skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, the $200 "military spec" hammer. Well with the government, you'd still have a job if you waste taxpayer money, since the government keeps collecting revenue. With a private firm, I'd expect them to go out of business if they keep wasting money like that. I work in pharma and I've been involved with a few consulting contracts. We chose our vendors very carefully and I can't imagine us ever paying when contractual obligations are not met.

>Except the person on the US side who fought for and won the ability to outsource the project to save money is personally invested in success. He has decided this will make his career. So when it comes to fulfilling those contractual obligations, he will sign off on it, then bring it in house and try to quietly put together a team to fix the system to make it actually function.

Its hard to imagine the owner(s) of the company not being good with numbers here. Surely, such frauds will be found out eventually? In any case if a company has indeed hired such a dishonest person, I would hope they improve their hiring process and do some due diligence on their previous record to weed out such people in the future.
There’s no downvoting on stories at any karma level. Only comments. On stories, users can either upvote if they like the story or flag it if they think it’s the wrong type of content for HN. So, no overlap.

You might consider that dang has been an avid and respected user of HN since it began over 10 years ago, and has worked on it as his primary occupation for 6 years, so by now he knows a thing or two about what kinds of content, functionality and conduct are conducive to a healthy community.
and debugging which happens upstream

I believe the objection is clearly about debugging in production, not during development. This is absolutely essential if you want to be able to fix things in production that broke unexpectedly long after development/deployment.
> we used to call it the peanut gallery

At some risk of proving your point:

At least you're honest about your contempt for the common man.
"The boom on Bullshit-Articles on Bullshit-Job Boom," is here.
HN moderators can edit or remove this post I'm currently writing. What's your point?
Why not walk? That doesn't need even that dirty bus.

In any case, around here petrol is once again over 7 USD/gal. It's certainly a bit inconvenient, but not the end of the world.
The US had no way of knowing for sure what the top-level strategic decisions were in Japan. All they knew was that, throughout the war, Japanese troops virtually never surrendered, repeatedly fought to the death, and engaged in outright suicidal tactics including Kamikaze attacks. This persistence not only continued but intensified on Okinawa. There was no reason to believe that the Japanese military would ever stop short of fighting to the bloody end.

Even after Nagasaki, it took personal intervention from the Emperor and the foiling of an attempted coup for Japan to surrender.

Of course, dropping the bomb and developing the bomb are two distinct, albeit related, ethical questions.
Wow. You'd have to navigate ten pages full of 3 large panels of different ads and autostart videos to navigate a few paragraphs of dubious-value text. Spare yourselves!
Using a comic strip as an argument, well...
Well, the borrow checker is a zero cost abstraction. It's enforced at compile time.
Offline-first progressive web apps in Vue.js
Interest in the 2018 FIFA World Cup by U.S. State [MAP]
I think what you're missing here is that climate change activists aren't concerned with "saving the earth" they are REALLY concerned with saving humanity and the current set of flora and fauna on the planet. Yes, Earth has had higher concentrations of CO2, but that was before mammals existed, so, why is that even relevant? I have a hard time believing that you think we'll all be ok if our atmosphere resembles that of the carboniferous period...
Andy congratulations! I decided to support you a while ago on Patreon, because I believe in the philosphy behind Zig and all of the real work you have put into it. Your other projects bolster this in me. I want you to succeed, and I think success will also come to me indirectly by committing to Zig in my future projects. I want to write an array language, like J [0] that I use, in Zig, and a Zig library for geometric algebra along the lines of the C++ library Versor [1], and the JS library ganja.js [2]. Also rewriting your DAW in Zig may make me try and write a modest imitation of Extempore [3] in Zig! Now I have to devote more time to learning Zig. Maybe I need a baseball cap with Zig on it ;)

[0] jsoftware.com
[1] http://versor.mat.ucsb.edu/
[2] https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js
[3] https://extemporelang.github.io/
Some more information than a screenshot of one email in a chain would be very helpful to understand what's going on here.
You don't need to capture anywhere near the total amount emitted into in the atmosphere. Just enough to offset warming.
Like many others, I've lived this. The worst is over, and currently I'm merely deep in debt, without material possessions, and signing over my entire paycheck as alimony (yes, all of it). Although my life is currently worth living, knowing what I now know, it would have been better to have simply opted out, rather than go through the years of hell. And that's an awful thing to be able to say.

Each situation is its own, but in general, in the USA marriage is a poor choice for men. If your ex turns evil or crazy, there will be no warning and no mercy.
Doesn't this feel like we are shifting the problem somewhere else? I'm not sure it is a sustainable option.

Solar panels take huge amounts of energy to produce, which may not be recovered in the life of the panel.

Its only sustainable if it's possible to have a solar panel factory powered by solar panels... Which seems unlikely
A real house provides safe shelter for its occupants. Being made of wood don't matter
I think because said enforcement is done at compile-time (by the borrow checker) and not at runtime, it is considered a zero-cost abstraction by the creators of Rust.
Heh. That is exactly the incident that had me quit Facebook and stop real sharing on social media.
So, about 5 cents per gallon of gas?

That is a complete joke.
XKCD has a long history of citing their work, why can't an effective argument be made with visuals? I don't understand why the medium of the argument matters here.
> Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms.

I guess Google's policy of sucking up any and all data doesn't go against internationally accepted norms.

This entire article reads like BS if you think about what Google actually does.
In a broad stroke, I think we are seeing a progression of the code and the environment merging together and becoming more compact as a result. Unikernels seem to me to be the natural next step after containers.

I'm not sold on this, but perhaps the next natural step in the progression after unikernels is serverless architectures.

If that is the case, we may never see the widespread use of unikernels. Containers are good enough. The full promise of unikernels has not fully matured. And serverless architectures seem to be gaining some traction. In the end, maybe unikernels just get passed over.

That would be shame for me personally. When I read my first blog post on unikernels, some vague thoughts on the boundary between code and environment snapped into place. Unikernels seemed like the only game in town that made perfect sense thinking from first principles. I have been hankering for an opportunity to fit unikernels into a serious project ever since.
Build impossible programs
>Nope, it’s too hard! Computer vision and face recognition are legitimately difficult computer science problems.

Someone is woefully ignorant how good facial-recognition surveillance is.
>The same applies for every niche skill that takes years to develop.

so you just defeated your own argument, instead of hyper-focusing on writing parser why not just say "years of experience" if that is what really matters?

no wonder you got shit on.
The House turns over a lot. The Senate is a different story, those guys fossilize.
True! Statecharts are handy in lots of domains. Embedded happens to be a prime target due to the memory constraints combined with often limited behavioral requirements.

IMHO, most websites / UI's implement half of a poorly understood state machine (to roughly paraphrase the Common Lisp quip). Qt apparently also has an interesting statechart engine as well: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/01/23/qt-scxml-state-chart-suppo...
This guy tested it at the EXACT same location with tesla autopilot. The Tesla starts steering directly into the barrier before he corrects it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJSjeHDvfY
if by AI you mean collusion or racism or cartel or some other violation of either

- the law of the USA

- the law of international order as enumerated in Europe during the Middle Ages

or some other anti-historical or illegal association that would otherwise be known as a tech trade association and have a friend who bugs members of Congress on a regular basis...

I hope you get my drift. Artificial Intelligence is corporate lobbying and collusion masquerading as legitimate business. We had the trust busters, we will have the a. i. busters as well. Government will exercise common sense and cooler heads will prevail, if only because the people tire of Google's intelligent but annoying fantasies of wealth and international order and prefer the institutions of the 20th century, imperfect as they were, to the war on information that Google represents.
What's unclear is if data blocks and indexing is a separate thing. Perhaps all they can see is the filenames & directories and can't retrieve the data. I've known some backup systems that work like this. It gives an admin visible in to what's there but can't do anything with it. This isn't consistent with their description.

That being said, based on your description of your support interaction, if they weren't using your computer to determine this information, then it seems they are outright lying about their encryption.

From their page. "Code42's Customer Champions cannot assist with recovery of an archive key password or your archive question."

Clearly they were able to assist with your archive question.
Just as if somebody said incredibly contrary things about well established computing principles, you are doing yourself a disservice by not doing basic research while denying well accepted technical facts.

This is not being skeptical, it's being lazy.

That said, I'm also being lazy too, because it's very hard to spoon feed basic science to those who don't want to learn it. I guess I was hoping to motivate you to take an interest in researching scientific subjects that you are willing to express uninformed opinions on, but I will accept that I have failed after your last response.
It’s actually quite the opposite IIRC
In a few years I'll probably have grandkids and when I read this, think it increases the chance that those kids will still be able to go to Disney World in Florida, i.e. it will not be submerged.
The article you linked says the email was written by an exec, but the source article in the intercept said it was written by "a member of the sales team". It also says Fei-Fei Li, arguably the only exec on the email chain, was actually against it:

“I don’t know what would happen if the media starts picking up a theme that Google is secretly building AI weapons or AI technologies to enable weapons for the Defense industry,” she continued. “Google Cloud has been building our theme on Democratizing AI in 2017, and Diane and I have been talking about Humanistic AI for enterprise. I’d be super careful to protect these very positive images.”

If you take this literally you might say her concern is "just PR", but this is exactly the kind of argument I would use if I was against something on moral grounds but I am trying to convince who does not share the same values.
In addition to this, individual executives and teams of them often have to compartmentalize discussions of different aspects of a complex issue. This makes taking specific communications, chosen by a third party, as indicative of the whole conversation iffy.
> Note: Minnesota's statute applies to both partners if they are both married. If one partner is unmarried the law only applies to the married woman. The law does not apply to a married man and unmarried woman.

That's pretty terrible.

Also the legend is pretty amusing:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/U.S._Adu...
One can reasonably question if climate changes can be reasonably measured over a 150 year time frame. At a geological scale climate change has been ongoing for about 4 and a half billion years. Saying that the latest .3333x10^(-6)% of that data stream is sufficient to deduce a new trend is pretty amazing if true.

On the other hand processes like glaciation and desertification can happen with alarming rapidity. Supposedly the former can occur in less than a year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1227990/Ice-A.... Those are two kinds of climate change that I consider cause for concern. The dust bowl was a big deal. And then there are things like super volcano eruptions.
And I can almost guarantee that, unlike the US, the Russian and Chinese militarized AI programs are not optimized for minimizing civilian casualties.
> Declaring that a person wearing a suicide vest in an Arab market is inherently bad does play on racial prejudice and emotional appeal.

In what contexts is a person wearing a suicide vest in a market anything other than inherently bad?
I wouldn't think wrong, but it seems to imply "AVs need great roads or bad roads, on mediocre roads they might kill you for no obvious reason, gee, too bad."

Such "pretends to work but actually doesn't", IMNSHO, would be far worse than "doesn't work there at all"
“I annoy Jeff Bezos weekly and he still doesn’t want to be friends.” https://medium.com/@megamindbrian/i-annoy-jeff-bezos-weekly-...
Are you aware that GDPR made every business that relied on finding costumers trough phone or email ilegal?

How can you defend a legislation that makes everyone illegal, even outside your jurisdiction?
I don't think so. I think you of have to catch the people who haven't adopted docker yet, and the people who have "aging" codebases ("last gen"). Convince a few of them to convert, see good gains and "easier maintenance", get a groundswell, and go.
I hate to break it to you but GitHub is already used as a recruiting tool.
Containerized Databases for Developers
Probably more that they aren't as heavily invested in selling the idea that we are close to smart general AI.

Compare it to Musk who constantly talks up the idea while the actual AI systems his company has deployed are killing people.
Does LeBron really stand out?
Dependent types are an active area of research. They are one of several different avenues of research into program verification.

The problem is that both their proponents and detractors (as well as those of other verification approaches) confuse research and practice. Think of the field as early stages of pharmaceutical research; experiments in the lab show some promise as well as obstacles, but it's too early to tell which of the approaches, if any, would be able to work at a large scale in field conditions. As long as we don't confuse research and practice we can follow, enjoy and evaluate research on its own terms, rather than judging it based on criteria that may not be relevant at this stage. This is not to say that we cannot point out risks to field adoption, but research is research.

I, too, have my doubts about dependent types, but it's unfair to judge them harshly at this stage, when nobody knows how best to use them.
AI, ML & data science. Pity Ruby never got off it's ass to compete otherwise the impending Ruby speed boosts might have actually made a difference.
No. The anti-fossil-fuel movement, in general, doesn’t have tens of billions of dollars at their disposal. Deeply held beliefs may certainly influence scientific research, and that should be guarded against, but by itself it doesn’t let you buy scientists wholesale.
Maybe I'm missing something, but can you point to a line in [1] where Trump outright denies climate change is a thing? I see a lot of qualified statements like "climate change is a 'very complex subject'" and "Trump said there is 'some connectivity.'"
They say they can make synthetic fuel at $1/liter with CO2 input at $100/ton. There's plenty of CO2 available commercially at about $20/ton. If they can make synthetic fuel economically out of CO2, they should be doing that RIGHT NOW, not waiting until they've perfected the air extraction process.

They could use the money they made from the fuel to speed up R&D on the extraction process.
>>I said - "Engineers working for product companies where they get paid and recognised for good product instead of outsourcing companies show true passion and creativity."

How does this change in a service company? Programmers who write code in a service company show none of these traits, same programmer writes code in a product company and magically becomes passionate and creative.

>>In this case, it was a Word doc with variable names(not variable naming conventions), loop variables, and pretty much the entire code within quotes. That is what I was pissed about. The doc screamed - "I don't want you to think, just be a monkey and do this."

This is how CMM levels worked. You'd also be interested in looking at the engineering practices at NASA.

>>So, you call going to another country for studies "Passport tourism"? ....

None of this wrong. But you wrote you served notice and moved as soon as you saw the requirements doc, and how that killed your creativity.
This approach is probably an overkill, but this project called Cothority[0] can be used to verify binaries by semi-independent authorities to be released. One of the applications referenced in their dotSecurity talk[1] was this usecase.

[0] https://github.com/dedis/cothority

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YostyJRwqVU
Could you elaborate on what you believe this adds to the conversation?
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I agree. I'm encouraged that there are people who can see through the propaganda.
From 20 years ago. Meanwhile, in the last 5 years they have opened up huge amounts of C#, are the most active organisation on the largest open source host o the internet, lead the development of one of the most popular open source editors, provide rock solid Linux support on their cloud offerings, and have been jnvolved in huge amounts of publicly available research.

I’m not saying they get a free pass for it, but they’ve more than earned their trust back over the last decade.
Yeah, production-quality unikernels would need to have built-in observability, tracing, and debugging support (probably in the libOS) but AFAIK no one has started building such tooling. I suspect that production-quality unikernels would end up re-introducing a lot of the "bloat" that unikernels were supposed to eliminate.
How is GDPR pro business if companies had to stop contact costumers?

Can you imagine how much businesses are ilegal now? Telemarketing is ilegal now, consultancy companies can't recruit new people via email or phone. People are yet to realize the true impact of GDPR.
Looks like op submitted GDPR data requests to recruiting agencies that were sending him job request.

He previously signed up for some job listing sites like Jobsite/Dice/Monster/Indeed or any of the trash job listing sites.

There was a term in their TOS that allowed them to sell his CV as part of a batch to recruiting firms to contact him which he didn't see.

Hence the outrage.
This sort of thing gets said a lot. It's not a valid excuse and it's not true in the black and white sense that people constantly present it.
The Earth has a long history and much of it was been a pretty awful environment for life (no oxygen would be a bummer for us, a hellscape of lava sounds uncomfortable and so does being under hundreds of feet of ice). That has nothing to do with how we can do the math about how much CO2 we're emitting and how much the concentration of CO2 is increasing.

On a long enough timeline you're right that there is nothing we can do because among other things the Sun is going to explode, but that's a phenomenally stupid reason to suggest we shouldn't manage greenhouse gasses responsibly. Humans live on a very short timeline, but we're producing effects better fit for a geological scale timeline.
Unlike `i`, `g`, or `p`, the variable `it` is an actual word in English, similar to other pronouns used as keywords, e.g. `this`, and other English word classes, e.g. `if`, `class`, and `try`, so your example from Apache Groovy doesn't really fit the argument.
The Wikimedia Foundation is rolling in cash.
But the app writer, os vendor or dev who wrote a library the app uses can defeat the e2e encryption because they are at the end.
You live in a competitive society, and that is the logical result of that. We should (especially the creative ones) fight for a society with wealth redistribution, so we wouldn't have to spent the whole day working just to survive and more people would be able to work in projects that are meaningful.
It's not inherently wrecked, but it's often wrecked anyway.

For example, the BART extension to south Fremont cost around $150 million per mile and took 3 years longer than planned. CA can't seem to maintain roads, and when it does it costs bazillions of dollars.
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But journalists aren't murdered in those other countries for inaccuracy, at least not as far as I understand, and not in any of the examples brought up by GP. They're murdered for reporting awful truths more accurately than someone powerful and evil wanted.

I don't see how that obviates the need for journalists to be properly incentivized to report accurately and with healthy skepticism.
Which taxes are not applicable to ticket purchases at the airport?
There'a a fan boy for Java?
This is all interesting stuff and makes a lot of sense.

I'm thinking more about non-traditional potential unions. Like if people seriously tried to set up a computer scientist union and tried to unionise a large proportion of workers at white-collar places like Google in the UK, I would imagine that some of the push-back they would get would be, for example Liberal Democrat voters not wanting to pay for Labour election campaigns.

Maybe a computer scientist union could simply choose not to be associated with Labour, then.
Does it actually use the position of the car in front to determine where to steer? My Honda will sense cars in front of me but will only use that info to adjust speed when using cruise control.