skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason in corporate environments, the ideal employee "gets along with others" but also "doesn't waste time." I mean quite literally they want an oxymoron.

Also I find that these things can easily be gamed because they can try to figure out "what" contains the variables that allow for them to make themselves appear to be the ideal candidate; moldable to whatever position they desire.

I think there is an over emphasis on this because upfront seeing that in an interview doesn't tell you much, and if you're skeptical of it, the supervisor already has a skewed view of you. Also from my experience, supervisors want complacency, not "diverse views." The whole diversity phenomenon is completely garbage that does not exist practically. I don't get why it's taught when it's not followed. The nature of the beast is for the top's will to be executed downward, not marginalized upward.
yes but unless you go into a major porn studio in person and they scan it all, etc there. Its likely to just stay in the digital system. You could say the same thing about printed copies. Do you really want them printing out everyone's photos and trusting them to delete the online versions (what if you just sent it via email). Do you trust them to properly secure a filing cabinet? You know its easy to pick a lock on one of those too.
Just to be clear, which of these phases is the "clinical trials" stage? Are all of them clinical trails and we're starting at zero now? (Not that Roman numerals have zero, by the way :).) The dictionary says clinical trials are about "safety and effectiveness" so I guess that is indeed early phases?
We pretty much have globally accessible high speed internet though, and poverty is the main factor blocking significant further access, not mountains.
Digging through the exhaustive NIH entries on this topic is left as an exercise to the reader
And is the hardest thing to do in a big org.

My one addition -> focus not on the new things the system will do for you (which is what the bosses are into) but focus on what will change / be lost compared to the system you are using.

Oh, we can't edit transactions anymore ever? OUCH. Everyone edits all the time.
I read it recently. The best advice I can give is to allow yourself to read it slowly. I spent a lot of time flipping to the back to get a clearer picture of who someone or something is. And it was worth it.

There's more world-building in some paragraphs of the Silmarillion than there is in whole novels of some modern scifi/fantasy fiction.
CES is the key one. It occupies all of LVCC and Sands, with spillover and unofficial meeting rooms taking up basically all of the strip. It's not clear what CES is going to do with another full hall though. The show is already kind of a mish-mash of industries.
It's small and easy to port. It might be useful in some embedded projects. Per Wikipedia the original use case was video game scripting.

A newer concatenative language with a better website: https://8th-dev.com/
Is there any way, perhaps with software, that we could remove a moving object, from an otherwise mostly static set of images?
I don't know. Katya pimps nail polish, and Adam pushes pastries disguised as tales of street meetings with prominent leaders. Either that or I'm getting the wrong message from brexitcast.

In all seriousness though. You've described excellent examples of what I was trying to get at: it isn't always obvious where to draw the line; useful promotions, acceptable [to the listener] ads, and the point where it becomes just too much.
these are just harry potter houses with the colours switched up a little
And ON Semiconductor bought Global Foundries' Fab 10 (formerly IBM) in East Fishkill.

Sematech was the last US government effort to improve US competitiveness in semiconductors. It's still around but isn't a US government initiative any longer.
Tesseract needs text on a white background to work well out of the box. For "text on images" try for example https://ocr.space/ocrapi
We had a million communities, and learned a lot about how people act and react. Trolls, spammers, and people with some severe mental problems.

FB is interesting in that you would think that it would inhibit all bad behavior since you are using a real name. But really, people don’t care quite so much. Much improved though! Well, except for the bots, hacked accounts, and bad actors.

From the standpoint of dealing with crap messages, there are no silver bullets. But there are tools. Not everyone knows how to snowshoe, so you can have a decent win with even simple blocks.
VCs Are Just Tired
Oh, North Canada? That's some tricky terrain. Bedrock is very near the surface, and you're right, it's hard to build up. Short growing season, for one.

The article you link mentions softwood forests being problematic for carbon accumulation. Not hardwood forests. Old growth temperate hardwood forests are quite rare now, and some of the apex tree species in those forests have very serious pathogens keeping them from re-establishing, more's the pity.
You're confused because you don't understand what this feature is and compare it to things with different goals.

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/359:

> Records provide a compact syntax for declaring classes which are transparent holders for shallowly immutable data... While it is superficially tempting to treat records as primarily being about boilerplate reduction, we instead choose a more semantic goal: modeling data as data. (If the semantics are right, the boilerplate will take care of itself.) It should be easy, clear, and concise to declare shallowly-immutable, well-behaved nominal data aggregates... It is not a goal to declare "war on boilerplate"; in particular, it is not a goal to address the problems of mutable classes using the JavaBean naming conventions.
Acting like children, sure.

No terror stuff, but plenty of anti-Semitic material.
I honestly can't think of a specific firm that I'd consider a "dream company". There were a few in the old days (such as Xerox PARC or General Magic in their prime), but they're long gone now.
Evolution of Circuits for Machine Learning
Microsoft Pledges to Remove from the Atmosphere All Carbon It Has Ever Emitted
Anecdotal but walking significantly helped me as well. I did a lot of PT for my back issues and while they were somewhat helpful the only thing that really made it go away for good was several miles of brisk walking every day.

At least for me it's certainly some muscle thing as once winter comes (and I'm walking less) the back problems come back. One of the best things this winter was getting a job in an large sprawling office, which means I'm walking several miles every day at work (all indoors). Haven't had any issues this winter at all.
Which is part of the controversy surrounding Facebook. Facebook is justifiable in arguing that moderating against biases is incredibly difficult and it may very well cause huge downstream problems like they claim. However there is little justification for allowing fabricated video (EDIT: see comment below, I originally also referenced deep fakes which Facebook apparently banned last week while still allowing other manipulated video). In my opinion, the refusal to crack down on those means they can't use the difficulty of moderating bias as a defense because they refuse to even start with the easy thing.
Right, inline classes are the value types (as part of Valhalla).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#21st_cent...
ELI5... why is digging a tunnel tech news? Does Elon dig them faster or more cheaply or something? Otherwise do I submit this to HN? https://www.sydneymetro.info/tunnelling.

I think tunnels are the future though for cities. But I'd prefer trains to be running in them, or roads that only allow electric public transport.

Edit. In 1988 they started work on the Channel Tunnel UK to France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel - I am still in awe that they did this! I like the vision, bean counters be damned. If he made a tunnel like that it'd be news.
Not sure how they'll handle this... given the risk of losing a local db store's data in chrome, I'm hoping they normalize on something.

Ideally, a directory for access/storage enough to use SQLite as via WebAssembly should be available to plugins with a request/approval for read (and optionally write) access ... to me, that should be a goal of any file system interface presented via WebAssembly, is the option for something that at least supports that use case.
My daughter is about to turn 6 and I think that the hobbit would be too much for her. I too would like to hear what age he started and if they had any resistance at first.
My big problem now is the only Barbie book they had at the library was in Italian and google translate makes me seem like I’m having a stroke when I read it to her but she loves it anyway.
If by "tech job", you mean software, there's no NGO that needs or even wants you. Unless you want to write a check, that is.

In developing countries, real engineers (mech, electrical, transportation) are valuable. Software engineers just eat their food and take up space.
I don't see a person dying after 95 years of a well-lived productive life as terrible. That's a pretty pathological view.

Celebrate his life. And maybe read some other things about the many much more healthy perspectives cultures around the world have developed around death.

Sadness is fine, that's part of processing a loss. But neither this loss nor the appropriate sadness are terrible things.
Automunge in a Nut Shell
All i know is: I want stargate to be a thing
That's only a valid comparison if you take massive infrastructure projects head-on. There is no law of physics stating that these tunnels can't be used for other situations and purposes.

Several things come to mind:

1. There are lots of places with lower density than city centers, but higher density than suburbs that would benefit massively from underground transportation.

2. Smaller tunnels running everywhere will be very useful for package delivery! John McCarthy (the man that gave us LISP) explains it in detail here: http://jmc.stanford.edu/commentary/future/delivery.html

3. Let's not discount the strong likelihood of further cost reductions. The Boring Company has made huge strides already, with further cost and speed gains to be had from a TBM they are designing and building from scratch: https://www.teslarati.com/boring-company-line-storm-tunnelin...
I lay on my stomach (that's what I meant, not on my back) with a hard foam roller + 2 cushions under my chest with the laptop on the floor in front of me (not on my lap).

That is not a perfect set-up, however - my neck and shoulders still hurt occasionally this way. The perfect set-up looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/tmvxHRK or this: https://imgur.com/a/Ej2EY2n - this is how spinal surgery and scoliosis patients study in Russia and Ukraine.

Besides healthy back feeling, effects I experience while working this way include increased energy, decreased appetite and better, more enthusiastic mood (kind of like on ADHD meds - feels like it boosts dopamine or something).

As for laying on your back - it sounds funny but the most comfortable set-up I've ever sat in was a stomatology chair (thank's G-d I have healthy teeth and don't have to be afraid of it :-)) - put a big monitor in place of the lamp, invent a comfortable way to place the keyboard and I'm not leaving it voluntarily :-)
This is so true, so many very good game idea that will never see the light because of the loss of motivation, that's append to me one time and I learned that you should never get involved in projects that are too big
Do you have the robots today? Do you see them happening by the time the next government rolls around and UBI becomes a real choice?

As a reminder, suffering the problems of UBI for just a few years without an actual, functional, non-vaporeware solution in place is going to ruin a lot of lives and quite possibly burn down all our existing shit.
I believe they are famous from the incident when Amazon went through and deleted 1984 from Kindles they had it online because of differing Copyright laws in Australia.
One can only hope that it wont be yet another hyper inflated bubble like ai is now.
The paragraph preceding your quote has the citation for their characterization of the concept of personality:

Perugni, M., Costantini, G., Hughes, S., de Houwer, J. (2016). A functional perspective on personality. International Journal of Psychology, Vol. 51, №1, 33–39.
Here's the most damning-with-faint-praise thing I can think to say, and it's true: I thought the House books (before the Jihad books) were the least bad things Kevin J. Anderson has ever had a hand in.
Taiwan isn't the threat. China annexing (or otherwise disrupting) Taiwan is.
The cost of war is always huge for all concerned, and is very rarely the outcome of any sort of cost-benefit analysis. Most wars between nations are fought for something like honour: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/16/most-wars-are-...
Thank you for the book recommendation, will take a look!
> COND and IF/ELSE are very closely related

In earlier Lisp COND was the primitive and IF was a macro expanding into COND. In newer Lisp it's IF which is the primitive and COND which is the macro.
HN isn't exlusively for "tech news" but for anything that is of interest to nerds/intelligent people.

You can of course submit any tunneling articles/media you think are interesting.

Just look at the abundance of Atlas Obscura articles -- few are tech based.
The university grade telescope, not sure what the entails, but I'm guessing it isn't hardened for radiation exposure and heat cycles seen in space. You can't use some off the shelf product unfortunately.

Making things survive in space is hard. Working functionally for the lifespan of the telescope is really hard. There's not a lot you can do once it's up there.
Ask HN: Will you stop Googling now, that it removed URLs and added favicons?
I am seriously considering moving away from Google (or writing a browser addon) which will revert search results back to clean and readable form.

It seems "ad blending" made a final step towards morphing into organic results. It was distinct background first, ads count limited, then it went further and further and now it's just a favicon saying 'Ad' which distinguish sponsored content from the organic.
Did you work at Amazon? It's a cult classic hazing ritui there. Managers tell reports to read it and then joke about terrible a novel it wrapped around a few cute stories like that one and the paperclip passing game.
Maybe it's that I'm mid-career and burnt out, but the idea of getting to be a draft animal for an extra decade is utterly unappealing.
> drugs (defined by the simple macromolecules we know them to be today) can supplement your body in doing only what it is already capable of.

Lots of drugs do things that your body is not capable of, and many drugs augment the way your body works in a way that is not possible without an external compound.
> ELI5... why is digging a tunnel tech news?

It's because Elon is loved in the tech circle.
How is this different from saying someone selling a fine bottle of wine for $2 in New York is scamming you, because you could get the same bottle for $2 in France... ?
Alas, the possibility of comments like this are one reason that some researchers hesitate to release their code.

Even if there are issues, it's tremendously valuable that they shared this, so others can reproduce and build on their work. That said, most scientists would like to have better quality code in science as well, but I think the incentive structures and other demands that make it challenging...
That's what I wrote, yeah. With constraints going from "Come do Scheme!" to "make it look like Java" and even "feel like Java" because interop, via what we hoped would come, and did in Netscape 3, as a JS/Java bridge called LiveConnect.

The Belgium Post built a whole web app+service architecture on LiveConnect.

Think of LiveConnect as "Active Scripting" on MS's platform, which enabled Java components to be developed and glued together by JS.
All hail his noodly appendage.
There were SSH and RDP (windows RDP protocol) apps when I used a chromebook that were pretty decent (getting the private key in the SSH client on the chromebook was, well, interesting).

Not sure of others.
> it would make sense to launch a much larger number of less reliable but much less expensive telescopes

What if... SpaceX made up for the pollution they introduce by making the Starlink satellites look up the other way and push the captured data back to earth?
The lens and CCD would be small, but with the massive volume (and clear sky) it could add up. Like the amateur set ups using an array of consumer grade cameras.
Several in 2006 at least https://www.applearchive.org/2006
Jeff is a strength and conditioning trainer (formerly with the Mets before becoming what looks like a full-time YouTuber). Ignore the click-bait titles and the fact that he doesn't wear a shirt - that's all part of the YouTube game. His content is consistently excellent.
Maybe they're in the process of doing that but it just so happened that they haven't cataloged our system yet.
MuZero Explained
> Java finally gets what's been available in ... and others for a very long time

You seem to think that the goal is to get as many features as possible, as quickly as possible. Maybe some languages have that goal, but Java's design philosophy -- from its inception [1] -- has been to be a conservative language that only adopts features that have become familiar to programmers and stood the test of time in providing a good cost/benefit. Java hasn't always done this, but that's the aspiration. Worked out pretty well, I think.

Given Java's design philosophy, the far more interesting question is which features of those more adventurous languages Java does not intend to adopt.

> Java compiler/VM, when it sees the patterns "somevar" and functions "getSomeVar" and "setSomeVar" doing purely getter/setter stuff, removes the actual function calls and silently changes them in the background to field lookups for speed. If you attach a debugger or memory profiler, is changes them back to functions and slows them down.

It's true, and the optimizing JIT compiler does much more than just that. It performs deep speculative optimizations, like inlining virtual calls and removing untaken branches, reverting them (using a process called deoptimization) either for debugging or when it detects its assumptions are false. What you're referring to is just an instance of inlining.

[1]: https://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java...
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I think this follows Elons pattern of being able to find areas where the fundamental technology has advanced and is available, but the integration and step up to a new level hasn't been invested in yet. I think the Boring company basically made more efficient custom built tunneling equipment.
Both are prohibited, "...through or by means of threat of discharge or loss of employment". It's illegal to do influence employees through means of discharge or through threat of discharge. Firing someone for political activity and threatening to fire someone for political activity are both in violation of these employment protections.
It also seems odd to me that the refresh is scheduled in the app instead of the database.

Can anybody here speak to that choice?
My phrasing was a little ambiguous maybe. What I meant was that the regular `make` package from most distros isn't compiled with support for Guile. So _distros_ are the ones that aren't adopting it.

Make's Guile extensions will probably never see widespread use until distro packagers compile them in by default. And distro packagers don't necessarily want to do that, because it would mean a bunch of extra dependencies (including ~100MB of Guile) just to compile a core build-tool.

If `make-guile` remains an optional (and incompatible) package distinct from vanilla `make`, users like us won't be able to rely on its availability. Which means it won't see big adoption by users. And many distros aren't interested in increasing `make`'s dependency footprint to support a userbase that doesn't exist because of chicken-and-egg reasons.
Cost is huge for the lower classes and maybe half the upper classes. They are sold on honor, but they fought for the profit of the ruling class, via conquest or be diverting fund to the military industrial complex.
I've done work integrating Shopify with ERP systems and let me tell you, I still get horrible anxiety whenever I hear the term.
It's confusing because the way the units are represented is inconsistent.
Yeah OK, does anyone have the angle on that? Is there a new technology aspect here?
Didn't facebook just ban deep fakes? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/06/faceboo...
Improved mindfulness and cognitive flexibility in ayahuasca drinkers
Presuming we're not in a simulation then I think it is unlikely that we're alone in the Milky Way.

There are too many stars and too many close enough galaxies that could contain life. If they've been spacefaring for even ten thousand years longer than us then they're almost certainly able to monitor us without our ability to detect it.

But if we're doomed to a great filter in the near future, like nuclear war, then it still doesn't mean we're alone. It just means that out there in the sky there are others kinda like us. Searching for meaning before hitting a technological explosion of one kind or another that wipes us out. But just because we don't have contact doesn't mean we're alone, even if we're only present in each others respective imaginations.
> That looks like a good addition because anything that makes code more concise and easier to read is a win.

Arguably, as Java already had Lombok for years, this does not add anything really new.
Each floating point value that is not a NaN represents a certain real number, -inf or +inf (this can be expressed in terms of the sign bit, exponent and mantissa). Knowing that, a == b when neither operand is a NaN is defined as equality of what they represent, in purely mathematical terms. Similar can be said for inequality operators.

Be aware that +0.0 and -0.0 are different floating point values but represent the same real number, so +0.0 == -0.0 follows.

People who say == means nothing for floating point and you always need epsilon checks are wrong, plain and simple. == is very well defined. Don't confuse the definition of floating point operations with common practices for using them effectively.

You can iterate through all non-NaN values and check that successive ones are indeed not equal:

#include <math.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <inttypes.h>

int main()
{
float x = (float)-INFINITY;
uint64_t count = 1;
while (x != (float)INFINITY) {
float y = nextafterf(x, (float)INFINITY);
assert(y != x);
x = y;
++count;
}
printf("Found %" PRIu64 " floats.\n", count);
return 0;
}

$ gcc -std=c99 -O3 a.c -lm -o a
$ ./a
Found 4278190081 floats.

(a little bit harder for doubles)

Interestingly, this only finds one zero (-0.0), hence the assert doesn't actually fail around zero.
If we can get good wine at $2 in France, a fine bottle of wine at $2 in NY is still a bargain. But a NY-based company saying they'll revolutionize wine industry by selling quality wine at $2/bottle, might be trying to scam you.
Please don't cross into personal attack or post snarky comments to HN. Your comment would be just fine with just the first two sentences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also—it's a smaller point, but while I have you: can you please not use uppercase for emphasis on HN? That's also in the guidelines, and it looks like your comments have done that a lot. As the guidelines explain, if you want to emphasize text, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. Using allcaps is basically yelling, and it has the effect of evoking worse from others.