skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What I do when boss of organisation I am eyeing follows me on Twitter
I am currently jobless again and had recently applied to a job in a top research institution in my country. Now, based on my interests, I came across a tweet that was interesting and retweeted it. Unbeknownst to me then was that I was retweeting the institution's director. Because of this, he followed me. Would it therefore be appropriate for me to directly message him? I desperately need a job and wouldn't want to either spoil a chance or squander the same.

Thanks HN community.
So I can look deeper the next time it comes up.

You'll always be looking up reference, but your understanding will be deeper.
This is my approach too. For logo/slogan fonts, one can go ahead even subset the font.

It's probably a good idea to refresh the fonts off Google once or twice a year though. Although not often, these font file get updated.
Thank you! Inspired that I inspired you because I used to read this type of thing and thought I'd never do anything like it.
I've thought about expanding to additional freelancing sites but have not thought about the RSS+notifications thing. I still have something eating away at me that it's just an "RSS feed reader" but maybe I'm wrong about that entirely.
Mostly, not completely I believe
It must’ve been built by aliens. Since we can’t figure out the math behind it.

Some inner chambers seems to point at the Osiris star cluster.

Kidding..

I wonder if an ancient engineer discovered a more useful purpose for the pyramids. Like channeling salt water into the chambers, to create a battery somehow, in order to create an electric field, which was used to power some kind of light bulb at the top. So the pyramid ended up becoming some type of light tower, to illuminate the darkness. This indeed, would be fascinating stone aged technology, that can last for a few millennia.

Note, we can’t find the light bulb at the top, to support this fictional theory, because it got looted at some point in history. Maybe it was a precious diamond or something. LOL..
To my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't have anything specific here, it was probably just luck in where the broken addresses fell and how they were used. These days FreeBSD and Linux both have provisions to avoid addresses you know are bad, if you tell them at boot (and if you don't need those addresses to boot).

I'm pretty sure I've read that Solaris has provisions to stop using bad addresses detected at runtime, but it needs ECC or similar to detect the badness.
They hadn't invented unions at that time.
Sometimes writing it down means very little.
Like Perelman's Poincaré conjecture solution. It took some of the best mathematicians years to even prove it being correct.
enter Space X: hold my beer
Would be nice if they could somehow culture your own stem cells and then trigger them to turn into the enamel producing cells and spray it into cavities to refill them with fresh enamel.
That's why a lot of functional language research is moving towards effect handlers, which could be explained in a nutshell as "coroutines, but for anything"
Academia is one of those fields that varies wildly culture to culture. That being said, if you have to ask others if maybe it would be okay it's probably a pretty good sign it wouldn't be.
So does this come with a bunch of Linux gaming software preinstalled and preconfigured, or is the main draw just the optimizations? I feel like the Home & About pages could include more details.
Redirection is dup2, opening files first where relevant.

If all you do is open files and dup around descriptors, no file contents actually go anywhere.
I would have used VIOS for that situation and passed the PCI device through to the LPAR for most the work. It would be about 5 minutes if you had reasonable disks and you could just barrel fish several cards and LPARs for intense debugging sessions.
I've been singing the praises of this app every chance I get.. it's really pretty much perfect.

* Free (beer/speech)

* Self-hostable, including the sync server, which doubles as a web-accessible version of the app (++mobile access!)

* Extensible (want UI elements that do things with your notes? Easy. Want to render graphs based on metadata you've entered? No problem. Your own metadata and tagging scheme? All built in.)

* Encryptable (built in encrypted notes function)

* Syntax highlighting for most languages you probably care about

* Exportable, no proprietary formats

* Notes can be written in markdown

* Truly cross-platform (Mac/Linux/Windows/Web)

The tiniest of gripes can be directed at things like requiring you to use a key combo to insert a link (rather than letting me, say, use some markdown and autocompleting it), but that's minor. This blows the Evernotes and the NValts and quite possibly even OrgMode out of the water.
Moderators don't see everything. Plenty of people criticize Rust here.
WellActually™, Some is a synonym of Just, Maybe is a synonym of Option, and Nothing is a synonym of None.
Trump signs an executive order taking direct aim at social media companies
is there hw virtualization on amd processors yet?
The Future of Sears Is Bright (In Mexico)
> significantly adverse commercial consequences

Honestly, it might be nice to end up with a greater divide between the commercial and non-commercial parts of the internet. I agree, it will be very hard to control all the content on e.g. Twitter; the degree of cleanup required to pull it off might limit the users to a small fraction of the current number. We might end up with commercial sites that are much more tightly controlled.

However, what about sites like HN? I think there'd be more of those. Dang does great work, but I think (?) most of the content control is done by users. It might be really nice to regain an internet that isn't dominated by profit-seeking.
Parsing Series of Integers with SIMD (2018)
> Seems like this article ignores the gigantic wave of out-sourcing throughout IT that already happened in previous decades and in many cases returned to near-shore / onsite work.

Agreed.

> What you actually see if you look at remote work job boards is many (if not most) companies in say, the USA, want remote people from the USA (or at least the same timezone as the USA). I think this is what will happen in other countries too.

Which realistically they cannot enforce, merely incentivize; I'm pro-remote work, mainly because it can free up roads and reduce emissions for more critical infrastructure and needs in the Market, all while offering people the ability to re-locate to less populated areas and ideally help under development, and boost there local economies there. That includes International/Non-US based countries.

Seems like a win-win to me.
Yes, I read the Wikipedia article as well. Read the section on application and limits:

In analyzing the availability of the immunity offered by Section 230, courts generally apply a three-prong test. A defendant must satisfy each of the three prongs to gain the benefit of the immunity:[9]

1. The defendant must be a "provider or user" of an "interactive computer service."

2. The cause of action asserted by the plaintiff must treat the defendant as the "publisher or speaker" of the harmful information at issue.

3. The information must be "provided by another information content provider," i.e., the defendant must not be the "information content provider" of the harmful information at issue.

By adding "fact checks" to Trump's tweets, they are acting as his editor. This makes them the provider of the information, just as a newspaper editor is the provider despite not necessarily being the original author.

Imagine if dang, the moderator here on HN, decided to edit people's posts with addenda or disclaimers about the factual content of the writing. That'd make him an editor too, rather than a moderator, and then should in fairness be subject to all of the liabilities that publishers face.
Japan mountain retreat anointed as new smart city
What? No. Executive order is an order to the executive branch from it's boss the President. It's not going around Congress at all- it's separate from Congress. It's not changing law. All Presidents do this and are allowed to.

You can't do whatever you want via executive order. This is Trump telling the FCC, one of his departments, how to operate, which he can do, as much as I disagree with it.
The independent researcher (2018)
Please don't imply gamblor956 is just making things up. That's inappropriate. I'm looking forward to reading one of the many cases. It's always good to understand a) what the law says and b) how it's interpreted. They're rarely 1:1.
Missing feature is ok , but not half baked feature is not. Its better not to give a feature but not incomplete one. This is what I meant to say. If you are pointing to missing feature, then this post did not convey that meaning
>"My view is that private companies should not host and enable content that makes the world a worse place to live."

And who is to decide what makes the world a worse place?
Two mysterious web font bugs that no one seems to be talking about (2018)
I know at least HP, IBM, and Sun had comprehensive X terminal strategies. I think this predated that with for instance cut down 7012s or the 7011-220 RSC (single chip POWER1) pizzabox.
I think there are two issues at hand here.
The first is related to section 230 of the Communication Decency Act. This section provides a legal shield to companies that act as an intermediary by hosting comments. This legal shield is effective even if the intermediary moderates the comments and provides editorials. The executive action is saying if you are providing editorials, you are no longer just an intermediary and should be held accountable for what your users post. In other words, if you fact check your users posts you are responsible if hate speech or misinformation or child pornography are shared on your platform. I think 2 reasonable people could debate the pros and cons of this.

The second issue at hand is the catalyst for this change. Jack Dorsey picked a fight with a giant orange toddler. For some reason the American people entrusted this giant orange toddler with the full authority of the executive branch of the United States of America. The orange toddler decided throw a fit and use this power that is meant to better the American public to retaliate against this personal attack. This second issue is the one that makes me sad to be a registered Republican and an American.
I also agree. I was IT lead for a Kraft paper plant in the recent past, and the control rooms were indistinguishable from these.
The big difference, which you wouldn't realize from pictures, is that the guts of all the old relay-based control systems had been ripped out, and the entire place was being run on a few racks of Delta-V automation controllers.

The also had an enormous data centre room in the admin building that had been knocked back to two sparsely populated racks from maybe 50 at its peak.

So much crufty and interesting tech at that place...VAX, AS/400, Netware 4...and I could go on about the scale of the place (7 story tall boiler!)
There's a spectrum of agreement.

(1) I want builds to be 100% reproducible on deployment servers and on CI/CD pipelines. Otherwise, you can undebuggable Heisenbugs. On the other hand, I don't want builds to be reproducible between developer machines. If I'm running Python 3.6 on Ubuntu, and another developer is running Python 3.7 on a Mac, and we have slightly different versions of numpy, that makes sure the system is not too brittle. Come to think of it, if I had infinite resources, I'd have several build machines with different (reproducible) configurations.

(2) I'm a lot more spartan about dependencies than other developers I've met.

(3) I'd never use apt to manage Python packages myself in something I'm working on. The constraint is in the other direction. If I build a tool, a user ought to be able to install it using apt in some future version of Debian, and likewise for other systems. Even if that's an abstract user.

I've found that if I develop this way, the upsides outweigh the downsides, especially over extended periods. A lot of software gets built like a system which can only live in one places. There's a set of AWS machines, code on them, and that's the system. There might be a few copies of it (stage+dev+etc.), but you can't move it somewhere else. I like systems I build to be portable. Someone can bring them up-and-running on their own machine, ideally in a few minutes. I've always found that to be cheaper, in the long term.
Not the same kind of scientific glasswork, but there were a couple (?) of guys at Harvard that produced a large number of educational models of various biological things, using glass. Worth visiting if you ever go there.

https://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
Because they are a series connection of LiPol cells.

Fast LiPol chargers for series cells are not simple.

The best (read fastest) ones monitor the state of the individual cells in the stack and will shut down the primary charge and charge an individual cell if it gets imbalanced.
> "facts"

I referenced a legal organization which specializes in the area. The other citation quoted two additional lawyers plus organizations which do this regularly. If you want to dispute what they said, provide your own rebuttal with citations. Don't be childish by suggesting I've made misrepresentations.

> the crux of the matter is that most restaurants are very risk averse and donating food is a risk.

The risk is so infinitesimally small that's it has never happened in the 25 or so years since the relevant legislation was introduced! I mean, if you want to describe that as "super high risk" like you did, I don't know what to tell you. I really don't.

> I worked with restaurants in a previous business. We tried to get them to donate food. Not a single one would because they were afraid of even the chance of being sued, because their liability insurance would not cover donations. Their insurers and lawyers all advised against donating unused food because of the risk of a lawsuit that wasn't covered by insurance.

Based on your cavalier attitude in spreading false information around the topic (while millions of Americans starve) I find it really, really hard to believe that this is something you would champion. Like, impossibly hard. Never mind that I'd expect someone intelligent like yourself to know what the law actually says if you were lobbying donations.

I'm frankly, very surprised you're so cavalier in spreading this misinformation. Stop spreading this lie and maybe less people will go hungry.

Frankly, I expected better from such a prominent HN'er.
Yes, you can use the new AMD Hypervisor or use Hyper-V/WHPX, depending on your needs:

https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-accelerati...

(Edit: On Linux, KVM for AMD should work already; this advice is for Windows hosts only)
I'd guess Trump would move to a new platform, and take his social media circus with him. Twitter presumably wants to keep that traffic.
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

abstract:

Recent work has demonstrated substantial gains on many NLP tasks and benchmarks by pre-training on a large corpus of text followed by fine-tuning on a specific task. While typically task-agnostic in architecture, this method still requires task-specific fine-tuning datasets of thousands or tens of thousands of examples. By contrast, humans can generally perform a new language task from only a few examples or from simple instructions – something which current NLP systems still largely struggle to do. Here we show that scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even reaching competitiveness with prior state-of-the-art fine-tuning approaches. Specifically, we train GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters, 10x more than any previous non-sparse language model, and test its performance in the few-shot setting. For all tasks, GPT-3 is applied without any gradient updates or fine-tuning, with tasks and few-shot demonstrations specified purely via text interaction with the model. GPT-3 achieves strong performance on many NLP datasets, including translation, question-answering, and cloze tasks, as well as several tasks that require on-the-fly reasoning or domain adaptation, such as unscrambling words, using a novel word in a sentence, or performing 3-digit arithmetic. At the same time, we also identify some datasets where GPT-3's few-shot learning still struggles, as well as some datasets where GPT-3 faces methodological issues related to training on large web corpora. Finally, we find that GPT-3 can generate samples of news articles which human evaluators have difficulty distinguishing from articles written by humans. We discuss broader societal impacts of this finding and of GPT-3 in general.
It seems significant that Twitter wasn't a party to that case. People seem to be enthusiastically conflating it with some sort of ruling on what Twitter can or must do. I'm not sure if you are, but even bringing it up worries me.
Why Zoom is only for calling, not planning
HN discussion on coconut: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18815125
Well, I doubt Sam is really good at generating ideas based on his track record. He had great achievement of identifying good ideas, but that's different from generating them as the original thinker.
Bedhead's point still stands in isolation from this week's bullshit, though.

Trump will be on to some other highly divisive circus act next week. The question of whether Twitter is a public square will persist.
Android Studio is 1.28Gb memory right now on my MBP. I bet this is normal and is way more memory hog than the previous version.
So then it's... not a single HTML file for you application anymore.
I would do 20%, but each persons number is based on how much they feel they are paid beyond their need / want level.

Like you I do not care for my current job, but for a variety of reasons I am stuck for the next 2.

There is an old saying 'Enjoy your job and you never work a day' (because you are having fun). But if you are not meeting yours needs, then they become the golden handcuffs that keep you working because you need the gold.
But what if you a computer scientists or an economist that needs to write graphs, charts, tables, code, etc? Last time I tried to strikeout a column it required some weird TikZ shenanigans.
Indeed. Had a little surgery under general anesthesia a while ago. Shortly before that time Hewlett-Packard ran adverts in the mainstream press about Windows on Itanium, with that hospital as flagship case.

Was my 2nd general anesthesia only, so i've been a little nervous because i don't like to be 'switched off'.

Anyways, been in the preparation room on that rolling stretcher thing, got some IVs and electrodes while looking around.

All very modern, many, many flat panel displays mounted on swivel arms from down the ceiling, showing and beeping my vital signs. Interesting for biofeedback, i thought.

Got the mask on, got asked how i feel: 'pleasantly light'.

Then all the beeping died, and all the screens froze. No reset, bluescreen, static or other unusual stuff. Just frozen.

Heard a loud 'SHIT!' from behind, and the clacking of running shoes on the tiles. Clacking shoes came back in an instant and rewired me to some shoebox-thing covered in orange rubber with some mini-displays, knobs and sliders.

'How do you feel now?' i've been asked...
Lifting the mask i only growled: 'very confidence inspiring...'

'Sleep deep sweety!' was the last thing i heard.

Afterwards i had a surreal night at the 20ieth floor or so,
with hot and cold shivers running up and down my spine and the harbour in my view.

Anyways, next morning i asked the surgeon if i hallucinated that, and she answered: No, you didn't. But it was a first!

I LOLd hard.

edit: It had to happen this way/to me, because all my life i've been an open-source fanboi.

Incompatible 'fates', so to speak :-)
He has a platform for communicating with the people, just like every other president. He’s chosen to use Twitter. Just like Fox News, another thing he’s complaining about now that it isn’t guaranteed to be frictionless. He can say anything he wants in press releases, on whitehouse.gov, etc.
The WHO is predicting 1 billion people will starve this year. Over 800 million of that is attributed to the COVID response.

If you divide out the numbers, for each person the global lockdown saves from COVID, it will starve 100.

I’m not the sort willing to torture a hundred innocent strangers (and kill dozens) to save one of my loved ones.

Either people are not “well aware” of the impacts of the shutdown, or we have radically different ethical standards.
I’m gonna nitpick, but they didn’t editorialize it. They posted their view in the form of a reply. Editorialization would mean changing what he wrote. Literally the root word of “editorialization” is edit.
A reasonable workflow. I suppose the counter argument is that you could replace "head -n999 $LOG |" with "<$LOG" instead.
I think the issue is just about app scale. Android development is designed around medium or large apps, and doesn't at all try to optimize for small apps, and certainly not a Hello World app.

And honestly, I'd prefer that an IDE generate a Hello World app with all the random stuff in it that a full-blown app would need, even if it isn't required for Hello World. It makes the learning experience a lot more useful.
Those salaries are not correct for either location.
I read it the same way and thought they were going to be in trouble from Adobe.
I think open plan offices started to become a thing in the late 90's just before the first dotcom crash. At least that was the first time I encountered the concept codified into a formal term that everyone was throwing around. That, and "management by walking around" (which i think was the pre-cursor to "stand up meetings".) Anyway, I hated the open-office concept then and I still hate it now. Its noisy, distracting, invasive...it really made me miss cubicles. I can't believe it took a worldwide pandemic to get people to reconsider them...
You haven’t been to imgur have you? Some sites have a point system and if your “social score” is too low you most definitely can get banned. There’s generally more left leaning people than right leaning people on some platforms, and when someone disagrees with someone else but otherwise can’t refute their statements they hit downvote. Enough of this and you get a ban.
Disrupt elder care. COVID is showing how much of a disaster that is in its current state.

Could start by setting up some kind of IoT auditing system.
Its not just the lyrical content though (which is objectionable and sad enough), but everything else as well.

Universally auto-tuned and synthesized, short, overly repetitive, mumbling/distorted, and whatever backing track they do have could barely be called musical by any objective standard (i.e. a measure of complexity/interrelated instruments/harmonies/themes/tracks). It doesn't matter whether its an african-american mumbling about being a gansta or a breathy-autotuned tween girl, its the same issue.

Listening around the world, it seems to be universal with slight variations here and there.

It's genuinely depressing...
Those people may know more than you think.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v....

Twitter is a California company.

> movie theater where they need to shut the hell up or leave.

This has nothing to do with anything. The 1A has always been understood as a freedom of content, not form. Noise ordinances and rules are constitutional.
Do you know if any real, non-trivial Android apps are being built using only Bazel?
The article reminded me how little I understand (non-secreterial) white collar work.
I was asking in general not just about Java in relation to Android. Java has always felt like a clunky and closed language under the dictatorship of Oracle. Why not C++ or Rust? Does Java have any benefits that these two lack?

I'm probably ignorant here. I haven't coded in Java for 5+ years.