skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So wait. The English once used C to mean what we now notate as "120" and the Romans used C to mean "100"? Wouldn't that have been super confusing when the English sent trade ships to mainland Europe? Especially in the days when England was a Roman colony?

And at one time the British spoke German? Fascinating. I always thought the single biggest language influence on British was French (because William the Conqueror), and the pre-Conquest indigeneous British was a mix of Celtic, Roman, and Norse from the Vikings that's more-or-less unique. How'd they end up speaking German?
That's a funny way to spin "fired all the people that were working on it".
I'm advising a team that is working on this problem right now; it will be a crowded field, but there are multiple distinct approaches. I'd describe the challenge as equal parts technical, legal/regulatory, and marketing/comms. If anyone is interested in potentially working on this or learning more, send me an email.
> To wit, every definition of Asia also includes the Arabian Peninsula

Specifically the first definition, it refers to Anatolia or the Persian empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continent_name_etymolo...) and the definition expanded from there as more and more land was being discovered. Then our terrible and arbitrary definitions of a continent got thrown into the mix.
Hacker altered chemicals in water supply to ‘damaging’ levels, sheriff says
For one thing, examining referer is a common way that a server determines a request is not a hotlink. Sure you can do something more complicated with cookies or whatever, but lots of sites are just using referer and they'll break if the client doesn't send it.
I also left for US mid career. I agree with what everyone is suggesting here.

1) A data scientist with data engineering skills is much more valuable to most companies. If you don't already have any, build a couple of data engineering & data science projects on your own, and note any engineering trade-offs for DE projects.

2) Learn about how interviewing works in US, especially at FAANG companies. Give yourself ample time on this task. Join US based online study groups, and this will also help you expand your network.

3) Network aggressively with tech people in US, and see if anyone you know can help you submit your resume to recruiters there.

Optional 4) Finally, the most straight-forward path that I'd recommend is to study at a US based DE, DS, ML, AI bootcamps, or fellowship program. But I can understand that you may feel like it's not a productive use of time since you're already a DS. Also, may not be a great option when you can't go to class in person in US.

In any case, steps 1-3 are definitely the most important for what you're trying to accomplish.
I recently tried learning CL, and was dismayed at the tooling.
While Emacs + SLIME seems to be the recommended way to go, yielding great experience; I could not realise that because I could not get SLIME to work with EMACS, and couldn't get any help in resolving it.

This was after having it work on a previous macbook. Then changed the laptop, tried installing it and got stuck. Led me to give up learning it at all.

I'd like to add better onboarding to the list of things to improve
Outer space is a treasure chest of gemstones
I'd like to suggest Fossil SCM[1]. Your content (text, images etc.) is stored in a SQLite database [@] which is great! SQLite is a recommended storage format[2] for datasets according to US Library of Congress. Also, the SQLite developers pledge[3] to support it atleast until 2050.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org

[2] https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html

[3] https://sqlite.org/lts.html

[@] a single file, not a bunch of files in a directory
You dont need multiple tabs open anymore
To solve this problems most African startup tech companies like Finddle Inc, has created a platform a go to place to share and discover what’s new and also where Africans can be entertained and but the same time get all the required news update from all over the world all they just have to do is login and scroll.
Finddle would soon become the next big thing in Africa for this single reason.
https://www.finddle.online/
Slave suppliers - those at the start of the chain - often sell those from their region. Across centuries, humans from all parts of the world have enslaved each other.
> The opinions are my own and do not represent my employer.

Most of us on here work for someone, and our views don't represent their views. It's a given.
I'm a lifelong imperial-ist but switched to metric after getting into woodworking. It was too tempting to do math in my head like "This piece is 13 & 3/8ths, I need to subtract 13/32nds and then find the midpoint of that..." and then screw it all up at some point.

Now it is just "This piece is 340mm, I need to subtract 9mm and find the midpoint: 116mm": relatively easy peasy.
Bcrypt should be replaced by Argon2
I don’t normally post on HN or even read it that often. So it is necessary because I lurk and just wanted to share my thoughts. I don't wanna derail things but perhaps consider most of the people on HN are probably lurkers and sometimes we make an account to join the chat :)
Need to know what audience to market to or how to relate to Redditors or both?
I've played around with it a bit. I actually found a juicy arbitrage opportunity, and was trying to use it to chain a few trades together to take advantage. Unfortunately it didn't support one of the trading platforms I needed to use, so I ended up just manually making the transactions separately.

This really drove home how inefficient and full of opportunities Ethereum is if you know where to look.
I would much rather not normalize naming and shaming and bullying, personally. Can't tell how much of your comment is irony, of course. :)
If you remove the 1.5% of the data at random, it will almost sure no make a change that is statistically significant. If you cherrypick the 1.5% to remove, it's possible.

To simplify the examples, I'll assume that each person saw the same amount of clam and emotional photos, and also that half of the photos were in each class. (In the paper the number varied from person to person and the ratio was approximately 2 to 1, the conclusion is similar but it's more difficult to write.)

They use an analog sensor, but they are essentiality counting how many times a person reacted before seen an image. It can be a premonition or a sneeze or any other cause.

In the part I posted, they selected the people that reacted exactly once before a calm photo. With this selections it's not clear how many times each person would react before an emotional photo. They compare the data, and the difference was not statistically significant, so they reacted approximately once before an emotional photo.

This is somewhat a coincidence, there is no theoretical reason for this, but if you assume some sensible distribution of the chance to react randomly before a photo and use some hand waving, this is not very surprising because if people have no PSI abilities, they'd react approximately the same number of times before each set.

So now you have a bunch of people that reacted exactly once before a calm photo and approximately once before an emotional photo. We all agree that this is obviously not a proof that they have some premonition.

Then they remove the 1.5% of the reactions before a calm photo and keep all the reactions before the emotional photos.

And now you have a bunch of people that never reacted before a calm photo and reacted approximately once before an emotional photo. So there is a clear difference in the reactions before the photos and they misinterpret this as a proof of premonition.

They actually use an analog sensor, so there is more noise involved and makes everything more fuzzy. If the noise level were too high it could have overshadow the bad cut they made in the data, but the noise was not so high.

> Also, he has a number of such studies. Are they all suspect due to filtering, or are some filter free?

I don't have time to read every study he published, but if you link one (with full text) I'll try to see if I can find an error.
There was discrimination against blacks and Latinos. There was lesser discrimination against Asians.

One big difference is that some Asian cultures were big on pooling resources and helping family. I suspect that black culture was weakened by discrimination and Latino culture is just a generation or two behind Asian cultures in terms of home ownership (there seems to be a lot of pooling in some of those cultures).

Many of the poor neighborhoods that Asians moved to are now Latino neighborhoods. Some of those Latino kids growing up in those neighborhoods are now in white collar jobs. The same thing happened to the previous generation of Asian kids.
What is, what I'll call from my layman perspective, the leeching factor of copper vs lead pipes though? As in, how much copper vs lead ends up in the water being transported?
The E6B is probably the last slide rule in “common” usage - even if only as a technicality anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
> So with the weight of contrary scientific evidence, the people still don't believe the water is safe?

That is what a reasonable human would expect "the people" to do when multiple agencies overseeing the utilities were initially so irresponsible/incompetent/negligent that water superheroes from three states over had to swoop in to warn residents their fucking pipes are poisoned[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis#Virginia_Te...

Edit: clarification
Is this what a thread in scheduler queue sees? Does this website have a timeout?

Edit: Apparantly not

> The last entry into the website was Tuesday, February 9 2021 5:55AM

Someone is squatting. Either that or it doesn't use local time.
Maybe. As a long time Reddit user I’m looking for new alternatives as it’s just getting more and more meme-y, negative snark and groupthink. This wsb thing was a perfect example. If you try to do any critical thinking you’ll get banned. Just post memes and move on.
So is a GPU
A red flower rather than a lavender one.
Hackers use Caesar cypher to conceal malicious urls.
New trick to get people to upload an image of themselves?
All aspects of driving should be made as intuitive as possible, from the operator controls to the fonts on road signs. Adding more mental work makes a dangerous task even more so.
Ah, thanks for the elaborate answer. I think i see your point better now, and yes, it's definitely a more nuanced topic than just "is this OK or not?"

I guess my personal gripe with most arguments against freedom of sexual orientation is that they all seem axiomatic or circular. Like, "because it's bad", "because it's anti-natural", "because this god says so", or some other chain of these that inevitably gets circular.

Your example comparison with religion seems on point, but also super thorny hehe. And since i'm not religious, it doesn't resonate too much either. Sorry.

I don't know if an analogy with musical preferences would be apt. Yes, it seems much more banal, but people also develop their identities around musical preferences sometimes, so it's not completely off!

And if, say, i was a metalhead, then, it wouldn't matter all that much if i've felt immutable love for metal all my life, or my preferences changed over time, or i chose it for some reason, or even if i love other styles! (maybe i'm extending this analogy too much) All that matters is that it doesn't harm other people. On the contrary: i'd share my love for metal with other metal lovers. Win-win.

Maybe it's a super dumb argument, but TBH that's kinda how i feel about sexual orientation or other important preferences. I just don't see the point in invalidating or not accepting other people's preferences and desires, as long as they are not harmful to others.

Thanks for the exchange, and i hope this wasn't too rambly!
Well you also landed on the problem with this scheme: a lot of reddit communities are brand poison. Does Corsair want "master race" as part of its branding experience, even if it's meant as humor? Yeah, not so much.

This is the same pit Tumblr fell into.
For the most part, that can be worked around as well, with careful use of unsigned arithmetic. See https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/branch/master/include/yc/... for some examples. All arithmetic is unsigned, but I use it to simulate 2's complement signed.
Mine has interesting spots and colors, I'm really curious why that is: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=197.6961&dec=29.7091&lay...
Man charged in US Capitol riot worked for FBI, lawyer says
>Still, a raging 80 kg human can be a handful to deal with. A raging 200 kg gorilla is much worse.

the history of our civilization proves that raging 80 kg human with a weapon is a much worse than any other animal. Even mammoths went down before us. This is why we took over that planet and are an apex predator and are a most dangerous animal around.
I invite you to become a pentester for a year and see if you still reject this line of thought.
To throw further confusion into it, both hundred[1] and centum[2] came from the same Proto-Indo-European word *ḱm̥tóm.

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hundred#Etymology

2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centum#Latin
I tried to contact nest to order a replacement plug/harness (for a 1 year old $150 smoke detector...) and after getting run around for 10+ emails I was finally told "sorry we can't supply that part" and you're shit out of luck.

The cumulative time if took them to read and answer all of those emails (and cost) was definitely double that of just shipping the $1 part.
I’d guess the worry leading to this kind of write up, and the difference with the cars-mechanics story is that over time, working within the computer is expected to be more and more important/larger fraction of the workforce/higher paying etc., whereas the demand for mechanics is more or less proportional to number of cars on the road.
> No, stick with me here - what if we applied this logic to our justice system? "You're one in 300 million, who cares if you get a fair trial, let alone whether you're guilty?"

Sadly we are applying exactly this approach to our criminal justice system.

90+%[0][1] (94% of convictions at the state level, 97% at the federal level) of cases go through plea bargaining and never reach a courtroom. Trials are often impossible for poor defendants because public defenders can only bring a fraction of their cases to trial.

People like Shanta Sweatt[0] plead guilty because the alternative is to face a much longer potential sentence at trial.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocen...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/prisons-are-packed-bec...
lol r/seattles assemble!
Ooh, that one’s beautiful!
We've been quietly building for awhile, and today is our first public announcement. We are well funded, and don't plan on going anywhere, especially in the next year. This product is something I've personally wanted for some time, so will self fund and bootstrap the thing if needed. I definitely understand the hesitation though, and hopefully we can build trust over time.
I would not have gone shopping for it without the article pointing me to its existence, but I couldn't find it at any of my local stores. If Eataly has it, I might have to brave the elements and pay too much for it, just to try it! ;-)
>kids’ ubiquitous attachment to computers for social and gaming uses is often presumed to simply transfer to using technology to work with information and transform it in ways critical for the 21st Century workplaces

This strikes me as so naïve. By which mechanism does swiping through YouTube, TikTok or whatever the newest fad is, confer knowledge about technology. Some kind of brain osmosis?

Looking back to my childhood I grew up with both parents working in software. I learned to type on a typewriter and later a computer, played video games, and fixed or reinstalled Windows and it's drivers hundreds of times. My parents even taught me a little basic.

I was always amazed about the huge amount of abstraction that was there, I learned how a few things worked, but when my dad explained something, I'd often think "wow there are so many layers to this, if I'd grown up earlier I'd maybe have a chance to learn all this."

I did learn a lot about some of these layers in the meantime, but the number of layers has only grown. We barely even use native applications nowadays, everything is a tower of babel of abstraction layers.

The second aspect to this is the UX revolution. We expect every app to be self-explanatory nowadays. Nobody reads the manuals. Everything just works.

If you learned how to use an iPhone you haven't learned much. This is because the user experience is packaged so naturally that most people barely need to think about it.

Maybe you've learned about the design language used, what a burger menu usually represents. What the home button does. After all single-button mice seemed like a constraint to Windows users, single button phones have become the norm.

The app stores have made it hard to screw up your system. Drivers nowadays just work. Many families don't have a device with a keyboard at home, so you don't learn to type.

I think the digital natives might have a good intuition of UX, but we failed to give them a chance to fall and learn about the technology stack because the user experience is easy nowadays.

We've created perfect digital consumers. As producers they may be near illiterate though.
An Open Letter from Billy Markus, Original Creator of Dogecoin
Despite the odds being relatively good, it’s not a risk a lot of us are willing to take.

Also, that old saying applies: “If you aren’t paying for a service, you aren’t the customer, you’re the product.”
The article didn’t add any specific facts to suggest any of these crimes would be charged as “hate crimes” which is generally just an additional penalty to another crime and usually requires at least an acknowledgement of the protected class during the commission of the underlying crime suggesting the victims status as a member of the protected class was material to the criminal act.

The specific victims mentioned were all elderly which is also disturbing and seems to be a growing trend in itself. Since the BLM protests/riots there have been a lot of videos surfacing where a senior citizen is walking solo and gets senselessly sucker-punched and/or knocked out without warning by a lone wolf. I suppose when the elderly victim is Asian, it’s easy to conclude such an assault must be a hate crime, because they are so brutal and otherwise senseless.

I don’t like the idea of mass surveillance but these seem like the ideal types of cases to get a warrant to pinpoint the suspect’s phone to ID them.
Former Tesla engineer claims he’s made a car better than Elon Musk’s Model S
Rise in Attacks on Elderly Asian Americans in Bay Area
It also means that if you're doing a bad job of supporting certain groups of employees, they'll get laid off instead of fixing the problem. You'll winnow out anyone who disagrees with you along with the people who just aren't good at their jobs.
> Trying to use Reddit without the app is maddening. I am aware of old.reddit.com- but it is so annoying to have to change 'www' to 'old' every time I want to read something. On IOS/Safari, visiting any Reddit page results in a full page prompt to use the stupid app. No, I don't want to use the app right now, which is why I'm using Safari! If reddit wants to do anything for their future, they should address these basic usability issues.

You could write a userscript to automatically change all intra-reddit links to old.reddit.com, and redirect you to old.reddit.com if you land there from somewhere else.

I had done something similar long ago when I actually used reddit.
> For me it is also a red flag to include third party CDN JS

Why anyone would use third party js for anything other than dev work is beyond me. Are people really building websites that can serve html, images, and css, but not js?
Well said! I tend to drive cars until they stop working. My first car was almost twenty years old and I loved it. Even if I'm not planning to drive a car that long, I still want the option when I buy it and would have a hard time buying something that felt temporary.
You.... forgot to talk about China.

In fact, laughably, you offered an argument that suggests anticommunism has been replaced.

Speaking of Chomsky, I believe he was very critical of Israel was he not? and I believe he was called an anti-semite for it, was he not?

I suppose you can be anti-Israel, but not be an anti-semite, but you can't be anti-CCP without being anti-asian?
As systems become very large, ‘turn it off and back on again’ is often counter-productive to the point of being the most destructive thing you can do. Repairing state is slow and expensive, and meanwhile the world is happening. This is the reason why all ultra-scale systems use some kind of “k-safety” durability model. The system would effectively be unrecoverable if you actually rebooted it because it would struggle to get back online. This is increasingly the rule rather than the exception for data infrastructure.

Even in the handful of recent systems I worked on where there was an explicit external system of record and rebooting was an option operationally and technically achievable, we still had to do semi-exotic custom engineering to make sure it was practically achievable.

When I started in the industry, ‘turn it off and back on again’ was the default strategy. These days it is rightly reserved for the dwindling number of cases, outside of small systems, where it still works. The computational cost of restarting is prohibitive.
https://www.bayviewpastasf.com

and

https://www.pastashopfresh.com

Have bucatini that is made fresh and is absolutely amazing. I found Bay View's pasta at Public Market, and it is absolutely delicious.
For transparency, it might also be worth adding a disclaimer that the product you are advocating is produced by your current employer (even if that did not consciously play a roll in your decision to advocate for the product).
We definitely have a lot of work to do on content and more detailed information. Turns out high quality writing takes a lot of time and effort!

Right now we're hosted on GCP in us-central. We will need to be more distributed as we start to tackle GDPR et al., making sure data is hosted in the correct location.
Pretty much everything you listed is stuff Apple is already doing with Swift, and although Rust is awesome for lower level stuff, and stretches up quite well, Swift really does cover more of the stack of abstraction.

That said, I’d say Apple having Swift is part of the reason everyone else is getting involved with Rust.

Rust is credible competition for Swift where nothing else is.
I meant Chinese government hater
I understood perfectly. I am just saying that such actions should be criminal and any reasonable lay person who was properly made aware of what is occurring would agree. Lowering costs is no excuse for engaging in criminal negligence and any tradeoff that has an outcome that would qualify as criminal negligence is socially unacceptable. That is not a proper balancing of business needs, that is pawning off immense risk to society for the convenience of a business.

Just so I am clear, doing what you say they are doing should be so unacceptable that it is not even viewed as an option. Anybody attempting to do so should incur costs so great that there would be no competitive advantage to offloading risk to society to the detriment of the people as the costs of doing so outweigh the benefits. If that prevents businesses from making certain profitable decisions due to the collateral damage they will cause then that seems like their problem.
worst complaint is not that but the rapidly deteriorating usability of the web versions
You’ve made valid points cogently, and asked relevant questions that could be answered using scientific methods, but you’re getting downvoted, which is a polemic response.

Why?
This doesn't help when Google bans your account (the topic at hand).
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