skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For code is must also be monospaced font and allow newlines - currently, the text should be on one line.

I understand about the reading experience. But maybe then allow formatting in comments, not in the claim title?
There used to be a search engine switcher view, but google needed to make money.
And the inability to find it in the FAQ is itself a failure. It seems like almost no one is even trying, no wonder we tend toward monopolies.
Would you be willing to flesh out that comment?

As it is, I don't really understand why, and I feel it's overly negative (though I expect to understand why I'm wrong once you explain it more fully).
Do you mind sharing what the app is called?
Maybe. It's your life - and you only get one. A lot of this is what you see yourself doing day in, day out.

There are lots of jobs that are coding adjacent. Technical SEO is an example. A mate of mine does installations of software inhouse.

You don't have to code, per se, you can likely find a job where coding knowledge helps but is not specifically what you do.

There is a lot s scope in IT beyond coding, and I'd consider exploring that.
My experience is that young web-devs don't even know the dystopian matrix they live in, and when they discover 'regular programming', in many ways their perspective changes. Both web and regular dev have their faults but the the King of Byzantium is HTML5.
I have 2 issues, first is that it looks more like a popularity contest. Popupar points of view get propelled at the top where they get more exposure and get all the discussion and votes, like on any other discussion site with threads.

Second, there is not "yes, but ..." answer, you are forced to take sides, for example to the hypothetical question "should drugs be legalized ?", I'd probably want to aswer "yes, but regulated". Not sure how to express that.
My experience building a large flask app with jinja2 templating (large in that the app is ultimately a mix of ERP/manufacturing management/customer+supplier portal). The intercooler approach combined with flask blueprints and template folders is extremely maintainable. It is easy to comprehend all aspects of what is going on at any time. Can get a decent developer up to speed to be productive with it, within days. The vast majority of businesses would never need a heavier framework than this.
Wow they're still around?
What do you mean by that?

I'm not disagreeing with your statement, but "toxic" is a strong word and I'd like for you to elaborate.
I'm familiar with AWS Enterprise support. They are excellent, and we routinely use them for figuring out issues or planning.
Apple. But for a different reason than you might think.

They’ve now made so many promises about privacy that if they renew on those promises (ie such that they were lying), then their will be shareholder and other lawsuits till the end of time. Tim Cook would be in court for a decade.

Pretty darn good incentive to keep to their path.
You can use rsync over usb as described here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/343502/how-to-rsync-to-andro...
Aren't Erlang variables immutable by default? I find that makes a huge difference to the reliability of a program.
>Why did this commit get accepted in the commit history tree published at android.googlesource.com?

As opposed to what? Do you expect them to maintain an alternate tree without the change that doesn't match published binaries?
I will. Have not. Thanks.

That gathering would be epic, very high value.

I was touched by this. Made me think of things I had set aside.

A little dismayed I got negative votes. Was just sharing. Maybe unwise, but like I said, Jo and what he is experiencing...

Yeah, a gathering to just chat, share, good, bad, would have high value.
I guess I don't understand. Are you saying The New York Times would refuse to publish news or editorials criticizing an element of American culture or governance? Perhaps I am confused, but it seems like that's almost all they ever report.
> ripped apart

I see what you did there
Isn't it widely known that formaldehyde is a known carcinogen?

The article mentions it's use in wooden furniture. I believe formaldehyde is used as a glue. So what's the danger? I'd assume it's like leaded paint where it's harmless so long as it's not flaking off.
That's my main complaint about the current administration and a lot of Republicans. I am afraid that their attitude about environmental regulation will cause a lot of damage for a long time and erase progress made over decades. I live close to LA and when you talk to people who lived there in the 70s and 80s and compare it to now there is no way to to view what the EPA and other agencies did as anything other than a huge success for the quality of life in this country.

I find it infuriating how the leadership of the EPA is suddenly only lobbyists and scientists get treated with distrust and disrespect.
I really like how this is more than just a table of vim commands. There is actually a visual overlay of commands over a QWERTY keyboard. Useful and perhaps very helpful for touch typists.

Also, in case anyone reading here is a mechanical keyboard enthusiast, there is a "VIM" add-on to the "SA Green Screen" custom keyset now on Massdrop: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-admgc-sa-green-scree...
But how do you have users rate the validity of the scientific references? Probably with votes.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/13799/is-webgl-...
Username + password is a huge attack vector, especially for services where users signup and eventually stop using or forget. I wish there was some obligation to reset password or require some form of MFA for applications that experience no usage on my account (especially if the service typically encourages continuous usage)...
> The users have no reason, however, to buy better, now reasonably-priced, displays that would make subpixel AA unnecessary.

> Of course, I dont have answers

The questions were related to backing up what you claimed. You obviously could not do this.
Objectification aside, that seems wrong; while there is obviously instinctive behavior involved (on both sides), both sides also need learned behavior for it to work well; the instinctive component is enough to get to the point where learning has a high enough success rate in the wood that humanity didn't die out from all out idiotic starving to death, but it's not the whole story.
Whatever. Subtle "toxic masculinity" "slut-shaming" of men whom don't act meeker than women.
Unlike lead in paint, the formaldehyde in things like furniture is emitted as a gas.
Is there a basic explanation for what this does? :)
Only initially. I thought off gassing drastically reduces over time.

Most of the time you wear a mask when dealing with high VOC chemicals.
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Ask HN: Hobby programming language, waste of time?
I've been working on a functional language for a couple years now in my spare time. I generally enjoy, although I'm aware that I'm not exactly creating any assets that would have monetary value in the future. I sometimes question if there is a point to this. One thing I know is that it's not 1990 where people are writing web applications in C. We have many dynamic memory safe languages like Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, etc, so there is no need for yet another dynamically typed language.
Usually. Like democracy and freedom is superior, usually.
Allow me to introduce you to CRISPR/Cas9

https://www.nature.com/news/crispr-fixes-disease-gene-in-via...
This is great for developers, but pointless for users. It doesn't change the user behavior, and the research shows people are using VA at home and nowhere else...a place better suited to Google Home and Echo.

There've been a lot of attempts by Apple to create richer hooks into apps like search integration, but they don't do much for engagement. There's some good ideas out there, along with anecdotal successes, but the interaction model isn't great and better app integration won't fix that.
> And I hear it all the time. Here on HN, in my work life, all the time I see people arguing that "yes optimization is important, but now is not the time", for any value of "now".

That's literally not what you said or what I was asking about.

But it seems the second part of my comment was accurate: " If you are referring to the quote about "premature optimization" you are misinterpreting it badly"

That's not Knuth's advice. People suggesting that have no sound reason to stand on and should be informed of their ignorance.
I wouldn't be surprised if part of the motivating factor is the fact the decision was made well above the person who wrote the code, and it wouldn't be fair for the person who wrote the code to take all the flack publicly. And, well, I'm unsurprised that the manager didn't end up with their name on it.
Per https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/formaldehyde/home/index.html, "Most formaldehyde is released by 2 years". I'd suspect most furniture makes it into your house in shorter than that timeframe.
Nvidia is my favorite example of "the next big thing that started out as a toy" ala A16Z's Chris Dixon (http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...).

Literally started off as a device for playing games, and significantly expanded out use cases since then.
Are you talking about relative (ordinal) inequality, i.e. who is above whom" on the social strata? Or absolute (cardinal) inequality, i.e. how much more* do people above you have compared to you?

I would argue that the former is self-evidently equal across systems. By definition, if you're speaking in relative terms, for you to rise up the social strata someone else must fall.

I would not argue that this is true in absolute terms - measured in your country's currency, it seems empirically true that certain systems (in particular free-market corporate capitalism) lead to much wider disparities in wealth than others (say, communism). However, I'd argue that if you actually care about absolute wealth rather than relative wealth, this shouldn't matter to you, because the median person in corporate capitalism does far better than even the wealthy in communist countries (we discovered this in the early 90s).

There may be hybridized systems that can still generate adequate absolute wealth while capping relative disparities. I'm skeptical of many of the examples that are often cited, though. IMHO unionized capitalism actively failed during the 70s; people like to blame Reagan or Wall Street for the dismantling of unions & pension plans, but the competitive reality is that the companies that made up this system all went bankrupt because of foreign competition, not because of any particular policies. That's a failure to generate adequate absolute wealth; you can't ignore the existence of outsiders who follow a different system when judging the sustainability of your own system. European-style socialism is intriguing to me, but may suffer from a similar problem: it's unclear to me whether the EU can a.) hold together and b.) avoid getting conquered militarily by outside powers in the absence of the NATO security umbrella.
You should look at Siempo which is available in Play Store. It made things so inaccessible for me sometimes that I stopped using it, and I think your might like it for the exact same reason.
Not only is Dragon still a product, it is owned by Nuance, which helped to develop Siri and drew on SRI research, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2014/03/24/behind-appl...
How to understand "suggested Con"? Is it waiting for moderation?
Oh IBM's first MCA PS/2 PC's had a wonderful issue in some models. They used a daughter card to present the expansion slots. Many had a habit of placing the monitor upon the top of the case (as was norm back then) and a gentle tap would momentarily wiggle that daughter card due to the case bearing the monitors weight and cause the system to lock right up.

Solution - don't put the monitor upon the PC case was not a happy solution for many, but was the solution.
Psychedelics could be the new class of antidepressant
How does “transparency trumps everything” apply here? There’s nothing transparent about this. The anon tasked with committing this change surely had no influence on the decision, so it’s doubtful the OSS nature drove any questions.
AntennaPod is fantastic, but buggy in ways that I haven't managed to coalesce into a good bug report yet:

* Playback while streaming stops, but the network connection hasn't dropped

* AntennaPod via Bluetooth crashes (!) the head unit in a Mazda CX5. No, I don't know how that's possible, either.
So basically they exposed an API to add to Siri a new skills. I wonder whether other platform already did simillar things? CMIIW, Cortana already exposed an API for us right?
>The police are concerned about the prospect of vans carrying vast amounts of petrol.

There is a pictures of such trucks here: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/gas-theft-gangs-fuel-pum...
More technical info is at https://www.timehop.com/security/technical
Agreed, lower valuations during a raise ought to reduce the risk of a crushing down-round and double-or-nothing gambling. If the deal could really be structured for straight common stock, no ratchet, no option pool shuffle, etc., this could quite dramatically shift the landscape.

OTOH, it would be very interesting to see how everything comes out in the wash. Suppose one needed to raise a hard floor of $5mm: a VC that might take 10% ownership for 1x preferred and a board seat, well, what will they demand when it's strictly common on offer for that $5mm--20%, 30%? Playing along with the idea of making it big, wouldn't it make more sense not to give up so much equity?
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/禁蒙面法

It doesn't say so on the English wikipedia page, but in some areas known for violence and particularly extreme Chinese crackdowns, wearing a mask in public is banned.
Google has an alternate tree. It’s used for prerelease and cancelled hardware, among other things. But probably not for this.

An alternative would have been to bury the change in “misc cleanup” commit. Kudos for at least being honest.
I was wondering how they approximated the invisible parts of the spectra as it was brought into view. Apparently, they used absorption spectrum of the sky and reflection spectrum of the water. They completely ignored thermal radiation, and made up the color of buildings. All things considered they did well, but I would ideally like to see something like there where you use camera footage from UV and Near and Far infrared.
The best part of this story is no passwords were compromised. Because Timehop deals with access tokens only, they were able to invalidate those access tokens to eliminate the risk to its users. They basically lost 21m customers by doing that, and props to them for doing the right thing.

Imagine if we still used the "enter your twitter password on our web site so we can look at your data!" anti-pattern. What a mess this would be.

Now if only we could get MFA by default on every service.
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"Taking this argument to the extreme: perhaps the reason we haven't met civilisations from other worlds is simply that they all made the same logical error once the tech was available."

In the book _A Deepness in the Sky_, it is remarked that civilizations/governments that attempt to implement "ubiquitous law enforcement" are making a terrible mistake that always ends very poorly. It is, in the book, a marker of a society that is about to die.

I recommend the book.
Ask HN: Why does Apple's ML framework not synthesize the back propogation graph?
I just watched this talk about apples new MPS framework.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/609/

I found the presentation very clear and the api looks very easy to understand and seems like it would be easy to use.

I’m curious about the design decision not to automatically synthesize the backprogation half of the graph. It makes for a very nice symmetry to explicitly define the gradient pass it as they’ve done but I’m curious if there are practical reasons a practitioner might need/want access to the explicitly defined back propogation graph?

Is the difference in modeling in MPS vs say tensorflow mainly a result of the fact that MPS is a “lower level” api than tensorflow? Are there maybe some useful manual tweaks a practitioner might make to the backprop graph vs something synthesized automatically — or useful observations of the gradient layer outputs that a practitioner might be interested in?
> Whoever chose to commit anonymously (or gave the order to) knew they were doing something shitty and didn't feel comfortable doing it "in public".

That isn't necessarily true (although it definitely seems possible in this case, especially given the choice of name). The other possible reason is that they knew they were doing something perfectly reasonable but controversial, that other people would dislike, and they didn't want the Internet pitchfork mob coming after them.

It is interesting that major corporate-run-open-source projects like Android have individual names associated by commits. It's a huge change from software engineering in general - the general public doesn't know what I personally do at work, and can't come after me for it - and there's not even a need for it for open-source reasons: since copyright is owned by Google, there's no requirement to identify the individual employee more precisely. Everything could have been committed by nobody@google.com.

If the person behind this commit had the position that they stand behind this commit but they only intend to stand behind it 40 hours a week and then they want to go home, I would sympathize with that.
You claim that batch auctions are the same without addressing the arguments in the article, namely that (1) HFT is unfair to smaller traders, and (2) HFT is an arms race where the costs (materials, labor, and brainpower) exceed the benefits.

Here's the fairness argument: a severe negative report comes out about stock X. In a fair world, after the price updates, every investor loses the same per share of X that they held. In the real world, HFT can sell or short X before others can react, resulting in a net transfer of wealth from investors to HFT firms.
It is hard and non intuitive to talk to newborns, but our hospital material suggested us this. We started talking from day one. And our kid is cooing significantly more and has advanced fine motor skills, according to the pediatrician. We have enrolled in a local library course to do the 1000 books before 5 program. It is very important to give time to kids, and it can be done relatively inexpensively through local government initiatives.
And they have to just sit there idling and watch their house burn up/flood/etc. until 911 finally comes around?
What does this have to do with this attack? Timehop does not store any passwords, just access tokens.
> curl is a program that is included in your Mac OSX distribution used for transferring data from or to a server.

For newbies who might be misled, cURL is available on a ridiculous number of platforms[1]

[1] https://curl.haxx.se/download.html
I didn't see anyone mention fasthub, it's the best github so I could find so far
So the US is accused of hiding it, but what does every other country on the planet think?
If you're going to do that you may as well tether the phone to your PC and use rsync with ssh via termux [1]

On 3 phones, I've never had MTP work well enough to trust it with backups.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux
and I think I would just make an additional exchange where people have another queue they can get to the front of..... faster.

everyone else would think of that too
> It is hard and non intuitive to talk to newborns

I had the opposite experience, but maybe that's because I have decades of experience of talking to pets as if they're human adults...
I'm not too sure that the data in that 2002 study is relevant today. opiate use has skyrocketed since then and it's reasonable to believe that things have changed. In my career as a paramedic, i've probably encountered more vehicle accidents where someone admitted that they have taken opiates (oxy/norco/etc) than anything. Yet it's not going to go down as a cause in many cases because while a blood test would show positive for opiates, it's difficult to pin it down. Alcohol is much easier to pin on drivers.
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The reference frame is the location of the server. Whoever is closer to the server has an advantage because someone half way around the world will take an extra 50ms or whatever to submit their order.
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I think the feature currently is simply removal of duplicated points.
But round holes are easier to drill than square ones.
Whatever. No need to hate on somebody for unrelated reasons.
Tragic relative to what could have been, amazing relative to what used to be...I mean hey, it could be a pen and paper. ;)
I use an alternative search provider on my android (custom rom) Phone and don't feel like I have lost anything other than the ability to stay sane on a stock android device.
An ancient Sumerian ledger:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1250/0*7LNb7XKpR6vAdsBH....

A ledger from the 1700s:

https://recordoffice.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/d2375m-277-...

I think there are some UIs that almost perfectly fit the function; and they are the candidates for timelessness.
it is right at the intersection of things you are more familiar with in tech:

aggregating user data and selling it.

people with dis-equal access to service and collecting everyone else's orders midstream and selling it:

the machine two racks away from the matching engine is selling information to the machine one rack away from the matching engine

and this goes all the way out to your broker, your etrade or robinhood who is selling all of your profile and trade data to the machine two racks away from the matching engine

it adds a lot of value for a lot of people. the actual femtosecond trade isn't what anybody cares about.

regarding the equality, it wasn't that long ago where you had dis-equal access if you couldn't physically be at the stock exchange, in fact thats where you were supposed to be if you wanted to trade. so I can't buy that argument, in isolation.

I do think it is a form of front-running, which is regulated in some capacity but very specifically worded such that your broker can't place a trade before you just because they found out you wanted to. what we have here is front-running but from different unrelated companies in the chain and all automated by machine.
Perhaps, but it’s something I encounter fairly regularly, especially when an unreliable network connection or other JavaScript failure breaks something with poor error handling. Again, not a showstopper but it’s a decision point: if you aren’t committed to testing this kind of thing on every release, you don’t have the resources to build an SPA.
I was wondering the same thing. Has it been proven in other countries?
This is easy: check out D3's architecture. It is "near functional" and tosses all the overly-complex (i.e. dangerous) parts.

And definitely read the still important "Javascript, the Good Parts".
It is used in the glue that binds fiber board and similar low quality “wood” products. The saw dust from fiber board is supposed to be especially toxic which is why they supposedly won’t cut it like they will regular plywood at some home stores.