skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok I might've been a little unclear because I received a couple replies now about privacy and that wasn't really my point, so apologies for that. This is what I said to other person:
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> Yeah these are real problems, I agree. And US citizens should continue to put pressure on their politicians to pass more privacy-related legislation

> But my point wasn't really about data collection, it was about influence and content-control. People are readily influenced by memes, ads, headlines, etc which is why such platforms are so problematic because people are not comfortable with how much influence they have and how easily misinformation is spread.

> What am I less comfortable with is leaving a path open for China to have that same kind of control in the US as FB/Google/etc, but without being subject to US laws like our private entities are.
The supply chain is not on trial in this instance, this one person (who did not harm or victimize anyone) is.
Digital passport solution proposed for European horse movement
I think it's the JVM that's the real win for Java. At my work we have a mix of Java, Kotlin and Scala and they all Just Work in our deployment pipeline that was built with just Java in mind.
Unfortunately these kind of calculations clash with ethics. You can’t take actions that cause people to die, even if they prevent more other people from dying.
I think loss of control is the 'quiet part' that you've hit on in this issue. Political regimes from Latin America, the Philippines, Myanmar, have used US based social media products to organize and incite harassment and violence against critics and minority groups. This is a lucrative and powerful racket that the current US administration is leveraging in a similar way and at Chinese expense. But if US eyeballs move to a platform owned by China you can envision them turning off the attention tap to vested and opposing US interests.
Show HN: Interactive: Visualizing Caffeine Halflives and Bedtime
Are you implying that only non-underrepresented engineers are capable of uncomfortable speech?

I'm sure any terminology can make some engineer (underrepresented or not) uncomfortable. Therapy may help if it becomes recurrent and hard to manage.

I'm pretty sure most engineers, underrepresented or not, would appreciate a healthy, dignifying and diverse management structure and workplace so that uncomfortable language not only is less likely to naturally happen, but when it does happen everyone (underrepresented or not) is adult enough to know if a line was crossed.

I'm pretty sure that underrepresented groups would prioritize stopped being randomly killed, be evicted, be massively encarcerated, be without healthcare and be in a constant dog-eat-dog environment.
That makes the assumption that the highest-paid residents of the city are currently paying their fair share. I somehow doubt that, so I don't see the loss of revenue from their absence as great as predicted.
Agreed. I feel that at some point, this "crying wolf" over any transaction causes more issues than prevent them (see the recent issue about paypal not sending payments with an animal name in the transaction)

People react to these news with outrage then are surprised to know why their bank account gets locked up or some seemingly innocuous transaction causes suspicious. Meanwhile, those who want to move large quantities of money illicitly will continue to be able to do so with ease.
Regulators aren’t completely inept and will catch on to this.

Edit: to elaborate, too many false positives will be interpreted as a broken AML policy and that alone is already grounds for penalty.
I find it quite amusing the efforts programmers have to put into a job interview. Especially comparing to what they will be doing every day at job if they are accepted. It's two separate worlds - job interview and job itself.
Also, the two pointy frilly leaves are stinging nettle. Still absolutely nothing compared to fishing around with your hands wearing only cheap nitrile gloves in a liquid you just measured at 14 pH, then boiling it indoors for two hours.

So many PSA's for such a short post.
Also possible that states with better medical care tend to have more unions, as they tend to be richer blue states. No causal link to suggest that unionizing a nursing home will reduce mortality.
I see _some_ potential acceptability to this idea though. There are a few hypotheses for this to be true:

1. If you're not a good programmer even with leetcode practice you can't get good
2. If you're a good programmer with leetcode practice you eliminate anxiety and are able to perform optimally according to your programming skills

Thus, it is definitely semi annoying that you need to "prep" for interviews with leetcode, its not the absolute worst thing in the world. Software engineers in the US tend to routinely forget how good they have basically everything compared to every other profession / nation out there.

This is also coming from and Indian dude currently back in India after a decade of being in the States. I think a 60 day window is perfectly acceptable (not great but not terrible either) for immigrant workers. I'm still glad for the opportunity this gives people. You're supposed to be a smart cookie anyways right? Didn't you know these terms when you started? Perhaps you should have made sure you had an exit plan. It's definitely on you if you come on a h1b and instantly proceed to buy a mansion that you can't sell off and leave nation if needed. Also, people blame their kids for not wanting to move them back to their original countries - I feel like the kids will be alright. It's probably the adults who will despise going back to a "lesser" lifestyle or something.
A lot of that territory is well worn by various Java libraries. Not a lot of money to be made so Oracle is probably better off not bothering with anything ML or data science related, nothing here to see that would interest them in any way, nope.
You can't blame the TF people for things like while_loop. Those are inherited from Theano, and back then the dynamic graph idea wasn't obvious.

JAX is indeed a different situation as it has a more original design (although TF1 came with a huge improvement in compilation speed, so maybe there were innovations under the hood). But I don't know if I like it. The framework itself is quite neat, but last time I checked, the accompanying NN libraries had horrifying designs.
Like everything else, salary is a function of supply and demand.

If a company requires its employees to be in an office in an area where supply is low and demand high, that company will pay more. They'll have to.

Remove the in office + geo requirements and supply increases. Offers can and will adjust. It's only natural that payroll will want to do the same.
I've never been a great sleeper. I knew caffeine could be a factor and I understood, at least intellectually, that caffeine’s half-life clearance meant that some of it might still be floating around my brain later in the day. But I didn't fully grok the dynamics until seeing it play out visually.

So this is a (simple) simulator, built to visually explore 2 questions:

1. How long can caffeine stay in your system?

2. When will caffeine levels fall back below a threshold with minimal sleep disruption?

The answer is, it depends... so I parameterized the notebook to try different options. Notes on the parameters / lessons learned are here: https://towardsdatascience.com/interactive-visualizing-caffe...

Take this with a big grain of salt. I'm not a pharmacist, physician, chemist, etc, and this hasn't been reviewed by one. But at least for me, being able to turn the dials on a simple half-life model and see the consequences has been eye-opening.

Default params are chosen based on:
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223808/
* https://doi.org/10.1038/clpt.1987.126
* https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt197824140
* https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.3170
* https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2006.00518.x
* https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(95)00040-W
It’s almost as though it’s the First nation conceived in Liberty shouldn’t take its cues from a despotic regime?
Pico-8 v0.2.0 adds (fast) bitwise operators
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Unrelated to the real topic at hand: I find telling that an antiquated software company is choosing to publish stuff as PDF. I usually refuse to open such links - my personal choice of course - because I can't see any valid reason to use it in this context. Yeah PDF for printed forms, but anything else makes no sense to me, yet it's way more used that I could imagine.
That zoo clearly didn't have any humans in it.
Obviously -- we're living through a pandemic, and people are out congregating in large protests and other gatherings. The point is that the numbers thrown around like 200k deaths are not reduced by the natural mortality rate of that population. On top of which, never is it considered the cost in lives and quality of life of the response, only its supposed benefits. The number of people who have not gone for regular doctor check-ups which would have detected cancer at the early stages.. are yet to be tallied in the deaths caused by our overreaction.
Wasn’t one of the problems that some workers were working shifts at multiple homes to make ends meet? I would be surprised if unionized workers did that as often.
You've highlighted the problem with public discourse in the country. "I'm going to choose to ignore all scientific evidence because my brother can't get a job and it feels like H-1B is the cause" - sadly applicable to any policy topic where politicians & media are taking advantage of people's emotions.
That's only true if the person making your food charges similar rates as you do. Usually not the case on HN.
Basically, yeah, although "insecure" is a bit too broad; unauthenticated encryption is insecure in some contexts, like sending messages to another person. But if you're encrypting your own backups, and all you care about is that the NSA can't see what you're storing, then there's no insecurity: encryption alone is sufficient.

By the same token, sometimes authentication alone is sufficient, like if you just want to verify that some person did indeed "authorize" a particular message -- for example, a public forum post with an attached PGP signature.
While those things are bad it seems somewhat tangential to threaten to ban an app unless the company behind it has its US offices nationalized.

If the national security concerns are significant you’d expect the administration to be working with the legislature to enact laws against such behavior which they could then enforce. Why wouldn’t they want this ability to go after other bad-actors instead of using this bizarre method to target this individual?
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I can't speak to caffeine, I'm still trying to kill that demon myself.

However, cutting out alcohol has increased my health and energy significantly. In your twenties you can drink every day, wake up at 8:00 and have a normal day. In your forties, that catches up with you.
Broadly I agree, but JDK 8 was released in 2014, so while Java is certainly conservative you're overplaying it there.

The relatively recent adoption of the 6 monthly release cadence is helping a lot - particularly with the small feature additions that used to get stuck behind the release train.
> A judge, in a city that is the stronghold of the party that is opposing the current administration [...]

How is this relevant?
The pandemic is pretty big news.

The environment is not an immediate effect.
Criminalising morality does tend to fare poorly. Setting responsibility at appropriate levels or behaviours (say, contributory negligence liability for drugs- or alcohol-based deaths or injury to the industry rather than individual users) might have merits.

Effective determination and points of control can be thorny.
Yes, it would absolutely have a massive impact on money laundry as an industry (i.e. on tax havens etc).
People eat out for a variety of reasons, like they don't want to cook, want to eat something new or because they want to go out. They're more or less being forced to cook right now, unless they want to put themselves into uncomfortable situations everyday where they might expose themselves to infected people.

This is similar to saying that if everyone has a bedroom or kitchen, they'll never want to stay at a hotel or a bed and breakfast. People travel because they don't want to be at home, or because they want to visit somewhere else. Similarly, people are, in general, being forced to stay put or they'll put themselves into uncomfortable situations where they might expose themselves to infected people.
If only it had stopped at fizzbuzz as a quick check for whether you can meet the lowest bar for coding I think it would still have some merit but it just seems to have gotten out of hand to the point that ability to get a job now is completely decoupled from your prior experience.
i really wonder in what world you are living. When was the last time the US government acticely censored FB or twitter or snapchat?

now try to find some ccp critical content on WeChat or TikTok (eg videos of Hong Kong protest). Especially while being on mainland China.

please let us know how it went
Yeah, in total there is a 20-25 seconds loss or so depending on circuit, so 2 secs aren’t too many percents of that but with the same tire strategy chances are your opponent has to pit as often too, so... (and this is venturing into the F1 strategy world with undercuts etc) And with these things evened out, seconds can matter although it’s usually no disaster even with a 4-5 secs stop unless you’re in a tight spot or with little of the race left. Races can quickly start to get ruined for each second after this though.
“ But a defendant only violates Penal Code 120290 when he or she intentionally tries to infect a partner. So people will usually not be liable under a theory of negligence per se.

This means that in most cases, a plaintiff would have to prove actual negligence by a preponderance of the evidence.”

The law does not require that someone be on HIV medication, you have to prove ill intent or negligence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko

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> the mantle of victimhood over events 160 years in the past?!

Yeah, it's absurd. It's like if somebody would appeal to the memory of the Battle of the Alamo.
No, cooking single meals for one person isn't time or cost effective. Make something like a big batch of beef stroganoff, refrigerate some, freeze some, and it will last a long time.
So how is cryptocurrency supposed to improve this problem?
It has to be more than just a “net economic benefit” in a country with such large wealth inequality. Something that makes Jeff Bezos $1 billion and costs everyone else $900 million is a “net economic benefit”, but that doesn’t make it desirable for anyone except Bezos.
People Will Die
Creating generic networking APIs in Swift
We already have support for LIST and STRUCT (which I think are equivalent to ARRAY and ROW, respectively). There is still some functionality missing there (notably storage, and several functions) - but the base functionality is there and the remainder definitely will be added.
So you rather US govt using the same playbook as China govt? What a way to go...
I'm glad the judiciary system doesn't think like you, sheep.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-20/trump-s-w...
A real N95 mask is not that easy to come buy, and that's assuming you can even afford what prices are for individual buyers
It wouldn't be so bad if Indians and Chinese could actually immigrate. They have to stay in this precarious H1B state indefinitely, since getting a green card is effectively impossible for people from those countries.
China doesn't justify its trade restrictions based on its experience in the Opium wars.

Rather, it justifies it by saying that 1) it's communist and 2) a developing country.
That's not what they're saying. The point is that common block-encryption modes are exploitable, and many of these exploits can be mitigated with message authentication (or by using authenticated block modes, like AES-GCM.)
Definitely. We have quite detailed plans for compression :) more to follow when we get to it.
It isn't either/or. There are teams devoted to hunting child abusers and teams devoted to hunting large scale drug dealers.
For all we know Iraq is not allowing investigator in, how would we know if they don't have WMDs?

Everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
> I'm not convinced the same won't happen to JAX

And now there are already multiple NN libraries for JAX from Google...
They can be subject to US laws like US companies being subject to EU laws. That's what I mean by "I wish US choose to be more like the EU instead of China".

US can regulate the internet companies to mitigate the risk when keeping the global community intact. Make foreign services run on US servers when serving US citizens, make them disclose what and how they process the data. Then if they don't obey the laws can be enforced to obey the laws. Which law TikTok broke? There is no law forbidding being Chinese and successful, that's the US political system failing to have what they want and embracing Chinese ways of doing things. It could be also a failure of the US market to stay competitive due to monopolies, giving lead to China in innovation.

But somehow the freedom loving Americans cannot be told to wear a mask but can be told which app the can use, just like in China. It's mind boggling.
Like "640k is enough for everybody", the iPod review isn't as bad as it seems in retrospect. It's a review of the first version of the iPod, which was Mac only and actually wasn't a great product yet. It was a few years and 2 versions later that they had a design breakthrough and started selling a lot of units. I don't think a reviewer should get dragged for not knowing that a product would be vastly improved a few versions later.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/

https://www.lifewire.com/number-of-ipods-sold-all-time-19995...
In this case its hard not to... These two entities, not the thousands of other Chinese and foreign entities that do business in our country, are being targeted by what is effectively an authoritarian action. There is no national security issue here, at least none that has been disclosed nor processed by our national security teams or Congressional members. Instead, it - like most of Trump's actions, are done for personal gain and spite. And as a result is the most overreaching act by any POTUS in modern history.
What data do you have on the air treatment systems being normal to poor quality? I would have assumed the opposite - many casinos are trying to cater to smokers and nonsmokers (in the same way they're trying to make Vegas a family and party town) and have massive air treatment to pull the smoke from the air so the casinos don't stink
> This seems like a corrosive use of power, an exercise in vindictive narcissism.

what you can expect from trump.
Black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms
You don't get to claim success over the top of 200,000 dead people because an early model said it would be worse.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that there is sufficient evidence to suggest all of Google, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Apple's etc. data end up with the NSA.

Should Europe ban all U.S. tech companies based on that?

Given the U.S. is known for "extraordinary renditions", there's reason this data will be misused.
Are you sure you have your timeline straight, srtjstsj? When were the Chinese people "conquered"?

Tsinghua University is a world leader in AI and software technology.

Chinese engineers and entrepreneurs are competing in world markets with innovative products and services, not gunships. 100 million American users of TikTok appreciate this.

Have you considered the possibility that China is not trying to take over the world, but rather to be a part of it?

https://uwaterloo.ca/tsinghua-uwaterloo-joint-research-centr...
Buying fresh ingredients isn't cheap - especially if you have to keep rebuying them to have them onhand.

If you're cooking for a family, you can buy things and consume them quickly, but many things are sold in quantities that are way too much for one or two people, and even leftovers only go so far.

Yes, you can probably make a pot of pasta with a minimal amount of prep time (though "a watched pot never boils" is a saying for a reason), but unless you want to eat pasta for a week that doesn't scale indefinitely. If you want to eat healthy and have a mix of vegetables in your diet, you'll be buying more of them all the time.

Time is a finite resource - for many of us in the tech industry, one of the scarcest. In the best case, I'm working 8-9 hours a day and sleeping 8-9 hours a day, which leaves 6-8 hours of living. If I spend 1-2 hours of those cooking and cleaning dishes, that's a significant chunk of my life.
s/each and every single time/once when you instatiate a new database connection/

ftfy.

You really shouldn't be needing to create new connections often. Really only once for any given process.

There are some 20 PRAGMAs that PhotoStructure sets for library databases, but it's only at process startup, and it takes a couple millis to run them all. It's wonderful to be able to configure stuff so easily.

I also think the design decision for backward comparability (which meant this default is false) is absolutely defensible.
Which good projects failed due to lack of marketing?
> A lack of Toilet as a Service products?

Exactly! What do you think a sewer system is? It it literally a subscription to having your poo taken away, by a method requiring huge capital costs, major maintenance, a monopoly operator, etc. It is a concept with lots of room for exploring alternatives.
No, but all but the youngest members of the Walton family are big fans of Trump so that’s all you really need to know about how they fit into the picture.
Semi-popular where? The typical iOS programmer isn't going to touch ML. In the relevant demography, Julia had (still has) more users. Swift4TF was a poor choice, and now that Lattner is gone I doubt it has a future.
State terror shouldn’t be safe. It‘s perpetrators deserve far more than just public exposure of crimes. For all I care post their names, photos and real time position data online. Let them hope for imprisonment in a state that observes their human rights.
Staying in a foreign country is a privilege, not a right.
It's very widely used, that's for sure. But it's increasingly not a good choice - in the examples you give - web, ML, GUIs, it is not first class in any of those (and not near to it in the latter two).

What's next for Java should be relatively little change; let a language like Kotlin without all the baggage be the way ahead on the JVM. There's a remarkably good compatibility story there; way better than basically any other language ecosystem out there, that's the real legacy of Java.
That this is a politically motivated judgemenet
He does not claim to introduce the concepts of horizontal and vertical scaling. He mentions them only to immediately discourage them: "Lots of people make the mistake of thinking there's only two vectors you can go to improve performance, high or wide. [...] There's a third direction you can go, I call it 'going deep'." Like I said, it's a long post, so I tried my best to summarize it and then linked to it.
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