skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her tutoring center was bombed. She leads Afghanistan's university entrance exam
Personal accountability doesn't refer to holding others accountable, yourself. LOL. It refers to the opposite - holding yourself accountable.
> Fugazza says only dolphins, parrots, apes, and killer whales have so far been shown to imitate people.

Would not surprise me if an octopus could imitate humans. But it would delight me.
The value that music brings to people’s lives isn’t comparable to tech. There may be conglomerates that one way or another twist people’s arms to pay them and generate revenue for artists, but as a whole the music industry does not produce enough value relative to the world of startups. So there won’t be a YC of music that is large enough.
If one day your head is in a different space and you don’t feel like working, you suck it up and work anyway because you’re a professional.

If you didn’t accomplish anything for the day, you put that in your end of day email/report and explain why, and what you need to do to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

If you’re actually sick or need a day off you notify your superior. They will work with the team to pause or reassign your work while you’re gone, and when you get back you resume your work.
Pretty sure v8 gets a few orders of magnitude more attention and development resources than jvm and graal.
Did they make it to the interview? Are they passionate about what they do and okay spending their life earning your company money and being paid as less as possible? Sounds like a healthy person to me! They're hired. In all seriousness, it may be too big of a task to try to learn everything about the person before you get a chance to work with them. If they're not a right fit, it will show in time. It sounds like you've been burned before with employees who were going through some stuff or might have not been of sound mind. What's your motivation behind asking?
Western studies of these phenomena are in their infancy.
Reality creeps in from us creating tech-utopia trough "legacy" systems where the internet, cryptography, multi-core architecture and full program isolation didn't exist yet.

Software has a nasty habit of iterating on yesterday's ideas instead of rewriting for tomorrow. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it seems to be the path of least resistance thusfar.
There are so many different software platforms for poker in 2020 it's not even funny. So much competition and innovation. I have about half a dozen poker groups that play regularly (some daily) together, and while most of them settled on PokerStars and PokerBros, others are using Poker Mavens (self hosted), PokerNow, Pokerrrr, etc. I thought COVID-19 would kill poker but it really seems to be going through a revitalization with everyone bored at home.
From what I've read, Kanye is too much of an egomaniac to pull off something like this. From the stories in Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holloway. And also the "grabbing the mic" incident with Taylor Swift.
Hmm. It was watchable, but not overwhelmingly so.
But no trash either.

edit: Also, along the lines of "be careful what you wish for", the alltime classic "Brainstorm" from 1983 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271 comes to mind.
I know there are some people who won't like to hear this, but the reason technology sucks, generally, is because of capitalism. It is more profitable to release an avalanche of broken software than to spend the time to craft and maintain software that works well. A "software will always suck" mentality is only true if you hold capitalism as an invariant law of nature. But it is not.
> I’d be interested to see the number of people who know the risks of opiates and the people who know the risks of social media. I would guess the latter is a pretty small minority. And for both, I’d venture for the people who do know they’re dangerous there’s a great disparity between how dangerous they think they are and how dangerous they actually are (i.e. they’re worse in reality).

Agreed, that's why I think companies should be forced to clearly state them, but not forced to stop users from consuming.

Another avenue could be providing proper education to individuals regarding addiction to food, drugs, etc... But this is beyond my scope of understanding.

> As for the cocaine part, that’s immaterial to the thought experiment I proposed. I was just trying to delineate between true physical addiction and whatever makes me people want to eat unhealthy food. Say it’s something else that causes physical addiction but isn’t illegal.

My bad. I didn't get that.
But I still think, assuming they clearly state the risk of physical addiction, they should be allowed to sell their fries.

Now, just to convey this one more time, it's a totally different situation if they use something illegal to make the fries addictive. They should be punished.
This is great! Can we replace the original article with this, it's much higher quality than most of the ones listed and fills a gap in Youtube content I'd never been able to find (though I haven't tried recently) - that is: legitimately intermediate/advanced content.
Sure. It's an ancient study of academic interest in Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism etc. They all have sophisticated methodologies for evaluating enlightenment in individuals or even texts.
Well, Chrome used to do this too until they removed it in 2016. Internet explorer does this. It was more of a default than a 'feature of Firefox'.
> Not only have a number of devices that used to be purely electro-mechanical been reworked to use microcontrollers (cars, everything in the kitchen),

Yup, and in most cases this not only did not improve them, but made them less useful and more fragile. Let's be honest: the software is there only because it can save on manufacturing costs, and sometimes can be used for extra marketing benefit. No attention is being given to providing value to the customer.
Also sounds like Fibromyalgia. "Onset: Middle Age, Treatment: Healthy Diet,Exercise, Sleep"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia
I can attest that this saying is common in South India (Andhra Pradesh specifically). It doesn't necessarily the guests will arrive immediately after - it can be sometime during that day.
> The First Amendment protects any jerk with an opinion and a printing press

Does the First Amendment even apply to Julian Assange? He is a citizen of Australia as far as I am aware.
I am confused about what it is that you're trying to achieve with this attitude. My point is that international law and international relations are at play, and that they matter. If you are so convinced about Taiwan, you really should do two things:

1. Convince the DPP to officially declare independence. Not just unofficially flirting with the idea, but officially still claiming all of China.

2. After 1 has happened, convince UN members to recognize Taiwan.

From a legal process point of view, I think 2 cannot happen until 1 is done.
>Ok, I get your point now. Even though the individual is to blame, there's no point in doing it as they won't change. The only solution is to "force" change by regulation. Did I get the gist of what you were trying to convey?

Yeah, I think we understand each other. And, I appreciate your comments. too. I vary how I feel about this general issue depending on the topic.
Why does 127.001 route to 127.0.0.1 and 127.011 route to 127.0.0.9?
Mass murdering fewer people still makes you a mass murderer.
What if Wikimedia Taiwan had a chapter but that chapter wasn't listed if Wikimedia's website was accessed from a mainland China IP address? Much like Google maps shows different country border delineations depending on where you use it from?

Personally the way I see it is that there are multiple simultaneous realities of the situation and if you give each region what they want to see, everyone will be happy.
Back when flat-panel displays first became mainstream, Microsoft and Apple took different directions as to how to utilize subpixel rendering.

Microsoft chose to align strokes as close as possible to pixel boundaries for a sharp, crisp look even if it meant distorting the shape of the glyphs. Apple on the other hand decided to render fonts as close as possible to their original shapes even if it caused some blurriness around pixel boundaries.

Linux made its own flavor of both options, and left it to the user to decide which one they wanted. The default on many distros is closer to the Windows look, though. So if you are used to the Windows look, you will probably prefer the default option than the tweaked-to-look-like-Mac option.
Gas stinking is a feature, not a bug. It's a safety measure. Particularly when we're talking gas (and not gasoline), which is naturally odorless and made to stink on purpose.
Brain drains are not solved by removing the pull, but by giving the people opportunities to develop themselves in their country of origin.

Elon Musk wouldn't have been able to do what he did had he continued living in SA.
Because, you know, we are the Nazis now.
You have cherry-picked this statement presumably because it's a part of the article that concedes genuine inconsistencies among prior studies. The study I cited seeks to explain the differing conclusions of prior studies.

But the study's support for masks is crystal clear and you can't read the entire study (or even the abstract) and come away without that conclusion.

The more I engage with you the more I fear that you are not debating the subject in good faith.
The analogue of that law would be to prosecute someone under the influence of drugs who is out on the streets.

The current drug laws are more analogous to putting someone in jail if they purchase alcohol and put it in their trunk because there's a chance that they might drink and drive.
Syntax may be trivial, but writing idiomatic code in that language isn't. Back in the late 90s for a class we had to write all our assignments in both Java and C++. The syntax translation was trivial. So in your sense, yes it was trivial.

But a professional C++ programmer would have designed their program a lot differently than the professional Java programmer. Simple syntax translation isn't good enough here.
That "increased pilot workload" would include a change of underwear I should imagine.

I am not in/from the aviation design industry but I always sort of assumed (incorrectly as it turns out) that there were no single point of failures on aircraft (redundant systems) for the major stuff.

Semi-humoros thought and a total wild-shot uninformed guess but would love to do a diff on the old vs. new firmware fix just to see if all it did was perform a self-reset every x ticks.
Could you expand on why you think being an egomaniac is a negative in this situation?
I'm pretty sure Alexa already does this so it doesn't activate from Alexa commercials.

(Although that does still happen to me occasionally.)
The constant surprised_pikachu.jpg is what really gets me. We know what happens when you re-open businesses. More people get sick. It's totally predictable! Yet the media breathlessly reports how shocked everyone is at the "surge" or "second wave" every time a region tries to re-open. And, regions keep trying it! "We're going to carefully re-open bars and nail salons and see what happens..." says the government. Without mask use and social distancing, it is totally predictable what is going to happen, morons!

[For some unknown reason, HN doesn't let me post any more today, so replying as an edit]

Excellent point about having exit criteria. Just to pick a state at random, Pennsylvania [1] explains their criteria pretty well. They're looking for less than 50 new confirmed cases per 100,000 population reported in the previous 14 days. Which seems way too many to me, but what do I know, I'm not an epidemiologist. These criteria need to be open to change if they're wrong, though. If they notice cases increasing after re-opening, they need to 1. close back down, and 2. adjust their criteria downward so not to make the same mistake again.

1: https://www.governor.pa.gov/process-to-reopen-pennsylvania/
I'm Losing Trust in AWS – Key SNS Service Broken for 24 Days
The author claims that FTP is disappearing from the Internet because Chrome is going to drop support for it in a future update. The article cites another piece that says that Firefox dropped FTP support earlier this year. Both cite security concerns for the reason. Neither mention either SFTP or FTPS. Further, web browsers never needed to be FTP clients, so it makes sense to axe support for them in principle.

There is still a demand for FTP. New FTP-only hosting providers have been popping up in recent years. Companies are also setting up FTP servers to store whatever they need because it's cheap and easy to implement. I even personally incorporated an FTP server in a project that I started on this year. Of course, the author doesn't mention this, nor does he offer any alternatives to it.
Reading PG's essays and Hackers and Painters back in 2005 got me to believe that entrepreneurship could be something for me, too.

It changed the course of my life, both personally and professionally.
The thing about clinical trials, is there is a minimum time it takes to run one. You can up concurrency but it only gets you so far - you really need to know the long term impact before you can iterate much.
My guess is it's less about the duration and more about the consequences.

If our VPN was down a week we might not switch because we have an alternate workflow, but if our production servers were down for a few hours we'd switch.

Also, I missed one really important email and that's all it took to switch the hosting for that.
Digital information cannot be stolen.

The courts ruled on this last century. At least as far back as the 80's when people were stealing HBO from satellites with TVRO dishes in their backyard.

It's time to stop beating that horse.
How does one use this?
Ok, racist.
As an experiment, I logged every bug I encountered for a few days. I averaged 5 bugs a day, not counting dark patterns or bad design.

Everything is broken, and nobody is upset. [1]

Some of the software I use is so unreliable that I expect it to fail. I expect the Vodafone login page not to work properly. I expect one of my airpods not to connect on the first try. I expect my banking app to show random error messages, even though it works just fine. Most online stock brokers have issues at the worst possible times. My bookkeeping app is frequently wrong, per my tax advisor. Since everything is broken, the best I can do is to mentally assign all those apps a trustworthiness score, and avoid betting too much on them.

The worst part is that support for all that software has been largely automated. If you have a problem that can't be fixed by a chatbot or a crowdsourced support community, you are largely helpless. Google can wipe everything you love, and there's no one to punch in the face (to borrow from Grapes of Wrath).

So far, my only solution to this is to be a late adopter, and to favour simplicity over sophistication. I was recently considering going from paper notebooks to a tablet. That initiative stopped at the electronics store. The Surface Go wanted me to go through a setup wizard (after dismissing a few notifications). Two of the 4 iPads had working pencils. The ReMarkable reviews mention a host of issues. I never encountered any bugs with my Moleskine. It pairs flawlessly with any pencil I want, including older models.

[1] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EverythingsBrokenAndNobodysUp...
No, that SIMD is good for string matching and Rust regex crate (written by burntsushi for 'ripgrep') makes very good use of it and is thus a nice library for implementing quick matchers.
I dove into the inspector interface, and changed the background color. No change. Also had to delete a 1 pixel background image of the same color. W. T. F.
No. Just no. It's quite frankly sad that Among Us is so popular. It speaks to how a large portion of current "gamers" literally have no idea what a good game is, so they settle for something that simply lets them argue with people...and that somehow substitutes for an actual game.

It's kind of sad to see where gaming is in 2020 as compared to the Golden Era of gaming in the mid 2000 to late 2000's.

Oh well. At least most of these people have no idea what they missed out on.
Writing System Software (2018) [video]
At what point did Big Tech become the executive branch with trying to enforce the law?
I'll refer to what I assume you called the sokoban example, the "banana test" from part 2, which is the most relevant to our discussion. In it, a pigeon who has been trained that sometimes pushing stuff around is rewarded with food and sometimes climbing stuff is rewarded with food manages to solve a puzzle where it must push a box to below a banana and then climb the box to reach the banana.

First of all, thanks, that's a really cool video and exactly the kind of research I'm looking for.

However, I don't think it goes far enough to actually measure what I'm interested in. In the comments of this similar video [1] about a crow who has been trained to do each of A, B, C, D separately to get food doing A+B+C+D to get food, a comment captures what's wrong with it perfectly by saying:

> 2:20 The "use everything on everything" stage of playing a point-and-click adventure game.

Sure, we know birds can figure out that if step 1 is sometimes good and step 2 is sometimes good, then step 1 and then step 2 might be good. But that's not at all enough to solve, say, level 2 in [2], a video of a Sokoban game. If I trained a toddler to solve puzzles like level 1 (so it knows how to walk and it knows how to push crates), if could spend weeks moving and pushing crates around and not reach a solution. The repertoire of behaviors that allows them to play the game is just a foundation for a whole world of logic and planning that needs to be mastered to actually solve nontrivial Sokoban levels. Had I seen a crow solve level 3, I'd believe it is no less intelligent than some of my friends, and that if we put our minds to it, we could find a way to communicate, trade, and help our new corvid friends build a civilization not less sophisticated than our own. Based on that video, I see no reason to believe that about pigeons (yet).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSu2PXOTOc
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix2AVVUwe0
I'll recommend 3 channels, from people that attack a problem until they figuring out how to solve it. The spirit of programming.

Tech with Tim (Beginner)
https://www.youtube.com/c/TechWithTim/videos

George Hotz (Advanced)
https://www.youtube.com/c/commaaiarchive/videos

BNT (Life Risking)
https://www.youtube.com/c/BNTfullHDvideo/videos
>And the guy had no idea that's not how people do it.

You should tease him a bit, somehow convince him he is behind on something, ask him where is his language book, everyone has one..

step 3. ???

step 4. profit
What if you reached the linked page via another source?
It is bad style and disrespect to the reader to use abbreviations without explaining at least once their meaning.
It also reduces foreign applicants to American colleges, and since foreigners have been carrying the bulk of the tuition load for most colleges, it will also negatively impact colleges and lead them to cutting various programs.

Which is another massive win for this administration. After all their leader loves the poorly educated.
I think you have this confused with the subthread under alblue's comment.
> Nope. Just one. You were lied to. The second woman refused to sign the statement that was presented to her by the police officer. She had been taken to the police officer by the first woman. The police officer was a friend of the first woman. The second woman _refused_ to sign.

Out of interest I have tried to google this. I found precisely zero results the back up your claim, even with multiple attempts at rephrasing the query.

I have also found no references to their names, much less their relationships with officers.

> It really should bother you if that happened to an actual goddamn nazi thug. The ACLU defend your rights when they're attacked to get at an actual muderous nazi thug. Assange is a publisher and journalist who has exposed war crimes.

Literally why I started this sub-thread with “It is entirely self-consistent to say both that he should’ve faced his accusers in Sweden and that the American charges look like an outrageous attempt to stifle legitime journalism.”

> Remember when he was accused of lying about that to avoid being prosecuted for rape.

Looked like that then, still looks like it now. Why? The name of the country America is trying to extradite him from — the same country he was in when he said he didn’t want to go to Sweden.

> Now nobody believes the rape accusation

"I would like to emphasise that the injured party has submitted a credible and reliable version of events. Her statements have been coherent, extensive and detailed; however, my overall assessment is that the evidential situation has been weakened to such an extent that that there is no longer any reason to continue the investigation," says Eva-Marie Persson, Deputy Director of Public Prosecution. — https://www.aklagare.se/en/news-and-press/press-releases/201...
Don't forget:

5. The mentor of younger developers.

It's another thing some companies expect you to do, but don't allocate time for it, so at the point you finally know enough to not do a bad job, you're suddenly being pulled out of 1-4 and expected to do 5.
I submitted it [1], if you'd like to discuss it there :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=24590896
I hear you, but feel like we are biased by what we accepted as normal in our formative years, and that filter doesn’t apply on what we are discovering now that we’re grown up professionals.

For instance books have been with us for centuries, and honestly most of them suck. Paper pages are thin and sometimes cut your finger (how many times did you get cut by an ebook ?), most are weak to liquids yet our world is filled with liquids everywhere, sometimes coming down from the sky. Updates are painful and costly and non scalable. Font sizes can’t be changed, you have to use an external device to deal with it.

Not saying there are perfect alternatives or that the tradeoffs don’t make sense. Just that we learned very early that books have these limitations and we’ll need to live with them to be a member of society. And we can agree all of these aspects could be and sometimes are fixed, but most people are just ok with books ‘sucking’ in those ways.
Very nice. At the same time, is there a point where offering refuge turns into brain drain?
> they also expect bugs to continue to be fixed after the sale

I wasn't disagreeing with that. I mentioned "long periods of stability and refinement" — refinement including bug fixes — and "any issues with the new technology need to be resolved". But again, bug fixes don't magically happen on a schedule either. Maybe fixes are easy, maybe they're hard, you never know in advance.

> bundling up features in a scheduled update is a good way to make it visible to users that their subscription dollars aren't just falling into a black hole

This is exactly why it's not true that "subscriptions are actually the ideal way of aligning incentives for products that involve ongoing maintenance". Instead of maintenance, subscriptions incentivize continuous delivery of new features, and consequently continuous delivery of new bugs.
Layman here. I can't find a report about this clinical trial, maybe I didn't try hard.

It is a phase II, in a phase II the goal is not to test the efficacy of the drug, it is to test the presence or absence of side effects.

A phase III role is needed to test if the drug is helpful to patients. It involves several hundred people to avoid statistical errors. Here there will be no phase III trial.

Another thing is that nerves can repair in the peripheral nervous system (PNS), but (until now) not in the central nervous system (CNS). If a drug can help nerves to repair in the CNS, it is certainly something revolutionary.
Is cross compilation planned for the future?