skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off-topic from the thread, but was the sample size of GT students you've interacted only one, or greater? My intuition on well known public universities has been that they accept all the talented people at the cost of letting some who would struggle with the material while private universities accept only talented people at the cost of missing some people who would thrive.
How long ago was this? I get the sense that their sandboxing is improving?
But haven't had the time, and would have to look into the legality of it first.

Random thoughts:

- anything to prevent the creation of more e-waste is much appreciated

- if you distribute only binary patches/diffs, you won't be in violation of distributing other's copyrighted IP

- don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do with the hardware you own
> Most of the offerings you will find on there will only provide you with housing, maybe food, in exchange for labour. Some do pay, but I strongly suspect that it is in cash.

Ah I do not require payment for myself, I just thought some hosts may request payment for accommodation or the initial moving-in costs (paperwork etc.)
Yes, that's why there are so many unicorns coming out of europe right now.
I'm on the left myself - far enough that most people I consider like-minded would scoff at being called "liberal".

And I think that, while our broad cause is both rational and just, there are way too many people who believe that it can justify things that are unjustifiable; and who are, in effect, willing to replace their morality with "revolutionary necessity".

On the subject of conformance, freedom of speech, and censorship, in particular, this essay by Orwell is getting more relevant day by day:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

This troubles me a lot, especially as I don't see alternatives here and now - large-scale, systemic changes are desperately needed, but that requires a mass movement; and while it's possible to have a mass movement that is not authoritarian, the one that we do have seems to be infested by authoritarian thinking to a significant degree.

True, it's fighting against authoritarianism that is even broader in scope - and worse yet, operating from a veneer of legitimacy, and with resources of state oppression at its disposal. But if "my" side wins, it'll get that same veneer - and with the attitudes that I'm observing, I find it hard to believe that the majority will be willing to discard those powerful tools as a matter of principle, or even believe that they're truly capable of misusing them.

I don't really have good answers. Insofar as decisions have to be made today, I try to go with what I see as "less wrong" - but that still leaves a lot to be desired from an ethical perspective. And yet staying out of the fight is also an unsatisfactory cop-out; for which I could, perhaps, find convincing enough excuses for people whose judgment matters to me, but never to my own conscience.
This may come as a shock, but it was relevant then and it's relevant now. There's a perception that QA suffers when production is moved to an area where the manufacturing ecosystem is not as established, which is why people pay attention to defect rates and study process paradigms like Six Sigma.
> IoT devices should be behind private networks rather than being directly accessible to the internet anyway.

Hogwash. You just reduced my reliability by a dramatic amount. Not only does my IoT device have to be functional, but it now has to have a gateway that is functional at the same time in order to be useful. Uh, yeah, no.

And, besides, a private network is only private until one of the devices gets compromised. Then it's not private anymore.

Better to make your device capable of living on the real, hostile Internet.
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> The second worry is that as a Chinese firm, ByteDance is subject to laws that require it to work with China’s authorities.

I post this every time this subject comes up, but...

The same applies to any American company, except they are subject to American laws and surveillance. Chinese apps are no worse about privacy/backdoors than the American equivalents. The only thing I would be more concerned about with a Chinese company is IP theft.

edit: As danhak pointed out, this is about defending US Gov interests, not US citizenry.

If there is something I'm misunderstanding, I welcome corrections.
A great companion is FeedMonkey, a web based reader which plays very nicely w. tt-rss. I forked it w. dark theme, ES6 syntax, article grouping. Just host it on the same server as your tt-rss, no cross-site issues:

http://sources.vsta.org:7100/FeedMonkey/index
See Hybrid Sorting algorithms. Here's Introsort as an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort
No they wouldn't.

You're underestimating the age of the fleet.

The average GA aircraft is 50 years old, and that is likely to increase in the near-medium term as production of GA aircraft is practically zero.

Source: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20....

(Cirrus, mentioned above, produces about 300 aircraft a year - compare to the 100,000+ Ceessnas on GA fields, almost all of which are over 40 years old.
Noam Chomsky's been saying the US isn't a democracy since the 70's? Post ww2? I'm early in my introduction to him so it's fuzzy. Statistically, the laws passed and the actions the government takes are primarily influenced by corporations, thus making it a plutocracy.
Stardog is full of features, performance, and enterprise hardening Rdfox hasn’t even started thinking about yet.
I can't put words in his mouth. I recall at the time wishing that, while they were "redefining marriage", they could go ahead and formalize a separation between civil unions and marriage in the church, because I was concerned about the state of California telling priests that they needed to perform weddings for whoever asked them to be married, or else face fines / jail time.

Nobody said being a CEO was a 'right'. You're correct that part of being a CEO is being the public face of the company, and I agree with you that it's reasonable for the members to not want to be represented by somebody who is repulsive to them. Maybe something like an actual vote of confidence or vote of self-similarity is not out of the question.

But, we don't vote for this kind of thing, rather, people get run out town by a (sometimes literal) mob in the court of public opinion by, again, the loudest voices. And, because blood is in the air, they don't get support (quiet or loud) from all the people at the company who either agree with them or who just don't want mob rule to exist (because even though they're not socialists, or trade unionists, or Jews, they see that the wheel of "social justice" will eventually turn on them, too).

> if you say or do something stupid in your personal life

Easy with the name calling. I'm here taking the opposite position and you jump to the word 'stupid'. No need to get personal.

Okay, maybe you didn't mean "stupid" like "no right-minded person would have that opinion" instead of "it would be stupid, given the current political climate, to say this publicly"... but I think then you would be agreeing with me, so you probably meant the first sense.
Shit I have a bum leg, hook me up with some advanced prosthetics and they can eat their pulmonary organs out.
This has not been my experience at a big tech company(well, amazon)

There's plenty of leeway for choosing solutions and who's responsible for what kind of failures.

I for one have spent a while trying to make sure I just have to throw an exception(with increasingly better messages), and somebody else needs to solve the problem
I use TTRSS as a Sandstorm app, so there's a bit of adjustment needed to make it work well. There's a few tweaks we could send back as PRs but we had a pretty rocky first interaction with the dude.
Ah, Google has solved half this problem by providing powered sit and stand desks. But people still use reams of paper to hold up their monitors.
My experience of Google foobar challenge
I learned so much about structure and organization from https://www.amazon.com/Definitive-XML-Schema-Charles-Goldfar...

I learned the value of utility from Nicomachean Ethics in that it establishes a value hierarchy starting from the fragment: that which exists for its own sake.

I liked this book for establishing ethics as the basis for rapid growth in business: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0...

A lot of people struggle with CSS. It’s not hard but it take some solid practice to master. This is the best book: https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Pocket-Reference-Visual-Presentat...

Honesty is important. Brutal honesty forces changes to culture and everybody wins. It forces you to act with ethics for the welfare of the group: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Life-Work-Ray-Dalio/dp/150...

Fear of innovation is a form of hecklers veto, more so when popularity or a majority is threatened. Originality, even when wrong, is always more important: On Liberty.
This seems like a really good idea but I worry about regulatory approval. Tests like these will tend to catch any Covid-19 cases in the window where you have a real chance of infecting someone from maybe 2 days pre-symptom onset to a few days post onset. And that's really all you need from an epidemiological standpoint. But from a medical standpoint if someone comes into your ER a week post symptom onset you want to know if they've got Covid-19 whether or not they're still infected, from a medical standpoint. And in that use case this is less likely to produce the correct answer than the already existing PCR test and the time lag probably isn't that important. It would be reasonable to allow it anyways but the FDA's rules are set up for the benefit of medical uses rather than epidemiological uses and I wouldn't be optimistic about it getting allowed baring pressure from above.

Also

>One researcher spiked 30 out of 60 saliva samples with inactivated SARS-CoV-2 in the lab. Then they shuffled the samples and gave them to another scientist to test with the RT-LAMP technology.

I wonder if that required a BSL-3 facility or not. Generally you can do medical work on this virus with any sort of facility or laboratory you have on hand but you're only allowed to do science involving the virus if you have a special laboratory with negative pressure and special failsafes and so on.
Curious how this would apply to the Redis protocol. It's a text protocol that is friendly/intended for character by character parsing. The example code at the bottom of the page is an example of iterating the characters of a byte stream.

https://redis.io/topics/protocol
the method described in the article uses a constant temperature of reaction.

edited to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Transcription_Loop-med...
I don't understand something. If you replay the events on an iframe of the real URL, each time I play the video you are hitting the site's real API? Like, if I watch the video where the user adds an item to it's cart, will the same item get added twice because I watched the video?
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> Unfortunately this isn't really true for large and complex FLOSS, e.g. web browsers.

It is also true for web browsers; all it needs is one developer among the many thousands being able to build and distribute it.

> Open-source doesn't necessarily mean easy to take control

True, it should be more something like: "it won't be easy to use this source by yourself, but if the company decides to discontinue the product, you can still hire some developers to support and continue it, rather than throw in the trash everything you've based on it, which sometimes could mean your entire business". It rather makes hard for others to take away this control, a concept which is wonderfully explained by the GPL license document.

> I've been RE'ing for decades and wish more people knew about this valuable skill, because that's what gives you the true power to take control.

Agree 100% on this, but definitely not easy especially now that pretty much every damn product contains more horsepower and complexity than the Apollo missions computers.
However, if you have books, resources, examples etc. for mere mortals on the subject, I'd love to take a look at them. That topic would probably deserve a post by itself.
> In other words, organizations adopt microservices for an operational benefit at the expense of performance.

...no, not at all. There are a couple of operational benefits, but vastly more drawbacks, and on balance microservices are phenomenally harder to operate than monoliths.

Organizations adopt microservices when the logistical overhead of coordinating teams against a monolith becomes so large that it starts affecting product velocity. Microservices are a way to release that organizational/logistical friction, at great technical cost.

With that said, the domain-oriented bounded context is indeed the right way to think about service delineation.
Great, well designed little game.

What engine is this made with, if any?
I think this was a bit of a clickbait headline, and the real story was bit more nuanced. They were trying to do some reorgs (kind of like merging/splittling different CS, ECE, Information Systems etc. depts.).
55% Yelp businesses that were temp closed are now perm
You might like GoldenCheetah.
Oh wow I can’t believe and its very surprising for me
Looks like i gotta move to europe because this interviewing is very stressful
> A reasonable reading of her statement is that she doesn't regard trans women as actual women

Do people realize that this is just a linguistic question?

It's an argument about what the word "women" means or should mean. Not about any substantial real world issue.

To me, arguing about the meaning of words is one of the lowest forms of discourse.
One example, in California the high speed rail project is bogged down due to land acquisition problems and lack of funding.
> The US labor market has long exhibited massive demand for skilled labor, and that's part of the reason that two-thirds of high-school graduates immediately enroll in college.

American college grads are not typically seeking to work as skilled assembly workers in factories. They might seek to be engineers or project and business managers in those factories, but not the people who assemble the devices.

That requires a large pool of skilled manual labor which the US doesn't produce as much anymore. By contrast, Germany produces a large number of highly skilled vocational workers who supply labor for its high-end manufacturing industry.
Tell the staff, or better yet ask to see the manager and tell them.
I think you're good. Gamestop was never on the high end of the integrity debate.

"oh you have a game that was $60 12 months ago? Here's $2 and I'll put that on the shelf for $57"
Of course bad reviews can hurt a restaurant. That's what reviews are for. I think the problem is two-fold:

1. The ranking algorithm is bad. A simple average is very naive, but many site use just that for ranking. There needs to be some standard accredited algorithms to do rating rankings - which take care of factors like this.

2. Online marketplace makes a wider variety available to users. This automatically ensures that more and more sales go to the highest quality restaurants. If there is a 5-star restaurant you can order from, why would you try a 4.8-star one? There can only be a few "best" restaurants, and everyone wants to eat their food.
Well, yeah. This is about protecting American interests not privacy. America would prefer to be the only country spying on Americans.
Cisco's IT is almost 100% Indian, and by almost 100% I mean I've only seen one or two out of thousands who weren't Indian. Cisco's Indian IT department managers having exclusive preference for Indian companies. It's so against the law for Cisco to have their IT department almost fully staffed by H1B visa holders who work for some Indian outsourcer and are themselves all Indian. The work they do is only half decent (well, not really, it's purely best effort, and depends on the individual or team doing the work it can vary dramatically)

The CEOs of many of the Indian outsourcers are so incompetent and focused so exclusively on relationship based selling that it's pointless to even bring up the topic of them falling behind the tech adoption curve. It's a giant heap of incompetence and corruption.
One problem with using ASP and margin as the criteria for making decisions on manufacturing is that such a viewpoint gives an advantage to places with fewer worker protections.

A friend of mine made the point to me the other day, correctly I think, that it's very difficult to compete on price when your competitor is using slave labor. If I own a company that makes 5 products, and 1 of those 5 involves slave labor, I'm getting free work that I can amortize across all 5 products. So, even if a particular product does not involve slave labor, I can still sell it for cheaper if slave labor expands my margins somewhere else.

In a world where ASP and margins are the only criteria, forced labor camps like those found in Xinjiang make business sense. This suggests to me that maybe the "it's just business" mentality is neither ethical nor long-term sustainable, and can incentivize unlawful behavior.
> I was "lazy" and just needed a hobby.

I feel this. I hate all of these phrases.

"Just get a hobby","Go outside more","Set better goals","Pray more","Eat Better","Just adjust your mindset","Just work harder","Make your bed","Read a book","Try meditation","Take a nap","Drink more water","Doubt your doubt", and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, ...

/rant
"Wave function collapse", aka constraint satisfaction
I'm somewhat surprised that compilers doesn't optimize this automatically. I thought at first that it might be something C++ related, but I tried a straight C equivalent[1] with Godbolt and it wasn't optimized by any the main compilers either. Is there a standard related reason why this can't be optimized to work on chunks of 8B ints? Or even longer vectors? Or is this just proof of the fact that there are so many possible optimizations that a compiler can't possibly do all of them?

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/WfPWEz
When I was at Google (long ago), you were very welcome to do a 20% project. But it was not considered in your performance review.

So you'd better do it outside of your regular job, adding up to a 120% workload.
Thanks!

Yes it is for the same employer. It will be with extension of status, and not consular notification, AFAIK, so that clears up my situation.
Sorry, autocratic rule by those on the left is still autocratic rule.

> The First Amendment does not guarantee consequence-free speech.

Civics 101. My right to through my fist stops at your face. Simple. Yelling fire in a crowded movie theater, etc. etc.

Political speech, ie, expressing ones viewpoint, is and has always been protected by the First Amendment -- even if it's false or racist speech.

> I would add that after a decade of watching the First Amendment cited almost exclusively to protect hate speech from psychopaths...

What would you replace it with? Seriously. Are you going to punish people for lying? Lock them up for something just slightly racist? Who do we trust to make these judgements? Republican appointed judges? What?
What the hell does "if they knew the frequency of the e-mails" even mean? As someone who opted into several of these orgs: yes, of course? I know the frequency because I get the emails: if that bothers me, I can stop funding them, or I can understand that getting more of them means the world is getting more fucked up and I should probably seriously consider stepping up my game in supporting orgs that help fight this fucked up world.
agreed though I think the appearance of workplace democracy affecting day to day more than governmental democracy is only historically (rather than inherently) true of post-war america. that standard could radically shift in the future and I'd also say that it's government policy or stagnancy that enables the context in which workplace democracy has declined.
> Historically software was always low on memory, and subsequently sorting algorithms were developed that bent over backwards in order to use as little additional memory as possible. Nowadays most modern systems have several gigabytes of memory that are not used and are just sitting idle.

True, but on these systems, most of the time, users don't care about performance. And when they do, the dataset is not large enough for this kind of algorithms to shine anyway.
Wow, that story is really irrelevant. Take the time to read about cancel culture.
Tell that to a gay teacher in a conservative area.
This post makes no sense to me. As one of the so-called FANGs, the data suggests Apple is one of the most desirable jobs out there.
And, 7 hours later properly reading comments...

Everyone already said this. Sorry.
> I’m saying there are policies that an overwhelming majority in USA supports, such as universal healthcare, taxing the rich, stop foreign wars, stop police violence, reduce carbon emission, etc.

The average person might support all of those end results if the cost to get there were zero, i.e. if we could wave a magic wand.

However each one of those has a cost or tradeoff that a significant number - possibly majority - of people would be unwilling to accept.
I almost posted something similar but stayed my hand. I tried to submit patches in 2006. I got one in, I think, but that was enough for me to fork and go on w/ my own version. I really like my fork, but I can't make any recommendations about the current mainstream version because I haven't looked at it in 10+ years.
Only including ones I think HN audience might find interesting:

- VSauce (Physics/Science)

- 3Blue1Brown (Maths)

- FermiLab (Physics)

- PBS Spacetime (Physics)

- Scooby1961 (Fitness)

- AthleanX (Fitness)

- Mentour Pilot (Airplanes/Flying)

- TOOL (Music :))
Another vote for this fantastic software. I have been using it for about two years now - with Reeder on Mac/iOS. Reeder introduced our of the box support for FreshRSS (it used to be via Fever API earlier), and now things are super fast - 12,000 starred items are downloaded on a fresh install in a jiffy. Just can’t say enough about FreshRSS.
It mostly hides the damage: instead of a code base no one understands, you have network traffic no one understands.
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> go back to magazines

You should count how many ads a paper magazine has in it.

Wired Magazine is 40% ads: https://frugaling.org/wired-magazine-is-40-percent-ads/

Fortune Magazine is 43% ads: https://frugaling.org/fortune-magazine/
Has there been an analysis of comment length and replies/upvotes?

I've got to assume the length of your comment correlates with engagement.
Might as well just say that Gandhi was a thug because he inconvenienced British rule of India through his non-violent tactics.
He wasn't too friendly in 2006. By the last time I checked in on the project (2008, I think) he seemed insufferable.
The two factions you're referring to are not meaningfully opposed. That's not true of the Democratic labor, black, urban liberal and latino coalition.
... making using email too easy is a footgun? When did we go from "reaching the people who want us to reach them is a good thing" to "email is spam"? If I sign up to a local, quasi-local, or even national grass roots movement, I want them to spend as little of my donation dollars on mailgun (or paying their CEO), and as much as possible on fighting injustice.
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I don't know why I didn't write this in to begin with. Thanks for making up for my stupidity.