skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or more fundamentally, a discussion on whether pdf's on websites are necessary for school work?
No, that sounds like the thing China would do once it has perfected pattern recognition in 2023 or so.
Sure did. Some still do.
They said that back in the 90's. Repeatedly. I don't bother reading articles with these kinds of headlines anymore. Nobody's throwing anything to the wind.
Not GP but I can give you my experience. SES seems to be a "good enough" solution if you use their API. There are a lot of missing features, such as logging anything other than metadata, which makes it not so useful if you are operating in a regulated industry.

The real problems come when you try to use the SMTP gateway. It's quite slow and unreliable and doesn't really work for parallel workloads. The only way to somewhat mitigate it is to deploy a postfix into EC2 and then queue your emails there.
Thanks for sharing these list of FLOSS alternatives. Have you had much experience with MailU and anti spam / deliverability issues? My needs are only a few emai's a week, but previous tests with running my own mail server resulted in a high % of emails ending up in client spam folders.
For a technology company, the site is sluggish and difficult to use. Argos would provide a better user experience. They don't allow Linux on the 'build your own' option, but at least you do get McAfee. The Linux ThinkStation P520 starts at $6,699.00. Searching from the main screen you get a ThinkStation P520 at £1,359.60 but no option to select Linux.

Searching for 'linux' off the main screen and you're lead to a selection of 3 Operating Systems, Windows, Windows, Windows. Are MS paying the to keep alien OSes off Lenovo hardware?
Have you actually read through these cases? Looking through all the cases in the 2000s they are all basically cases of hypochondria on a larger scale. There's no instances of mass independent sightings of UFOs there.
Just because you can't explain it doesn't mean it didn't happen.. It's OK to say we don't know.
But the point is, proto2 had this feature, and it worked without any hacks.
People with internal monologue basically think in language. They are often very articulate. Jordan Peterson said he thinks in words, and he talk very fast.

I think in abstract and concrete imagery, and only found out recently that other people think in words.

I think thinking abstractly hinders my verbal skill as there is a translation layer from idea to words.

It's indeed mind blowing when you first realize how other thinks.
Thank you. You're correct, I've wondered why this isn't mentioned more often, and maybe that's why.

However even after realizing that, I personally still consider a design patent about rounded corners to be on the same level of B.S. as a software patent, and still stand by my conclusions. But I'd be interested to know why I shouldn't do that, and if you have more information I'm honestly all ears
Not at all. In my opinion, it sucks, but it's the best tool available for the job.
All good points. But why doesn't Spotify, Apple, etc. either make this node options available to traverse the library? Or at least incorporate it into their algorithms to improve suggestions?

I find Spotify's suggestions closer to "Here's things we're confident you won't hate." Which makes sense if "engagement" is their measurement. But by my measurement, it's yawn-city. Beige.

My best source used to be BBC Radio Music 6. But about a year ago they shuffled their DJs, as well as the programming. Still better than Spotify, but it's rare I'm wow'ed. Previous to the change it was weekly.

p.s. I work from home. Traditonal radio often feels like a convenient proxy for human contact. Just me?
Yes, because celebrities often use Twitter for direct communication, and often reveal themselves to be very much like the “unwashed masses”
FWIW it does not seem like any of the above for me. It is more like I am rehearsing what I would say if I chose to do so. That does not come across as a voice to me.
The average school day in the U.S. is ~6.5 hours according to https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass0708_035_s1s.asp

The article suggests most subjects are taught using online courses. And because they all take math and english (the only non-online classes) in the first part of the day, I think there's the implication of a relatively small number of students, perhaps comprising only one or two classes. So compressing 6.5 hours into 5 hours that way doesn't seem unreasonable. Though that still leaves the question of the efficacy of online instruction.
We live in a very cynical and pessimistic time.

The level of thinly veiled despondency and contempt everywhere you look these days is rivaled only by the level of people mentally disclaiming that they're not perpetrating and perpetuating it.
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
A continuation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086 which has been incredibly useful to me.

I recently finished this phenomenal book called "Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications":

https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/building-enterprise-javascript-applications

Which takes the reader from zero to building a non-trivial production fullstack application with JavaScript.
I was about to say, estimates better be aligned to the sales team expectations or they'll be changed so that they do align. It's only after the project is sold do you get a chance to look at the reality of the situation.
I think you can be a "real" inventor in the sense that NPEs are not and still be in violation of the nominal intent of the patent system. Caltech is here. You can call that trolling or not; OP never claimed that Caltech was literally an NPE. It's absurd that parallel invention of similar techniques, without awareness or observation of the filed patent — which USPTO often grants for extremely trivial software constructions — puts you in violation.

It's especially absurd that 4x damages were awarded against Apple here when Apple is just a customer of the allegedly infringing party. 4/5 of Broadcom's customers were not assessed damages — why pick on Apple in particular? (I mean, we all know why — they have cash.)
In fairness though, the containment ship has sailed for nCOV.

It’s scary to see it so close to home. I’m in Northern Ireland and saw two hazmat ambulances gunning it into the center of Belfast today.

I’ve never seen a hazmat ambulance in this country - wouldn’t have even known we had them or what they looked like.

I suspect we’ll get outbreaks in many more regions over the next few days.
> Tiny uplink bandwidth, large amount of latency. Therefore, for instance, large images aren't as big a problem as many many small images, or transitive dependencies.

Is this a typo, or is it just that many small/transitive dependencies are much worse?
Yeah... reading the article I don’t see any mention of the impact it had. Principia had been out for over 60 years at the time.

I think the article is being overly dramatic with her race against death as well. The life expectancy number is completely irrelevant. The overall figure doesn’t matter. Once you’ve made it to 20 years old your life expectancy was probably in the 70s-ish even at that time.

Maternal death in childhood looked to be about 0.3%. Current stats say about x8 for women over 40, so let’s say x20 for those times... 6%? Non trivial for sure. And yes, she did die. But far from a death sentence.
My biggest gripe in this area is I can't search on similar sounding music. This is an an algorithmicaly solvable problem. I mean, Shazam and Google recognizes 'em and that's very old news.

I have heard very long ago Sirenia - Seven Sirens and a Silver Tear. Now, Sirenia is a metal band and this is anything but. It's basically a not too distant relative of the Moonlight Sonata but I didn't realize this until a kind redditor pointed it out after like 10-15 years of searching.

Problem is, you can't search on artists. There's no other track from Sirenia which sounds like this.
You are spreading misinformation.

This doesn't apply to any parcel that has a building been rented out for the past seven years. A length of time calculated to ensure that it is not profitable to tear down existing housing

That among a whole host of other protections to make sure that nobody is displaced.

There was a serious chance seriously upgrade protections for tenants while also increasing supply to prevent other pressures and welcome more people in to our cities. Instead a bunch of wealthy NIMBYs in suburbs do what they do and maintained exclusionary zoning to keep our apartments.

A fraction of self described tenants groups carried water for landlords and wealthy homeonwer's profits by opposing this and giving conservatives the language to sound like they were woke. But be it tenants groups, non-profit affordable housing builders, unions, social justice groups, you will find them among the supporters.
You should be able to add an optional functionality w/o a hardfork yes?
The only thing I detest about Apple Maps is that during navigation they got rid of the North up view. I feel that anything but north up is complete gibberish. I literally can’t recognize my own neighborhood if the map is originated beyond 10 or so degrees off north.

I don’t believe anyone ever holds up an actual paper map and ever rotates it to any orientation other than north up. So why are digital maps so obsessed with non-north up.
There's an example in the 1950-2000 section:

Many UFO reports may be the result of mass hysteria [0]

Granted, these weren't all independent sightings. So you're right, I agree. We don't know for sure.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-ufo-reports-chang...
I spent a fair bit of time alone, and bored, while growing up (I was born in the late 70s, so this was primarily in the 80s). I felt it helped me to get comfortable with my own thoughts and to be able to think for myself.

It is of course difficult, on the basis of memory and introspection, to tell how much it helped in that regard.

I'm not saying that being alone will help someone get comfortable with their thoughts and be able to think for themselves. It just seems like it can be conducive to that.
'80% of Data Science Is Pre-Processing' Says Fujitsu
Depth first search. Basically he's saying you're playing out each conversation to the end, then backing up to the last branch point and chasing it to the end, repeat until you've exhausted every possibility you can think of
Her work was a translation of Principia into French ... in a society which excluded her from many of the academic resources that male translators would have had access to at the time, completed under a grueling schedule, with annotations, including her own original contribution in extending Newtonian mechanics with a law of overall conservation of energy. Her work went on to be one of the foundational texts of the French Enlightenment.

I knew nothing of her until a few minutes ago and it's really a shame that one of the first comments in this thread isn't going into more detail about her contributions but rather incuriously dismisses her.
According to the wiki on her, her commentary on the principia included "a profound contribution to Newtonian mechanics—the postulate of an additional conservation law for total energy, of which kinetic energy of motion is one element. This led to her conceptualization of energy as such, and to derive its quantitative relationships to the mass and velocity of an object."

So no, it wasn't just a translation of the principia. It seems she was also a philosopher and an early financial pioneer in developing financial derivatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet
Not necessarily. Apple Maps sometimes has problems with street addresses that start with compass directions.

You enter 1234 East Main Street and it sends you to 1234 West Main Street.

I've had this happen to me multiple times in both Minneapolis and Albuquerque. Strangely, it only seems to happen while in foot, not while driving.
"But this virus spreads via droplet transmission, so just being within 6 feet of someone who's infected (and coughs/sneezes) is enough to spread it."

On the other hand, people don't seem to be symptomatic for 2 weeks, so they won't be coughing or sneezing during that time, so ordinary hygiene should be enough to prevent most infections during the incubation period.

After people do become symptomatic, the widespread media attention and fear among the general public will likely cause them to go to the hospital or isolate themselves from each other, which should further reduce infections.
It's extremely variable. You have traffic engineers, sure, but you also have politicians pushing top-down reactive policies to appeal to the limited minority of voters who happen to have the time to go to city council meetings. To say it is "demonstrably untrue" as some universal truth is objectively false.
That's absurd. From Licensing WebKit (https://webkit.org/licensing-webkit/):

> WebKit is open source software with portions licensed under the LGPL and BSD licenses available here.

Even though those licenses don't require it, Apple still actively develops and publishes enormous FOSS projects. Here's a page that lists more of them: https://developer.apple.com/opensource/

Apple gives back way more than they're legally required to. They don't like the GPLv3 specifically, but's worlds apart from saying they avoid the GPL or that they don't want to give back.
How to Hit a Home Run as an Amazon Seller
The Superinvestors of Life Sciences
I talk to myself aloud a lot as well. I almost never have any dialog entirely in my mind. I am so used to talking to myself aloud that I have to consciously internalize it if I'm not alone, and I find it very challenging.
I had about 30k. Jumped into startup full-time, spent it all, racked up 10k in CC debt, spent a few months doing contract work on the side to keep the lights on, now about a year later ramen profitable and working down the debt quickly.

I think it depends a bit on the product you're building, how long you think it would take to validate, and your safety net (can you get some quick contract work if needed?).
From wikipedia, it seems that her translation became the standard in France which helped drive the scientific revolution in mainland Europe.

Furthermore:

"Her commentary includes a profound contribution to Newtonian mechanics—the postulate of an additional conservation law for total energy, of which kinetic energy of motion is one element. This led to her conceptualization of energy as such, and to derive its quantitative relationships to the mass and velocity of an object."
Note that this implementation has undefined behavior according to the standard because union members are accessed that haven't been written to. The code that tests whether it the string is long or short, accesses members of the union unconditionally.

This is fine because std::string is provided by the standard library and the standard library is allowed to do stuff normal libraries are not allowed to do. This technique does work in practice, but it is technically undefined behavior.
I wonder if it'd fare better if I scripted nc with expect?

(Not sure I care enough to try...)
On little endian systems it uses two MSb's, on big endian systems it uses two LSb's. There are actually two flag bits.
I used to think commenters on this site were somewhat smart.
You can totally find a mathematician to convince you that those are the same operation! Probably easier than the lawyer, even.
Google Maps' icon is also a location pin, while Apple Maps' is a highway. Google also has 21% of its local staff bike to work [1]. Apple's campus is so far that you can't realistically live in SF proper, you mostly have to drive. These kind of different motivations and cultures bleed through to their products.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/this-heat-map-shows-a-fundam...
Thank you for clarifying MSP.

I really wish people naturally had the habit to spell out their initialisms or acronyms the first time they use it in a post (if it is not used in previous posts), and then use that shorthand for the rest of the post.

I would even request that this be done even for something as obvious as DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles). Making this common practice removes the guess work of whether an initialism is sufficiently obvious enough to the average reader. For some media forms, I do not have the luxury to comment or ask the original poster to explain what an initialism stands for.

Trying to find out what an initialism stands for is even harder when you try to search for it on Google and many other versions of it exists in different contexts.

Here is an email from Elon Musk complaining about it: https://gist.github.com/klaaspieter/12cd68f54bb71a3940eae5cd...
Politicians vote in a way that they think will get them re-elected. They aren't the true opponents of this bill.
Usually it's a 4-strain vaccine but your point stands.
I'm mostly being sarcastic but I'm partly describing an exact scenario that I'm witnessing right now. Business wants "analytics". IT starts spending a load of money. Business has no idea what it's for and buys their own thing to just track website visits which is what they wanted.
Is IBM even relevant anymore or are they simply another McKinsey type consulting firm Who happens to sell mainframes to banks?
How to Build Sustainable Open Source Software Projects
That's not a press release from Mercedes, and given that Mercedes denied the core allegation that production would be halved this year, I would probably give them the benefit of the doubt on the rest...
It is 12 years old - these were just before the first versions that had any kind of serious OO capability, however most apps were already built in the "Imperative" style that this is.

The hate for PHP on that gist is strong - admittedly back in the early noughties it wasn't fantastic but it was the shortest route to getting a functional website put up. PHP was simple and had a very low barrier to entry.

Latest versions are much better - The speed is one of its biggest draws, since version 7 it has taken the crown as fastest interpreted language, I believe version 8 will improve on this even more
America is better than most places in the world.

That’s very subjective. For example America ranks 143 out of 230 countries by murder rate. Economically, it’s better than average, but as a place to live it’s got serious issues.
I don't think 11% is that worrisome. These are the cases where patients are ill enough to be admitted to the hospital. In the US, admitted patients of the flu have a 10% mortality rate, which is equivalent. We still don't have enough information regarding the virus but my guess is that its way overblown in the media.
If companies could hire remote employees in low cost of living areas and remain competitive they would have done it years ago. But the effects of agglomeration are simply to great. That's why we have business clusters all over the nation - here is a map of them:

https://www.clustermapping.us/content/clusters-101
But doesn't rezoning land to higher density increase it's value?
Humble Book Bundle: Project Management by Taylor and Francis
Key takeaway:

> It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible.

How times have changed!
Some competing languages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20357079

I'm especially interested in jsonnet (https://jsonnet.org/) because of how thoroughly it's documented.

An example that produces three different config files:

local application = 'my-app';
local module = 'uwsgi_module';
local dir = '/var/www';
local permission = 644;

{
'uwsgi.ini': std.manifestIni({
sections: {
uwsgi: {
module: module,
pythonpath: dir,
socket: dir + '/uwsgi.sock',
'chmod-socket': permission,
callable: application,
logto: '/var/log/uwsgi/uwsgi.log',
},
},
}),

'init.sh': |||
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p %(dir)s
touch %(dir)s/initialized
chmod %(perm)d %(dir)s/initialized
||| % {dir: dir, perm: permission},

'cassandra.conf': std.manifestYamlDoc({
cluster_name: application,
seed_provider: [
{
class_name: 'SimpleSeedProvider',
parameters: [{ seeds: '127.0.0.1' }],
},
],
}),
}
And the smart assembly programmer laughs at the C programmer. There are a couple dozen string-oriented x86 instructions that I've never seen a C or C++ compiler produce. You could easily get a 2x speedup on strings by hand writing clever x86 with SSE. In fact I'm surprised no one has made an STL with lots of inline assembly.
There's a myth that the market offers rewards proportional to value provided.

In reality, the market offers rewards proportional to value that can be withheld, as leverage for price negotiation.

It would be a big deal to create an economic system that reliably measures and rewards benefit to society. I haven't the faintest idea how.
Downvote all you can but don't come back to complain later that we do not have equal women in STEM if you fail to address childbirth issue.

This is why women shouldn't give birth and we should be developing artificial womb to create equal environment for women.

This is the biggest disadvantage for women who want career.

See, right now - if a woman gets pregnant she risks her life and career and the dad might disappear with zero consequences - many single moms and women dead in childbirth exist to prove this.

There is a hypothesis that due to child birth and calorie restriction women have got smaller in size/strength/speed and if we remove the womb/reproduction part from women and feed them equal calorie as men, they'll grow to become same size over several hundred of generation with most gains visible within first 10s of generation.

Most HN commenters are white men who will see their demise within few generations when power will leave them and move to women (where it belongs)

#allMenDumb
#meToo
#SexistMen
#SexistSTEM
#whiteMen4mClownWorld
#unwokeManTrash
This depends on where you are in the stack. The perspective of someone working on a low-level, widely used library is different from someone working on a top-level application.
Making Sure RISC-V Designs Work as Expected
Twitter contains multitudes. It reminds me of nothing so much as high school, except expanded out a thousandfold, with innumerable cliques and circles that swarm and combine. And some serendipitous incongruities when the streams cross and the mutuals encounter one another, sometimes.
Maybe it goes to auction each year and the current owner gets a chance to outbid the final price? Whoever wins the auction gets to pay the 2%.
Imo this is probably in part because you can mix the two more easily? I imagine you could link again C++ 2003 code compiled with a compiler understanding the new ABI?
I had the same issue the first time I loaded the page on iOS 13.3 safari. Reloading the page fixed it. Having things be too automatic causes failures to be catastrophic rather than mild.
Asia?
When all of the characters in the dialogue are named so ignobly from the start, it kind of forces the narrative...
This comment and the replies to it really give a glimpse into the psyche of the more pedantry-prone members of HN.

For me, if someone says X, and a literal interpretation of X would be impossible/ridiculous, I naturally assume the more generous interpretation Y. I would find it bizarre to believe that X was intended.

Some people however cannot escape the interpretation X, and find the statement bizarre fullstop.