN FAQ):

Can I post a job ad?

Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. But only an account called whoishiring[1] is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.

Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
I actually think that’s very, very natural. The experience is also consistent with initiatory budhist awakenings, especially during death meditations.

I believe it’s how we approach our fear of death, and how we are able to let go of the wrongs done to us by fellow humans. Grief is a powerful feeling and im still so thankful.
I work for a small Bristol (UK) based software consultancy, and we are currently looking to hire software engineers at all levels – drop me an email at charlie.anderson@unai.com and we'll go from there.
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> Because quoting it but leaving it out of the quote is a tad deceitful.

Quoting it but leaving it out of the quote? What does that even mean? That's nonsensical.
We also had "Ded Moroz" in communist Romania, translated to "Moș Gerilă".

It was imported due to the soviet occupation after WWII and the subsequent adoption of communism. The word Christmas was censored in 1948. In the 80s our beloved supreme leader wanted to associate those presents with the state instead of Moș Gerilă, so things got a little weird with the state propaganda.

After the revolution in 1989 we changed the holiday to the Christmas in the Gregorian calendar and Santa Claus, translated as "Moș Crăciun" (Father Christmas).
Eigenmorality (2014)
Nice! Logic gates no less. We will have to spin up dosbox and try it out if possible.
Well, you can go to sheet music if you want to but there are plenty of packages out there that will display midi files as sheet music so that would seem to be an unnecessary complication. The core problem is polyphonic music -> midi and that is hard enough!

I will take a look at your software, it definitely sounds interesting, the question at the end of https://github.com/sevagh/transcribe/blob/master/doc/snac.md can be answered in the affirmative, the Onsets and Frames package mentioned elsewhere in this thread does just that and works very well.

By the way, the linked paper is unavailable.
There is a saying: "if you don't know how to do it, you don't know how to do it with a computer".
This is one of those mysteries where the sensational story covered up fairly mundane facts.

https://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-myst...
> The dream of some administrators is a university where every student is a model student, adhering to disciplined patterns of behavior that are intimately quantified, surveilled and analyzed

An appropriate dream for a college administrator. But a travesty for creators, entrepreneurs and groundbreaking scientists.

I’d be curious. Would these same administrators object to their timeliness being similarly measured? Quantified coffee-break time theft, for example, could be deducted from pay cheques.
Yes! This is how my time loop began! Everything collapsed into one thing.
In the early 80s at several large universities I knew of, it wasn't uncommon for attendance at lectures to be effectively optional. The student was expected to do the homework, pass the midterm and final and maybe participate in discussions in a small section with a TA or graduate student.

This varied from class to class, of course. Still, this was an incentive for a given professor to make their lecture interesting and useful enough that students wanted to attend.