skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What are some project ideas for a web developer with 2 years exp.?
I am looking to level up my skills and work on a project that will force me outside of my comfort zone. I got my start from a coding bootcamp and currently work as a front end dev that builds in react. Does anyone have challenging project ideas? I thought of maybe doing something fun with AWS IoT or finding a good use case for GraphQL, but I am stumped. Any insight would be great!
Would you let your kids socialize with a used car salesman?
As another data point, Google happily translates my bank account.
Tangentially related, but if anything "magical" exists, lucid dreaming is the way to it.

Egyptians were supposedly obsessed with being lucid during dreams so they don't "lose" themselves in the afterlife. Seems quite logical, since you essentially lose track of yourself during a dream.
Intel has ~60x the revenue of ARM and is already a known brand with the public. If it gets into a marketing slugging match, Intel wins hands down.
I introduce new bagels with a higher price tag. I phase out less expensive bagels. I continue this practice until the crowd thins itself.
Ask HN: Pure mathematical route to intelligence?
Are there purely mathematical inspired routes to Artificial intelligence. Such routes perhaps assume intelligence as a property of some exotic pure mathematical structure? Such route deviate from the human-brain/nature inspired ways of intelligence
AI is the future, but where are the women?
> And nobody wants a stripped-down, locked-down version of MacOS-Lite.

There's nothing inherent in an ARM transition that would lead to such a thing, and there's nothing in the current x86 architecture that's preventing it.
And it's perfectly valid on constrained systems where you don't have or want to make heavy use of malloc() and don't have namespaces. Provided the structs stay reasonably focused on one domain.
Great. I've been working on something similar but in Arabic. Thank you for this list.
I think that’s a very fair argument and you / your company should be commended for what you’re doing.

Really the criticism I have is of Wired magazine’s article, and not even the article so much as their promotion. On twitter and other places, you’ll see stuff from them like “how AI is preventing bombing raids”. That kind of attitude to generate readership I find recklessness and dangerous.

Again thank you for all your efforts.
I truly hope it works out well for you. My personal response:

* I don't know what is meant by "good" people; I'd choose a different term.

* My impression is recommendations from "famous" people, which don't interest me personally. Famous people aren't necessarily smart and unless a topic is in their specific domain, they have no more to contribute that the average person. (Personally, I find the idolization of famous people as 'smarter than thou' to be disturbing and unhealthy; they are no better than gits1225 and I'd like to see their recommendations too.)

* I would be very interested in seriously thought out recommendations by experts in their domains. For example, for a desk chair, I'd be interested in an anonymous chair designer's recommendation. For a history book, I'd be interested in an historian's recommendation. I'm not any more interested in a famous coder's recommendation for a chair or a history book than I am in any other coder's recommendation. (To be fair, some of the famous people are experts making recommendations in their domains.)
That's so much better than telling someone to look up a work in a dictionary to learn how to spell it.
I recommend Norvig's recommendations : )
I highly recommend the type annotations along with mypy for helping code readability in Python
Tutorial: Deploy TiDB Operator Locally Using Docker on Docker (DinD)
I think Australia has done this fairly well with their tiers of visitor visas: ETA, eVisa, stamped visa. From time to time countries jump tiers, like India moving from stamped visa to eVisa. Of course if your case is more complicated you might move down a tier too.
If you ask a person or a service to translate things that person can of course see these things.

If your connection to that service is not secured others may be able to intercept it. Chances are that it is though. Google Translate uses secure connections.
Just to add facts to my argument, here is a posting from today's Hacker News about how to prepare for a Javascript interview: https://github.com/IamManchanda/algorithms-javascript

Walk away.
General-purpose processors have to be secure while executing untrusted code, providing a large number of features, and providing good performance.

The secure enclave isn't subject to these constraints, allowing for more conservative design decisions.

You've found a privilege-escalation attack that can let sandboxed apps escape their sandbox? Still secure if the chip can't run apps in the first place. You've found a bug in the USB disk mode emulation code? Still secure if the chip doesn't have any USB code on it. You've found a bug in branch prediction? Still secure if your chip didn't use it. You've found a way to abuse the third party developers' debugging interface? Still secure if your chip provides no such interface...
Ask HN: As SDEs, how do you find new projects to do on your team?
I have recently joined a team of scientists where my job is to help them do their work efficiently. There's a lot of inefficiencies in what they do, but also a ton of external dependency. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around everything and struggling to understand what projects/solutions to come up with to solve their long term problems. Should I start with automating small redundant tasks? I fear that I will miss out the bigger picture that way. Do I be patient and let the ideas come to me naturally? I feel like the other SDEs on the team already have sort of "taken" the "big" obvious projects. I'm worried that I'll be unable to have my own impactful project and will be left doing small tasks.
1 night to build. 1 week to curate content.
The Gibson Vaughn series by Matthew FitzSimmons. It isn't purely cybercrime but the protagonist is a hacker. As a cybersec pro who runs bug bounty programs and red teams, I felt all of the tech was on point without taking away from the stories.
Great article. I want more, please... about you about Torch
Hi, I'm one of the engineers working on this project at Google. If the AI disconnects or starts to make bad control decisions, the local control system (which has veto power) kicks it out and takes over. We lose some efficiency when this happens, but the cooling system stays safe and operates in a mode that the human operators understand completely.
You're describing "fluent programming" ("it().shouldEqual(x)..."). Unfortunately it's not just unit testing frameworks where this nightmare exists. Plenty of production code abuses the builder pattern to have this "it's like reading English" stuff.
> with a FMV

What's a FMV? F*ck My Valuation?

/joke

I think it's a for fair market value?
There's a lot of SoC specific stuff moving over into the Arm Trusted Firmware that sits below the TZ kernel. The upstream ATF is BSD licensed, so while some chips have open source implementations, others might only exist as blobs.

It's possible to build out SoCs that require a closed-source blob that runs on one of the ARM cores, doing basically all the same jobs a PSP or ME does.
yeah just stream it like spotify and then charge a monthly fee. I'd throw my money at that.
This data is from my bookmarks.
Quick question, do you do much machine learning in your current job on complex and large datasets? I find that the people who claim that machine learning is not math heavy are not solving the actual hard ML problems. Ofcourse it will be easy if your problem maps well to some framework, where jamming your data into a model produces useful outputs, but theres plenty of problems where you cant do that, and the second that happens, you need to understand the algorithms. Its similar to using some javascript framework, where you can plug in solutions great, until you need to do something outside the framework.
Well, if it's not a proof, then it's not a proof, right? You see more interest and creativity than I do in the article here, and that's fine. But surely that doesn't affect the fact that the title's claim to have proved Napoleon was "the Best General Ever" is a) a gargantuan overstatement, and b) unhelpfully provocative. People would probably be more charitable to the article if it hadn't totally misrepresented itself in this way.
You are welcome : )
Decriminalization of drugs is not the only solution out there. See Singapore, Japan etc.
[1] links to the main Wikipedia page on the phenomenon as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_capture?oldformat=true
In the scenario described in the article, where was the bad engineering? It seems to me that the developers of each component (Chrome, OS, other processes) did things that, while perhaps not perfect, are quite reasonable, and definitely not exceptionally bad. Only together did they interact in this undesirable way.

This case isn't some web app that uses infinite memory; the contended resource is a lock.
I wouldn't. The computing power requirements are growing exponentially, and Intel is the biggest player with the most RnD money. Server CPUs are mostly Intel. Laptop CPUs are mostly Intel. Desktop CPUs are mostly Intel.
I appreciate the tip and I did consider it, but chose not to.
Casey always makes interesting points about modern computing and I tend to agree with a lot of what he says. Unfortunately he has a bad habit of insulting people on public platforms. Windows aggravates me as much as the next person but then he'll go off on Twitter asking if Microsoft is run by babies in diapers or whatever. Pretty sure he's also called web developers incompetent idiots more than once too.

It's one thing to say in that private out of frustration but in public all you'll do is just alienate the side you're trying to appeal to and they'll carry on doing what they do.

Edit: typos.
Ian Goodfellow's Skill Rating for Generative Models
Look at the number of people you can potentially communicate with, and there will be a visible increase in complexity. 5000 years ago it would max out at a few thousand even if you were one of the rare people living in major cities. Now you could instantly communicate with billions and have to take active counter-measures to prevent the ones you don't want to communicate with from doing it.
How to Monitor Your Database Servers Using ClusterControl CLI
Are you not at all aware of the depression and similar disorders and how prevalent they are in general population? Honestly, I think that majority of people around me never learned to love themselves.
First New Era Proposal for the Mokens Project
The argument of how few Spaniards fought in Tenochtitlan has been used in both sides.

Here in Mexico is common for pro-native and anti-hispanic proponents to try to picture the evil few Europeans who got advantage of their technology against the innocent Aztecs. But they usually fail to mention that Tlaxcala and a lot of other native kingdoms joined the Spaniards against the Aztec empire that dominated Central Mexico, it's easier to picture a war between Native vs Invaders, but that doesn't mean it's correct.

For some proponents Europeans were the good ones, for some other they were the evil ones. Evil vs good is easier to picture than trying to understand the whole story with its gray areas.
The Lasting Influence of Bruce Lee's 'Enter the Dragon,' Which Turns 45
And the Great 78 Project is preserving 78 RPM records. http://great78.archive.org/ There are over 100,000 recordings available to stream online now. https://archive.org/details/78rpm (This collection also includes the Cylinder Archive for some reason.) The ones from George Blood are ripped 4 times at once with four tone arms with different needles, then each of the four gets equalized by a sound engineer and one is picked as the best. All 8 copies are uploaded to the Internet Archive. http://great78.archive.org/preservation/
Maybe it was toxic programmers, there is nothing as dangerous as "experienced folks" who say it can't be done and are very pessimistic.
I'm working on it. Would love to get feedback once I build the feature. I checked your profile but couldn't find an email to contact you.
While Kryo used to be fully custom, lately it's been based off of the Cortex designs. I'm not just talking about the low end SoCs, but even their high end stuff. Anandtech usually has details on this.
Yes, I think it’s largely thanks to Tesla that conventional automakers are finally starting to create EVs that aren’t bizarre space bug things and have a reasonable range.

Tesla is still lightyears ahead in terms of charging stations, though, which is mind boggling — charging infrastructure is easily the biggest bottleneck in mass EV adoption at this point, yet the traditional automakers are doing jack shit about it. They could be setting up a brand new market for themselves, but instead they’re willingly handing this advantage to Tesla. It makes no sense.
President Trump asks SEC to study abolishing quarterly earnings reports
I’ve only ever had a small number of lucid-like experiences. I only remember my dreams 4-5 times a month, but those few lucid experiences were wonderful.

If anyone has any advice that’s worked for them on stimulating (lucid) dreaming, I would love to hear it.
This is what burnout looks like. At some point you just hit a wall.
I know its only a few minutes since the change, but the contributions page still shows 50%. Edge Caching?
i'd hardly consider not paying $2k for 2k sq ft in Midtown "being priced out." the term is "market demand."
Visualizing Toxicity in Twitter Conversations
If anyone is interested in the baseball WAR categorization buckets..

Scrub	0-1 WAR

Role Player	1-2 WAR

Solid Starter	2-3 WAR

Good Player	3-4 WAR

All-Star	4-5 WAR

Superstar	5-6 WAR

MVP	6+ WAR

There are 162 games in a baseball season, how many a player contributes to may vary based on player condition or other life circumstances.
Interesting for a dist focused on resource constraints to be using the new/shiny instead of old and small.

Perhaps W is more efficient?

> Q: Why are you switching to Wayland?
A: The X implementation is old and won’t be updated to address the way desktop Linux is used today. Window managers are an afterthought, and many things aren’t implemented correctly. Wayland is a modern take on the Linux display system.

Would have liked if this was expanded on a bit. Using X on 18.04 now and while not perfect (in the security area) nothing else about it is currently holding me back.
It is because on twitter, your favorite tech person can mostly tweet boring tech stuff, but will be unable to resist, like the rest of us on twitter, retweeting the inflammatory extremist tweets when they show up in their own feed.

I am more and more convinced that one of the root issues with the current state of Twitter is the retweet button. So easy to spread misinformation when you can act on impulse.
Providing the negative helps assist in knowing where my $5 won’t go.

Asking what colour to paint a room and someone says “Not Purple” means you now know that purple is the only colour that is objectionable.

So my answer was valid.
Yes, write a dapp for the Ethereum blockchain. That is very different and is the future.

The Mokens project needs more dapps written for mokens, which are general purpose non-fungible tokens and cryptocollectibles from the Mokens contract.

More information here: https://github.com/Mokens/MIPs/blob/master/MIPS/mip-2-Goals-...

Join the Mokens discord or send me an email nick@perfectabstractions.com
Right, it's up to 6 months at the officer's discretion.

Unfortunately statistics are not in your favor; visiting your girlfriend has a much higher chance of overstay than a regular tourist, in such cases if you can present proof that you're returning for good after a certain time that might help.

For more detailed discussion see: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/61825/is-it-a-goo....
Still I can't get over how, none of this took off until Tesla got in the news.

And the stats I read show the Tesla model S leading the Leaf?
A recent example of that from 2016, when a large stretch of the Great Wall was paved over flat with concrete, in what was claimed to be an act of restoration:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/world/asia/china-great-wa...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37442276
Thanks for the feedback. I'll see how I can make it obvious.
Putting someone in jail because they won't provide a password to a partition that might exist is truly beyond the pale. If that happens we have completely discarded the notion of presumption of innocence.
I'm having a hard time finding details on nevada.

is it in here ? not finding it with a few quick keywords or under exemptions.

https://nevadataxpayers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/prope...
In that case maybe make them smile.amazon.com links so some proceeds go to charity?
It's written like it's APL (I think? iirc k is an APL-style language), so it actually makes some sense. To the way that the authors actually write code, I think it's perfectly legible, just not to outsiders.
I tried this for http://wanderkind.org/ and IMO it ended up being more than helpful.

Affiliation only seems worth it if you have a lot of traffic. Even then, maybe not--unless you're making serious money, I'd rather build genuine trust.
One thing that struck me from Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep was him finishing up the section on lucid dreaming stating people don't know if lucid dreaming is bad, good, or irrelevant when it comes to affecting REM sleep's normal function. I never thought it might have some sort of negative cognitive effects, but I certainly now would be hesitant to try to induce it chemically.
https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/
Twitter's getting it with both guns from both sides because Twitter is attempting to operate in American culture, which is currently in the middle of a civil war.
Why? I moved from a MacPro to a MacBook because I travel to much and I did not want the extra weight. If there is something that I need to do that is CPU intensive I can just ssh to my works racks and racks of build servers and let them do the work. Laptops today for most people are nothing more then email, web, and presentation & documentation machines. Given the ability to punt the hard stuff to the cloud or remote access to your corporate systems if you are a dev, battery life, screen resolution and weight seems to be the largest driving factor in design. Also to be fair some of the benchmarks for the last Apple ARM based CPU have it beating the Intels in a few task. It is important to realize not everyone has your particular set of needs. Apple is after all a mass market company and will focus on the largest set of users.
Effort to develop unleaded aviation gasoline stalls
Google said to be releasing its own smart display this year
> I'm no special snowflake and I am definitely not a White male and I can say with almost certainty that I haven't been discriminated against in all of the many interviews I've had. I know because I've always gone through recruiters, my resume never went down a "black hole", and my success rate from being submitted to a job to not being rejected (I've taken myself out of the running after getting an offer is high). I'm also not in Silicon Valley.

Sounds like you've had good luck, but you're saying you know it hasn't happened to you because of documented social phenomena in the industry.

> What training does the company need to provide software developers? All the training I've needed I taught myself. It was for my benefit.

If you have untempered interest in your profession, there's likely some overlap in who benefits from your training, but largely I think it makes more sense to consider your _employer_ to be the main benefactor of your skills, not you. After all, when you're hired you don't have agency to change the direction of the product with the other workers, you don't have total control over your working environment, the technologies you choose, your schedule, etc. You may have input into these things, but in a legal sense your employer is the arbiter of these conditions, and ultimately you develop skills not simply to build the things you like, but to make yourself marketable to people who set the terms for your ability to earn a living.
Let me introduce you to one the best sites from pre 2000 internet: http://www.easylife.org/fufme/
This belongs to a series of blog posts [0] by Nate Cull. He subtitled it: "An attempt at rethinking computation. Periodically updated." A refreshing read.

[0] http://natecull.org/wordpress/dataspace/
Every moderately complex SoC will have something like ME or PSP. The most recent big boy ARM SoC that I can think of without something like that was the iMX6. Even SiFive's newer U54-MC RISC-V SoC has a little "monitor core".

SoC power management, system bringup, and maintenance tasks are complicated enough these days to warrant a full small core tacked onto the side. These cores are necessary, and aren't going away. Complaining about them being there is just pissing into the wind. Complain about what they're used for and the closed source nature of their code.
And then in D it's built-in to the compiler so it's a 1 liner of sorts:

unittest { ... }

and they all run during compilation.

https://dlang.org/spec/unittest.html
A lot of the lack of old art in china is due to the "destruction of the four olds."
Thanks for bringing up one of my favorite authors, but Jane Austen should be used with caution.

1.) Generally speaking her novels focus on the direct experience of family and friends. She's cutting on issues like the hypocrisy of the clergy and the indolence of the landed gentry. Issues from society at large like the emergence of the English middle class intrude only implicitly. In fact she's commonly criticized for her narrow view. [0]

2.) Within those bounds there's a sizable military presence in both 'Pride and Prejudice' (soldiers at Meryton, Brighton, and elsewhere) as well as 'Persuasion', where many of the main characters are drawn from the English Navy and spent much of their life at sea.

I can't prove it but have long suspected the characters would have been quite different had they been published 15 years before or after. Within the scope of her concerns the society she portrays seems quite militarized.

[0] http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/a...
That is a lovely idea. Let me sit on the suggestion.
I was about the point this out!
At the end of the day, unit testing is just contract assertions, and contract assertions are usually conditions! But actually this isn't really the crux of unit testing, the value of unit testing is to iterate and refactor your program for a more predictable and bug-free application, not just writing a bunch of conditions.
not enough fiction recommendations :)
Love this, cheers!

For some reason, the design of this is very sweetly nostalgic to me--reminds me of the web from 10y ago (in a good way!).

Web fonts and accessibility concerns with small font size have made good ol 13px Helvetica with blue links on white bg rare.
Sorry for turning this comment thread into an AMA but I have a question for you as the author :)

Reading over this page https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/blob/master/doc/model... gives me the impression that you’re reproducing some of Git’s functionality. Can you elaborate on why Git’s merge model is insufficient and why the “Operation/OperationPack” serves the distributed-edits problem better than Git itself? Or alternatively, explain what I’m missing about how this doesn’t step on Git’s toes? Congrats on building this and shipping it!
They aren't 'necessary'. You can completely disable the ME and have a usable system. Maybe you are confusing it with the PCH?
1) It's encrypted, but most of everything has a vulnerability somewhere

2) This is a great question, of the kind more people should regularly be asking

3) Don't stop!