skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
are you sure it's the norm? I mean first off Spotify is a service that gets money on a subscription model, airpods are a hardware device, so the people who buy airpods this year and that have spotify will buy spotify maybe 2 or 3 years before they buy new airpods.

Airpods might have captured more of the market this year for headphones than Spotify captures for its market. Finally the people who use Spotify might use multiple services etc.

So even if you spend more money on your audio hardware than what you listen to I don't think we know if people actually spend more on their hardware than on what they listen to.
Inadvertent needle sticks? Every now and then. I'm not trying to avoid your question or be funny. It's one of the unavoidable risks of being a health care worker.
On top the reasons mentioned in the sibling comments, there is also a huge market for in game currencies, which bots make is infinitely easier to farm those currencies.
> After getting my drives back I checked one of my USB drives and it had a .docx file on it that didn't come from me. In this Word file there was a photo of some guy (unpixeled). I have no idea who that is (maybe the script kiddie?) but the federal agency must have put it in there by accident.

Plot twist:

I opened a word document some random agency put on my USB drive and I got a federal trojan.
If they were building kids playgrounds and kids are randomly getting hurt... yes. They should not be operating in_that_arena.
It looks like it's not memory safe? What does this offer over existing options?
> End result is that to provide an internet connection, you have to also provide a DNS resolver, full stop

Nope. You have to provide the address of a resolver, but that doesn't mean you have to run one yourself. There's nothing stopping the ISPs shipping a standard DHCP config that points their customers at (for example) 8.8.8.8, or 1.1.1.1, or whoever.
Super basic:

* https://interpreterbook.com/

* https://compilerbook.com/

Somewhat more practical:

* https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

...

massive gap here

...

Serious:

* Engineering a Compiler (even this wastes soooo much time on parsing)

* Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures

* Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation

I'm not exaggerating or being contrary for the sake of it when I say disregard the Dragon book - we don't build compilers like that any more. It's not even like it teaches you the foundations that are still useful because I think the foundations and what we emphasise as important now have changed so much.
Most military aircraft have Mode 1,2,3,4, and now 5, all of various capabilities, of which Mode 3/A (with altitude reporting) is also in common use by non-military aircraft. "Squawking" a particular mode, and code in the mode, only means it has been set in the cockpit. An Iranian F-14 would most certainly had both a Mode 2 and Mode 3 capability, so no, an Mode 3 code does not identify it as civilian.
All those with an analog or USB input?
>recycles

you mean ship it off to live in a landfill in africa/india. even their much vaunted green initiatives keep handing off trash til they reach a company that does this
One could argue that Buzzfeed is as much of a mouthpiece for propaganda-for-pay as the PR firms described in their article.
It looks like the UCSD team are exploring data center TDMA which no commercial NIC supports. http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/papers/tdma-eurosys12.pdf
Allocation patterns.

Languages like Clojure stress more the GC.
> A similar optimisation was with tmux to bind the prefix to C-z. It's in a handy location next to ctrl and I very rarely use suspend anyway.

I think gnu screen has the right idea here: ctrl-a.

And you say z is close to control - does that mean you use emacs without shift lock as control?! (I mean sure, still closer than b...).
A lot of states have way too many hikes, and it can take hours (sometimes days) of research to figure out what "best one" to take. This list is for people who aren't from that state and just want to go on one good hike. It won't work for everyone, for example because most people will never go to Kauai.
A sort of related question that I've struggled to get a good answer on: how does one actually pronounce "Pad" in "Pad Thai"?

Pad as in iPad?

Or closer to pod?
How much of this is due to the fact that we're exporting pollution in the form of plant outsourcing to countries willing to absorb those externalities (China)?
The simpler the program, the less layers you need. If the todo list for a homeless person is:

- Assign open apartment

- Digitally fill out form B12

- Deposit money

Then there is very little work required.

Where social programs have the highest overhead is where they do things like “Assess whether it’s ‘required’ based on binders 3 through 7” and “Continually check in with all other governmental arms to validate that they are meeting criteria”.
Toyota revealed its plans to build a city – Woven City
>The VPN itself will keep track of all your activity

- The trouble here is that the ISP is in the same country as your police. Having a VPN that is in a different jurisdiction requires international warrants. (IANAL.)

- Mullvad claims they do not log, as many VPN providers. I have a tin foil hat usually but I think their track record warrants an unusual amount of trust.

- You can also do multi hop through Wireguard, if you’re into that kind of thing.

>just a warrant away, that’s how they make real money.

Now that is unbelievable. You are suggesting to me that the police are paying VPNs for logs? Why would they pay if they have a warrant?

I don’t think the data that ISPs or VPNs have is actually worth that much. For VPNs most of it is probably genuinely torrent traffic and HTTPS traffic. Even DNS can be encrypted nowadays (and should be imo.)

It’s one thing to say they are selling logs, but it’s hard to believe that’s where they make the real money from. And either way, it’s a completely unsourced claim.
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There's the established Corruption Perceptions Index published annually by Transparency International:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Finland is ranked #3 while US is #22.
“ This was due to a decrease in coal plants, which resulted in an emissions drop of 190 million metric tons”

Yep, coal is one of the biggest problems.

https://h4labs.org/ive-got-another-stupid-idea-to-deal-with-...
By getting the shot you need to spend time and money.

Insurance doesn't really change this, because if everyone did it, the premiums would be increased. (No chance of the former, so I guess that's just a tiny wager)

So yeah, you always stand to lose something. It might be worth it to you though
Got sounds interesting. Thanks for the link!
When I got my MLIS in 2007, it was not a very technically rigorous program, and the technical classes were only meant to introduce non-technical people to systems they might eventually have to talk about in a meeting, but not work with directly.

The people I graduated with mostly went into libraries (naturally), or else went into Product Management, UX, or Information Architecture. If you want to have a contributing technical role in your future position, I urge you to ask very specific questions about curriculum of the program you consider applying to!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#Germany

Laws in the UK are pretty Orwellian to say the least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
They might not have a choice.
In fairness, this is part of why the US has moved away from employer-managed pension funds. Pensions are still common in government, universities, and certain lifetime-employment industries (e.g. power plants). But even in good, white-collar jobs there's been a shift to 401k matching, where you get a personal retirement fund which your employer funds with some amount of money beyond your normal salary.

There are a lot of reasons for that switch: it saves on the administrative headaches of having pensions from several companies, it encourages private retirement savings (because it's "matching"), it saves companies money (because many people don't contribute), and it lets companies keep predictable finances (because it's an investment paid up front, not a lifetime or fixed-dollar obligation). But on the employee side, a lot of the reason people with bargaining power accept it is that they trust 401k funds to stay safe (except from stock market crashes), and don't trust companies to fulfill pension obligations.

The downside, as with healthcare and many other things in the US, is that when "good" jobs circumvent the problem, it takes away most of the social pressure to actually solve it for everyone.
No, because every FPGA and even different boards using the same FPGA are wired differently.
Germany is moving beyond nuclear power, but at what cost?
I was one of the early subscribers of Opps Daily! I loved the idea originally when it came up but after a while, the daily emails got a bit much. I believe I suggested a weekly version/aggregate over a daily email (which you immediately implemented).

Watching it from the outside, I'd say after a while it became "the ideas are decent/worth looking into, but I already have too much on my plate right now that I can't pursue any of it" and the aspiration to follow through is pretty much gone. I think monetizing based on that (and making it worth the time investment) is the big egg we all want to crack.

Anyways props for you for running it for so long! I saw the email and appreciate you taking us on your journey through the lifecycle of it.
Ok thanks this is helpful.
> Memory management in Beef is manual,

No thanks. We already have enough of those.
The Massachusetts best hike is about 1000 ft from the New York state line, AKA as far as you can go from Boston and still technically be in MA
Kurzweil is someone who does not understand where his expertise ends and makes bogus claims based on a poor understanding of non-computer science topics (see his claims about AGI + the human brain as an example). His claims are typically too generic to be wrong or he does mental gymnastics to claim his prediction was correct when it wasn't. Just read his analysis of how his predictions for 2009 did - https://www.kurzweilai.net/images/How-My-Predictions-Are-Far...

He claims he's right even when he's obviously wrong. He is not someone whose predictions should be blindly trusted.
Robotic pre-marker provides starting point for safer working
Yes, but as a happy side-effect of that, none of those will get swamped with people looking to tick "the best hike" in every state off some list.
The only thing this article really shows is that every state has a nice place to go hiking. Aside from that, there are many factors that make a hike enjoyable, and criteria are not the same for different people.

Personally, I just try to make the most of any place I'm in, and appreciate it for what it is. Even if it's the local trail that I've hiked a hundred times, it is never exactly the same experience. And that's what makes it fun (to me).

And finding beauty in what would ordinarily pass as a "mundane" trail is precisely what makes the exceptional places so awe-inspiring.
The point I’m advocating for is that the Streisand effect isn’t the part of that which is immoral, it’s just the concept that the methods of taking action against some information inherently draws attention to it. The revenge porn video being posted is definitely immoral, and the mob looking at the video is immoral, but the concept of the Streisand effect is at best inconvenient, it’s not immoral.
> Golden Revolting^W Delicious

The proper term is "Yellowish Horrible". A completely pointless apple.

Not sure if they do it in the UK, but Tesco, of all places, sometimes sells nice local apples when they're in season in Ireland.
The President and the Bomb, Part IV
Oh if you started getting into profit you'd be able to stuff tons of companies into the "made more than" bucket, considering that Spotify has had 3 profitable quarters ever, twitter ebbs and flows between profitable and loss quarters, snapchat still isn't profitable. Shopify seems to be a bit more dependable with profits though, so hooray for them.
The same thing would happen in the USA too. If you were suspected of hacking into the Democrat or Republican party websites, the FBI would come and confiscate your computers and hold onto them until after your trial had finished. This would easily take a year or longer.
I've got my list of ideas here; https://github.com/samsquire/ideas
Oh, I list my greatest hits on my resume, of course. It's a matter of trust. I don't know how much prospective employers trust interviewees, to be honest. I can only assume they do a Google search at the time of the interview (or just before) to do a bit of investigative work and then a background check before beginning the job.
Then congratulations are in order for the police, who did their jobs, and for Facebook, who secured their system.

Less flippantly, here’s the buried follow-up:

> “WhatsApp killed the operation,” the official said. The terror suspect is still under traditional surveillance. But human resources are spread thin, the official said, especially around the winter holidays, which in Europe extend into early January and are a time when terrorists have staged attacks on the continent. “He’s not the only suspect we have to follow.”

This clearly indicates that the police have alternative means of tackling the issue. This means that privacy can be protected — at a cost. Note that no one mentions this in the article. The dichotomy presented is “snooping or TERRORISM”, not “snooping or increased resources for police to track their terror suspects”.
The point should also be that the programmer in (1) may not actually be any better for your business than the one in (2), and the programmer in (2) may be doing it because they think they have to, and may be a burnout as a result.
Depends on how you're browsing. The legacy fallback does not replace it, eg when you have js disabled
Are these Iranian missiles supposed to be extremely accurate or is the lack of deaths pure luck ?
This depends entirely on your goals and reasons for reading papers. Are you a researcher on the lookout for promising new directions to explore? Trying to keep up with the general zeitgeist? Looking to implement the "best" method for a production system? Looking for tricks and tweaks and bells and whistles to incorporate in your existing system? Just starting out with the field and getting familiar with the literature? Each will require a different approach, a different selection of papers and different parts of papers to focus on.

> But, I have to ask, how do you get a feel that the content actually looks correct, and not just only quack.

If you're familiar with the particular subfield, you can spot problematic evaluation methods, how much they follow general best practices, whether they cite all relevant approaches or "curate" their tables by intentionally leaving out methods that outperform theirs, etc. You can "smell" whether something sounds plausible. If you're unfamiliar with the field, start with highly-regarded conferences like CVPR/NeurIPS/ICLR, especially orals.

Authors squeeze their methods to press out that 1% improvement, because it's difficult to get through peer review these days without state-of-the-art numbers. Many reviewers are themselves not very experienced, do not spend much time on each paper and give large weight to quantitative results.

So be aware that the primary target audience of papers is often not really the general reader, but the reviewers.

> Basically, I have no idea if the paper is reproducible, if the results are cherry picked from hundreds / thousands of runs, if the paper is just cleverly disguised BS with pumped up numbers to get grants, and so on.

If they've released their code, it can be a positive sign.

> As it is right now, I can only rely on expert assurance from those that peer review these papers - but even then, in the back of my mind, I'm wondering if they've had time to rigorously review a paper.

Depends on the venue. But don't treat peer review as some sort of verification or confirmation as truth. It's more like a spam filter. It just means that 2-4 PhD students went through it (spending perhaps a few hours on it) and found it to be worth presenting to the community.

Peer review is never about reproduction, in any science. The reviewers for a psychology journal will not recruit their own subjects and redo the experiment, for example.

There's definitely a good amount of trust, gut feelings, paper-gestalt, are-they-one-of-us and similar subjective effects at play when a paper gets accepted and the process is known to be noisy.
It requires all drug companies to have at least an internal conspiracy to suppress the results if HIV vaccine research - we know that they are investing plenty of money into the research from publicly available figures, so the implication is that they will be either suppressing the results or tampering with research to make it fail.

> As far as I'm aware, there's no expensive drug that suppresses Ebola symptoms.

"In the light of this I find it very surprising that drug companies haven't developed a drug that allows them to charge people $1000++ a month for drugs, for the rest of their life, isn't that a better business model? How on earth did the companies allow this vaccine research to escape?!!
A list of books recommended by A.J. Jacobs
It's gotten very complicated especially since a lot of the value add of the newer processors is that they're more power-efficient and not necessarily much more powerful than the previous version.
Performance-oriented implies a type of tradeoff made during design decisions - that tradeoff also means the language is weaker is certain ways than languages such as Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.

Generally that would mean:
- More static, less dynamic
- No GC
- Lighter abstractions
- More directly conforms to hardware (even when it create a 'less clean' interface)
Walmart's Jet.com Traffic Declines to Practically Zero
From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tech debt tale
Here's the report by Check Point Research, a lot more information and specifics.

https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/tik-or-tok-is-tiktok-se...
Show HN: deepsing – See music – create machine generated visual stories of songs
Clojure? The java ecosystem is the only thing that rivals the python one, and Clojure integrates very well.
What do you mean by "exporting pollution in the form of plant outsourcing"?
How do you find that undecidable proposition? You derive it from axioms. You can't declare it axiomatic if you can't find it because it's undecidable.

The big idea that the Incompleteness Theorem torpedoed was that it's possible to enumerate all and only those theorems that are true/provable for a given set of axioms. To get all of them, you must allow unprovable theorems; to eliminate the unprovable ones, you'll necessarily also eliminate some provable theorems. It's Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle for logic, and it was exactly that destructive to logical determinism/positivism.
On CPU, assuming inference is compute bound rather than bandwidth bound, the compute time will scale quadratically with the size of the FC layers (which account for almost all compute time in these networks). So if the hidden size was 768 in BERT-Base, and 4096 in ALBERT, inference will approximately be 28.4x slower... yikes.
Watch the video and then look at the results - that thing was either shot down or blown up. That is not a Boeing malfunction
Yup. And not necessarily a new Lisp - Common Lisp, with SBCL implementation, is plenty fast enough. It's just the library and tooling ecosystem that's lacking.
I tend to think that, so long as one isn't doing something really odd, most of the value comes from practicing any system at all.

The important thing is the repetition/correction cycle.
I've always heard "pád", but I've never been to Thailand or heard it from them.
VScode's text editing/ diff/ git tool is really good.

It helps that VScode is also my editor of choice in general.
> The battle of Alesia marked the end of Gallic independence in France and Belgium.

Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders.
Because we’re all idiots and waited too long, we need to cut emissions by 15% annually, not 2%. 2% does not even offset the increase in US emissions in 2018. 2% is a disaster.
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I for one will never ride on a 737 again, even if they manage to get them back off the ground. For every problem that's come to light there are probably two more than haven't been discovered (or disclosed).
The golden rule doesn't apply, because none of the cheaters would complain that there are also other cheaters cheating.
Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can
Airpods, not really. They still are the same uncomfortable plastic and not so great sound. Apple earbuds have always hurt my ears so airpods would be a no go for me. Airpods pro are quite a bit better but still won't be comfortable for everyone.
It depends on the company. What you say is true for a consumer website, but much less true for a SaaS product which depends on customer trust. For example, imagine an AWS or Salesforce or Github security breach that released very private business data.
Wild speculation on my part:
High-alert status allowed enough warning for effective evacuation.
ActiveRecord is far from straightforward when it comes to joins, unfortunately.

Even if you use belongs_to/has_many you still have to manually perform the join, otherwise you'll get an N+1 issue which will affect your performance. On top of that there are four ways to perform that join: joins(:table), include(:table), eager_load(:table) or preload(:table).

In SQL you can basically achieve the same level of expressiveness by using NATURAL JOIN.
High-speed internet is bringing people ‘out of the dark ages’ in rural America
There efficacy is debated though. Every other year you hear that the vaccine is not for the right strain of it.
Simply because trauma has kept past generations “safe” by teaching them to avoid any potential harm, does not mean it’s the best option.

Previous generations also used to “instil” a sense of fear in to children by beating them. It does make them listen as they are then ruled by fear-inducing trauma and yet I think we’re all clear on how it’s not the best option for their growth.
In France, this event is well known and taught in class (at least it was in the 80's).

As I remember it now, this was taught as a bittersweet moment in our history. We united, we were brave and fought a stronger army but still we were defeated and our chief was captured and killed by the enemy.

As a result we were colonized and we lost almost all our Celtic culture (Celtic culture remains present notably in Bretagne — Britain). But we were "civilized" by the Romans. I think this was taught as being a tough but positive thing.

Today I find it interesting to think about how "civilization" spreading if often a gruesome process and how it's seen centuries, if not (in this case), milleniums later.
I don’t see a contradiction there. As you said: differnt people learn in different ways. Just speaking for myself, but I can concentrate more if I take notes and not less (unless the thing is very visual in nature).