skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you can convince enough voters that immigrants are the problem and you are the solution then you can do anything you like.

You can do better than such a low effort swipe.
The Teams UI on a Mac seems like a horrible abomination. Using it as a guest I have 45 sec startup time with a blank screen, no UI pieces visible other than a logo. I have lost the chat function and it is nowhere to be seen. The workspace is confusing. I could go on. I hope it is better on Windows, as on the Mac it is terrible.
I don't fly regularly any more, but I did for several years (mostly long haul), and I found the same thing - even if economy was only half-full, premium economy was almost always full.

A side effect also meant it was almost impossible to use airline points to upgrade from economy, since the number of "reward" seats is very limited anyway, and always seems to be "zero" on popular routes.

At the time, I always wished they would increase their premium capacity at the expense of losing some economy seats, which I figured would have reduced the cost of premium economy a bit too.
I love iNaturalist, I get to learn more about the local plants and animals, and contribute to scientific projects at the same time. Their AI works remarkably well at identification most of the time.
Anyway...you all have phones right ;-)
I also was missing such a feature. That's why I build this.
Well, there's a notion of intent.
It is problematic of course, but right now I trust some Western European leaders comment to democracy and free press. Less so for ardogan. I don't trust him because of direct actions targeting political opposition.
A lot of military programs can be eliminated if we had someone with a spine at the top of the food chain, in the executive office that can make tough calls to scrap projects if the reality doesn't match. This one of those fallacies where the company has invested so much money, time and resources that it is impossible to convince the entire ship to abandon it and build a new one.

Authoritarian countries can do that easily. We can treat companies like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman as an authoritarian agency - if the executives had any clue about the future, they would make those calls. Elon should coach these bozos.
Typo: “If we we really we wanted”
If you’re 7’ tall, you can’t really fit into existing economy seats, either, because your knees would need to transect the seat in front of you. At least in this configuration, you can slouch.
This sounds so true of India as well. We have few media outlets that are unabashedly pro government and racist, and prominent among them(Republic TV) was in fact founded couple of years ago. Majority of mass regional language channels, including Hindi channels are controlled by pro government propagandists. While we do have a popular government at the center and by definition lot of folks in fact love these pro government propaganda, those in disagreement have no clue how to stand upto and win against these powerful power formation. They got the government, media, well funded social media teams that is few hundred thousand strong and sadly judiciary as well in their favor. They can twist and turn every facts to their convenience and feed the silent majority .

Though there has been a student and minority led protests against these of late, they are just not effective in combating these, with so much odds stacked against them. Honesty many are loosing hope. What in HN's collective wisdom is the way out for us, the nations like India, Turkey and others like us?
Spatial: A high-level language for programming accelerators
Probably because when Twitter was created the goal was to create a new communication medium... and any political leanings were incidental.

Whereas this is an outright political attack that has no concern for the technical work of Twitter.

The difference in motives is clear
Some countries do have a huge mask supply: in Japan for instance, wearing a mask if you have a cold / in the cold season / in the pollen allergy season / … is very normal, and almost everybody has a box or two of masks laying around the house. If masks are even remotely useful, telling people not to were the masks they already own (because you touch your face or something) is also pretty nasty.
Google is part of PRISM and was (and probs still is) collaborating directly with the government.
This ship sailed a long time ago everywhere across the world. It's just that one side of the spectrum (left in some places, right in some) had a large control of the media.
> nuclear warfare threat

I'm not happy with the way things are going on that front. And things may be considerably worse than they were in the 1990s. They're far better than they were in the 1980s, though.
Do motives matter if the result is indistinguishable?
Victor Hugo is a Hugo boilerplate for creating truly epic websites
Probably the comments about how beer is bad, music is bad, tv is bad, coffee is bad and the internet is bad.
> I truly believe the left-lead media largely acts in good faith

I would like to raise to your awareness that when Bernie was accused of saying a woman couldn't be president, his talking point we're very close to what people on the right have been saying for years.
It is very unlikely that a 100 person company in an already gentrified neighborhood would have any effect on house prices.
> I can't imagine the simulation is simple enough to do in Excel.

Yes, of course, you are absolutely correct. I did qualify it with "under ideal conditions".

The Excel exercise is a simple tool to get a sense of proportion, to understand what these numbers mean as a worst case. From there you can, if you have the time and knowledge, add real-life factors (such as percentage quarantined, diagnose failure rates, etc.) and improve the model.

The way I tend to use these super simplistic models is to look at it as an impossible scenario yet one that educates me as to the potential rate of change. Then, to keep it simple, you add a multiplier or margin of error. In this case, say, 10x or 20x, pick a number. So, if the model is off by an order of magnitude it means the entire world is infected in 300 days. Something like that.

The idea isn't to have a crystal ball, but rather to use it to explain that, no, this isn't H1N1 (the common flu), take it seriously.
As I always say: until it breaks :)
I know its not the point but think the right answer is to ask questions to better understand the use case. what language is being used?, what is the nature of the message?, who is sending it? Is there a format? do we have a log of manually decoded messages?

I could see not hiring someone if they didnt try to ask stuff like that.

As a way to weed out people who just fill requirements without questioning if the requirement actually solves the problem.
Darn. Pay-walled.
That is debatable. For sending IMs, sure. For a lot of other stuff it's pretty noisy and even with search is still less organisable than email.
I don't know how I'm only hearing about this now, since it's been available since late 2018, but that sounds awesome - unlike API Gateway, which is a horrible, buggy mess that doesn't work well for anyone I've spoken to.
The Difference Between Worry, Stress and Anxiety
Lots to be grateful for.
Sorry, this is example of my muddled thinking. Here's another shot:

Real world is messy, evolving. Schemas and programming languages encourage rigidity, but can be more flexible. So while we can design and use adaptable systems, we don't.

An additional theory I have is that the people drawn to our type of work have rigid views and strive to make the world more ordered, through their systems, rather than accommodate the chaos. Aspirationally. Not in truth. Because I regard most of our efforts to be rather chaotic.
When last did you change jobs? A year ago I did and set a hard minimum at 120, and managed 2 offers as high as 160 and took a lower one due to more interesting work and great environment. And had to cancel 3 more on site interviews that knew my range was 130-140.
My previous job had a 2% raise over 3 years, with a salary out of touch with the current ranges.
It seems the only way to get a raise much of the time is new work (and practice negotiating!)
> …when sfinae opened the Turing hatch it doomed c++…

I think that’s unfair. While “sfinae’ itself is a mouthful, what it says in practice is that template expansion observes the principle of “least surprise” which is inherently user friendly.

You certainly don’t need to know the acronym, or even of the idea, to benefit from it. I stead, the developer won’t be presented with a confusing error message when the thing they want to happen is supported but not the first possibility examined.
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2020
> But I don't feel like I should be obligated to complain when the media behaves in a fashion that I feel is appropriate, just to appease this both-sidesism.

You're saying that you want the media to be a political instrument, but you want to make sure it's a political instrument used only by the party you prefer?

Because the alternative wouldn't be "it should be used by both sides", the alternative would be "it shouldn't be a political instrument".
Interview with Bob Yannes, creator of the SID chip (1996)
Catalina Sky Survey Discovers New Mini-Moon Orbiting Earth
Ask HN: February 29th Software Bugs?
Since February 29th occurs once in 4 years, I am wondering if there are some bugs that didn’t account for this edge case.
It's probably a prisoners dilemma for those in the industry as an individual. Because everything operates on the short term, there is no moderator of long term goals. If something gives you 5% better hits today, you have to do it, no matter if it's going to kill you two weeks from now. Or your competitors will and you'll see a drop in sales.
Don’t know which airline you've been flying but business class on most of the planes I've been flying is a lie flat bed
iNat has a lot of unique content too - not just "in your backyard" type of stuff. Just a couple of days ago, a user posted a picture of what appears to be a new species of Spiny Orbweaver spiders:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/39210068
Of course. The point is to get a sense of proportion and to understand that this isn't "just the flu". People should take it far more seriously in general.

My gut feeling is that the world might just owe China a huge debt. They contained this thing in ways that few other countries could have managed. They gave the world time to wake up to it and get ready. Had they not done that it is very likely we would have had thousands of cases in most nations of the world and, given R0, that could have been horrific.

I hope one day we'll know just how close to the precipice we walked.
A 'well mixed' cesspool doesn't exist, because inevitably in the absence of moderation one side of the cesspool will chase out the other. It's usually the more racist, virulent side.

See: Voat, Gab and so forth.
Children are reading less than ever before, research reveals
The person you replied to pointed out where leaders were failing them. Rather than empathizing, you skipped to pointing out what they should be doing instead.

They made a hyperbolic comment (“literally shooting out knives”) and you’ve focused on dissecting it and accused them of using inaccurate language. Of course they’re just exaggerating when they said that even if people were losing eyes management wouldn’t care.

You switched to first person (“how can I know...”) representing the boss. This not-so-subtly puts you above the person you’re responding to.

Copy-pasting a definition comes off as pedantic.

Finally, no-one asked for an enumerated lecture on how they should be behaving.
Tailwind UI made over $500K in sales in first 3 days
> What are some examples of their blazenly liberal bias?

I think looking up why #OkDude was trending in the last few days would give you one example.
Think of it the other way around: there’s a generic method/template, but the developer has a special implementation for a specific case. The compiler already does this for things like memmove() that is properly aligned and sized; this allows user code to cleanly do the same thing.
Interesting, maybe the Sapir Whorf hypothesis is much more relevant for programming languages than for natural languages; maybe the language shapes the things a human can comfortably express, and this shapes the communities

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
50 Years on – how Apollo 13's near disastrous mission is relevant today
> "Unless you feel that being a "insert political party here" is a protected class..."

Actually, political affiliation and participants in political activity are protected classes in a couple of states, including California, where many HN readers reside.

"There are only three jurisdictions in the United States that explicitly bans political affiliation and activity discrimination, California, D.C., and New York. New York does not cover political affiliation discrimination, only political activity discrimination. Federal law discrimination law does not cover political affiliation or political activity. However, many states prohibit employers from influencing the votes of their employees."

Source https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/political-aff...

I tip my hat to California for still remembering what old-school liberalism means.
Carbonalyser: Visualize the electricity consumption and greenhouse gases (GHG) e
Of course there would be an Emacs package. :-) So many times when I have thought “oh, that would be a nice app that I would like to try“, there has been an Emacs package that I can install instead.

Long live plain text!
Fucking YESSS!!!! Get in there my son!
Yes. The current policy is made possibly by the adoption of UCS-2 and UTF-8, which expanded the amount of representable characters from 64k to >1M, of which only 10% are in use.
>and just gone completely with Flash, Silverlight or Java

Not sure what you mean by that. There were plenty of sites not usable at times because of their use of java or flash.
Writing an Efficient Vulkan Renderer
I don't understand the contradiction you're getting at. The way capitalism works is that individuals are free to pursue their own interests. The way a corporation works is that they pay you a salary in order to pursue their interests. There's plenty of delegation happening in corporations, but ultimately there has to be some accountability controls since you are acting as an agent. What mechanism do you propose for leveraging individual incentives while still recognizing ownership of the corporation?
2020 Leap Day Bugs
Teams is just using Skype for teleconferencing under the hood I believe. Unfortunately it has been terrible quality for my distributed team in comparison to other options. Results definitely vary!
First US person dies from coronavirus in Washington state
> Micro-targeting political ads is terrible for democracy

Is it? This was done to a much greater extent than Twitter is capable of with direct mail even in the 1990’s.
I think “problem solving” questions are pretty much useless. Engineers need to solve problems, but they don’t have to do it in under an hour and under stress. Plus, solving tricky problems is not something you do everyday, or maybe even every week.

What I care about when I do interviews is how they organize their code. I want to see what people’s instincts and habits are, because that’s what’s going to determine the quality of 99% of the code they write.

I’d rather have someone who can come up with objectively good abstractions instead of writing one giant, unintelligible block of code than someone who can come up with something very clever on the spot to a totally esoteric problem.
Yeah there many large companies work somewhat in this way and one of the side effects is that there is a lot of competition for resources and projects and a lot of duplication. Small fiefdom get formed and battles between groups happen for control and the winner is not always based on merit. Those organization often end up starting to get dysfunctional.

In my view a larger version of that is the way the military is setup in the US. Lots of duplication. Every branch has planes and when they try to coordinate on large projects you get the F-22 project where every branch has demands that make the project take longer, more expensive and, with lots more compromises.
I did indeed mean a deliberate worsening — not deliberate in the sense of an evil genius, but deliberate in the fact that value of the search to the user is no longer the prime objective.
Most probably features that, in the end, contradict each other.

For example have all the nitty-gritty cool features for a low level programming language BUT also maintain Python-tier readability.
> I would offer that I think we are more worried about dystopia because we are so much more aware of all of the ways the world can turn into a dystopia, but I don't think that necessarily tracks with the actual likelihood of dystopia.

Unless you live in part of the world that became dystopian in the last 30 years, any optimism you had in the '90s that dystopia was far away was not false confidence. It was borne out by the facts.

If you feel less optimistic now, that might be due to valid concerns, and it might also be borne out by the facts. We'll see.

I also don't think people in the '90s were poorly informed compared to now. Sure they didn't have much of Wikipedia, but on the other hand, nonfiction journalism was in a better state and the internet (although less widespread) was also not as finely tuned to create information bubbles.
It makes sense, given that the news continually mentions that the virus is, for the most part, milder than the regular flues we know and love, but spreads faster and easier, and kills more of its victims.

For the ones it doesn't kill, it's a milder flu and nothing more.

Incidentally, when H1N1 went around, both I and my partner caught it. It was seriously miserable and by far the most sick I ever felt in my life. But even then, the risk of mortality was substantially lower. The experience leaves a lasting impression regardless.
SOS is an interesting case, because it is a Morse "prosign", which means it is sent as one continuous stream of dits and dahs without any pauses between the letters we use to represent it.

In other words, SOS is sent exactly the way you wrote it, as if it were one long character:

...---...

It is not sent as three separate letters like this:

... --- ...

To indicate this special treatment, prosigns are normally typeset with a bar over the connected letters, something like this:

___
SOS

(I used underscores above the letters here; if they render as separate underscores, imagine that they all run together.)
Likely. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year_bug

And

https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2020-leap-day-bugs/
I think that's the same thing as in let bindings; just like you can bind to a name in the wild card case, you can also choose not to bind to it. The main difference is that not binding in the wild card case is more common than in `let` bindings.
OK — I did conflate Wuhan and Diamond Princess, so thanks for correcting me there, but according to both Time and the Washington Post, HHS employees were sent (without proper training or protection) to meet with evacuees in each case:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/27/us-workers-...

https://time.com/5792135/coronavirus-whistleblower-hhs-emplo...
The question is also how many governments are going to go with full lock down like the Chinese government has gone.
Well, immigrants at some point become a problem (I'm one too) especially if they compete for the same low paying positions with no safety net. If you add competition for limited resources you have a bunch of people that are worse off and it's unfair to call them racist, they are just scared and pissed off their way of life that was promised "safe" is not so safe anymore.

The question is, what are we going to do about it? If we keep ignoring the condition of the working class for too long like in this country, you get Trump and the likes.

It's an enormous failure of our political class to have ignored real issues for so long, getting it to the point where pretty much the same thing is happening all around the world, and the plutocrats and billionaires are exploiting it because they can since they have all the power.

Not even a new thing, Rage Against The Machine wrote songs about all of this 20 years ago, it's just that most people weren't paying attention.
There is a version of this that is identical except it shows your password in plain text.
Are you using ML in your business now? Just wondering Thanks =)
The layout, at least on mobile, could use some work
Title needs a rate ... 350k requests/month.

Ok: the rest of the article was great. Thanks
Ok the contrary, I feel we are not aware enough. Recently the atomic bulletin of scientists put the doomsday clock to 100 seconds, even closer than the Cuban missile crisis. The reason they gave were tensions with Russia. That’s a huge threat, and it’s not getting much attention.

Really you would think today we shouldn’t have to be worried about wars with Russia or China, and having endless, escalating conflicts in the Middle East. Not to mention the environmental crisis.

Runaway oligarchism in another concern, ever since the 70’s income inequality has gotten significantly worse.
Yes, unless the alternative to the saas is spending dev time to build/customize/host something; then the comparison makes sense.
I don't see why the CEO needs to be involved. Why not have the recruiter apologize to the candidate and offer another interview?

Candidates know that there is always a chance they will be rejected for reasons outside their control (e.g. there was only 1 opening and a better candidate applied), so if the candidate agreed to the interview without a consulting fee, I don't think it's necessary to give one.
The alternative is "tell the truth". The truth as of late has a strong preference for left leaning positions.
you can so easily make a macro in rust to do exactly what you want, that it doesn't likely make sense to include it as part of the language. though perhaps the macro should be in the core libs.
This is an element of Asimov’s later Foundation series books. I wonder if even then the idea was not original.
You sometimes need to break the rules in data viz
In large measure, as a former Republican I think it's a valid comparison. Being a respected Republican these days is far less about an actual opinion on how to run the government, and far more about fealty to Trump, which doesn't have anything to do with the truth.

The Republicans that were strongly grounded in either policy positions and/or truth have all been vilified (Comey, Mueller, Amash, Flake, McCain, G Conway, Bush, Romney, etc). Even guys like Bolton, who holds extreme conservative opinions on how to run government, cannot succeed in the party because he doesn't toe the line on fealty to Trump / 'flat-earth'.
I’m confused

If you have a profitable strategy that scales up, raise capital to execute on it. Doesn’t seem too hard.
This could lead to good outcomes. Mr. Dorsey is effectively an absentee landlord, metaphorically speaking, for this online property. I am hopeful.
one of the fun things about Rust, is any time you think "man I wish there was some syntax to do this thing in Rust" you can make a macro to make it reality, usually one already exists.
Galloway bought $10 mil worth of Twitter shares with the goal of doing the same thing Elliot is doing.

Don’t let the political clickbait headline fool you, this is all about profiting off twitter by removing Dorsey and bringing in a CEO who actually works full time at the company he runs.

This has absolutely nothing to do with politics.

Activists get a bad rap but they make our economy more efficient. The reason we’re having so many governance problems with big companies like Uber, WeWork, etc is because they stayed private for so long with zero accountability. If they went public earlier, activists could have made them a target much sooner.

*edit: I see mods changed the headline to something more accurate