skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When corporate grants are bringing research groups into existence more or less from scratch, it's fair to call it more than "ties." At the very least, this is far beyond the norm in fields I keep track of- for instance, pharmaceutical companies helping fund academic biomedical research happens, certainly, but only in limited cases and generally it's considered a significant asterisk next to whatever the study finds. When those same companies are carrying out their own research (say, clinical trials for a new drug) they typically do so under external supervision, with rigorous reporting standards.

For that matter, the choice isn't between oil-industry experts and complete novices. Carbon capture is chemistry; there are plenty of chemical engineers with independently-funded academic positions, or involved in non-oil-industry funded companies. If some of them published a review of the plausibility of carbon capture, I'd listen to it.
Why the switch from Unity to UE4?
Although I haven't said your quotes directly, it's still the truth. Making the same comment about Skype wouldn't have resulted in downvotes. This is probably because although Android devices are more common in general terms, here it is more likely to be 50/50. Hence the downvotes from Apple fan(atics).
Yup. You figure out pretty quick that the vast bulk of all economic activity is digging holes and filling them up again. I have worked in government, academia, and large-ish companies and you find a ton of bullshit work in all three. I would not say government or academia are worse than large corporations. It seems to correlate more with entity size than public vs private.
I think code is data. In this case data to describe how to manage other data.

If you can represent your program with data, you likely should.
Thank you so much for replying! I learned quite a bit.

What is the source of neutrinos in the experiments suggesting sterile nutrinos? Is it different from the non confirmations?
Interesting anecdote, Robert Yang made a game called "The Tearoom"[0] about blowing men in a public bathroom. In order to keep it from being banned on twitch, he replaced all the penises with firearms, reasoning that if twitch still banned it, it would be the first time the games industry had ever banned a game for depicting guns[1].

[0] https://radiatoryang.itch.io/the-tearoom

[1] https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2017/06/the-tearoom-as-...
You just ignored every one of my points.
Thank you for introducing me to Project Drawdown. How eminently practical and sensible these recommendations are. I love the data-driven approach.

I was surprised to find that, of all things, "Refrigerant Management" is the single thing that holds the greatest potential to reduce carbon emissions [1]. It makes a lot of sense, but it would definitely not be what I would have guessed.

[1] http://www.drawdown.org/solutions/materials/refrigerant-mana...
not sure how Europe got in this, was comparing American values versus Asian values. Conflict is the center of attention in American values (you could say western values, I don't know enough about modern European sentiment to say that). Conflict is indirect in Asian values.

Do you mean that American values aren't so anti-European that I depicted, or rather are derived from European values? I think I allude to it with rationalism, which originates from Europe. The history of European civilization is the foundation and backdrop for American ideals.

As much as America has tried to lay a foundation for a better western civilization, I think a mature modern America still has the problems that they were running away from in 18th century Europe - power eventually gets consolidated and individualism is compromised despite the checks and balances against it.
I fear people who fear artificial intelligence
> Running a ride sharing service and charging ${WHATEVER} is also not a human right. Did you really wanted invoke this argument?

I think it should be permissible to ask ${WHATEVER}, as long as the price is clearly stated prior to both parties agreeing to the transaction. I do however think that one doesn't have a right to have paying customers at ${WHATEVER} price. And I don't think people are suggesting that Uber or Lyft have a right to customers paying the prices they set. Both parties in the transaction have some agency with respect to whether or not the transaction happens at ${WHATEVER}.
Using any electronic text messaging as a means to communicate state secrets strikes me as lazy, regardless of encryption. Data, metadata and breadcrumbs are left littered amongst an unknowable number of endpoints and 3rd party servers, permanently.

Leaking state secrets isn't supposed to be easy and convenient; there's not an app for that.
.. why is this distinction significant?
Incorrect. Autopilots are commonly used even in general aviation, and you can get your pilot’s license in just a month or two if you had a cooperative flight school. Heck, there are accelerated immersive programs that train you in just 14 days.

You only need ~40 hours (minimum) of flight time to get your private pilot’s license. This isn’t even much different than driving license requirements, except that planes are a lot more expensive to rent and operate.

(And for the record, teens can also use autopilots on airplanes since you can get a student pilot’s license allowing you to operate a plane by yourself at age 16. Roughly the same number of hours of supervised instructional operation as getting a driver’s license.)
Representatives also face 3x as many elections.
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Yeah that's bad. Another big concentration is government contractors, especially huge ones. We had this idea that we would eliminate waste by privatizing government work. Hahahahahahahah...
Valve have probably done market research on this. And you know, that this numbers are favorable for them. They have age profile of its userbase and they also have age filter on their catalog. This is a business decision choice rather than morality.

Will this increase VR adoption?
Or to put a different way: if there was a taxi service that took you to waikiki on a Maserati for $250, and people were willing to pay for it, what rationale would there be for capping the price to that of other taxi services? If someone is willing to pay more for not having to deal with the hassle of making a phone call or fumbling w/ cash or long wait times or whatever, shouldn't that be fine?
Good on Steam for doing this. Quoting from the announcement [0], "Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this. If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy."

I feel that total inclusionism is the only long-term stable policy. Excluding things based on morality is inherently an unstable position - "why do you allow this but not that? Don't you know this is literally killing babies in Africa?" where this and that could be nudity, gore, violence, rape, women's suffrage, blasphemy, political incorrectness or any number of other topics. Well, I suppose hosting no content at all would also be a stable policy... But it's not one that many storefronts are going to support.

[0] https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...
The purpose of my job is to make me money. I make money by doing things that my company thinks is productive. Today I helped write some internal APIs. Last week I worked with legal on some stuff. Building “sexy” web applications or “disrupting industries” is great. But I can’t pay my rent or go to the movies because I shifted some paradigms. The purpose of my job is to make me money, regardless of what the job is.
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Is there an option to pay standard pricing with an extended wait time, during peak periods? No. So it’s not a choice to pay more.

Yes, you could use another app / transport method, or go nowhere. But based on the behaviour (anecdotally) I have seen from my friends they reluctantly accept uber is ripping them off. Hence, regulation. I would like to see this enacted in Australia as well.
De facto the FAA indeed does that very thing.

First, any change in design (or in configuration, in the case of repairs) is backed by PEs or A&P mechanics who sign off on the changes. Their career rides on the validity of their analysis so that's a better guarantee than some commit message by a systems programmer.

Second, the FAA basically says "show us what you are changing" after which they will absolutely require physical tests (static or dynamic tests, test flights, etc., as appropriate to the scope of change).

And I'd say flying is so safe mainly from the blameless post-mortem policy that the American industry instantiated decades ago and which is constantly reinforced by the pros in the NTSB. It's a wonderful model for improvement.
That is how most things happen. They emerge from evolutionary pressures, game theoretic dynamics, or just as emergent properties of the rule set in operation. The result looks like a conspiracy but in reality it's driven by the furious mad piping of the blind idiot gods of evolution, economics, and complex systems.
sign of the times.

there are no repercussions anymore.
uber,
telcos,
<cough>white house</cough>,
facebook,
airlines (beaten anybody up recently?),
fifa,
equifax.

and it sucks.
"Software engineers", in my experience, mostly aren't. Having a computer science degree doesn't make you an engineer, nor is stitching javascript libraries together to make a web app engineering.

There are software engineers out there, doing engineering work, but most of the people who call themselves software engineers are not.
I feel great about this. Currently it's very hard to filter out games with gun violence.

If Steam is successful with their plan to "enable you to override our recommendation algorithms and hide games containing the topics you're not interested in" then I look forward to having an easier time finding child-friendly (gun-free) games.
It does but it cannot detect stopped object which apparently is a standard limitation. Besides aeb is made to reduce crash speed the car will still crash.
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Tesla Autopilot makes it to HN pretty much every week now, almost never in a good way.

Every time, we have a big discussion about autopilot safety, AI ethics, etc.

What about lack of focus?

Tesla has already reinvented the car in a big way--all-electric, long range, fast charge, with a huge network of "superchargers". It's taken EV from a niche environmentalist pursuit to something widely seen as the future of automotive.

Why are they trying to tackle self-driving cars at the same time?

This feels like a classic mistake and case of scope creep.

Becoming the Toyota of electric is vast engineering challenge. Level 5 autonomous driving is an equally vast engineering challenge. Both represent once-in-a-generation technological leaps. Trying to tackle both at the same time feels like hubris.

If they just made great human-piloted electric cars and focused on cost, production efficiency, volume, and quality, I think they'd be in a better place as a business. Autopilot seems like an expensive distraction.
Regular expressions should only be used for either interactive search or a tokenizer. Everywhere else they will be abused and lead to sphagetti code.
I do think the government has a certain prerogative to prevent leaks. Leakers need to realize the seriousness of the game they are playing and act accordingly. The Times and Post in particular make at least superficial efforts to ensure their sources are using good opsec, but I do wonder how hard individual reporters push back against using unsecured channels.

Nonetheless. In this case the reporter had a years-long relationship with the alleged leaker, that makes it much harder to cover all of your digital tracks vis-a-vis casual exchanges. We don’t know what exactly they have on this guy, but apparently it’s enough to establish that he lied to the FBI about his contact, if not anything pinning the leaks on him squarely. From the sounds of it, prudence may not have been sufficient.
Pretty cheeky to be the director of security and be leaking to a reporter that you're fucking.

What is the correct way for the USG to behave in this manner? Some people are upset that they seized her communications, but what other choice is there? Just let leaks go unpunished? Or should senate aides et al sign a 'no privacy' agreement, where the USG can do whatever they want to intercept their communications at all points?
When Google Blames Users for Privacy Problems
Apparently this reporter was at BuzzFeed (not NYTimes) at the time of the messages. https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedBen/status/1004904034132725760
Oregon Amends Data Breach Notification Law
If I invite you over for dinner and tell you that I'm going to order Chinese food, but then I order Mexican food instead because the Chinese restaurant was closed, that's not a "false claim" and it's not fraud. It's simply incorrect (and annoying and perhaps shortsighted). Fraud requires bad faith. If you make a claim in good faith, then it is not fraud, even if it turns out that you are wrong.

If Tesla believes, in good faith, that their hardware is sufficient to enable full self-driving, them it is not fraud. They might be wrong. They might even be incompetent, but that's not the same as fraud. Obviously, if they do not believe their hardware is sufficient, then it is fraud.

Now, if Tesla sold you a car and told you that it is capable of fully self-driving right now, that would be indisputable fraud, because this claim cannot be made in good faith. This is what Theranos did. They did not claim that they had a potential solution. They claimed they had a completed product.
Not prevent, runaway from it.
The most likely explanation would be that he simply didn't delete his messages, or have auto-delete enabled; or, perhaps, he had the auto-delete window for these particular contacts set too long.
If you're only feeling unsettled now, then you haven't been paying attention. The previous administration waged a similar war on leakers and their journo contacts since at least 2012.
Jane Jacobs: The Champion of Little Plans
A cap on surge pricing doesn't show economic illiteracy. It is a choice made by the people (represented by the government) to prefer longer waits over higher prices.
Sounds like "yes" means "I heard ya" or "ACK"
Everyone needs these directions, they need to be clear and followable to the letter with ease.

It doesn't matter how competent you are, if your blowing the whistle then you not want the slightest chance of making a mistake - got to be a high stress situation, someone holding your hand through a critical portion makes sense to me.
i think giving JTAG access on cloud machines may not be that a bad idea.

Connect as low-end sbb to server's JTAG output, and have it connected to the network. JTAG is beautiful tool for debugging because it requires no modification of software being debugged.
> What do other people do for ad-free hosting?

By your own domain a $5/month VPS and host your apps just the way you like it.

Just 10 years ago, geeks like us used to take pride in buying domain and creating a personal presence with one's domain name. Don't people do that anymore?

I find this trend of looking for free hosting services a bit disturbing. Because you know the cliche that when you are not paying for a service, you are the product.

Even if you do not want to buy a $5/month VPS, please buy the domain. Costs less than $1/month (more like $10/year) and point the domain to your favorite free hosting service with CNAME entries. GitHub and Heroku support such custom domains with CNAME entries.
Ask HN: Can I build an ElectronJS app on top of WhatsApp?
I'm looking to build an ElectronJS app with following features on top of Web.Whatsapp.com :

1. Password lock feature on web whatsapp.
2. Auto-replies to incoming messages, when busy.
3. Festival Greeting messages to upcoming events.
4. Hide any notifications on Web.Whatsapp when busy.

It'll be an ElectronJS based wrapper service around web whatsapp.

But, my query is:

2 of my old clients have requested us to develop something like this. So it's a commercial/paid sale of service on top of whatsapp web.

We'll NOT use WhatsApp name or logo anywhere in ElectronJS app. And put a clear disclaimer of not being associated with Whatsapp or Facebook in any way.

Will it violet T&C of whatsapp/facebook? Will it be illegal in any way in USA or other countries? To build something on top of Whatsapp web.

Please advise in legal terms.
If, as seems likely, the messages were revealed because they weren't auto-deleted, then the flak email takes is especially well deserved. People are bad at deleting IM messages (even with apps like Signal that will auto-delete them if you ask). But scrubbing an email conversation is actually challenging, and people are notoriously bad at it. Email gets archived, and email replies and threads repeatedly quote and repeat fragments of the conversation; we've all read email "discussions" that were a single message with a long quote history in it.
Soooo, around $100/ton.

And google says we currently pump 40 billion tons per year.

Let's ballpark:

average 5 billion per year for 100 years.

500 billion excess tons.

50 trillion dollars to remove what we've already polluted.

+ 4 trillion per year to offset what we're at already.

Yeah, nothing about that is "cheap". Maybe... slightly less astronomically expensive.

And a lot of cheap carbon capture is "pump it into the ground", which, while I'm not a geologist, but I'm guessing the petroleum folks aren't looking to hard for leaks back into the atmosphere.

But given those numbers, greening the sahara seems like a much better approach than any industrial approach.
I agree with you, but I think this is a perfect example of a failure to successfully handle branding.

For a long time, Steam was distribution platform where the distributor was also the curator. Granted, this curation mostly resolved to "is this an AAA or someone peripherally in the Big Boys club," but it was a certain level of curation that consumers came to expect.

Now that Steam is the de-facto app store of the PC platform, Valve is strongly incentivized to make sure that any game you can buy, can be bought through Steam.

Combine this with their general unwillingness to scale their employees to match the size of the business they have (which is IMO a silly thing on Valve's part, but I'll avoid this discussion for now), and the shift away from Valve-as-a-curator makes sense.

But Valve hasn't sold this as providing Steam's distribution platform as a back-end service to curators/other "stores", they've sold it as Steam and damaged their own reputation in the process.

There's a reason why large businesses have so many different brands that are hard to associate without a lot of digging, and Valve's handling of Steam is a good example of why.
> Is there an option to pay standard pricing with an extended wait time, during peak periods? No. So it’s not a choice to pay more.

Yes, that choice is called waiting for the surge to end, and then ordering a ride.
The reporter's pinned tweet has her Signal number. The feds seized her emails anyway, because they can / if they're going to be thorough, why wouldn't they.

(The replies to the reporter's pinned tweet, meanwhile, are people gleeful about her messages being seized. I don't recommend reading them, except perhaps as a way of pondering whether a society where literally everyone feels encouraged to send sentence-long invective to literally everyone else has really done good things with communication.)
A staffer working for the Senate Intelligence Committee was dating a reporter who was writing stories based on exclusive intelligence leaks.

They weren't exactly being super careful.
It's a pretty big misrepresentation to claim that pull to refresh is a problem, when the core of the issue the "dynamic content" as you put it. It's like blaming weight problems on good cutlery.

Yes, it's a tool that can be abused in the right (or more aptly, wrong, I guess) circumstances, that doesn't make it a dark pattern in other situations.
Qa people! I would easily give a finger, maybe not a whole arm, but a full finger to get a single, solid qa person on my team. We execute really well, but I don’t have the eye for detail and my team doesn’t have the skill set. But qa is “non revenue generating” and so we don’t hire for it. Even though we lose tons in terms of man hours and productivity due to errors that a solid qa person would help us catch early on.
I can speak only for kernel development part of question. Assuming your question is about Linux kernel -

1. You must have good systems understanding, and I assume you already know basic computer organization/architecture. Read Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development to begin with.

2. Start dabbling with small device drivers. Use Linux Driver Development, or other such books.

3. Pick a small subsystem within Linux (say, a specific driver, or filesystem, or PCI, etc) and start reading it's mailing list like a religion. Initially, it wont make sense but keep pushing - whatever you don't understand, read about it, find it's code, ask questions (usually on IRC, avoid mailing list for asking introductory questions).

There are many resources these days about kernel in general and not necessarily Linux kernel. You can read/use those. Best way, as with any other field, is to get involved - either by getting into a kernel dev team or taking up a small project.

Be aware that unlike other domains, in kernel development, significant time is spent in learning/understanding underlying system (hardware, system architecture, etc) and amount of code written in comparison to learning, is very less. Also, a decade ago, kernel team was considered as elite team in company. These days they are just sustenance team in most companies (exception may be Intel, AMD, 1 or 2 teams in Google/FB/Apple and few other companies). Also, I feel being kernel domain reduces your scope in corporate world (it's a separate topic). However, kernel devs are still quite paid well due to shortage of expertise in this domain.

For Security analyst, just like kernel dev, one needs to understand system very well. Having good grasp of system, underlying architecture in hardware or in memory, does help significantly but I dont think kernel development background is necessary.
Neat. Reminds me of diewithme:https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/02/die-with-me-is-a-chat-app-...

Is your chat app asynchronous? As in sending a public message for an offline user?
I use .NET for everything; it is fast to write and nice to read. F# is a good one if C# bores you.
The simplest form of attenuator is just a group of plastic barrels filled with sand or water, which ought to be pretty quick and easy to replace. If California uses something fancier, then sand or water barrels would be an easy stopgap measure.
Probably. Seems like a betamax vs vhs decision/turning point to me. After reading this...I realize I am old.
I wished more recruiters got this. The bulk of many professional's work i would imagine is deemed proprietary company property and not everyone really has the life that affords them the time to commit frequently to someone else's pet project repository because we have kids and families that soak up that time.

"Do you have a GitHub profile?" Is a question thats making me raise an eyebrow more and more lately, what if I don't? What's that say about me that I'm not constantly constantly distributing my code to everyone else via public repositories?

Yes I have a github profile but all you're going to find is a Jekyll site where I blog about model airplanes and geek off about air traffic control chatter. Doubt that's very interesting content for a guy who works in fintech
AMD is going to be pushing Epyc to 64 core with the new 7nm node early next year, they just pushed the changes to the TR lineup first.
The reporter also had a prior romantic relationship with the leaker.
Your view of visualization is a limited world: windows and Max?