skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My recommendation is that when a non-technical person asks you a question, especially if that person is a friend, is to not lie. To tell them the app preserves their privacy without seeing the source is a lie. The truth is "I don't know".

It is not normal to clean code before releasing it. That would suggest the code either has technical flaws or other deeply rooted problems that you are not comfortable releasing. That's a warning sign, not normal.

We may be in this together but do not assume this is a gesture of good will towards the world. It may be, or it may be a gross invasion of civil rights, and we need to be studious in our analysis to make those determinations on an ongoing basis. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Calling everyone here an angry mob and waving off valid concerns by sticking your head in the sand is naive, not mature or brave. Fear is a great tool of oppressors.
Glosa: Clone of Disqus, but faster, open source and sexy
"We find that the constraint imposed by the quota
caused a significant drop in the stock price at the
announcement of the law and a large decline in
Tobin’s Q over the following years, consistent with
the idea that firms choose boards to maximize value."

The last word "value" in the abstract above is ambiguous; I guess the authors meant "share price". According to other non-monetary measures the "value" of the companies may have gone up. For example, a career path for women could keep them in the companies, making the entire Norwegian workforce more diverse.
because the bug tech companies are more likely to pay big $$. There's a huge gap in salary potential between FAANG and the rest. There's always outliers among the rest, but that's generally the case. So if you're optimizing for $$ and prestige, you optimize for getting into FAANG.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. What's interesting is your experience doesn't follow the historical stereotype of HS, but absolutely nails an alternative one of driven immigrants, tiger moms, pressure to get into a prestigious university, the idea of a Cornell as your "safety school" - and the biggie - the extension of the perfect you on display for strangers that social media has worked hard to ingrain.

One thing that has not seemed to change: people are entirely focused on doing well at the same game, usually the one where the winners were decided long ago. This is funny/weird because often the idols they seek to emulate rejected the main game of their time, pursued something different and were the successful survivors in a completely new field. We seem to miss this point.

You self-realization and understanding of the crazy aspects of your situation is something that sets you apart from the masses; don't lose this perspective.
Where I am it seems like online shops already have an API to work with the post (surely UPS/FedEx too?). They would say using the API "I would like to register a package addressed to [netsharc's address]", and the endpoint would probably do that and respond with a barcode that the shop would print and stick to the package. Then the postman would just scan the barcode when picking up the package, take it to the sorting office where there'd be more barcode scanning and automatic sorting based on the ZIP code stored in the database entry identified by the barcode...

So the only reading of the actual typed address would be when the mailman double-checks to confirm he's delivering the correct packages for my address.
I don't understand the conjunction of the following two phrases in the article:

> * Nix goes a step further by disallowing package*
> * builds to access the internet. This allows Nix*
> * packages to be a lot more reproducible;*

and

> * The src attribute tells Nix where the source *
> * code of the package is stored. Sometimes this*
> * can be a URL to a compressed archive on the*
> * internet,
It's "done" in your eyes, but you're still working towards a 1.0 release? It might just be me, but this is a bit confusing.
What's AP CP Honors? for non american readers
Asperite is open source and not free.
The Art of Charm to increase my emotional intelligence, self-confidence and social skills.
When I studied ECE (focused more on EM), it seemed like anyone who couldn't manage the math/physics/engineering/etc. moved into CS.
Citation needed. French is definitely in decline in Louisiana and some efforts are being put in place https://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/louisiana-french... .

Similarly story for New Brunswick as far as I know. Those two are, to my knowledge, the biggest francophone regions outside Québec in North-America. Franco-Ontariens are not very happy either right now with Doug Ford cutting French services. I don't disagree with you second sentence.
One third of the US population is considered at risk due to comorbidities. With over 328M people in the US, that's roughly 100M.

If you look worldwide, there are 7.8B people. If herd immunity takes 60% of the population becoming infected, that's 4.6B infections. With an IFR of 1%, that's 46.8M deaths. 460M hospitalizations (where possible).

Even say the IFR is overstated as some like. Say it's a magnitude less, comparable to the flu at .1% Now you are down to 4.7M deaths, but still the 460M hospitalizations. Still one of the most serious crises in the last 100 years.
Thanks for sharing! I've not heard of ClassicUO. Is it the original UO and people are running their own shards?
It's just that at some point you run out of letters, having some 35 glyphs more just comes in handy. Very much so if you have indices for different spaces.

Notation shouldn't be a problem if it's compact enough. Then the bra-ket one is foolproof and not too many physicists study functional analysis proper, so it makes sense to simply follow Dirac there.
See also the great article from 2001 by Michael Herf (these days best known for f.lux): http://stereopsis.com/shadowrect/
In my teaching, I tend to write a lot of Greek letters on the board. Students from physics and mathematics are comfortable with this and can make out my squiggles easily. To make things easier for students coming from biology, I write out the names of the symbols, the first few times I use them. This helps a lot, because they are not just unfamiliar with the symbols, but also the words I use when I talk about them.

Another thing I do is to pronounce symbols in both the Greek and the American ways. That helps them in other classes, because where I teach, the professors are about evenly divided in their pronunciation.

PS. my squiggles are basically identical to those in the article under discussion here.
You can install flatpaks on many distros, including Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Kubuntu, et cetera.
I have some flatpaks on a Kubuntu laptop I maintain for a family member and installation was about as smooth as it is on my own fedora machine.
I use cli exclusively though so ymmv if you prefer gui(Edit: Exclusively use CLI for sysadmin).
"The forced economic shutdown has decimated the entrepreneurial class in the US..."

Not all entrepreneurs are "decimated"...many are in a position to prosper :)
Yes. He and a Middle East arms dealer were the only ones to cash the third (and cheapest) round of checks, worth just $0.13 each.
It was! I wonder if I'd like something like it now or if it's just nostalgia.
Where do all of the letters mailed to "Santa Clause, North Pole" get sent?
As well as the wrecking ball analogy there’s a second effect: if you fall in with one mass but emerge with a lighter mass, and energy is conserved, you’ll come out faster. So how do you lose mass at the bottom of the gravity well? Burn some fuel!

Another good reason to burn fuel at the bottom of the gravity well is that it’s more efficient to eject rocket gas when you are moving faster. Burning and ejecting gas gives it energy (the exhaust velocity from your chemical reaction) but if you do so while moving forward at the same velocity, you effectively leave the exhaust gas behind you standing still with respect to the universe, which is maximally efficient.

Put another way: if you propel yourself through deep space by throwing bricks behind you at 30mph, then this method of propulsion becomes most efficient at 30mph. Each brick you throw backwards ends up standing still, as you sail off at what is now 30.1mph.

(Presumably it’s only inefficient to burn fuel when you are moving slower than exhaust velocity, and not if you are moving at or faster than exhaust velocity?)
While this is a great read, I'm excited to find out more about the tech challenges behind their login wall.
Build Powerful Habits with these 3 Tricks
Years ago I worked with a project called FormScape that did that. The end result was usually a printed report or PDF but there is no reason it couldn't be some other data format.

The whole thing was tree based, basically you were gluing together a bunch of domain specific objects. The result was something like a visual abstract syntax tree but not quite. There were general purpose nodes on the tree that handled conditions or arithmetic and specialised ones that mapped data.

The people who grasped it well would have been equally happy writing code. Unfortunately it was often sold as a tool that didn't require programmers, that wasn't the case. If you don't have the ability to decompose your requirements to their constituent parts no tool is going to help.

There was often debate about whether it was programming or not however it was certainly Turing complete. I managed to write a tiny basic interpreter in it.

It was very productive in its narrow niche.
Checkout 2 alternatives implemented as Chrome extensions:
* https://yanado.com/
* https://www.sortd.com/
Exponent, a weekly podcast covering a topic from Stratechery, Ben Thompson and James Allworth on business and technology strategy.

Friday Night Comedy from the BBC. If you like satirical comedy and an English sense of humour then The News Quiz and The Now Show are the best there is.

The Art of Product , Build Your SaaS and Out of Beta are great if following along as people build bootstrapped start-ups is your thing.

Startups for the Rest of Us is the OG bootstrapped start-up podcast.

Planet Money and The Indicator, both from PBS, cover business, economics and society and make it interesting.

Flash Forward, by Rose Eveleth, a trip to a possible future then a walk through how we get there.
The idea is that as long as the downloaded source file matches the hash all inputs are deterministic and so is the build overall.
> but for the government

only tangentially now. Royal Mail was privatised some years ago and is now just another courier business. Of course, people don't fully realise that and expect that it will carry out the same service it always has. The 'Universal Service Obligation' which provides that items will be delivered nationwide for the same price is only guaranteed until 2021. The CEO (Rico Back) who lives in Switzerland is a mercenary character so I would expect some changes after then.
My point was many lower wage workers can not afford the luxury of prepared meals or child care. I was in no way comparing cooking professionally to cooking domesticaly. As someone who worked at every job except baker in the food service industry for a decade and changed careers because of the stress I can not agree with you more. Restaurant work is hard and in my opinion underpaid.
I really don't get why they didn't want to serialize blueprints into XML or something, things have improved a bit now with the blueprint diffing feature in terms of merging, but having to put BPs into LFS is always going to be a pain point.
Twitter suspends biotech co testing UV light to treat coronavirus
note that in the US, the usps is not taxpayer-funded, as it's a private, but government-granted/-regulated, monopoly.
You can still view cached versions of links.

Click the small down-arrow at the right of a link -> Cached.
> The result is that we do very few joins in MySQL

I realize depending on your data model some of this is unavoidable once you shard, but it sounds like they did this even before sharding.

What's the reason to do that? Seems like you either end up with long transactions or doing MVCC in app code
IIRC, Fdroid rebuilds all the Android apps they host from source so they can be sure their source really matches the app. Actually, this is also what all good Linux distros do with all their software.
'I saw a statement from an...', therefore 'Even Germany cannot be trusted'. Can't argue with that.
For x86-64 compilers will use intrinsic instructions which will automatically optimize for that processor. Unless you're really good at knowing the processor you're almost always better off doing it like this. It's almost no benefit writing assembly because of these optimizations these days.
I remember we used tools that saved the snip to a specified directory, targeted it at Dropbox public folder, and then there was an app or maybe config option that pushed url of any new file in the public directory to clipboard. Was even better because you had the URL immediately, without waiting for upload.
This is all pretty much FUD.

> x570 -> Requires active cooling (fans) on the chipset because it throws off too much heat. The proprietray fan will die and your motherboard needs replacing.

AMD does require fans on the chipsets for X570 boards, but different board makers have treated this differently. My understanding is that some boards don't spin it up unless you're putting some serious PCIE 4.0 bandwidth in. Either way, "The fan will die and needs replacing" may be true someday (as it would be with any fan), but is not a guarantee.

>x470 -> Don't even look at your memory the wrong way if you want it to boot. Also, you need an older gen Ryzen/Athlon to update the BIOS to something that works with Ryzen 3000. Sure, there are stickers all over the box touting 'Ryzen 3000 compatibility!' but that's only after you update the BIOS. The BIOS the board ships with won't work at all.

First gen Ryzen (1000 series chips) had some memory compatibility issues, but 2000 and 3000 chips haven't had many issues. It's true that you needed to do a BIOS upgrade on x470/B450 boards when 3000 series chips were released, but those stickers indicate that the board maker installed a newer BIOS and they should work out of the box. Unless you manage to find an X470 board that's been sitting on the shelf since before last July any x470 board you buy today is extremely likely to be compatible with all currently released Ryzen chips out of the box.

> b450 -> Dicier to run new stuff on such an older platform. The implementations are supposedly power weak for higher core count 3900/3950 CPUs.

3000 series chips use a smaller process and are more power efficient per-core than 2000 and 1000 series chips, so you should have no issue running an 8 core chip in a B450 board. 12-core and 16-core chips might have some issues, but who buys a $79 motherboard and sticks a $500/$900 CPU in it?
I get a $100 bill minimum any time I step foot in the doctors office. It's not somewhere I'm going to go for casual health questions. There's a fairly high bar that needs to be crossed before I even entertain the idea.
A few years ago, I placed an order from a small company on the east coast, to be shipped via USPS parcel post (ie, the cheapest and slowest option possible, though the company does pay the extra for tracking). In a rush, I fat-fingered the zip code. To compound the error, after submitting the order, their shipping software helpfully "fixed" the bad zip code by adjusting the city and state to match.

The next day, when they sent the shipping confirmation and tracking email, I saw the error. Of course, contacting them was too late; they did ask that I give the post office time to sort it out but were happy to send another one if it was time critical. I opted to wait as the initial mistake was mine, not theirs.

The package arrived a day later than expected, having gone to the small town in the wrong state, been kicked back as "no such address", sent to some big USPS facility in Chicago where they apparently figured out where it should go, manually crossed out the bad city/state/zip and wrote a correct one in and then came straight to me via the local post office, skipping the nearby sorting center that most packages go through.

I don't know how they pulled that one off, especially in a pre-christmas shipping glut, and without the package ever having had the correct address on it until someone working for the postal service figured it out and fixed it. Having a unique name probably helps, as does having a fairly unique street address, but I'm still impressed it didn't just get tossed into the dead-letter pile.

Living in the middle of the country, the post office's abilities are almost magic. Need to send a letter anywhere in the US? Two or three days, for a few cents (no idea what it costs now, I bought a few rolls of "forever" stamps at 40 cents apiece). Need to ship a package? USPS is often cheaper than UPS ground, nearly always cheaper than FedEx ground, and faster than either of them at still only two or three days. Same goes for receiving mail or packages.

Quality of service of all three, I recognize, varies with location and people involved. Around here though, it is damn hard to beat the post office.
Switzerland is in the same position. You cannot get a majority for abolishing the draft, so it is here to stay (for now). You also cannot get a majority for extending it to women, for those who support the military tend to also be those who hold more conservative values, and those who seek egalitarianism tend to be those who would want to abolish the draft.
Was waiting for someone to add that.

My friend is a high school principle in Washington state. He tells of fist fights between girls over a “diss” on Snap, girls (minors mind you) using social media to sell themselves (prostitution). I don’t know whether you’d call that more hedonistic or not but these are new twists on old problems.

Likely none of these kids at his school have much chance of getting into a T2 school.
This is actually a very accurate depiction of what is happening to the industry. Not too many problems left to solve, so the investors are desperate to fund anyone who can put up a great show and sound convincing. Now a part of this great show would be hiring a great team without actually having a problem to solve, so here you go. The credentials in most cases simply make a difference between doing close to nothing for $300K/year vs. doing the same thing at a less fancy company for $80K/year. Since what you do isn't actually important anymore, your skill or intellectual abilities aren't valued as high.

If you don't want to be a part of the bullshit show, you've got to learn to distinguish between problem-driven projects and show-driven projects. The former are scarce, and the latter are intentionally disguised to pass for the real thing, but unless you learn to see the difference, you'll be stuck in a rather depressive loop of being a prized trophy sitting on a shelf.

My bet is that the COVID-19 pandemic will bring enormous attention to biomedical research, vaccine development, immunology, etc. New discoveries will be made, that would also apply to many less critical conditions. Of course, there will be a fair share of Theranos-like scams, so have your bullshit detector up and running.
"You can’t start a business with no money."

Yes it costs maybe a couple hundred dollars to legally start a business. So you are correct in the most literal sense, that it does take some $ to start!

But if you have a mindset that it takes anything more than that, I'm here to tell you from firsthand experience that you're wrong :/
Well, there are reasons, but I can't think of good ones. But you do realize that's quite a different criticism, right?

I'm just saying that the hypocritical hyperventilating about this is absurd.
You're casting adversity in terms of economic adversity. A poorly-performing school district, rce-agnostic, performs poorly because it is likely underfunded in regards to its needs. That's your example, not mine. But adversity in America absolutely appears along racial lines, regardless of economic positioning. A black student at a top-performing school is carrying not only the obvious academic load of an intensive curriculum, but also the silent social load of race in America.

When someone like that, who is hopefully aware of the mechanisms of race even as they are buoyed on the privilege of wealth, enters an Ivy League school, they carry with them the legacy of black experience while also representing a high chance at academic success. He is not better than his lower-income brother, but his matriculation is not a loss for the concept of affirmative action in this manner. And until the long process of correcting the imbalance in representation in society - particularly elite society - is finished, affirmative action will be necessary. History has proven that certain aspects of our society have to be dragged kicking and screaming into progress and fulfillment of America's founding notions, and AA is one tool for doing so.
Ask HN: Do you use a snippet tool?
I've concluded that a snippet tool that would me it easy to quickly paste snippets in my code in order for me to avoid googling then would be invaluable!

Do you use a snippet tool and can you recommend a good one? I'd really like to be able to share my snippets between my computers.

TIA!
Interesting, doable and from my experience of this area, need a reference sound to calibrate, though that calibration could be ongoing for such things like this.

Gets down to matching a single sound and working out the timing of that sound from the multiple sources. Then you also need to factor in the frequency response as well.

That last part would be important to handle things like the table the devices are sat upon picking up vibrations from the desk. Remember that phones don't have a rubber base to isolate them from the table so any vibration of that surface would propagate into the device and microphone. Then the whole aspect of varying devices and with that, varying microphone quality and device housings. So calibrating at some level would be key for this to work, though doable and processing wise you could even run a master device and handle the processing there and remove the server aspect with some of the processing done upon each local device and passed onto the main device for correlating. Certainly some phones have the power to handle this type of affair to replace the server aspect. But that would be more work/effort and something that may well see later on. Though makes it harder to sell a bit of server processing software then.

Though one test I'd like to see this system handle would be how well it filters out those vibrations.

After all you don't want to hear somebody writing or putting a cup or other object down whilst somebody else is talking.

I'd also wonder what type of jitter tolerances they are working with across those devices and how that scales with devices/jitter - does jitter increase after so many devices.
When I was young computers and taking computer programming in high school (gasp!) was for nerds and losers. The only thing that shielded me from ridicule and worse was my physical size and playing varsity sports. University combined a lot of us computer-lovers, regardless of whether we were obvious nerds or hid behind something else in our previous lives - it was great to be special and on top.

Now everyone feels obligated to "learn computers" and pursue the academic path after HS. Sadly as a whole we're not being successful; we're essentially customers of both.

I sure hope some kids are rejecting the current culture and creating something new that will up-end the current path...
Sometimes people working at big name services do the most remarkable things, even in our increasingly automated and impersonal world. I also love that in some countries, children can write to Santa before Christmas, and an "elf" will get their letter and write back. It gives me hope for humanity. :-)
Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Discovered Global Warming
That's hilarious. I doubt he did that personally though. He probably has an assistant who sorts through his mail.