skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Okay then people. Go open a Word Document in your text editor and see what you get. If it is smart, like Emacs, it will open a directory of xml files. How about if you open up a ipython notebook? not plain text. But RMarkdown is.

Antiword, Catdoc.
Could you provide some more context and/or sources for this? The EU to my knowledge does not have the ability to seize anything from anyone.
> If an app says “minimum requirements: 8 GB RAM” any PC which reports that it meets the minimum requirements but actually has 4 GB RAM is making a false claim

If a job says you need 8 years of experience and you say you have 8 when you have 4, that is lying. If you apply to a job that says you need 8 years of experience and you only have 4, that isn't lying. It isn't dishonest. It would be like the person selling that PC asking, "hey, might 4GB work if we throw in a better processor?"
Completely false. Traditional authentic Finnish (where sauna was invented) sauna is wet. Dry sauna is some weird American concoction.
Great channel

I particularly liked the Ulillillia and Nasubi videos
And it seems to overlook a pretty straightforward question: in the era of the search engine, how much of an issue is link rot?

I've hit bad links before. Four out of five times, I can do a general search for the title of the document that should have been at the link or the quoted excerpt that the document I'm reading pulled from the link, and I get a clone of the document posted somewhere else.
A lot of domain knowledge and momentum might be lost due to such reshuffling. Losing competitive edge and whatnot.

But maybe they have excellent documentation, knowledge sharing and mentorship, unlike all multinational corps I've ever worked for (where was generally a cost center and frowned upon).
These two things are not alike.

For every integer, there exists a computer that can represent it. Even with constant memory, I can right now write a computer program that will eventually output every integer if it runs for long enough.

By contrast, for almost all (i.e. an uncountable number of) real numbers there exists no computer whatsoever that can ever hope to represent any of them.

Another way of seeing that is that, while Z is infinite, any single integer only requires finite amount of memory. But a real number may require an infinite amount of memory.

The integers can also be represented fairly easily as a type. For the naturals, for example, it's as easy as

data Nat = Z | S Nat

(ML-type languages allow to do this very concisely, but you can do theoretically the same type of thing with e.g. Java and inheritance; if you use Scala or Kotlin, use a sealed class, if you use Swift, use an enum, etc.)

The integers are slightly more complicated (if you just try to add a sign, you'll have to deal with the fact that you now have +0 and -0), but still not hard. Rationals are a bit harder in that now you really have multiple different representations which are equivalent, but you can also deal with that.

By contrast, you won't be able to construct a type that encodes exactly the set of real numbers. The most you can do is to provide e.g. an interface (or typeclass) Real with some associated axioms and let any concrete type implement that interface.
> You might even find that your candidate pool is exactly the people you are already working with.

We once had an open position on a team that was tied to our office in a lower-population city in a low-population US state. The wording of our listing made it clear that the list of technologies was mostly "nice to have" and not strictly required.

The first recruiter just punched in all the technologies into LinkedIn search and sent a form message to everyone that matched and already lived near the office. The result: My entire team got emails offering them to interview themselves for their own jobs.
Python's standard library was designed??

Big if true!

N.B. I've been programming in Python since it was version 1.3. Forgive me.
I know it’s right for me because my mind is a almost too on edge that it doesn’t even let me sleep.

I just question his thesis here, you’re correct. I do admire his candor as well
> (This is conjecture on my part, I have no idea how many hours FANG employees tend to work).

Then don't conjecture. Speculation doesn't add to the conversation. In the absence of evidence, it just spreads a misinformation virus.
I mean… 'female' in "female developers" is an adjective, while it is a noun in "are going to females".

Saying "are going to women" would be grammatically correct even if "women developers" isn't.

Furthermore, most Master's degrees are not going to kids.

I think it is probably fine to say "are going to females", but saying "are going to women" is not wrong and it probably sounds better.
> If you don't have AC there are things you can do to your home keep the temp low through the day. You essentially trap the cooler evening air and keep the sun out.

That's the normal way to do it, but it doesn't work when there's no wind and air temp doesn't cool down significantly at night. Even fans throughout the dwelling don't end up cooling that much overall, because they really only move the air that's in their path (unless you already have ceiling fans to create larger turbulences and better mix the air).
It’s actually not that much of a joke (although it may not be Abrash) - often higher level positions have the job listing tailored to only one candidate that they already know is interested. To satisfy legal you have to advertise the position externally and internally but if you want someone specific setting unreasonable minimum requirements, that only they have, is a way to get there. Similar things happen in consulting contracts all the time. The RFP will be written for a particular company.
That’s it. We should raise the minimum wage to $25 hour. The businesses can just raise prices.
>At least, “not ASCII”. Non-latin characters

Spaniard here, not a big issue with Unicode, and with a US intl keymap you could type up accented [a-u] and u with diaeresis and enye with ease.
You should read his book! He discusses this in the first chapter. He helped (or maybe solely) design the lens at W. M. Keck observatory, and you can see him on Numberphile a lot.
Wow $90 for a print! I don’t like them that much lol
How is this different from uploading a hollywood movie to youtube? Just because there is a passage in the terms that the uploader supposedly gave them those rights, this does not mean they actually have the power to do that.
Don't know why you are downvoted, they do exactly that. Probably since a decade. They connect license and hardware ids.
Thanks I’ll give it a try
Is there hard data on it though? I want to see what the hard data shows and how we know what will happen in the future. With what level of confidence, too.

I’m not denying the problem, I want to know if we should all start planning to live in a war-torn hellscape or if that’s just corrosive negativity from doomsayers. For example you can see other people in the comments saying we’re all screwed, to pull up a chair and watch, etc.
Tampa dude... Tampa... east coast FL is typically nicer in climate compared to Gulf Coast. I grew up Gulf Coast, I live on the east coast now. Sooooooooooooo much nicer.
That’s the other challenge I have with his statement. Meditation can be whatever you’d like, there’s multiple types. It can give you clarity on a topic or peace of mind, etc.
That book changed my life.
Yep. Leetcode style problems are effective filters only for people who grind leetcode. It's tailored for a very particular level of developer; someone who is smart enough to understand the problems and solutions (and retain them well enough to trot them out quickly), ambitious enough to put in that level of effort to work for a 'top tier' tech company, and sufficiently docile and willing to work on BS (outside of their working hours, typically, too) that they'll spend that kind of time just to try to make it into one.

So someone who went out and built a SaaS business themselves, was moderately successful, and sold it? Not going to pass. Someone who spent three months grinding leetcode and doing little else? Probably going to pass.

I'm guessing it's highly effective at selecting for the kind of candidates these companies want.
Hi Bill,

Yep. Cloudflare is out front, so the actual load on the rasp-pi is mitigated by their content-delivery network.

Then, too, my website is almost entirely simple html with compressed images, so there's not a lot of bytes to shovel.

Here in Berkeley/Oakland, Sonic.net has strung quality fiber-optic, so there's 1Gbit to my house. That lets me keep up with things. However, they only give a dynamic ip address;, so my pi must keep track of its address and tell Cloudflare whenever it changes.

Works surprisingly well - from /top/ I see about several dozen simultaneous users (thank you!), and the cpu temp is about 2 degrees above its normal of 50C

The raspberry pi itself is in the crawlspace under my home, fed through a Ubiquity edge router. Much fun, playing with Unix (oops, I mean Linux) -- sends me back to days of yore when everything happened from your command lines.
Seattle is the same, the humidity is high on paper but it didn’t feel like the same 106 in the south, east, or Midwest. It felt…dry hot…like Arizona.

Not as dry as Spokane, however.
These restrictions are usually held to extend to the states, and from there all the way down to school districts. Basically all government at all levels.

States charter corporations.

Ergo, elected officials at any level may void corporate NDAs at will.

(then again, something along those lines is my solution to most problems involving corporations....)
From the article:

He accepted that his position became untenable when he began rejecting submissions from Chinese authors. He told them: “In view of the complicity of the Chinese medical and scientific establishment in human rights abuses against the Uyghurs I am not considering any submissions from China.”

He sounds like a fool attempting to politicize a scientific journal.
Those are Chrome's exploits, not web apps.
Let them circlejerk a bit, they think that if one thought of their idol aligns with their thoughts it means that it is correct.
FWIW, Siemens recently bought hackaday (or well, Siemens bought a company called Supplyframe which was the owner of Hackaday), so lets see how long that will last..
The temperature in Canada is 50°C. People are dying.

It's not catastrophizing to point at a catastrophe that is embedded in a long row of other recent catastrophes and saying "That's a catastrophe".
I sort of doubt that GitHub could include GPL code in a piece of closed-source program that they distribute that "improves the service" and claim that this gives them the right.
> There is an implicit subject you are asserting facts about though. You clearly are talking about a fluffy, white Cat in your example.

No, I'm not, because I didn't assert this fact (it's a Cat).

See how hard it is to break free from this mindset of objects.
How can I be sure that you are a real person not GPT-3? ;)
And why are women and minorities unaware of the wink and a nod? What else are they not aware of?

Are they not able to reason through the fact that the requirements must logically be not realistic? Are women known to not question authority to the same degree as men? Why not endeavor to fix that about women.
calculating expected extreme events isn't really that much different in principle than testing if a die is fair. if it's slightly loaded, you'll likely not notice for quite some time and might never be sure.

now the problem with climate change is that emissions now will yield indisputable evidence 20-30-50 years from now - a blink of an eye in climatology and likely point of no return for humanity.

note we do not lack evidence of global warming. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/22/memorial...
Yeah, no. He would.
It Turns Out You Can Detect an Earthquake from a Balloon
Essential Tips for Testing JavaScript UIs
Well within the margin of fair use.
You mean how does Foam compare? That's exactly how I use it! :)
I think listing all technologies used in the project as requirement is a huge problem. I have personally learned to ignore large part of this and apply even if I don't know everything (and then make sure the client understands). But I know a lot of candidates treat requirements as gospel.

Rather than doing that I try to list only most important ones as requirement, and everything else as part of description of the project.

So, the description for senior Java dev might look like this: We require very good knowledge of Java (11) and experience with Spring applications. Other than that our project uses ... (list of technology stack, databases, etc. follows)
I had a friend who attended Yale Photo MFA, one of the most prestigious art programs in the world. They still had to pay all the costs of printing and their windowless studios were in a dank basement of an old gymnasium.
Thank you very much for the comprehensive answers, very insightful and reassuring about the future of Turing. Hopefully I’ll see this all in practice in September :-)
It's easy to look at past failures and blame those failures for your present circumstances. But say one of those startups had made it big. What would you be doing instead? Because if your mind is stuck mindlessly scrolling social media and shaming yourself for it, it could be worse - you could have $10mm in the bank and still be mindlessly surfing social media, and shaming and guilt tripping yourself for not doing more with it and you'd feel even worse about it, and fall into substance abuse issues (eg Tony Hseih; Zappos).

Mindset is key. If you want to get into philanthropy with your imagined largess, there are tons of philanthropic organizations looking for help, not to mention, fundraising for non-profits isn't entirely different than trying to get VC funding.
I live in the mountains of Central Arizona, and I do something similar. On really hot summer days, I will take a 45 second cold shower ever few hours. Probably not so healthy to shock the body, but it helps with the heat.

About ten years ago we installed solar panels so now air conditioning is basically free during the day, but I still like the ice cold showers.
Buddhists chuckle at the notion of permanence and go back to constructing sand mandalas
Could be great --- or not --- depending on the cost and what is included.

There is simply not enough info here to make a judgment one way or the other.
They may have, but the question is whether or not the assumption that we have been rolling 2 6-sided die is correct in the first place. For all we know we could have been rolling 3.
So you agree that the minimum requirements they list aren't what the actual minimum requirements are, nor even what the company desires.
https://spec.filecoin.io/algorithms/pos/
>At a Fortune 50 company I worked at, my boss got in trouble because he sweet-talked someone in HR to print out all the resumes they rejected and secretly deliver them to him.

I did exactly this, though I'm pretty sure I'm not your boss.

As a side note, HR's insistence on doing the initial resume review and phone screens usually skews the entire recruitment process. I've had situations where HR gave me 20 resumes and didn't even look at the rest.
Why do you think people care so much about end-to-end encrypted messaging?

Yes, the concept of a "private" repo is enforced only by GitHub's service. A bug in their auth code could lead to others having access. A warrant could lead to others having access. Etc.
The pattern I've observed is that younger and more junior people want to work in the office, and older, more senior people with established networks, family life and nice accomodation with a home office are more likely to appreciate working from home.

This means that if you lose a lot of people because you start being stricter about working from home, then you'll probably disproportionately lose the senior people who are hard to replace and not lose very many of the young juniors who are easy to replace.
He can ... really really accurate estimate, ... a lot of time .. building .. verifying .. actual requirements.. designing ... solution .. validating .... process will require dev resources.. resources... people.. support team.. a lot of time.. very expensive.. scary.. and I'll be nakedly responsible for my own mistakes.. </inside head>

"How about we do it that other way. You mentioned devs could keep throwing stuff against the wall. I like how that sounds."
It's not a class issue, at least in some Countries. People I've met in the industry who don't have a comp/eng degree are typically more entrepreneurial ( and really smart), the education system was slow and boring and VERY outdated, they felt more effective not wasting time. I've worked with some really bad programmers who had masters degrees, after 2 decades I found that a degree really had no bearing on how effective someone was, it really came down to the actual person.

The problem as someone noted is HR doing the vetting, HR is in most cases filled with administrators, not problem solvers. I don't have anything good to say about HR.
Building the First 'Breathing' PC
This new economic system you want has been in use since the 70s. Everything about the economy is practically socially managed these days.

What part of printing trillions of dollars to stimulate economic productivity is somehow a free market system?
I’m a big fan of avoiding numbers in estimations. The moment a number is included, people start adding them together to create metrics that don’t show any useful information.
Nothing is closed-source to the courts.
So there are two options: tell all minorities to do something they don't know about, or tell people on the top to write realistic requirements. And you think that the right thing to do is to go around and teach this to every minority group. This tells a lot about your position of privilege.
>-"..classitis": author criticizes the use of many small classes and functions/methods while I think form my experience SOLID principles are there for a reason- every method/class should have one purpose only.

I don't understand how you can be so confident that SOLID means you should have many small classes and functions/methods. The question of when we should carve off a piece of reality (natural or artificial) and call it one thing, or say that it does one thing, is an ancient philosophical question with no single right or easy answer.
Of course. A "private" repo is still on their servers. It's only private from other GitHub users, not the actual site administrators. This is the same in any website, of course the admins can see everything. If you truly want privacy, use your own git servers.
> I can give you a really really accurate estimate, but in order to do so we're going to have to spend a lot of time going through the request, building and verifying actual requirements, designing the solution and then validating it.

This is almost surely wrong for most developers, or else rewrites wouldn't fail to deliver within the estimated time so often. Rewrites per definition already has a perfect specification in the old code, just write something working the same way using a new architecture. But that is still really hard to deliver apparently.

Of course it could be true in your case, but you can't blame the inability of software engineers in general to estimate tasks on that.
Essentially, TempleOS, but a video game.
> It is quite proudly a Republic with Democratic characteristics.

Americans have long referred to themselves, quite proudly, as a democracy. The distinction is otherwise a technicality for political scientists.

A recent political trend has one group, which fears getting outvoted, saying that it's not, that it's a 'republic' (they, of course, that they won't be the ones excluded from power). But the distinction is theoretical - government by the people, for the people, of the people, to use just one phrase, is what defines the US and the US is a democracy. We the people created the government and make the law.

> More recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that all Republics are doomed to fail.

Well the evidence is pretty bad. The most stable, successful form of government in history is modern democracy. If you want failure, look at the disasters of authoritarian governments, with their civil wars, weak economies, and governing calamities (e.g., hyperinflation, needless wars, etc.).
Blowing away the memory mapping is a rather expensive operation. It’s also unclear why an atomic copy is useful. To prevent TOCTOU, you also need to prevent two consecutive atomic copies that inadvertently assume they get the same result each time.
Why not? If it does not exist you treat it as proprietary (copyrighted by default) and if it does exist at least the author claims that the given license is an option (possibly their mistake, not mine)
Show HN: Run server code in your client (Spotless)
Yes, but we have an awful lot of new high points in recent times.

The earth is quite a big place and we are recording temperatures quite detailed since the 1850ies, so if we are accepting the null hypotheses of there not being a rise in averages, stochastic is rearing it's ugly head quite a bit since the early two-thousands...
Pretty sure Angular and only Angular!
> This is why they demand the butts back in the cramped open seating office

It is also the astronomical real estate money they had sunken into new office spaces.
The proof is in the pudding. I was skeptical too but the testimonials here are impressive.
Every Lord of the Rings Frame
> What am I missing here?

People usually start their projects with the language they feel most comfortable in, not the one that is best suited for the project.
Relevant previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154355
Reddit has been pushing to be like other social media sites now. They've added profile pictures and avatars, not to mention they're pushing video content like nothing else. They've got livestreaming and try to saturate your front page with as much video as possible. They've also changed the way their app handles video links to be more like TikTok or YouTube.

It used to be a lot like HN - discussions around links to articles. I wish there was a community with the feel of HN with the wide net of Reddit.

It feels like all social media is converging; Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, Youtube, all an endless stream of ai-curated short videos that you can swipe through over and over.
Beautiful posters. I’m baffled as to why anyone would want to spend time on planets that don’t naturally support life for humans. What is the appeal of nothingness. Just go put on a special suit and hang out in a desert on earth. At least there you might even see bugs or snakes, etc. but another planet with nothing but rocks (minerals, whatever)…how is this appealing. The biodiversity on earth is incredible and is being destroyed at an insane pace. All this space talk and people wanting to yet out of here really makes me think humans are unable to 1) appreciate what they have and 2) are extremely selfish to the point where, when whittled down in this scenario, prefer nothing to a lot of things. Besides exploring space, which I think is somewhat different, can someone tell me what the appeal of living in nothingness is…
Changed mine, too. Q-Bert.
Alberta is weird.

I experienced both temps in Calgary—it's notoriously volatile because of the Chinook winds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind) that come down from the Rockies.

Middle of summer could see a swing from -15°C to +15°C inside of hours. Calgary would frequently be -30 to -40 in the winter and easily a dry heat of +30 in the summers, but usually not for extended periods because the winds would inevitably change.
The data here doesn't seem to align with your claim, at least in the US. Perhaps its happening in other places?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_tempe...