skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Um bronze metal. They would gold leaf or cover in bronze statues.

Bronze metal doesn't look at all like what we generally call "bronzed skin"; Kennedy knows she is talking to a modern (popular) audience, so it's unlikely that the shade of bronze metal is what she means.

> It was that it wasn't the thing that defined people. Your origin was much what defined you and not your skin color.

This claim keeps being repeated, but it doesn't seem to be backed up by the actual sculptures. If there were people the Ancient Greeks considered Greek who had a skin tone that modern people would not consider "white", why don't any of the statue pigments that this whole article is supposedly about show those skin tones? (The "African boy" is clearly not "white" to modern eyes, but it doesn't sound like he was "Greek" to the ancients either).
Insta-buy.
Little AI: On learning nature with AI.
Not in arrow functions, which are very common and any solution should certainly contemplate them.
Autonomous Driving, Both Close and Far from Ubiquity – An Overview
Except it really isn’t - it’s an output of an ML algo designed for one task, which I’d hesitate to call AI.

I had my portrait painted by a robot with a camera and some variety of edge-finding DSP at the London Science Museum in about 1990 - and they touted that as “AI art”.

Also - what about Conway’s game of life? Is that not art?
Sky Viper
To bad We can't get parts for them
What's annoying in particular is these are the same people who would grandstand and signal virtue during the weekly meeting (TGIF) and institute policies which could get you reprimanded for calling someone out on "kill all men" type of rhetoric on internal Google+ (I kid you not). Laws for thee but not for me.
So DRM to artificially limit the driving range of their cars?
Please keep religious flamewar off this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's a guide to what street drugs are cut with. From 2013, from the UK.

http://www.cph.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cut-a-guide...

For cocaine and crack cocaine, lidocaine is one common adulterant, sugars are another.
>It fits right in with my struggle to imagine the 19th century and early 20th century as being anything other than black and white, since almost (exceptions exist [2]) all of the photos from back then were monochrome.

Also classical paintings before photography reinforce this because of degradation caused by UV Rays has resulted in paintings to appear darker or washed out.

It's always fascinating because even watching videos i took half a decade ago look so inferior to modern day videos!
This article (excuse my word-choice) was a fucking pain in the arse.
Why does it have to repeat the statement and conclusion over and over again???

I feel dumb for reading this until the end.
Unfortunately the P20 does not currently have a warranty in the United States.
Prepare for a lot of cute sleeping baby photos on your feeds, folks. That's what I'll be using this for.
Brazil’s military dictatorship leaves a paper trail in the CIA archives
The biggest manipulation is they divide household income by the square of household size, which makes the bigger families of the 60’s seem to earn a lot less than they did. The whole thing is based on two studies funded by the same institute based on the same biased dataset, and diving into how they get their numbers is enlightening.
> ... is still a director at X ...

one may be forgiven for wondering how long that will continue
Ask HN: I think I need to use NoSQL?
I've been writing software for about 6 years and have always found the relational approach suitable for my needs.

However after spending a week inheriting a prototype which is all over the place. I am starting to think I will have to use something I never dreamed of using; NoSQL whether that be MongoDB, Redis or Cassandra.

To give you some background:

A large enterprise with ageing software infrastructure is looking to replace a system which consists of

A COBOL terminal app, 3 VB powered spreadsheets and a lot of emailing.

The solution the team has prototyped is effectively a spreadsheet with a business rules engine.

This spreadsheet at the moment has lots of tabular data and could change over time.

I've spent several sessions with my team looking at entities and mapping their relationships. However we keep hitting ruts.

There are other issues too:

* The business / stakeholders, can't agree on what data is needed and it is constantly changing

* The current schema has several tables but are just filled with CLOBs that store JSON

* A lot of the data the business wants presented would be hard to store in a normalised format

* The frontend is making multiple API calls from different services and assembling a document in redux / local storage. This is an antipattern!

* Business priorities are changing every sprint / product owner is getting arm twisted to add new "fields" , so that department X can get more out of this app

* The relational model could cause added maintenance and refactoring when new changes come around

However I have concerns against suggesting this:

* I am in a junior heavy team, with noobies

* Seniors are scared of new practices.

* I don't know how easy it is to do things like business reporting etc.

* It would mean a heavy refactor of the internal models

* How do I transplant existing data on production into a new DB technology?

* I have very little experience in NoSQL

Looking for people's thoughts or suggestions.
It’s an antiquated term that nowadays just means metal fabricator.

I’ve never made a boiler. I probably could, but I’m not even qualified to weld pressure vessels. I’d pass the weld tests with a couple of days practice though.
> Google is a company that has explicitly stated its ethics over and over and over.

Isn't it usually the company or person who shouts loudly about virtue that end up being the least virtuous? Whether it is the most vocal anti-gay republican who is caught having sex with a man in an airport bathroom or the most vocal pro-woman and anti-racist democrat DA who is found to have assaulted his "brown slave".

This is why I roll my eyes whenever someone talks in a virtuous evangelical manner. It usually hides a guilty conscious. ( Ahem, cough such as Tim Cook's recent media blitz about privacy )

> Now, due to the cover-up this looks awful. I just don't understand it.

Maybe rubin knows a thing or two about the co-founders or top execs in the company. The reason why execs get glorious golden parachutes isn't because they were such hard working people, it's because they know too much and you want them to be quiet and beholden to you.

Keep in mind that it isn't a secret in the tech industry ( especially silicon valley ) that people use their position for sex. Many times it's reciprocal. One side gets sex, the other side gets cushy jobs/advancement/etc.

Maybe Rubin knews $90 million worth of secrets?
> To that end, the Republican party itself is not the monolith that you see in the Democratic party.

What on earth are you talking about?
It isn't required by the license, but it is required by the primate fairness sense. A donation to the open-source project would be appropriate.

Alternatively, the Obvious collective will be now and forevermore tagged as non-contributing leeches. Which will likely not tarnish their enjoyment of their $144k each before auction fees and taxes, but might discourage future AI/ML developers from releasing under such a permissive license in the future.
It seems odd to take this as an indictment of burning man when it should be verboten to invite anyone to an intimate event DURING A PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW. Wait until after the interview and try to know them on personal terms.... then maybe. Even that seems super sketchy as you could interpet it as tied to the interview.
Right now this is less and less "important". QtQuick.Controls2 fill that niche a bit, but it isn't the point.

To them, the world has moved on. Web apps have zero consistency and people prefer them. There is also little money left in desktop application development. Qt on Android and iOS targets the "good enough" rather than driving their business. The people who will choose Qt for mobile don't do it for consistency. The money is on IoT and embedded. This is where having a certified platform with support is important. It's also where you can't use the OpenSource license and have to pay for the commercial one. It's also where having native UX is absolutely irrelevant.

In a way, it's hard to argue about any of that. It's sad, but unavoidable.
Cloud computing is becoming the dominant model, and
the current combination of OSS licenses and public cloud players/incentives make it nearly impossible for OSS companies to monetize in the cloud. While there are no perfect answers, we either need to come up with new licenses (difficult) or pursue a new approach to cloud (decentralization) that supports OSS monetization.
People that drink exactly one glass of red wine per day are wealthier than average, don't over indulge, and live longer. Ergo, red wine makes you live longer.
Medtronic cofounder who created wearable pacemaker dies
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchāl
Just because A is false B doesn’t automatically become true.
How exactly would you ethically conduct a double blind nutrition study that looks at cancer diagnoses in humans?
Can't argue with the text of the article. I do, however, stand by why _I_ have found that classes are a bad match for this need, and watching the video of the demo did a much better job of suggesting the benefits and reasoning...reasons that don't really match the parts of the article you've quoted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz3nVya45uQ&t=39m (from elsewhere in the comments here)
Neat idea! I might throw something like this together for myself in awk for command line use.
"Academia is the modern priesthood: usurping the right to all knowledge, in bed with state, corrupted to the bones."

That goes way too far. There are plenty of areas where great work is being done. But yes, there are some where bad work is done. And a lot of the people that talk about science in public have an agenda and they get heard over the people who do real science.
I was discussing religion in the scope of American political conservatism, or does one imagine a robust discourse of power that somehow ignores Christianity, the dominant religion of America?

Am I not contributing something "new to say"? Who here is talking about the intersection of Bay Area churches, tech, professionalism and employment, and financial status?

How much more curating or moderating will it take?
Unpopular opinion: There are too many cooks. I used React two years ago because the API was tiny, simple and elegant. They are adding new API features left and right, and the framework feels very uncoordinated now. The surface area is way bigger than it needs to be. This is my cue to finally explore other frameworks.
> I understand investment

I'm ... not sure you do...

> If you're an owner, you don't have to create any value to get paid. Mere ownership gets owners paid. Sure, they can actively invest if they want to, and they may be better off for it, but that kind of activity is strictly optional.

This isn't true. Owners are investors by definition; owners are the sole investors in their companies. Like all investors, owners don't "get paid" unless they sell their shares at a higher price than they bought them. I'm not sure if you take issue with those definitions or if you're trying to nit-pick what it means to 'create value', but I'm pretty sure I've simplified this as much as I can. Good luck.
> The big players make it difficult to run a small personal server

how so? the way i see it, only by making it too easy to use them. if you mean, they reject mail from (eg) dynamically assigned home subscriber IP addresses, you can blame spammers for that, not the big email players.

There's little to no additional security from having email on-site, and much hassle. Assuming you use google or outlook, the advertising bogeyman is just that - a bogeyman.

this is a super niche product, with a lot of useless industro-consumer design thrown in. it's doomed as a business and then where are you? back to gmail.
Yes, and no.
The ability of people to complain about things they can easily avoid never ceases to astound me.

Secondly, nobody cares what you think about burning man. That goes for everyone. Just go if you want to and enjoy it on your own terms and don’t ruin someone else’s day.
Rubin launched a smartphone company immediately after leaving Google.
The memo Google CEO sent employees following the bombshell NYT story
costco still does
No sir, I don't like it :/ I don't see a simple API, I see a completely magic black box that is going to chew up my fingers if I decide to put my hand in it.

Don't fight the language! JS is a still an evolving language, class properties are at Stage 3 draft, and have effectively been usable for years already. I feel the verbosity argument against classes is complete bunk.

When you write "TLDR: There are no plans to remove classes from React... Crucially, Hooks work side-by-side with existing code so you can adopt them gradually... Finally, there is no rush to migrate to Hooks." it doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies, quite the opposite. I can feel the momentum is going to shift to the new hotness and a completely different way of doing things and I'm not sure I want to go where you're heading. Until the next shiny thing.

I wish React would stop adding to the core library. I strongly feel most of the innovation should be happening in libraries surrounding it, even if they're first party libraries, with the core being much slower to change. A good reason to change the core would be taking advantage of new standardized JS features in the future, or (minimally breaking) changes to support big ideas like async rendering. Changing the fundamental way you write React code because "classes are confusing" is just a terrible reason!
An open letter to Tim Cook about privacy, from /e/ Founder
The obvious view is that she knows perfectly well what Burning Man is, and she also suspected lewd intentions, and purposefully dressed that way to avoid them without having to refuse the invitation, which could have cost her the job.

The sad reality is that for a significant number of people, office politics includes a good chance of sexual harassment, which they have to learn to navigate as well.
Then yeah you are incorrect. You are not adding any additional components to the tree. Higher order components are just a design pattern. How you implement that pattern will decide on the component tree, but there is no additional "wrapping" penalty for using them.
Show HN: Life Insurance API – Guaranteed and Instant Coverage for your Users
How exactly would buying art work as a tax dodge?
JIT as a Service (JITaaS) in Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM
Oh woah.

My mother has a lot of those and they keep crumbling and she has to have them changed. She swallowed a few of them. She also suffer from neurological diseases and fibromyalgia.

That those are in fact made of mercury is blowing my mind right now.

I'll advise her to get her mercury levels checked out.
Nope.

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/problems-with-...
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2274

Also if your hypothesis is that there are too many free resources, then you could try discrediting that by seeing if you focus better when you pay for learning some curiosity instead of trying to bootstrap the learning for free.
> The project managers, engineers, architects, and construction crews (plus the steel workers' local) aren't going to have a bake sale and come up with the money.

But if they did, they'd still be investors (i.e., employee-owners) and everything I said would still apply :).

More seriously, employee-owned businesses aren't uncommon, but still, the investors/employees are profiting from the company's increased producitivity _as investors_--their wages don't increase, the value of their shares increases. Just like owners in sole-proprieter businesses like our hypothetical steel mill.
Portrait by AI program sells for $432,000
Websites aren't really getting complicated to design if you treat them the way they were originally designed: As a network of documents.

It's once you try to app-ify them that things break down. Though really, with this new dark mode I just wish I could set a max whitepoint. I code in the dark but too much of the web is bright and I constantly have to change my brightness going between the two. I don't want a third party pluggin. I just want Apple to do it. The have it on the iPhone and it works great there.
Amazon drops on revenue miss
Re: the NHS Take on this..

<Previous research has demonstrated other potential beneficial effects of eating an organic diet, such as a lowered level of pesticides in urine samples>

Well this can only be a good thing..

i find it unacceptable that pesticides should be found in urine from eating anything in a modern society.
What to do about the entrenched scientific publishing-funding complex has been a concern since the first full text of journal articles started appearing in the 1990s.

The response to date has been for funding agencies (nonprofits and governments) to require publication in open access journals as a condition of funding research. This has happened in both the US and EU.

However, I'm pessimistic this approach will address the problem, and it could well create a number of unintended consequences. For one, publishers that have introduced OA models can charge thousands of dollars to the research teams publishing the work. That could mean fewer publications, and more information silos.

The article hints at, but doesn't fully describe another, more pressing problem. Peer review is in trouble. The number of papers the average researcher is being asked to review is increasing while the abundance of papers means the few bother to read them.

I suspect the solution lies somewhere else entirely. Post-publication peer review is one option, and Fighare has built an interesting model that could be a component of a future system:

https://figshare.com

Regardless, the problem is cultural, not technical. The crazy economic incentives described in the article work because everyone involved has a (sometimes perverse) incentive to keep it in place. Until that changes, it will be mostly status quo ante.
Well then... thank you.

For reference, it says:

> A Note from the Author (acdlite, Oct 25 2018):
Hi! I created Recompose about three years ago. About a year after that, I joined the React team. Today, we announced a proposal for Hooks. Hooks solves all the problems I attempted to address with Recompose three years ago, and more on top of that. I will be discontinuing active maintenance of this package (excluding perhaps bugfixes or patches for compatibility with future React releases), and recommending that people use Hooks instead. Your existing code with Recompose will still work, just don't expect any new features. Thank you so, so much to @wuct and @istarkov for their heroic work maintaining Recompose over the last few years.
You suspected correctly
Well, it’s a loss for us all that the designers were not more imaginative.
The problem that I know of is that glibc supports loading DSO modules, eg. for NSS, so it's not going to support pluggable NSS sources like LDAP etc when statically linked. There are workarounds, however:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3430400/linux-static-lin...

Can't imagine many Linux gamers are going to need NSS support in their game binaries. It's a bit of a stretch to say glibc doesn't support static linking, perhaps "officially" it doesn't, its just not all the extended features are going to work.

Static linking is generally going to be frowned upon these days however since you're effectively linking security issues into the binary forever.
Outline link: https://outline.com/PTGkER
For one person, yes. But it would be cheaper to build a running water system for everyone to have tap water than to widely deploy this system.
the sounds exactly like the nightmare the GP proposed. what happens when you're on vacation? or even not on vacation but the supply chain is borked or UPS loses your package? even if helm is self-configuring from stored cloud config, this is still a pain and being without email for even a day is painful. 3-5 days (more likely) is intolerable. and if it's longer mail will start to bounce.
> All it does is discourage developers from releasing things open source, which is very bad in the long run.

Is it, though? In terms of keeping a health job market, I'm somewhat skeptical that offering things license to allow even commercial usages for free is necessarily a long-term good for me.
Oxygen is pretty abundant in lunar regolith. I'm not sure about how much energy it will take to extract it.
The umbrella issue is monetization of software. Perhaps the philosophy of OSS as a monetization strategy is fatally flawed for certain types of software. I love OSS and it is very useful, but in the world we see that some things are better suited for selling online (not usually pet food), etc. Perhaps it is simply an issue of a particular problem that cannot be well solved by OSS. If that is the case, then perhaps we fall back to the idea of "software monetization" and go proprietary for certain things which work best that way, while pushing OSS for things where it works very well.
DIB Calls BS on Buzzwords (Advocates Real Agility)
Who wrote this BS? I mean stuff like "especially dangerous are female psychopaths", it has zero place in our community.

Whoever wrote this has a good grasp of the possibilities of shadow IT and gets that it's a sign that your IT org isn't agile and responsive enough to changing needs and resistant to change in the name of security, but decides that this is a top level management problem, when it's probably not, it's a culture problem and I don't think this person.

The side articles about politics are just the icing on the cake here
> With XDP we can run eBPF code in the context of a network driver.

This looks interesting, but it also looks like it was designed to run this eBPF code on the network adapter itself, when it allows it. Otherwise, why the bytecode?
You're not alone! https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68#issuecomment-4331815...
How can you improve perf if you have a guest OS/program running on SPARC and your host is x86? Maybe I’m not understanding it correctly, but don’t you have to translate all the registers and instructions from SPARC to x86? How would you run SPARC code natively on x86?
QEMU hasn't got round to pointer-authentication yet
either, so that's pretty good going.

I like the "fuzz-test one implementation against another" approach. That's quite similar to how we test QEMU against real hardware (at least for straightforward userspace insns): https://git.linaro.org/people/peter.maydell/risu.git/tree/RE...

(Upstream in QEMU we're talking/working on trying to improve our support for instrumentation. But definitely today we don't do anything much in that area.)
Anyone know if tuition costs are part of inflation?
Burning Man is libertarian Mecca for acolytes of Joe Rogan.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114622...
Which is all just censorship by the back door. With the possible implied accusation of racism aimed at me. I’ll spare both of us the usual freedom of speech rationales, I assume you’ve heard them before. It seems from your posts that you personally really do wish to use CoCs as a tool of wide-ranging ideological enforcement, exactly as their detractors fear. Or have I misinterpreted you?

However on forking I do tend to agree. There appears to be an audience for projects with less controlling, or less ideologically intended rules. These projects should be formed and developers should make their own choice between them.
With car it much easier to provide a decent test coverage though :)
Waymo valued at $137 Billion by Volkswagen CEO