skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you'd be fine with expats in Portugal if they learned Portuguese? (Doesn't say one way or the other if the person in the article learned the language.)

Conversely, are you upset by immigrants in the US that don't speak English?
The Lens library sucks even if you're fluent in advanced math and Haskell. In practice when I have to use Lens (usually with JSON), I just code golf it until it works because it's so damn impenetrable.
As a former (PhD) researcher, this is spot on. Here are the factors I've observed:

- fear of getting scooped: there's a general fear that sharing data makes it easier for competing labs to publish on the same topics, leading to the publishing lab "missing out" on publications

- fear of being wrong: sharing the data leads to more scrutiny, leading to a higher chance of a fatal flaw being found

- extra work: publishing data often involves jumping through extra hoops with little to no personal gain
>E2E privacy has a lot of uses.
ZCrypto has none.

>It’s just an enabler and hotbed of a variety of scams.
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his just keeps getting trotted out again and again on HN as if it were a dying circus horse, but with no real merit. Even analysis by companies that spend all day, every day tracking cryptocurrency use and transactions estimate that only something like 2% of them are criminal. Even if we add in fraudulent/criminal funds that were laundered well enough to hide their origin and purpose from these tracking services, the percentage is still almost certainly a small minority.

Add to that a couple things: First, that not all "criminal" transactions are morally wrong just because they're illegal. No doubt there are anti-Putin Russians right now trying to get their money out of country with crypto and breaking a law or two. Are they scum?

Secondly, yes, there are many, many normal people using crypto for many things. I personally know many who do this, for work payments, difficult transactions because of some regulatory bullshit, remittances and even in one case as payment for contemporary dance services while living overseas. Anecdotes, but I have no doubt that they're extremely widespread, because my friend circle isn't one of crypto bros and money launderers. It's of ordinary people.

How fucking tedious to see so many on a so-called hacker site shit so repetitively and with so much categorically dismissive ignorance on something many of its readers emotionally dislike. It's not hard to verify how exaggerated or just worng some of these dismissive claims are.
> It would affect me if Coke and Starbucks prohibited the existence of competitors

In a sense they do, every Starbucks in existence is a store where a traditional coffee shop cannot be stablished. How many more Starbucks it takes to completely shut other competitors out of the market?
It's about the incentives, not the mentality. Collecting the data is often the bulk of the work, but the rewards mostly come from publishing papers that make discoveries from the data. If you want to base science on experiments that are properly planned and executed, the scientists doing that work must get the recognition they need to advance their careers.
I’m 24 and been noticing decreasing memory as well. I constantly forget what I have done during standup in the morning and can’t think of location of code when asked about it..etc

For my case it’s definitely due to lack of sleep which is caused by consuming great amount of caffeine for my workout every other day. I’m considering dropping pre-workout but I just can’t control myself eating junk food!
> Please pardon my inadvertent US-centrism! If you live in a country with a functioning democracy, of course it would make sense to participate.

This implies that you think that the reason the person believes that they should participate in government is because they don't live in the US and as such, have a functioning democracy and can have an impact on policy. I am asserting that people can have an effect on policy, just that you are more likely to have an effect when you are dealing with local government. This doesn't require a research paper to figure out; There are approximately 334 million Americans. The "average citizen" in this case would have almost no influence whatsoever on policy even in a "functioning democracy" and this is how it is designed. However, if you narrow that down to your state, there is a much lower population and the policies implemented will have a more direct impact on you. If you go even further and look at it from a county, township, or city level, you, by the virtue of their being a small fraction of the people potentially involved in governance, have a much larger effect on policy. The issue is that it seems that people don't want to affect how their town is governed, they want to make mass impact with big changes in policies at a national level.

Special interest groups and economic elites affecting national policy isn't a unique trait to the United States and they are not a valid reason to encourage people against participating in government. You are teaching helplessness which just perpetuates the issue.
The word “intended” is right there.
I Dream of a One World Government and New World Order
His newest scam.
This sort of hack with control logic was done in XML with Ant. It was a bad idea then and it still is.
As well as syntactic constructs.

For example, Rust's unusual 'a syntax for lifetime parameters is Ocaml's syntax for generics because lifetimes are a special class of generics.
I'm self taught. No college degree. Raised by a single mother on government assistance.

I'm very tired of hearing about all the advantages I have from people born with the silver spoon, just not white. It's very common to run into such individuals in tech.

Race-focused DEI is very beneficial to people like this because they have all the elite pedigree without any of the racial baggage. Rarely do I see these efforts help truly disadvantaged people.

Your suggestions are all well and good. They would help someone coming from a background like mine.

Unfortunately, they bear little resemblance to the DEI efforts and departments I'm familiar with.
Netscape's SuiteSpot 3.5 (1998)
I did that... First thought was "Oh no... What am I gonna need to patch now?"... :|
BuzzFeed stock is down 37.90%, the day employees and executives lock up expires
Not sure how a technologist could think that USB-C is the best that we could do. It could be smaller, easier to attach in the dark, easier to attach with one hand, etc. etc.

The government is not good at technology. They should step out of the way and let the consumer decide.
Performative Marketing
The flappy paddle is cheating and boring.

You gotta master the heal-toe brake double-clutch downshift going into a turn, or you're not a real driver.
Even worse, what happens when you get to your destination? Will you find a perfect analog of Earth and with the same kind of star? Assuming the star is very similar to our Sun, then you can ask about the atmosphere of the planet. Pretty much you need 25% oxygen and 75% nitrogen and 14 pound per square inch pressure on the surface. Fine, is the gravity the same? If not, there may be problems getting around. Okay, so what about food? You don't want to die of hunger. Finally, what about viruses and bacteria on the planet? They may attack you instantly and you die a miserable death in two weeks. At that point you may say to your self, Why did I come here.
> The word “intended” is right there

Right before the word "or."
Completely agree. A cashless society is not one I want to live in
So so so many 404 links on this page. But a really neat effort! Looking forward to looking at this ontology more closely.

It'll be interesting to see how, if at all, this work ends up integrating with schema.org. There's an IOT page on schema.org[1] that's been around for a while- end of 2019 at least[2]. I haven't yet had much success in understanding/comparing (in part due to 404's).

[1] https://schema.org/docs/iot-gettingstarted.html

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20191122180532/https://schema.org...
What's the point of using Haskell if I'm going to do that? I much prefer using a language that does imperative programming very well and functional programming fairly well if I'm going to use both.
I'm not aware of any book specifically addressing the rivalry or both brands at once. My opinion is that this rivalry mostly exists in the press and in the public imagination and therefore would make poor fodder for a book. In contrast, Ferrari's dealings with Ford both on and off the racetrack are much more interesting, and have generated a lot of writing as well as the recent movie.

My #1 book recommendation would be Luca Dal Monte's excellent recent biography on Enzo Ferrari. In a field dominated by shallow coffee table books and breathless romanticism, it's a comprehensive, scholarly history that remains very readable. Not much material on Lamborghini, though. Unfortunately like many auto books it is now out of print and prices are in "collector" territory. Still worth picking up if you can.
i disagree, there's absolute nothing preventing an ordinary Chinese from taking a exam and become someone that actually has influence over domestic policies. Elections aren't the only ways a legitimate government can be formed.
When I was a university researcher, after publishing my first paper in the role I carefully read the policy requiring making data available, as I wanted to be correct by the book, but also have my data (which I took pride in) publicly available for critical review. The process as described was simple, though I soon found there was no mechanism implemented to actually achieve this. URLs and systems no longer existed, no alternatives available. I requested to publish via an external provider and was informed I would be fired if I did so. Disappointing to say the least.
Congratulations, you've just invented cash!
The idea that embodiment is necessary for intelligence is just another example of anthropocentrism.

It's likely that we will soon have AGI that can solve the protein folding problem, play go at a superhuman level, and create arbitrary images from a text prompt, yet still underperform humans when it comes to proprioception and object manipulation.

Humans have evolved specifically for proprioception for billions of years, it's a core survival skill that all animals have in common. In contrast our history of language and abstract thinking only go back less than a million years.

Human brains are overfit to our environment, which is why we're so good at recognizing human faces and so bad at mathematics. A intelligence created from a blank slate need not share our limitations - it could perceive in more than 3 dimensions, it could grasp quantum amplitudes as easily as we understand integers, it could have multiple embodiments and experiences simultaneously.
Tangential to topic, but I have been reading a Newton biography (Never at Rest) recently, and I found it interesting how reliant Newton was on the observations of other scientists. He had correspondence with scientists like Halley and Flamsteed on the basis of getting their observations of comets or observations of the moon, to help him work out orbits.

At one point, Newton was unhappy with Flamsteed, because Flamsteed wanted to work on his star map instead of Newton's moon observations, but Flamsteed said he needed an accurate star map to produce accurate moon observations.

Data sharing has been an issue in science for hundreds of years.
I read rumors a while back that the US would bomb TSMC if it looked like China could get it. It reminded me of the 1177 Bronze Age collapse - except with chips instead of bronze. (Btw, the Throughline podcast on 1177 is excellent).
> To me this just looks like a novelty item, more akin to an art piece than a serious technology

Oh boy, wait till you hear about NFTs, memecoins, and well.. bitcoin I guess.
I think we are way past the stage of "files as an offline singular entity" thing. Most everything these days is meant to be synced, shared, collaborated on, copied, sent etc. We are in sort of a transition stage between files and "pure data" (or whatever you wanna call it).

In these days of interconnectivity something like modifying metadata or storing metadata inside a file is a deprecated concept. This is a good thing but it takes away the simplicity of files.

I have worked with MP3 files (built 2 audio players for Windows) and while it's fun, its very cumbersome as well. For example the metadata is not consistent across files. Not to mention how slow IO is. Furthermore it's not synced with the file. If another program changes a file, everything else stays behind. You can resync but that's slow.

This is a sacrifice we made for owning the music we bought. Today you pay a couple of dollars for a Spotify subscription and get access to millions of albums. Is that a good thing? It's certainly an evolution. You don't have to copy files around anymore if you want to share a song. You can just send a link. You don't have to manage metadata, sync lyrics, deal with quality etc. anymore. That's all done for you.

It's certainly convenient but it takes away the novel feeling of owning something.
Trying to get an OS to work with proprietary undocumented hardware is not easy. Microsoft may have decided it’s not worth the effort.

Usually Microsoft gets the hardware manufacturer to make sure their hardware works with Windows. In this case Apple have probably decided that supporting Windows themselves is not worth the effort either.

Likely neither of them want to get into the support headache that this could turn out to be.
C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf (2020)
Meta coming to Durham: Real estate prices could double again in 5-10 years
Ask HN: Skills to leverage on when moving from security to software engr?
Hi everyone,
Some context: I have 6 years of experience as a DevSecOps engineer. My work involves code review, security testing, integration of security tools into CI/CD pipelines and development of internal security services / tools for Developers and DevOps teams.

After a self-reflection on the different things that I have done, I found myself enjoying building things and promoting good security practices.

I wonder if there any good tips on how to transition from security to software development? How should I position myself when applying for software engineering jobs?

I know one of my weaknesses is the lack of knowledge in Data Structures and Algorithms. And I will need to re-study the DSA topics again and practicing leetcode. Another weakness is the lack of understanding about software performance.

Thanks for reading this.
I went to school at K-State and was best friends with one of the original developers of this software. Eventually, I took a formal logic class with a professor in the philosophy department, Graham. He is involved to a large extent in this as well. One of the best professors I had—-incredibly intelligent and patient and all around good.

I would highly recommend people check out Carnap. Having used Z3 and Alloy in other classic, Carnap was by far the best one I used. Very fast and it gave actually useful error messages. It was also so cool how it could represent different types of logic systems. The whole thing is like a cool blag magic to me.
Correct, larger plans get it factored into the overall costs and hidden from you. When my company grew in size and we switched plans, suddenly I got dental as well for free (I had previously denied it cause I did the math). It may not even be something your employer pays for as it might be a perk added in by the insurance company. Depending on what the coverage actually is, it still may or may not be worth it. Hard to say... it is all so nebulous and poorly defined.

Always read the small print though...
Many new parents always go through some depression when their first kid is just born, the life changes are drastic and sacrifices have to be made. My wife got hit with more of this than me, so I took a couple of years off of work to take care of our (then) baby so she could go back to work earlier (she just moved to the USA and was unemployed, and I just got laid off from YCR, so we got to make a choice). Always got to look out for the mental health of your partner, and judging isn’t very useful.
Why should I take Hackernoon seriously when they give platforms to material like this and rants about "bugmen"[0] better suited to 4chan? People need to post shit like this on their own blogs.

[0]: https://hackernoon.com/on-the-infestation-of-small-souled-bu...
I certainly agree as far as ELisp code is concerned, but I don’t think it’s true when it comes to the C part.
California Uber Alles!! California always and forever. There is indeed gold in them thar heels, no matter what they do to San Francisco. Los Angeles is vibrant, yet car laden. Money is way better in California, and you won’t be seen as — uncivil, overly ambitious; too American, with American expectations, and a workaholic. In Europe they work to live, here we sleep in the factory or the offices. You can incorporate a new agency in seconds! USA #1
How to Not Be Stumped by Trees
I was in a similar position to you about a year ago, some old PHP skills and a long break from work. The biggest challenge at this stage is getting out of your own way and selling your strengths.

I assure you, there are lots of companies right now with a roster of junior developers who are looking for a sage graybeard (if you are nearing 30 that is close enough) on the cheap, so embrace that role and angle yourself for it. Focus on your product and customer expertise and not the tech stack. Find the unsexy companies, plenty still operate remotely.

For me, I got a job at an old PHP shop and after 8 mo. upgraded with a big salary boost to a React/Python role, both languages I picked up while job hunting. The biggest challenge for me? Getting comfortable with the GitHub workflow and working on a bigger team was a bigger shift than learning a language, so I would recommend sticking with PHP for now and find a job where you can get comfortable with that side of things first.

The monthly HN job thread is a pretty good mix of companies so give that a shot.
A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators
So it is basically encrypted key stored in a micro sd card inside some printed paper.

Gimmicks like this is why the whole crypto thing is all smoke and mirrors.
Privacy, Slaac and RFC 8981
yeah. holy hell is it a lot of work. hate doing it even when I know I'll get a paper out of it.
Amazon and Apple union push captures what a majority of US workers say they want
If you charge the value a user gets out of the tool, an economically rational user would be indifferent between buying your tool and not buying it. (Given that choice, a user should probably avoid buying as they’re economically no better off, but now they have the complexity of another vendor to manage for no net gain.)

There are well established reference points that you’re at least nominally going to be compared to. “Is X worth more or less than Slack? O365? Box? gSuite?”

That is probably going to create a stronger anchor on perceived value than a carefully calculated product of reduction in MTTR * cost of outage * frequency of such savings.
I'm a software engineer that works for a non-profit academic institute that's all about this stuff! I just do the software, not the history, but have a personal interest. But if you like this, some things from the org I work for that may interest you...

Here's a Google Arts & Culture online exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/0QIyP7XkB-WZLA

Some articles and podcasts:
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/early-science-a...

Some digitized manuscripts and such:
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/focus/alchemy
The cost-benefit ratio of open sourcing data has been known for long enough now, it's time to stop excusing this practice and start treating studies with unavailable datasets as heresay.

When scientists don't publish datasets, it contributes to a culture that allows a small (or not small, depending on who you talk to) portion of scientists can p-hack their way to a publication and ruin the reputation of research for everyone.
The "economic impact payments" in the US, clearly
A Porsche is better in every aspect except it's not a Ferrari.
Use the web-based version in Edge. It’s not quite the desktop version, but it has improved a lot. At this point I’d rather use the web-versions of all office tools on a Mac rather than deal with installing them.
Technically you're the author, not OP. (Please don't kill me)
Or they take the other’s words in stride and decide their path based on what they already wanted to do anyway.
Why should the government be involved in this?
South seems to make sense. They're in my back yard in Austin, TX. I see them every year, exactly around this time.
In Thailand I became quite annoyed by the lack of grounding. If your sockets where actually modern enough to have ground, it is rarely connected to anything at all, or sometimes just screwed to the wall. Rare to find a ground spike in a dwelling. Common to get zapped by your shower's electric water heater.
I like to expand the acronym as Divisiveness Exclusion Ignorance.
Again, I'm sorry to hear that, but I promise you there are people out there working to make things better for everyone. All I can offer you is that the successes are far less visible than the failures, and that it's really easy to get DEI wrong (whether intentionally or otherwise). I hope that at least I've conveyed why programs like this exist and why they might be helpful to everyone, even if we disagree on whether or not they're implemented correctly.
Interestingly, one of the best ways to rack up citations in ML is to publish a benchmark dataset.
It isn’t “designed” or “used” to racially discriminate if it’s not intended.

The word “Intententionally,” specifically, is present in section 706(g) to expressly prevent accidental discrimination from violating Title VII.
Business owners can’t always do everything. There are some aspects of the marketing, that requires some knowledge in the field
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Considering evolution optimized for biological fitness and not intelligence, it would be incredibly surprising if it wasn't possible to do better, especially using a vastly different architecture.

You could also build an AGI to run on a digital CPU but interact with a simulation that used analog coprocessors (which is a thing these days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg).

You can also include quantum coprocessors (which already exist in their infancy) for various things (probably only useful for quantum simulations at this point though).

Also considering recent ML work, an AGI is more likely going to run on something similar to a GPU than a CPU.
Another interesting angle is that everyone eventually will become old and therefore in this protected class. It's not like race, gender, etc. in that way.
What about pandoc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoc

Author is not a "dev" nor a self-proclaimed "engineer". He has no computer science, maths, EE or physics degrees listed on his CV. He does list several languages. None are computer languages. He suggests the programs he has written may be "structured procrastination".

http://johnmacfarlane.net/macfarlane-cv.html

https://www.johnmacfarlane.net/BayHac2014/

https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.macfarlane/

I think Dhall looks interesting. Like MacFarlane, I am free to choose any language I find satisfying for procrastination purposes.
The VCs aren't innocent fools, they're complicit partners.
Because the article, which is mostly an excerpt from Kertzer's forthcoming book (which I will buy), makes the case that Pius XII (the Pope during most of the Nazi period) didn't do enough to oppose Nazism.
Don't care. Ferrari or nothing.
I would think the weight of batteries would be helpful in the case of bulldozers, especially given the low g.
100MHz logic was amazing in the year 1974.

In 1975, Cray made their first supercomputer, clocked at 80MHz, with freon-cooled ECL NOR gates.