skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big privacy and open source advocate. I spent a while searching for an open source solution that lets me be in control of where the data is hosted and who can access that but I found nothing close to what strava and others offer.

Other proprietary services collect all your data use it however they want https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-fitbits-150-billion...

This project aims to give you the same features and convenience as the proprietary services but gives you back the control of your own data by letting you self host as well as read and improve the code.
You can encrypt files on a public server, but if you don't hide the keys, then those files might as well be plain text.

Data breaches of personal information are becoming increasingly common and it's important for companies to state that security is a priority when it comes to cloud storage.
Great points, but don't lose the trees in the forest: This isn't about efficiency, it's about convenience. Fueling a car for 400miles in 2m is acceptable at 16% efficiency if the energy wasted is "free". That's not possible with battery technology.
That's awesome! Smart AND humble. Hats off to Ms. Strickland.

Edit: I assume a less humble person would have pushed to get their page long before getting a Nobel prize.
Yes, you are basically an 'unusual athlete', at least in this regard. Going along at top speed or riding up a steep hill takes effort and the last thing on most people's minds is their facial expression - so they might assume an expression that allows easy breathing or possibly tense all their facial muscles.
Huh? Because you want to see/interact with what's on the screen approximately 100% of the time when browsing, but a tiny percentage of the time (only when something's broken) when booting.
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I think this is exactly what happened with physical attractiveness in the TV era. Suddenly we are bombarded with images of the most beautiful people in the world, and everyone had become much more insecure about their looks ever since.
Not true. You'd be about halfway up in any other forum, but this is hacker news--where we're not supposed to talk politics... unless it's the kind of politics they want us to talk about--like net neutrality or antitrust or some other intersection of nerds and money.
One post per company, please. This is in the rules at the top.
Interesting to note:

"The U.S Bureau of the Census has the annual real median personal income at $31,099 in 2016."

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
My comment was essentially about market economics, so whether Microsoft had access to specific hardware and chose to develop for it or not is only half the equation, which is hinted at by your recollection of what Gates said.

If he thought he couldn't make any money implementing it, that means he didn't think there was a market for it that would return the investment. I think it's entirely possible he created that market by driving adoption until the point where that feature it could be supported.

The question can essentially be flipped, and you can ask why Intel didn't create the hardware with those features initially. The answer is likely that it would have taken more research (if it didn't already exist in much more expensive processors) and would have driven the cost of the processors to the point of not being worthwhile. Is Intel then responsible for setting the industry back by years, because they didn't market a processor they likely could if they took longer and/or charged more?
Assuming this pans out, is there anything left but WIMPs?
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Wait, are they trying to say that minimum wage was $8.54 in 1968? I remember it being $4.25 when I was a kid in the 80’s.
I have often had the same thought.

I feel like people's identity is being lost in a sea of brilliance. As soon as you pick up a guitar you are comparing yourself to the best in the world on youtube.

I sometimes yearn my schooldays, safe in the knowledge that I was the best at math and that it didn't matter that I couldn't play football.
Right, but that is not what is happening here. Other people are still working full time to provide the things he needs; food, energy, entertainment, etc.

In return, he is giving the output of something he worked a few weeks on.

In your example, it would be like the son invented a machine to do HIS chores for him, but then sat around while the rest of the family still did their work
Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Verno...
> Hard work combined with personal agency leads to success.

Unless you get hit by a truck. Or unless you have a stroke. Or unless you are otherwise unlucky.

Because we do not live in a just world.
Getting into running sums it up for me on a personal level.

When I ran my first marathon, I was the only person in my close friends and family that had ever ran one. Just running one was exceptional. At that point, you feel proud to be the runner people know personally but there's not a lot to talk about in depth.

Then I got faster. I qualified for the Boston Marathon. My times put put me in the top 1-2% of anyone running them. This is a running goal that more "serious" runners associate with, at least. It's still bit broad, but it's relatable.

Then I went longer. I ended up outright winning an ultramarathon as well as some other top finishes. In the region of the US I lived, there wasn't too many people doing exceptionally better at those kind of events. The community was small and inclusive enough where I felt like I fit in somewhat.

Then I moved to Colorado. There are lots of professional and competitive runners. I realized I wasn't national class, but perhaps competitive locally. Again, I fit in with a small group of people.

Then finally, I found some popular running message boards that focus on all types of running, but with a large emphasis on the world class. Everything I have done is dime a dozen in this realm. There is a very large "community" - but it comes with lots of negativity, jealousy, and gawking at world class athletes.

There's a couple sweet spots in there where I feel a decent combination of achievement and community, but comparing myself to the whole world (and all of history) doesn't seem to do it for me.
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What's Next for Apple (2005)
So it's a back door. And a hamfisted one at that.

It's not a coding error. It's built to do exactly what it looks like it's supposed to do: diminish any ordinary person's claim of total control over the behavior of the system, such that, should the need arise, a trained hand can lift the proper latch and intervene, to gain the upper hand, ostensibly so "the good guys" win.

The good guys being those that ordered Intel into compliance with such requirements.
> but this is hacker news--where we're not supposed to talk politics... unless it's the kind of politics they want us to talk about

But this isn't politics. This is the societal reality of the home of tech industry. There are many people around the world who are blown away by the stories of Silicon Valley.

When we share stories of SV parties, VCs, lifestyle, homelessness, then why not about life and reality here? At the very least, it is informative to people who are uprooting their families and lives in other countries.
Unless rent, transportation and groceries all go up by the same amount so nobody can live on $30k/year any more...
And now they don't have an on-prem solution. Very upsetting.
Wow I love the idea and how the landing page suggests options on what you might like.

I appreciate good system architecture and this looks like a great way to convey that information.

This is the current way I convey architecture diagrams
https://old.benwinding.com/but-how/?
Had something similar happen with a skype account. Skype's answer was to open a new account and move on.
No national swipes on HN, please. They lead to flamewars, and it's easy to make your substantive point without them.

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Wow, dang. Wow.
I run Arch. If I blink I am already at the shell login. This is only a concern when your os is slow.
I came across an old Dow Chemical Company ad of chemists in a lab from the 1950’s a few weeks ago.

Narrator: “As you can see, no geniuses here, just hardworking average Americans”

Hearing that made me sad. I’m not sure why.
There's ao486 already [1] [2]. I seem to recall that there are a few corners where it's not 100% complete/compatible, but it's complete enough to boot Windows 95 and Linux (assuming a Linux distro with 486 support, now an endangered species), and run some classic DOS games/demos. It doesn't run at a speed equivalent to a "real" 486, at least on a cheap FPGA.

[1] https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2QcW6r3MlDThUnC8cA-r...
I found it easier to create a centralized graphql server that stitches together all of my rest services with resolvers. I define all of the types, resolvers, and mutations for each of the services in the central graphql gateway and it clients don't need to know where they get data from. Why wouldn't you just use this approach?
Please don't take HN into flamewars by re-fighting WWII. Of all things.

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You can use the `auth_request` module in NGINX to create a subrequest to an HTTP service that does authentication and/or dynamic routing.

The subrequest can return response headers that are available in `$upstream_http_*` variables, which can br used to dynamically route the original request.

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_request_module.h...
> ...to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years missed completely.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're doing something very wrong if you've lost track of $100,000s of payments.
Generally, that is what happens. A topic spontaneously becomes available for a Wikipedia article when a third-party source of sufficient notability comes into existence. This is a discontinuous process.

You say that the decision was "mistaken" as though Wikipedia and the Nobel committee pass judgements of the same nature. But the function of Wikipedia's editors is not to judge whether her scientific work constitutes an "outstanding contribution for humanity" (for which they are evidently ill-equipped), nor is it to judge whether there exist sources which would confer some level of notability on her. It is only to judge whether the particular sources presented confer some level of notability. Looking at the rejected article, the only references are to a paper she published and two biographies on the websites of organizations she belongs to. There is no evidence that "the person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources" (from "Notability (academics)").

Anyway, I don't see why an encyclopedia should presage notability in the first place. It works the other way around. Now that she has been awarded the Nobel and her impact is beyond all contention "demonstrated by independent reliable sources", she gets a Wikipedia article. That's how it's supposed to work isn't it?
There's a development notebook for segmentation on the Carvana dataset. https://github.com/fastai/fastai_docs/blob/master/dev_nb/006...

Most of the functions in there are pre defined in fastai so you can remove much of the code there in practice.

We'll be adding a proper segmentation example soon.
To add to the discussion, and your mention of boring assembly line work, a valuable quote (that occurs several hundreds of pages after the pin factory observation) from Smith's Wealth of Nations, written in 1776.

> The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding,or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

> The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life. Of the great extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging; and unless very particular pains have been taken to render him otherwise, he is equally incapable of defending his country in war.

> The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard with abhorrence the irregular, uncertain, and adventurous life of a soldier. It corrupts even the activity of his body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with vigour and perseverance, in any other employment than that to which he has been bred. His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense of his intellectual, social, and martial virtues. But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless the government takes some pains to prevent it.

Vehicle production lines are now heavy users of automation, and workers skilled not only in assembly, but in process improvement, scrum, lean. Not simply being manual workers is to Amazon's benefit, as it was to Ford for he recognised the impact an individual worker had on the end-to-end production; embodied in concepts like TPS, lean, six sigma, but with long histories.
China’s Electric Car Ambitions
One of the points under contention is the lower rate of citation of women in any field. Thus using number of citations is a sexist metric and amounts to little more than dick waving.
> By the time we managed to meet them again, there would be no reason to expect them to be like us.

Depending on technological advancements and how "hard" you want to consider your sci-fi or future science (purely based on likely developments of current technology, etc), how close to Earth conditions you want to assume the other planet was, how much you believe humans are still evolving, whether you think humans are likely to evolve along similar paths if segregated, whether we are considering mental models only or physical likeness...

So yes, no reason necessarily to expect them to be, but some small chance depending on a lot of factors lining up.

> This is a regular feature of Motie civilization in the series beginning with The Mote in God's Eye.

Yes, it's not an original trope. The rogue star explanation is one of the more feasible I've heard though.
I think the name could be a problem? Or is this related to ferret the c library with ruby bindings? https://github.com/dbalmain/ferret
Does this mean that black holes possibly might not even exist? Aren't there examples of them being directly observed?
> Why do we expect such mediocrity out of our software?

Experience
Nope. But it is really low hanging fruit. I really would hate to learn another set of commands.
Yep, literally written down: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes–Oxley_Act

If a corporate lawyer ever ambushes you with this, the best thing to do is ask instead how you can make your current process auditable, rather than tearing the org apart. If that doesn't work, start looking for a more innovative place to work!
Will a Billion Dollars Buy Europe Exascale Supecomputing Dominance?
My desert island side project is to develop a blockchain-based decentralized identity syndication system where you publish everything to your own personal API and then grant access to external parties, with telemetry, revocation, the whole 9 yards.

Basically the inverse of the Internet. The tech is straightforward, the user experience and the culture would need to get there.
A decent place to start reading: https://askubuntu.com/questions/453296/privacy-issue-when-wa...
The real golden paradigm shift here is that this treats web apps like apps, rather than web apps as some sort of hack on top of the web, instead of the natural evolution that has occurred.

If a web browser is for web pages on the world wide web, then maybe it's time to start considering that we need an app browser. Something more distinct than browsing the web for documents, and something that has first-class support for truly browsing for apps.

This seems to be the sell, and I find it very convincing to think about in this regard rather than some "glorified web browser." There is potential here, and I'd like to see this explored.

Does this open up the potential for a faster browsing experience? Perhaps there's a double win here. What if we move towards a world with web browsers reverting to their original nature; a document browser that explores just hypermedia, while tailoring app browsers to handle web applications specifically.

We essentially have this already in a crippled form on mobile devices with deep-linking.
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Thanks for the info. Have you worked at an Amazon warehouse?
To anyone here that's been through something similar, is there something I should make an offline note of now so I can restore access to my Gmail account later?
I'd never presume to critique your lived experience, but in my life and career away from core developer circles, the instincts required to recognize the potential for automation were just... not part of the conversation.

It's similar to how most people will complain about the traffic while a very small number of people will start companies to dig tunnels for maglev vehicles to travel on.

Now, I choose to believe (I'm a realistic optimist) that some of these instincts - to recognize patterns, to ask orthogonal questions, to pay attention to what others take for granted - can be acquired. It's less about training and more about practice. You can decide that you're going to learn how to ask good questions.

It's a conscious act, and that is key.

Anyhow, there's certainly skill and experience required to automate well. However, it's SHOCKING how many people learn to build simple systems in MS Access or Excel to solve their own problems.

They often don't even realize that they are programming.
Yes. We are extremely bad at managing distant threats.
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I imagine most would simply like to turn it on and get a prompt right away, like used to happen with a C64.

A ridiculous amount of modern products have gained a boot sequence that should not need one, and didn't used to. Hiding it doesn't fix the real issue.
I think this is Haskell's biggest disadvantage in industrial sized applications because it significantly complicates debugging and performance reasoning.

Laziness is, in my opinion, the wrong default.
I had to Google RPA. Never heard of any of those tools.

What I have heard of - and directly witnessed - is MS Access and MS Excel being used by non-developers to build surprisingly powerful tools to solve their most acute problems.

They often don't even realize that they are programming.
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> The traditional standard for being a great father is relatively modest. Earn enough to pay the bills, spend a non-zero amount of time with your children, show some modest level of interest in your children's lives, don't get drunk and hit your wife and kids. Simply being physically present and not being abusive gets you points as a dad.

Sort of. I definitely feel guilty about not spending enough time with my kids doing hobbies, imparting knowledge and skills, etc. I feel very selfish because I want my own time.

Then again, I feel that quite a lot of current children are coddled and over parented.

But how much of that is me rationalizing my own guilt, and how much is justified? I definitely don't do a lot of research on what parenting is best (partially because I'm not sure how trustworthy any of that is, but again, confirmation bias...).

Parental imposter syndrome is real too. :/
>I think this is basically what OSX has had forever.

And classic Mac.
First time I saw Windows 3.1.1 boot my jaw dropped. What an ugly hack. That’s what’s conquering the world? The monitor wouldn’t even turn itself on. Never mind having to manually eject a floppy after you just told the computer to do it for you.
NSA can't hire the hackers they want because they all smoke weed. China sends all their drug users to the execution van so all the new CS and security grads can go right to work for the govt.
AFAIR, "debugging", at least in java allowed you to set a "breakpoint" in codesearch, but essentially something magically was happening behind, where if the CPU goes through this line you've marked as breakpoint it'll remember the surroundings (like variables in that scope, etc).

Furthermore, one could declare (a bit like "live" coding) a one-liner (say in java) that would get called if that lines passes - so you can log something in better fashion, etc. But it had limitations.

First I didn't get it, then it sunk into me - once you have thousands of jobs - it's pointless to try and debug one of them (thousands, as in MapReduce thousands). Not that I've used the feature a lot, but tried it several times and worked fine.

It had nice integration with codesearch, where you can, given your "namespace" and "job" name, can set the codesearch to be "synced" to the CL it built your job + cherrypicks (I guess) - so the code you are looking is the code that your binary got compiled (another benefit of monolith depots, is that such things are easier there, or maybe it'll take a bit more work to get it working with multiple repos).

E.g. magic :)
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While not everyone on HN is a developer, it does tend to skew that way so I don't feel guilty pointing out how frustrating it is to measure the output of a top programmer.

Often, a mature codebase shrinks as code quality improves. This drives the efficiency wonks absolutely bonkers.