skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t fully put my finger on why exactly, but I feel that this is a transformative idea. What’s to stop me from emulating a private SQLite DB for every user of a web app, and use that instead of GraphQL?
Ebon has said specifically (in answer to my question in a Q&A) that the standard Pi will never have built in SATA. Your best option is one of the other manufacturers Pi type SBC clones.
My father-in-law is in a similar position, just ten years older than parent. He always gets rejections based on "lack of cultural fit". Ageism is real in tech.
Old Edge is essentially gone, since it autoupdated to New Edge. New Edge has Linux and Mac builds.
In what other way could JS be an option than it is now?
> it is kind of wrong to blame the tool for the mistakes made by the one wielding it.

I always find takes like this bizarre. We're constantly improving the safety of the tools and devices we use. Our history is filled with examples of tools designed without safety in mind leading to deaths or maiming or other injuries. Thankfully, the people who came before us saw that it was up to us to reduce the likelihood of accidents by improving the tools that we use.

Just look at the aerospace industry. They didn't say "well, don't blame the plane, the pilot should've gotten it right". Often times improvements in planes were to avoid common mistakes because of how fallible we human beings are, instead of holding us up to impossible standards.
Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions, new study confirms
"For a long time I have insisted that my graduate students call me “Tyler.” My goal has been to encourage them to think of themselves as peer researchers who might someday prove me wrong, rather than viewing me as an authority figure who is handing down truth."

Some people are more comfortable with formality, and that should be accommodated. Our physics research group in the U.S. had a post-doc from Korea. The professor wanted the post-doc to call him by his first name, but the post-doc did so only with great discomfort. In Korea the post-doc would never have addressed his advisor so informally. If the post-doc would rather than say Dr. Smith or Professor Smith than John, let him.

In general, I think first names are overused. If I read a paper and email the researcher, I address him as Professor Smith. He is not my friend and is doing me a favor by responding to a question about his work.

When I board a plane, refer to the pilots as Captain Smith and Captain Jones, not Jack and Jill. They are not my friends. They are professionals who hold my life in their hands.

End of curmudgeon rant. I'm only 50.
I think intentional lying is special, and should be an exception to censorship. I don't feel okay censoring things I disagree with, even strongly (e.g. hate speech, taboo topics, sexual moores, and whatnot), but on intentional falsehoods, I think it falls into a different bucket.

We have good precedent here:

- Slander laws

- Libel laws

- Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater

- Etc.

The problem is that an unregulated free market will choose memes over truths. There needs to be some correction there.

I'm not quite sure what that correction ought to be. I don't think it should be mobs, tech companies, or governments. I do think the processes we have in place right now for dealing with untrue speech, with due process, make a lot of sense to me, though. Perhaps they might be expanded such that:

- There isn't a $200k barrier to dealing with slander/libel

- Some places (for example, academics and government employees) have criminal liability for intentionally lying or withholding information

I'm not quite sure, but we do need to change incentive structures, or we'll be overwhelmed with misinformation.
Famously attributed to a man who did his best to protect the populace from misinformation, leading to millions of… statistics.
Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?
Any suggestions/ frameworks on how to learn specific skill, retain the knowledge and be able to share it(in for ex. written form)

I usually jump in straight away and start learning "on the job" but I realised that I forget too much and i do not have any notes to refer to later on.

Examples of specific skill:
- How to write a good cold email
- how to learn some snowboarding trick
- how to store your bitcoin safely
etc.
It's probably the power adapter that's at fault, not the SD card.
Personally, I was smart enough to stop after one phd.
In the context of my comment, I mean largest in terms of number of athletes and support staff. The Olympics is far larger in these terms I believe.
Whole thing seems to be about the denied rights of parents, not children? Doesn’t mention what any child wants anywhere. Weird to dress it up as being about the children.
I'll say something that i hope can be read objectively

(2) thats a feature, not a bug. What you are really complaining is that you dont get a curated list of males that have (a) mastered finesse or (b) have natural beauty. However when you change the context (change supermarket with award gala for doctors) women do change their reaction to male encounters, because they evaluate every male as an potential partner instead of a waste of time. That's why men with no finesse or good looks, but in the right context, will get far with women. Im not saying that's you. And i abstain from judging either party. My point is that context matters.

Which gets me to my next point. In life, there is always an element of volatility. Some days you are playing a sport in which you are very talented but you are still losing. Its just a bad day. In those days, you dont complain that the opposing player is playing better than you. You try your best and then move on.

Males without finesse or good looks are such bad days. They are a fact of life. We want to wish them away, but that's utopia. Nature is full of guys that just don't have it. We cant magically wave away stupid, or clueless. The gene pool is diverse for a reason.

Instead focus on the positive. You have good looks. You are in the competition. Make the best out of it.

I've personally been hit on by gay guys. Some have come on rather strongly, and i have gotten some of the looks you describe. I am hopelessly straight, and sometimes even uncomfortable, but I smile, say thank you/no sorry, and move on with my day.
No need to use a VM; just download and run: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download
Also they went from 700 cases a day to 0. Just, as you say, so we're clear.
That's not how it works. The SARS-CoV-2 virus (including multiple variants) is now endemic in the worldwide human population, plus some animals. It will never go away. The pandemic will be permanent no matter what we do. Let's vaccinate as many as we can to reduce the death toll. But you cannot seriously expect people to continue wearing masks and social distancing indefinitely.
Can't you hide your age for remote jobs? At least initially, when interviewing (they are not allowed to ask)
This sounds like it’s in response to the criticism many tech companies have received for providing on-site meals for employees, instead of spending money at local restaurants.

For example: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/technology/san-francisco-...
The way things are going right now is the US and Taiwan taking provocative actions to disturb the consensus and then acting like China is the aggressor when they respond.
In the early years the job of the C committee wasn't to improve C, but merely to harmonize existing C implementations, and by the end of the 80's it was already too late, zero-terminated strings had already been baked into operating system APIs (e.g. zero-terminated strings are no longer primarily a language problem, but an ABI problem).

Besides, the x86 "repeat while" string instructions continued the PDP legacy.
Well, I agree that you can wish that the tool was better designed, that's a whole different thing though.

What I meant to say, in a rather roundabout way to be fair, is that the problem is both the language and the programmers. C is a tool that is too hard to use correctly, but the programmers who write crappy C code are to blame for their crappy code. It's another thing if an expert fails to use the tool safely, then one might blame the design of the tool used.

There seems to be 2 camps, one camp blames C and one camp blame it on poor programmers. Poor programmers have given C a reputation and the tool itself is too hard to use correctly, even for experts, so both camps are right and also wrong...

I think some of the decisions made for C back in the day where fine, C was designed to be lightning fast and close to the metal, but I think it's time to pivot. I don't think it's necessary to sacrifice security to squeeze out the last percent of "speed" today. C has a lot of legacy code still in use though, so I don't think it will ever happen, that's why I use other languages for production code today and only write C when needed for C code bases still in use.
As a counter point in London, I've found supply to be pretty good.

Multiple actually good and talented candidates to basically pick the best from, and not just dregs with "this person will do I guess - 50% is better than nothing" type sentiment.
This was the case at ZEIT (now Vercel). Then we migrated away from that due to a slew of issues I can't recall at the moment.

We still used redis extensively but not as a persistence layer.
The US does not respect these “rights” either.

And just because the UN says it doesn’t make it so.
This. We recently sold our company, and you're completely right. It was a good thing us and the employees, but the day after is certainly different. I think I skipped right over the never again part and am already in to writing down ideas.

The responsibility you mention is stressful and hard, but ownership (not just in the legal sense, but also in the control sense) matters. See an opportunity - take it. Don't like something - change it. Screw something up - deal with it.
Wasn't it remastered and upscaled recently ? The netflix version looks decently good IMHO
> This suggests either that the negative results were truncated out, negative results have been hacked to positive ones, or there is some confounding factor at play.

Here's a potential confounding factor: maybe the cluster of very weak positive effects includes some studies that initially showed very weak negative effects but that had their methodology tweaked to avoid showing an "impossible" result. (I don't think anyone argues that atmospheric lead _decreases_ crime rates.)

If so, that would mean that there are some "missing" negative studies, but that there are also "too many" zero/very low result studies. If corrected for that, I suspect that the meta-analysis would show a positive effect size, though lower than 0.33.
My mother just passed away. This quote touches my deepest feeling.
it isn't a fallacy; it is a proposition, not a logical conclusion. One can agree or disagree with the proposition.
I know you’re not trying to interview right here and now, but listing tools doesn’t move the needle. That’s not what employability in tech is measured by.

I’m trying to hire for a number of software positions and that’s a common issue I see in resumes.

I don’t want to hear that you’re a wizard with a hammer. I want to know about the times you lead a team in building a house from start to finish.
Let’s run with the second. Do you actually think the majority of the people who live in the PRC wish for their government to be overthrown? It is obvious to me that that is not the case.
Don't buy a garbage laptop with soldered RAM and just upgrade it yourself?
> In recent months, Mr. Eich’s Twitter feed has largely alternated between promotion of the privacy-focused Brave browser and questions about the policy and science related to the coronavirus.

> His posts on Twitter have expressed skepticism about many prevailing assumptions around the pandemic, including the effectiveness of masks and the honesty of Anthony Fauci.

Oh no! What a bigot for having questions and skepticism about many prevailing assumptions around the pandemic!!

Imagine how much better everything would be if everybody would just agree all the time without any skepticism?
That's the "negative effects hacked to positive ones" explanation.
The olympics isn't the only international sports competition. It's just the most daft one. It groups unrelated sports together like a circus. It slaps ads, sponsorships, and as much scrooging as it can all over the footage and then ironically pays the athletes a pittance to boot, making them rely on outside sponsorship deals.

Most sports have world championships. They don't need the resources that the Olympics do, because they are sport specific and not necessarily sponsored by the government. If I'm American and I goto the world boxing championship, I don't need Biden's permission to represent America. If I win, then an American won. I just get listed as holding the title. The Olympics on the other hand is an ill scandal based on bribes, doping and awful bureaucracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_Games_scandals...
Did Dvorak die “a bitter man”?
That's not a new idea, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root for a list of alternatives, and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2826 for arguments against them.
Germany has no public domain, except by running out of copyright terms. There is no "releasing into the public domain". I think you'll find many European countries that work similarly.

Beethoven has been dead for far longer than 70 years, so his work is in the public domain.

Suicide would be impractical, just to have your software be free after several decades. ;-)
“Limited” nuclear war is one people are talking about, or else first use that’s so devastating that it removes the Chinese ability to respond. I think they’re ill considered but I suppose they are options.
I don't see any evidence Europe being better for older folks. On top of that salaries are really really low in Europe.

Unless you are in the US and are going to graduate university at 22-23 best to forget about a career in STEM. Not worth the effort and time. Milk has a longer expiry date than a STEM worker who's perceived over the hill late-twenties or early thirties.
Just a side note. I’m actually working on building a remote team and when I went to your profile, the link in there was dead. How do people casually browsing your profile discover what you’ve worked on and learn more about you?
Facebook did the same for PHP: added gradual typing (enforced in 99.9% of code with mandatory linters), a better standard library, and a compiler. That was much cheaper than rewriting everything.
There might be good reasons to do it from Apple’s point of view.

For example, if Apple allowed third-party browser engines, any vendor could offer a browser with a vulnerability. That browser could be abused to install apps through that vulnerability, including malicious ones.

I’m not implying that it’s ok for Apple to act like that. My point is that it’s consistent with their security model for iOS.
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Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin
There must be something more to your story. Some slight mental issues, way too high expectation from work/salary/special requirements etc. A lot of folks think of themselves as perfectly fine, but on interviews they come as hard-to-work-with introverted weirdos. Applying for a very senior lead/managerial position. And so on.

A year must mean tons of applications and at least some interviews. Do you have any idea/feedback from failed interviews on why they failed?
> > Why did someone post my tweet on Hacker News?

HN discusses opinion posts regularly, including ones posted on Twitter, and this one is on a topic lots of people here are interested in.
The last barnes and noble I went to had a liberal shelf and a conservative shelf (not labeled as such, but clearly separated). I live in a county that biden won by <1%. It's clearly a data-driven decision and both sides of the aisle love buying books from their tribe.
I'm sure the GP reserves his charming side for the interviews.
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted for Allegedly Lying About Everything
why do you need either of those for making a hat?
Ask HN: Tinder is full of fake profiles, posted by Tinder. How to prove?
Tinder is full of gorgeous women and well, the profiles just don’t seem right somehow.

Compared to genuine profiles which have ordinary looking women, with profiles that have narrative text, real locations, it’s easy to see which are the fakes and which are real.

Obviously it’s Tinder posting the fake profiles because they want men using their software.

But I wonder is there any way to prove that Tinder is cat fishing it’s own users?
No one using the Jubilee line today cares about the construction delays.
Ask HN: What's Improving Behind the Radars
It's a cliche that news is biased toward "bad news", and that you need to look at the bigger pictures to see improvements. ("Factfullness" is written on this premise.)

However, those days, it's hard to find of a topic that might be improving (given the pandemic, its side-effect on economy and geopolitics, and the ever-looming threat of climate change...)

I mean, I'm pretty sure that the usual "silver linings" (poverty in china, girl education, democratisation) are not getting better in 2021. Probably will only be a blimp in the long run, but still, at the moment, not a way to boost morale.

I know there is a whole industry of "good news" side, but they usually concentrate on "heartwarming stories" of child helping puppies, veterans coming home - this is not really what I'm asking for.

What would be the slow-moving, unspectacular, long-term good,covid-indepedant trend that everyone glued to the news site would be missing those days ?
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> any kind of engineering

> Applied for dozens of cleaning (...) positions

Is this a common thing to do when applying for engineering jobs? What kind of qualifications do you even get where you

1. Are not specialized in a specific type of engineering (chemical, electrical, software, etc)? All these fields needs massive amounts of technical knowledge and I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be hired as a chemical engineer even though I know a lot about electronics design and software.

2. Want to get in as a cleaner rather than (say) a junior engineer? How much extra on-the-job experience that would be relevant to engineering do you hope to get from a position as a cleaner?
Dont know why you opinion/ theory is being downvoted as much. Its well within the realms of probability.

Im sure a lot of Americans have no idea what their government has been doing to other sovereign nations. Even Obama went on a world tour to disarm smaller nations like South Africa of their Nuclear Weapons. He certainly didn't go to Russia or China or North Korea. After South Africa made that deal about 2011~2012 - an influx of American imported food ravaged the local food production industries bringing one of the biggest poultry producers in the SADEC region to it's knees. Thats not a conspiracy theory. Thats just politics.
Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers and CSM
The BBC has for a long long time been more sensitive to the concerns of employers and investors rather than employees or the unemployed.

This has mostly been as a result of aping the trends followed by the rest of the private media in the UK since the 1970s.

They already had a business section and even rolled out a new capital section a few years ago. No word yet on when theyll get a section dedicated to worker news.
Maybe it’s an equipment problem? What’s the latest advice for dealing with an EV fire?
Useful context, thank you.
Exactly why I am sidestepping out of software into embedded and hardware development. You could never make a 6 week boot camp for EE.
There’s a market for both devices, and justifiably so. Why not celebrate the fact that people have a choice?
Why do people keep referring to “red states” when discussing lack of vaccination and not demographics?

It appears that lower income, as well as predominantly black and brown people are leading the numbers of non-vaccinated people. Even NPR makes it sound like all unvaccinated people are white conservative Trump supporters when that is clearly not the case.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
What actually happened to Namecoin?

It's been a decade since I last heard from it.
>... an English speaker should work mostly on ...

... and on double consonants (like BTW a number of Italians, which regional pronounce can be quite opposite, as an example venetians making any double single and romans making most single doubles) ...

The "j" was once used in writing too, called "i consonantica" when it is followed by a vowel, it remained in historical names like Jacopo but became a "normal" i in - say - acciaio (that was once written acciajo).
I don't think splitting up the controller part into multiple classes is a break from MVC. Nobody would demand that the view or model layer consists of a single class per screen, why should the controller layer follow this rule?

I actually agree with what you said in some way. Projects should start with whatever is the most boring, straightforward architecture possible, and then evolve it organically.

But for UIKit projects, that boring foundation is to vaguely follow Apple's idea of MVC, at least so that JSON parsing and font size adjustments don't happen directly in an IBAction.
Well, in the context of the linked article and hence the comments here, it seems relevant to mention the fact - 5 years after the article's publication - and to consider whether the reliance on comprehensive digital modelling might be in any way to blame for the delays?
Your first instinct was correct, both walking with the Queen, doing the werewolves of London.
This is exactly what GDPR is for.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

> Examples of processing include:

> [..]

> sending promotional emails*;

> [..]
Children benefit to have both parents in their lives, especially when young and can not express consent.
There are enough studies and exemples in every other developed countries where it's the norm that it's not a matter of opinion.

The UN's CRC is indeed about Children's Human Rights.
The specific article in question being Art 9.3
There's a lot of room to explore between C and Rust, while not compromising on low-level features and performance (e.g. "performance" and "safety" are both not absolutes, and also not excluding each other. I hope that there will be many new languages (the more the merrier) exploring that space.

But we'll live for a very long time with C code, it will most likely outlive us all, because important infrastructure code is never really replaced, it just becomes a new sediment layer.
They still need people, but far fewer, and dropping rapidly as a proportion of goods shipped. The number of workers is a distraction - what matters is product shipped per worker.

E.g. a few years ago the packing into bags was still done by people across the board from trays brought by robots. They've systematically automated more and more of it at a pretty astounding pace.
How and why is this string of text a fork bomb?
Actually compensation for most workers went up dramatically from the outset of the industrial revolution. There just wasn't that much wealth to go around prior to industrialisation.

http://nws-sa.com/rr/Inequality/Lindert.pdf
>most Italian words have emphasis on the second-to-last syllable

Good I like to drag out my 'Thats amoooooooooooooore' as much as possible :)