skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "ready to be published" is a bit of editorializing on the part of the HN poster. There's nothing on the page that says that.

Instead, I think this is intended as a starting point for human editors to make articles about underrepresented scientists. For that purpose, I this is really cool. The blog post can provide some more context: https://blog.primer.ai/technology/2018/08/03/Quicksilver.htm...
You can turn those off easily enough: just click the gear in the top right of the newtab page.
Isn't null normally neither true nor false? Perhaps I've spent too much time writing SQL.

Null = True is false
Null = False is false
lone dev here, and thanks for noticing - so this is where the traffic came from :-)

The lack of attention (and releases, not representative of the half a million lines of C code and about 100k of Lua it entail) is mostly by design - to a large extent, I prefer obscurity to the point that productivity dips and lethargy sets in around release bursts, it opens up old mental war wounds from academia (also - getting a ph.d wasn't worth it).

The posts etc. so far is much in the terms of documentation, not dissemination or politics. Coming soon: "Arcan vs. Xorg - far beyond feature parity" and "The Divergent Desktop"; that will show how these things fit together. The latter expands a lot on some of the ideas in this article.
While I disagree with much of the article and find the Shinto connection dubious, it's an observable fact that anthropomorphism is way more common in Japan than the West. Every megacorp, city, and police department has their own manga-style character/mascot, including tech companies:

https://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/11/30/6-awesome-japanese-...
DNC warns candidates: Don't use ZTE or Huawei phones
You should know that Apple is quite possibly dumping Intel for their next generation computers. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-... or other similar articles.
I should really make a blog about that too. I got so ridiculously addicted to making money in MMOs in high school. I have some absurd stories where I partially was responsible for crashing the gaming economy, did insider trading while being a AAA game tester, did click-and-bait scams, manipulated stock markets, ran bots, ran my own guildhall, had 5000 followers at one point, did AAA game Q/A testing (had to sign NDAs), wrote gaming guides translated in multiple languages and read by 100,000 people+ and made the shittiest class in the game the most popular one. Those were some really fun memorable times.

On paper I don't tell people I have any business experience though, not many people would appreciate that experience though sadly. Learned the hard way in college
> The syntax will allow any single type descriptor to be modified by an optional suffix, which has the effect of constraining the original type descriptor in an ad hoc, programmable manner

So, if I had a JVM dependent type lib, could my type be "Ljava/math/BigInteger;/$contract[$nonNegative;]"? Are we sure we want this buried in the name?

EDIT: There's a similar example "I/$interval[$ge;0;]" which seems to imply some might want to burying a mini expression language in there. I can think of a lot of uses and a lot of abuses. But at the very least, it allows you to give arguments to types that persist in the bytecode.
I only disagree with this for one reason: many websites have RSS feeds, but don't link to them in an obvious place. Clicking "Subscribe to This Page…" in the Bookmarks menu and get the feed URL is something I do quite a lot. Also good for accessibility, RSS feeds are usually less cluttered than web pages.
The removal was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617821
>Transpose videos to gifs with audio and I think you will have something. No one does it with raw video because of the hosting cost

Umm, you do realize that videos provide a way better compression than GIF+audio, right?
Hard to say without knowing what kind of jobs she is applying for. Also I don’t know how the job market conditions are in Europe. However... her CV comes off as somewhat unprofessional and nonserious. Someone with a PhD should not be including their high school on a CV. Next, a PhD in statistics that took 1.5 years to finish sounds like a nonserious PhD. If she’s applying for roles in Switzerland or the US, or other major markets, that expect a PhD in stats, I would expect her not to get much traction. Next, there’s simply not much demand for R programmers. In the US she’d be looking at junior roles. Finally, you can’t give up after 20 applications, that’s nothing.
The core feature of a browser is browsing. Web dev tools are secondary. To a regular user who is not dev the removal of RSS is a loss. JSON is secondary. Firefox would make a mistake if they prioritized Dev tools over end user features.
We've banned this account. Commenting like this will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Active, unstructured engagement with the physical environment is absolutely necessary for children to develop spatial reasoning skills. Spatial reasoning is important for "STEM-like" learning, and also for safely navigating the physical world.

Children use fewer senses to engage with visual simulacra, and there is less diversity in the visual data provided by a screen than there is in a physical object.

Consider that holding an object allows a child to explore what happens to (sight, sound, smell, taste, texture, temperature) of (the object, their own body) when they (eat it, throw it, change its angle re: sunlight, tear it apart, bang it with a rock, draw on it, draw on something with it, etc). A really excellent simulation might encode some of those behaviors. Most, especially "educational" things, do not. No simulations deal with texture, taste, smell, weight, or effects on the user's own body.

This has been common knowledge in the developmental psych community for decades.

Also obvious that "sweaty work", as exercise, is really quite beneficial to mental health and ability. This is also common knowledge in the psych/medical communities.
If you're looking for a free alternative: http://github.com/getstream/winds
I don't disagree in principle, but Firefox also breaks extensions indiscriminately so the platform is starting to get defined more by the functionality it's lost than gained.
> ... I cannot actually find good details on who runs any given IRC network. I have no idea what I'm dealing with or how they're using my data. I have no legal recourse if I do discover bad behavior...

Ah, the good old days of the Internet. You make me so nostalgic.
Very first article (https://quicksilver.primer.ai/adrian_j._luckman/) contains nonsense. Who is O'Leary? What's a rift tip? How does it relate to the previous sentences?
What's your point? A great technology should be abandoned just because it's not popular? Maybe I am not average but the fact is that RSS is very helpful to many professionals like programmers, scientists or journalists on a daily basis. What's the alternative? Should we manually skim e-mail newsletters that don't follow a strict structure? Should we all get our information off facebook? Should we waste our time checking a bunch if not hundreds of websites manually every day?
VGA is still pretty adequate. The main limitation is that if you hook up a VGA monitor, you can't watch most proprietary video, whether it be disc or streaming, because they need a more sophisticated connector for their DRM schemes. VGA cables have no real difficulty with 1080p or some even higher resolutions.
It is Magic, and a single container will last for so many rounds of popcorn you wouldn’t believe it. I found as a trick you add the falvacol to the popcorn and oil before popping, not after for the best results. Bonus? House smells like good, fresh theater corn!

Oh, and if you like buttered corn, add a teaspoon or two of clarified butter to the mix. Like kettle corn? Add some sugar to taste before popping. Like it cheesy? Buy some freeze dried cheddar and add it immediately after popping. If you’re feeling fancy, try some freshly grated parmasean. Cinnamon sugar also works well, as does powdered peanut butter, a bit of cocoa, and some confectioners sugar.

I love popcorn. :)
As necessary as what you suggest may be, it won’t come without costs. It’s likely to slow technological progress down to a crawl as every step is painstakingly debated as well as render innovation more vulnerable to political and economic interests — anybody who decides they have an axe to grind about any particular technology or surrounding field can just construct a wall of false ethical questions to debate and keep it perpetually bogged down.

I’m not arguing against having more thought put into what we do, but taking it too far could easily put us into a collective rut that is nearly impossible to get out of.
It's also worth considering that the public might decide that all this mucking around with injecting people with virii sounds like trying to kill us all. So vaccine use gets banned, and lots of people die from preventable diseases.

Or maybe a town refuses to flouridate their water after a series of propaganda campaigns convinces people there that it's toxic and will ruin the purity of their water system.

I understand why you cast it as you do. History is chock full of preventable abuses! Yet, it's worth considering that such things can backfire as well. Public debate is not a panacea, and policy is often rushed and poorly formed to satisfy atavistic fears. A public debate can easily urge politicians to robustly protect the public from imagined threats while enabling real ones.
Hm. As a woman, I can't say I've ever thought of harassment when men have started friendly conversation with me. Is that not a bit of an exaggeration? If a man catcalled "nice tits" or something, then yeah, that would be harassment. But conversation? Not nearly the risk your describing, I don't think.
If everyone hates what firefox/mozilla is doing why dont you guys stop writing blog posts and start making a fork of firefox/thunderbird?
I suspect it's not. The code is largely written in C and C++ and what I can see of the package on Github makes it look like it's the version of SuiteSparse with CMake as the build system.

I realise my comment may have come off a bit flippant - it wouldn't be a trivial piece of work to write Python bindings for SuiteSparse, but would conceivably be simpler than trying to write a better sparse matrix algebra implementation.
I've had trolls whom I had banned from online forums attempting to use GDPR as a tool for trolling me (with the chore of gathering all data, but I already had an API that did this). And then attempting to use it to gut forums by claiming several identities and requesting deletion of all comments (try and imagine HN if comments by patio11 were deleted throughout).

On the forums I run email is the only identifying property and in my case the trolls (2 of them I think) were unable to sign in as the users in question, so I have refused to recognise the request (and then had the threats of legal action... but what else can one do if someone cannot prove their identity?).
The whole article seems like a straw man. Nobody is proposing to replace real-world experience by technology. People are proposing to replace

* going to a library and not finding a book by wikipedia

* learning glaciology not by reading about it in an outdated school book, but by increasing snowfall in a simulation and seeing the glacier grow

* not learning a huge amount of useless facts, but being able to look them up like the rest of society does
P.S.: If you're looking for inspiration by a movie, have a look at the status screens and their update process in 2001 – A Space Odyssey, which were grossly overlooked for other effects in this movie and didn't have much of a real life impact. (I guess, for the era they came from, the clarity and economy, these are just in line with the article.)
Loved BYTE growing up -- a great hacker's magazine.

Robert Tinney's covers were amazing:

https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+tinney+byte&tbm=isch
"indiscriminately"

uh huh
Coinbase Custody is exploring a range of new assets
Is This an Image? Or Is It a Gun?
I've realized there's another thing about this proposal that bothers me: it's basically waterfall software development. Agile is by no means a panacea, but there's a reason it replaced the "specify in advance what everything will need to look like and how it will work together" method. Instead, you need to just start building pieces that move you towards your eventual goal, roughly envisioned, and know that you will need to iterate on that frequently to respond to what you learn along the way. The motivation of this proposal seems to be that we can know in advance what the impact of a new piece of technology is, and therefore we can just avoid ever developing the bad stuff, so we won't have to deal with the hard work of changing it later.

But, we cannot, and it's dangerous to think we can. After we develop technology, we will be surprised at how it is used and what the impact is, and we will have to respond to that, sometimes with more technology and sometimes with legislation and sometimes with changes in social mores. Thinking that developers can just anticipate in advance what will happen, is at best delusional, like thinking that if we spend more time on the specifications part of our next waterfall project, we can do better.

Moreover, if Tim Berners-Lee had specified in advance, "this world-wide web thing will probably eviscerate all advertising-supported media, from newspapers to magazines to radio and television", I don't know that we would have made wiser choices as a result of that.
"We Japanese" -- that's the key phrase that indicates this is the latest in a long line of Nihonjinron (Japanese people theories), about how 110m people all share an ineffable characteristic that makes them oh so very different from the rest of the world. I really didn't expect this from Joi Ito though...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron
Honestly, I didn't give it any serious thought, I came up with the idea and quickly executed it as a PoC in a couple of minutes after that compromised npm package incident a while ago.

Disabling the NIC is a nice idea too, it should also be much quicker than shutting the machine down, so, please, feel free to make the script better.

The only "clever" thing I did was making sure the honey-pot key comes first in the ~/.ssh directory and that it's big (to gain time to poweroff while it's being transmitted to somewhere).

Clearly, this is not a protection against a determined adversary.
> since you were probably in junior high.

It's been a looooong time since I was in Junior High haha

> I don't like the heavy handed interventions in any country but Japan is without a doubt the most reckless & crazy of them all.

No doubt, Japan started the QE. Then US. Then EU. Then China. Dollar is the hegemony, so US is safe. China is in a very dangerous position and will likely fail. EU has similar economic size as US, and is aligned with US, so it should be safe. Jury is still out on Japan. We will be able to tell when deflation takes over the world economy.
I'm glad that works for you but if that describes your daily routine you are on a diet, not an intermittent fast.
Aesthetics are always welcome as long as they don't compromise usability. What I've noticed is that the more you look at something, the more normal it tends to look, regardless of whether initially you thought it was beautiful or ugly. Not sure why it happens but aesthetics stop being as important as time passes.
Links to whatever you're reading that gives you that confidence/understanding? The media has me pretty convinced that we're on the brink of a modern medicine failure
How many regular users actually use RSS? To be honest, I don't think most devs use RSS, much less non-devs.

Mozilla has a finite budget to allocate to features. Maybe they looked at usage rates and decided that RSS just wasn't an important feature, or other features were more important.
For example: I have never used RSS, until relatively recently I was not actually sure exactly what RSS was (except that it had "something to do with blogs"), and wouldn't know what to do if I wanted to start using RSS without at least doing some Googling first.
It is not a small risk. Being stuck in the backcountry while losing fluids and nutrients to a GI infection can be a life-threatening situation. Hygiene is in short supply out there to begin with, so it’s very important to have clean hands when handling food and water.
Ask HN: What are some good projects/resources to learn distributed systems?
I'm a kind of person who likes to hack on projects to learn things. If I am learning a new language, I'll think of a problem that I want to solve. After reading some syntax I'll start hacking on a solution.

I have decided to learn distributed systems.

I think this weekend would be a good start to hack on things. I can continue later in the week I understand I won't pickup distributed systems over a weekend.

What resources do you recommend for one trying to learn distributed systems on their own?
I am developing a little site which is a news aggregator and search engine for a certain niche topic. Out of a couple hundred sources, I'd say more than 95% support RSS, basically anything that uses wordpress or any blog or CMS system. I was really surprized how widespread it still is, and it makes my life a whole lot easier, since I don't have to scrape all those sites.

Maybe the model of subscribing to all your favorite blogs with a news reader didn't catch on, but RSS is still used a lot behind the scenes for other purposes.
Presumably such things would be expressed in the source and documentation, and flagged by the IDE.

The proposed enhancement to type descriptors provides a way of retaining that information so it can be leveraged by the VM. Alternatively, it could be extracted by the IDE, compiler, or other tooling when only the compiled class files are available.
I agree it has utility and not saying whether it should be abandoned or not. I just meant that an anecdote doesn't prove anything and doesn't necessarily apply to the average population. Mozilla knows better than we do.
That has always been true. The incentive to capture methane never has been particularly high, given that transporting a gas is much more difficult than a bunch of unrefined liquids.
Interesting that this reply is voted highest, as it doesn't actually answer the question, but rather suggest to ignore the entire issue.
yes to all this, but then when do you stop? how many file types should be supported by a browser? i'm sure some people would like it that the browser could edit spreadsheets too. there are so many different use cases.
Overall I agree, but maybe the person you're replying to just enjoys it.

My mother in law was a preschool teacher. Parents would ask when they would learn to spell, math, etc. She would say: after they learn to wait their turn in line and stop eating the paste.

My mom's favorite story is my oldest brother could read going into kindergarden. She told the teacher, who then asked: but does he know where he lives? Nope, he didn't.
Heat the oil sufficiently before adding kernels. Drop a few kernels into the oil as a gauge. When two of them have popped then you can pour in the rest and give it a vigorous shake.

And for the sake of completeness, be sure the pot has a lid!
I have always felt that Jerry Pournelle’’s Chaos Manor and Steve Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar were highly influential on the whole idea and style of blogging. The way of writing about technical topics based on personal experience from one’s passion is at the heart of good blogging.
Which is exactly why having stuff like this in the browser is useful: You don't know what RSS is, but you could discover and use Firefox's live bookmarks without knowing that. Mozilla hid this stuff, so it's no wonder usage rates are low, the question is if that's the correct way to take for an organization with Mozilla's goals.
I don't see that it's 'ideological' to have accessible, regular public spaces.

Also, the opportunity for great efficiency in transport ... either public or private I don't care that much as long as it works well.
Google Earth originated from a team that spun off from SGI (twice, kind of), so you probably saw the demos by Michael Jones and co.

Nowadays, you can build or buy a Liquid Galaxy to get a better experience than the Origin's, at a fraction of the price: http://liquidgalaxy.org/
yeah sloppy, it sets a session token; session-setting URLs should be hard to share, not easy. thank god it asks for a password before you can do anything bad, but the e-mail exposure in the settings flow isn't great. fortunately the x_id param isn't sequential.
> Frankenstein stories

Funnily enough, this idea -- the meme of "Frankenstein" being about the perils of science or technology -- is totally at odds with the book itself. Popular culture has obviously not had much contact with the original text.

In the book, Frankenstein's monster was the good guy -- he was clever, sensitive and persecuted for his humanity. The lesson of the book was about the judgemental inhumanity of society, not the danger of progress.

It warns against the fear of the unknown -- the opposite of the popular understanding. It's nothing at all like Terminator.
Please don't put personal barbs in your HN comments, regardless of how arrogant some other comment seems.

Your comment would be much better without its first and last sentences. The inverse of a shit sandwich!
My favourite number, that I kept for years later, was from September/1990.

It had interviews with everyone that was "important" back then (Gates & Allen (MS), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Doug Engelbart (mouse & GUIs), Tony Hoare (quicksort), Brian Kernigham, Donald Knuth, Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet), Philipe Kahn (Borland), Bob Noyce, Dennis Ritchie (C), Bjarne Stroustroup (C++), Wolfram) predicting the future.

None of them predicted the Internet.

[1] https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1990-09
I suggest Chrome or Firefox.

I find the conclusion of the article totally off the mark. The author seems to not understand that problems begins with multimedia support and other "gimmicky" stuff (as he puts it). You want video? Then use your terminal to launch a video player. A tiling manager is precisely perfect for this (I wonder why you switched to i3 if you don't know that, btw).
My job currently is mostly programming, but until about a year ago, it was mostly sysadmin and helpdesk monkey for a small-ish company (~75 users).

In this time I have had enough inexplicable printer-related problems, that my views on printing are no longer fit for a public forum. If I could, I would go Office Space on each and every one of those hellish machines.

But I need to remember, it's not the printer's fault, it's Windows - on GNU/Linux, printing has Just Worked(tm) for me for the last ... about ten years. Once upon a time I was reduced to converting my print jobs to the printer's native language with Ghostscript and then cat(1) the resulting files (one per page) to the printer's device file. But then came CUPS, and while some people still complain that GNU/Linux is not suitable for desktop use, when it comes to printing the experience is lightyears ahead of Windows.
Apple and others have convinced people that they need to upgrade to the latest and greatest device each year. Because if they don't then it negatively impacts Apple's revenue and stock price.

So Apple “convinces” people that they need the latest products because they introduce better products every year? Even though they also are releases the latest OS for all iPhones back to 2012?

I know for a fact that any device that can at least run iOS 5 - devices back to 2010 can still download older versions of apps directly from the App Store. If your device isn’t compatible with the newest version, you are given the option to download “the last compatible version”.