skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an interview with a recruiter from this company (named "Informal").
"Okay, "informal" you say, let's try to stand out!" - so I'm calling them from a walking area near the beach - beautiful background for informal video-interview.
Recruiter refused to talk while I'm outside..

Maybe will help someone to pass their first line :)
Also, typescript can compile `import`s into `require()`s.
Cool idea, i have a garden and i hate maintaining it anyway.
Thanks for your kind words, friend. I don't know you as a person, but I know how you write. It takes one hell of a beautiful Dad to make me come out with a story about my own beautiful Dad. And it takes a wonderful, thoughtful man to inspire me to be that same kind of beautiful dad to my own little girl.

I capitalize the word 'Dad' when people deserve it. You get the capital D because you most certainly do. If my gut and instinct is anything to go by, you've already succeeded and they most certainly look back on your time together in a good light.

Heck, you raised a child with enough love to get into healthcare. I'm not nearly strong enough to get into a system like that. And you raised a child with enough self confidence to get into art.

Frankly, you have joined the ranks of my Dad heroes. If I'm lucky enough to raise my daughter to be the person that your children are, I will be very proud of myself.

Now give yourself a massive pat on the back because you deserve it.
Google hasn’t had a successful product in a very long time. Am i exaggerating? Why does it even want to stay in the consumer electronics business at all? None of their phones are able to gain traction and they have a terrible strategy.
I'm not over losing GPM in two months yet.
New York Attorney General Seeks to Dissolve National Rifle Association
From my point of view Excel hits a sweet spot between 'very simple tasks' and 'very complex tasks'.
They aren't dropping support for it, they just aren't selling it anymore. The 4a just launched. The 4 will continue to get software updates. This has to do with supply chain constraints (and probably low sales.) Unlike Apple, not everyone controls nearly the entire chain.
> Just like all Pixel devices, Pixel 4 will continue to get software and security updates for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the U.S.

This is something I just don't understand. As phones get more powerful, there is absolutely no excuse to not support them for longer. When did the standard for supporting consumer devices get so low? Love it or hate it, Apple still supports the iPhone 6s Plus. A phone which is almost 5 years old now.
It does get rather problematic when you have large quantities of...stuff. You can't run linear stuff in parallel so now you're bound to whatever single CPU core you have lying around.

I'd say that getting some basic data science computing skills should be more important than the silly SPSS courses they hand out. Once you have at least baseline Jupyter (or Databricks) skills you suddenly have the possibility to do actual high performance work instead of grinding for gruntwork. But at that point the question becomes: do the people involved even want that.
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`require()` isn't really a part of the language. It was a library added by nodejs, since javascript had no way of expressing modularity at all at the time.
What's support got to do with sales availability?
> Can small physical attributes (size, edge alignment, inter-card friction, air pressure) contribute these cards to affect the entropy?

This is the basic premise of the Svengali deck of cards. One half of the cards is slightly smaller than the rest which gives the magician some ability to do tricks including things like "effectively" have two cards stick to each other (or jump each other).

https://www.newcasinosonline.co/svengali-deck/
Or when wearing a helmet
But presumably an extension for wallpapers shouldn't be accepted: If you can get rid of an entire class of extension code by supporting wallpapers... let people set their new tab wallpaper, block all new tab extensions that say "wallpaper", and tada, entire vector for malware gone.

Extensions are a massive security vulnerability: They often have access to your web browsing activity, and they sit after TLS termination, inside your browser's trusted environment.

Browser extensions should be rejected by default, and have to constantly justify their existence. Pointless extensions (including "cloud to butt", sorry guys), should never have been accepted.
Trackers are expensive and require maintenance. About 10 years ago The cost of the trackers exceeded the cost of land and panels almost everywhere, and so you Don’t see them anymore except in very unusual applications.
I'm surprised people don't use other words for digits, as they do for letters (alpha, bravo, charlie...).
The irony of google spending so much money on Project Zero to call out other company's security issues while they internally ignore their own.
big surprise, fugly design with huge bezel unseen in years combined with typical less than mediocre battery

not that pixel 4a would be much better in this aspect - when others are moving already to centered punch hole Google releases fugly asymetric punch hole and combine it with 3100 mAh battery, good luck with such battery as heavy user or even average user after year or two wear
CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected
this is still drastically better than no union which results in massive exploitation once there is a decent amount of qualified workers available. We see this less in software in general because the demand for competent developers is so high, when unions first started coming about in the US they were met with bloody resistance, people were killed just for striking, so your bringing up of nepotism and unfairness seems rather out of place when it was addressing a system that literally murdered people for asking for more money. One of the few unions I can't get behind is police unions but there is no history behind police unions like you do with most workers unions. Cops just picked it up because they realized it gives them a massive amount of power, organized strikes by police will result in almost all their demands being met, city with no police makes people uneasy.
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Pixel 4 is still supported of course.
This will be great for stargazing as well then!
Yeah, but one would hope that science has a higher standard. 80% garbage results in science sounds catastrophic to our understanding of the world, and in particular when it comes to making policies based on that science.
Mildly interesting, but that looks exceedingly anecdotal.
There's an R (#rstats) wrapper as well: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppsimdjson
Is some hijacking you before you even get to techcrunch.com? Or is it loading the page and then redirecting you?

Why aren't you using an ad blocker?
Two are services. One is hardware. What's the pattern?
I live in Austin & plan to leave in 2-3 years.

* I live in the outskirts, not the city center, and would KILL to have a mass transit option within ~1/2 mile of my house.

* August, etc.

* When I compare property taxes with my HS friends in Appalachia, they're astonished. I pay 3-4X of my friends' rates for similar houses/land. The Texas no-income-tax schtick has worn off with me.

* I didn't grow up here & my friends are scattered around the world. So there's no allegiance to anything here. (With the strong exception to taco trucks.)
> If nothing decomposed, the earth would pile up kilometers-deep with the bodies of animals and plants.

But the opposite is also not true. We do have pretty deep layers of mostly-decomposed animals and plants.

Along this line, what happens to all the radiation/energy the planet absorbs from the sun (is it radiated away, or is it somehow building up as matter)?
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While everyone's hating on the Pixel 4 for good reason, last night's iOS 13.6 software update broke my iPhone. So... there's that.

At least the Pixel 4's software updates don't render your phone unusable.
+1 I think this is the infra revolution we need.
Chrome team has tried to make some changes to improve the situation, but browser extensions are still a perfect target for malware and abuse because of a structural problem:

Users install these (free) extensions on a whim, installation takes 2 clicks and seconds. They make a point-in-time decision: "I find this useful today, and I trust the extension is not malware today"

But what they are really saying is: "I trust the (changeable) owner of this extension with whatever data this extension has access to forever and ever" (Nobody uninstalls these extensions, and now Chrome will even sync your extensions when you buy a new device.)

It's the imbalance of that decision that is the problem, no amount of filtering and UI changes and API updates will fix that imbalance.
I wish more places would do this. It would be amazing for plantlife, wildlife and amateur astronomy.
This was my main regret of getting a pixel 4 and it still bothers me to this day. I was definitely more satisfied with my 3 :(
Awesome, thank you. I suppose I have some thinking to do then.
I wear them when at the grocery store, primarily. There's a lot of high touch there. It's probably overkill, but it makes me feel more comfortable about it.
Visualising Sorting Algorithms
"Similar" in terms of the job-to-be-done I had in mind—a Scratch-like interface for programming most if not all of the boards mentioned. These features you've outlined did not jump out at me at all on first glance, which is a shame!

I somehow totally missed the live aspect. That's super exciting (and impressive). And parallel!?!? A WYSIWYG parallel code editor for microcontrollers? How is that not the headline?

I'm glad I asked! This is quite interesting to me now. Thanks for your reply!
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Firstly, its a terrible explosive for actual military use. If you can pull strings on this scale, you can obtain something more practical.

If you are planning terrorist attacks, you don't need a mountain of the stuff, because there is no plausible scenario for using it in such quantities.

Secondly, if they had a plan to use it, they would have moved it somewhere sensible, and have it guarded / stored properly, they would make sure its not lost in a terrible accident.
We live rural southern Ontario and fireflies are usually just a single weekend or so at the end of June or beginning of July. But this year they went on for almost two months. They only just stopped about a week ago.

I'm not sure why it was a good season for them. Like you say, traffic, lighting, pesticide sprays on farms, all really the same despite COVID. Reduced air traffic I don't think would have an affect? Even after I sprayed my vineyard with insecticide to deal with japanese beetles they were fine, and continued to prosper in and around there.

It may just be that we've had an unusually hot dry year, I assume where you have as well. Maybe that's advantageous for them somehow?
The cynic in me views this as yet another attempt at fethishizing nature by people who choose to live in sterile urban environments. The problem with this type of fetishization is that it eventually combines with class privilege to produce narrow public policy that seldom promotes the public good.

Furthermore, those that live in less-urbanized less-sterile locales are painfully aware that nature and her army of insects always has the upper hand.
Excel excells at being already installed on most computers. That's it.
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now that everything is using SLF4J all you do is import it and put a config file in one of various supported places in project
Excel should belong to the commons at this stage
You can run those language on very small devices. MicroPython works great on the micro:bit for instance, which only has 16k of RAM. An Arduino might be pushing it though with 2k of RAM. Lisp was originally run on a system that had 4K 36bit words of memory for RAM, but no ROM (the IBM 704).

There's a pretty long history of virtual machines on small memory systems, going back to the days of BASIC and SWEET16. They can actually make better use of memory in some cases, with the VM byte code sort of being a compression technique versus native code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16
You know friend, give yourself a huge pat on the back. It takes a really beautiful Dad to think the way that you do and to be so focused on helping your boys find their own passions and strengths.

You deserve the capital 'D' for Dad. I don't capitalize that word lightly - I'm an obsessive fuck when it comes to language and grammar. But you truly deserve it.

Thank you for your kind words!! And most importantly, thank you for being the kind of beautiful Dad who inspires me to be just as beautiful a Dad as you are.

Take good care and thank you again!!
> have you considered the rights of the companies providing these services

These big payment platforms (Paypal, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, etc.) are not really private organizations. They are public utilities providing a fundamental service required to operate our society, especially when they are as ubiquitous as the big players like Stripe. They should either only police speech to the extent the law requires, or be regulated heavily so they don't enact their own speech stifling policies. The alternative is that we outsource all our fundamental rights bit by bit to private companies who then support just speech they align with.

> Hate is not a protected class of citizen, you absolutely can push out people who deserve to be outcasts.

I'm not commenting on the legality. I am commenting on the fact that it violates the fundamental principles of free speech, which are more basic than our laws.
just buy phone with unlockable bootloader and good custom ROM community and you can have this even now, just not officially from manufacturer

anyway in Pixel case the phone will have already after 2 years completely unusable battery, not that it would be satisfactory for heavy user even out of box
This calls to mind a quote from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian:

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge.
War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War
was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The
ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is
the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

Just swap our war for Excel! "It makes no difference what men think of Excel, said the judge. Excel endures. As well ask men what they think of stone."
Even in the Nexus days, a gap of several months between the last generation going out of stock and the next generation becoming available was normal.

I think Google is just bad at inventory management (that, and selling a previous generation Android phone is probably much harder than it is for iPhones, where even Apple routinely continues selling models for years after introducing their successor.
SQLite can seemingly parse and process gigabytes of JSON per second. I was pretty shocked by its performance when I tried it out the other month.I ran all kinds of queries on JSON structures and it was so fast.
Which over an hour is 0.25kWh.
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And the iPhone X lasted about as long[0]. I’m unclear why we see unusually short product life cycles as being some kind of indication that All Is Not We’ll. Sometimes a product is a dud, sometimes the tech changes and it makes sense to release a new product for market or economic reasons.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_X
Thanks for the feedback. User/password are not sent anywhere, you can inspect the login function here: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich/blob/maste...
We need a LTS process in phones like we do have in OS.
You'd be surprised, there's some people who still aren't aware and start asking some pointed questions when the news start saying Bitcoin reached new heights.

Be careful of people asking where to buy a large amount of Bitcoin... since they probably just re-mortgaged their house.
A contrarian view: Quantum Computing would not be near the top of my list of things to teach in high schools. The students would be better off learning about scientific ideas that have a proven track record, and enable or explain functioning technology that benefits the greater society. There would be hundreds of topics to choose from.

Foot note: I acknowledge Quantum Computing is just a subfield of QIS, but the abstract only talks about IBM Q and quantum algorithms.
Pixel A line is the new Nexus, that's where the party is at. They really shine for a reasonable price.
I switched from iPhone 6 to Redmi Note 8 Pro recently as I lost my iPhone. I have been an Android user before the iPhone.

I really can not overstate how happy I was with how long Apple supported that device - I used it from end of 2014 to early 2020 - yep! Every single day, new iOS supported till late 2019.

Google - well they are famous for killing things.

edit: typo
Are China / the global central banks not colonialist?
I'm actually having a lot of scenarios where Excel is banned except for some managers, C-level and board type stuff.

If you produce, touch or directly act on data, Excel is no longer allowed. On the other levels the people that still use it (because they think they have the skill - which they often don't) can't do meaningful direct-action on those files anyway so that solves part of the problem of acting on bad data or bad data processing.

We do allow web-based spreadsheets, that has the benefit of limiting what you can do and drives people to either put a request in with the correct team or take internal courses on how to do it right.

Some people hate it, but then again, some people hate Excel. The difference is that the people that don't hate it now have an empowered skillset that they didn't have before. In theory you could do the same with Excel-oriented internal courses, but we didn't want to do Excel because a lot of us think it's stupid (often simply for emotional reasons but the push was based on hard data like process metrics and user input).

To add to this: it's probably because I find myself attracted to data-driven organisations where using Excel didn't help the workforce much anyway, and the positions I'm in allow for a certain degree of influence on the tools that we support and how much explicit allow/deny we apply on them.
We don't all use (or even have) Visual Studio.
yes, YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS is the only proper format.

It is sorted from the greatest unit (year) to the smallest unit (second). If you treat them as text and sort alphabetically they still get sorted from oldest to newest.

Other formats don't sort properly.

writing dd.mm.yyyy is like writing time ss:mm:hh

writing mm/dd/yyyy is like writing time mm/ss/hh

If I really have to put YYYY at the end of the date I use the 'dd-mmm-yyyy' format which excel translates based on client locale:

- 13-mar-2020 in enUS

- 13-bře-2020 in czech
This is why I love using serde bincode serialization. I can even deal with serde bincode binary blobs inside rust based wasm on the front end. It can save a ton of bytes on the wire, used appropriately.
I believe I purchased my present desktop in 2010.

Perpetual donations to debian and apt update; apt dist-upgrade keep it in tip-top shape. The same cannot be said for a growing drawer of phones/tablets that are no longer supported/updated.

(I was glad to see that partial postmarketos support is present for at least some of those devices now. Looking forward to trying that out when I get a chance.)
First one. Sold out, but updates will continue for the promised three years.
“You obviously need an education” :eyeroll: Pretty fresh coming from someone who “obviously” missed the entire point of my post.

No one claims that present wasn’t caused by the past. The question is who bears moral responsibility today for a regime that Iranians placed in power, that Iranians (a large enough chunk at least) continue to support, etc. Iranians are not uniquely automatons. They own their regime at least as much as anyone else, especially at this point. That US actions set a chain of events in motion does not absolve Iranians of everything they decided to do since.

You are confusing causation and fault/responsibility. The US interventions, the Shah’s personal decisions, the ayatollahs’ decisions, the rise of Islam, the Persian Empire, the first humans who left Africa, are all causes of the current situation. But to determine who is at fault, who is responsible, is a very different question. Proximity in time is only a vague heuristic.

It’s common in every day parlance to mix these concepts up. Legal systems have been confused about the distinction for thousands of years. But the distinction is very important to speaking sensibly about things.
Insects are spread out over more cars now.
Absolutely. My point was more than you can't expect comp. biologists to actually be "good" programmers when compared to SWE or even web devs.

Most of the code I write to do biological data analysis is fairly linear. However, I also generally use a static type system and modularity to help ensure correctness.

I've perused a lot of code written by scientists, and they could certainly learn to use functions, descriptively name variables, use type systems and just aspire to write better code. I just saw a paper published in Science had to issue a revision because they found a bug in their analysis code after publication that changed most of their downstream analysis.
yeah, but not my banking app, or apps like UniFi's Network manager that waits for the fingerprint read intent before trying the secure store.

It is a lot more than just "password manager == sorted"
that means there is an opportunity for opensoirce, lightweight, self-hosted Sheets.
A product opportunity for Zoom/Slack/Github.

I would love to see Elixir based solution just to see how much performance can be squeezed out of it, whatsapp seems to handle huge load just fine
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