skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly appears that it was individual action instead of state policy, but it did occur with state sanction:

> Wingate quickly conceived of a joint military unit, staffed by both colonial and local Jewish troops, to protect Jewish and British interests, and took the idea to Lieutenant-General Archibald Wavell, the commander of British forces in Palestine. Wavell, intrigued, granted Wingate his permission to set up such a unit. Wingate then pitched the unit to the Jewish Agency and directly to the Haganah (“the defense”), the pre-state Israeli military. The Agency, which originally opposed the idea, eventually had a change of heart, and in June of 1938, the Plugot Ha’Layla Ha’Meyuchadot, the Special Night Squads, were born.

And it sounds like even if it went against the letter of state policy, it certainly fulfilled the spirit of it, at least in other areas of colonial control:

> The SNS fulfilled a dual purpose that likely aided its establishment within a colonial administration opposed to the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine: Though it indeed fought against armed Arab insurgents who rose up in increasingly violent acts against British forces and against the Jewish yishuv (the settlement in Palestine), the unit’s stated purpose Wingate may have given to his superiors was to protect the oil pipelines of the Iraq Petroleum Company. The southern of two pipelines (the “TAPline”) which spanned Iraq to the Mediterranean ran for over 1,000 km from Mosul to Haifa, on the coast of British-controlled Palestine, and moved over 4 million tons of oil per year (between two lines) prior to the Second World War. This line was increasingly being bombed and sabotaged by Arab bands throughout the revolt, and as it ran through the Lower Galilee on its course to the sea, Wingate could easily patrol its length with the SNS from his base in Ein Harod.
> But we already do use credentials as gatekeeping. There's a lot of talk about bootcamps and whatnot, but how many of these people actually get passed the resume screen when compared to a Stanford CS grad?

At some point there's a signal to noise ratio issue here as well.
I reject your premise that eating meat makes you “mildly unhealthy”
I have a dangerous thought sometimes that universities, collages and bootcamps should have a much higher failure rate. Some people, despite working incredibly hard, find programming impossibly difficult to learn. I’ve had plenty of students like this - where no matter how much effort they put in to studying, programming just never seems to click.

It breaks my heart a little to say this but the earlier they pick a different career path, the better their lives will be.
I believe the Tailwind team are currently working on addressing the performance issues. The project lead was recently tweeting about the new approach [0]; instead of building a huge CSS file and stripping out the unused classes, the new version will only generate the used classes to begin with.

[0] https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1366514152517337089
> Some may define it as amount of work required, I tend to think as chance of success.

I don't understand how anyone can think that 7 or more years of med school and grueling residency is somehow easier than studying Leetcode for a few weeks or months.

Med school has a very different selection bias than FAANG interviews. No one seriously attempts to attend medical school unless they've committed to 7 years of grueling training. A FAANG interview, on the other hand, is barely a blip on the radar over the course of an engineering career. A lot of people apply to FAANG jobs just to try their chances at the application process. Not so for medical school.
> With RSS being unfortunately a thing of the past

I'm not sure where you got this impression. Many sites have RSS, including most blogs, youtube, reddit, and HN. And there are countless RSS readers.

1. https://feedly.com/

2. https://www.inoreader.com/

3. https://bazqux.com/

4. https://newsblur.com/
Fascinating. In searching on the difference between an RV and a mobile home, I came across this gem from Frank Rolfe, who's profiled in the New Yorker article:

"If it has to be pulled by an actual truck (which is what costs the $3,000 or so in the move) then it’s a mobile home. But also remember that there is a component that can only be pulled by a truck in most RV parks, which is called the “park model”. These are like mobile homes, but do not have wheels or axles on them – they arrive on a flatbed truck – and also cost $2,000 or so to move. Since we don’t want our customers to ever leave, we only consider the type of mobile home or park model that requires expensive transport to be worthy of our investment dollars. RVs can be moved for next to nothing, so there’s no barrier and that’s too risky for us."

http://forum.mobilehomeuniversity.com/t/official-difference-...

And a long article on Rolfe from the NYT in 2014:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/the-cold-hard-le...
There's UnCiv, also on the FDroid store. FOSS CivV on Android and desktop.

https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv
Except Facebook had respected every single privacy toggle I ever set when I had my account.

I looked this morning expecting to find an additional toggle and found several settings I thought were toggled off were toggled on. I was thinking this was an oversight on my part until I saw this thread, but now I’m not so sure.
OpenAI's machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes
> Also, nothing to memorize about copy & paste or drag & drop.

To a terminal. I thought Linux was the one where you needed to open a terminal to do basic things, yet from my experience it's usually MacOS that needs a terminal for such basic things as turning off mouse acceleration.
LFTR addresses almost all of those issues that you cite. Those are "old nuclear". Proliferation (doesn't make weapons isotopes as part of its fuel cycle), 99% fuel use and breeding (even can use old "spent fuel"), low/zero meltdown risk with a simple plug that melts and liquid fuel, scalable, startable/stoppable quickly.

But I agree that fission (and fusion currently) is current noncompetitive and not worth investment (aside from research) until the economies of scale that solar/wind/battery are currently undergoing stabilize or plateau.
You could have seven groups with varying levels of choice: group 1 is forced to be vegan, group 4 is the control group, and group 7 is forced to consume meat. Groups 2-3 would be nudged vegan, 5-6 would be nudged to eat meat.

Measure them all and get happiness and health curves after 5, 10, 15 years.

It would be expensive, but probably a better use of money than a lot of other stuff.
Super interesting page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition
"Manufactured" means built in a factory and can be transported on a semi. As opposed to most buildings (in the U.S. at least) which are built on-site by a contractor.
Apple will randomize Mac serial numbers starting this year
It's not a formal debate, but I think it's rude to misinterpret someone in this way. It's not even a tangential point, because it's not actually connected - it's parallel.

And sure, people do that all the time. People do all sorts of things. It doesn't mean they are communicating effectively, getting any kind of point across or coming to any conclusion at all.

I could start into semantics too, for example saying that people don't bring up tangential points because tangents aren't points they are lines. It wouldn't be a good idea, because it wouldn't further the discussion at all. That's basically what I see happened here.
>My experience with consulting jobs is that while the interviews themselves are still difficult, they do not require nearly as much of this "devote your life to studying and taking practice tests" that the tech industry is enamored with.

What type of consulting are you talking about, and are these jobs really paying >$250k? What would someone have to do to get a shot at one of these jobs?
You bring up a good point. Wondering if there can be some way to have both side by side. When I’m working on markup or css I definitely want HMR. But when I’m in the script section I’ve run into issues where I needed to reload the page.
Well to be fair.. they were making some wicked brews.
The finns building a long-term storage site for waste produced domestically does not equate to their being no global issue with long-term nuclear waste sequestration. There absolutely is.

The only site in the entire world currently intaking waste is WIPP, and it's been dogged by problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant

The only two other sites that have ever actively taken in waste, Gorleben and Morsleben in Germany, are now closed and both have severe site stability issues requiring ongoing remediation into the billions of euros to ensure the sites don't fail.
This is why software is kept out of control systems whenever possible.

“They hacked the web interface that tells me how much power the diagnostic thinks is being generated so now it doesn’t agree with the receiver” isn’t as scary as “they redirected the death ray to a nearby city”.
Or that you don't need to own it - you can just rent it... Isn't that the "exxagerated" trope regarding that these days?

Don't need to own a car, just use Uber! Don't need to own your servers, just provision (rent) them from AWS! etc.

Wonder when it'll apply to furniture?
Third alternative. Multi-family homes owned by co-ops of all the residents.
I don't know if there's a ceiling for degree-less software engineers in the Bay Area. Speaking as someone who dropped out of college and is now a "senior" software engineer at Google, I've worked with a couple folks who are much more senior than I am without a degree.

That said, it's much harder to get your foot in the door without a degree, even in the Bay Area. I had to go above-and-beyond to get my first job at a small startup (I created a program that used their API and was useful enough that I ended up continuing the work when they hired me). With my second job at Dropbox, the recruiter told me that they only reason they interviewed me was because I went to Recurse Center (which is a free programming retreat for programmers that also acts as a recruiting firm). Multiple companies have grilled me during interviews about why I dropped out, including Google.
Ah yes, another article on the war to sow hatred among people. Good job.
Only if the decay product is not itself radioactive. I could alternate between alpha decay and something nastier. And if it’s radium then even alpha decay is a problem because it can be aspirated.
I found similar results when I tried a vegan diet. Like you, I suspect that I could have made it work if I spent the effort to figure out what was missing. If I actually lived my life according to my personal ethics that's what I'd do.

For now I've found vegetarianism significantly easier and a satisfactory compromise between ethics, health, and nutritional laziness.
How do you keep track of background jobs? Is the queue persisted on disk somewhere? If it's not and a background worker crashes for some reason, then is the job lost?
Fair point. But there seems to be consensus that there is still a lot of mining going on there. And China is in a optimal position to suppress it, if they really really want to.
That's what I'm sayin'... duolingo for flag communication.
I have a lot of troubling squaring your statement

> Instead of a high-stakes and all-too-often arbitrary interview every single time you want to change jobs, you could prove your basic competence to practice through an exam, and elect to fulfill your continuing education requirements however makes sense for you, within a framework decided upon by workers themselves.

with how the barriers to medicine/law actually work. A single Amazon interview is not particularly high-stakes - if you bomb it you have a dozen+ companies that can offer similiar comp, and you can always re-interview after a year.

If you bomb the LSAT, or the MCAT, or STEP 1, you will effectively be branded for life. All your future applications to school/residency will include this information. How is emulating that going to get us closer to your stated goals?
I didn't look closely, but Oniguruma is pretty dang fast and has drop-in POSIX syntax + ABI compatability as a compile-time option. Could maybe use that.
If you’re a parent with a kid that plays Roblox make sure you lock your account down. Creating an account in the iOS app doesn’t require an associated email address. If your kid somehow forgets their password you might not be able to reset it without an associated email address. If their account gets stolen which happened to my daughter and you don’t have an associated email address it can be a real headache to unlock the account and get it back. Also make sure you have two factor authentication enabled. I know this is pretty mundane advice but the fact that Roblox lets you create an account without an email address or an associated phone number for 2FA means you can find yourself with a real headache if your kid gets locked out of their account for whatever reason.
Ironically, that article was written in a era where there weren't really boot camps, only CS Grads from actual universities, and in that article it specifically calls out many CS grads cannot code.
> I'd prefer credentials, honestly.

Most well-credentialed people would.

Most under-credentialed people are thankful for skills-based testing because it levels the playing field.
To be more specific, I'm measuring throughput along road segments in a deterministic traffic simulation. Differences would occur when the user modifies the road network. The modifications often have no effect on most roads, but some wind up with more or less traffic than usual at a certain time.

I'm interested in showing differences like "during morning rush hour, there was more traffic here, but it was about the same the rest of the day", so I'm not sure a single correlation as a metric would be best. Ideally I'd plot two line plots and call out differences over time.
Typically they make you sign some legal document stating that anything developed/built on company time and resources is owned by the company.

I've seen plenty of hawks that just circle and take credit for other people's ideas and hard work. They sprinkle their bullshit on top and then claim credit for it.
Yes, this. Not to say that fitness for test and fitness for reality aren't correlated. They just aren't the same. All in all I just wonder if we don't overvalue competition (the reason I we probably have grades) and undervalue passion.
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Aptera – Weird Looking (But Super-Interesting!) Solar-Powered Electric Car
This setting is per-line as well; I had several lines to opt out.
> You're emphasizing my point here. The US government is not a monolithic entity and neither is China's.

China's government is actually far more of a monolithic entity than the US's. It doesn't have sovereign subdivisions or separation of powers, and is organization around centralized hierarchical control. The center makes policy, and the periphery implements it.

> Just like you mentioned Derek Chauvin, you should rightfully be critical of the Derek Chauvins of China instead of the "Chinese government". Those Derek Chauvins have very little to do with Chinese manufacturers of high-tech goods (other than being tax-funded, which is the same with the Derek Chauvins of USA).

The Chinese government is basically a government of Derek Chauvins, and the the point of boycotting is to weaken it or at least slow its growth.

Think of it this way: you have a mob boss who owns a legitimate restaurant staffed by honest people, and he uses the profits from it to pay for criminal acts (say hits against his enemies). If you patronize the restaurant because you're concerned that the staff shouldn't have their income reduced on account of their boss's assassination hobby, you also provide the boss with money to enable or increase his assassination activity. Maybe the result of this is the boss grows powerful enough to take over the whole local government, because he could assassinate everyone in his way.

On the one hand, you have some people who could make less money or have to find different work. On the other hand, you have murder and a breakdown of honest government.

It's a moral dilemma, and you have to weigh the pros and cons. It feels like you're taking a hard stand on relatively minor moral issue in a way that compromises more important ones.
Glad to see this here calling the article out for what it is.
(OffTopic) All this talk about the logo here made me check the page out, instead of moving on after reading just the comments as I might otherwise have done. Perhaps that's a HN strategy to use, to get people to actually click through - add a bikesheddy thing to the page that's likely to be divisive, but doesn't require thought. Gives us a cheap way to have an opinion, and thus an incentive to click!
> It's not a dearth of better options that causes C folks to clutch their autotools and bash scripts and punting-altogether-on-dependency-management; we've had better options for decades.

I build and package golang/Python/rust/C/C++ binaries using GNU make, bash, and Debian's tooling. I have dependency management, parallel builds, and things are reproducible. I do it that way, because I need a glue that will deploy to VMs, containers, bare metal, whatever. I don't use it because I'm scared of other tooling. I use it because I haven't seen a better environment for getting software I work on, into heterogeneous environments.

I'm not attached to the old way; I'm attached to ways that I can be productive with.
> How was selling more stock in that situation legal?

Why should it not be?

Consider the following situation:

1. Alice owns 5 shares of Hertz.

2. Hertz owns 5 shares of Hertz.

3. Bob is an ape. For some stupid reason, Bob wants to buy 5 shares of Hertz.

Is it immoral or illegal for Alice to sell her 5 shares to Bob?

If not, why should it be immoral or illegal for Hertz to do so? Especially if they are up front about their incredibly bleak financial prospective.

Is the sale defrauding someone? Who is it defrauding? Bob? Bob wants to buy the stock anyways, because it's a meme stock - why does he care if it's Alice, or Hertz selling him that stock?

If allowing Bob to buy stock is such a bad thing that we need to protect Bob from it, then the correct thing to do is for the stock to be delisted.
I think modern TV news has eroded all trust that organizations can have more than one opinion / host a civil debate. It's prudent now to assume every news organization has an agenda, no matter how it (says it) conducts itself.
GP frames it wrong but building codes make make affordable housing very hard to create in ways unrelated to safety.

>most homes built in Des Moines will be required to have a full basement, a single-car garage, and a driveway. Minimum lot sizes for single-family houses will range from 7,500 to 10,000 square feet. Building codes meant to guarantee residents’ safety will now decree their comfort

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-02/with-zoni...
Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jail, hospital
There is a global ethics pandemic. No?
I'm going to push back a bit when the author is both comparing what they want to an 80s 286 PC and complaining that the only models today that meet their needs are too expensive.

The inflation-adjusted price of an IBM AT when it was introduced in 1984 was about $15k.
The US main goal is profit. We had already sold the country to the highest bidder.
I've seen this called window alignment. You can either pick a default and stick to it everywhere, e.g. truncate to the nearest minute or Nth-minute, but this only works for divisors of an hour for example so that it's easy to align different sources at any starting point.

Resampling is pretty effective; linear interpolation is usually good enough because the data is already downsampled, presumably with an averaging or aggregating step that can be interpolated over. The mean-value theorem is your friend if you're looking at derivatives of time series data.

The type of metric also matters; gauges can be simply interpolated. Counters make more sense to re-bucket into the chosen sampling period and offset, and for your specific question what you can do is switch from downsampled data to "realtime" data exactly at the bucket boundary so that you avoid the half-full bucket problem.

A good way to treat counter timeseries is as bundles of updates (deltas) that arrive at a certain cadence. That makes the transition from different cadences smooth by resampling to avoid overlapping updates, e.g. if you have a downsampled bucket counting events from 1:00 to 1:10 then resample other timeseries so that buckets begin exactly at 1:10 or end exactly at 1:00 instead of trying to let them overlap.
> Do physicians have to perform surgery to demonstrate their knowledge when they change hospitals?

Most surgical procedures are mostly the same regardless of which hospital they're performed at. It's not like software engineering where the tasks and difficulty vary greatly from company to company.

A surgeon's record at one hospital is their interview for the next job. So yes, every surgery they perform is, in essence, contributing to their interview for any future jobs.
I check if it's on a list of libraries that we're allowed to use in our bank (my employer). Then I learn that the list is a total mess, the people in charge of it have been purged in the latest round of cost-saving-inspired firings and apparently no one was assigned this responsibility after that. Then I just use whatever I want.
As always relevant xkcd

https://xkcd.com/937/
No, the hardest part is not punching the asteks in the face when you ask them for help on a problem that has stumped you for two hours, they take one look at your code and they go "C'est pas à la norme!" AND THEY WON'T EVEN TELL YOU WHERE.
Disney+ Tops 100M Subscribers
What do you remember? These days I’m no longer concerned about `this` pointing to the wrong object. Importing files is a huge step forward from when I started. The standard library has grown; a bunch of Lodash isn’t needed anymore because of it. Promises and async/await. Even just template strings! So glad I don’t have to concatenate with pluses and watching my double or single quotes.
Thanks a lot!

And yeah, I'm familiar with hookdeck, your co-founder already commented in this thread. :)
> (It also blows my mind that Evan is the CTO is Figma. How is he so productive!?)

When Evan first joined Figma, he saw how much time the engineers spent on waiting for webpack and fighting JS configuration files. Then one time, during an outage, the developers tried to push a fix but the build was failing because babel-deduplicate-int had changed their API interface but only did a minor version bump when published to NPM, and Figma engineers are at the edge of technology so they use version ranges, not fixed versions.

When Evan heard this he pored up some whisky and created esbuild in two nights. And the JS developers rejoiced. Now the developers were so productive, that Evan already had nothing to do. No one was fighting, all engineers were happy and playing ping-pong like any everyday was Friday.

So now the only thing keeping all the JS engineers happy at Figma, is the continued success and improvement of esbuild. So Evan just spends his time with esbuild now.

(This is all fictional, of course)