skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This tool is something that Facebook is trying to sell. To other companies. So you're missing the point with your superficial speculation as to the balance of power between Facebook and its employees.

For that reason, I'll keep the rebuttal short: laws are still valid, as far as I know. And this tool is blatantly illegal. Facebook employees also don't typically face starvation if they can't find a new job right away. And considering how rare unions are in the tech sector, and how common they are in, for example, automotive, my hunch is unionisation is more likely to happen at companies facing economic pressure.
See my reply to coderintherye
In many states, they already can for felonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_arrest#United_Stat...

What they lack is qualified immunity, so it's pretty rare because the risk of being wrong is too great. Which seems to be a valuable take away.
And moving yuan to digital is the biggest move against the dollar.

Instead of doing a lot of conversions, or using 3rd parties, Chinese industry will start to only receive yuan near in future because it is easier, faster and more secure to them.
The point the article you're quoting is making is that if you insist on a single number then 5 is enough if your question falls in a specific category. Namely, for the purpose of finding the number of people needed to get the biggest payoff in terms of number of usability problems identified.

This being the key point they're making:

> The main argument for small tests is simply return on investment: testing costs increase with each additional study participant, yet the number of findings quickly reaches the point of diminishing returns. There's little additional benefit to running more than 5 people through the same study; ROI drops like a stone with a bigger N.

This doesn't quantify the scale of the reported problems. It goes into it with the assumption that you simply want to find as many of the problems with your site as possible.

> Even if you were doing statistics?

The sentence you quoted regarding this makes the point that the number of users the site has is not the factor that should drive the size of your panel (you'll note that elsewhere the article argues that where you need statistically significant results you need at least 20 users and more if you need tight confidence intervals). Rather the size of your panel should be determined by your required confidence intervals, and when identifying usability issues is your main concern they don't need to be tight.
Nobody noticed this. This is really cool. Your basic performance analysis seems similar to sbcl vs c. Tons of features. Love that you can hack it in the browser right away.
I love the simplicity
Just wanted to say I agree with you. I first came to Seattle in 2011, and left the area in 2015 (lived in Tacoma for 2 years in that time as well), returned in 2018. I'm originally from the Midwest and I just don't understand why people here seem to look at the San Francisco checklist of "how to make your city unlivable" and decided to go step by step.
Learning a new language or framework is not really that interesting, and certainly not worth changing job for. It can only last so long until it's boring. Solving a new kind of problem on the other hand is, at least for me, where the fulfillment lies.
> not much fried overly fatty/carby foods

Maybe not fatty (I couldn't say either way), but definitely carby. It's possible that Vietman's single most recognizable cultural export is rice noodle soup.
My experience is that most of the time, randomly failing tests are actually failing because they were made to be random.

Sure, adding Faker to your test/mock data may help you to find rare edge cases. The problem is that those edge cases will be triggered in the future, in another context and by another developer. So not only it probably won't be fixed, but it will be a waste of time and annoyance for someone.
Same thing for some option like the `random` setting in Jasmine (runs your unit tests in a different random order each time).

So now I only have tests with static, predictable data.

Having tests that depends on the state of the previous one (or are affected by it) is quite common too. And not always easy to fix properly.

Once this is removed, the remaining random failures are usually authentic and helpful.
> Visa, MasterCard, American Express

Add Discover and you essentially have a complete list of credit networks in the US. The other offerings you see are mostly white label products built on top of the usual credit networks.

I wouldn't consider PayPal a competitor since they don't operate a credit network (although they sometimes facilitate money transfers that don't involve the credit networks). Whenever a physical credit card is used in the US, it's almost always the case that one of those four credit networks collects an interchange fee.
> Write down anything that’s taking up mental RAM, whether it seems related or interesting or not. If you find you’re doing this a lot, consider you might have a secret goal you don’t know about.

Basically I do the same using Kindle, with the plus of getting everything on my email after, for reviewing.
Elsevier does what exactly? Publish articles? Can't the various education / research organizations set up their own?

Other than existing horrible contracts, what exactly is stopping them?
Your example (3 years) is extreme. I could not get 15 CS credits to transfer from one private, 2nd tier US college to another (Boston university). BU refused and i took the classes again and paid for them twice. It put me in the rare position of being able to compare the quality of education at the two institutions side by side.
> It’s perfectly possible to have a healthy but bland diet

It stops being bland once you start putting there everything you need - including some salt that you actually need.

Moreover the make you fat still improvement over past when people were getting sick from this or that missing in food. Not just because hunger, but because people did not knew what everything is needed.

The history of dietary guidelines is quite interesting in that regard, there were sicknesses that are basically forgotten by now that were due to something missing in food.
No sorry, that has nothing to-do with research, but taste.

In fact, research like that i call bullshit, its like 'research' food, 'scientists' found out that that people prefer yellow carrots because red is a warning color.
Bank tellers quietly disappeared from America, and what that means for consumers
Switched from Postman to Insomnia a couple of years ago and couldn’t be happier: https://insomnia.rest

I’m not sure if it has all the team/cloud sync stuff but for individual use it’s great!
Another good book in the same vein is Dave Benson's 'Music: a Mathematical Offering'.

https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/html/maths-mus...
> This probably will challenge the US Dollar's role as the dominant currency, which is actually terrible for the US in its long term debt structuring.

Is there anything the US can do, or have we forever ceded the lead?
Great we are having some one off hunter/gatherer anecdotes. When I work with computer I am not looking at the hills to find some moving spot.

Here is one from me:

I am focusing my sight like I would be trying to pick berries in the forest. While between trees it is dark and berries are dark, as gatherers we were collecting berries, we should read black text on dark background.

Large white screens are overwhelming for me. For me it is better to have dark screen and bright spots to focus on. It helps with development to focus on specific lines instead of trying to get whole screen at once.
What its like launching my first SaaS
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You will be surprised, but wont feel full from diet like that. Nor you will feel full from vegetables only. (I like potatos and used to eat them a lot, you wont feel good if you eat only them.)
I have checked a few movies on their site and all movies i checked randomly, were available on amazon.
Some 1v1 games I like:

* Pentago

* Dominion (Card game)

* Splendor (also mentioned by another user).

* Dominion

* Ikusa (~8+ hour game, 2 to 5 players. A faster-moving version of Axis and Allies)

* Chess

* Go

--* Gomoku (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku) Played on a Go board

--* Connect6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect6), also played on a Go board

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One of my favorite games is "Acquire", but it only really works with 3+ players. There is a 2-player variant, but its not quite as good.
I believe this only works if it is coming from a corporation and targeted at an individual -_-
1. Could you give a few examples of libraries that can’t be made in Rust due to lack of abstraction compared to C++? GUI libraries apart, I can’t think of anything offhand.

2. True, but growth curves are rarely linear. Here’s a rough proxy on users - the number of subscribers to /r/rust - https://subredditstats.com/r/Rust. Look at the growth between 2014-18 and 2018-2020. You’re extrapolating on current growth rate, but that may increase in future.

3. “Ambitious”. Nothing I’ve seen precludes using Rust for ambitious projects. In fact, seeing the experience of Dropbox, Mozilla, Facebook and others, there are some ambitious projects that could only have been done in Rust. I’m gonna say [citation needed].

I agree with Stroustrup and look forward to the day people complain about Rust :)
On your own laptop for now. This has the advantage that your data is already there on your local disk - no need for uploading. But with some minor changes we can run it in the cloud too
Here's a brotli file I created that's 81MB compressed and 100TB uncomrpessed[1] (bomb.br). That's a 1.2M:1 compression ratio (higher than any other brotli ratio I see mentioned online).

There's also a script in that directory that allows you to create files of whatever size you want (hovering around that same compression ratio). You can even use it to embed secret messages in the brotli (compressed or uncompressed). There's also a python script there that will serve it with the right header. Note that for Firefox it needs to be hosted on https, because Firefox only supports brotli over https.

Back when I created it, it would crash the entire browser of ESR Firefox, crash the tab of Chrome, and would lead to a perpetually loading page in regular Firefox.

It's currently hosted at [CAREFUL] https://stuffed.web.ctfcompetition.com [CAREFUL]

[1] https://github.com/google/google-ctf/tree/master/2019/finals...
From TFA: These vulnerabilities would have allowed an attacker who claimed the S3 bucket to offer malicious firmware updates to Linux desktops and servers running legacy versions of fwupd.

Some extra discussion can be found in a Twitter thread[0] from the person who discovered the issues.

[0] https://twitter.com/justinsteven/status/1270113960021209088
I want to clarify, I’m not at all saying that UoP isn’t rigorous enough for what it is. While it may look like a cake walk to some HN readers, I’d guess that the curriculum poses a significant challenge and a real opportunity to learn for most people.

If this is the low cost, online version of a average public university, I think there should also be a low cost, online version of a “top-tier” school.
Aah, finally it all makes sense!
Sure.
The product aims to tackle friction encountered in the content creation process from ideation to distribution and analysis thereafter. It attempts to introduce 'campaign thinking' in the process. This level of thinking will speed up the creation process and introduce clarity in the content marketing team.

There isn't any solution that directly deals in this space which makes the content creation process very distributed and time-consuming. In that respect, Google Doc will be considered as a competitor.
I think you need to read their reply more carefully, because when I read:

> We will only store the actual requests that are sent when the user signs into the application.

It seems obvious to me that they are talking about your request that results from you logging into your postman account, that's why they say:

> If you do not create an account or use Postman without signing in then we will not collect any of the data

They are NOT saying "we record every REST request you generate from postman and send it to our servers".
Weren't the origins of dark mode (not Amdek origins but mid-2000's) in all those browser extensions that displayed energy savings?
I'm surprised to see their claim in that help center post.

"Postman does not track any content of your requests/responses."

That post was 2 years ago, so it's probably outdated.
I agree! I found this presentation invaluable in getting a good overview of the landscape and the different segments within: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytuB8nFHPQ

It helped me settle on https://altair-viz.github.io/ (coming from matplotlib) and I never looked back
Clickbait title. The tool allows banning any word. There's nothing special about unionize in the tool.
That's good to know. I applied for WGU a few years back but they didn't accept my application (not sure if it's because of my poor grades from an early attempt at community college a few years before that or if I bombed the application essay - or both). If UoPeople's a bit more lenient about my past mistakes, then it seems like UoPeople→WGU would be a viable approach. Or maybe I should just re-apply to WGU?
> “When the level of spam activity is very high, the size of the history gets disproportionately large given the amount of useful activity on the network. This makes such blockchains much more difficult to analyze and reason about.”
Is Hell based heat exchange a second law violation?
Ignoring the obvious angry, cold demons
Theoretically white on black is harder to recognize than black on white.

When you have the same font weight, the white on black approach tend to make people feel the stroke looks thinner and more blurry.

If you are curious you can switch to black on white, then adjust the font weight to the thinnest until you feel it starts to be blurry. When switch back to white on black it would be more blurry to you.

But anyway it boils down to preference since people can adjust the font to compensate if it is blurry to them.
> The conclusion I’ve come to is the real numbers don’t make any sense.

Oh they definitely don't.

Almost all real numbers are uncomputable, which means they cannot be written down or communicated in any way.
What makes this more bizarre than Keller’s typical short stints at previous companies is that he has done a ton of media in the last year. He’s probably given more time to journalists/interviewers in 2020 than in the previous 3 decades of his career combined.

A Fortune piece from May of this year gave some insights into his plans (as well as provided a nice overview of his career) (https://fortune.com/longform/microchip-designer-jim-keller-i...).

> Keller won’t talk much about the massive chip redesign he’s overseeing—chip designers seldom do—and Intel’s new chip probably won’t be ready for another year or two. Still, both Intel and Keller have scattered some clues about how the chips might work. The new chips will cleanly separate major functions, to make it easier for the company to improve one section at a time—an approach that evokes the chiplet model Keller used at AMD. Keller also hints that Intel’s low-power Atom line of chips may figure more prominently in his future designs for PCs and servers.

It doesn’t sound like at press time he was planning to leave.

Keller also did a great interview on Lex Fridman’s podcast, which was released in February of this year (https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA).

Keller then did a presentation at the Matroid conference (held at the end of February) (https://youtu.be/8eT1jaHmlx8).

I hope he’s ok, since the Intel statement specifically mentioned “personal reasons”.
Nobody’s suggesting that pixels are stored at half-integer memory addresses. After all, only a small subset of the continuous image space will lie exactly on the grid of pixel centers—and this is true no matter how the grid is offset. The point is that the grid should be considered as being lined up with (0.5, 0.5) rather than with (0, 0).

So, for example, if you’re scaling an image up by 10× with bilinear interpolation, and you need to figure out what to store at address (7, 23) in the output framebuffer, you should convert that to continuous coordinates (7.5, 23.5), scale these continuous coordinates down to (0.75, 2.35), and use that to take the appropriate weighted average of the surrounding input pixels centered at (0.5, 1.5), (1.5, 1.5), (0.5, 2.5), and (1.5, 2.5), which are located at address (0, 1), (1, 1), (0, 2), and (1, 2) in the input framebuffer. The result will be different and visually more correct than if you had done the computation without taking the (0.5, 0.5) offset into account. In this case the naive computation would instead give you a combination of the pixels at (0, 2), (1, 2), (0, 3), and (1, 3) in the input framebuffer, and the result would appear to be shifted by a subpixel offset. This was essentially the cause of a GIMP bug that I reported in 2009: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592628.
You're dumb and you probably underestimate it
I posted it because someone mentioned measure theory and I remembered this example from a graduate course in real analysis. Cantor's function shows there are functions that are not the integrals of their derivatives. The Cantor function goes from 0 to 1, it's increasing and continuous, but it's derivative is 0 almost everywhere. Integrating the 0 function gives us back the 0 function so it's a kind of counter-example to the fundamental theorem of calculus.

> Georg Cantor (1884) introduced the Cantor function and mentioned that Scheeffer pointed out that it was a counterexample to an extension of the fundamental theorem of calculus claimed by Harnack.

I don't know if it has any real world applications other than as a reminder to be careful about assumptions and definitions. Most people think that increasing/monotone functions must have positive derivatives but the Cantor function shows this is not the case.
>Camden NJ did do this. They fired their entire police department and started over.

Except that's not really what happened. They fired the existing police force at the time but most were hired back (155 of the 220 that reapplied), and then they expanded to a complement of 401 officers (it was 370 before). Then they built a gigantic surveillance apparatus that tracks pretty much everything. So, more police, more surveillance.

Homicides have apparently declined 63% since they did this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_County_Police_Departmen...
Zoom builds technology to block certain meetings for users in China
Mathematics for music effects is called digital signal processing. Proakis's book is good if you can handle analysis.

Also, a word of warning/advice: Music theory is not mathematics - it's just a way of storing patterns that sound nice on western instruments. There are some musical genres that you can basically generate algorithmically, but if you want to actually learn musicianship stay well clear.

Mark Levine's books are a good "textbook style" music theory book with lots of examples of actual jazz music.
You do realise that even the concept of discussing the desire for capital controls are an exemplary reason to undertake capital fight?

The trajectory of the current South African de facto Kleptocratic ruling party should worry anyone.

One might argue the currency fluctuations are the result of endemic policy failure in every aspect of the South Africa governance. A result of a ransacked economy, stolen in the guise of altruism by a corrupt ruling cabal.

Closing the economy, removing the scrutiny of outside participants, will only seek to further assign it the moniker as yet another basket case economy
> Btw, what red flags do you mean?

It looks like a lesser education. And it further makes it look like there’s something strange about you that made you pick it.
> It’s crazy to me that you ask this, as though “treat candidates with respect”

Well, THB, hard to fight with this strawman/framing.

Not sure what you consider "respect" other than "believe 100% what they say and write about themselves, however suspicious", don't consult anyone (even companies/people they wrote themselves in Resume / on LinkedIn), etc.
Not really on unsupervised/self-supervised data though, right?

(nor on the same scale of corpora, as far as I can tell)
Show HN: Platform to store and share your Awards on Resume/Facebook/etc.
> 2. typing of acceptable messages - that's way harder, as you need to model state in the typesystem - imagine "does this variable represent an open or closed file handle" and then updating that as the code calls `open`, `read` and `close` appropriately...

I think that would be a good use case for Dependent Types.
Show HN: Vim-pnpm Bindings for pnpm commands in Vim
Stanford CS is not accredited at all. Is it useless for academic purposes?
Can they train it to write regex commands too? That would be useful
I agree with the other reply to you, but to address your point directly, it is probably true that a lot of the frontline workforce can't afford to leave, but the people in leadership positions and very high-level/well-respected ICs still have options (including, given given FB's pay and recent stock performance, the option of not necessarily needing to work). That's a small group but each departure would be noticed and they'd have plenty of leverage.
You might contact the following company: https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/acapela-voice-factor...

There's also open source TTS from Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
Not on the topic of Facebook, but on employers who fear these trends so much that they want this level of control:

Fundamental social shifts cannot be nipped in the bud. The best anyone can do is understand them and ensure the changes are gradual, rather than letting them build-up to a big bang.

This is an oversimplification, but: early 20th century rise of communism was a violent backlash against the presiding monarchies and oligarchies who suppressed all attempts at gradual reform. Dissatisfaction with growing wealth disparity at the time was a fundamental trend that could not have been "nipped in the bud".

The current trend seems to be very reminiscent of this. When those in power suppress all avenues of gradual reform, fundamental trends tend to boil over in abrupt and often destructive forms.

Only question is: is what we're seeing today just a passing trend or a fundamental shift?
ConnectWise issues security advisory – CVSS of 7.8
What happens is that you need to obey both sets of laws. This is both good and bad.

e.g. one country requires you don't allow transactions with terrorists. So neither end can be a terrorist org.

additional e.g. one country says LGBT orgs are illegal so neither end can be an lgbt org.

etc.
the thing that that matters in the end is the speed of reading. Interestingly, i can't find a recent legibility study. The one from 2002 suggests small Verdana or largel Arial font.