skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect for your work and intentions, please explain to me (hairy reasoner) two things:

1) How would the hypothetical 15 days/home reduced to 24h/home be relevant [1]

2) How the new machine is compatible with the statement on your site:

https://newstorycharity.org/sponsor/

>Built By Locals

>By training local labor and buying locally sourced construction materials your donation not only builds a home, but it stimulates local economies and teaches skills in the process.

[1] Please consider also how the 24h are per home is also per machine/robot, if you assemble 15 teams of local builders you have exactly the same production
Dupe that made it to the first page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569778
In other words, you set up a strawman.
IT beware: University finds new 4G security holes
Why are millions of clocks in Europe running slow?
I have a rift and it has exceeded all my expectations in terms of performance. Sure I would be happier if it was lighter and had no cord.

But the big issue is the dearth of content. There are a handful of high quality games for the thing, and a large number of amateur early-access dreck. I really want to spend time with the thing but haven't found anything thats' compelling for more than a handful of hours (and even those run $20+). It's a medium that's still waiting for its Pacman IMO
Editions sound like an interesting riff on C/C++'s standards thing.

The post isn't really clear what will be gated behind editions though, only non-BC syntactic changes (e.g. literally just new keywords)?
Offshoot question. Why can’t we do this with plastic. Plastic sheds hold up great. And plastic lasts for 1000s of years.
I don’t know if you can do this. The problem with social news sites is not that the trolls are winning but it is that the moderators aren’t properly compensated because no website has the capability of moderating large websites. Also to get advertisers on your platform you need a moderated forum that aligns with your advertisers. The internet always had free speech and with that comes trolls by definition . The difference now is that there are competiting ideologies associated with websites that want to control vast parts of the internet . We have websites that want your pictures , attention and comments for free in exchange to promote other people’s products. On the site operators side they need to do deals with advertisers who don’t want that controversial topics. So the advertisers force discussions on the platform to only align with them. Or the site operators do this. Solving the troll problem is not going to be solved just by reddit.
Most people who run servers aren't cloud hosts, so they're not running untrusted code on their servers in the first place, making Spectre/Meltdown pretty much a non-issue.

These sorts of issues were discovered a decade ago when speculative execution first hit the scene, we just never had a practical exploit (in public knowledge anyway) until recently, and even then it really isn't that bad despite all the security apocalypticists shouting that the end was nigh.
Cloud Native Maturity Model (with Infographic)
I complete agree. My premise is that you can only remove two out of the four -- echo chamber, trolling, toxicity, community. If you accept this premise the only logical conclusion is to remove trolling and toxicity. Without community the point is moot, after all. So really you're removing two out of echo chamber, trolling, toxicity.
Care to share type some examples of data you've found that was used to produce financial forecasts?
Eris: near-zero-overhead distributed transactions with in-net concurrency ctrl
Hmm ...

- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/IRCd_sof...

- https://xkcd.com/927/
The title used to be "Using machine learning to...".
I'd like to see moderation decoupled from the forum namespace.

So you'd subscribe to a forum namespace in order to see posts about a topic (say, AskScience), but you would then also subscribe to whichever moderators you want. The moderation wouldn't be inextricably tied to the namespace.

Anybody can post anything in any namespace (and anybody can declare themselves a moderator of any namespace), but people will only see posts if their chosen moderators allow it. You could have all of the same moderation powers that exist at the moment, except any given moderator's actions are optional to any given user's view of the forum.

We wouldn't need a situation like with r/bitcoin and r/btc where disagreements about moderation resulted in a splinter group creating a separate namespace: those who disagreed with moderator X would simply unsubscribe from X's moderation.

I don't know if this would result in a better forum, but I'd be interested to see how it's different, and I don't know of anywhere it's been tried.

(And in case someone out there is granting wishes... can I also have it decentralised e.g. using IPFS's pub sub?)
i.e. You can't prove a negative
Install Stylish or Stylebot, create a new style:

.highlightMenu {
display: none!important;
}

Stylish - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

Stylebot - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...

Sorry if this has been answered already, didn't have time to read through replies.
This is excessively hostile and conspiratorial IMHO. The folks on camera are completely at the mercy of those feeding information to them, and it seems unlikely that there was some master plan to suppress that information or they would have cut the feed completely.
Yeah, this post is intended to be a high-level explanation, so we didn't dig into the details. I left a comment below about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569751
Zstd-Compressed Debian Packages for Ubuntu
It wasn't really 'trivia'. It was several hours of difficult problem solving without reference material, given access only to a whiteboard and a judge.

The studying that would have led to a success:

* Memorizing a significant amount of the interview's programming language. Since there is no reference material, you really need to know it. No standard library reference to help you out.

* Solving enough algorithms and data structures problems to be able to minimize the time needed to identify and implement them. There is a time constraint, so blanking out or slowly deriving them is a recipe for rejection.

I'm doing both of the above, and I know I'll have success this time around, but it was jarring the first time.

Honestly, I'm OK with this now, because I am good at studying and learning. I just wasn't expecting it initially, because I wasn't going in for a position at Google or something. The company advertised the position as needing much less experience than that. So I was really surprised (and under-prepared) when I was given the whole day coding interview process.
For me epoch is more readily associated with new version new features, whereas edition is more like format, such as Mobile edition, Tablet edition, etc.
Software engineering isn't a profession, there's no standardised way of demonstrating to an employer that you have the requisite skills they want.

A CompSci degree/MSc/PhD is just a piece of paper that a lot of other people have.

Employment history is just a paragraph on your resume, that you could have embellished to make yourself look better.

This is why companies do these "Dr. House" style 4-6 hour, multi stage interviews, because they can't evaluate people in any other way.
DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for first time
Both energy and resource-wise it's much cheaper to just grow plants and char them. And you probably end up with side-benefits from growing plants in the process.
Yttrium is used to make high performance filters and oscillators. YIG filters and oscillators are wide band high Q microwave devices used in high performance instruments, radar and frequency agile communication systems. An example would be the AN/ALQ-161A B1-B countermeasure system.
I apologize -- I mean the platform itself offers strong moderation. Unlike Facebook, for example. I agree with your point, though.
Well, one concern may be that plastic lasts for 1000s of years. What do you do when you decide to renovate a village of ten thousand plastic silos or boxes? Transporting and recycling that volume of material would probably be expensive, even if it were a type of plastic that was largely recoverable without losing much of its material properties.
It's the reason I like HN so much. There is without fail someone who's been in that industry for a while. On reddit comments like those are rare and often gilded, then make their way over to r/DepthHub, but here I can almost expect them. It's great.
> They release stuff, then seemingly completely abandon it for years.

It's not just with devices. The most obvious place this happens is with IM services. Whether it's intentional or not, maintenance of existing products seems to be frowned upon within Google since promotions are mainly based on releasing new products.
This brings up the question of whether or not there's a good list of long road tunnels you can drive through? I'd love to cruise through one of these bouncing off the rev limiter, just for the fun of it :)
So maybe the issue is just that this sort of features should really be enabled client-side. Which you could do fine with an intelligent IRC client.
I wonder if it'd be possible to do automatic detection and removal of notebook lines via an FFT (frequency domain) transform.
Well fair enough but I don't see the two qualities as being all that related.

"Oh my god, production is down! Quick, someone tell me, from memory, the solution to the N Queens problem!!"
I suspect it’s more than a nickel and combined with the fact that the decision makers most likely

* have their own offices

* are less likely to engage in deep work

The decision is an easy one.
#horseracing – #betting – Google My Maps
Mind quoting the passage that describes the measures in place? I just read the entire article and absolutely zero proof is provided that Huffman can no longer edit things.

It mentions Spezgiving, followed by Huffman's apology, and then moves onto banning subreddits, to the meeting about banning subreddits, and ends at /r/Place and the worry it'd be nothing but swastikas. Absolutely nowhere is anything described about the measures in place to prevent Huffman - or anyone else at Reddit for that matter - from editing posts.
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I started using quassel a while ago. The idea of having core and GUI separated is great. Bouncers have always been a kludge, never thought of when the protocol was designed. Bouncers and plugins/scrips for clients bend over backwards trying to streamline the experience, with mediocre results. Quassel created a new protocol that core and GUI talk, so when running multiple GUI instances on several machines all the open networks, channels, queries and backlogs are synchronized. The backlog even loads in chunks infinitely when scrolling up. Although the client lacks some minor features I got used to over the years with xchat, in general I'm quite happy with it.
The fact that it missed irssi is just a sign of the "awesome" hype.
> "Most universities, surprisingly, have no way to measure their effectiveness, and most don’t try. If you can’t measure effectiveness you can’t fail."

I don't know the facts-- and none are presented in the tweet-- but I do have a friend whose very job is to run studies on the effectiveness of programs at a University. I am sure this person is not alone.

Even if "most" (asserted) universities don't have a way to measure their effectiveness, the fact is that many of the best do and they all tend to benchmark each other. I would be really curious what the author is basing his assertion on because I think it is likely schools research a lot of things (like their effectiveness) but don't release that information publicly for many reasons.
The Stroop Effect Mind Game
Wordpress is a development stack that happens to have a Page/Post/Categories/Tags schema system. It is much more than a "blog."

It sounds like you didn't know how to secure your server with at least chroot jail, selective port filtering, and njinx injection filtering or apache fail2ban.

I have been running multiple wordpress sites for years and have never had issues. These sites have custom themes I wrote to take advantage of the wp_ apis, to do much more than just blogging.

For example: http://gregoryscoffee.com is done entirely as a custom wordpress theme. The different coffees are actually posts in the Coffees category - their thumbnail is fetched by grabbing the image attachment on each of the posts. In fact, all the dynamic content is stored as posts. The owner has no problem updating the site, since it is all editable in the normal wordpress admin.
> So, I'd disagree strongly that this is a google "strategy". It's more a problem that their apps tend to have a lot of features crammed in.

It doesn't matter much to me if the problematic behavior arises from strategy or accident, though.

Adding the ability to turn this stuff off is good, but it should be default.
As someone who does a lot of firmware I think I really need to explore more of what Rust brings to the table there. Interrupts are a major source of concurrency and I'd like to be fearless about those issues.
> For example, email is federated. You can set up your own email server, and then send emails to people with their own email servers, or to people with Gmail or Yahoo! accounts.

Gmail actually does control somewhat inbound email by restricting certain mail and flagging it as spam according to their own arbitrary definition of spam. Oddly that even ends up flagging mail from one gmail account you own to another gmail account (both @gmail and @domain with google apps). And even in cases where it is clear there is an existing relationship between the parties. Other providers do that as well. And there is not an easy way to prevent it from happening either as a sys admin or a user (there are jump through hoop ways of course). And ultimately yes they do treat email (despite my own example) on their own network differently than email coming from a domain outside their network.
Anecdotally, the best I’ve felt is eating only ribeyes and nothing else. 2 pounds for dinner and only water in the 23 hour interim. I’m apparently sensitive to a lot of vegetables that make me feel awful.
Yes, you guys are right. Currently it uses NLP text summarization. Next steps would be to incorporate some from of NaiveBayes to pick out "odd" sentences that are the norm in most documents.
IRC is fast. IRC is simple. IRC is textbased.

A programming channel I'm always on: https://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=#/g/dpt
Oh right, of course. Thanks.
Announcing IS
I believe this is the relevant repo (tangentially linked in the footer): https://github.com/andrewnc/terms-and-conditions
We really just need better public education, as well as clearer separation between information and entertainment.

Facebook/Reddit/Twitter/etc promote a regression towards the mean understanding... viral content reflects and amplifies the "average user's" sentiment and values. Acceptable for entertainment, but inherently prone to misinformation, propaganda, and demagoguery. Education requires valuing subject matter experts. Opinions which may not be widely held, or even popular, but supported by people who are vetted as being knowledgeable on the subject.

Traditional media could be regulated because they were largely centralized, but centralization also creates an establishment that regulated counter-culture ideas. In contrast, the internet is anarchic. Online anonymity impairs delegation of trust... any idea can be published so every individual must rationally evaluate what they consume. Attempting to regulate away undesirable behavior on the anarchic internet is just cat-herding. At best, you create a walled garden for a select few.

As I see it, the paths forward are either:

* public education, emphasizing civics/rationality, to support distributed self-regulation

* centralizing with state regulations

I want the former but the latter seems most likely, considering how the underlying networks are consolidating, and increasing awareness of how amplified public ignorance creates political/economic instability that hurts those with power.
If you can't make yourself understood to the average engineer at a company, I think it's fair to say there's not a good fit between you and the company.
I was thinking of using it to create an AWS IOT button (or using an Arduino) that orders a fews items I frequently buy from Amazon. Mostly just to try out their IOT button, but still.
This is a great question that we're working on. It obviously will never be as good as reading the whole thing, but you're right, how can it be improved?
Could you clarify, what's wrong with the Ruby syntax, exactly? I don't think there's a single programming language I like in terms of the syntax, but I don't see anything really wrong with Ruby. Surely not to the point I wouldn't use otherwise nice language because of it. Is python a no-no as well?
Let me throw Nim into the mix and say that it has had a JS backend for years now. It's officially supported so it's very stable.

Native WASM support isn't there yet, but if you want extra speed you could combine Nim's JS backend and Nim's C backend + emscripten to compile to WASM. You can see this approach in action in a game called Reel Valley [1][2]. The advantage is that you can access the DOM from Nim using the JS backend (you cannot do that in WASM yet AFAIK).

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmMOIVUeUrE

2 - https://www.facebook.com/reelvalley/
You're probably right. That was the number we got from our initial user interest survey
I spent six years in the USAF as a nuclear weapons tech. Somce then, I've not seen any civilian company handle security well, or even correctly.

Physical access to properties, building, departments, rooms, cabinets, all tissue-paper defended. Intimidation of rank being rampant. Guards with little to no training or authority. Employees not adequately screened or monitored. Typically all of the above.
Heres just hoping that Mozilla is prepared to take responsibility for what they are trying to accomplish in the long haul.

A lot of companies have tried to make products that are both infinitely backwards compatible and always supported while still introducing breaking changes like this. It quickly becomes a giant internal mess of trying to figure out what the most common denominator of feature requirements to implement new things is. Developers will start making ergonomic decisions in their changes (well, it could support 2021, but I want a 2024 feature so I'm going to use it and peg this feature to 2024 minimum) and new changes need to be tested against every different language iteration.

This might seem like the best answer now, I just hope its not biting off more than anyone can chew in 2030. C++ had an era of malaise where conflicting implementations of the standard library across a dozen+ platforms led to the complete abandonment of it by the mid 2000s and it took Herb Sutter and friends to bring C++ back from the dead with one unified single truth of C++ with concrete compiler flags and tons of caution before adopting anything new to make sure all participants were capable of fielding it quickly enough to avoid the ecosystem fragmentation of the past.

Rust is advantaged today with only one major implementation, but if mrustc or other alternative Rust compilers become popular mixing those with epochs / eras / editions can spell disaster for language portability.

Its not an impossible task, but it is definitely a huge one. And its not the kind of work hobbyists will ever be willing to put up with in the long term, and its the kind of work that requires extraordinary familiarity with the whole of rustc, its design process, the RFCs, LLVM, etc. Its its opposite kind of work to what you put on the easy issues list for new contributors.

It is the primary reason why most software staggers its releases and depreciated support. Why Microsoft dropped Windows XP at all despite its wide adoption. Because even with billions of dollars of cash on hand trying to keep multiple parallel interconnected but distinct code paths functioning while both securing and improving them in isolation or together is in the highest echelons of software complexity and difficulty.
Google made its exoplanet-hunting neural net open source
"Pressure cooker situations" are different than being asked to be an expert in IGBT transformer, have state of the art metallurgy knowledges, and have the flexibility of an olympic gymnast... for a welder position.
Hmm, I think I would choose to remove toxicity and echo chamber. I don't mind a certain degree of bad faith behavior if removing it comes at the cost of having discussions with people different from me

I think maybe a good solution would be to (1) pay mods and (2) make everything they do transparent. This will give you better mods to start out with but also gives users the power to notice mod overreach before it spirals out of control.
As far I understand the RFC won't allow for `Array[Y, N]` (or `Array<T, N>` in Rust parlance) note eddyb's comment:

Note that all of this should allow impl<T, const N: usize> Trait for [T; N] {...},
but not actually passing a constant expression to a type/function, e.g. ArrayVec<T, 3>.

What I'm actually looking is `Array<Y, size_of::<T>>` for support for data structures that vary depending on size of `T`.
If you're referring to the hackathon award. They combined the award to say "best use of AI/Blockchain" we qualified as using AI, but are not using Blockchain
Quoting the article:

> This is reflected in the structure of our Home folders. We tend to put still images in Pictures, video in Movies, mail in Mail, then in Documents we collate content from those folders by duplicating it into finished documents.

> So long as we remain wedded to directory paths as a means of referencing files and folders, much of our storage will contain duplicated content. Bookmarks are a central part of a more advanced approach to structuring and organising content which can at last move on from the primitive constraints of MS-DOS.

> I think that we will see more, not less, use of Bookmarks as enduring file references in future versions of macOS. They don’t spell the end of inodes, aliases, links, or directory paths, but they need to be made much more accessible to users and sysadmins.

On the contrary, I think all of these approaches (duplication, bookmarks, inodes, symlinks) are destined to fail. I believe the problem of file organization cannot be solved adequately in a system of hierarchical mutable folders/files.

With regards to duplication, I propose the use of hash references. For example, you can put a picture somewhere on your disk, and let it be retrievable by its SHA-256 hash. Then, when you create a document that includes the picture, simply point to it by hash value - this avoids the need to duplicate the full picture content into the document.
I meant in regard to copyright. Can still get a patent suit even if using open source software.
Actually I've heard that's being phased out in some countries in favor of... typing classes!
"Apple Media has no brand recognition among consumers."

True. But Apple Music had no brand recognition when they launched that, and it's only been around since June 8, 2015 when they already had involvement with other forms of media. Why not take that opportunity to rebrand?
You realize that is a perfectly reasonable objective for a site to be a mostly impartial, user-moderated forum, right? I don't consider any view I encounter on reddit to be endorsed by the platform. If people want content moderated with a specific slant, just subscribe to the subreddits that suit your tolerance, there are plenty that are heavily moderated.

Personally, I love seeing things that I disagree with on reddit...it's honestly one of the last places left that gives me the feeling of exposure to different bubbles.
Fun with air quality sensors and IoT systems monitoring