skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on where he lives or studies, that wouldn't even be a choice let alone a realistic option to pursue.

For one, if there is a shortage of good professors (which there is and if he is one), I can bet you some schools would trash the student without a thought if professor threatens them.

Playing legal battles afterwards isn't something available for most poor students.

Though, that's my experience here. Done a biting before and I won't again. I will just secretly record everything and make it look really bad, then viral it after leaving college. I have learnt to pretend to follow popular opinions, thinking etc because otherwise it ends up as a disadvantage position for you.

What I would do now is ask a few open ended generic questions which will lead to person expressing a lot of what they care about, make a profile and never step on those. Be contradictory on issues the other person is unsure of, helps stay authentic.

I noticed I can sow huge doubts in people when it comes to choosing clothing even if I am the only person in a group of 5, they will start rethinking their choices in the head but for something related to their work or moral dilemmas, it's not easy.
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How about improving wisdom? Following the guidance in the article, despite its best efforts, will lead to lots of code. Code that will be replaced by a wiser coder in less time.
China's mobile giants to take on Google's Play store – sources – Article [AMP]
Not that I know of. But its seems a few other conferences use OpenReview, besides ICLR. UAI for example.
Google Maps is now a business directory with a map interface.

The highest contrast is reserved for business that are paying Google for advertisements, followed by other shops, hotels, restaurants and bars.

Everything else, but especially roads and railways, are desaturated into mush.

Compare Streetmap UK[1], which was the first popular online mapping service for the UK in 1997. The web design has hardly changed, and up to the linked zoom level they're still showing the standard (government-produced Ordnance Survey) "paper" maps.

[1] https://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=531405&y=181525&z=115
Sounds like my Linux experience in the late 1990s: lots of weird invocations without understanding what they do, just to keep the system barely functional. The roles sure have reversed...
> We should organize our life to improve our reading, playing, resting time.

Yes. Strongly agree.

> Life is about surprises, unplanned things, meeting new people and breaking some habits.

Life is a balance.

You need spontaneity.

You also need stability.

How much of each is up to you.

> Why should we force ourselves to organize our days to improve our coding time?

Because for some people, it is really very important to know where they'll be living in 3 months or if they'll be kicked out of the country.

Getting fired sucks.
I’m not sure what you mean by publish “what the power sources are.” Data centers are grid connected and are therefore connected to a lot of different generators—including coal, natural gas, wind, solar, and hydro. All generators on the grid contribute to the grid. It’s really tough to single out a generation source for a particular user.
What a ridiculous statement excusing this bullshit
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Reasons your partner is going to file for divorce
sigh... their tablets are quite good if you like to paint digitally. Time to look for non existent third party drivers for windows.

This is why a software firewall can be helpful. Since I use Windows I expect there are no alternative drivers.

You can use the tablets without drivers in a very restricted manner. I don't know how to solve this besides strong regulations. Big firewall to China?
Similar puzzle was shown when Adam Savage visited Michael from vsauce.
Pro tip: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
Understanding Browser and Device Fragmentation
Parallels’ way of handling USB is just perfect. I was trying to install RockBox firmware to my iPod Classic and the easiest solution was to use Windows XP in parallels. That’s when I realised how well it’s implemented! It first asked me if I wanted to attach usb with Windows VM or MacOS, and later I could even make it default. Very good UX.

Edit: Windows XP, because I still remember its Product Key. Ha. I probably reinstalled XP in my PC as a kid about a hundred times.
Been through an airport in the EU or going to the EU lately?
Babuskha

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6xckBwPdo1c

Please don't downwote, people, dang,etc <3
Based on the studies I've read kavalactones, the group of related psychoactive compounds in kava, indirectly activates the GABA-A receptors without directly binding to the benzodiazepine receptors. So it produces the same effect as a mild benzodiazepine, similar to Xanax. But the exact mechanism is still unknown, so there's definitely a risk of interactions with medications, especially benzodiazepines or medication or supplements that interact with the GABA receptors. Plus one of the kavalactones, yangonin, binds to the cannabinoid receptors. It's a selective agonist of the CB1 cannabinoid receptors and a full agonist of the CB2 receptors.
There should not be an app permission to export contacts list in the first place. If an app needs your contacts, there should be a way to export them offline and upload the contacts file. If a user is not technically adept to do that, they are clearly also not adept to judge the ramifications of pressing the "allow" button on the contacts permission dialog.
This will be for secure work for government, and from the sound of it its for TS the higher security clearance.

Though the USA is more permissive that say the UK.
That sounds like arXiv.
Hating landfills is very popular for some reason.

The materials have been taken from the earth and now they return to the earth.

The problem with CO2 is that it doesn't go back where it came from.
For a moment I misread that as pricing by the second...
I've had some problems with one device I've got with the Apple-provided driver and an FTDI adapter. Looks like the Mac doesn't respect hardware flow control, or the flow control is configured in some slightly different way, and it continues to send data even when the other end says it isn't ready.

Works fine with the FTDI driver and pre-Mavericks Apple drivers.

(I'd far rather use the Apple driver, which is much better at reliably detecting the device without needing to reinsert it, so this is a bit tiresome...)
Again, plenty of men want to work like dogs. Some of these provisions now have an element of coercing men not to work as hard. Punishing ambition is now ok?
Corona Virus vs. Corona Malware
Multiverse: How Far Away Is the Nearest Copy of You?
cool, here's mine in python https://github.com/jquast/blessed/blob/master/bin/worms.py

looks like https://asciinema.org/a/8682
The Wooden Centrifugal Puzzle [1] is an example of a much simpler puzzle requiring spinning to solve

[1] https://www.instructables.com/id/Wooden-Centrifugal-Puzzle/
Except when it comes to mass migration, human rights to protect terrorists, bureaucracy and other useless measures. Tuen the eu suddenly forgets about subsidiarity and moreover it bullies nations into submission.
You are describing a cervical smear test - target cells more likely to be mutated - assume that if you find problem cells in your test ( after you have destroyed during the test ) that there are similar ones still left in the body ( not because they were mutated together - but because they are related - one cell inherited a mutation from another ).

So sure. That's done already and having a test which detects 'precancerous' based on genetics might be useful. One of the problems at the moment is the treatment is often almost as bad as the cure - so you might only be able to step up frequency of the tests.

The problem with this approach is only certain bits of the body are easily accessible in this way - that's why people like the ctDNA tests - but they have their own challenges.

Another non-destructive way would be imaging - either thermal ( cancer cells are more active and so hotter than normal ), or using some sort of labelling markers - however can't see a way to target arbitrary early genetic mutations with this.
Which is still a far cry from "opts you in by default (!!!), and collects every time (!) you open the program."
That is then a circular problem. Most people who have high impact right now, know how to play the publishing game.
I'd just like to point out that the title is a bit misleading -- They are deprecating extensions that use parts of the kernel API that have alternatives, as these become available.

How well that will work in practice remains to be seen. But they aren't simply deprecating all kernel extensions.
I have a wooden puzzle which you can only get apart by spinning it. It has an internal channel which contains two brass inserts. If you spin the puzzle the brass inserts fly to the ends of the channel and no longer lock the puzzle. Shaking the puzzle or turning it upside down inevitably causes one of the brass inserts to lock the mechanism. It is a good ah ha moment when you figure out that spinning the puzzle unlocks it.

The puzzle in the article works in a completely different way and looks like it is more secure to random fiddling. It looks very attractive too. I'd certainly add it to my puzzle collection if I could :-)
Thank you. The superheroes line is brilliant, I'll keep that one in mind.

Regarding salary, I think I didn't choose my employers well. I live in a large northeastern metropolitan area, and people with my comparable skills make upwards of $100k (in fact, someone who was interviewing to be my replacement when I left my old job wanted twice what I was making).
This is good advice. Thank you!
I mean the author notes that you can decline and the software keeps working. I don't have a Wacom tablet so can't confirm, and it doesn't justify what they're doing but at least it's relatively easy to opt-out.
At the risk of being a Connie Contrarian, I don't think it is. Data makes wild, un-evidenced leaps of assumption that are only "empirical" because we the audience understands what he's saying is correct. But in-universe his ideas are ridiculous and unjustified. More-over Data invents a 'cure' for radiation sickness pulled directly from his butt, with no testing of safety or efficacy before he administers it to a large population.

The B-plot is also a great illustration of the fact that the writers have no idea what to do with Troi. The character was included on the show literally just for sex appeal, and by season 7 the writers were scrambling to justify her existence in a way that didn't openly acknowledge the fact that she was only included because Roddenberry was a womanizing horndog.

Meanwhile if the show had written her as an actual person from the start, she'd have already proved herself a thousand times over. An empath on a ship whose primary missions are diplomatic and exploratory is INSANELY useful:

(a rock monster appears on the view-screen)

"Lower your shields for cultural exchange."

"Counselor, opinion?"

"Despite the strangeness of this species and their lack of outward emotional cues, I sense only curiosity and openness coming from them. We should comply"
You're mixing up frame interpolation and original 60FPS content. That's not the same thing at all.
>> Pu-238 makes gold look like dirt price wise, it's around 5-10 million dollars per kilogram and is chemically and radiologically extremely dangerous, but minor details.

The price is actually infinite, since the global supply is somewhere between 20-30kg total. No one will sell you any no matter the price.
> Speaking only for my personal situation, my partner is a stay at home parent.

Of course everybody's situation is different. My wife is actually currently at home as well. But you cannot advocate a system that just works for you.

You got to have a system that benefits the population at large. Many women want a career and independence and many men would enjoy spending more time with their children.

They should be given a chance to do that.

You also have to consider that when a lot of people do like you guys, you keep promoting gender inequality. Men like you working long hours naturally get valued. Bosses come to expect men to be more dependable and flexible workers because they have no obligations at home.

Women in contrast hit a glass ceiling because a company will expect that she will not have the same flexibility as a man. Men will be prioritized in career advancements and get higher salaries.

Hence you get stuck in this gender pattern. Women end up staying home because they simply cannot compete salary-wise with men.

I am not blaming you. I am just pointing out that if too many people make the kind of choices you make, it really holds back women's advancement in the workplace.

> I use my resources to enable that, and make their life as easy as possible (hired help around the house, childcare, etc).

Sounds great, but keep in mind there is a downside to this. It promotes the view that every parent is available for long work hours, because "hey just pay some help." For people with less fancy jobs that is not a simple option. One has to think of what role models one are. I find it somewhat disturbing when these higher powered women brag about being back at work the day after birth. It signals to everyone further down the chain that they are lazy asses if they don't do the same. Reality is that these are women with large amounts of resources who can hire a lot of help and don't have physically demanding jobs.

I don't expect you to agree with me, because it is probably not in your culture to think like this. But at least in Scandinavia where both independence and solidarity are considered important values, we do think a lot about being good role models and showing solidarity with others.

E.g. in Norwegian neighborhoods of all income levels people participate in "dugnad" which is a communal work together thing. Everybody clean up and fix up their neighborhood. The rich could have hired people to do it. But it is considered an important value even among rich Norwegians to physically contribute like this and be like everybody else once in a while.

It affects the children you raise. I notice children from countries where rich people hire a lot of help are exceptionally spoiled.
I suspect that parents who "achieve" by coming to the U.S. are more likely to have children of the same persuasion.
There's a similar hill close to where I live, not nearly as big though. There's just some grass on it and I see some dump trucks / excavators on there from time to time, but otherwise I think it's not being used.
That kind of advices and processes are cool and working when you are working alone. When you start working in a team, a lot of times you depend on someone's else outcome, so in the end you are waiting until they are done, and there goes your productivity.

I'm not even gonna mention times when team isn't using formatters, CI is broken and so on, and you can't fix all of that, because it's more important to deliver a feature A or just a team leader doesn't see a value in that changes.

So remember, developer's productivity != team's productivity.
A strong recommendation here for the StreetComplete app, which makes it really, really easy to contribute: https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete#readme
I agree it's rather strange to ask for who has the lowest energy usage when you're a cloud customer. "I want to rent this computer to do X, but it shouldn't consume any electricity" is not a reasonable demand.

However: one could say that these companies are now big enough that it is reasonable to start demanding that these companies source the energy in a climate-friendly way. I think it's not at all unreasonable to demand that when Google or Amazon builds massive new data centers to be responsible about how those data centers are powered.
Only in the same way as when you can write down 10^20 as 10+10+10+10+10+...
> I now schedule meetings specifically at the times of the day when I’m least productive. It doesn’t take a ton of energy to sit through a meeting

I'd say that if you can just sit through a meeting and do nothing, you should really consider if you should be there at all.

I recently moved to a new team and we are having tons of meetings to discuss design, architecture, or the general strategic direction of the team. Some of these meetings involve a lot of discussion, brainstorming and presenting your ideas, and they drain my energy. But I found that the more exhausting the meetings, the more useful they are.
Thanks so much for the perspective. I really appreciate it.

What's your perspective on this: it seems like the field has exploded in the past 10 years. As I've been programming for a long time, and following tech blogs/etc, it seems like 20 years ago, you could do well learning Java and maybe one or two other things and you'd be set. Nowadays, it seems that's not enough.
No it is not rejected. This is only about EU parliament building. In fact, I would like facial recognition to be used over there, so we know which EU MP is meeting which lobbyists, for me this is would be a legitimate usecase of such technology.
That's why a sane data collection is aggreggate, upfront about the data it collects, avoidable, and most of all, explicitly opt-in. Alas, this requires eternal vigilance, as the pushback is neverending.
Ask HN: What tech skills to acquire in 2020?
Since there was a similar question which got carried away to cooking skills, I am curious, what tech skills do you think it's important to acquire today?
There's a Cancer Treatment That Gives People 'Night Vision', We Finally Know Why
Thanks for that reminder. I really value employers who are willing to give you a chance.
It needs a browser which is a lot more hungry than notepad.exe
Yup: https://basecamp.com/retired/campfire
The providers are already financially incentivised to minimise their power consumption. I’m not sure any change is needed. I suppose the power source might be relevant to the customer (eg. Coal vs hydro, etc).
I like and respect your work for Emacs but I wonder if this is how you justify working for companies that have ruined the Internet and are now in the position to ruin us all.

I know I would certainly develop some defense mechanisms to justify working for a scourge like Google or Facebook, and they would probably assume a similar form to your argumentation here.

To anyone that grew up on the Internet in the 90s (I believe you are old enough to be in that group, correct me if wrong), the striking degradation of what was then a high SnR knowledge repository and a medium for rapid information exchange, should be more than obvious. The rise of surveillance capitalism can not be defended with appeals to highly-polarised what-ifs. The Internet is a platform for decentralized expression and emergence of new ideas. Your alternative futures don't seem to take that into account. I suggest a shift and widening of your thinking into what is possible rather than regurgitating the same old narrowing perspectives that your corporate masters try to enforce on us all.
Another commenter summed up my feelings on PL/SQL. It's not that it's inherently bad, it's the bad practices that seem to follow.

Modernization to me (specifically in the context of the GC) means refactoring/rewriting systems to follow modern industry standards and practices. Things like proper version control, automated testing, automated/semi-automated deployments, and monitoring and logging.

I think there are major benefits in adopting these practices for both the Canadian public and the developers building/maintaining the solutions. Unfortunately, getting a budget to move the source code from a shared network drive to Git is next to impossible. And God forbid you want to spend time adding any sort of testing.
> Open source has near-zero appeal outside of the hacker niche

Not really. Plenty of people are willing to modify the technology they use, both professionally and as a hobby.

You don't need to be a developer to understand that you can update the camera firmware with a 3rd-party modification.
The answer seems to be yes for the latest Gravition2 according to initial benchmarks.
That is pretty insane.
In theory yes.
In reality no one cares what apps you use. They will do some big data analysis and thats it.
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Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
I had an epiphany this year that I focus too much on myself and came to the realization that I might be a narcissist: I tend to talk too much about myself, I don't enjoy listening to other people, I tend to judge situations only from my perspective, I have an inflated ego and take things too personal.

These traits have affected my personal and professional life and would really like to fix them.

I did some search on Amazon but it seems that all the books are written for people who were affected by narcissistic people. Couldn't find any book for people who are narcissistic themselves and want to fix that.

Did anyone here had the same issues and can recommend me some tips/books on how to deal with this?
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Cooling is a pretty big factor in the energy usage of datacenters, and there's a lot of room for creative use of technology there - or simply geographic advantages.
Thanks, this is helpful, especially about the list part. Is the ageism stuff really not true? Even if you want to work for Microsoft or Google, albeit not in Silicon Valley? I get the sense people won't take me seriously if I'm starting in a junior role at 30+ years old. I'm sure there's a lot of my own self-esteem and projection going on in there, but I definitely feel incompetent.
Why do software engineers tend to see themselves as machines with the necessity to be optimized for productivity or is this solely the cultural influence of American capitalism?

While I agree that it is a good idea to optimize chores, so you can focus on interesting issues, I often hit a wall of processes or humans.

One consequence, after a decade of professional work, is to actively dismiss the idea to optimize every part of my life. On the contrary, I value the time where I do nothing at all. It often allows me to clear my mind to be more creative afterwards.

So what I'm really missing, from this very basic article that does not provide any new information, is: Take your time off and do nothing.
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Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio

"is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae, fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire"

"It has a circumference of nearly a kilometre (0.6 mi) and stands 35 metres (115 ft) high, though it was probably considerably higher in ancient times."
So they got list of apps, and did some analysis on the data.
Should they disclose it upfront? Sure, it would be nice.
If this a big deal? Doesn't seem so.
Clearly they're not a big success, yet.

But after a google, it does seem to be a live product, being worked on.
No. FOSS firmware immediately makes backdoors thousand times more risky to implement.
> The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic.

Would like to know what other tactics were employed by the "Emu command". :)
They have access to a kernel module and entitlement that only they have access to, com.apple.fileutil - and Apple has said they aren't giving out any more entitlements for it.
They are relocating to NY.