skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine in what sense? In my opinion, it is not fine to block disabled users out of webpages just because it costs a bit more to let them in.
I think that's a premature judgement.

Is there any reason to think that it's impossible to scale it down? e.g. for PPE, 5mm ceramic spheres in a 1cm-thick Aluminimum foam with some 1mm steel plates on either side?
Practical ways for web developers to stay updated in the latest tech news
> We can fight it by electing the correct people

In theory - the reality is very different. In both the US and UK you effectively have only 2 political parties, and have done since forever. In both the US and UK, the foreign policies, stance on mass surveillance, and support for the defence and security services, are the same.

Ask yourself when the last time was that the US/UK weren't cosied up Saudi Arabia, or the last time when the US wasn't bombing other countries to hell in the name of freedom or stoppi g the boogeyman de-jour (with allies like the UK in tow, of course). It's been the same since forever, and I don't see how our political system will ever offer a way out, a way to become better nations.
तस्वीर: उर्लदो भेलमा जोखिम मोलेर दाउरा संकलन गर्दै स्थानीय
Note that this is unusual in that it lasts four years, not three.

Standard curriculum is three years of bachelor's, then two years of master's.

In the prépa - engineering school track, it is two years of prépa, then three years of engineering school that gives out a master's in engineering.

Thus the first year of engineering school maps to a (third) last year of undergrad, the second to a first year of a master's and the last to the last year of a master's.
Depends. I can see a great Xmas season in UK retail ("get stuff before the gates are closing"), and a wealth of new im-/export businesses in the time after (and running such businesses isn't out of character for Londoners I guess). I know I'd be looking into these kinds of opportunities right now.
> Right, but they’ll inevitably leave the EPO too

based on what?

the government is pulling out of anything where the ECJ has jurisdiction, which you might not agree with, but is perfectly consistent with leaving the EU's institutional control

the EPO is not under the control of the ECJ
Wow, a nuanced argument about Brexit? Have an upvote. Very refreshing.

There are so many aspects to this whole thing, and due to the media being very one sided a lot of the nuance of the leave side are completely unknown to most people, as can be seen in this thread.
Thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it.
I agree with the point about it not being frozen, when I said "on paper" I was thinking about an professionally printed book which can't be modified.
Technically you could use a Facebook page for this purpose, but it isn't specifically meant for it. This means, as you said, nobody actually does it.
I think another reason why people don't do this is because it's a very daunting task. Where to begin, what questions should it address. It seems like a huge task to begin with. This site would help by asking guiding questions to make the task more manageable.
With regards to the point about the ephemerality of the web, it's a very valid point. I'd probably have to offer some sort of export option in order to deal with this.
The "just mentioning it as an aside" doesn't really hold even a drop of water given the well-known implications of racism allegations. It's like spending a few hours covering someone's car in silly string (Very annoying, but not sociopathic) and then quickly cutting their brake lines as "an aside."
That's what I thought but wasn't sure. Thank you (and sibling comments) for your comment.
Excerpts from the journalist's piece I think are worth quoting:

> "The specter of “cancel culture” is a concept most often invoked to protect those in power, often straight white men such as myself, from facing consequences for their actions, but I want no part in it. I’m not going to start a YouTube channel railing against the perceived dangers of PC culture. I believe I lost my job unfairly. At the same time, I firmly believe that people, especially those in power, should be held accountable for what they say and do."

> "There was no union at the Register. Had I been a union member, I believe I would have been able to more effectively advocate for myself."

These two paragraphs are almost a contradiction (saying "I’m not going to start a YouTube channel" but writing a blogpost railing against ununionised workers not being able to advocate for themselves), but it isn't quite a contradiction, and that nuance is exactly where I think the "line" is in this debate.

People's lives are ruined not because there's no authoritarian protection of "free" hate-speech, but rather because there's no individual-level protection of actual livelihoods.
The Pro-Privatization Shock Therapy of the UK’s Covid Response
Didn't Cuis[1] branch off from Squeak even before that to be closer to its ST-80 roots. Although, if I recall correctly, it does at least use Morphic and not MVC.

[1]: https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
Somewhat off topic, but the quote from the article "Professor Parkinson actually apologized for not giving me a top grade on it, explaining that he had a strict rule never to give a top grade to a Sufficiency that took more than the basic half-semester." is something that I disagree with it.

I find that applying strict rules to assignments without flexibility is essentially academic laziness (and I say that as an academic) . It tells students formalities are more important than content. While I recognize that sticking to deadlines is important, we should have enough flexibility in our rules to make exceptions. If the teacher apologises for his strict rules, it is clearly a case where flexibility should be applied.
> They’ll be leaving the UN Security Council in the next few years most likely, in the name of control and sovereignty.

again, based on what?

half of your posts here are speculation based on no substance whatsoever

what did the UK ever do to you?
I was looking into open source knowledge / wiki base solutions recently, and I found https://www.getoutline.com/ to be the most usable.
The entire field o mental health revolves around the idea that there is some sort of 'this is how brains are meant to work'. In extreme cases that works well (eg, lead poisoning), in edge cases there is a lot of grey.

One uncomfortable part of mild depression is the questions around how correct it is. It is easy to logically deduce depression as a rational response to the world.
Towards the end of the writing the paper, another paper came out on "RISC: rapid inverted-index based search of chemical fingerprints", https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00069 which does something along those lines.

It was close enough that I published the pre-print "RISC and dense fingerprints" at https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.8218517.v1 to examine its claims. I found that their RISC implementation was faster than chemfp for low bit densities (<~5%), which includes the popular 2048-bit ECFP/Morgan fingerprints for smaller radii, and uncommonly high similarity thresholds.

Otherwise, chemfp was faster.

So while there's certainly something to investigate there, I think it's better to focus that effort on truly sparse fingerprints and count fingerprints, rather than nominally dense bit fingerprints.

Just needs money and time. ;)

Plus, part of the focus was on making chemfp a really good baseline for these sorts of timing tests.
> Flexible Labour law (e.g. France would be a counter-example)

That's only nice on short term. Easily being able to fire people is fun, until there's too much of a difference between top and low earning. Eventually it'll just lead to huge problems. You avoid loads of issues by ensuring there's not a gigantic difference between top earners and low earners. E.g. it should NOT be ok that people work multiple jobs, or can barely scrape by.

IMO less inequality will eventually be better for a country; tax income could be higher, more influence as result. Similarly, if people think they have no good future, why follow things like do no crime.

See e.g. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/I... (income increases on bottom 20% of earners result in GDP growth):
> This suggests that policies need to be country specific but should focus on raising the income share of the poor, and ensuring there is no hollowing out of the middle class.
Tell that to the Coors Brewing Company!

Beer and soda cans used to have removable ring-tab openers that people would drop into the can before drinking, so they could accidentally swallow it and slice up their digestive system. If they didn't just drop them on the ground to slice up people's feet.

http://westerndigs.org/ring-tab-beer-cans-are-now-officially...

>The ring-tab design began to be phased out in 1975, after injuries were caused by people swallowing the metal tabs. It was replaced with a new modification called the StaTab, which used a flange of aluminum on the lid as a lever to press down on the sealed opening, a design that’s still in use today.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-switch-from-pull-t...

>They were a litter problem but they also hurt people who would (stupidly) drop them into the can and then choke on them, or drop the on the ground to get stepped on. The sharp edges ehre just asking for trouble. Also they were generally more difficult to open than pop-tops are.
There’s no point in using AI/ML just for the sake of doing something cool, and a good PM knows when to step back and admit that it isn’t necessary. However, if a product meets the right criteria, the best thing you can do is have a good working relationship between the Data Science team and PM.

Here are some tips:

- Treat your project as a partnership. Make sure everyone knows why you’re making your decisions the way you are. You should have a clear problem, hypothesis, and success metric. Start from there and let everything else come later.

- Be willing to make tradeoffs. Each one of you is there for a reason and their expertise. Understand the technological limitations and above all, understand your user. Just because the technology is new and exciting, it doesn’t mean that the product needs ALL of it to be effective.

- Remember to always be considerate: if you’re the PM, you need to be aware of a scientist’s time and momentum. It’s important not to expect them to work at your pace or presume to tell them how they should organize their time. And if you’re the DS, you must clearly communicate your work process and its limitations.
Is sex a cryptographically secure random number generator?
How many bits of entropy are in my family tree? Which species produces the most entropy in the least amount of time?
Show HN: Lok's Journey on Making His Dream Code for ThreeJS in Vue.js (Part 1/N)
One thing I would recommend if you do consider moving to Edinburgh is moving to a place just outside of Edinburgh that is on a rail line. After living the centre of Edinburgh for ~30 years we moved across to a rural location in Fife and it's the best of both worlds - getting into Edinburgh by train is easy and actually quite a pleasant journey (the Forth Bridge!) and you are a good bit closer to the Highlands (where I go most weekends).
> any business or person with a brain or eyes to see will abandon them. I did. I’m far from alone. What’s the U.K. going to do when there’s nothing left but idiots and seagulls?

Right! Apart from being the 6th largest economy, a nuclear power, a permanent member of the security council, a member of FVEY, the home of two of the best universities in the world, home to London, being a cultural powerhouse for several centuries, home to one of the most established and trusted legal systems in the world, and printer of the pound sterling, the UK is basically completely irrelevant now.

... Brexit is a shit-show and probably a bad idea, but perhaps let’s keep the hyperbole to a minimum, eh?
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Hi @mkiisa!

If you’re looking for a job in Product, It is very possible that the hiring company will ask you for a portfolio. And since it is a reflective experience, it can prepare you for interviews and other challenges that require you to share your achievements.

First of all, It looks like you don’t have direct experience in Product. And that’s fine! A tip from the Product School blog is to build your portfolio to explain “Even though I have not had my first product experience yet, all of these experiences have prepared me for it”. In other words, you have to select those features of your personal history that scream user knowledge, business acumen, and technical leadership abilities. It’s not just thinking about innovative products.
Other things to consider:

Think about “format”. For instance, imagine that you worked in a YouTube-oriented PR company and have video editing skills. You could build your portfolio via a creative video, something dynamic that helps you reach even more people. So depending on your skills, experience, and who you’re targeting, the format of your portfolio can vary.

“Brand” your portfolio. By tying yourself to a particular sector, you can target the community. It can be very powerful to show that you are riding the wave in terms of what is going on in the sector. That is, linking your career history to the latest transformations in the industry.

Emphasize the “full package”. Your portfolio shouldn’t just about the products that you helped or wanted to create, but the skills that made them possible.

And lastly, don’t be afraid to experiment!
In Switzerland we had a massive spike in untreated heart attacks precisely because your third point. It's good that people don't go to the ER for minor things but people should know that symptoms of a heart attack are not to be taken lightly.
I haven't been on here for long, but I must say, I'm really amazed at how friendly this community is! HackerNews really sets itself apart.
> You can't argue with them. They're all suffering a group hallucination...

What's better, the EU or rest of world?

When you look at GDP growth, markets, trade... Rest of the world looks a lot better than EU nationalism/protectionism. The choice provided for every half-in option is to give up the rest of the world in that matter, but it turns out, that the EU in seemingly every comparison always comes short compared to the rest of the world.
It's for industrial uses. There are more dangerous things, like chainsaws and microwaves. You either design it to be safer (microwave) or keep humans out of the way (chainsaw).

It sounds like parent commenter is working on the former.
It happens from time to time, but yes - there is no specific job / hiring for this.

The default/common path is evolving into the architect role which seems like a "bad" process of developing an architect.

The best way to develop a new architect, is to have him learn alongside a mentor/teacher who is an architect himself. Developing and architecture are very different jobs which require different mindsets and skills. Also, I've seen many places, teams, etc where people are mostly made to implement feature after feature with no time in between for learning, self-development, courses, etc.

Otherwise, after you've just "arrived" to that architect role you start learning on your own what architecture really is and means.
I'm sorry, but that "Let us use cookies or you can't use this web site" button is not legal. If you're trying to appease GDPR, then that is not enough. You need to be able to use the web site after refusing cookies.
> It it only the most lazy and selfish developers who would not utilize this.

Are you calling the whole Gentoo community lazy ?

If anything, I'd consider them to be the opposite of lazy, since making sure that all software always builds properly on each of your users machines takes a lot of work (IMO much harder than only making sure that it builds on your package manager controlled servers), and Watts.
That's basically my thesis. Even entertainment software, which is, I think, the most amenable category to being a "product" is going the way of subscription services.
Whenever I see something like this, my first question is, wow what a beautiful cross-platform UI -- I wonder what they are using?

It's amazing how challenging it is in 2020 to have a simple path for creating a cross-platform UI that actually looks good and is not aimed at developers as users, but rather competes with the polish of established applications. Unless you go with Electron or pay thousands per year for a Qt license, options are quite limited.
"Developer" vs "Engineer"

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Needless to say your money goes a bit further than London outside of London

And having a large home + garden is better than being locked into a tiny apartment with everything closed
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Thanks. Actually, I considered make it a generic platform but then I decided to focus on Go applications and check how things work and make the adoptions according to the users' feedback. Your suggestion is on my backlog and I'd like if you open an issue for that in the repository.
PSD2 implies Europe, so my first question is whether to accept cards as the primary means of payment at all. The various direct payment schemes are typically cheaper, more reliable and, in some countries, much more widely used. If you are handling recurring billing via a Direct Debit scheme then you are probably also outside the scope of the SCA rules that are going to interrupt payment flows using cards whenever the EU member states finally insist on following them.

I've used GoCardless to do some of this, but depending on where you are based, there seem to be quite a few other services now that offer some or all of the relevant schemes.
The power of science and technology is magic weapon for China to fight Covid-19
I find it interesting that your comment (to me) seems to caution against "too much" syntactic highlighting, while the comparison screenshots in the README for the project you mention seem to indicate an extensive use of colors (compared to "traditional" highlighting, as per the readme).

On a personal note I do prefer the 2nd screenshot to the first (ie I prefer tree-sitter's highlighting than whatever they used to generate the "traditional" image).

In the end I think it comes down to colors being useful to highlight _meaningful_ differences between code snippets, be it semantic, syntactic, or whichever other distinction is useful to the person reading/editing the code at that time. As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, in a language that distinguishes between synchronous and asynchronous functions (à la async/await in Typescript or Python) it could very well be useful to have a different color for each.

Then again, if you're "just" opening up your code files to edit some string "constants" here and there, there's almost no point in having any other highlighting (at that moment/for that action/activity) than "what is string, what is not?". So the holy grail is some kind of highlighting that is aware of your intent (as in, why you are viewing/editing this piece of code), and can adapt to changes in said intent.
> If you can't 'go to adult jail' when you're 16

You absolutely can go to adult jail at 16.
> The cost of living in London eats up any salary benefit.

Does it actually though? Genuine question having grown up here. I live with my partner, our monthly outgoings living on the zone 1/2 border are ~£800 each for mortgage, bills, car insurance, etc. Last year I earned ~£90k before tax. I don't think I would have earned anything like that amount working in another part in the UK. Even if my cost of living was halved I'd only be saving around £5k a year.

I'm relatively young I suppose and I don't love everything about London, but I see lots of benefits to living here outside of the income, too. I can also be in the (proper) countryside in an hour or so drive at the weekends if I want a change of scenery.
Glide slope
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So, what practical hints and tips have you learned during your self-employed freelance career that could help others?
You can actually opt out of that mechanism: you can use your own, untrusted CA. The point of CT is to improve trust, and I seriously have doubts trusting the 300 independant (?) CAs my browser "trusts" [0].

Sure, having an infinite, append-only log of domain names for which an HTTPS certificate ever was issued sounds like a GDPR issue. But if it also helps catch bad actors before they can even set up their phishing pages, I'm all for it.

[0] https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/raw-file/tip/se...
I mean, git doesn't actually track diffs, so the diff/merge part is separate, and already supports plugins: just write a syntax-oriented diff/merge for git and tell git in your configuration files to use it for .py files or whatever... this isn't a git limitation.
That's my take on it. Recurring cash flow trumps one-time sales. When you consider that all of our computing platforms are in flux, and all of our software is effectively built on shifting sands, virtually every product will need some kind of long-term "maintenance", even if that just means the silly make-work of moving to new APIs / OS versions / CPU architectures for no benefit to the program's feature set. A subscription model is the only effective method I see to sustain that maintenance and keep the software relevant as time passes.
The length of an explanation has no connection to the complexity, validity or soundness of any point, concept or idea under discussion, anywhere, at any time, in any language, so if we're looking for irrelevancies we should start with your complaint.

I would suggest that if you don't wish for your utterances to be examined or misconstrued then you might try to avoid speech that appears threatening, and instead inject more sincerity in any defence you make, otherwise your opponent will feel justified in their scepticism of your intentions.

In short (since you appear to favour succinctness), you'd be wise to be more careful in future ;-)
I think the idea is to build a not-facebook. I'm working in social media too, and there's a lot of things that FB does poorly.

The goal is usually media, centered around yourself. For some people, it could be their line of work, or happenings in their neighbourhood. FB, prioritizing growth, is like the BuzzFeed of social media, but we're starting to see why that doesn't work.
That's the new Grand Theft Auto sorted then!
`rg` is distributed via multiple channels - most distros have packages for it.
Since they specifically don't want people to drink it (contamination, perhaps), how would that get them closer to the objective?