skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds pretty dubious to me. I'm fairly certain I read somewhere on the CDC website that needleless injections aren't any less painful than needles, and may even be more painful. If I recall correctly, the advantages are reusability (no need to toss a needle after each injection) and portability (no need to carry around a pile of needles). As a side effect, they may be helpful to people who fear needles.

I did a quick search and couldn't find any authoritative sources claiming that needleless injections hurt less.
Let’s count how many of js users did know about this “feature” before this thread (those who don’t understand what it “does” count too).

Anyone can point to where it is used?
> (super annoying)

Why would anyone store different laguage implementations in the same Git repo?
How about the faked photo of John Kerry speaking with Jane Fonda?
Oh, so now Evan Spiegel want to prioritize developing countries... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/17/snapchat-...
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. Is the statement just not correct? (seems right) Or does it vary significantly throughout the world?

Or is it down voted because people don't like the idea of their collected information being owned by the compiler?

There has to be a lot of grey in this space. Can someone clarify?
Fixing javascript with hardware? Its not exactly genius but it seems worth it.

Only Apple had the #courage.
As someone who prefers TeX- i'd say the comparison goes this way(very roughly)-

TeX:

* Assembly language or C of typesetting. Gives you fine control
* useful when you have various differrnt formats and don't want to learn a new latex template for everything.

LaTex:

* Java of typesetting
* Amazing set of libraries and very useful if you work on relatively few well defined formats.
Proposed Australian law could give US law enforcement access to encrypted comms
If you understand what this does, there's no such thing as an insignificant scale.
Ask HN: Useful Chatbots?
Since Facebook opened their messenger API there a lot of Chatbots have emerged. Did you find any Chatbot that is genuinely helpful?
Why? It is not special in any way. It is area in which you can be special only in special olympics sense. The new instruction doesn’t make anything new, it is just different and serves no purpose for 99.9% of users.
Fallout: New Francisco
Having to correct a story minutes after a market movement has reaped the company millions in transaction fees seems like a small burden to bear.
It could be the whole thing is FUD being sowed by someone with an interest in trolling US companies. Russia, for example, for whatever reasons which are beyond me.
I guess, there are using common crawl as a base. Not sure wether they are doing actual crawling along with it.
It "modifies that phrase too", in what sense? Ostensibly the only way an unknown chip could be introduced into a data-center in such a way, and of all of them Apple's, would be with malicious intent, surely?
I didn't downvote - there is a substantial number of pretenders in this space. Because latex is surprisingly easy to use. But I keep my resume in the same family of software myself and it's because of ease of editing. I hide the Computer Modern font and use popular Microsoft Office fonts. So nobody knows.
I bought a house this past March right before accepting an out-of-the-blue job offer across the country, so I need to sell the house. This Redfin news worries me (although I'm happy for the buyers!)

For anyone who has been through the process of selling a house right at the start of a market turn — what advice would you give? It seems like I need to get rid of the house ASAP, but are there any other important steps that I might miss?
> They are incentivizing sensationalism.

As opposed to all the other media outlets who aren't?
> Also in 2015, a Mediated Matter team developed G3DP,[47] the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass.[48][49] At the time, sintering 3D printers could print with glass powder, but the results were brittle and opaque.[50] G3DP was designed in collaboration with MIT's Glass Lab and the Wyss Institute, emulating traditional glass working processes. Molten glass was poured in fine streams and cooled in an annealing chamber, yielding precision suitable for art and consumer products, and glass strength suitable for architectural elements.[51] The process allowed close control of color, transparency, thickness and texture.[52]

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neri_Oxman
Repo should be organized around project, not language/frameworks. It’s perfectly normal to have library +Python client + Go client in same repo.
This seems great for creating smaller graphs as long as they don't get too complex. I'm kind of obsessed with node-based environments for DSP and media stuff (Reaktor, vvvv, and many others). Whenever my graphs attain some level of complexity, some features become very important such as selecting/operating on multiple nodes and most of all grouping. Rete.js doesn't seem to be quite there yet (no multi select? and Modules only hint at proper grouping), but it's definitely on the way.
Not a personal experience, but more of an easy to remember existence proof: https://www.ptc.com/en/products/cad/elements-direct/modeling is made of several million lines of Common Lisp and has been developed over decades.

I find the counter-arguments to your discomfort in this thread very strange. Some big problems just require big solutions. A language might indeed be best suited for smaller problems, but that doesn't mean that bigger problems are a "cultural disease". For Clojure in particular, I recall Hickey saying something to the extent that for the problems where Java is successful, Clojure should be successful too. Maybe this rhetoric has changed, but I think it's also related to people's experience that what takes 750k lines of Java takes under 1000 in Clojure, for some problems, so you get this bias that 750k lines of Clojure is "wrong". No, it's just that the equivalent Java would be a factor of 10-100 bigger. If a language can support modularity, it should be able to scale.

More at addressing your discomfort, I'd be curious to know what you mean by "language without any type safety". Dynamic typing isn't the same thing as untyped, and some dynamic languages (like Lisp) support a notion of compile time that lets you have type warnings, optimization, etc. that you might be used to from static compilers... as far as testing goes, the big testing pushes in industry have come from people dealing with giant C++ and Java projects more than the dynamic language crowds, because more energy for testing is needed in general. Whether dynamic languages need more or less of it could be interesting, but because of the variations in what we call "static languages" and what we call "dynamic languages" it might not be useful to compare things so broadly. Instead we could compare language against language, and take into account usual dev practices. Having a REPL to leverage while developing, testing, and debugging changes things in a big way, for instance.
Flettner airplane
> My colleague Steve Russell

Is that the same Steve Russell that hacked Spacewar and implemented the first Lisp?
Concerned about the decrease in meat, and ultimately protein in the diet. His meals only serve meat three times a week? For a surgical patient trying to heal their wounds, a decrease in protein content is the last thing they need.
I think it being a business doesn't preclude their empathy. I'm sure most therapists care about their patients.

I care about the software projects I'm on, and really want them to succeed, and my clients to gets lots of value out of those projects. But I'm not going to work for them for free.

If you want to talk to someone for free there are friends, family and acquaintances. But that comes with its own set of obligations. If every time I saw a friend I complained about the same issues over and over again I wouldn't have many friends.
If you don't mind sharing, how do you use these tools?
If you're going to test it out, consider signing up through Parsec instead of Paperspace. Paperspace provides the servers/GPUs and Parsec provides the game streaming software. You can sign up directly with either of them and get the same product, but if you go through Parsec, you can manage everything from within the Parsec client. More details on the differences: https://support.paperspace.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500271809...

Edit: Also, Paperspace targets other markets besides gaming; if you're doing any sort of project that requires a GPU, they're worth checking out.
What you are describing is expected and normal behaviour especially for shorts. If you complain, you will be duly lectured on the role of shorts in maintaining a sensible market and finding true value of stocks, yadda yadda.
Saudi Arabia's missing princes (2017)
We've got a front-row seat for Europe's internet censorship plan
something is not right just because because others also do it
100% of users of mobile devices use JavaScript. 98% of them use it heavily in their web browsers. To ignore it, or try to pass it off as insignificant, is folly.
Notch on iPhone X, XS, XR and XS Max
Isn't this a side affect of rising interest rates? Two years ago (when I bought my current house) I got about 3.25% interest. Which means a 200K mortgage is $870/mth. With 5%, the mortgage would have to drop to 162K to have the same monthly payments -- almost a 40K drop in house price (about 16%, assuming the mortgage makes up 80% of the home price).
I don't think "malicious chips" was a quote from Apple - Apple's letter mentioned "the existence of malware or other malicious activity." adding "Nothing was ever found." - which is pretty broad.

Every webstory is quoting that same excerpt - if the entire letter was printed somewhere, I can't find it.
https://www.ft.com/content/91122596-c8c0-11e8-ba8f-ee390057b...
Rana Foroohar
Dark clouds gather over the US housing market
The Supreme Court interprets law - it does not define words.
you can mute the chat on fb
What is one really to do with the metrics? Right now, HOT has the highest support/cap % for a lesser known coin. Does it mean to buy HOT?...
It's ALWAYS been the case that journalists that sell more papers (or more recently, attract more viewers, or more ad impressions) get more prestige and money than ones who do not.

If you thought that journalists were entirely disinterested seekers of truth, then uh...I just don't know what to tell you, but you're going to be really disappointed when you find out the incentives your doctor, lawyer, and car mechanic have. :)
Wikipedia, these days is remarkably accurate.

But much more significant than that, it's a compelling demonstration of what a large, committed community can do, together. With a vision for creating value, without a need for satisfying shareholders in anything but reason and adequately-competent, wide-ranging content.

In my view it is becoming one of the wonders of the modern world. Without a sugar daddy.
Buying a product, realising it's trash, shorting it, and then telling people why you shorted it isn't insider trading.

The giveaway in this case is that MedSec/Muddy Waters were not in any way insiders, they were simply smart enough to investigate a company and find out it was overvalued before anyone else did, and then pointed it out when they had their financial ducks in a row to benefit from it.
I run into the microservices obsession very often in the high-growth startups I advise, so often that I wrote Enough With The Microservices (https://adamdrake.com/enough-with-the-microservices.html).

I typically see people try to push microservices as a "best practice" for improving the delivery rate of software teams. They carve the codebase into separate services, but still leave all of the persistence in place so that all services are communicating with the same DB(s). The result is a tangled web of interdependent services, plus additional tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. that actually makes the teams even slower than they were before.

I'm glad to see us as a community getting more pragmatic about these topics, and realizing that _best practices_ are highly context dependent!
> It doesn't matter if Steve Jobs or Tim Cook is running Apple as long as they are competent and the organization is solid.

But, at least at a smaller/newer company, the CEO/COO has created the organization. It's not some thing that exists independently of the CEO/COO.
(Author of the article here.)

How is this different from HackerRank?

The idea of a work-sample test is that it mirrors the actual work. That's not just for the candidate's benefit; it's also because that's how you get the confidence to let the test results make (most of) the judgement about the candidate.

Lots of companies do take-home tests now! But their processes don't work, because the hiring teams don't rely rely on the tests; the tests are just another hoop candidates have to jump through.

We also tried to do a company based on the idea, but that problem, among others, derailed us.
This is first-order thinking, and neglects deeper strategies, that tamper with how society currently functions, as compared with moving through a transition phase for how society will have to function in the future, which requires some second and third order thinking.

It's not only the flashy, obvious attention grabbing deception that matters, it's also some really mediocre day-to-day stuff that's going to matter too. Take your typical tendencies for human dysfunction, and now amplify the effects of poor communication with augmented miscommunication.

Areas involving identity theft, SWATTING, security camera evidence, security cameras as crime deterence, post divorce child custody, blackmail, and worse.

If you don't trust MD5 hashes to protect your password, this will be the corollary in terms of video cameras as defacto evidence. Sure, an MD5 quickly masks a string in a deterministic way, that requires privilege escalation to access anf limited skill to unmask, but the level of technology we've reached raises the bar, and MD5 is understood as untrustworthy, such that even a well guarded data set should still not utilize MD5 hashes.

So too with video, which requires skill to tamper with, and likely privilege escalation even to do so, but we're moving into a world where it won't be enough to assume that the data assets themselves were too complex to tamper with, too few would know how, and best practices always kept all the footage 100% secure in an impregnable, uncorruptable repository under lock and key.
Almost all screenshots in the article are of the installer which is "mostly empty" or a slideshow of random things for most OSs and does not seem any worse than the windows one.

Actually, the only apps shown are system settings and the update manager. Hence, I am somewhat confused what you are basing your (strongly worded) criticism on.
[Snipped after looking at how it works again]
Well OK, but that Wikipedia article warns, "Many programs, including text editors such as vi and GNU Emacs, still use termcap or terminfo, or use libraries such as curses that use termcap or terminfo, and thus in theory support non-ANSI terminals, but this is so rarely tested nowadays that they are unlikely to work with those terminals."
The modern ad-tech driven assault-on-attention mania is not similar in degree to what came before it, even if it is similar in kind.

As engineers know very well, the qualitative properties of a system often change significantly when a parameter increases by an order of magnitude.
The amount of Teslas that show up on salvage auctions with rear wheels snapped off is actually quite concerning.
I haven't used it in a long time, but MikTeX on Windows was really easy too back in the 2000s.
Funny you should mention Aldrich Ames. The New York Times reported that:

> Three years later, at the start of his career as a Russian mole, Aldrich Ames passed a Central Intelligence Agency lie detector test. In 1991, he passed another, even though he was on the agency's list of suspected moles and living at a level far above his $70,000 Government salary. Last summer, Dennis DeConcini, then chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, visited Mr. Ames in jail and asked how he passed the exams. "Well," Mr. Ames replied, "they don't work."

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/19/opinion/lie-detectors-lie...

He also wrote a very interesting letter about polygraph testing:

https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/polygraph/ames.html
Oh, words go playing. Who uses that modulo 2^32 thing heavily in their browsers? Folly is wasting world’s resources on ineffective crappy implementation of unused features. Obviously it seems reasonable to fix hw. If I were Apple, I wouldn’t even think to reason with js socium.
Go about 25% lower than you think. It'll sell reasonably quickly. I had to take about $100k haircut, but that's a coastal market for you.
I still don't buy it. Javascript might buy a 4% performance improvement, but the increased resource usage makes that impractical for most scenarios. For server use, the increased wear makes it cheaper to buy more computers and have them last longer. For application use, performance is not relevant enough to make it interesting. So really the only possible application is video games.

EDIT: before people accuse me of making a false dichotomy: I acknowledge that there are other uses for computers, but am unable to think of any others where the increased resource consumption would be worth it. Another thing: cell phones, the battery would drain much more quickly if everything were a webapp. Perhaps video game consoles will switch to such a JIT, though...
"move markets" seems highly correlated with juiciness and high view counts which are standard practice. In fact, I can't think of many examples where they're not... have any good ones?

I can also see a finance focused media outlet using that jargon internally to describe the underlying metrics (moving market's isn't really easily measurable directly anyway). To me, this doesn't seem like news. This seems like a bad jab at Bloomberg's credibility, which has been really important recently.

There's probably a discussion to be had about for-profit media and reach optimization. But that's been done many a times over the discussions of public/gov't/nfp news sources.
The phrase "yellow journalism" is over 100 years old now.
The talking heads on cable news are well aware that their salaries and continued employment depend on their ability to attract views. And there have been plenty of scandals in the "old school" serious print media of journalists making stuff up for prestige or renown (Stephen Glass, Janet Cooke).

People look back with nostalgia on an era that never existed.
We Have a Decade to Prevent a Total Climate Disaster
article starts so well, outlining the lack of true decentralization of today internet and how connection providers control everything as consequece.

then it mentions block chain, failing to realize that miners can monopolize it just like amazon monopolized the current servers ("sorry, you cant run this fork version on our for-rent servers")

don't waste your reading after blockchain is mentioned.
Successful Habits: Set Yourself Up for Success (WITHOUT Relying on Willpower)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Foster_Winans#Conviction
> it means nothing is especially requiring my attention.

Which is exactly the case in these screenshots. It is an installer step. The only "important" part is the next button at the bottom and it is full screen because it is an installer, hence lots of blank space (or slideshow distractions in other installers).
I can't speak for all of her lab's work (a lab's output is far more than the Principal Investigator's contributions), but I really am inspired by the potential applications of high-resolution voxel printing developed by the group [1]. Only such beauty can inspire the sci-fi hope of high-capacity memory storage, new computational paradigms [2]

As another commenter mentions, I do think it is productive to discuss the line with which something is no longer "rigorous" enough to be considered science. The caveat is that these discussions should be made by the lab doing the work, not by the Internet peanut gallery.

Media Lab's "research" resembles constructive science rather than deductive science (how does the world work?). We normally forgive science papers for doing engineering when they present something that is immediately useful to humanity (e.g. TensorFlow whitepaper). Artists (fashion designers, creatives, etc.) often make cool demos but fall short "revolutionary" products because the fabrication technology is not ready yet for their ideas. It still has a place, though, in science - if only to suggest unorthodox ways of approaching scientific inquiry.

At the very least, these works realize thought-provoking concepts a step farther than most of us are willing to commit to -- chatting about it on the Internet.

FWIW, my day job is doing science, if that lends my comment any credibility.

[1] http://matter.media.mit.edu/publications/article/making-data...

[2] https://twitter.com/ericjang11/status/1003471515323494405
Why would a value of 0 be helpful for this graph? If the ratio between median and mean of household incomes is anything close to zero it's hugely bad. It's like having absolute zero on the 5 day forecast.
That's pretty serious, right? Changes the entire conversation if this is not truly improving execution speed?
Is Amavis dead?
Why they didn’t do extensive internal testing before rolling out such a huge UX changes? At least they should have rolled it out to smaller groups, measure metrics and expand group over time. The general rule in UX update is that larger the changes, longer it needs the A/B testing for impact on metrics. All botched UX updates have root cause in circumventing this rule by some passionate folks.
Yeah, I am not trying to make a political statement, I'm just explaining why people say that
I tend to go with small (a couple of days or less), medium (a week or two), and complex (needs to be broken down into smaller chunks)...and the ever popular, no clue. :)
The same way they dealt with infections before antibiotics - unhealthy self-medication and at times dying.
Wow, the original youtube homepage(1) is particularly terrible, even in comparison to other websites from that era. Especially the "I'm a male seeking everyone between 18 and 45" fields for the search box. Sounds like a dating website. I suppose the founders were too busy working on the tech. :)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtub...
This isn't something a JS developer uses. It's something the CPU uses with JS someone wrote
I don't really believe anyone cares. It's Fall, people drop prices to sell before the holiday season. It could just be a normal thing that happens every year just like fewer houses sell in December because of Christmas.

People don't move after Labor Day if they have school-age kids because it's so hectic once school starts.

There is just normal stuff that goes on that is not any kind of indicator of impending doom.

I am sitting on a $100K down payment awaiting a market correction, but I won't wait forever. It's hard to just have that money in brokered CDs, but that's where it is for now.

2008 was the big correction, it could be 20 years before we get another one.
Not at all true - plenty of rails app's are just a REST API for a service
Apple statement is available here: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got...
Thanks for pointing this out! Yeah, that is pretty broad.