skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few responses to that.

1. I'd echo from my first point, HN _never_ behaved as a "Refuge" the way you describe. If you're saying you'd like to see it changed to function as such, I can simply disagree on a precedent of "that's not how it got to be the HN we know and love", but this will likely end up being a subjective disagreement. Politics may have become _more_ central, but unfortunately I think we're going through a period where that's true in many aspects of life.

2. In that same vein, HN has become something of a town-square for things tech. The "you can discuss it, just not here" is like when people say "well you can find things on the internet, google will just block them." Sure, that's factually true, but if it in effect cuts 95% of people out of ever seeing that subject matter, are you still really allowing discussion?

3. I fear that by not talking about it the "insane partisan bullshit" will become more normalized, because the adult voices in the room have stepped out. It's for us to make sure that the discussions don't become "Crap."

4. re: doom and gloom, unfortunately, "we have to sleep in the bed we made." If the broader world seems to be doom and gloom, I'm of the opinion that should be faced down without flinching. I'm not one to try and sugarcoat, fundamentally, that's just my personality, and again, one can philosophically go about life differently, but the way I look at things, an "only positive aspects of cool tech" discussion board would be disingenuous to the true scope of our impact, and lacking in much of the subtlety and interesting depth of discussion that made HN so compelling to me over the last 5-10 years.
Plumage is mimicri and so on.

The eye like patterns can scare and emulate size. The e tail does fiegn size and does not fall into the general visual bird pattern.
They've got 265x the population, though.
What should we all know about stuttering?
I don't think WordNet has been much of a thing in NLP, especially nothing like ImageNet has been in CV. WordNet is only simple word-to-word relationships. "NLP" tends to denote more syntactical, phrase- or sentence-level text analysis; bag-of-word tools like WordNet or TF-IDF are not often considered "true" NLP, but might be called text mining instead.
I was trying to avoid making a point about the seriousness of it because I don't think I'm in a position to accurately judge that.
The proposal allows for summertime to be the default[1]:

> Discontinuing the current bi-annual time changes for all Member States and prohibiting periodic switches; again this would not affect the choice of time zone, and it would ultimately remain each Member State's decision whether to go for permanent summer or wintertime (or a different time).

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/2018-summertime-arra...
> Race is often shorthand for ethnicity

Huh? In medical contexts I've always understood race as a person's genetic background and ethnicity as a person's cultural background. The two often don't align as many might expect: an adopted child, for example, could be racially South Asian but ethnically French because they speak French, enjoy French food and culture, perceive their self as French, etc.
This partnership could also allow Uber driver partners to basically have another source of income - rebalancing the scooter/bike network and helping with charging (ex. someone drives for Uber Eats, drops off a scooter at pickup restaurant to charge). Current Lime freelance chargers are making ~$1400 earnings per month[1] so this could start being substantial and help the growth for both companies

[1] https://www.axios.com/how-lime-is-pitching-its-bike-a-152949...
I really don't understand some people on HN's desire to shield Musk from any criticism.

When I started in tech as a career nearly 20 years ago I was really excited because I wanted to make the world a better place through technology.

In some ways Musk embodies the kind of person a younger me would have considered a hero. Now increasingly I question his propensity to make outlandish claims on all sorts of topics and then get defensive when he can't substantiate them. The worst outcome of this kind of behaviour is Theranos.

Musk and his companies have achieved a lot. He should focus more on that (and improving ethics in the manner in which they get their results), and less on his appearance.
Why do people keep comparing assets ($) to GDP ($/year)?

If you want to compare the two, 1 year isn't a reasonable term. You can convert a rate into a current asset value by multiplying by a P/E ratio, anywhere from 10 to 20 these days.
Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?
When I read the headline, it seemed to me that Nissan was falsifying data to meet Government/mandated emissions tests and was caught.

In reality, Nissan's internal workers were caught falsifying an internal test. That might seem like a small point but it's quite an important difference - the difference between a live malicious data breach and an internal audit failing.
Just the bikes and scooters? Not, say, the idle cars left on streets all over town?
Again, being able to spin your own chips isn't really at issue here, that's already possible. ARM and MIPS will likely happily let you continue to make chips based on old cores as long as you continue to pay your license fees.

The freedoms from the Open Source model is substantial enough to make it attractive on that basis alone, just as for Linux/BSD. One example is Western Digital transitioning to RISC-V for their hard drive controllers. I would imagine being able to add your own instructions without having to deal with NDAs and non competes with ARM will be attractive to a lot of OEMs.

Just like with Linux, it's difficult to anticipate what intersting things will come out of RISC-V, but one interesting example is a formally verified RISC-V core, picorv32: https://github.com/cliffordwolf/riscv-formal/tree/master/cor... (presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU97ffHF_IQ). According to the author, this core will power safety critical applications at a synchrotron: https://theamphour.com/374-an-interview-with-clifford-wolf/
For those interested, this would write "MICROSOFT!" over top of "COMMODORE" on the PET startup screen.
It is turning out that remote piloted fighting planes, without the fragile human cargo, can out-turn, out-brake, and out-accelerate the old line manned fighters.
In many ways you can add 'smarts' to any missile to make it a very good one shot attacker.
With no human on board the weapon load can be 5 or more times larger. In addition, the cost declines.
In addition, with modern missiles, even a stealth fighter is an easy target now they use the newer multi emitter radar.
(multi emitter radar has many radar transmitters/receivers at separate locations that exploit the specular aspects of stealth planes. Every cell tower can be used as one of these sites with data processing finding the shape of the plane in the sea of clutter).
If the US is smart, they will switch away from manned and to remotes, like Russia has indicated they are doing.
Quite, and the first two paragraphs of the article, which are all I can read because I'm not a WSJ subscriber - which I suspect will be the case for many here - do nothing to dispel the sensationalist interpretation.

(As an aside I'm starting to opine that posting WSJ articles here may be bad form for this very reason.)
Can you screenshot that and link to the screenshot? I don't see it marked as an ad.
Good point. I will correct the above statement:

Please don't encourage people taking advertising classes. The internet needs less marketing not more.
Not sure exactly what you are thinking, but I do think empowering Uber drivers to relocate scooters to high demand areas (where the driver tends to also go) would make a lot of sense.
"groupthink" is shorter, but a bit tongue in cheek
It wasn’t reliable to begin with: https://www.aclu.org/other/whats-wrong-public-video-surveill...
I had a similarly titled class at a no-name state school. I think the professor mentioned something about ACM recommending/requiring the course, so it should be pretty widespread.

On a more discouraging note, there was normally single digit attendance out of triple digit enrollment in the particular course I took. I'd say average engagement was ~6 hours total over the course of the semester... Including a movie. I don't know anyone that didn't get an A. There were a few from that class that went onto big names, and they weren't among the regular attendees.
>my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible

I agree. My bet is at least two: one theory heavy "ideas guy" and one more software engineering oriented programmer who did the heavy lifting on implementation.

And I have also noticed that these types of analysis are for single authored documents.

I suspect it will stay a secret for a long time... maybe we'll get some deathbed confessions in a few decades.
Mostly it just makes me think people have not actually used what they complain about.
How do you define middle class? I think people going to these elite universities either are rich(!), exceptionally talented or both.
Did you read the article? Here's one paragraph:

> In Toronto, Sidewalk sketches out a picture of a neighborhood where intelligent “pay-as-you-throw” garbage chutes separate out recyclables and charge households by waste output; where hyperlocal weather sensors could detect a coming squall and heat up a snow-melting sidewalk. Apps would tell residents when the Adirondack chairs on the waterfront are open, and neighbors would crowdsource approvals for block-party permits, giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down based on the noise the gathering was expected to produce. Traffic signals could auto-calibrate to ease pedestrian congestion during public events, or to ensure a smooth rush hour. The data from such systems would feed back into the city, which would constantly learn, optimizing its own operations from month to month, year to year. Sidewalk promises “the most measurable community in the world.”

"The most measurable community in the world". That's well beyond "smog sensors built into a few city blocks".
> Slide down to browse through the hundreds of tabs I have opened (...)

You have hundreds of tabs opened?

Man, you're doing something wrong. At this point learning how not to have hundreds of tabs opened seems like a bigger improvement than choosing one browser versus another.
So, similar to the networks of think-tanks in the US funded by the powerful to push forward their agendas. Similar oligarchic structure, different labels on the system of record.
From the consultation page[1]:

> Agriculture: Previous concerns regarding disrupted biorhythm of animals and changing milking schedules due to the time switch appear to have largely disappeared due to the deployment of new equipment, artificial lighting and automated technologies. An extra daylight-hour during summer can also be an advantage allowing extended working hours for outdoor activities, such as working in fields and harvesting.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/2018-summertime-arra...
Thank you for the extra insight, I may have had the wrong conclusion but I think the logic still follows. From this system I outlined, the manufacturers would be forced to alter designs to get the desired emissions during normal driving conditions. This is the whole spirit of the regulation right?
So you always quit when asked to train someone? The reason Employer plays along in the beginning is so you don't realize Steve will be your replacement until it has already happened.

Besides that, some people will need to continue working as they search for another job, and training Steve could be parlayed into a rudimentary supervisory position on the resume. That helps if you ever intend to jump over to the developer-manager track.

Q: "Have you ever had anyone under you?"

A: "Yes. I was in charge of a trainee once."

Q: "How did that work out?"

A: "Great, until they gave him my old job, then fired me. Maybe we had a budget problem?"
True, it's easier to prosecute insider trading as a breach of fiduciary duty to the company. But why were insider trading laws passed, and why is insider trading prosecuted? The SEC answers that "moral imperatives have driven the development of insider trading law in the United States."[1] The prosecutor against Salman, Preet Bharara, stated that "today's decision is a victory for fair markets and those who believe that the system should not be rigged."[2]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speecharchive/1998/spch221.h...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/business/dealbook/supreme...
Malware Found on the Arch User Repository (AUR)
Part of what you get with ARM is certainly support, but a lot of it is also tooling, OS support and so on. There's a _lot_ of vendors outside the traditional big ones. And even the big ones like Samsung has used OpenRisc for service processors before.
WordNet (as you probably know) is a database that groups English words into a set of synonyms. If you consider WordNet as a clustering of high-level classes, then you could argue that ImageNet is the "WordNet for vision", meaning the clustering of object classes.
The article uses a different meaning of ImageNet, namely ImageNet as pretraining task that can be used to learn representations that will likely be beneficial for many other tasks in the problem space. In this sense, you could use WordNet as an "ImageNet for language" e.g. by learning word representations based on the WordNet definitions. This is something people have done, but there are a lot more effective approaches.
I hope this helped and was not too convoluted.
It's a lie by omission. The title should have been something like: "Nissan Admits Internal Test Data Was Falsified"

Boring, I know.
Freakonomics did a podcast a month ago with Dan Doctoroff, worth a listen if this interests you.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/sidewalk-labs/
World Cup 2018 UEFA – Top 5 Goals in GIF HD from AngryGIF
And when the regulation fails to regulate for a long period of time, such that all eventually meet the regulation with either a loophole or a crime, it does not make the system any fairer when the axe falls.

If the reg's were never put into effect, and companies never given citations, it is institutional failure. And very unfair to all entities who are suddenly scolded at not meeting the criteria.

VW presumably started it. Other companies eventually competed. And all of a sudden everyone is now in violation.

It is like cheating on a test. One kid starts it. Teacher does not care. Kid does not get scolded. Competition gets intense. Rest of kids start cheating too. The axe falls, sometimes on the dull, slow kid, and then everyone falls in line. But then teacher goes back and sees who else cheated in the past, and the entire class is outed. How is this fair again?
I find them pretty useful in Clojure. Note that it’s practically never about assigning a strictly boolean-valued expression (which would indeed be pretty useless) but rather something that is ”truthy” or ”falsy” ie. implicitly convertible to boolean and you want to do something with the actual value if it is truthy. Other languages have similar constructs, eg. C++:

if(auto p = get_ptr()) ...

And Rust:

if let Some(value) = get_opt() ...

The latter, permitting arbitrary pattern matching, is especially useful and a common idiom.
> where a 14-year old with a soldering iron and $20 in parts can jam 12 lanes of traffic

Well... not to be argumentative or anything, but a 14-year-old with a smaller budget could easily cause similar chaos on a busy highway by, say, rolling a heavy object down a hill onto it or throwing some spiked gardening tools onto the road at night. Although they don't generally do that, protesters do pretty much the same thing (that's how we all first started hearing about BLM, recall).
Starbucks is eliminating plastic straws from all stores
Have you ever been to China? Those people are "feeling" their own medicine daily, pervasively, in ways it's difficult to comprehend except by experiencing it for yourself. The images and stories you consume on the internet only take you part of the way to their soul crushing reality.

They are already the product of their environment.

Coal rollers in the USA, on the other hand, have no excuse.
If it's done like all Google projects, it'll be phenomenal, half-finished and then abandoned as engineers/leaders get bored and work on the next big thing.
Meanwhile the city will rot away.
In the US at least, the regulation of software in medical devices regulates the process by which the software is developed and tested.

The qualifications of the people developing the code are somewhere down in the process-stack; there are no specific requirements [1].

In general, to follow "Current Good Manufacturing Practices" (a term of art in the FDA design controls regulation), qualifications for the people on the team have to be documented and a paper trail kept up-to-date, to be able to answer questions of the nature "was person <X> qualified to be working in this role? How do you know?" with objective evidence.

It's up to the judgment of the engineering management of the project what they state the requirements of the role to be. If you say that it takes a high-school diploma or better to be able to develop life-safety-critical medical device software, you may pass a process audit since you document and track that requirement, but if there is an "adverse incident" I would think whoever signed off on that decision might be exposed to liability.

[1] My specific knowledge about this is ~5 years out of date so this may have changed, but I doubt it
That's not the difference that I wrote of, though.

What I wrote amounts to that what China does in Africa not a "boot crushing their throat".

And that's a nice change after a long period where foreign boots were crushing their throats regularly there in Africa.
If cars (parking) were banned inside most areas of the city it could be interesting. An entire city optimized for bikes, ebikes and some public mass transport. Add a few self driving electric cars for the elderly.
So it's the result of a survey? That's a bit disappointing. Quarterly report makes me think it'll be extrapolated from DigitalOcean's usage metrics. Surely some of the things, such as containers could be inferred from real usage.

Also, unlike stackoverflow, if the respondents were DigitalOcean users I would imagine some things would be considerably skewed - for instance the popularity of "Serverless". I assume that since DigitalOcean doesn't offer serverless products people who use serverless aren't on DigitalOcean.
How Voice Interfaces Speak to the Future of Business
Is this where we are headed? Pretty soon we will be a world of endless flame-wars. It works for Trump (someone I do not like) and it'll work for Musk (someone I like). It might even work to the author of the article if they manage to gather as large of a following.

I think this is a symptom of the effects of deindividuation. When your communications are always broadcast to a large group you get to feel like the head of an army but are actually closer to the ring-leader of a mob. One is able to justify saying whatever they want because that is where it ends for them, they have spoken their minds. In other words one is able to detach themselves from the ramifications of their words because those are other people carrying on the cause.

To end my rant, instead of telling people to shut-up and grow up which is rarely effective, perhaps we can try to gain a deeper understanding of our society and the side-effects of the rapid changes taking place.
The deal was made several years ago, they are just starting production now
> Despite my website having best-in-class content...

That's quite a claim. I'm not sure which website is your's so I can't dispute it. Personally, I frequent websites with higher quality content and avoid "gotta-sell-you-something" sites.

Also, as another commentor mentioned:
> It sounds like you applied styling to improve your conversion rates
John Cage's 4′33″ repeated ad nauseam.
> Why not use `if` and `when` directly? Is creating new names for variables — which is what `if-let` and `when-let` seems to contribute — that common of a pattern?

This seems an awful lot like saying "Why use functions? All that they are doing is giving new names to variables" (although, to be very clear, I realise that there are meaningful differences between the two). To be sure, nothing can be done with these macros that could not be done without them—that's proven by the fact that they are coded as macros in a language that doesn't natively provide them—but it might be harder to read or write, or … whatever metric you value. I think that experience shows that any binding facility that is offered will make someone's programming life happier (although maybe many somebodies' debugging lives less happy).
Yes, but only for people who can afford it.
No, I meant CryTek. RPG explains: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/1...

Would someone like Unreal have swallowed that from a client in order to avoid bad PR? Possibly. But if the allegations are true then I wouldn't go so far as to expect (in the moral sense) CryTek to let it slide.
could you link to something that shows what you're referring to? eg: is there some action or platform that you think would be a concern?
>no evidence that total biological death would entail anything but

You seem very certain of your hypothesis. Is there anything that science has had a harder time defining, quantifying, or understanding than the nature of consciousness as it relates to reality? With that in mind it would seem more in keeping with the spirit of science to remain agnostic ("I don't know"), rather than atheistic ("I know")

>Those who raise questions about the God hypothesis and the soul hypothesis are by no means all atheists. An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.

-Carl Sagan
It seems to me like what the author proposes fits with TDD: start building the simplest case by way of a unit test, implement it in the simplest way, and keep going that way; while the “correct first” approach many are saying should be used feels more like having a problem, really thinking about how it should be solved and then solve it all at once.

Now, while I think some small and contained problems may be solved the second way, I think most complex problems of the kind we solve as programmers will be best solved the first way.
One thing I noticed is that it looks like (maybe being fooled by the older b&w) most of the cities shown have increased their greenery. That is, they seem to have gained trees —a good development.
Afaik they get per unit royalties too
Never mind, it still binds a local variable (at least in elisp, where I just tried it).
Append-only ledgers have been used for a while and pre-date the concept of blockchain. Some accounting systems use them. Other examples are IPFS (which uses Bitcoin technology but technically doesn't need to), Internet Archive, some types of event logs, some message queues, chain-of-custody applications, and some P2P marketplaces.

As for Byzantine fault tolerance, it's a bit more of a niche. The most famous examples I know of are extremely high-risk situations, like aircraft software. I don't fully understand how it's used there, but to my knowledge, it prevents "bad" signals (from malfunctioning sensors, cosmic rays, etc.) from corrupting the rest of the data that controls the hardware.
I mostly listen to new retro wave on yt while coding.