skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wonder how these platforms would sustain long term?

I mean, if this service would match existing companies with talents they seek, the obvious case is that the company might pay the platform for the match.

So this service would instead have to make the users pay for something like premium?

Or maybe handle the infrastructure for the matched talents for a fee?
>Pedantic is about being correct. [...] Being pedantic is an effort to reduce them.

At the risk of my comment being pedantic about "pedantic", the context of how "pedantic" is typically thrown around is to alert readers of a hyper-correction that doesn't matter to the discussion.[0]

For example, if I say that some smarthome intelligent light switches sometimes have a 1/2 second lag instead of being "instant on" which is jarring to the user experience, a debater in pedantic mode would then say something like "even a regular dumb light switch isn't truly instant because of General Relativity, it _still_ takes picoseconds to propagate the flick of the switch action to the state change in the light radiation, blah blah blah"

That so-called "correction" is _true_ but not material to the actual type of discussion. The discussion was consumer UI and not physics. If the context is UI, it's actually ok to be a little sloppy with what "instant" means.

The underlying issue is that each commenter cannot write <billions qualifiers> before each statement. Therefore, the qualifier words we omit lets others pounce on a seemingly glaring hole in the argument (i.e. not reading with charity) and reply with something pedantic.

[0] Excerpt from MW dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic#faqs:

>Is pedantic an insult?
Pedantic is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details,
I apologize for saying this in advance but I'd have to say for me it's GIMP.

Even after all its feature and popularity I find it extremely hard to use and often end up wasting hours trying to create a simple graphic. As a last resort I always end up booting Windows just to use Photoshop to do the same. I have been trying to move away from Windows to linux and so far I'm super happy with everything. But Photoshop is the only reason I have to keep Windows alive (or atleast use wine)
The professor only said that "they're now becoming aware of the possibility of the virus being transmitted via droplets". So they're not totally sure either. It's all at an early exploratory phase.
Wouldn’t this require a lot of data transfer? 14 * 24 * 4 * keysize * millions of people?
Indeed, this submission is a textbook example, perhaps involuntarily, but still:

1) Pick an uncontroversial good cause: "Excessive pedantry is bad."

2) Associate all the arguments you want to make with the good side and the counterarguments with pedantry.

3) In the reader's mind, subconsciously all your arguments are now associated with the good side.

This is how advertising works, but the method seems to infiltrate (again, perhaps unintended) more and more technical articles.
Edit: Sorry, I just realized I misread something. What I was pondering was what "necessary" meant in this case, but I think my brain is tired right now!
> This has never been a good idea, unless you’ve been immediately selling upon receipt.

It evens out over time.
This is a good list for differences between FreeBSD and Linux distros, but describing them as advantages FreeBSD has over Linux seems problematic to me. Except for firewalls and core documentation (but what about "community documentation"?) nearly every item is highly debatable whether using FreeBSD has an advantage in the first place, and many I would argue Linux has obviously better options for [1].

To me, lists like this sadly highlights that FreeBSD has extremely few unique selling points left. I accept its superiority for network infrastructure type roles, but that's about it. As a Linux user, there's nothing on this list that makes me consider switching [2].

[1]: Anything to do with package management, containers and VMs and even filesystems Linux system can either do better out of the box or can easily be augmented if you need it. I also think systemd is better than shell script based inits. But there's a reason this is a footnote, this is not the thing I want to argue here.

[2]: Besides it taking effort to switch, FreeBSD has the additional problems that it has poor hardware support for desktop usage (PLEASE get your wifi act together), and software support is also substantially worse - with FreeBSD lagging behind with stuff like Electron, Wayland, desktop virtualization and desktop containerization (Flatpak, Snaps, Appimage even). The point here isn't these details, but FreeBSD winning over Linux people is an increasing uphill struggle.
Penny, a 10 Bucks Hexapod
Who is the target market? Creators and inventors?
Without the programmer crafting a program using e.g. a library, there is no software and no end user. You cannot separate the end user from the programmer.
And to repeat myself: requiring to make the source available for any GPL software in a project is absolutely a reasonable request. Requiring to relicense other parts of the software, isn't.
Thought I'd write a Part II to my first article on questions non technical founders and managers can use if they need to interview engineers.
Early Scala's inclusion of XML as a thing baffled me from the start.
I created a tool that uses Twitter's public facing (but private) API.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/twitter-dump/

You can use it to download every tweet from a user, not just the last 3000 that their API supports. It uses the same query syntax that the web search uses.
Maybe the world is more then the USA, so if in country X a doctor finds a person with something and he wants to warn all the people this person had contact with, this doctor would have to ask nicely Google and Apple to grep trough logs and find who meet who and where? Would Google and Apple respond to a doctor in a small country?

You can have a national app that is under the control of the health department and doctors ,t hat only does things like "send a notification to all users that were in contact with person with this ID to come to hospital and get a test".

I understand that this could be potentially abused for evil or that evil people already do this using WiFi or cell towers, I am thinking that we should also think at the good that could come of this.
Interesting that Haskell is so slow, I thought it was supposed to produce pretty performant code. Anyone have any idea why?
Relevant SMBC:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-11-09
Is the time it takes to generate an image the sum of 'BVH' and 'render'?
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that all the problems cited in the article are too much people with only a hammer seeing only nails
Imagine though (all we can do in the current situation) that the garbage collector comes in at seemingly randomnpoints during the day and just as you're about to use the restroom goes in and locks the door behind them to clean the restroom.
You do presentations for your audience. Adjust the contents, adjust the style.

If your audience doesn't need pixel perfect, don't do it. In my experience, the speed of adapting a PP presentation is more important than it's "beauty" by some abstract definition.

Aesthetics help to be taken seriously. But are you delivering the content or the design?
I thought USA charged income taxes on dollar earnings paid in USA too.

That aside, suppose I work nomadically, ssh in to a computer in USA, perform actions there ... where is the work carried out? It's it necessarily the location of the employee? So USA based remote workers can geographically move to a low tax regime and save money? How about if I'm in USA working for an offshore company using a desktop and systems located in that companies premises but again I dial in to a USA based client; seems my work is offshore, at the companies premises?
Program that saved me 100 hours: using LaTeX to write a scientific paper.

Program that wasted me 100 hours: using LaTeX to make the poster for said scientific paper.

LaTeX is great for when you need to focus on your content and don't have much time to spend on the presentation. However, once the presentation is the entire point, LaTeX is not the right tool.

Well, except if you like boring posters.
> You can find a lot of talks on the normal video-sharing sites from people like Aaron Hsu and Roger Hui demonstrating this.

If you have a good one in mind, please do recommend!

Last night I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfJRyoiBlY

(found via r/apljk, posted by Kari himself IIRC)

This one uses pretty simple constructs though, mostly ones I'm already familiar with. It (intentionally) avoided reading the more complicated expressions.

(Also if there's another active online community around APL & similar langauges, I'd like to know about it)
Head to the end of the paper about the ROM [0], and you'll find the QTC-1 was the computer said ROM was designed for, not the ROM design itself.

[0] https://wwwee.ee.bgu.ac.il/~kushnero/ternary/Using%20CMOS%20...
Privacy issues aside, if the 10 minute key is only 16bits, and this is being used by hundreds of millions of people, wouldn't there be a lot of false positives?
Conway gave Brady Haran a very interesting interview a few years ago in which he contemplated his own mortality somewhat.

https://youtu.be/xOCe5HUObD4

It really puts some of these mathematical problems into perspective when you think about how they can span multiple human lives.
It's not more operations, but that extra space usage can mean the difference between creating and freeing objects with bump allocation in Eden that fits in cache, and walking over the heap doing a full GC so you don't run out of memory.

There's a very real difference between what a simplified model of time complexity says should happen, and what actually happens when the layer of abstraction underlying the ivory tower start to spring a leak.
That's not a very impressive slippery slope if we've just concluded that the first step of it is horizontal.

If this system goes to some lengths to preserve privacy, slippery slope argument doesn't really apply.
You cannot separate the user from the programmer, because without a programmer there isn't a software for the user to use. And to require to make the source available for any GPL software used in a project is a very valid request. To relicense other parts of the project isn't.
Tesla’s plan for 1M robotaxi vehicles on the road still on for this year
So would you accept that your solution is sound, from an engineering perspective, but could be considered overkill for a college class?
Jira and confluence
> No, don't open "Christmas Wishlist.doc", that's from last year. The new one is called "Christmas wishlist.doc"

I'm veering a bit OT here, but is anyone aware of the justification for having a case-sensitive file system? It's something that's always annoyed me about Linux and *BSD, but I wonder if there is any real benefit I've just never grasped?
Nominal subtyping is trivial and unsafe. The fun starts with structural subtyping.
This is precisely what worries me. Submit to big brother, or you’re a second class citizen.
Same experience here. On PowerPoint, when there is repetitive work (weey presentation etc) i try to get a correct template, but most of the time I spend too much time on it, it's just a pain, and the corporate templates are horrible.

Everytime I can go away with a very simple presentation I do it, but for some reason we are partly judged on powerpoint appearance. I once did an animated background for a presentation as a joke, and was praised by everyone for it instead of my team being blamed for doing useless things on work time.

And I don't really see an alternative. It's more of a cultural issue.

I have a hard time using word, and corporate templates used to be good and complete but aren't anymore. Fortunately we usually have competent secretaries who do the formatting and some editing work.

For less official work I use markdown or latex most of the time.
SSH treats your key as evidence of your identity.

You can choose to give the public half of your key to multiple entities to allow them to verify your possesion of the private half of the key but that does not translate into multiple identities.
I hope the other side of this pandemic NHS finally get their computer system replaced and not reliant on a single proprietary OS or DB.

I imagine if one were to add up all the estimated time wasted using that system and compare it to writing a client agnostic one from scratch it would probably turn out to be a massive saving.
> But it's not a good argument for people not to scrape their own data.

Why would you want to scrape your own data if you an already request all your data and get a whole archive? https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...
For an PHP focused editor it’s unfortunate that it isn’t possible to format 100% WordPress Coding Standards compliant code.
A collection of fraud detection research papers with implementations
Suspicious senate stock sale spurt spurs scrutiny scheme
> perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and business people.

A major issue in corruption research is this "perception" point -- this method relativizes the definition, at best, and largely renders it useless.

The issue here is that Americans mostly think of corruption in terms of bribes, etc. rather than the "abuse of public trust".

eg., a judge decides to appoint a guardian with a conflict of interest to manage the estate of a elder person -- is that judge corrupt?

In the UK most people would say, "yes". In the US, "no". That while his action may not be the best / moral / right, etc. it's not seen as an abuse of the office -- he has the power to decide and therefore his decision isn't corrupt.

I think this view comes from the written-constitution approach to defining the powers of offices. In the UK many powers are held by convention and only under the assumption that they are being used justly -- an extra legal criterion.

It's very hard to measure corruption due to these issues. Personally I'd say most senior office holders appointed by trump are corrupt -- from the EPA to the FCC, to the consumer protection bureau. I think many people in the UK would agree: these appointees deliberately undermine the operation of these agencies -- and are therefore abusing the public trust.

(some) Americans however would see frustrating good government as a valid way to govern.

Under this "public trust" definition, corruption in america is routine and common place. From Sheriffs, to the police, to municipal and national executives. The trust placed in the office to execute it on behalf of the people is routinely abused.

Distinguish here: congress deciding not to have a CPB (, EPA, etc.) with an executive appointment to execute the mission of the CPB on behalf of the public.

To frustrate the latter is corruption.
You do not have the freedom to just take "my" code and do whatever. The moment you include my GPL'd code, you're stepping onto my ground and thus need to abide by some rules I set out for those that do.

You're still free to not use my code, but not to do as you wish if you do, because at that moment you're stepping onto my own freedom.
You say "exotic hardware", but Broadcom hardware (e.g. NICs) are very common.
> They are rarely among the winners

Perhaps, but they will almost invariably be working for them.
Sorry, I can’t resist being pedantic on a post about pedantry. The symbol you used translates loosely as “there exists an x”; I’m pretty sure you meant the upside-down A (“for all/every x”)
Ah yes, the newly established internet debater. Fully equipped with "that's a logical fallacy (that you didn't bother naming or explaining because you don't know what you're talking about)" into the standard polite ad hominem (which I will explain because I'm capable of doing so). You see, directing insults at the person rather than attacking their argument is an actual fallacy. Here, I'll even link you to some materials to study up on for your next meaningless argument. With all due respect, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Cheers and I hope you contribute something of substance next time.
The meme spheres interact in a more complicated process than just a repeater. They can amplify each other by sending and returning the same (or similar) information.

Some ideas get retransmitted a lot more than others. I wonder if a universally retransmitted (maximum strength) meme is possible.
The statements the article object to look like informal fallacies: hasty generalization, straw man, availability bias.
You can list your domain name on marketplaces such as Sedo.com, Afternic.com, and DAN.com (inbound).
If your domain name targets a specific industry, you can try to find potential buyers and reach them (outbound).
snprintf is merely a template engine. The parsing part is in sscanf. That's where it gets interesting.
Jeep Wants You to Stay Off the Road
The size of the graph doesn't matter, only the average vertex degree, which should be pretty low if you are social distant, because you only share identifiers with nearby people.
Most of these points are debated in Brendan Gregg's "Solaris to Linux Migration" blog post from 2017: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-09-05/solaris-to-linux...

The only point of Brendan's that I don't agree with is ZFS as it really doesn't have a strong competitor (yet). Thankfully, it also doesn't need to be on every machine - my desktops/laptops/deployed servers are treated like cattle not pets.

I love FreeBSD/OpenBSD's simplicity and principled design, but I've sadly relegated them to specific purpose servers at work and at home because I kept hitting enough speedbumps that IMO preclude them from being used in a more general sense.
Goland - an IDE that specializes in Golang projects.

The following features have saved me 100s of hours:

- Being able to run tests/benchmarks directly in a test file via either clicking the play button or using a keyboard shortcut

- It’s refactor support

- automatically getting imports ordered and code formatted on save

- multicursor support

- and even more!

One of the few IDEs I would actually pay for if my company didn’t already pay for it.
Oh, I definitely do. That's a huge improvement over the current status quo where I contracted COVID-19 from passing a stranger in a park, have no idea I've done so because I thought that I was doing a good job of self isolation and never even saw that person, and two weeks later I'm wildly ill and have already infected everyone in my household.

More information gives me more tools to protect myself and those I love.
NHS coronavirus app: memo discussed giving ministers power to de-anonymise users
Can't we do this automatically using webscraping + nlp + image processing?
The variety of colors people associate with petrichor is interesting.
.. and misconfigured jenkins
Wow it really sounds like FreeBSD is the-right-thing to choose. Except I can't tell anyone I know to install it because it does not come with a simple installer or a working desktop. I got interested in Windows because I grew up with it, and only later I got curious of how it worked behind the scenes. When I first installed Linux I had no idea on how to use the terminal, what a package manager was, compile programs or even what a DE was. I learned it because I was able to install it on my machine in less that an hour. It doesn't matter how good your train engine is, if it ain't got no seats, people won't come aboard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
You say that as if avoiding having a driver's license and credit card for privacy reasons doesn't already cause huge complications in an American's day-to-day life.
The pipeline approach here is interesting, but it seems you'd be on your own for filtering out changes in the build directory, etc. I typically use watchexec [1] for this.

watchexec make

By default, watchexec will filter out changes in files based on `.gitignore`.

[1]: https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
Can confirm. I need to send payments from the US to ~30 international contractors per quarter. I generate a spreadsheet of their names and payment amounts. I click on their name in TransferWise's "saved recipients" page. I copy/paste the amount from the spreadsheet into the USD box, submit the payment, and then copy/paste the payment summary page into an email to the contractor verifying that I paid them. Couldn't be simpler than that.

All of my contractors have previously agreed to pay all fees associated with their payment, so I always type into the USD box. TransferWise withdraws exactly that amount from my bank and in 2-3 seconds tells me the amount that will be deposited into their account.

If hypothetically a new contractor wanted 1M RUB up-front, meaning that I would be responsible for payment fees, I'd simply paste 1000000 into the RUB box, and the recipient will get that exact amount, while TransferWise will calculate and tell me the USD amount to be deducted in my bank. Also couldn't be simpler.

PayPal makes this a nightmare. In order to make a payment such that exactly $1000 USD is withdrawn from my bank, I have to basically apply Newton's algorithm (or successive guessing) to the Send Money page (with each load time being ~30 seconds), because the number you enter is post-fees but pre-exchange. They couldn't have chosen a more useless variable for me to input, since I'd only either want to enter an amount pre-everything in USD or post-everything in RUB. I don't want to enter some weird intermediate amount.
I love snipers too.

I have some broad idea about a topic I am not experienced. I expose it and I have immediately 25 different objections.

I examine the objections and there are 5 really good I had never thought about.

That is amazing, the fastest feedback loop in the world. The only problem is getting affected by the feelings people expose when they reply. But with text is easy.

I do that on real life with Masterminds. You have to train people to be respectful with other people's ideas(they are not naturally). If you do, it is one of the most powerful tools in the world.
TransferWise rocks. I save about 16 Euro on a transfer of 500 euros to Spanish bank from Norwegian krones. And it works within seconds. The saving comes mostly from fees that the Spanish bank charges to receive international payments.
But are any of those at all realistic attack scenarios?

A government can do much more with less effort using other means. And it's hard to see the value of making that kind of attack as an individual.
I haven't claimed that I am free to do what I wish to do, nor do I ask for that. The point is, that the GPL contradicts what you stated before "yours ends where mine starts". GPL tries to exactly cross that line.
Not the only one

People are also highly irrational, they'll live where water is contaminated but fear 5G wireless

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
>You cannot separate the end user from the programmer.

Bullshit.

The only thing GPL requires you to do is to extend the same freedoms granted to you to the user.

>Requiring to relicense other parts of the software, isn't.

You can absolutely use GPL software without relicensing everything else - split the part that requires use of GPL and extend the freedoms to your users.