skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you think of a disease that's not tough to die with?
> I'm deeply against a government telling a social network that any broad class of people should be banned, especially if they're mainstream enough that their leader is in office.

Even if those people are calling for a coup d'etat to change the democracy into a dictatorship and place this leader at the top?
Because it was 111 degrees today.
> Somehow, his brain was still processing and identifying a face—a fairly high-level skill—even though his conscious mind was oblivious.

I'm maybe wrong about this, but isn't the ability to recognize faces a fairly low-level skill? Case is point being other social animals having it, like apes, monkeys, or even sheep [1] (who can even recognize human faces [2]).

So maybe they're here referring to the ability of seeing representations of faces (little faces on the letters). Or is this just a blunder of the person who wrote the sciencemag article?

[^1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1641463.stm
[^2] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41905652
There are many alternative instances, that's the great thing about projects like invidious.

https://instances.invidio.us

For your own projects, I would recommend relying on multiple instances anyway because if one has downtime you could just use another one.
Also, software is seen as a great and growing middle class job now. No one wants to be left out. Truckers, not so much.
> Corporations want political support for H1-B.

There's one problem with this theory. H1-Bs overwhelmingly go to Indians. I don't think there's anyone campaigning for increasing the participation of Indians or Asians in general in tech.
What do you recommend for data structure and algo interviews to keep the brain sharp?
One approach that would deepen your technical proficiency and also have side benefits for your day job would be to dive deep into a particular area of interest, research it's origins and then analyze/criticize/evaluate the current state of the art.
The key thing with bounds checks is to hoist them out of inner loops. If you don't have that optimization, people will turn them off because of the performance impact. Except in inner loops, the performance penalty isn't usually that bad.
Use a margin account if that matters to you, still cheaper than paying higher expense ratio.
Do you think that or do you know that? The hardware is unreleased yet, so how do you know?
I think long human-readable options are very nice when invoking a command in a script.

A (hypothetical) script can invoke rsync like this:

rsync -Oogx

but long options makes things more readable:

rsync \
--omit-dir-times \
--owner \
--group \
--one-file-system

It also helps when you're wondering if '-d' means debug or directory.

(although yes, it can allow options to be added to a program ad-nauseum)
It's a famous quote from John Wheeler.
It just takes practice. I had to do the same. I started solving Sudoku, George summers puzzles.

In the process, I could develop a general process to solve problems.

Using systems thinking helped a lot.
More sensors might be an advantage but cost is always a factor. The money spent on lidar might be better used on other cameras, CPU/GPU, or even safety features unrelated to self-driving.
Modern journalism is about using outrage to drive revenue. GamerGate faced (on a smaller scale) the same situation BLM faces today. If the audience is more outraged/enthused at a group being moral crusaders then they'll push that angle. If casting them as dangerous criminals stands to generate more ad money and user engagement they'll do that instead.
I started looking around for other cool models. First I found this beauty, the fx-890p, programmable not just in BASIC but also in C (interpreted) and assembler:

https://www.thimet.de/CalcCollection/Calculators/Casio-fx-89...

And then there is this pocket Lisp machine:

https://casio.ledudu.com/images/pockets/casio/machines/zoom/...

There are a couple of emulators out there, this one supports the AI-1000 Lisp version too:

http://www.pisi.com.pl/piotr433/pb2000ee.htm
While some patterns that call for unsafe today might be eliminated in whole or part, code that violates the ownership and borrowing rules will have to remain unsafe. I think fuzzing is not guaranteed to reach all unsafe code paths, nor provide full test coverage. Ideally, you want a) some sort of formal proof that the unsafe code cannot violate memory safety, b) 100% branch coverage for unsafe code, or c) both (because profilers and proofs can be wrong too :)

edit: grammar.
Backtest Your Trading Strategy with Only 3 Lines of Python Using Fastquant
In this blog post, I share how to use fastquant to backtest a simple SMAC strategy in only 3 lines of code.

fastquant is a wrapper for the backtrader package to make it a lot simpler to implement. My design for the backtest function is meant to be (almost) easy enough to be used by the excel practitioners in the finance industry.

For context, I’m a machine learning practitioner that focuses on NLP based investment research solutions, but I also spend my free time doing my own investing (with backtesting) and so this has been a passion project of mine. I’m very keen to get feedback on the package, especially from experienced quants here, so that the fastquant contributors and I can keep improving it to reach industry standard.
I thought this was misinformation few weeks ago.
Assuming a GPLv3-licensed project, would one be in his rights to ask for a previous "Corresponding Source" because he uses a previously released "object code"?
>The only threat model this would actually address is a threat from the user himself.

Incorrect. Please refer to other comments in reply to you.[0][1]

>It doesn't introduce a weakness, but it's a sign that you don't know what you're doing.

How's the old proverb go? "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24026585

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24026954
Can I ask why it is that the "foss community" is so hell bent on restricting the freedom of creators to call their software open source if the source is open, or choose licenses that might help them actually support themselves financially? As far as I can tell the "freedom" pushed by Foss evangelists only goes one way - to benefit often corporate consumers. I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a "community" that is so intent on policing language and action than that which exists around Foss.
But this is tantamount to banning Americans from accessing the Al Jazeera website. It’s obscene.
The bike is not even close to being bricked. You can use it without the app, there are multiple replacement apps; both a free version from the same vendor, a equvalent subscription from the new owner and some other third party apps.

Otherwise yes, agree that subscription dependent IoT needs regulation.
>"Diversity fosters an environment with less marginalization and discrimination."

I'm not too sure about that. I think the likelihood of discrimination is probably the same when you have a "diverse" group compared to a relatively homogenous group. What matters is whether there are jerks in either group.

I've been on teams where I was the only white guy and everyone else was Indian and we all got along great, and I've been on teams with lots of different "identities" represented and people did not get along.
Migraines in general are weird. It's rare[1], but I can occasionally tell when a severe migraine is about to occur because rooms feel too big. I walked into my bathroom a few days ago (which is about 2mx2m/6'x6'), and each wall seemed about 2 feet longer than it should, and the far corner looked about 3 feet too far away (it was more a feeling than a visual disturbance - it's hard to describe). I felt _small_, which is a really odd feeling when it comes on suddenly. About an hour later, I had a severe migraine.

I'm assuming it's a subtle form of Alice in Wonderland syndrome[2].

[1] I get regular migraines, but I can only remember this happening a few times, possibly because it's fairly subtle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome
You don't want any devices accessible over the normal internet. Set up a Tor Hidden Service, require some authentication at the bastion host to your internal network and you're good to go.

https://youtu.be/j2yT-0rmgDA
I consider the Kindle one of the most underbaked products I have ever used, and it staggers me that no one seems to care. Earlier iterations were truly ground-breaking, so we gave them a break on the details. But we've been at this for 12 years now, the product really should have matured more.

I'm not talking about the state of E-ink, but the usability of the Kindle device itself. I current use a latest-gen Paperwhite but I've owned almost all of them. The current one, in my opinion, is a huge step backwards in lots of ways from earlier iterations. The touch screen is appalling and has no place on an E-ink device. The software is incredibly bad. There's so much scope there to surface useful information on the home screen but there's nothing of value there - I can't even see more than a couple of books in progress, much less find something I may want to read later. It's just astoundingly bad.
And if the proxy card gets compromised?
really? Big fines in Australian cities if you don't pick up your dog poo.

Aliens watching would assume Dogs are the masters - humans follow them around and pick up the poo.
Interesting.

The way we can do captchas suggests you may be on to something there.
Is that not just because women were not really involved in the field back then?
Same here, Firefox 80.0b2, MacOS 10.15.

But it's not Firefox: I see exactly the same artifacts with Safari 13.1.2. (Safari is also much slower with this demo than Firefox.)

Surprisingly, it depends which GPU it starts with, not the one it's running on. Some Macbooks have two GPUs, only one active at a time.

If Wetlands is started with the Intel GPU active, it looks fine, and continues to look fine if the GPU is switched to nVidia. But if started with the nVidia GPU active, it looks a mess, lots of colour noise, and continues to look that way if the GPU is switched to Intel.

I've checked all combinations and found the same on both Firefox and Safari. So I guess it's probably the underlying OpenGL driver. I'm relieved, this means it's not a faulty GPU :-)
They used to do this within Chinese jurisdiction. Now they're doing it on United State soil.
Redstone logic, arduino starter kits, codehs, khan academy...
I looked quickly through the site and I love the fact you’re using verbs instead of adjectives, as japanese does not really have them. This already made me consider subscribing.

However i have to agree that $50 on top of all other subscriptions I have is a bit too much. I would go for it, if it were $20 or if it would even have a some sort of trial, but as of now, the price makes me hesitate quite a lot.
I know it's very hip and cool to be cynical about journalistic independence these days but newsrooms still take the concept very seriously. There's simply no mechanism by which the CEO of Comcast could simultaneously a) meaningfully affect NBC's coverage of Elon Musk and b) not have it be an open secret and scandal within the industry.

I've worked on the product side of legacy media companies before and trust me, given the disorganization I was seeing in the editorial departments at my peer orgs, they couldn't have pulled this off even if they wanted to.

NBC's coverage of Elon isn't any more negative than it's sister orgs and the simple, occam's razor explanation is that his ridiculous behavior is absurdly good at generating clicks rather than any organized media endeavor against him.
That additional specious condition on threat to national security is what is problematic.

1. Expert opinion seems to be that the perceived threats indicated in the case of TikTok are vague and over hyped, and there is no concrete evidence produced.

2.Federal Government may not have sufficient authority to promulgate such a ban, even on grounds of national security. May be possible to squeeze out the cash flow of the company through trade restrictions, may be able to mandate that this app cannot be used by federal employees while on duty, may be even possible to disallow their usage on federal government premises, but it cannot ask Apple and Google to take an app down from the app stores.

3. If that is the case then we are moving into a government-licencing regime in the US, effectively. That is, you can have your app distributed only if you have the necessary license/authorization from fed government which can be revoked at any moment. I don't think that is the right direction. So to have such special powers for ostensibly national security purposes is undesirable and detrimental to the very system that US is claiming to champion.

The whole episode is wrapped up in a frenzy of reactionary whipped up paranoia that is reaching an alarming cacophony considering the commentary here.

This is obviously a nuanced matter, and needs to be approached as such, not with a coldwar-era Hollywood Manichaeian dualism.
Having the minor in the custody of the abuser is by far the more serious problem, so solve that first, and if that isn't happening fast enough, fix whatever is preventing that. Then the copyright claim solves itself -- there would be lawyers lined up in front of your door for the chance to sue child pornographers on a contingent fee basis.
The main “feature” of Instagram was that it was free of politics, tribalism, and the news cycle. Then came the activists looking to leverage the captive audiences and the attention of their friend circles for their cause. This change invited those of all causes and parties to participate, because to not do so would be to accept a marketing disadvantage.

The political marketing war escalated quickly. Now Instagram has turned into the same cesspool other platforms have - whether it is YouTube or Twitter or Reddit or Facebook - with advanced campaigning, mass manipulation, etc. Like Twitter, it suffers due to the limited format - images allow for a charged newsbite and no nuance whatsoever. I’m starting to think any centralized platform that is very open to the public or doesn’t ban politics will ultimately decay once weaponized.
I am sorry! You are right! I automatically assumed everyone with cryptocurrency understood the risks and benefits, but if this is to become mainstream we need to educate people. I am sorry for making such assumptions about people.
> nurses, teachers, HR and many more professions are overwhelmingly female dominated, yet nobody is complaining about that, is it?

When is the last time you read a nursing magazine, or did a web search for information about increasing the numbers of male nurses?

People do complain about these things.
Others would know more about classic CS interviews.

I suppose that solving the problems in CLRS "Introduction to Algorithms" couldn't do any harm.
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Facebook seems to still have some profit, so it clearly has capacity. The insufficient number of people looking at reported violations is by design.
IANAL. Depends on jurisdiction.

In the US, if you get information, it’s “public” (or at least you can trade on it) unles you explicitly agree to keep it private (e.g. by signing an employment or other contract that includes “trade secrets” or “non-disclosure” clause). For example, Marc Cuban was sued, and won, after he traded stock after being told some “material information” but not agreeing to keep it a secret (he wasn’t even asked, IIRC).

On the other hand, in the EU, you’re supposed to know which information is non-public, so if you learn something potentially secret, you’d have to confirm that it’s actually public before you can legally trade on it.
Why did @ mentions take off as they did? I first saw it on Facebook and never understood why people wouldn’t just message their friends privately.
I believe the gist of GPL is you supply the source code that produced the binary object through your compilation processes to whoever received the binary as you were licensed it as part of the sale or distribution.

You are not obliged to supply any intermediate files, media assets, manuals, or technical supports as part of the licensing, though you are not restricted from doing so(you absolutely can charge full prices for GPL’d software)

Building from source but cleansing it before release or supplying irrelevant intermediate files, even de-complied files as sources... to “protect valuable assets”, those had been tried and are generally considered license/copyright violations.
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Depends, the lower btu units can plug in to any outlet, but even in Europe you can only get so much power.

Regardless, ac draws enough power that you want it on a dedicated circuit no matter where you are. Sharing that outlets with anything else is likely to result in annoying breaker trips when you overload the circuit.
Actually, the discussion around nurses/teachers being overly female and how it impacts the salaries in the field is widely discussed in sociology and feminist theory.
The idea that professions dedicated to "care" (healthcare, childcare, or even human ressources which demand "people skills") are overwhelmingly female and underrated is a staple of a lot of conversations around gender, workforce and income gaps between men and women.

edit : corrected a typo
Here's a shower thought I recently had. I was massively into skateboarding in the second half of my teenage years, up until I was 20-21 give or take. And while I was the typical computer nerd who wrote cli programs to solve his math homework, only recently I saw a potential connection between the two activities: street skateboarding(the post 1980's ramps and bowls) has a fundamental and striking similarity with hacking. When I say "hacking", I'm referring to the definition of the term:

In both cases people use things in which they were not meant to be used and in some instances some bizarre, strange, odd, ridiculous or completely outrageous results are born. And sometimes absolutely beautiful and mind boggling. Sure, you often end up misjudging your abilities or what is even realistically possible but the fundamental idea is completely valid for both activities. Now that I think about it, I kind of miss those endless summer nights of jumping over fences to get into some school's yard when it was raining outside and carrying and stacking benches and tables over one another and whatnot...

R.I.P. Steve.

Edit: Oddly enough, last year I managed to get my hands on this[1] and it immediately became a decorative element. The picture on the deck itself is a perfect representation of what I just said I think.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/OoeVEF6.png
$50/month to use a website for learning Japanese especially when you are English speaker sounds like a ripoff.

From my own experience, it's way more effective to have good old physical class with a native teacher (who also speaks good english and is a good teacher!). Yes it's hard to find a good teacher but it's worth it.

Close the computer, turn off your phone, go to class and you can learn and if you go for group class $50/month will do it.
Mark my words, in 6 months, I too, will repost this classic article and get those sweet sweet HN points.
As a bonus I will also post:
"No wireless, less space than a nomad. Lame" article
Whichever word I repeated in my head as I heard it was what I heard even if looking at another. I could easily and reliably make it change between brainneedle, brainstorm, greenneedle and greenstorm using this method.

Edit:
kind of think this is to do with the n at the start of needle being implicit as you already get the n sound at the end of green and brain. I think if you register another n the remaining sound sounds most like eedle and if you don't the remaining sound sounds most like storm...
Or I may have listened to this too many times
And this is why the interview process has coding questions.

11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?

wow, this is 20 years old:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
> Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

Oops.

> Then there are those pushing computers into schools. We're told that multimedia will make schoolwork easy and fun. Students will happily learn from animated characters while taught by expertly tailored software.Who needs teachers when you've got computer-aided education? Bah. These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms and require extensive teacher training.

Also oops.
And just like that crypto crashed again.
> America is a bully too, but without Uighur concentration camps, fleets of fishing vessels farming the sea to extinction, outrageous claims over the South China Sea, etc.

but with Guantanamo Bay detention camp, bombming Iraq with fabricated evidence and killing hundreds of thousands innocent Iraqi people.
Oh, let's not forget how Uncle Sam extended their territory by slaughtering Native Americans since 15th century. You even have a festival to celeberate the genocide and conquest of Native Americans by colonists.
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> Do you find slander to not fit the bill?

But it's still the same thing -- what does it have to do with the platform? Go sue the actual speaker, and keep collecting damages from them as long as they keep using the platform to publish the slander.

> And what about calling for a military coup to persecuted anyone they see fit?

A military coup pretty obviously falls under a non-speech act which is itself illegal.
Speculative execution mitigations throw in another performance wrench. Might as well drop the need for them altogether, which is what happens with a lot of the integrator constructs we have in modern languages.
By that definition, a GPS module with an SSD is an "I".

In discussions that invoke the words "self" or "consciousness", I find it common to hear pithy or clever definitions. However, rarely do those answers offer any actionable insight.

Are you sure that your words "I" or "consciousness" point at extrinsic things in the world? Have you not just invented a new kind of elan vital? If you claim that "consciousness" is a useful category of phenomena within consensus reality, then great. Demonstrate that.

Dark matter is a mystery, but it is a mystery comprised of concrete phenomena. Terrestrial biogenesis is a mystery, but it too is comprised of concrete phenomena. Heck, even the amorphous term "love" points to a more concrete category of phenomena than the word "consciousness" typically seems to.

FWIW, I think there are concrete approaches to the problem. One method HN might like is to study how we judge subjects as being conscious. Anyone want to build a NN classifier for this?
> The key thing with bounds checks is to hoist them out of inner loops.

The compiler can't always hoist the check on its own, because program behavior might depend on the bounds check occurring in the loop. But you can write an assert!() outside the loop to hoist it explicitly, and verify that the bounds checks are optimized away - or use unsafe unchecked access when they aren't.
Ah the old mark of the beast.
No just no, this is a future I don't want to become part of.
Sorry, but I don't understand exactly what you mean.

It sounds like you're saying most people wouldn't quit, which doesn't conflict with my statement, which is that "some people" would quit.

If you want to try to dispute that, you'll have a tough time with me, since I personally already have quit, even without the UBI, and from much more than $100k.
Perhaps they’re coming out with some innovative product? Or some major shift in policy?

I had the exact same reaction as the GP. That was a lot of words that didn’t really say much.