skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so far enough back no fossilized tools, but if the civilization was like ours then would it consider leaving stuff for the future - building repositories of knowledge that would survive a longer time. But probably those 'long range' memorials are not long range enough for the geologic times involved - so my question is, is there a memorial/repository of knowledge we could build that would have a good chance of surviving and being understood as a repository of knowledge until the next civilization?
That's what word2vec is trying to model, it cannot do it because natural language semantics are person-2-world relationships.

It groups words together based on their distributional characteristics, and with the right parameter tuning, that can be a good-enough model of similarity.
Technology is inherently used to further systems of control. The death of individuality and agency is directly linked to technological improvements. I shudder to think 50 years from now when your every movement/word/thought is known and truly fear for humanity.
I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I think you've missed the question that GP was asking.

> are there many examples of planned efforts like this actually working, where some group is able to attract top talent in some industry and keep it for the long term?

If we're talking about EMBL in Heidelberg, we can say with confidence that (along with DKFZ) it's a huge drawcard for the University. But the GP asked if it had attracted talent in some industry and kept it for the long term. Can we really say that the Rhein-Neckar region has really attracted big private sector biotech investment, on par with a place like Basel? I don't think so. By a pure coincidence of geography, companies like Roche have a presence in the general area (Mannheim I believe), but I don't think you can argue that any deliberate actions by EMBL or DKFZ have led to deep private sector talent pools.

I actually think you could turn this argument around pretty easily and show that even enormous investments in institutions like EMBL and DKFZ don't actually create the private sector spinoffs that central planners would imagine.

Like the GP, I suspect that there is a combination of environmental factors at work, that we can't fully identify at present.
isnt map (blueprint) of your house already a public domain that was submitted for approval before construction/renovation?
I wonder if this exploit would be workable on older Tegra systems, like for example a Tegra 3 int he digital cockpit on the Audi S3/R8/TT [1] or the K1 they are selling now [2] - it would be really great to be able to modify and customize those systems.

[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/04/25/virtual-cockpit/
[2] http://www.nvidia.com/object/visual-computing-module.html
The F-117 was retrofitted with the ability to fly a computer generated flight plan, which would not avoid radar sites but also adjust the plane's attitude in order to minimize the radar cross section. [1]

[1] Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos (page 101 on my copy)

The relevant Wikipedia article also mentions the system, but in less detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk#Avion...
RSS and/or Atom should primarily look at improving the format specification. both formats are woefully underspecified in some parts, leading to a lot of headaches for RSS parser writers, since RSS generators play fast and loose with the rules, and will take any possible and impossible shortcut just to make it a bit easier for themselves.
GSMA puts eSIM work 'on hold' due to US collusion investigation
Three in the top ten when I select programming languages which is my sub-field. That's really not bad for Europe. I said it was relatively good. Compare it to something like AI and it's good.

And this website does seem to exclude the major European conferences like ECOOP... which obviously doesn't help European institutions.
Italian-Pakistani Woman Honour Killing by Father and Brother
Gujrat: Italian-Pakistani woman, Sana Cheema, was murdered by joint plot of her father, brother and uncle in another barbaric case of honour killing.

Police said that initially the family of the 26 year old woman had told the death to be accidental. They had already buried the body in West Mangowal area of Gujrat. However after social media reports of the death being told as a murder, the DOP Gujrat started an investigation into the matter.

https://enews.hamariweb.com/pakistan/italian-pakistani-woman-honour-killing/
There's a whole class of developers who won't touch js and html with a ten foot pole. Suddenly they can deploy software to the browser. What's not to like?
I strongly agree. I had to stop using Surf because of its ancient rendering engine which butchers a lot of the sensible parts of the modern web, but I do miss the tabless part of it.

Edit: Also because it does not have Pentadactyl. My dream browser would be tabless and with sensible and powerful Vim bindings. Ideally built on an engine of Common Lisp too...
One you have done enough of it it maddens you enough not to make the same shitty mistakes. Keep things as simple as possible and no simpler.
But it is very unlikely that another parallel universe doesn't have TBL or someone else inventing WWW in another setting. I would argue that the invention of the web was dependent on TBL, not CERN.
€30k buys you a hell of a lot more in the Czech Republic than in Hamburg or Munich.
so many of the misleading headlines on this topic could be fixed by saying "confirmed" instead of "discovered", or "identified"
Screw that. I prefer to keep fit and get outdoors to clear my head.
I just want to add for the record that I am not a fan of very complicated principles based legislation (which GDPR is) by myself. It is not easy to comply with and it has clear drawbacks.

But now we have GDPR I wanted to state facts (as I understand them) so people can get a more nuanced view of what to expect and hopefully help them with how to deal with compliance in a reasonable manner.
I'm not sure we would have computers at all if we followed your approach.
I added both links, thanks!
What’s wrong with using Make for running generic tasks?
You volunteered that information (without being asked, to boot), so it was obviously not taken without your consent.
Is there any addon that for thunderbird that synchronizes RSS read status across devices?

I use thunderbird, I love it, and I would love it more if I could use it on more than one device....
> if you think "You have violated something, for which we will give you no diagnostic, and therefore we feel free to crash you at some random other place in the program that has nothing to do with the place where the alleged violation took place, again with no diagnostics" is reasonable

No, I generally don't, which is why I use a safer language like Swift most of the time (well, that, and the fact that I can take advantage of a nicer standard library). You put "safer" in quotes, because I don't think you quite understand how compiler optimizations are supposed to work. I think Chris Lattner's three part series, "What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior"[1], is a great explanation from a compiler writer for why dangerous optimizations have to exist. It certainly helped me when I was in a similar place as you, not quite understanding why the optimizer did seemingly stupid things.

Really, the crux of the issue is that every language has tradeoffs: you can program in assembly and know exactly what your program is doing, but you lose the portability and convenience of higher level languages. Then you have the C family of languages, where you get access to some higher level concepts at the cost of ceding control to a compiler. The compiler's job is to generate assembly that matches what you are trying to do in the most efficient way possible. Of course, if it did so too literally it would be very slow to account for every single "stupid" thing you could have done, so there are some general rules that are imposed that you must follow in order for the compiler to do what you want. Then, of course, we have the high-level languages which do account for every stupid thing you might do, and so can provide proper diagnostics.

[1] http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
You noted about programming languages I see. Several names you mentioned are in the top 10 or 20 in the subfield.
Looking at software that uses Qt[1], I'd say I'll be impressed once they have compiled one of them, say for instance Stellarium, to Wasm. It'd be great to see how a full software, not just a toy demo, behaves in webassembly.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Applications_usi...
Isn't the whole point of a hackathon meant to be getting something quick and dirty up and running in limited time?

I think using PHP warrants extra points for style.
If your contacts are synced to the cloud, were they informed that their information will be transferred and processed overseas?
So we should boycott american companies for the democracy seeking missions of our government How does that make sense? If you don't like what our leaders are doing, vote and campaign for someone else. That isn't an option for the Chinese people (at least not for those who like to live). The government will only change if they feel a pain in their pocketbook.
Matthew 7:5, "You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye."

These particular people truly do lack self-awareness, to criticise PHP as JS users.
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The more serious proposals I’ve heard are for revenue neutral ubi. Which means taking the money from current entitlements and giving it evenly to everyone. I’d love to hear a real economist who supports the idea and is in favor of paying for ubi by raising taxes on the wealthy. I do not know of any economists that fit that description.
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Serious vulnerability in Mikrotik devices
I don't bow down to my laptop, but I respect what went into making it.

It's great to admire excellent engineers; aspiring to be as skilled as someone at a task can be very motivating. Worshipping them is another thing.

You're right about the inferiority complex - I know I'm a relatively bad SW engineer, but that's mostly related to how new it is to me. I expect and want to improve.

Hubris is defined as excessive pride or self-confidence. I would say that bragging that you're "probably a 1% engineer," and that you've been hired by three of the largest SW companies out there qualifies as hubris. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think a 1% engineer would publicly boast about being one and then actually use the 'M$' in a non-farcical manner.

Shitting on 99% of the SWE population to make yourself look good, then shitting on yourself to make another person look even better doesn't really work. There's a reason humanCmp() is a little more complex than strCmp().

BTW, being hired by a large company doesn't mean you're all that. Plenty of idiots get hired by Oracle.
Well, I agree. The title was originally just `realtime-collaboration-example` (as the URL says), but someone said "like google docs then", and I thought why not. If I had to name just one feature of google docs it would be the shared document.

Edit: Also, the HN title was edited by a HN mod, the title I used to post here was "Show HN: Basic Google Docs clone in Kotlin with WebSockets (tutorial)"
This might also be because Swift is more likely to crash than fail silently at runtime.
Can you afford to ignore mobile UI testing?
By 2021, 352.9 billion apps will be downloaded worldwide. That’s 50 times the population of the Earth! But you must be feeling pretty intense mobile app competition already. What do you do to stand out? You deliver. Deliver the perfect mobile application to each of your users. So, before launching your mobile application, make sure it’s flawless.

Every component of a mobile app is important and needs to be tested thoroughly. Especially the user experience (UI). It is the first thing people see when they open your app, meaning that UI often determines whether they delete your app or keep using it. Even if you have the most talented designers and highly qualified developers, you’ll still need professional QAs to test the UI of your mobile app. Let’s have a look at the notion of mobile UI testing and why it’s actually very important to test your mobile app’s UI.
Read more - https://skelia.com/articles/cant-afford-ignore-mobile-ui-testing/
Do smart lights rely on a functioning internet connection?
I think you're trying to paint me as someone who is anti-science, I'm the opposite. I have extreme confidence in what our scientists can do, especially when you stop giving them easy money. Note that CERN also employs thousands of very smart particle physics PHDs who's median contribution to humanity is roughly equivalent to a giant land sloth's. I want to demand much more from them, and I'm also extremely confident that they can deliver.
> Is it because of the culture of not valuing software as much as 'hard' engineering

No - they are paid about equally.

Here is a table (German text, does not matter, the table is clear enough): https://www.ingenieur.de/karriere/gehalt/wie-viel-verdienen-...

"Engineers with >2 years experience by sector", from top to bottom: chemistry/pharmaceuticals, automobile, energy, IT, mech. engineering, electronics, engineering and planning offices, construction

As you can see IT actually is right in the middle.
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While you are correct to say that scarce resources means we can’t do everything, pure/fundamental research like the LHC tends to have extremely high payoffs several decades after it is completed. Nobody knows what exactly, if we did we could focus on that stuff in particular, but its one of the best things we can do to grow the economy.

(Also, if everyone in the EU paid $80 for the Higgs, that’s about three LHCs depending on where in its history you take the exchange rate).
I find this solution compared to the gitlab Auto Devops, frankly, underwhelming.

We recently deployed AD in our self hosted gitlab instance and combined the SAST container checks with our production policies, it’s been rock solid.

Add to this the fact we are able to manage all the production policies via the pipeline API’s and AD templates, the whole Jenkinsfiles deal seems far less scalable and difficult.

I have no affiliation with gitlab.
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing in talks for IPO
A lot of us are jerks: Adversarial environments
Say for example, your company needs about 1 million users before you can start charging any type of meaningful advertising dollars. Additionally, there's this virality affect that gets those 1 million users to get their friends on your product, so things will start to take off quickly, and then viola! You have a moat.

Only rub is, until you hit 1 million, you're making essentially $0. And that'll take lots of time, people, and servers that all need to be paid for.

Welcome to the social network.
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DNA databases, that haven't been around that long and haven't been especially useful because of not having a lot of data in them in comparison to all the possible DNA data, generally aren't abused in the way they would be if they had all the DNA data and were a common tool.
Then Chinese people can teach them how to cross the 'WALL'.
The reason for the logo looking weird is that it did load the logo from the cartridge, and if the pins aren't reading perfectly, the data comes out wrong.

One of the first pieces of code in the startup code embedded in the GB's CPU reads the logo data, doubles it vertically and horizontally, and writes it out to the graphics tile memory. It scrolls down the screen, even if it's corrupted. Then it compares the logo with one built into the CPU and puts itself into an infinite loop if they mismatch.

So, yep. It's a combined data consistency check, and an attempt to use trademark to prevent unauthorized software.
Under explicit consent of the people putting the data in. All this needs is a nice informative screen on how the data will be used and that it will be publicly available, which may mean being processed by other registered users and unknown third parties.

The networks will not be able to process the data in other ways than making it available.

If you break someone's privacy laws you will be liable directly.

Probably also a note that data on this network cannot be completely deleted for specific technical reasons.
Where exactly is the lodging industry moribund?
Are you sure you're describing the same car as I am? It's called a J3 in my country, but appears to be labelled differently internationally. It's also a 2016 model.

Chery A3, M11, Cielo etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chery_A3

> The Chery J3 costs just as much as the Japanese car if not more.

You're really not correct on this. Some of the budget Japanese models come close, they are between 5-7k more in local currency. The popular "standard" Japanese models really are twice the price. The South Korean "Kia" is probably the close in terms of pricing/competition.

Have a look through the AA new car price list:

https://www.aa.co.nz/cars/buying-a-car/car-buying-guide/new-...

We're talking 16k NZD for the Cherry compared to anywhere between 22k - 32k for Japanese models. Maybe you could find some random model that comes close, but we couldn't "out in the wild" when we were shopping.
> They will be in the 3 felonies a day type of non-compliance and hunted by bureaucrats looking for easy targets.

NO THEY WON'T. This is just untrue. We've had decades of regulation - the regulators are not new - and so you can see how they work. They do not pursue everyone looking for easy cases. They go after the worst offenders, and they write letters asking them to come back into compliance.
"Groundbreaking science is too expensive, we are only capable of investing in one thing at a time!!!"

Like it on not, science and research is what powers humanity flourishing, if you want to get your pitchfork out about misused resources, go complain about corporate tax cuts or money invested in pointless ad-tech, not science.
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Sorry I don't buy this. You make this sound as if you were stateless which of course is not the case or you wouldn't be able to be in Taiwan either unless you sneaked into there and are in fact working illegally.
Just [0] is a pretty great generic task runner incase anyone is looking for one. It's written in Rust so it doesn't introduce any new languages (single binary install) and it uses a make inspired syntax but aims to avoid some of Make's issues.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just
I have told troopers that they are rude and doing unnecessary things (when they actually have). I don't mouth off at them or start throwing expletives. How can you be uncivil and not expect trouble anywhere in life? It's called consequences. If your boss at work makes a decision that pisses you off, can you just go off on him and expect to still work there? My guess would be no.

Don't be shitty to people and people usually won't be shitty to you. If they are anyway, put the recorded dash-cam event on YouTube and they will get fired.
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I would also add that people clearly got stuck in the past regarding their point of view of programing languages, PHP is a decent language nowadays, it's not PHP3 anymore... The same way JS evolved a lot since the days of IE6.
I actually got my inspiration to do this from the 3b1b videos. And I agree, they are very fine educational materials.

The gap which I'm trying to fill here is that 3b1b goes over the higher level intuitions but tends to skip over some of the details at times (which is fair enough, they're a pain to demonstrate through video and animation). The idea I had here was to have worked examples as well.
Answering in a wider context:

Silicon Valley: https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo

It wasn't planned as such, but the outcome is a result of unlimited debt-based US government spending in WWII to win the electronics war. Only after creating very fertile soil did private enterprise enter the picture.

Also, anything war related, ever, including rockets, airplanes, anything that shoots and explodes, submarines, the Internet,... Part of it is that the public is perfectly willing to have "central planning" and pretty much unlimited tax-based spending for military purposes, but try to do get them to accept the same for civilian purposes...

You may also check out the economic history of Japan and South Korea, but also how European countries like the UK rose to power. LOTS of government planning.

Then there is the entire exploration of the world, done mostly by governments, and even when it was private entities it was with very heavy government support and involvement.

Did you know that Gregor Mendel, the monk who did the experiment with the peas that is seen as the basis for genetics, was not an underemployed monk working on his own, but part of a very organized business-government-church effort to support local industry? I think it was about how to get better wool producing sheep: https://youtu.be/D8m-ZEr9qV8?t=276 (MIT Prof. Eric S. Lander)

The "market" is not magic that does everything. It only works well under specific circumstances - and those are exactly the scenarios the books will pick. Read (economist) authors like Ha-Joon Chang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-Joon_Chang).
I feel pretty similarly.

I recommend this book so much that I feel like a shill, but if you haven't read Twilight of the Elites, you'd probably like it even more than I did :)

One point it makes that resonates strongly with me is that our society is structured to heap extra resources on those who already have in abundance and neglect those with unrealized potential. To say nothing of those who we think lack potential in the first place, we we often treat as subhuman.

When it comes to democracy, I actually don't think a paramount principle. I think human rights, accountability, some form of consent, and private enterprise are critical, but these don't strictly imply literal democracy.
I think it makes more sense if you start thinking outside the Toggle component itself.

For passing down the state to the actual button(s), as Kent says, you could just use React.Children.map(). When you think about consuming that state from other components that need to know the toggle state, things get a bit messier, as many of those components might not be direct children of the actual <Toggle />. Maybe the toggling affects something in your navbar, for example.

In that case, the alternative to using context would be a global store, where the state provider sits above all components (think Redux, MobX).

If you're only consuming the toggle state from child / grandchild / sibling etc. components, the alternative typically involves passing down the toggle state from some parent / grandparent component, which means passing this.state.toggled down 2+ levels, instead of simply importing the context's consumer and subscribing where needed.

Context is now a reasonably simple and clean alternative to those options, but this example leaves envisioning the pain alleviated as an exercise for the reader.
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It applies to all companies that process personal information, where processing also means access.
What you are suggesting would not only make compliance of GDPR impossible for any company that accepts any form of user submitted data, it would also violate the privacy of the users submitting said data.

If I, party A, send a message to party B that happens to contain information about party C, party C does not get to see the messages between parties A and B just because it concerns them or has personally identifying information about them.