skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
aww man, this is so frickin cool. i just set this up, and its amazing. i really needed this for audiobooks. thank you! <3

I use an app called "Voice" [1] on Android for audiobooks. I'm so used to it that any other app or way to consume audiobooks seems below par.

[1] https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice
> Namespaces are not Rustic

why do you think that?
Were this found on a production model from one of the big 3 I'm guessing there would be calls for a massive recall, but because it's just part of the fluid/continuous-updates manufacturing process that Tesla has maintained, it certainly won't.

Personally, I am amazed that their factory process is this innovative/flexible - though I'd be pissed to find Home Depot material holding the insides of my car together like some last-minute-quick-fix!
> And this is contrary to what people understand as religion, which seems to avoid carving reality at the joints

It's not. It matches exactly what people understand as religion in any context that doesn't involve themselves.

Compare the Roman Emperor, who was never referred to as a "king" -- by the Romans -- because the concept was taboo. The Greeks went ahead and referred to him as a king. Who was right? What would we gain by excluding imperial Rome from a study of monarchical societies?
Another thing to consider is even if you interviewed that many people there's really know way to evaluate your interview accuracy and performance unless you work with all 100 people.
Citation? I have heard about rejection for in-app mentions but not for out-of-band messages.
"Fun with the kids" is a use-case with a very low need for confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and a very low risk of targeted attacks. The US federal government use-cases are obviously very different. Note that the "ban" in the article is not for consumers it is for the federal government.
Germany is seriously gung-ho about trash incineration, to the point where they import trash from neighboring countries to keep the generators on.
Nicotine is one of the safest and best known nootropics.
The kicker is that such a submission should be generated by GPT-3 itself
Yes, scalable problems are the best, but can be difficult to devise.

A lot of folks tend to go the "optimization" route, by having a problem with multiple ways of extracting more performance, typically by better algorithms or data structures. These are ok, but not great. Most candidates will reasonably start with a simple naive solution that works and then try to optimize, but time may not allow for that and the optimization may require significant rewriting of the solution. So unless you either start out with the optimized solution or you have a lot of time, you're unlikely to ever see those solutions.

I tend to prefer scaling via scope.

For example, for our game engineering test, we start with a half-finished 2D "game" (think something like pacman). We then have a list of functionality that can be added with increasing difficulty. This allows us to measure "seniority" by both (a) how far down the list they get and (b) the quality of the individual solutions.

Another example is starting with a single threaded solution and then extending into a multi-threaded or multi-process solution.
The difference between the left and the right is that the right regularly disavows white nationalists and extremists.

The left embraces leftist extremism and their views become regular Democrat talking points. See: Antifa/BLM.
It was such a big risk that we made election security weaker and mass printed ballots to mail out to everyone for this election even if they didnt ask for them. Genius.

Also masks are expected to be obtained by everyone but voter ID is too hard because democrats think minorities are stupid or something. Or as Biden would say “poor kids are just as good as white kids”
Any thoughts about adding an automated flag for articles with a title that includes “Big Something”?

Generally the discussions are fairly low quality.
It would be really nice if corporate america would pull the sticks out of their asses when it comes to sexual activity

Imagine how much more fun life would be if vices were more accessible
Cloudcraft – Architect and budget cloud infrastructure
Not entirely on topic, but could you share what your preparation was like for these interviews? Resources/timelines etc
But what percentage would developers consider appropriate? Apple works partially as a consumer advocate in this space preventing many shady practices through their draconian rules. There is definitely value preventing developers from innovating over customer expectations.
I'm not convinced that it's actually a bad thing to dump plastic and paper into a landfill. You just cover it up with dirt and plants every 20 years and build a new one, pretty low impact as long as you have it properly sealed off. Even gets rid of some CO2. Probably better than putting lots of energy into recycling when it isn't actually efficient to do so.
It isn’t the same at all. China routinely bans American internet companies for no apparent reason. Whereas the vast majority of Chinese companies are allowed to sell into the US. No other country operates like China does, with such drastic anti-foreign policies.
I think y'all are thinking on different scales of "plastic escaping". One scale being large plastics like bags or packing materials which could conceivably be blown away from a landfill or otherwise just left to rot.

The other scale being microplastics leaking into the ground & our groundwater. I'm not really sure whether the asphalt thing helps with microplastics
The math in the viral Tik Tok doesn't add up at all.

She claims to have paid $120,000 on an $80,000 loan with 7% interest over 10 years, with a remaining balance of $76,000.

Worst case: If she had missed every single payment for 10 straight years with 7% compound interest and then paid that $120K lump sum, her loan balance would be $37K.

If she spread those $120K payments out over 10 years, she would have paid the loan off already.

There is no scenario in which she pays $120K and still has a balance of $76K, unless her interest rate was much, much higher than quoted. Any student loan with a rate of 7% or higher should be refinanced to a lower rate anyway.

It boggles the mind that people are writing so much about this without bothering to fact check it with basic math.
I’m not sure the travel industry is the worst perpetrator here. But regardless, asking people to give up their traveling is simply too much. I would much rather look at commuting and the shipping industry. As well as family/friendly visits which could be done using green on-ground mass transports.
China does not primarily use a national security justification. They primarily don’t even bother to justify themselves. They freely ban whatever websites they want without communicating any rationale for the ban or clearly stating what is banned.
Study: Urban Density Not Linked to Higher Coronavirus Infection Rates—and Is Linked to Lower COVID-19 Death Rates

https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2020/urban-density-...
> So what’s a bad actor? I consider someone who squats a bunch of crates to make or point or prevent their names from being used to be a bad actor.

In my experience, the thorny problem with namespaces isn't bad actors because you can fix that with content moderation. Yes, that takes time and effort which can be scarce in an open-source community, but it's doable.

No, the thorny problem is good actors with bad execution: people who publish a package with a nice name that does what it says it does, more or less, but does it poorly. It doesn't cover all the edges case or it is poorly optimized or it has limited features or it has some fatal design flaw in its architecture... Maybe it was fine at some point but just hasn't kept up with the times.

So what do you do if a package like that grabs the name "json" or "http" or something? You don't want to kick packages off just for not being great, but you also don't want it to seem like the de facto package for a task in your language. I do a lot of Haskell, and it's not the best developer experience when you have to tell people "don't use json, use aeson instead".

Namespaces would solve this problem. You could have a "blessed" namespace (like rust/) and, when functionality becomes important enough that the quality of the "default" package matters use the namespace to provide that package (rust/json, rust/http... etc). You don't have to kick off the existing package (even if it's squatting a "nice" namespace like json/json) but you also don't get into the point where packages with nice names look fine but are actually flawed and a bad choice for real work.
Plenty of non-giant internet companies are banned in China as well.
The headline here is clearly misleading some of the people in the comments. The proposed ban is on US federal government purchases of DJI drones.

> “The US Congress is considering banning the US federal government from using foreign-made drones as part of its 2021 National Defense Authorization Act,”
I must have been holding it wrong. 


Seriously though, they must have a very high gain antenna to get 4km range at 2.4GHz with streaming video at unlicensed power levels, so there probably is a very specific antenna and controller orientation you are supposed to maintain to achieve that range.
I apologize in advance for such a brazenly ignorant question: But why is it that this small team is able to produce a working microkernel, yet GNU Herd and (more recently) Google's Fuchsia have languished eternally as vaporware?
'Ugh fields'

This will be my next go-to word when facing with, um, Ugh fields.
The only service that can meet all that is their own, so they're pretending to allow something they're actually prohibiting.
I've had this for the past couple months working on the GUI for a web app; it all just feels like "ugh". The back end is where all the magic is, the front end is boring. If I could afford to hire someone, I wouldn't think twice.

In the past, I've found streaming on Twitch helped a lot with "ugh" GUI dev. It reframed the activity; the main task was actually to stream, and I felt rewarded when people commented or followed me. (Also learned from people more experienced.)

I can't stream my current project, but I suspect somehow reframing the activity in a similar manner will help. I just need to think of a way to do that...

In the meantime, I'm enjoying the comments here!
I love that article, but this comment beautifully illustrates the problem with it, because unless you believe "19 year old with better-than-normal tooling" counts as "Mossad", it has totally screwed up your perception of the threat model.
The answer was 3 I think, referring to rock paper scissors balance relationships in RTS games, and fighting games, but it was Zynga in 2011 so they were mostly thinking about casual strategy. I think I said 1 at first because the question was kind of silly and I trend toward reductive answers with silly questions.

response to your edit: Your interpretation of the question makes a little more sense. He was talking about a specific number, not a concept\variable that is common in games. For Zynga I'd probably say energy or money or something, although any tracked resource that determines loss, victory or progression would work for your version.
The United States went through a roughly 100 year period or so where conservation efforts were... er, not terribly great. It took about 100 years for humans to shoot an incredibly large passenger pigeon population into extinction, and bison which once numbered millions on the plains was reduced to mere hundreds. Fortunately, in the mid 19th century to early 20th century in particular, people began to notice and started protecting areas. Thank goodness for that, but a large portion of ecosystems did get wiped out (to give one example, roughly 95% of the California redwood forests).

Megafauna do get most of the attention, but a lot of the hidden economic / scientific benefits of maintaining biodiversity I think comes from smaller parts of the ecosystem -- for instance, drug discovery. Or, the widely used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique for copying DNA... which for all we know is a technique that might not even exist today had preservationists not had the foresight to preserve the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, where the crucial enzymes for this technique were found.
Single rotor crafts do not avail for plasticky parts, and require more non-off-the shelf parts in general.

Even very first quads were for example easily makeable with existing toy parts, and plastic.

But with just a bit more efforts, single rotor craft take a lead from quads by a significant margin.
Somewhat different cultures, I think. There are oral traditions where we can compare the written and oral records and see less deviation in the oral records over even long periods of time.

I acknowledge that requires examples and citations and at one point I knew where to pull them up offhand.
> For decades the message was to recycle for the environment.

The message is and has been "reduce, reuse, recycle." Recycling has been sold from the very beginning as being the option of last resort.
We're supposed to be upset because an economically-interested party talked only about features and benefits that helped move its product?

It's almost like NPR constantly promoting the value of the news and not bringing up that only one story in a dozen (if that) relies on multiple sources with different viewpoints.
But that doesn't mesh with "start my own private practice." Either those concerns apply to his original job and his new practice, or neither. Something doesn't seem to add up...
Not permanently. You have to re-install every week.
The sad bit about checked exceptions is that everyone compares any sort of error tracking to them and immediately dismisses many useful ideas

Java's checked exceptions got the worst possible combination of error tracking. Its optional, so you don't even get to see if a function throws (kind of like the billion dollar null mistake) and its based on classes, which means a lot of irrelevant names leaking throughout the codebase.

Like with nulls, the main value is being able to claim that a function doesn't ever throw, at all. Apple's Swift got this just right.

A simpler system of "throws / doesn't throw" and with optionally polymorphic variants / unions to complement it would go much further.
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-D

It'll likely need some minor work to work with the latest D compiler, attend to that in a bit.
In the end the typical western lifestyle has an enormous environmental impact you can't really compensate for, no matter how much you recycle or eat organic food. I think the only way to reduce our impact would be to have way less people world wide but there is no way to change culture that way.
>Physics demands that we respect electricity and don't increase the infrared opacity of the atmosphere.

Physics does no such thing. It tells us that increasing the heat retained in the atmosphere increases the planets surface temperature. It is a descriptive science. Not a prescriptive one. Wanting to have industrial civilization possible in the next century is why you don't increase the infrared opacity of the atmosphere. But that is a value judgment far outside the scope of physics, and one social sciences claim is theirs by right of ... something.

The metaphors people use to think about the natural world are terrible, or as Carl Sagan put it Demon-Haunted.

The reason why physics, and other hard sciences, are so useful and respected is that you can switch dependent and independent variables around with a lot of success.

If I have the ideal gas law:

PV = nRT

Then I can rearrange it and be fairly confident it still works.

P = nRT/V

If you are an engineer this is a godsend. You want to set a hard value for P but can only directly control V or T? Try the second equation! You have a chance at succeeding without having to spend decades building machines that blow up and kill everyone around them!

Politicians see that and are jealous. Surely if those lame eggheads can get things to work like that we can too. So the social sciences give you equations as well. After a bunch of statistics we see that:

time spent in school = a*wealth - c

We can't control wealth, but we can control how long people spend in school:

wealth = (time spend in school + c)/a

So if we force everyone to stay in school until they are 50 everyone will have 20 million dollars in their bank accounts.

And to anyone who asks how this works, politicians say: Why are you against science and hate poor people?
Also, not that unusual for an information addict to say "just one more (article|tweet|post|academic paper|etc) before I tackle this."
What makes you think Fuchsia is vaporware? It's not general purpose but google is definitely shipping/going to be shipping devices with it.
I propose that 99.9% of the rare earths have not undergone nuclear changes, and so could be separated out. If there are +neutron changes that create unstable isotopes, that would be hard - but ones that resulted in fast beta decay or fission would be easy.
I tend to see "reproducible" used to mean things like what nix/guix aim for. SemVer is of course insufficient for that, but never promised to be.

In terms of "this set of semvers can be satisfied in a way that the project will always build", yeah, it'd be nice if semver could be used like that rather than as a rule-of-thumb.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/20/using...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42104894

The best one can do is 21 miles from a road - in Yellowstone
> Whatever it is, it would lead to a reduction in pay, which you suprisingly support - that amounts to walking into your boss' office and asking for a pay reduction.

I just think it’s useful to try to understand the effects of policies not just on me, but on society at large. For example, I might observe that a tax increase hurts me personally but helps others. Are you saying that instead I ought to come up with reasons why the policies that are bad for me are also bad for everyone else, to better lobby for myself, or perhaps so I feel less cognitive dissonance?

> That's the point. The effect of cheap construction labor only affects the rent prices in some areas, in other areas owners pocket the extra profit - while making construction jobs largely untenable except for immigrants coming from poverty.
> I suspect something similar could play out in the software field.

So in a region where home supply is constrained by density restrictions, there’s surplus extracted via high rents, and some of that surplus could go to construction workers (and they ought to fight to get a good wage so the developers don’t get all the surplus). Great for the construction workers, but bad for renters. In the analogy, software engineers are the construction workers and everyone else is the renters. Given the high market value of my wages, I will negotiate hard to get my share. At the same time, I can acknowledge that there would be benefits to society if there were more people qualified to write software, even though it would lower my personal wealth.
Why is the Tesla Cybertruck so Cheap?
What did Tesla do to make a large bullet proof Truck cost the same as a Model 3, a much smaller car and which can compete with gasoline trucks?

And is it actually cheap compared to e.g. a Ford F-150?
I assume you're making this argument to be absurd and reductionist, but just in case you aren't, no, those aren't general computing platforms.

Sure, they could be, with a lot of effort. But they are neither marketed nor capable of general compute today. They don't have the toolset or ecosystem to make general purpose apps. Nor do they actively encourage people to make general apps.
Your goal is to protect SSH, not the VPN network. The VPN network is just a tool for protecting SSH.

With your configuration, all that needs to exist is an SSH 0 day to gain access to the server. With a VPN, they need that AND a 0 day for the VPN software to gain access to the server.

You can have a more complex setup with a VPN, but that isn't the discussion here - the discussion is securing SSH. If you want to provide VPN access to an array of other services, or as access to a corporate LAN or similar, then that's another conversation that has to involve the specifics of those services and that configuration. It's not what is being recommended here.
In addition to the stuff you should really being doing? That stuff is hard enough for beginners, without confusing them with speculation like this that goes against best practices and common sense, especially without clearly explaining the pitfalls and real dangers to each of these hypothetical scenarios. Besides, if you're already using industry accepted solutions to security problems and someone manages to gain unauthorized access anyways don't expect any of this amateur crap to offer any real protection at that point.
That may have been the intent, but that wasn't the result.

Even though recycling is supposed to be the last resort, it was treated as an effective solution on its own instead. Less attention was paid to "reduce" and "reuse" and most of the attention was focused on "recycle"
There's a real performance downgrade when performing in front of people. To add more accuracy to your assessment I would give these people the opportunity to perform in a room without someone watching.
Incredibly sad but true.

There seems to be two opposing imperatives for online social identity. On one hand you want reputation and accountability for what people say to fight trolling, bullying, and misinformation. On the other hand you want some level of anonymity to encourage free speech and expression. I don’t know if this core tension can ever be fully resolved but our current online environment is clearly far from optimal.
The people who use Hanlon's razor to explain away malice are both incompetent and malicious. Only someone who is an idiot would ever think to use 'I'm very stupid' as an excuse or explanation why they did something very damaging. If you are smart enough to realize you are incompetent after the fact you were smart enough to realize it before the fact, and that means you were malicious in not recusing yourself.
> many French and German universities had undergraduate bodies with even higher selection standards

I've heard that this is because the French and Germans often split institutions into teaching and research, so their teaching institutions look crap to outsiders because they're not doing any research.
> And instead of saying it is primarily economic protectionism they make it a defense issue to try and tamp demand.

I don’t think there is any mechanism that allows such government action except the national security loophole.
In military parlance, this is the distinguish between cover and concealment. In practice, good cover often provides some degree of concealment, but on a purely theoretical level, the two are orthogonal.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/business/nikola-motor-stock-h...
> but at no stage showed the slightest interest in me personally or anything I had ever done.

At least based on what I read about them (and their approach to their customers) google does seem slightly autistic (in a sense) as a company.
Professors seek information on students using online services for assignments
My understanding 30 years ago was a "PAD" was the TCP/IP equivalent of a "terminal server", translating serial streams to network connections. This may be an overly simplistic view, I don't know. It's been a very long time!

Are there any public x.25 networks still operating?
Thinking about this more, wasn't there a time, maybe late 90s early 2000s when the message was that plastic is more environmental than paper? Something like at the supermarket checkout you should pick plastic over paper bags to save rain forest trees? Is my memory wrong or was this a widespread message at the time?