skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in the text:

sync() calls that allow a module to peek at other modules and control their execution.
Off-topic, but Gregory - I was a participant in your C4Q Python workshop several years ago! So good to see that you're doing well in academia, and great article. Agree with many of the points you've made regarding writing-- as an example, one trick I've found for getting better at technical interviews was creating walk-throughs of problems I struggled with.

Thanks for the great read and for helping to kick off my software engineering career!
Even with a pretty good model, if you introduce new failures that were not anticipated/tested, there's a risk that the system will not behave as per the aircraft. Now you're giving "negative training" to your pilots, maybe worse than no training at all.

Also, imagine you're an airline with thousands of pilots and dozens of instructors: you're running an airline and a school at the same time. You need to build a curriculum of training and testing that will standardize your pilots. There's room for thinking outside the box but not too much.
Does this cut out financial aggregators? If not, will they be able to access this system?
I have two friends that died while cycling. It is kind of crazy how much people put the blinders on when looking at cars. I really wish more people could envision a different future than a car-centric one.
SandFS does not rely on PTRACE, but uses eBPF. No TOCTTOU races. https://lwn.net/Articles/803890/
I had already covered that with the sentence that followed the one you quote-replied to.

To explain: I said it doesn't work with people who are X. Then I posited that it only works in condition Y. Y covers all cases, including non-X, and therefore answers your question (with respect to what I'd posit).

If your mental model of humanity is deeply flawed, you expect carrot-and-stick motivations to work. It doesn't matter if they're self-actualized.

If anyone is still confused, this might be worth a read: https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivate...
That's a good thing. It guarantees that chargers are truly exchangeable between devices and cuts down on the number of chargers produced and shipped. Let's face it: how many chargers do you need? How many are left over from devices that you replaced and still working?
You're not usually obligated to choose a major until you're 2+ years in. By then you're probably 20 years old.

Hell, most Uni students are 18, which means they're a legal adult. Most of them have been driving cars and fucking for years before then -- why wouldn't they be able to make choices about a career?
Lion Declines Linked to Trophy Hunting and Bone Trade
Correct, Contentful is a CMS.

Question for you though: why would you want product/marketing people feebly attempting to create new pages/layouts with some tool when you could just have a React engineer code up whatever they design with ease? I mean I get it, graphic designers and business analysts are cheaper than engineers, but if it takes them 2-3x as long (or more) to do the same job are you really saving any money?
The Director’s Cut: On Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem
No it’s not. It’s simply not.
There's nothing wrong with the way math is used in physics. Consistency is a good thing; whether calculations possess explanatory power is another question.
> with an infinite numbers of primes available to us, nothing is hidden

Just because there's an infinite number of primes, it doesn't necessarily mean that everything is in there, does it? For example, would you expect to find Romeo and Juliet in pi? It might be there, but I don't think it has to be there, does it?
‘Deathly silent’: Ecologist describes Australian wildfires devastating aftermath
There is an incredible ecosystem of tools used for "data preparation" that it almost always necessitates defining what the usecase and workflow would be first. There are tools from UI-based to command-line-based.

Tools: Avora, FiveTran, Informatica, Excel, Alteryx, Datameer, Tableau Prep, etc. ... list could go on and on.
It has worked several times in the history of physics, though.
My counter anecdote is that I left an asset manager about 5 years ago, and the firm I left has grown twofold, mostly hiring quants, has low turnover, excellent work life balance, and bonus payouts have gone up. I kick myself for thinking FAANG was greener pastures because I make less money as a senior engineer in FAANG than a two years out of school quant, while also having a more stressful job.
Yeah if we let students be compensated for the value they bring to the table via sports some of them would be able to command comp packages rivaling the pros
It’s not, just a name the author gives to a fictional function that is supposed to block, like nodejs’s fs.readSync(), at least that’s how I understand it.
So is much of the food I eat. Should we consider banning processed food / fast food/ meat as well?
"...mindless production of mathematical fiction..."

This derisive comment betrays the authors own hypocritical stance, claiming physicists are too close-minded, while simultaneously ridiculing the role of advanced mathematics in formulating new physics hypotheses, arbitrarily declaring them mindless fiction.
Because it's one of the primary normative consequences for illegal activity, and people assume that the executives are culpable for the deaths of hundreds and that that's illegal.
alteryx
That's an orthogonal question. AIUI. Android One phones have to follow certain rules, but bootloader locking isn't on the list (or if it is I haven't noticed).

That said, what do you prefer: The ability to install a ROM of your choice, or a guarantee that what you boot is what you bought?
The concept is described here

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

But the article sounds like a sales pitch
Masdar has been canned, yes, but they have talked about replacing it with a new city called NEOM. It is projected to cost at least 500 billion dollars, assuming they stay within budget. No private actor has that kind of cash to spend.

Indeed, I can only think of a few ground up examples for cities that "suceeded" and they're almost always new capital cities where the Government can literally create demand for jobs via moving the bureaucracy. Examples include Washington DC, Brasilia(Brazil) and Canberra(Australia). But these cities often do not have a lot to offer unless you work for the government. DC has a large private sector, but it's attached to Federal work.

The rigidity of top-down planning removes the ability of the city to adapt to new things and it often misses the nuance of what makes a place livable.
> the claim for outlandish executive pay is executives get paid like they do because they have "all the responsibility".

Seems like it might be better not to pay them such ridiculous amounts of money in the first place.
"news" is the TLD. donuts.domains runs the technical operations for it.
> (I assume, anyway.)

You assume correctly. The Wikipedia page for DuckDuckGo mentions it at the top, with two references.
Structured data rarely lends itself to a GUI paradigm because its structure is arbitrary. I would argue that it would only fit with a GUI if it represents something specific that said GUI explicitly models (e.g., a very specific lump of JSON could be interpreted as a tree, etc.). As such, command line and scripting tools are vastly superior.
AI's Phoenix Project Moment
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While the article says the time at which drilling was stopped was after the breakup, it gives the reason as the high temperatures encountered.

"Then it was the turn of the Kola Superdeep Borehole. Drilling was stopped in 1992, when the temperature reached 180C (356F). This was twice what was expected at that depth and drilling deeper was no longer possible."
Taking IP is not a "wealth transfer"; it's wealth copying. The productive capacity of the original holder of the IP/technology is not decreased by someone else also having it, although their revenue might be. This is different from if I go and steal your factory, which prevents you from producing whatever you were using the factory to produce. Intellectual property and property are qualitatively different, and many people argue that society would be better off without the former (see for instance the massive support for SciHub and movie piracy on HN).
One possible metric is "time to github commit". Track the timestamp of your first code commit each day. And correlate to how productive the rest of the day is. I've found that if I can get that first submission in before 9am. The rest of the day really opens up. A hack for this is to leave a little unfinished work the night before. A half implemented function for example. That way there is not too much of a context switch the next morning. And it is simpler to pick up right where you left off. Best of luck ;)
Glone – Simple utility to run post-clone jobs after Git clone
Oscar Nominations Are In
> isn't the idea with Ansible at least that it's idempotent.

Sure, that's true with many of these, so what?

The problem isn't that the languages are declarative—functional code is declarative.

The problem is that they are extremely limited in their expressive capabilities, so that it is much more complex and error prone to describe the final state in them than it would be—even in a declarative style specifying the final configuration—in a more complete language than YAML (or, in many cases, a language essentially limited to JSON’s expressive capability even if it also supports a YAML serialization.)

> It's the same with SQL, you describe what you want back rather than how its achieved.

YAML would be an inadequate alternative for SQL’s role, too.
to expand on my reply, I use to be a full on python / pandas advocate, but in comparison to alteryx it's slow and the best is that you can get business users to understand alteryx enough to provide value on the data cleansing / merging part
I also thought there was going to be some actual mystery about this painting I've seen before, but don't know much about. I guess CNN got my click, I feel duped.
It also seems to require that the attacker knows the credentials for the modem.
Google asks Federal bank to follow India's UPI footsteps
That link doesn't say the gains went to the top 0.1%.

If you want a more accurate picture of that graph, many well respected authors have pointed out that it was made using various mistakes, such as using different deflators for the time-series involved, not using total cost to employ which tracks cost of legislation and employer paid benefits, and other issues.

Here's one reply that computes the same data including these relevant factors.

https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/productivity-...
I really really want a reason to not dismiss this as vapid demagoguery running on the "Woman scientist challenges predominantly male establishment on stagnant paradigms" ticket because this is absolutely what it reads like.

"But for all I can tell at this moment in history I am the only physicist who has at least come up with an idea for what to do. "

This is one heavy claim (two actually), is there some place where she elaborates what that idea is in terms more specific than "resolving inconsistencies" and "more theorists" ?
The Kola borehole:

> reached 12,262 metres (40,230 ft; 7.619 mi) in 1989

While Deepwater Horizon's deepest drill:

> In September 2009, the rig drilled the deepest oil well in history at a vertical depth of 35,050 ft (10,683 m) and measured depth of 35,055 ft (10,685 m)
Hemingway would stop writing right when he was getting to something good, so he could continue on the next day.
>But all shortcomings of these theories – the lacking quantization of gravity, dark matter, the quantum measurement problem, and more – have been known for more than 80 years. And they are as unsolved today as they were then.

Would solving these shortcomings make life better for anyone?

Other than the now famous physicist that came up with the solution, wouldn't the others working on these problems become unemployed?
Would this count?

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22vulnerable+over+and+over+...

The page it is taken from is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22032966

It is clearly indexed as it shows up in this search: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&biw=414&bih...
Thanks for the explanation. I'll get that clarified/cleaned up in the tutorial soon. Tracking it on the associated Github as issue #73, so I don't forget.
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Covering your face/gait/etc also doesn't matter if someone can autonomously track the "faceless blob" from your house, to everywhere you go, and back to your house again.

We're getting pretty close to that in some countries. Even in the USA where camera density isn't particularly high - there are so many cities where you cannot get around without using a car. After California eliminated the Steve Jobs license plate law, there's no place where using a car isn't fairly well tracked. With ALPR, Uber/Taxi records...I don't personally see how you can get around a city like Houston or Phoenix without either:

1) Being tracked from your house
2) Breaking the law (covering license plate, stealing car, etc)

Unless I've grossly overestimated the prevalence of ALPR's. I'm assuming there's quite a lot of undocumented ones.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19467067 (315 comments).
That XKCD was great.
> How would you refer to each land?
In a perfect scenario, maybe with non-sentimental names, completely unrelated to the past. Until we shed and reject our brutal abrahamist past, the world will never meet its potential.

(PS: I really love ace combat, but now fast games give me dizzy spells :(. )
>> aren’t bloated or anything besides useful.

Really? I have a folder on my iPhone three pages deep called “apple junk” which is nothing but all the apple pre installed bloat apps that I never use.

Do some people find a use case for them? Sure. But there they are on my phone. Pre installed and just taking up space..
Magical Rainbow Gradients with CSS Houdini and React Hooks
I think the point of the parent poster is that artists (like Klimt) often choose their materials because they want to achieve a certain effect, not because they want to signal a certain concept or relationship to a specific situation. Klimt did not choose that color and material to signal a return to Byzantium mores or some particular link to the Eastern Italian coast, but because it suited his imagery - that had classic influences but was unmistakably something else and new.

Similarly, I agree that linking Hokusai’s use of a new blue to a particular will of representing a changing Japanese society, is a big overreach without other corroborating evidence. It makes much more sense that he was simply an artist who was still at the peak of his powers and enjoyed innovating into his late years. It’s like aged architects embracing new materials when they become available - not because they represent this or that, but simply because they work better and open new possibilities.
You and me can’t be the only ones.

It would be nice if there could be one big city in the world that fully embraces the ban of private cars.
I've always liked Moto phones and I've owned and recommended some, too, but I can never EVER trust Lenovo again. I can't trust that even if the OS is "clean" on the surface, they don't have some hidden firmware backdoors in there. I just can't. They've forever lost my trust, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

The same goes for Huawei, and I'm beginning to think the same about Xiaomi, too, after noticing how many of its own apps try to connect to its servers in China, including some very suspicious services. Like even the biometric framework tries to open a connection to Xiaomi's servers. WTF. Why would that EVER be needed, unless you're up to no good with that biometric data?!

The discounted/government-subsidized Chinese smartphone prices are no longer worth it.

Google seriously needs to put an end to this crap, consumers aren't aware of this unless they install their own firewall and know what the firewall is telling them. So if they aren't aware you can't even make the argument that they "don't care".

Google needs to implement blanket protections against this data-stealing, and I'm not the only one who thinks so:

https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3320/open-letter-g...
It may seem counterintuitive, but turning a dollar into a dollar five actually makes people’s lives better. Many of citadel’s investors are teacher, firemen pension funds. Even beyond that, Citadel gets paid for essentially contributing to liquidity in financial markets. And, liquid and well functioning financial markets are critical to a well functioning society.
We use Talend. It does have a gigantic Java-based Windows desktop application. It's pretty powerful and I don't hate it. We looked at MuleSoft as well but it's not ready for Enterprise prime-time like we need it to be.

The data preparation Wikipedia page mentions Talend by name along with Paxata, Trifacta, Alteryx, and Ataccama.
My cable modem is in bridge but I can also reach its web interface the management IP. In that case, you should find out if the modem is vulnerable because an exploited modem could still be messing with your traffic.
I recommended macOS to my non-tech friends and some made the switch. For the rest, when they only need a browser I've installed Elementary OS on their machine.

My tech friends were already running either macOS or Linux for the most part so I don't have to worry about them. Personally I switched to macOS since Windows 10 was first announced.
This potential for frying devices is a good indication that USB has become far too complex in the latest iteration. Maybe there is a net gain in splitting power and signaling into two separate connectors? Like, move power supply to a separate USB-A like port. USB-A has larger contact pads, anyway. The data lines on the port could then be used to negotiate a power profile.
Usually spark, but it depends on what the source data is. Whether it needs more preprocessing, etc. for json, there are some good command- line tools available for stripping, flattening, if u need to do that. Spark can usually handle most of the data sources.
We’re talking about people invited to his island and people he invested in. Not random members of the public.

It’s all in the MIT report. They knew everything about him yet continued to work and socialize with him.
Sure, but the funding needed to fix and continue wasn't available as the country was collapsing
Not really. Supersymmetry doesn't provide a theoretical explanation for any physical observations we can't explain with current models. Instead, it arises from a desire to... "beautify" the math of the Standard Model. (My first instinct is to write "simplify", but I'm not sure it's an actual simplification.

One of the things that Sabine has pointed out with respect to supersymmetry is that, for the last two particle accelerators, physicists have been arguing that they'll be able to find the supersymmetric particles to expand the model. And when they've failed to find any evidence for such particles, they've twice said "okay, it's not fatal to our theory, but we'll find them in the next one for sure." Every potentially predictive phenomenon arising from supersymmetry has failed to be found, and the response has been to merely twist the knobs so that these phenomena will happen just out of reach of current technology.

The real risk here is that we are so wedded to particular ideas that we refuse to give up on them, even when they have given us absolutely nothing in terms of extra (validated) predictive value, no matter how much we try to squeeze it out of them.
What actually is the foundation of physics? The observations or the theories?

We believe, as an assumption (or nearly as a matter of orthodoxy) that there are simple universal laws that govern consistent natural phenomena. One could argue that that is the foundation of our science of physics in that if that wrong, the whole thing falls down. But that has not “progressed” and really should not change... which seems consistent with the concept of a building foundation. Building foundations don’t move and shouldn’t move.

What about theories, which seem to be the focus of her blog post? Well we should be careful to distinguish between our theories and the fundamental laws we think they describe—the map vs the territory and all that. I would really hesitate to call our theories a foundation of physics. For one thing they are known to be provisional; intended to be changeable. That’s not how foundations usually work.

When observations contradict theories, the theories must move. From that perspective one could say that observations are more foundational than theories. Once a piece of evidence is properly observed, it doesn’t change.

And the thing is, we have collected major (I would argue foundational) observations in the last 40 years. We observed the Higgs boson and gravitational waves, and I would call both of those foundational.

That they agreed with existing theory is somehow being taken for a crisis? I guess it’s a crisis if your job is to come up with new theories and you’re lacking reasons to do so.

But there are plenty of mysterious observations yet to be explained. Many of the observations related to dark matter and dark energy fit within a retrospective 40-year time horizon. Call them astronomy if you like, but going back up to my second paragraph, we believe they should be explainable by our physical theories.
Fordlandia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia
KDE also has Konqueror, which now allows you to use either KHTML or WebKit as the rendering engine. KHTML works fine on simple sites like Hacker News nowadays but chokes on newer ones often.
> However, I’d hardly describe it as “just”, it’s a fairly interesting idea.

I'd argue that it's an absolutely amazing idea however this idea has been brought into CS 31 years ago and utilised heavily ever since, so an article like this should imho at least mention it so that people can go away and learn about these concepts.

PS: My GP comment got heavily downvoted, which means that I'm missing something here.
Secretary of State Pompeo Heads to Silicon Valley to Dine with Tech Leaders
Except that you pay a hefty price for that privilege. In my country people live an entire month for less than what an iPhone costs.

I'd probably buy an iPhone if it cost like $300 and didn't have all the bells and whistles. Not because I can't afford one. I just can't see myself spending $1000 on a device where the main use case is communication via WhatsApp.
Well the rest of the phone manufacturers settled on mini usb followed by micro usb. Prior to that there were a ton of proprietary phone charger/data cables, so it did help some
JavaScript was created in about two weeks as the legend tells it.
I used KNIME at a previous job. Open source desktop application is free. Server is paid. Competes with other workflow based GUI tools such as Alteryx. I liked it a lot.
It stagnated when they started doing NHST, ie checking for a difference from "background" vs collecting and comparing data to the predictions of various theories to distinguish between them. Same thing that has destroyed every field of research that adopted this approach.
Having to outperform all your similarly greedy (due to self selection) peers not only in business outcome but also in the social arena sounds like an inevitable burden when so much is at stake. This would be 24/7 hell for people who don't naturally fall into the appropriate behavior patterns even if working hours where somehow enforced to a lazy 20h week consisting almost entirely of breaks.
I've been wanting to learn Chinese, but I'm not sure Chinese subtitles would help that much compared to if I were learning a European language. Maybe if the subtitles were in pinyin, but I don't know if that would even be an option for a lot of media.
Most women do not regret having an abortion, study finds