skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not particularly insightful. what he's espousing is well known to be true and argued by very many. (that wage growth is terrible, even in the face of jobs growth, giving statistical weight to back what we all know to ring true: most new jobs are low paying service-sector jobs like uber drivers)

but if you aren't following the monthly reporting of this (jobs numbers come out monthly), because you know, you're a fairly well paid high skill worker, TFA does capture the issue fairly well, even if it is a bit scattered.
Rescue Effort Still Underway to Save Boys Trapped in America
Musk's tweet deriding the "rescue chief" made Musk look like a fool: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016684366083190785

> The former Thai provincial governor (described inaccurately as “rescue chief”) is not the subject matter expert. That would be Dick Stanton, who co-led the dive rescue team. This is our direct correspondence

As a CEO himself, I would think Musk would know the difference between an executive and someone who is a technical lead. The "rescue chief", aka Gov. Narongsak Osottanakorn, was the official who made the call to perform the rescue operation, which he did after consultation with diving experts and the families. He is absolutely the person who matters when it comes to opinions of whether something is "not practical". Just as Musk, as Tesla CEO, is the person whose has the deciding opinion about whether a car/factory feature is practical, even if he isn't the chief engineer who does the actual implementation.
Up in arms Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V smear site after own staff revolt
Resume driven development. I've worked for a similar small company with barely any users/data but the tech choices were driven by how useful is the tech for their future job prospects and not the current or future needs of an organization.
> Apple is doing precisely what its supposed to be doing.

Such as aidding and abetting authoritarian foreign governments to suppress freedom of speech.

I'm having a hard time understanding why you are having a hard time understanding why this is cowardly, given that Apple is not particularly cowardly when it decided to stand up to US government surveillance.
Wiping out malaria is likely to do just that (wipe out malaria).
I'd actually have to do some searching to find out how to write unsecure Go code.
Either ignore them (Ubuntu) or they just don't. For many years Debian and Fedora didn't have MP3 decoder installed by default.
Motorsport Manager 3 will be released to mobile soon
Update: We went ahead and pushed out the first of our blog posts on building a home network monitoring center, to give a little more of an idea of what you could use it for: https://www.gravwell.io/blog/gravwell-and-collectd

I'm particularly fond of this article because it showcases the Turing-complete scripting interface which I built. The blog post shows how to set up a script which runs on a schedule and emails you if your disks get too full.

We'll be posting more articles over the coming days.
Considering this is a trial I assume they'll be monitoring that.
Ethical issues aside (which is essentially the biggest issue to be solved), I could see great value in applying some software methods to biology, among which something akin to unit testing.

What would be needed is a way to reliably test drugs in conditions as close to in vivo as possible (if going full SF, we can imagine full warehouses of human bodies that would be bred, preferably without brains for those aforementioned ethical issues -- unless you are creating a dystopia universe -- for the purpose of testing drugs, and harvesting organs). I cannot imagine how big an impact it would have on healthcare, biology and more general human body-related issues.

SF technologies like prosthetics, cryo-preservation/life support, stem cell regeneration, embryology and in vitro fetus development, cloning for "body parts", and countless others would suddenly seem a lot closer.

I don't think that kind of thing will happen any time soon, though. It may happen in the future if alternative technologies can't replace it (simulation, nanoscale engineering).

Such topics can quickly become extremely philosophical. I initially wrote a paragraph on what dying means to me (maybe fine with it), etc; on which I think I could go on for pages, but I think it would be better to stop here :)
Some things of note:

UI is dated. Logo isn't great. Name isn't great. The help videos have terribly inappropriate music.

This looks rushed/outsourced, or both
Fire ants in the US are an invasive species, like aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
A thermal camera that have enough resolution to get individual keys from across the street is not gonna be cheap, A 1.8Mpx @30Hz is above $20k without lens.
Wait... the majority of the corporate tax cuts wound up going to the 1% and not to create new jobs? If I had pearls, I'd be clutching them.
John Moore, 56; Sued to Share Profits from His Cells (2001)
Not a great idea. Upvotes don't really tell you shit about testing, quality, or trust. I mean how many votes does acroread have (hint: a lot). The votes is merely to give arch some idea of how popular an AUR package is so that it can be absorbed officially.I have had a few of my AUR packages scooped up this way. Voting may indirectly indicate that the package is useful, but it doesn't say the thing doesn't contain malware nor does it indicate that the script is poorly written for other reasons. I orphaned a few quite popular AUR entries with high vote counts. The counts don't magically go away, and at that point anybody on the internet is free to adopt it.
Do they? The Boring angle was pitched as a possibility for drilling holes (which apparently was practical). The mini-submarine seems more strongly associated with SpaceX, being built from rocket ship parts and all.
I seriously doubt we are anywhere near population maximums for this planet. Even in our mismanaged state of resource usage we have such sheer over abundance and waste we don't deal with. We face a problem of distribution to those in need in countries whose governments directly or indirectly prevent said resources from reaching those in need. We don't even use the majority of arable land for crops yet
The Technical Incerto, Vol. 1, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Absolutely, then eventually sprinkle some PWA or Web Components stuff.
There are always complex consequences, but note that Aedes aegypti is human-introduced in Australia to start with. It's an intrusive species, it may be safe to eradicate.
ArenaNet’s firings reinforced gaming culture’s worst impulses
That reminds me of another quote: "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee, commenting on the Battle of Fredericksburg
This is using parts of Cambridge University’s 25-year-old dark fibre network, the GBN, which has a fun tube-style map: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/devices-networks-printing...
Universe (YC W18) Is Hiring an iOS Engineer (Remote or NYC)
We believe that the internet is better when more people can build it. Universe is the first website builder designed from the ground up for mobile. In less than a minute, anyone can make a beautiful site from their phone. This is possible because of our breakthrough modular grid editor, which makes building a site as fun as playing with Lego (https://vimeo.com/260165283).

We just hit over 170,000 sites created, finished YC W18 (https://techcrunch.com/gallery/best-y-combinator-startups-2018/slide/5/), and raised a $4mm Series A from top investors (http://techcrunch.com/2018/06/20/mobile-website-creator-universe-nabs-4-million-series-a/)

You can check out our app here: http://apple.co/Universe

We're looking for an iOS developer to help accelerate our progress.

You'll take on tasks throughout the stack. You will expand the editor: adding new block types, more complex layouts, and more customizations for each block. You will help build tools that are easy for everyone to understand, so that buying a domain, setting up metadata, and adding pages are super simple. And you will advance our Magic Builder, a personalized design “assistant” that generates a unique site by asking you just a few questions.

Our app is native, taking advantage of the many frameworks Apple gives us. It is built entirely with Swift. The bulk of the user data is stored in CloudKit though we do maintain a few of our own APIs. We're hoping to convert those APIs from node.js to Swift soon, so experience with Vapor or Kitura is a bonus ;). We use programatic autolayout for the majority of our UI. We do believe in Unit Tests, but we don't have enough yet.

This is a full time position open to anyone, anywhere. We are a distributed company with an HQ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

We're looking for someone sharp, internally-driven, and passionate about building powerful tools for everyone. If you're interested, shoot us a note to join@onuniverse.com.

——

More press:

http://fastcodesign.com/90174165/the-future-of-web-design-doesnt-involve-computers-at-all

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/universe-an-instagram-for-building-mobile-websites-nabs-funding-from-yc/
For the people interested, here's the actual commit from the acroread package:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=acroread&id...
and neurons too?
Huh. Thanks for the link; I hadn't realized that pacaur was announced unmaintained last December. I'll have to look for a replacement.
You might have already seen this BBC program, but if not I suspect you will enjoy it:

https://vimeo.com/170735109
It sounds like it was a playground for the engineers to subdue their boredom by trying new tech. It's really common in our industry.
One of his offers to help included drop shipping fully-charged power packs.

I had to wonder: could you deliver more energy if you instead delivered the fuel you would save by leaving the power packs behind?
Given the design of most of the AUR "helpers" out there, I would guess that there are a non-trivial amount of users who view the AUR as safe.
> Once the code for all destinations lived in a single repo, they could be merged into a single service. With every destination living in one service, our developer productivity substantially improved. We no longer had to deploy 140+ services for a change to one of the shared libraries. One engineer can deploy the service in a matter of minutes.

... 140 tightly coupled services wasn't the problem then?
As an Arch user this bothers me since a while. On the one hand the AUR contains packages I don't want to miss, on the other hand installing and updating from the AUR is tiresome.

Recently I switched to the AUR helper aurman which is great, but it still doesn't free you from reviewing PKGBUILD changes. Sometimes I wish there would be some kind of review process where popular packages could be labeled as 'reviewed' (e.g. by experienced/trusted arch users) and an (optional) option within the AUR helpers to accept 'reviewed' packages without presenting the PKGBUILD for review.

I know that wouldn't be perfect either, but at least it would increase the efficiency and as a user one could focus on the less popular packages where it is unlikely that someone else will find some malware.
There is a lot to be said for the neuro-diversity argument and movement, the support for which I think has been driven in part by the broadening of the phenotype to those that are less severely affected. For those that are severely affected, ASD can be devastating, including completely disabling anxiety and phobias, extreme sensory sensitivity, low verbal ability and/or IQ, elevated depression and suicide, increased rates of homelessness, and so on. Those are the people that really motivate me in my research.
I like to listen to his podcasts when commuting : he is right at the edge of pop-history (leaning towards the serious one) and several of the stories were brilliant. Not sure what will happen now that he left the radio he was on.

Another good pop-historian one is of course Stéphane Bern, though the visuals of his TV series are more interesting than the strict historical part.
Shit, I know the frustration. This one's on me. I'm Corey, one of the co-founders. Pricing is a big "it depends" but average cost savings over Splunk are 30%. For starters, a single node Basic unlimited data license is $25k annually. Things obviously go up for larger enterprises that need bigger clusters but our pricing model is a step function rather than the bullshit "pay per GB" model that everyone else seems stuck on. Our view is, it's your hardware so use it. Every license is unlimited data. You only add more nodes if you need more phatty IOPs for fast searches - hence the it depends.

Some people use it more like a black box and don't issue many searches so a single node with a shitload of storage is just fine. Others rely on active searching to monitor security incidents and KPIs so they want responsiveness and immediate insights.
What would you recommend over yaourt?
See the below response for more details. But that’s not how modern testing works (neither is my feature flag suggestion).

https://www.developerhandbook.com/unit-testing/writing-unit-...

It works similarly in almost every language.

For a certain class of applications and organizational constraints, I also would prefer it. But it requires a much tighter alignment of implementation than microservices (e.g., you can't just release a new version of a component, you always have to release the whole application).

Why is that an issue with modern CI/CD tools? It’s easier to just press a button and have your application go to all of your servers based on a deployment group.

With a monolith, with a statically typed language, refactoring becomes a whole lot easier. You can easily tell which classes are being used, do globally guaranteed safe renames, and when your refactoring breaks something, you know st compile time or with the correct tooling even before you compile.
OSH will let you get one board cheaper than you can get a 10 board minimum proto-pack order from DPCBs.

But if you need more than a one-off the savings are clear.
So what's the US's (and the world's) excuse post Nixon's visit to China? The world could have easily continued to isolate China like they do North Korea today.

I don't see why a non-state actor like Apple should try to act like the State Department.
Yes, assuming you create a bug bounty and/or easy ways for people to submit bugs. Challenge people to find bugs and they will. Many people love puzzles. Some people love to find your mistakes. Thick skin is a requirement. :-)
A PhD is a pretty deep dive into a subject, if you don't have passion you're gonna burn out. Of course other things are important, but if you don't have passion for the subject you're gonna be miserable.

And I don't really see it as jumping through hoops. A good PhD program has a few checkpoints to pass, but everything else is up to you. I strongly disagree that you don't get good people, at least not the ones who finish. People who don't know what they are getting in to or are only good at "gaming the system" tend to wash out pretty quickly, usually because they are miserable and burn out. It varies from industry to industry, though... maybe other engineering fields are worse than the ones I'm familiar with.

A lot of people make the mistake that you have to have a PhD to prove you're "smart", which is wrong. But that doesn't mean that only people with nothing better to do get one.
Show HN: I'm collecting programming quotes for years
tl;dr: CNN-based models learn to use scanner model and other external data to bias predictions (e.g., portable scanner correlates with higher likelihood of pneumonia)
>It's so nice to build something that works without JS in the first place and then just add some JS and CSS3 animations.

Yeah, but JS buys you a lot. There are certain things that you can accomplish with JS that you absolutely cannot accomplish without it.

OTOH, anything that you can accomplish with React, you can accomplish without React. I'm with the GP on that one.
Groupy is great. You can create your own "Coda" (the Panic app for Mac) by grouping Sublime, a shell and a browser in the same group. Makes development and testing much less painful on a single screen. I usually throw in a db query tool and source control app into the group as well.
> You could argue MOU is jack shit in general

MOUs from non-mainland companies may get you financing. MOUs from mainland Chinese companies will not. They have a high rate of falling through, and are most properly treated as prettified e-mails. Different commercial cultures.
The best buffer against scrapers/spammers seems to be lag. That is, progressively slow the rate at which data is returned.

Many bypass protections by limiting request rate and using a pool of lesser known proxies/IPs.
My second employer out of college was a very charismatic man. Talked me out of quitting twice. The third time I went in and just repeated that this was my two week notice, without listening to a single thing he said, until he took the piece of paper in my hands.

If I were a VC I can imagine wanting to stay away from people who can talk me into anything. I might end up funding another round after the building is already on fire.

So I wonder if they are always clear on the difference between leadership and salesmanship. I'm not sure I can always distinguish the two, more's the pity.
One question regarding the salary (seems similar to Spain, Portugal) - how does it compare to such "low-income" professions (e.g. in US) such as taxi driver in your country?
now if only they had someone working on itunes and the app store
They lucked out with the rain. It isn't clear that the method they used would have worked as well with more water in the cave.

Not weighing in on the sub with that, just the ladder.
"And if you repeatedly commit blunders on accident"

Once or twice is an accident. "Repeatedly" demonstrates an unwillingness to change.
Thanks for sharing! Happy to discuss here if anyone wants to engage in some (pre)debate. Also happy to butt out :).
> For example, its essentially US law that Apple's officers have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholder's best interests. Not participating in the Chinese cellular market over principle violates that principal of law.

This isn’t true at all.
Slightly off-topic, a big part of seeing a painting in real life is seeing the structure and layers of brush strokes. It's a long shot but does anyone know if any work has been done to create depth maps of paintings and possibly combine them with scans?
The mouse is placed on a little metal grid that is attached to a scale, and somebody pulls on its little tail until it loses its grip on the grid. This seems like something a sadistic gym teacher invented.
I like the guy, I'm pretty sick of his fans
And they picked the one that has had several high-profile security breaches... Not very credible.
I keep hearing about these horror stories. But if this was me, I would just laugh in their face.

There are plenty of jobs out there, and some companies can't interview people. You don't want to be there. Go celebrate you dodged a bullet. :)
> Though the software is at fault. It created a false sense of security, misleading the users. What else in Arch just feels secure, but in fact is not?

AUR never tried to pass false sense of security, it is explicitly declared as not supported everywhere.

> And then, if the users around the software generally exhibit a jockey attitude, you get the whole environment built in a similar manner, not a robust one. The software may technically not be at fault and technically could be used in a safe manner, but you won't get much exposure to that, any such use will be cumbersome and difficult (because nobody uses it this way), so you still should stay clear of the software. So no, you don't get to separate the users and the OS/distribution.

Except it is not, experienced users of Arch community vocally recommends new users to not blindly trust AUR, and the dangers of AUR is also documented everywhere. This is also one of the reasons that yaourt is shamed in public Arch communities like /r/archlinux, since it defaults to poor security behavior.
You get fair bit more isolation between the container and the host, which could help with security.
Oscillations are surely the norm. But total eradication is different. It may not recover.

And it sure isn't unknowable - find what is interacting with that mosquito (something may be eating its larvae or reproducing symbiotically or parasitically etc). That dependent creature will be catastrophically affected, likely become extinct as well.
Couldn't the same be said for any form of medicine or protection that helps people survive? Should we remove all of it so that more people die, to hasten evolution?
Did American Indians not die from European diseases in areas with lots of mosquitoes?
Does it work with CockroachDB? It aims for compatibility with Postgres but there are some differences so some projects aren't compatible.
Is bot aware of what it is doing? I don't think so.
hmm firebase (google) cloud functions take 2,3s in average for me for a respond (simple json output out of firebase)
I've been struggling with a parallel problem recently. I'm on track to go into engineering management, which I'm very interested in doing. But part of me wants to take a remote job even if it means a pay cut and moving somewhere cheap and traveling more and working more flexibly.
I really don't understand your comment, and all subsequent responses along the same line. The digitized van Gogh paintings are perfect copies of the original public domain works. For the US, Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. [1] makes it perfectly clear that the images are not protected by copyright, and there is similar law and legislation in Europe.

What do you mean with the ability of the museums to choose a license for the paintings, and what is the "sub-A4" license you refer to?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel....
They didn't do anything to the existing mosquitos. They released sterile specimens. All of the fertile wild specimens were still going about their business making more Mosquitos, but the matings between the normal wild ones and the sterile lab ones didn't result in offspring.

If you roll a collection of dice, and remove all of them when they roll something other than 6, the other dice haven't "evolved" to only roll 6s.
Most of the so-called downsides of IP are subjective or viewpoint based. Or, they are imaginary/hypothetical.

But there is this, countries with the strongest IP protection are the most innovative and successful. So there must be something beneficial going on.
+1

Changing one "shared library" shouldn't mean deploying 140 services immediately.

They had one service to begin with forked for each destination. Of course that was a nightmare to maintain!
Or to optimize, or to replace human operators, or to entertain, or to create....
I like the blog post I mentioned above, which covers cpu/disk/ram monitoring. I'd also like to see a fleshed out network analysis example.
How does a non-cancerous person obtain a chemo drug on a regular basis?
It says a lot about humanity when getting off the planet is easier than having a conversation.
Eradicating pest and threat species is so very not new. Ask the wolves around centuries old ranching regions. Mosquitoes have indirectly the highest human body count in history and prehistory.

Even with reuse it is pretty mating strategy dependent. It isn't a dial an extinction. Trying that with say feral cats would be a miserable failure or at best the equivalent of releasing a bunch of teaser tomcats into an area having only the TNR occupying effect on inhibiting population growth by claiming territory until they die of natural causes.