skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Section 8 of the official rules says:

> Potential winner will be notified via the App or using the email address / phone number provided with the entry or on file with the Sponsor. Failure by potential Sweepstakes winner to respond to the initial verification within two (2) days of notification will result in disqualification.

This rule, unfortunately, makes the savings scheme unattractive to someone who cannot access the "App" or email or phone for extended periods of time.
> A cemetery in Slovenia just created a prototype digital tombstone that allows mourners to broadcast videos and images of the deceased in place of the traditional grey grave marker. The weatherproof 48-inch screens cost about $3,200 and have been built to resist vandals, Reuters reported.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-creepy-3200-digital-t...
A business decision, what drivel. By that argument, no technical merit of anything ever matters, and yet many things of what’s considered viable in a “business” have changed all the time, some of them because of the push of engineers towards better things.

This is a forum for engineers (not only, I know), who collectively will at least have a large part in steering what languages are considered common in future.
From the promo video of it running an ancient version of iTunes on Windows Vista and the brochures it seems they inject their malware via software updates in general, not just iTunes.
In principle, any job that you can do fully remotely.

Having said that, you'll need a home base where you "officially" live and can legally work from--and, if you're an employee of a company (i.e. not an independent consultant), you probably need to be up-front about what you're doing and many companies may have issues with the legal ramifications.

That said, in practice, before the pandemic I traveled about a third of the time so having some sort of nominal home base in the US and otherwise being on the road really wouldn't have been that much of a stretch compared to my usual. I do marketing-related stuff for a computer software company.
HomePod Beta 2 Adds Option to Select New Default Services for Music, Podcasts
Thank you for pointing out BackBlaze!

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1...
Got a tutorial or working demo showing how to set up a site that displays legacy flash content in modern browsers?
Study suggests most Uber, Lyft drivers in Seattle not poorly paid
4. A badge that shows how much money you have earned YTD
Is that also the one where swear words are sort of censored in English by the narrator?

Another favorite was the Cops spoof. OH -- Also a Vince Gilligan!
Are there malicious reasons for doing that?
With powerball I think you get the 100m spread out over 30 years or a lump sum now which is less.
She jumped to the conclusion that the big man was a threat, and that he was abusing his wife. She discounted the possibility of a loving heterosexual relationship.

I hope her priors have been changed.
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
Computation can be seen as plumbing. I think what you mean by "computational" is complicated plumbing.
Or integration. You had to jump through a lot of hoops to access the DOM. The embed/object was a black box, the browser had no idea what happened inside and vice-versa.
More like Myspacification. Can't wait for full HTML and CSS editing.
I wouldn't be surprised if they force the installation of a certificate root they can use to serve malicious updates (for German OS X users, at least). That's a tactic used by agencies in other countries. Apple et al could probably mitigate this with certificate pinning in their updaters but I'm not sure they can get away with that without running into trouble with other countries that expect to be able to MITM updates.
In this case, the forms of the statement are identical. "One cup of sifted flour" is semantically identical with "sift one cup of flour."

The difference is the method of measurement, whether by volume or by weight. Then, it is important to either understand the rules of recipe specification, especially with baking, or to have the recipe specify as to whether there are implicit steps.
Southeast Asia, where bats/pangolins are originally from, also might have been exposed to milder coronaviruses in the past (common cold, etc).
For that kind of prosperity economy we would need some kind of UBI or social guarantee of livelihood.
She also didn't have a choice because delivery apps didn't exist
> As part of recent design changes, GitHub has introduced READMEs for profiles

This is a weird new myth that might just highlight the difficulty of discoverability. GitHub has had user profile READMEs for years. The difference is just where the README shows and what the name of the repo is supposed to be.

You could already create a "<username>.github.io" repo that governs what shows up when visiting https://<username>.github.io
What does MEMS stand for? I mean, isn’t it Macro electromechanical system at this point? Isn’t that hilarious?

But the response curve of prev-gen looks just fine to me, I wonder if next-gen Etymotic Research IEM would use a device like this.
I cringed at the part where they're yelling about epinephrine and IVs, and Jason has to barge in and put her upside down again.
And Motorolla employees are asking their employer to stop selling radios to the police? And Glock employees to stop selling guns to the police?

Ford is no more liable for actions of bad cops than Volkswagen, BMW, or Mercedes were for the actions of the nazis.
The approach I took in college was to ease in to it, not by slowly dialing down the amount of times I ate out, but by buying boxed meals and adding to them:

Buy a cheap food that you can stand that is boxed (mac and cheese, canned soup, ramen) and add some vegetables or pre-cooked meat you like to fill it out. Cook the vegetables with the meal and follow the directions on the box. Even after eight years, I still do this several times a week to have easy cooking days.

Next, try cooking something a little more involved but use a prepared base. Buy pasta or a pizza crust and add your own toppings plus store-bought tomato sauce, for example. Again, the directions should be on the packaging.

Next, choose some foods that you like but don't know how to make yourself. Find a simple recipe and pair it down to the bare minimum. For example, I like lasagna so I found a simple recipe that only had a half-dozen ingredients and bought noodles that don't need to be pre-cooked.

Mix it up with a fully prepared meal (either order take-out or a frozen pizza or something) once or twice a week. When you get started cooking, it can be easy to miss a key nutrient that you need and having a cheat-day where you eat something you're more used to and can't mess up makes things much easier.

When you're starting up, stick to 1-2 cuisine types. Each cuisine has its own staples and commonly used spices, that they combine in different ways. Figure out what makes good staples for your chosen cuisine and how to prepare them (not necessarily from scratch). Find the commonly-used spices and add them to everything, experimenting to see how much you want to add.

For example, Italian food uses a lot of pasta or pizza crusts. Fresh pasta tastes much better than boxed pasta, but isn't shelf-stable. Pasta cooking times are short but generally somewhat precise. To cook Italian pasta, you'd want to learn how to tell that pasta is fully cooked.

Mexican food uses rice and tortillas instead of pasta and pizza crusts. Pre-cooking your tortillas makes a huge difference. Cooking rice in a rice-cooker is easy, and it's do-able in a pot. The trick to cooking rice in a pot is that, since it's steam-cooked, checking the rice early can really slow down and mess-up the process. The first several times will be slow and messy, but once you figure out how long to wait it's actually quite low effort.
> The ruling means that for the first time much of eastern Oklahoma is legally considered reservation land. More than 1.8 million people live in the land at issue, including roughly 400,000 in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s second-largest city.

McGirt v Oklahoma (9 July 2020) pdf:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-9526_9okb.pdf
So it seems like this may have a link to dark matter but not energy. I have no expertise in physics but it seems like dark is a bad term as it only reflects our ignorance and inability to detect through normal electromagnetic means.
Transferring our trademarks to Open Usage Commons: Update on project governance
A Passion for Tomatoes (2008)
These things are unrelated. Idris is strict and performs heap allocations so does require a GC.
T-Mobile piloting home internet over LTE
Is the markup similar for all restaurants? If Joe's burger is $5 marked up to $6, and Fancy Joseph's burger is $10 marked up to $12, isn't any marketing/signalling value of the price maintained?
No we haven't.

There were a few news articles about changing the name, heard it on the radio for a few weeks, etc... but literally everybody in my bubble refers to it as social distancing.

Social Distancing has the first mover advantage on Physical Distancing.
Good point. This wasn't intentionally made to be a short period of time. We will change this to allow for a longer period of time.
They still make and sell new ones. Niche market for them because they can print onto transfer paper (with or without putting ink onto the top paper).
Question I would have is, why didn't the product manager know that those reviews mattered to his competitor's marketing team and CEO as a differentiator, and why weren't those competitor features already tracked on their roadmap?

This PM seems like an A-player, but he was caught flat footed, hence the "?"

The "?" email means you dropped a ball. If I were doing an armchair RCA on it, I'd posit the problem was a disconnect in the relationship between Product and Marketing, where marketing would have already known they were getting hammered on reviews - and that they mattered - but Product was probably indexed on the wrong stakeholders, likely in the engineering org given, a) that the PM could code at all meant eng was still his comfort zone, and b) the focus on being seen to ship a release. My read of it was he dropped the ball because he backed the wrong horse and misunderstood the priorities of the company. Of course you drop everything to fix it, you f'd up.

Unfortunately, just sending "?" emails to staff doesn't create the culture where they are meaningful. Sending "?" messages doesn't make you Jeff Bezos. I'd argue they are an artifact of a very specific local culture in AMZN. If managers in other orgs imitated that aspect of it, thinking now they're doing the real Bezo-ing, they would be just doing a cargo cult management ritual.
For abseil this is a bit simpler, so I start there: On the one hand it is a library they publish so that other libraries they publish (Googletest, protobuf, ..) can use it on the other hand it drives development of the C++ standard and adoption according to their needs ("see our hashmap is faster and more efficient, make it part of the standard! (Then we don't have to maintain it anymore, but compiler vendors will)")

With things like protobuf/grcp it's a bit harder, but if they define the standard for data exchange between machines they can eventually
- use it as apart of their search indexer
- incorporate external services into their products while keeping their standard architecture
- integrate acquired software into their stack (you hope being acquired by google? Prepare ;) )
- it reduces risk of alternative approaches from becoming defaults, which could harm Google's integration wishes
- if job candidates are used to protobuf there is one thing less to reach a new hire

This certainly isn't a conclusive list, and I can't judge relevance of each for their decision, but those things certainly impact the decision aside from "we think it's cool"
U.S. Town Prints Its Own Wooden Currency in Response to Covid-19
I actually don't pay any attention to what HN considers technically valid. Collective opinion among HNers is often very skewed from the actual reality.

Here is a comment from 9 years ago. It sounds like parody to me and demonstrates how echo chambers eventually deviate from reality. HN can often be an echo chamber

> A good programmer should wake up at 6 am in the morning get a solid 2.5hrs of coding done by 8:30 am, at 8:30 leave for work, work till 6 (it goes without saying that the lunchbreak must be spent trying to learn the Haskell or if you are feeling lazy answering questions on stackoverflow). Commute from 6 to 6:30 (it's a bonus if you listen to a technical podcast during this time and no stuff like TWIT does not count, perhaps audio lectures from the Advanced Algorithms course on MIT OCW). 6:30 to 7:00 time for supper and excellent time to catchup on r/programming and hackernews. 7-8:30pm is the time for relaxation by doing some recreational mathematics, doing problems from project Euler and that proof from The Art of Computer Programming excercises which you have been itching to get a go at! 8:30pm to 1 am code contribute to that open-source project, write patches for the Linux kernal and continue working on your startup.

> Anyone who does less programming that what is mentioned above cannot call himself a "good programmer", I would have serious reservations in calling that person even a mediocre programmer.

--

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664409
I don’t want to derail this thread but I just posted elsewhere(re: tomatoes) this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781972

And this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781897
I may be wrong, but I don't think the browser caches CDN requests, at least per site...

So this might be a performance gain too

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29704811/why-isnt-the-br...
85% of Chinese international students say they don't have one American friend
> JavaScript is cheaper to get started but becomes way more expensive to maintain.

I think this is assumption is a bit too broad. There is another side of this:

In JS you write less code than in Rust and there is less explicit coupling in a dynamic codebase. So changes tend to be smaller and faster as well.

For example if you pass a top-level data-structure X through A, B... and C but only C cares about some part Z. Then you change how Z is produced in A and consumed in C.

If you are dynamic you just do exactly that, which is actually just fine. In a static language you have to change all the B's. Or you take the time and write a sensible abstraction over Z or X so in the future you don't have to change the B's anymore, which is better, but ultimately less readable and more complex.

Stuff that is well understood and specified in advance suits a language like Rust better. You get all these runtime guarantees and performance. You get all this expressive (but explicit!) power to fine-tune abstractions and performance. It's great.

But the closer you get to a UI (especially GUI) and non-technical, direct(!) users, the more dynamic you want to be. Because in this context you are more of a human to computer translator: requirements get discovered via iterations, interactions need to be tested and evolve etc.
Though in reality many such libertarians consider #3 as a sub-element of #1. For good or for bad, this has led to the debate on why if public health is to be funded, isn't it a part of the military.
I would not be surprised if this genetic research sheds light on other contacts we didn't think possible. To name a few:

-Egypt/Africa in trade contact with South America (cocaine was found in mummies, still controversial as to how it got there).

-The Rumor that Chinese fleets made it to the west coast of the US (Chinese rock anchors found off the CA coast)

-The fact that Vikings made it further and further south of Greenland then we realized.

-The rumor that Maori DNA has been found in South America

-The legend King Madac, a Welsh king, making it to North America and that certain native tribes could speak Welsh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...
AFAIK last time it came up people mentioned that they were allowed to do that because of a clause in their EULA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20321705
If you can't find the time to spend 2 hours on a coding challenge, maybe you simply don't want the job enough?

The hard fact of SE job search is that with most modern companies, you're going to get some sort of technical questions.

For ME, I'll much rather be asked questions about something I've just written, rather than random DS & Algo questions.

In fact, how many experienced know DS&A down to the bone, at the levels of Leetcode medium and hard, and can just wing an interview, with no prep? I'd imagine under 10%.

So yeah, I'd rather take a couple of hours to make some simple application, and review that, that to spend N times that combing through competitive programming questions.

(Most of all, I'd rather not have any of those, and let my previous work do the talking, but that's the world we live in.)
Thanks for this. We'll look into it. Right now the numbers are selected by a third party that has no access to user number picks, so it's totally blind. But this could be useful for us in the future. Thanks for sharing.
Factoid for the day: Cranston's work on that episode won him the Breaking Bad role later. AMC wasn't convinced he could pull it off (seeing him as a sitcom comedy actor) until Gillian showed them his work in that episode and he was cast.
I would rather Apple update its large catalog of apps it walked away from but still forces to be on devices.
They're not just found in that one squid, that squid just happens to be the model organism labs study. They symbiose with many other organisms as well
You could also let people create nicknames for privacy.
This is a very cool idea, Adam and Ben.

I have one minor feedback: On the bank comparison portion of the site, you list Marcus as having 1.7% APY, when it is actually 1.05% APY. These savings rate having been pretty volatile in the past few months so it's understandable but I figure updating it to its current % makes your product look even better in comparison.
Exactly! Thank you!

It seems that most devs (me included) learn at school to write pure functions, which is great. Then they come to the industry and all of the sudden the "parseXml" function takes a ftp port as a parameter... ("be in my case the xml was on a ftp server!")

Why there is no CS course that explains this kind of stuff?
This is explicitly against the ToS in his grubhub contract. While he may be doing it in a way that skates under the radar for now it is not scalable.
Timely as ever, he is almost out of office so don't think this really matters anymore. People will probably discover he isn't really that wealthy, but thats about it. People suing him will probably find that his assets are all controlled by trusts, so on paper there isn't much to go after.
it should link to both ideally, so you can choose.
Yes. I was sought and employed specifically because of the work visible on my Github profile from 2017 - 2019. My body of work on Github directly contributed to my candidacy for the job I currently hold.
Weebl and Bob was such an incredibly pervasive series at the time. Weebls-stuff was a goldmine of intelligent and funny videos and games, and had a great community.

Sites like Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, etc. were the cornerstone of my youth and I would simply not be who I am today without them. And it's been amazing watching so many of these creators go on to have successful careers in animation, writing, production and more.
Indeed, RISC-V has mainly been as replacement for Falcon cores in GPUs so far.

They evaluated vs Cortex A-53 through rather than Cortex-M.

https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tue1100_Nvidia_...
That's a lot of blows for Intel
For me it's really simple.

Have as many tech on your CV as you want, but you'll need to back it up when you're asked questions on them.
Bastion floating on Tide – Part 2
They should have just banned food delivery services.

Oh wait, they just did.
When I was first learning java I loathed the verbosity, but I was coding everything in vi. Now days with good ides, I don't mind java's verbosity or even the boiler plate.

I find myself more annoyed by dynamic languages, because the tooling just isn't at the same level. All sorts of 'hints' that I rely on in java simply aren't there in other languages, and the ide throws up it's hands and is like '...? I guess this is right? Godspeed sir', and I wind up having to go lookup documentation rather than ctrl clicking into underlying functions and code. It's really annoying, and it's made me be more appreciative of staticly typed languages.
I've been out of EMS for a few years now, but these have (or had at least) fallen massively out of favor.

Effectively, you could artificially keep the patient alive by using MAST pants, but they inevitably crash when they were removed. My old service had a few pairs tucked back in a closest, but none on any of the rigs. I'm quite certain they aren't in allowable by protocol in most places at this point.

A pretty wild device, nonetheless!

EDIT: Quick edit to throw in that I have heard tales from the old heads of using them to stabilize pelvic fractures, too.
Windows could probably run on ARM tomorrow (or at least, in 6 months) if Microsoft really wanted it to.

What it could probably not do is run-on-ARM with acceptable performance for every legacy app.

Windows' bread and butter has always been forever-compatibility (Win API language-of-the-year aside) for long lived business apps.

Apple has never, and doesn't seem to want to, competed on that front.
Doesn't calling it 'self-driving' internally ruin any court cases inn the future?
Seems like another legal gaff.
People always 'find out' about mark ups and get pissed about them, but businesses are not charities.

And let's not act like this law was passed because of consumers- this is restaurant owners trying to have their cake and eat it too.
I was tempted by ZFS but it just felt like too much trust to put in something complex as a novice. Just reading about it led me to too many data-loss stories. I have had enough corporate IT teams tell me their RAID went down with total data-loss and their tape drive recovery isn't working to find a lot of virtue in "dumb-as-hell" infrastructure design!
I think we probably agree on more than we disagree on.

I was objecting specifically to the claims that pharma substantially benefits from taxpayer funded research and would sue non-profits out of existence.

I totally agree that the incentives are the problem! The best step forward would be to federally negotiate prices based on relative benefit. Next we could look at outcome based compensation. I think these changes would address 90% of the problem.
I would be surprised. IIRC those "other countries" are countries like Iran that have also just shut off access to the internet for the country. I still think we have a few more years of internet freedom in Germany before that happens.
Similarly, I've never thought of myself as a "digital nomad" and actually do own a house. But prior to travel shutting down, it would absolutely have been practical for me to put my stuff in storage, ask a friend or family member to let me use their address as my home address, and live at least around the Americas or Europe as I saw fit. Given that I was traveling 1/3 of the time anyway, what's another 2/3rds?
I think what he's basically saying is that priors (i.e. domain knowledge + custom, domain-inspired models) help when you're data limited or when your data is very biased, but once that's not the case (e.g. we have an infinite supply of voice samples), model capacity is usually all that matters.
'keeping your job' implying submission to social pressure to be accepted and nothing more ? I'm not sure I got your whole argument, so if you have more details, I'd be happy to read :)