skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CVs of interns who went to private schools always have "president of the X club" on, for much the same reason. I don't know if they have multiple presidents per club, or if they just have masses of clubs, so everyone can be a president. I went to a state school - we didn't have any clubs!
That's a good observation. I tried stripping zeroes, but unfortunately it's the same error message.
It really is amazing how they've leapt across that chasm.

Also good to know that, in California, whites are a racial minority.

I can't wait to see how California designs new tests against racial bias. Will there be different tests for different races? And, their alternative is simply failing to develop a test, after which the methodology will presumably be to have humans make subjective determinations about other humans.
Shouldn’t they simply default it to the most populous city by that name, or some other criterion for “better-known”?
Why is making C++ (even more) multi-paradigm a good thing?
Why not making a new paradigm specific new one instead?
(as there are, so just use those)
Fitbit launches a Covid-19 early detection study, and you can join from the
MC is great but very slow when copying or moving a lot of small files, when I have a task like that I use SpaceFM in the GUI.
When the FM Towns came out, I always dreamt of having one (not the Marty, but the tower one). Only around 2 years ago I managed to pick one up and it did not disappoint. Very top notch when it came out, but only in the Japan.

They had picture in, I think TGM [0] (quick check; seems I have all of these in paper still) we could drool over, but not buy or play with it.

[0] https://retrocdn.net/Category:The_Games_Machine_(UK)_scans
Let's rewrite the same example and change the variable names, I think it make more sense now.

import React from 'react';
import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';

const MyButtonClasses = makeStyles({
root: {
background: 'linear-gradient(45deg, #FE6B8B 30%, #FF8E53 90%)',
border: 0,
borderRadius: 3,
boxShadow: '0 3px 5px 2px rgba(255, 105, 135, .3)',
color: 'white',
height: 48,
padding: '0 30px',
},
});

export default function MyButton() {
const classes = MyButtonClasses();
return <Button className={classes.root}>MyButton</Button>;
}
I wonder how well it would work if it cost $1 to read an article, but there was an easy way to say "this was a bad article and I want my $1 back" some relatively large fraction of the time. I know that if I had already paid $1 for an article, then read and enjoyed it, I would not be inclined to want my $1 back. However, if I'm being asked to pay $1 just based on the headline, and then the article is clickbait and I have no recourse, I'm probably never going to pay $1 for another article from the same source.

Also, in that system, "90% of readers were satisfied enough to let the author keep their dollar" would be a pretty strong signal of quality (especially so if the platform takes more than a 10% cut: this is one of the rare cases where a higher cut to the middleman might actually result in a better product).
Thank you! This looks great and surprisingly affordable for an academic textbook. It seems like a lot of the good material for teaching these topics at the undergraduate level has come out rather recently.
Disambiguation is hard?
> browsers allow websockets from public origins to open websockets connections to localhost without many protections

Excuse me, but what in the world? XHR has all kinds of cross-site request protections that even make developing apps locally a pain. How come websockets don't come with such protections?

Are there apps that take over this responsibility?
But it really doesn't in that extract.

Do they have the option to work more to make more? Is more work available? Are they already working close to or at maximum capacity and their current level of wealth is the result? Without the contextual information available, that's hardly useful. I'm sure somebody that's unemployed and wants to work would work more than they currently are, but can't, because, well, they don't have a job to work at.

Some random singular statistic doesn't say anything.
I wonder why organic farming is so popular. Wikipedia says:

1. "Researchers at Oxford University analyzed 71 peer-reviewed studies and observed that organic products are sometimes worse for the environment."

2. "According to a 2012 meta-analysis of 71 studies, nitrogen leaching, nitrous oxide emissions, ammonia emissions, eutrophication potential and acidification potential were higher for organic products"

3. "The Oxford meta-analysis of 71 studies found that organic farming requires 84% more land for an equivalent amount of harvest"

4. "there is insufficient evidence to make claims that organic food is safer or healthier than conventional food"

The list goes on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming
I have to agree. As a heavy user of Total Commander and fighting the Krusader as well as Double Commander clones for some time, I switched to Dolphin after setting up a KDE-based Linux distribution. Its been years, since I did it the last time and I was quite reluctant. But it worked out much better than I thought in the beginning.
From what I saw on the videos, they only restrained (they didn’t attack anyone) legislators who physically tried to block the meeting from taking place. In this case it only being pan-democrat.

Feel free to look at the videos yourself and make up your own mind of course.
I don't know how this whole buyback thing works really, but could they not just do a "sellback" of some of the shares they still own if they now need the cash? (Of course they might have to do so at a bit of a loss.)
Purple Earth Hypothesis
On today's edition of "Things You Shouldn't Be Able To Do From a Browser"...

Seriously though, sending PJL commands directly to printers on port 9100 is such a neat hack. Back when I was working help desk in college, much fun was had the day I discovered you could change the "READY" string on HP printer displays to anything you wanted. "INSERT COIN", "CHECK ENGINE", etc.
> Citation please.

"Vox media has a left bias...".

> And, like I said, at least their identity is tied to their statements

Right. So you know that they are not reliable and untrustworthy.

> You can't do a media bias fact check with memes.

Sure you can. Just like you can for any media.

> [0]: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/vox/

Mediabiasfactcheck, snope, etc are even more untrustworthy than vox. This is the circular joke that the media is. Since nobody trusts them, they create "fact checkers" to create an illusion of objectivity. They'd be better off creating another award named after a fake news king like Pulitzer.

Let me guess you think foxnews is the bastion of truth?
"You can only subscribe to the VPN from the United States"
Visual C++ ones.
Your bank doesn’t enforce this, the merchant accepting the payment chooses to require this.
Flip Animation in React
Whipped up a post about doing FLIP animation in React with hooks. Hope you enjoy!
It is amusing that someone thinking London means London, Canada should be fired for stupidity, but someone who cannot compute what is the time in another place by adding 7 (or 10 or whatever) hours to his current time and needs an elaborate device to do it is seen as smart and insightful. This is some pretentious BS.
I am diabetic and would hate to force this on my offspring. So selfish of me!
How did the switch to Kafka solve your issue with providing backpressure to producers?
Steve Ballmer OxfordUnion Speech (2015)
Amazon’s new 8-floor family homeless shelter attached to its Seattle HQ
At the risk of being sent to the tower - I've caved in on -ise/-ize and the former looks wrong to me now. And I'm on the fence about center/centre.

Color/Colour however. No, not now, not ever...
3-D secure is still extremely vulnerable to phishing. And when you do get phished, you’ll generally be in a far worse position than you’d be without it.

Sane solution? For merchants, maybe. For consumers, no.
The forked version which is an Addin runs about 4x faster, and is actively being developed now

https://github.com/joyfullservice/msaccess-vcs-integration
I hit this all the time with "Salt Lake City", it gives me the time in India. Despite the fact that my phone should know that I have tens of contacts in Utah, but few if any in India.
This technique is also known as characterisation testing, golden-master testing, snapshot testing, and probably other names too. I recommend looking into https://approvaltests.com/ (already mentioned by another commenter).

I use characterisation testing all the time, in a perhaps unusual application: Checking the behaviour of "Page Objects" (classes used to model the application-under-test in GUI-level automated testing) when the application-under-test has changed. That's right: Automated [characterisation] tests for my automated [GUI] tests! It makes GUI testing oh so much easier to maintain. I wrote it up here: https://david.rothlis.net/pageobjects/characterisation-tests
Anecdote. I did HORRIBLE in high school. I somehow still graduated with less than the required GPA. I think they called it close enough because they didn't want to continue dealing with me. When I stupidly thought college would be a good idea, I got in based on my SAT score as my GPA wasn't high enough. Of course, I failed out of college too. ;)
Still wished* he had stayed at Apple.
"Sometimes I just look in mirror and spook myself". In 1983 I wrote modern high-level language interpreter and compiler with backtracking and throw-catches (clojures sortof) in MSDOS assembler and it is much shorter than this GW-Basic. Admittedly I used macros like a madman on steroids. https://github.com/timonoko/nokolisp
Defective immune cells could make us old
Siri got it wrong and you got mad, we get it.

The childish rant about firing assistants is unnecessary.
> I am clueless about imperial units

As am I. I had a laugh today when I stumbled across an interface in Siemens medical software that requires patient height and weight. I could enter ‘metric’ or ‘U.S.’ values.
Because of counter corporate propaganda. Anything organic is done by a small, local, friendly, nature and animals respecting farmer, right?
The basic point that older nodes are still viable and exponentially cheaper than newer ones (and getting cheaper over time) seems very much correct. It's not just the physical masks either; the design rules get simpler and more openly available the further back you go, and entirely open toolchains with negligible licensing costs start becoming viable as well. In fact, this might end up being the 'real' Moore's law, not so much the availability of more and more advanced nodes at the leading edge.
>Why?

Because Europeans are weird about this, there isn’t really any reasonable explanation.
I had a fun time implementing the Paranoid Pirate pattern with my coworker a few years back. He wrote the server part in Python, I wrote the client in PHP. We essentially built it as a wrapper to run some C code our boss wrote that we didn't want to write a PHP extension for - we used Python as a broker to allow for some concurrency. Worked super well.
Embracing Digital Transformation with As-a-Service Models
Hey good idea, deliberately exclude people who don't eat meat. You know who might end up being CEO level material
I’ve always phrased the question as “What is the time in the UK” (as a British person living in the USA). It’s unclear to me whether my form of asking the question is because it’s the best way to get a “good” answer from Siri, though I don’t think it would ever occur to me to ask what the time is in London versus the last city I lived in (Bath) in the first place, since they’re always the same.
Same thing happens with Frankfurt. If I order something from Amazon.de, my package usually goes through Frankfurt. When I checked my package tracker app on my iPhone, I was surprised to find out that Frankfurt is actually on the Germany-Poland border.

Turns out that if I enter "Frankfurt, Germany" into Apple Maps (which I assume is what the package tracker app does), it takes me to "Frankfurt (Oder), Germany" instead of "Frankfurt am Main, Germany".
You have to know the time in London Canada when you're king, you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uio1J2PKzLI
Wait until you find out about the Digital Services act, another legislature that the EU wants to keep nearly secret.
They do have IBM Watson, which has seen some uptake. [1]

Not sure how much success they're having with their other cloud offerings, tho.

[1]: https://enlyft.com/tech/products/ibm-watson

Edit: Added source
Okay, I knew I was stupid already, but if I was an assistant, and smart enough to know there was more than one London (which I've until recently not been), I'd have asked "Which one?" in case there was not enough context to make a guess.
There are probably _A_LOT_ of people who have a lot more to do with the non-british London who'd be very sad indeed if The Machines (tm) suddenly decided that EVERY request about London MUST ALWAYS be about the British one..

Kinda like how I'm eternally sad when I get german results, just because my connection is from Germany, but I am Danish, sitting in Denmark and am usually NOT looking for the nearest biergarten (lies, I am, but we have none).
This is really funny but also practically helpful. My muscle memory for words like colour and centre is so strong that I have to pause whenever I write them to make sure I'm using the right spelling in the right context.

On a related note, I was on a website owned by a German company the other day that used ReCAPTCHA which asked me to identify all the images that include a "crosswalk". The right answer was clear from context but the assumption that I would know the answer was a little worrying.

As a British person I'm glad I occasionally rub up against the colonial attitude of Americans on the internet. It reminds me to think a little more about the cultural assumptions I'm making embedded in what I create.
> but someone who cannot compute what is the time in another place by adding 7 (or 10 or whatever)

The whole point of asking is precisely because I dont know how many hours I have to add. And neither do I know if said country, region or city is having whatever DayLight Saving hours etc.
Haha that's actually how I got started with this project. We had some printers with character displays, and I was creating small C programs that opened a socket to the printer to update the display. Used it to play pranks on my sister. At some point I wondered if it was possible to do it with HTTP requests and a PJL payload in the body.
While they are still gigantic, I bet long term they will stop being so, thanks to the cloud, type 1 hypervisors, unikernels and serverless computing.

30 years ago no one though commercial UNIXes would be wiped out by a "toy" UNIX clone project.

Windows kernel has been moving into C compiled as C++ since Vista introduced support for kernel mode C++.

iOS uses C++ for its drivers, Metal shaders and compiler toolchain. That Objective-C implementation relies on C++.

Yes, the Trojan horse of C's copy-paste compatibility is also its Achilles heel of security, however in contrast with C's attitude regarding security, C++ provides the library types to actually implement secure code, if one bothers to make use of them.

If I had my way, C would have bounds checking enabled by default, strong typed enums, proper arrays and strings, but no one at WG14 listens.
I'm too lazy to clarify my thoughts, you're fired.
Note that GNU CoreUtils also use Make + shell-scripts + diff
for their test harness: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/tree/master/tests

Its not as slick or concise as the solution proposed here, but it shows that the approach is viable for medium-large projects.
Is it? Siri is a digital assistant. The point is it should be held to a much higher standard. It's currently awful to the point of uselessness. So what standard of assistant is it? Not one you'd employ.
Maybe because you know that there's only one timezone for the UK, so there's no point asking "What's the time in London" and "What's the time in Preston" because you know the answer is the same, but since America has 3 or 4 timezones (I'm not sure, I know it's at least three), American people intuitively specify the city, since "What's the time in the USA" is not valid
Under Niklaus Wirth nonetheless, that's just awesome, the grand dad of performant compilers.

Having a PhD means you studied for years to push boundaries, nothing more, nothing less.
Lets not forget that the bosses usually decides exactly what should be done with sprints and standup, especially in teams that are not research focused.
The evolution of the most popular repositories since 2012
Too lazy to clarify by "London" you don't mean London Ontario? Give me a break.
Today I learned that American English uses the same spelling for the noun 'licence' and the verb 'license'.

If you think it's odd that we distinguish in British English, what about 'advice' and 'advise'. I think Americans still retain the two spellings?
As the article doesn't provide any of the actual numbers of these events, Walnut Creek has 35 confirmed coronavirus cases. The county has 1155 cases and 33 deaths.

Suicides is a rare cause of death, usually around .01%. Unless the actual totals are also mentioned, I'm always skeptical of articles attributing some huge change in the rates to some phenomenon. If my really terrible math is correct, this could he around 10 more suicides over this period, which an overworked medical staff may have played a factor in.
This is what I did, originally for gaming, but now I can't imagine gong back to mouse acceleration. A DPI button on the mouse lets me quickly toggle the sensitivity if I need more or less control for a particular task.
Interview: Kevin Shatzkamer VP&GM Service Provider Strategy Infra Solutions Dell
>>As a EU resident i wasn't ever informed of an EU Green Deal etc. Either this isn't happening, or it's being vastly exaggerated.

I understand your anger for not being informed or asked. But a lot of countries are trying to reforest and clean the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforestation#Implementation
Wouldn't the negative health factors of living in a big city far outweigh the access to healthcare for most of people?
The Fine-Dining Apocalypse Is Here. Should We Care?
Distractions – A Cancer of the Mind
The perspective and excitement this write up adds is super infectious. Kinda really shows the organic change MS has had in the last 5 years -- at least to me
Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
Haven't heard anything about it in a while. Do you still use it or stopped using it. Why?
It's funny that 4chan has fallen victim to bad growth as well. The gamergate controversies and the 2016 election really brought out the worst of the people there. I remember years ago it wasn't nearly as toxic and you could sometimes have a good time there. Some boards are trying to cling on to those times
I think dates, times, UTC offsets, and locales/cultures is a topic we frequently think of as "that's easy" [1] when in practice it's painstakingly hard to get right.

As an example, we've spent the past few days on our eng team refining our spreadsheet functions for date/time handling, and it's like the 5th time we've iterated on this (after supporting everything Excel / Google Sheets do).

Funny part is, I'm sure we'll iterate on it even more -- it's hard to get this topic both right & make it easy to use / approachable.

Btw, does anyone have good reading materials on this topic? (date/time/locale handling)

[1] I'm biased as a founder at https://mintdata.com, but thankfully our engineers set me straight on the subtleties :D
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If I ask Siri on my iPhone "What time is it in London?" here in Germany, it replies with the time of London, England.
Ranking and NLP aren't easy. If you are asking a slightly related question (for example, "What is the weather in London"), and if you are living at some place where the nearest major town is called London, but is not London in England, you would expect it to give you the weather in "your" London. However, it you are asking for the time in a particular city, then the ranking should of course consider whether the timezone of the city you asked for is different than your own - it makes no sense to ask for the time in a city which lies in your timezone. Then again, if the distance from your location to that other London is greater than a certain threshold, the question could imply that you actually do not know whether the city lies in the same timezone as your location.

All these thresholds or ranking factors seem to come intuitively to humans (I would guess a good intuition for them is actually a sign of intelligence), but it seems to be incredibly hard to capture them in ranking.

As others have pointed out, a solution here would be to make Siri more conversational. A simple "Which London?" could've removed the ambiguity and given Siri the opportunity to learn something about that particular person (that London, England is more important to him than London in Canada).
I had that recaptcha also, I am in Denmark, I missed the first one not because it was unclear but because I have bad vision and didn't have glasses with me and one of the crosswalks was partially obscured so I wasn't sure if there actually was a crosswalk there. I thought there was but couldn't really see it so I said no. Then I had to answer 3-4 other captchas to get through after messing the first one up - the last one was another crosswalk question.
You'll be relieved to know the assistant in question doesn't really exist. No-one was harmed in the making of this post.
> Google/Youtube took down any videos where the name of the supposed whistleblower were being mentioned

Presumably because they didn't want to be exposed to the legal ramifications of broadcasting a crime?
Scenes from the Pandemic Summer of 1918
Yeah, health is the worst. So is anything related to parenting. In general, any topic that's relevant to the majority of people on the planet is totally swamped in content marketing garbage.

This makes me wonder how much a benefit the Internet really is for people, information-wise. These general audience articles I see polluting top search results tend to be at best non-informative, at worst spreading total bullshit, and they're also designed to maximize the time you're spending reading them.
It’s the typical example of the meaning problem. Any token derives its meaning from a context. Think of the context as requirement of setting up a careful experiment to measure the spin of an electron. Without the context, we have reasonable confidence that it’s an electron but don’t have any clue if it’s spin up or spin down.

Similarly in this case, we’re reasonably confident that London is a place on earth with a property of time that is being asked. But without the additional context (or supplementary logic) we can’t know for sure which London it is: Canadian, American, or English.

Until we provide such context, London is in a superposition of all the possible meaningful state.
Agree. It would be better if it gave the maximum amount of technical detail possible given the space constraint.
Django's admin is pretty good.
I went to a UK $GOOD_UNIVERSITY, and before that, a "good state-funded school". The sum total of coaching for the interview was one mock interview with the head of chemistry and the deputy head - neither of whom had been to $GOOD_UNIVERSITY themselves, or really knew what the interview would be like. Still, they did their best, and i appreciate that!

Somehow, the school still got ~10% of each year into Oxbridge; i suppose that's the power of selective admissions.
Asking for clarification is a GREAT response. I'd be happy if a human assistant OR Siri were to respond that way.
Modern ai has no “common sense”. Worse yet, no one knows what it is or how to add it. It’s why self driving cars can’t really drive, search results produce nonsense, speech recognition barely works, robots can’t do much.