skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like fun, you should probably look at Jupyter or Spark as a system to manage the data transformations and that allows team members to create and share scripts and workbooks.

Develop the ETL process so that it just pulls data and writes it to your team's ideal form as flat files, then write another process that pushes that data where and how you want it (because that can change in six months), also develop automated processes for measuring/ensuring the quality of data being added to your system.
Supply Chain Security Is the Whole Enchilada, but Who’s Willing to Pay for It?
> Go also has problems forking since it has a multi-threaded runtime. It only exposes os.ForkExec(), not os.Fork() and os.Execv().

true, and this is causing lots of headache for those who want to implement concurrent snapshotting using fork in Go.
Before I saw the article, I was thinking they were going to talk about SHRIMP[0] (SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms)

It's the upcoming DARPA Challenge for design improvements in insect-scale robotics. This includes miniature actuators, efficient and extremely compact high voltage DC-to-DC power converters to drive those small actuators with large forces, denser batteries, then putting everything together in autonomous systems.

[0] https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/SHRIMP_Proposers_Day_DIST_...
Yes !

I got a job in London/UK and hired a person for my team in Vancouver/CA (one of the best hires I've ever made.)
Samsung iphone
Samsung iPhone are cheap pieces of shit. They will break down on you for no reason. These cheap things will break easily.
We haven't really colonized Antarctica either, but there's been a permanent human presence there since the 1940s or 1950s.

Similarly, I don't know if it makes sense to colonize Mars, but I think it makes absolute sense to have permanent bases there. With a human presence on Mars we will learn things about that planet in years that will otherwise take many decades through robotic exploration.
> editors of the journals found perfectly reasonable something that was ridiculous and absurd by construction

I understand your point, but my argument here is that the hoax papers cannot reasonably be called "absurd by construction". The authors started out with that goal, but their initial papers apparently all got rejected so they iteratively toned down the absurdity until the papers got published. That's effectively "publishable by construction", isn't it?
“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." - G. K. Chesterton
I had to pause to think of a reason to use a whole library for a "no-op", thinking this might be some left_pad shenanigans infiltrating the c++ world.
So basically it's separation of concerns, but for people.
Since when does news make healthy margins? Its more like BuzzFeed News is there to provide a thin veneer of respectability to BuzzFeed.
They actually have a fairly active Slack [1] with a job posts channel, as well as a Job Board [2] on their main site.

[1] http://slack.writethedocs.org/
[2] https://jobs.writethedocs.org/
As I referred to in the original thread, this is a commonplace construction method.
> My guess is that Elemental was specifically targeted because the cost of doing so would be pretty small and with nearly a 100% chance of success. Back in 2015, Elemental was nearly guaranteed to be acquired by one of the greats (Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.) because they had grown too large to be acquired by smaller companies but were also unlikely to go public on their own. The company was doing very well, plus they had government clients.

I don't think the acquisition potential had anything to do with it being a good target. It was all about the government clients.

I could see the acquisition potential as actually being a downside. Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. have histories of acquiring companies just to withdraw their products from the market.
So redesign your software to allow storing the results of initialization code having run, configuration files having been parsed, global variables having been set up, and so forth in a loadable library (or in some other mmappable file).

Emacs works this way, because it has a lot of Lisp code to load in and compile and doesn't have a central daemon (and even if it did, it would want to avoid recompiling the code when the computer is rebooted.) The compiled C binary "temacs" is instructed to load and evaluate a bunch of Lisp and then more-or-less coredump itself in an orderly way to a binary called "emacs"; when that binary is run, everything is in memory as if you had forked temacs after initialization. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu...

For your average server process reading config files, it probably suffices to have a "compiled" form of the config files in Cap'n Proto or some similar format that is directly usable as in-memory structures, and mmap that in. (Or perhaps just actual native data structures, if the format doesn't need to have a stable representation across versions of your software.)
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Wow the amount of "blind trust and no check" is staggering in the whole chain.
This is just stupid. Why would you ever want to completely remove the driving experience? It should be so that I can drive when I want to, and let go when I don't want to.
You can't take the code as-is and turn it into proprietary code. You need to build a derivative work that contains the permissive code plus some other proprietary stuff.
Apple's valuation is >$1 trillion. Is that big enough?
The only thing I've found close to what I'm looking for is WSLtty. You can't even get proper mouse support in Windows Console or Nerd Fonts:

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

> Note: These both work fine with WSLtty
> The nurse thought it was strange, but ultimately trusted the dispensing system that said everything was correct.

How sad.

This does lead me to wonder if said nurse, and other nurses, are properly trained to think for themselves.

> Poison control was called, but it didn't seem like they were able to give a clear treatment advice.

It gets worse... how come they weren't able to? Poor training? By-the-book training?

Shit like this doesn't inspire confidence in me that the medical system is even functioning properly, half of the time.
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This is as stupid as saying Xinhua/Caixin have anonymous sources with solid evidence showing Trump is from Mars.
I wonder how common this is?

And to think that many are led to believe that the medical system is filled with "professionals" who know what they're doing.

I see enough people just blinding trusting the "experts", because they must be right, because they were trained by a university/college for many years.

Maybe I'm ranting, but I'm sick of blind faith in a system demonstrated more often than not, to be broken in various ways.
It may be possible with Thunderbird and Maildir. There is an issue: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/38412/read-and-edi...
With the “singularity” just around the corner robots will surpass humans as explorers by the time it’s decided to set up a base on Mars.
wow, just a 3 pin chip? I agree, that is fairly limiting.
We need a Matt Levine write-up.
Bloomberg's reputation about take a big hit
In case anyone's interested, I wrote a piece on the Monero miner plus a couple of other 'miners' over here:

https://wpplugincheck.com/articles/we-tested-3-mining-plugin...

In my opinion, these things are way better than ads.
With respect, I am curious why this is off-topic?

It's evidence that US intelligence community sources can be unreliable. That's directly related to this story because Bloomberg claims that many of their sources are from that community.
> I don’t really want to spend the rest of the month explaining the n word, among others, to my kids

Who are you hoping will explain it to them, or are you intending for them to never hear it?
Hmmmm. This assuages my annoyance, thankfully.
From the article: "General Motors has embraced DSRC [wi-fi], and it’s already a standard safety feature on Cadillac CTS sedans. Toyota and Volkswagen have also committed to make DSRC systems standard equipment on new cars beginning next year. On the other side are brands, including Ford, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, that have joined the chip maker Qualcomm, cellular providers and others to form the 5G Automotive Association, which is pushing the C-V2X standard."

DSRC is pretty cool. It transmits your position, as well as velocity and acceleration vectors, 10 times per second to any receiver within about 1000 meters. Hopefully, some kind of differential GPS infrastructure could give position accuracy to 10cm or so. See "Basic Safety Message" https://www.its.dot.gov/itspac/october2012/PDF/data_availabi...
In most countries in the world either nowadays or in historical perspective it would be unimaginable that there would be a dialog between different cluster of powers. They'd just try to destroy each other no matter what.
That seems to be one of the points of differentiation then.

It says right on the landing page "no personal guarantee": https://brex.com/

That sounds pretty compelling to me to be honest. Creating a business entity to limit your liabilities only to then put your personal credit history on the line for business spending seems pretty dumb now that I think about it.

If it's not tied to personal credit, that might also mean it'd be easier for international founders who don't have a credit history in the US.
We formally learned about slavery in elementary school. The teacher wrote "nigger" on the board and said we couldn't speak the word. Eventually, your kids will learn the word, but it won't be from you. It'll be from their asshole friend that dares them to say it to someone. Smart kids can handle more than we give them credit for.
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Who cares about deniability or skepticism in an apocalyptic scenario as described? Do you really think cool heads would prevail if China was put in a such a situation? Chaos, and desperate people would be the result, with a nuclear arsenal in the mix. And they would, most likely, blame whoever they want, proofs and rationality be damned.

Keep in mind, I don't deny that the military can find uses for what the article describes. But, to go from this, to deliberately provoking WW3 by massively launching such a weapon on China is suicide. It would provoke a counter-attack, guaranteed, no matter the political arguments.

Plausible deniability is fine when the targeted countries can't counter-attack, or the matter is relatively minor. But, directly against China and with world-ending repercussions? No way.
Faaaaantastic. I've been bootstrapping Alpine on top of Debian for a while now.
The problem with your arguments throughout this thread is simple: if a rebuttal is clearly engineered to be deceptive, the courts will not regard it as a valid defense in any subsequent lawsuits from shareholders and customers. That's why rebuttals and denials are normally so vague.

Courts have surprisingly little tolerance for companies who think they're being more clever than their customers, their shareholders, or, for that matter, the judge.
The first part of the comment is useful info. The second is pretty useless. There is zero need for this to turn into vim vs. emacs which is what everyone of these threads seems to turn into lately.
Man makes robot that explodes when someone subscribes to his YouTube
That's surprising. I was under the impression that it was already supported since they support WebM.

The Wikipedia article [0] says they started evaluating adding support in 2016. Following the source links to this bug report [1]. From a quick glance at the discussion there, it's not obvious to me that they've settled on adding in WebP support.

What we need is buy-in from Apple. Although I'd be much more excited about them adding WebM support so we can finally drive the last nail in the GIF coffin. Does anyone know why they pulled it out? If I had to take a shot in the dark, maybe it doesn't perform well on mobile or it consumes too much power?

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why will we be supporting both WebM and animated WebP? According to the Wikipedia article, WebP also has animation support.... But isn't that kinda redundant? Do they solve different problems? You can just create WebM containers without an audio stream.

While we're on the subject of adding new image formats to the web, does anyone know if there's any interest in adding FLIF support [2]? When it came out it seemed much more interesting to me, but it looks like it never picked up steam.

As an aside, can I just say fuck CNET? Here they used a shitty linking practice which I always find incredibly annoying. Instead of linking to primary sources, they add some useless tag links along with references to old CNET articles. How about linking to the relevant bug reports, asshole?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Image_Format
Then you can use iTunes to back up locally. Not seeing the issue beyond you dislike Apple.
...which does not imply being optimal at every single level of analysis.
How do you know they won't?

The story broke yesterday, I think it takes a bit longer than that for a competent legal team to even decide whether to sue.
You can still advertise without taking an ad out in the New York Times, and this post is clearly advertising.
I used to work for a financial services company. Their main product was a 30 year old cobol program used by many large banks.

Some of them would use our software to print various reports and then manually enter those printed values in to excel.

Even worse, the software could export to a format excel could process so it wasn't necessary in the first place.

Don't expect to be disrupting banking anytime soon though. Banks are incredibly risk averse, especially when it comes to messing with expensive legacy software that has been working for decades.

At one point, one of the company's customers did an investigation to see how much it would cost to replace the software, and it was close to 9 figures, and so they decided it was more cost effective just to continue paying the multi-million dollar yearly licenses.
You’ve got to realize how much entropy we are creating on the planet we live on just to survive. We cannot afford that on a spaceship, or even on a small artificial planet. (Natural planets are a little better in that regard, but not a lot, considering what is “available”.)
They also pay far less than ads. Also, let us not fool ourselves here, we are blocking both ads and miners.
Strange to cave so late in the game with AVIF right around the corner. This article really doesn't explain why.
Do you spot the problem?

I saw it right away. That said, I agree with the article that the UI is horrible. It (and many other elements of this story) remind me of interacting with Enterprise software, although in that case people usually aren't in mortal danger because of it.

I probably noticed it more because I saw the first screenshot with a "5" in the same box and thus "160" looks surprising, but even without that first screenshot I would probably have noticed --- the "mg/kg of trimetho" with a search(?) button doesn't make sense. Why would you want to search for that phrase, and why is it cut off like that? Another sign of "Enterpriseness": the two buttons next to it, presumably to set standard doses, have huge amounts of empty space surrounding them, while the inexplicable "search box" is too small to contain its expected contents.

Of course, it could leave the unit [mg versus mg/kg] box blank [...] but few systems do that because of the large number of additional clicks it would generate

That makes no sense. As any science teacher (or at least the good ones) will make it known very very clearly, units are important! I can remember a few incidents[1][2] that occurred because of units confusion.

Had Lucca noticed it, she could have changed it to “mg” with two clicks

Two clicks? Just looking at it, this UI is not obvious at all to me how to even change the units. Do you type in "mg of trimetho..." in the "search box"? After thinking about this for a tiny bit, my proposal would be either radio buttons for each unit, with no default, or two text boxes, one labelled "mg" and the other "mg/kg", where editing one instantly updates the other.

We also needed to address another problem that is not limited to healthcare: overtrust in the technology

Or more generally, a lack of thinking; people who are taught to follow procedures or "best practices" for the "best results" are only going to follow them unquestionably. It's unfortunate that a lot of the time the management above only points to a lack of procedure when it's actually this "overproceduring" which can cause such errors --- the incident where NASA's satellite fell over[3] is one example of this. No one thought to even take a look to see if they had secured it, everyone was too busy executing lists of instructions. If they weren't, and just given a general description of what they needed to accomplish, I'd be pretty sure they would at least check the mounting before trying to turn it on its side.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA-19#Damage_during_manufact...
Off the top of my head, all Android One phones, Nokia, and Blackberry.
> I've never understood the need for noun genders

What a peculiar comment. It's like saying, what's the use of termites? No, seriously, why _do_ we have termites? Do we really need termites?
Also, use of named cells and ranges. Names make formulas much more readable!
And if they did admit it, it would immediately cause a panic and stock drop.
Not once have we ever seen a tiny grain of sand sized malicious chip on the motherboards we bought that I've seen in the racks I inspected in the datacenters I had access to!
It seems to be limited to ext3/4... don’t think it’d be possible to get a native obsd install going on thse.
That would be as good as telling the truth. If you're serious about lying, that would be obviously stupid.
Weird, I've never seen clone(2) used before
I should probably also have noted libraries, frameworks or standards such as:

- ISO:9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, annex structure, etc.

- IT Service: ITIL

- Project: PMBOK, PRINCE2

- Management & Org: EOS (https://www.eosworldwide.com/australia)

- Manifestos: Agile et al.

- Strategy frameworks / tools: https://hbr.org/2015/06/navigating-the-dozens-of-different-s...

- Specific functions: Unofficial guides such as https://www.businessclan.com/gdpr/

- ERPs and platforms: Many companies such as ServiceNow, Hubspot, ConnectWise, Workday etc. are arguably standardising industry practices more than standards and frameworks.

All of the above - to some extent - can be seen as frameworks or libraries that suggest functions and structure best practices.
However - as argued in the previous comment, none of these are a comprehensive framework across all business operations, nor even a complete turnkey solution for a single function.
Also, Excel is installed everywhere by default & not blocked by IT. Try getting approval to use Anaconda...
> The idea of having pride in the South has for a long time generally been associated with whiteness. “Southern pride” conjures images of Confederate flags and a longing for a time when the states below the Mason-Dixon could own black people. But what about black Southerners? What do we have pride in? Growing up in Mississippi, I didn’t find any pride in my elementary school named after Jefferson Davis. I didn’t find pride in the Dixie flag fluttering above my head every time I drove through downtown Jackson.

Growing up white in Atlanta I am so grateful for a southern pride orthogonal and antithetical to hateful slavery dominated, white "Southern pride". I'd still have pride in Atlanta without Outkast, but they really gave Atlanta and the south in general a new voice.
At a super aggregate level, ignoring local disparity: If the stock market is doing 15% per year, then the real economy (or perception of the present value of the future real economy) is doing 15% too, so capital appreciation of real estate, given linking to the real economy, should also be doing 15%. Yield over maintenance on top of that is a bonus and could best be compared to dividends. Property also tends not to be eroded by new entrants (private, VC) unlike the stock market, so could be seen as even more favourable.
Unity / Unreal (which can be quite accessible for projects that constrain themselves to built in features & asset store components)
This is the only article I could find doing a quick search:

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/microsoft-using-linux-run-clou...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-showcases-t...

However, I could have swore I read semi-recently that Azure itself was primarily running on Linux, but I could be wrong here in some regards.
I don’t know what that means, can you elaborate?
Malaria is the reason settler colonialism failed in Africa. If you remove malaria, Africa will be inevitably invaded by colonial settlers.
There’s an easy way for Bloomberg to prove, or least provide a great deal of support for, their story. Show us an affected motherboard. If this problem was so widespread and they have so many well-informed sources, surely that shouldn’t be difficult.
so all experts are tested on insanely tough excel tests before being allowed to join the platform. And their explanations are audited on ongoing basis. So.. we think it nails it!
> This is as stupid as saying Xinhua/Caixin have anonymous sources with solid evidence showing Trump is from Mars.

That tone is pretty uncalled for. The Bloomberg story may or may not be completely accurate, but it's fairly detailed and plausible. While you may categorically distrust anonymous sources, it's not stupid to think they may sometimes be right and that you can trust reputable journalists to vet what they say a fair amount of the time.

This story is still young. I wonder what other news organizations can find out about it (beyond the press release responses).
One powerful use of Excel is through Apache POI. Replace VB with the language of your choice, run all your logic and tests in that language, and spit out a spreadsheet at the end of it, all neatly formatted for your end users.
As someone who finds himself called upon to operate in a lot of situations where Microsoft products are called for---I do wish the unix philosophy would have taken hold in business software.

Excel genuinely is very hard to use. As is Word, as is Photoshop/Illustrator, etc. Personally, I find those problems substantially more difficult than ordinary programming. Because you have a substantial fraction of the horsepower of an ordinary programming language, but hidden behind a forest of menus and semi-incomprehensible icons and weird terminology and poor documentation.

At least with word processing we have the capacity to strip it down to something resembling the unix philosophy, thanks to toolchains like markdown + pandoc. But for spreadsheets, what is there that's lighter than excel?
Corporations already have significant control over agriculture, especially seeds.
that and the schools proxy :)

I remember finding some unquota'd directories on some non-default but open system shares on the school district's NAS and we would put some shooter games on it and play it after school.

I got caught for that eventually and banned from the computers for 6 weeks or so.

Also, one time in elementary school I did a netsend that popped a dialog on every computer in the district :)