skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. There is Salvation Army, which accordingly to the comparison to Red Cross, has done extremely better job, delivering its mission well. But why didn't orgs like FB or Google (I forgot which) advertized SA? SA is well-known too.

I think there is a social effect, but more likely because the people working at Red Cross has better reach to the big organizations and media outlet, despite the backlashes.

The same with World Health Organization (WHO). Top officials still buy luxury first-class ticket and hotel room. Why? Whatnis wrong with an econ seat?
If California, for example, tries to succeed, it would be illegal

I think you mean secede. It's still legal to succeed in California... for the moment, anyway.
It doesn't help the Haitian cause that the rampant corruption in their country prevents aid money given in good faith from ever reaching the people or projects for which it was originally intended.
The trick is to be in a growing company where new management seats are materializing by the day. Then your manager will be delighted for the help as his number of directs grows beyond what one person can reasonably keep track of.
You should try it out, I'd love to know if it works as well for you as the spreadsheet version you're using!
Alexa Skills don't require any AI/ML knowledge of you; that part's already handled, so getting onboard is very easy. Disclaimer: work on Alexa.
I actually blocked them, just went straight to blood center whenver I can.
Surely I am missing something. Nuclear subs and Space deployments make these slides moot.
Considering the per capita is $719 then I could see $50 to each Haitan would have been a better use of the money ($500M / 10M population). Or that per family...
Yeah, I mentioned that above: "unless you sue them first." That's not a major difference from Facebook's terms.
Willful ignorance of destruction and waste and inequality to perpetuate convenience is always worthy of condescension.
> But you can't seriously claim that slavery wasn't the global norm in the 17th and 18th centuries.

That's an odd standard to set. Racial discrimination, based on ethnicity, also used to be a global norm, yet that didn't and doesn't excuse the crimes of the Third Reich.

While African-American GI's fought against the disfranchisement of European Jews, their own home country still had racial segregation laws in place for decades after WWII.

One could easily fathom an alternate reality where the Third Reich didn't happen/didn't turn out as extreme and as a result, racial segregation and bigotry would still be a "global standard" because humanity didn't see the worst and most extreme outcomes of it.

Who knows, a couple of decades from now the US might serve as yet another negative example for one of humanities many follies.
Google’s PixelBook: the target is bigger than it seems
This isn't sensible regulation. This is an outright ban, which is a whole different ball of wax.

Is an outright ban "anti-innovation"? You can't do sensible regulation once you've banned entrants in favour of the taxis.
If secureboot is functioning, then the wrong firmware wouldn't be installed to begin with by the time OS X gets to it, because it would not be allowed to run.
Look at how often folks on HN complain that the Web platform is useless because JS is slow.

I haven't actually seen anyone complaining about that. Do you have any links?

There are some specific complaints like: JS can't do 64-bit arithmetic or SIMD; but that's only really needed for games and scientific computing, which don't need to use JS. Or that JS is single-threaded; that's a fundamental feature of its design, nothing to do with optimisation.

C without optimisations is just as slow if not slower.

Nobody's talking about taking away all optimisations, just not trying to do extreme optimisations that exploit undefined behavior (or rather, assume it can never occur).

Plenty of C compilers worked that way in the 90s and performance was perfectly acceptable (on hardware with a fraction of the speed and memory of today's computers and phones).

Modern C++ probably relies on a higher level of optimisation, but that's another story.
Submarines are covered on slide 4.
I think this very much depends on the organization. Many managers are political creatures who view any desire by ICs to move up the non-technical ladder as a direct threat to them. Take the anecdote for what it is, but I've experienced that personally, and have had friends who have as well. It doesn't necessarily end well. In my case, I started seriously considering a constructive termination suit until I finally found alternate employment (it took almost three months--I wasn't in the Bay Area at the time).

My current employer is more like what you describe, however, and I'm thankful for it.
The post did mention Nuclear subs. It cautioned that relying on them will add stress and risk to them since they had to be position/deployed constantly in specific areas of the Pacific to fulfill their role.
If software engineers are really so easy to replace then why hasn't it happened? They're currently paid more then most professions so clearly businesses would take a cheaper path if available.
States can leave the US with the consent of Congress.

How do you conclude that? Where in the Constitution do you find a mechanism for doing so?

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-secession...
Since we have Trump on board, the post might be even more interesting with a slide 10: let South Korea/Japan go nuclear, in face of the political issues.
How Facebook Is Changing Your Internet [video]
That’s exactly what I’d expect
It's not a ban on ride-sharing. It's a ban on a single specific company: Uber. And the ban is because Uber was routinely violating sensible regulations.
What's better about your future than the exact same future except humans do the work and the robots are just disembodied AIs who teach the humans how to be useful?
Through most of that article I was thinking "Yep, that's the kind of train-wreck you get when you design by committee, or worse by political need".

But toward the end, he says that the particular kind of technical train-wreck that they got was similar to the Mac API (presumably the this means the pre-OS X OS). "[As a resulting of accidentally being lots of databases] the X API is wide and shallow like the Mac, and full of interesting race conditions to boot."

Anyway, I didn't think that design by committee was one of Apples weaknesses.
Set Uber aside for the bigger picture:

Brexit is UK's "Donald Trump": a manifestation of projected socioeconomic angst in a self-defeating manner that doesn't address inequality at the policy level. It's like suggesting California secede: good luck with trade policies, printing a currency, forming a military and so on. It's civilizational "reorg" churn that accomplishes nothing, eg, mob nonsense. If people collectively possessed integrity and moral courage, they would directly call out what they felt was inequity instead of scapegoating this group, that trade arrangement or a startup.
> It felt, fundamentally, like Dog Parker solved a problem that didn’t exist.

This is the point in the narrative where I immediately assume that the author does not own a dog.

> Full disclosure: I don’t have a dog.

Bingo.

> You might say my credibility here, now, is shot.

No, I said that at the beginning, because it was already clear then.

> But I do know a lot of people who have dogs. They love to talk about their dogs. They do it all the time. One thing I’ve never heard any of them say is I wish there was a locker into which I could insert my dog while I ran errands.

My eyes have just rolled out the back of my head and onto the sidewalk. This is literally a "but I have black/female/queer friends" moment.

> I also heard, “...You could argue that the dog jails are the least worst thing for a legitimate problem.”

And boom! There we have it. Dog owner has a problem that the author doesn't know about. Author thinks the problem doesn't exist. Dog owner tells author that the problem exists. Author continues to be an idiot anyway.

10 thumbs up to the founder for catching him on the safety cameras and responding graciously though. That takes way more class than I'd be able to muster when faced with a person who thinks that problems he doesn't personally face must not exist.
"Space 2.0 startups", dear god...

Are we going to have to hear space buzzwords now?
Some stuxnet type hack that makes the next test missile travel west might be interesting.
It happens all the time, especially outside of anomalies like the Bay Area. Even in the Bay Area it happens frequently enough. Pay is higher in the Bay Area and similar locations because of artificial constraints from the demand-side, not because of a lack of supply. Outside the Bay Area (and similar places) developers aren't paid that much better than any other college educated, skilled worker. I came from outside the Bay Area. This world is...very different from the software world in most other places.
Ask HN: Latin America music industry
Hi guys, I am working on a music app and I wanted to make sure I understand how people consume music content in Latin America. Is it true that people in Latin America consume music content irrespective of the country of origin of the artist? For instance, many people in Argentina are huge fan of artists in Bolivia. What are the dominant genres in Latin America? Is there a dominant country? Thanks!
What language do you think would have replaced it?

It seems to me that C had already won as the de facto systems language, long before any of these "modern optimisation techniques" cropped up.

Optimisations that make it harder to use the language safely are downright dangerous in my book.
'Banned Books Week' Recognizes 2016's Most-Censored Books (and Comic Books)
My parents, particularly my mom, had to take care of one of my grandparents for several years. One thing you should consider is that many people who must care for an elderly parent are themselves a little older, probably at least middle-aged. These people may not be tech savvy, so I think a system that is easy to use, understand, and troubleshoot would be important.
I'm not sure what the poster was getting at - are security contractors with smoking hot girlfriends making 200k a year less credible such that we should explore conspiracy theories?

If so, poor security contractors (and their apparently less appealing girlfriends) with our cynical assumptions.
It depends if the PaaS is auto-scaling. One of the ideas of serverless is that you are only running infrastructure based on exact demand. Theoretically, you might be over-provisioning PaaS resources to handle scaling.
This is awesome, but can't I just buy the thing?
Elixir is slow enough to get in the way, if we're talking about complex processing tasks. I (along with a team) was tasked with writing a fairly complex accounting/numerics application in Elixir, and one day I had to basically call the whole thing a thousand times more often per request. It took me weeks to accumulate enough microoptimizations to make the thing function (because it was already reasonably well designed).

It's a sort of a "it's fast enough until it isn't" type thing. Python is fast in the same way (and faster with each release!).

For anything that isn't dominated by network and database time, language and runtime performance matters, and OTP/Elixir is slow in that way. In terms of "real world performance", it can sometimes matter more that the incremental cost of preempting your beam process is low, more than whether your process completes in more or less time.
Nice idea, but there are occasions when I find myself on a Windows box (which I normally never use) using putty, or my iPad using vSSH and I have no local editor (or editor that I would use, in the case of Windows).
> Hotes Foundation

Who?

And yes, I did look it up. It's a tiny private foundation about which almost nothing is known, and the quoted articles are basically trash talking based on a couple of news stories and saying basically "see how much better it is to give to us?" except (in theory) they don't accept donations they want people to go in person to disaster sites and help on site.
They are now in better hands from what I read. Slashdot and Sourceforge were both acquired two years ago: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
With X11/NeWS, you were running two window systems at the same time on one machine, right out of the box!

Even with NeWS 1.1, you were still running parts of SunView underneath.

One cool thing that X11/NeWS could do was that X11 clients could transparently use scalable PostScript fonts, including the nice hinted "Folio" fonts, and even "user defined fonts" written in PostScript like the Hershey and Dijkstra fonts. The X11 server could call back into the NeWS PostScript interpreter to render the font at any point size!
Your particular handling of him will depend on his personality and relation to the team, but one way I've found to handle this is to sit with him on a few questions and walk him through the most basic levels of your thought process as you think of queries and Google them, select results, etc. This way you're "teaching him to fish" so that he can use that methodology in the future.

While it may often seem simple to "just Google it," it can be difficult for people to come up with appropriate queries and weigh results, especially in new/unknown contexts.

A lot of the time we have ready answers if other people ask us questions because we're actively ready to attack and criticize to get an answer, but we're more reluctant to do that with ourselves. So if the teaching approach doesn't work, then another way is to ask him to list up the questions he has, give it 10-15 minutes, then review them himself to see how he would answer them -- the idea is to give him some time to "reset" and get a fresh perspective.
If there were a simple and reliable way to say "make the program crash if we hit any of this UB, rather than optimising it completely away" I think that would make a lot of people happy.
Detroit is, for most intents and purposes, "not owned".

We're in a brief moment where the internet exists, but has not yet disintermediated population centers.

Within 10 years there will be a new city born every week in the US with great jobs, great coffee, and "market housing" i.e. construction cost plus 50%. The property markets will collapse.

Along with this there will be a massive readjustment of wages in favor of workers. The average number of full time employees per corporation will go from 16 to 0.16. The Dow companies will lose 50% (only) of their market share over the subsequent 10 years to federated sole proprietorships and small partnerships, but the middle class will double in size, and population is still headed towards 10 billion, so big companies will grow in net revenue anyway.

From there you can start to see how we get to "everything owned"... 10 billion people and every one of them is extracting maximum utility from a couple acres (about the max area a single human can maximize utility of)... That's 20 billion acres of really "owned" property... Property you couldn't make an offer on without losing money.

We will get to "everything owned" in the U.S. but we're not close. It only looks like that from porches in boom cities.
I give to UNICEF
A self-driving car that can't handle a missing stoplight isn't production-ready.
This was a useful response, thank you. I think I will only correct "may" to "might" if there's a genuine chance for confusion. I like the use of "may" as "possibly".

For example it's an easy way to say, "maaaaybe I was." (I may have been.) Whereas "I might have been" is about a conditional - it means something different than "maybe I was".

Come to think of it, our very word "maybe" isn't about permission - and it doesn't have the form "mightbe".

Still, it is useful to know what prescriptivists think, so thanks for the summary.
Warning: on Chrome, anyway, this is a clicktrap from which you cannot back-navigate out.
I have less government where I live now and like it just fine
SSDs have many advantages over rotary drives, but reliability is not one of them.
Yeah. Like "anti-memory".
It's been years since I was an American Red Cross (local) disaster services volunteer, but at the time I believe the philosophy was also providing funds rather than materials because it helped local economies recover.
I would like to see major disaster relief specials try a tagline at the bottom:

Text ##### to donate $5 to GiveWell, which will channel your funds to the charity measurably best equipped to alleviate human suffering like (but not exactly like) the suffering caused by this disaster.

On the other hand, there was outrage after 9/11 when donated blood was diverted to other needs. Some donors apparently wanted all 475,000 units of donated blood to be used specifically to treat 9/11 victims (who required in total something like 200-300 units of blood, which was available in existing stocks).

One of the best things we could do would be to convince people that suffering is suffering and helping is fungible.
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How Books Designed for Soldiers’ Pockets Changed Publishing Forever
What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps
Why We Built the ARKit Sudoku Solver (Computer Vision and Augmented Reality = Wow)
All I see is a landing page with nowhere to navigate.
(Sorry for the re-submit; got the link wrong the first time)

I'd really like to have a discussion around this; is my hypothesis correct?

Is computer vision the missing link for making useful AR apps? If not, what is? And what makes for a good AR app?
Using a Spanish Translator for Crypto White Papers or Press Releases
Well, should we consider some of the underlying factors for why African nations in particular are doing terribly? Seems the 1885 Berlin treaty set that continent back for at least a few centuries, the effects of which are still causing havok to this day.
> But why didn't orgs like FB or Google (I forgot which) advertized SA? SA is well-known too.

I don't know the actual reason. But it could be because of the religious connection. While I've seen that the Salvation Army has done a lot of good, they also connect it with their belief system. This makes me uneasy.

Fundamentally I'd be happy to donate to a charity that I knew would:

- Responsibly manage the funds

- Ensure that those in need actually get the funds or directly funds activities for those in need (i.e shelter, food, etc)

- Not turn around and then spend significant fractons (or, in some cases, multiples) of the donated amount in trying to get more donations from me/other donors.

- Not connect the donations / activities with a religious belief system

Unfortunately those seem few and far between.
Yeah, I saw that cliff and thought it was going to end a lot more morbid than it did.
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The thing with excessive remuneration with startup’s are, it’s highly unlikely one could switch to a better paying job when the need arises.

Update : To people who ask why would someone need another job?

There are multitude of reasons, a well funded startup which could pay several times the industry standard - when fails; puts excessively paid employees to compete in the same standarised job market. If you live in the part of the world where the HR asks about your previous pay to assess your eligibility for current job, you will soon end up settling for a sub-par(quality) job with standard pay i.e after giving up the ego. Also if the high paying job didn't provide you with necessary foundation to consistently improve your skill set, the moment you are out to compete in open job market; you'll be facing tough competition from better skilled people with standard pay whom the companies would likely prefer. Again, my arguments are based on the fact that you live in part of the world where your previous pay matters for current job interview.
> It would make more sense to have an secure OS in ROM that runs at boot and at various times which bypasses the installed OS and drivers, and can scan firmwares, microcode on various buses and critical files.

Isn’t that what Intel ME is? The only difference being we don’t know what exactly it does?
I note that the people you name all built their communities through work they did well outside the corporate world.
I worked on an Xbox title many years ago, when I was still a bit inexperienced, and one of the requirements was that it had to run the attract mode for a week without fucking up. The other guy working on it was even worse than me, so no prizes for guessing who ended up sorting that out. And what a huge pain it was!

There was nothing awfully wrong with the code, sure, much of which had been through numerous PC games, and a lot of which was shared with the PS2 version... but finding all the stuff that wasn't awfully wrong, just a bit wrong, and wrong enough to cause problems after running it for 3+ days solid, was surprisingly painful. But I figured it out. Even if I'm not the sharpest tool in the box, I'm persistent, and I've been served well over the years by my ability to bring this to bear on whatever problem I'm facing. So I did that, and it all got fixed, and it shipped like that.

Once it got signed off, I started working on another Xbox title that was nearing completion. But by the time that one reached the certification stage, about 3 months later, the requirement had mysteriously changed to just 2 days! I wonder why...
Is this surprising?
Captivating! Anyone have other recommendations for blogs, YouTube channels, etc. about reverse-engineering cool stuff?
What is the difference in size between a human cell and a transistor?
The desire for more often blinds us. We all are looking for more wealth, and perhaps working for a startup like this will get us there. However, I personally think that talent is priceless. You can't just throw money for top skill.

In field like startups, you have to passionate on what you're working on to make it the best it can be. Sure, say I have "top talent". But, what we fail to realize that "top talent" may not translate into more revenue or users. I must be willing to work the extra hours and focus my mind one hundred percent of the time to utilize this talent.

And, honestly, I do not think even money would motivate me to work to such a degree if I'm working on something I don't believe in.
Sure, but at $3M a year, sock $2.5M away, live extremely comfortably, and have one hell of a rainy day fund.
ntime is almost great as a client, but it's so minimal it doesn't have enough necessary features and it's unlikely to be anywhere as accurate as chrony or ntpd. openntpd falls in the same boat. The issue of ntpd was/is security and possibly excessive configuration.
Cheaper than an acquihire and without the hassle.
What would a python pip replacement look like?
Having branched out from the world of Python in recent years, I've seen some interesting package managers for other languages and of course operating systems. I've got some hang ups with pip and setuptools that I imagine could be resolved with an extensible approach. For example, I imagine scoped package support (see NPM), transparent versioning (aka deterministic installs, or a better pip-tools), automatic project dependency management (again, NPM), parallel installation (yarn)...

So what would a re-think of pip look like?
Is there a reason that they are not listed on Charity Navigator? Are they listed on any other independent charity rating site?
If chrony had an MIT license, it has the potential to be more awesome. ntpd's configuration is its attack and misconfiguration surface. There's no one "perfect" ntp client/server, they have their strengths and weaknesses.