skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dang, is this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769393 causing this post to erroneously show up in https://news.ycombinator.com/ask?
This is widely reported, and also a well known symptom of impending stroke. You need to read more.
I have been a persistent critic of leetcode since before it even had a name. My favored interview style has always been "give realistic tasks within reason".

Leetcode was common in Singapore, because if you google programmer questions that's what comes up.
Nobody Is Listening to Me
Harvard and MIT sue Trump administration over online-only instruction
Right. In AWS Redshift-land, this feature is called Spectrum, and allows you to use the redshift query engine & its SQL support to access external data (say, parquet files on S3).
Learn to swim well by going beyond just staying afloat.

Understand the physics of moving through the water. Learn to lean on your chest to achieve proper balance in the water. Grasp how to "catch" the water with a high elbow position. Breath properly on both sides. Etc.

It's fun to swim well and it will help you live a healthier life.
I was taught some 30 years ago that best practise is to write clear contemporary notes because transcribing them later can lead to self-censorship, deciding to omit what might seem irrelevant at the (new) time, but subsequently becomes important, or incorrect re-interpretation.
As far as I know. The POSIX spec[1] simply declares that in single quotes all characters will be preserved exactly, except for single quotes, which aren't allowed. Likewise, for double quotes, except that it also performs expansions ($) and allows escaping (\).

[1]https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
> This would be too easily abused by domain squatters, I think.

Why? Professional domain squatters are the ones that never forget to renew, because it's their main business. And if they stop paying on 1,000's or 100,000's of domains, the registrar will take them to court pretty quick to resolve the contractual debt. And either the company goes bankrupt or pays the bill, same as literally any other professional service. A contract's still a contract.

And if you're squatting on just a few domains personally and stop paying, it goes to collections, shows up on your credit report, and lowers your credit score like any other consumer debt not meeting payments. Which, if you want to open new credit cards or buy a house, is gonna be a big problem.

There are already avenues to address this, the same as any other debt you incur. "Forever" just means until it sends you to bankruptcy and you lose it formally, worst-case scenario. It's not some kind of blank check to register a billion domain names, not pay for them, and face zero consequences...
Splitgraph co-founder here. cstore_fdw is great (we even use it in Splitgraph to store data [0])! It's not as fast as purpose-built columnar stores like MonetDB. However, it plugs seamlessly into PostgreSQL and supports all types, even those added via extensions. Read performance for OLAP workloads like aggregations is better than PostgreSQL [1] and it has a much smaller IO load and disk footprint (you can get long runs of similar values in column-oriented storage, which compress better). As a nice bonus, you can simply swap cstore_fdw files in and out of the database without having to "load" them into PostgreSQL. We use this idea too to enable data sharing.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/docs/concepts/objects

[1] https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-postgresq...
> but even re-inventions of the wheel usually come with a fresh perspective and incremental improvements over the last time

I appreciate what you are saying, and I definitely think that some folks take the "here we go again" attitude towards a new approach that may very likely have a significant and positive impact on whatever they are working on. That said...

That situation strikes me as relatively rare. More often than not, I see people get excited about whatever the new flavor-of-the-month hotness is, and they forget about real world issues. One simple example is when the cost in money and (possibly) morale is not taken into account when switching from one technology to another. Sure, you may get a 1% incremental improvement in some metric that may save you X dollars, but the switch will cost 5x dollars to implement with additional soft costs like potential loss of morale and potential loss of efficiency due to lack of familiarity with the new system. I see this type of decision making frequently, and I consider it extremely poor form.

I think it's really important to ask why something needs to be done and to ask what the actual costs of switching are (esp. for folks on the front line). If the answer to why is "it will get someone a promotion for little or no benefit" or "a leader somewhere wants to brag / humble-brag about the new hotness with their peers", then the decision to use a new technology can usually be postponed to a later date. These are not uncommon scenarios, and they frequently cost companies dearly.
Hi, many repetitive processes have certain exceptions and rare situations when a rule-based logic breaks, typically due to variability of incoming data (e.g. robot finds a text instead of a number in certain template field). Our approach is to (1) provide users with custom exception/error handling logic, e.g. evert robot logic step has an "exception" branch that activates of the bot can't correctly complete the activity; (2) be able to activate "human in the loop' function to bring in user when needed; (3) be bale to work with unstructured data like random invoices to minimize the need for (1) and (2)
I have always felt that the world of Avatar has enormous potential for a game done right. I like what I am seeing.
Thunderbolt 4 won’t be faster than Thunderbolt 3
I don't think "because there's legitimate uses" is the differentiating factor, since that implies only kitchen knives have them. Self-defense is a legitimate use for owning a gun, for example.
honestly, i've stopped paying attention to products that startups fake launch. i'm sure im not the only one and also not the only one that's worked in the sphere and realizes just how poorly built/thought out everything is. moviepass is a prime example. your sign up pages that lead to nothing/nowhere because you got demotivated or too lazy or didn't find funding or the other plethora of reasons are exactly why i ignore them all and close out of the tab. your "secretive" coming soon pages are stuck in 2013. if this is a product that is serious/legitimate, then i'm sure i'll hear about it through friends, HN or TC or something. i'm starting to think that the "startup" field is mostly populated by people who do it just to put "CEO/Founder" in their linkedin bio.
What does life cycle orchestration mean?
The Concorde wasn't what the airlines, aircraft makers, and the public wanted by the stage the followup project was cancelled because airlines wouldn't buy it, the aircraft maker hadn't sold any and some of the few routes of the first gen aircraft kept open flew mostly empty.
Tl;dr:

1. Created off shore merchant accounts for credit card processing.

2. Lied about the product, so it was given a lower processing rate.

3. Banks processed and did settlement in USA.

4. Chargebacks most likely led to compliance to look over transactions, when it's signaled that it was contraband - handed over to legal.

5. Banks are required to share to USA Govt.

6. USA Govt intercepts them.
Is IPFS easy enough for normal people to use yet?
Thank you for the recommendation. Looks like it has all the security features I’m desperately missing from all Google products and would make their products an easy default go-to.
I cant think of a situation where a country A would have jurisdiction over an event that happens in another country B involving nobody of nationality A

Trade sanctions. Banking regulations. It happens all the time.
what are starship and lsd?
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FBI Opens a New China-Related Counterintelligence Investigation Every 10 Hours
There are pre-built images for cheaper FPGA boards. There is one for the Parallella system.

A limiting factor on most FPGA dev boards is the amount of RAM if you want to do any software development on the resulting RISC-V SoC.
I use ublock too. I only see ads on mobile. I have started screenshotting all of the scams I see. Maybe I will send them all to the FTC at some point.
Because this new fad of 'trans' isn't a type of gay conversion?

I have met trans people, I have a great deal of sympathy for them. It's apparent they're struggling with some very difficult issues. It's a shame there aren't better treatments available. Treatment options are lacking for a whole host of other mental disorders and psychogenic illness. Treating them like people doesn't require I share their in delusion or 'celebrate' whatever crazy is the zeitgeist.

Women are often too emotional, but if we're going to let hysterical men vote there's not a good argument for not allowing women to vote too.

African American culture is obviously inferior if we're measuring outcomes. Adherents of this particular culture experience poorer outcomes than cultures that are more consistent with the ideals of western civilization.
Has gdpr been enforced at all since inception? Is there a public listing of cases and punishments?
employee (A) should've setup auto renewal
> quite a bit more money

You can get a taste of this when you look at the cost of long distance rail— for example, a trip like The Canadian (four days in total), which VIA understandably sells as a cruise ship type experience rather than practical travel:

https://www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/trains/ro...

Obviously some of the cost difference is just the massive economy of scale enjoyed by airlines, but at the end of the day there are certain fixed costs associated with being in their care for such a long period of time. Even with a cheap ticket where you don't get a sleeper bed and have to buy/pack your own food, they still have to staff the train that whole time.
> Giving them a few weeks before deporting them is cruel.

This is the intention of the Trump admin's policy: discouraging people from immigrating by whatever ugly means necessary, no matter if illegal or not. This has been a consistent line from the beginning with the infamous "muslim ban".
I've found that often for tools related to natural language (ORC, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text) it feels like you need a PhD in the subject just to figure out how to anything done at all. I heartily welcome efforts to package these sort of things up in ready-to-use ways.
Motorcycle coaching startup – legalities and risks
Hi,
I was thinking of starting a scalable motorcycle training startup.
So, I was wondering what sort of legalities and insurance would I need to consider so as to minimize the liabilities for my business?

It would primarily be one on one instruction in which the trainer would be sitting behind the rider and training the person. A part of the course would be conducted on enclosed roads, and a part on public roads.
"CEO". This company has 2 listed employees on LinkedIn and they don't have a functioning website.
> I use my own preprocessor for Chez Scheme.

LOL no read macros.
> I know it's hard to believe now, but these findings in the 70s really were shocking, many psychologists and philosophers thought the results were impossible.

I completely forgot to consider that/am only vaguely familiar with the beliefs at the time. It casts the experimenters in a completely different light, and makes me think I should not have been so negative of them. They must have tried many different increasingly sophisticated setups before they were able to tease out these effects, that they only suspected existed. It's always fascinating to see someone intuit some truth long before they have experimental data to confirm it. I imagine reading about their early failures and how they slowly arrived at their findings would be very interesting.
> I feel bad for people whose are trapped by a paycheck in a career they don't love.

This is kinda of where I am right now. I still enjoy programming, but its becoming more and more apparent that I should have kept it as a hobby and pursued something else as a career.
The road ahead for Inrupt and Solid
Another submission of this got flagged earlier. Agreed, it is not the usual content you see here. But it does show one "tech" example of racists and discriminatory incidents. It show that tech and SV, or any start-up community as fa as that's concerned, arre any different.

I hope we can have some kind of meaningful discussion around this, it is a serious topic.
I worked on 2 a little bit. Serializing the dom then putting it into probabilistic data structures is the way to go. Bloom filters, lsh hashing, min-sketch are good ways to fuzzy match. UI’s change but for the most part code doesn't.
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https://senatormode.com/
> OpenShift is expensive and requires a significant O&M investment. If you want to use standard tools it’d be nice to have a managed standard Kubernetes option without paying for a lot of complexity your teams don’t want.

The parent's point though is that this isn't the space IBM wants to be in. They're in the business of selling high margin, enterprise-y stuff that includes all the bells and whistles, so there's no reason for them to gobble up something like Rancher (RHAT's OpenShift solution is what they want to be selling already).
First, you can't renew for more than 10 years.

Second, long-term renewals are precisely the scariest ones. It's actually tremendously difficult for a business to keep a process in place that happens once every 10 years. The employee who registered the domain (and their e-mail address) are probably long gone. The responsibility has been passed along 5 different employees during that time, and the last one got fired and nobody knew they were the one in charge of renewals. And then you find out, suddenly you don't own the domain anymore!

This is the whole problem in a nutshell. Counter-intuitively, if it were a bill sent monthly, it would be much harder for people to forget about (and you could rely on USPS forwarding for changes of address).
This is ignoring the many state schools in those states which attract tens of thousands of international students each year
> prevent a user from changing his desktop background

That is very useful in schools where students will happily set obscene wallpapers on shared lab accounts.

Source: seen it happen.
Hong Kong pupils banned from political activity
Have you seen any new “About Us” videos since Covid?
I'm curious to see how companies are creating "about us" videos nowadays since most people are working from home.
Because we've reached a point where the video bandwidth requirements are much lower than what most people's connections and certainly server connections provide. So I can send you the first 10 seconds of video immediately from the nearest edge within a second or two, and spend the next eight seconds bringing you the subsequent video data from whatever edge in the world is the most underutilized. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
This seemed relevant to the earlier discussion about deporting students now taking online only classes, however this particular article and its statement that half of counter intelligence operations are presently due to China's forays seems to warrant its own discussion.
An approach that I've used in stakeholder meetings (e.g. a project review with external customers) is to have a designated note-taker who creates a record of decisions and actions. They can add additional content as they so wish. At the end of the meeting they quickly summarise the decisions / actions. This helps to ensure that sure everyone leaves the meeting on the same page and also allows people to comment if they thing something has been omitted. This record can be distributed almost immediately including to people who couldn't make it or who have an interest. If everyone keeps track themselves it is easy with the best will in the world for actions to get forgotten or misinterpreted.

If the meeting is complex and the chair has to get involved (e.g. to adjudicate) then they often will be too busy to take the notes themselves; I for one cannot steer a discussion and take notes at the same time. This is also a good way to introduce competent juniors to meetings - make them the record taker (they need to be be briefed first on what is expected). Even tracking who people are can be quite challenging. If there are lots of new faces (e.g. external reviewers) the chair may need to get people to introduce themselves (name and role only, not a bio), and the meeting recorder can concentrate on matching faces with the names on the invite list. If the meeting is in a conference room, writing names around a little picture representing the table can help with this.

Finally, in the sense that history is written by the victors, owning the minutes can be quite a powerful position.
I've used GraphQL and Hasura extensively for my project (https://pagewatch.dev) and it has been a huge timesaver to get a realtime service up and running. BUT, I'm still using REST for mutations (The POST/PUT part really).
At least for my use case I find that almost every time you are modifying data there is some other component also involved (eg starting a background task), so it might as well be a REST server endpoint. (Also I find the mutations language of GraphQL is really the weakest/hardest to really understand part)
Python Import: Advanced Techniques and Tips
Agreed. Those are awesome visualizations.

According to the Chrome console output they all appear to be D3 visualizations.
MIT's admission is need-blind (which is good), but many aid programs have some requirement attached that is hard to qualify for as a foreigner. I don't know of many foreign student in my class that had financial aid packages, let alone huge ones, so I would be interested if you have information to back up this claim.
Yes to both questions: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
Or probably anti-immigration to their own country, but would “gladly migrate” to US if it were convenient.
My feeling is that the origin of attack on allies (people largely on your side who also partly disagree or speak in a tone-deaf way) stems from the broader hostility between left and right. That has made progress impossible, and faced with frustration at the lack of communication or any hint of compromise, people lash out at those who should be on their own side. At least they're listening.

I don't like it either, and I don't think it's helpful, but I understand the frustration. Fragmentation has long been a problem for progressivism. There are so many injustices, and since each happens to a group that is marginalized, the only way forward is unity. We have to back each other. Especially since the system is designed to be conservative: it requires multiple branches to pass legislation, any of whom can halt it, sometimes by a minority vote. About the only significant progress ever comes only from the Supreme Court, which is dominated by conservative judges who will often prescribe a legislative solution. Which they know won't happen.

People should be able to disagree publicly and loudly with their allies. But when faced with an opposition who will oppose anything you say solely because you say it (even reversing their own past positions to do so), you face an impossible dilemma. You need unity, but can't reach it without disagreeing publicly. And when you despair from the fact that the system is stacked against you and you perceive that nothing you do will help, lashing out at any pretext at least feels like some kind of accomplishment.

We need to fight against that impulse, but we won't do that without identifying the cause. And I believe that the cause stems from the right wing intransigence that has long since past any sincere ideological disagreement into active hostility and denial of reality. If we can't win fights against people who deny well-recognized science on many fronts, and promote conspiracy theories not just at the fringes but at all top levels of leadership, how can we actually win anything?
Love him or hate him, he was always a great speaker. Also recommend the lost interview of him if you can find it.
I’ve found that none of the open source stuff works well for Japanese language documents. Most of the time, I’ve just ran them through Adobe Acrobat’s OCR and dumped the results into a text file. There are still mistakes, but it at least returns a passable result compared to others.
Foot-in-the-Door Technique
1. It's a lack of discipline (If it's anything from the testing post we saw yesterday)

2. Aggressive pushes to deliver over creating something solid or experimenting with different archs

3. The selection process doesn't look for experience.. they have been looking for leetcoders that haven't changed since college
you should make an update here http://remote.lifeshack.io/ that you are open to remote work with no time zone preferences. Many people -especially form my time zone- seize their information regarding working policies there, and will know that not only are you open to remote work, but also with no timezone preferences.
Scientists warn of potential wave of Covid-linked brain damage
Rappers ranked by the number of unique words used in their lyrics
> There isn't enough domestic supply of top students to keep top labs running and publishing state of the art research.

This is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Foreign grad students submit to modern academic slave labor, because the long term incentive is American citizenship. Also many don't have student loan debt from their undergrad degree in their home countries, so they can agree to work for low salary.

Americans have no incentive to work hard in poorly paid grad student positions. And they need to start paying their undergrad student loan debt, so they have incentive to find a high-paid job instead of graduate studies. This especially applies to Americans who don't come from a wealthy family background, so often to American minorities.
It is a mitigation strategy, but it doesn't fix the problem directly.
I'm still not seeing it. What's the crucial falsehood? Why does it give you cognitive dissonance?
My guide to Ethereum: don't get involved in shady, unregulated industries unless you're aware of the possible consequences are are willing to accept them gracefully
Harvard, MIT sue Trump Administration over rule barring international students
Better advice is probably to either find an outdoor store near you and ask them about local hiking groups, so you can learn from others rather than needing to study it all from scratch. Or look online and find a local hiking or outdoors group for their advice.
Something that I didn't see called out in the article is who owns your journal.

Very likely, if you write down notes about work-related activities they are the property of the business.

So, who has physical journals from current and previous jobs at home, and how many people have electronic ones on systems other than corporate approved/internal ones!?

I'm not judging, just saying!
Yes. Check out https://gdprhub.eu/

The most important fine so far is against Google (50 million EUR - for France only, not for the whole of the EU territory). [CNIL info in English here](https://www.cnil.fr/en/council-state-confirms-sanction-impos...) [Latest decision June 2020, here](https://www.conseil-etat.fr/ressources/decisions-contentieus...)

The UK data protection authority (ICO) has also announced huge fines against British Airways and Marriott - but these fines are not in effect yet - unsure how high they will be exactly if any.