skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people think that, but it's not true. The competition for studio work is extraordinarily intense--labor supply significantly exceeds demand--and compensation reflects that. If you think living in the Bay Area is tough as a programmer, try it when you're making a quarter of an engineer's salary (and Pixar, unlike the major L.A. studios, is not unionized). Though I can't speak to Pixar specifically, generally most such positions are on contract--when the production's done, so is the budget for staffing--so you're bouncing from studio to studio constantly looking for work.

Besides, a lot of a production like this is essentially just writing code. I've had multiple industry artist friends tell me that, if they could go back and start over, they would have done computer science as a career and art on the side.
I don't even see a name of the creator on this site. Personally, I won't ever submit personal genome data to an anonymous site like this, and no one else should either. Aren't there also legal implications to hosting personal health data online like this? I understand they claim to delete the data after the processing, but can we really trust an opaque process like this?
If only you could pull up your lifelog, and see if you walked by any on your commute...
You assume there are no negative externalities to pricing CO2 too high? There would be a lot, including pushing more people into poverty.

I don't deny that CO2 has a cost, but the entire premise of the article is that oil is "subsidized" because of CO2 emissions, but that is just bunk. You could argue that about literally every item, ever. From manufacturing to food production, to child bearing, to breathing. If you argue that oil is subsidized because of CO2 emissions, you also have to say so ever -everything- including EV and every point of the supply chain. You might accidentally be causing people to release less CO2 and replace it with something even worse.

How you treat CO2 in a cap and trade method is up for debate, but again to claim oil is subsidized though CO2 emissions but EV isn't is nonsense. Lithium mining is -incredibly- dirty, batteries in landfills are -incredibly- toxic/flammable. If you think those too are a form of indirect subsidy then the EV subsidy is already high without the direct subsidy. And if you break it down to which has the biggest subsidy per kilowatt/hour, you might find they are not as far apart as you suspect...but the article doesn't measure that, so how would they know or even have the capability to write such an article?
As we've seen many times in the past, when the price falls, so do the scammers - this will be interesting.
Is this an inherent difference, though, or "just" due to current source control systems being built with text in mind?
Goodness I hope not.
Abstract interpretation would be the equivalent of symbolic differentiation in this analogy.
Uh...I'm definitely not sharing my genome data with some guy named Ethan at unnamed company.

https://meports.com/privacy
Actually, we do see it.

Along with Civil Asset forfeiture mentioned by others, there are also:

* Know Your Customer laws,

* mandatory Suspicious Action Reports of all transactions over a certain value,

* anti-Smurfing or anti-Structuring laws that against structuring deposits to be under the threshold of SAR reports,

* a whole host of foreign transaction laws

* and plenty more...

So yes, prosecution of use of cash is very alive and healthy with people getting prosecuted for all of these crimes related to use of cash. And this is before any prosecutions that establish direct use for terrorism or drug cartels.
Who's running this? What country are they based in? Why should I trust meports.com not to misuse my genome?
can you give an ELI5 of the benefits of XDP over current technologies?
I thought this was some kind of project for automating LEGO deconstruction down to the smallest possible bricks (hardware).
Not having access to a cyclotron beam I would use gen-1 car phones as my go-to test device for hardware reliability in the face of RF interference. That is incredibly hard to defend against already, I can't imagine what kind of countermeasures you'd have to take to get your device to function under the circumstances you sketch.
The film is a straight up criticism of fascism and authoritarianism, but it's not a criticism of the book because Verhoeven only ever read one or two chapters of the book.
Damn, that's a nice landing/home/product page.

The product is clearly defined (Learn by doing newsletter).

The call to action reinorces that and the snippets actually show what the product is before buying (subscribing) it. I may use that as an example.
It's pretty hard to argue that selective enforcement of contemporary mainstream views is necessary to speculative fiction. The hint is right there in the name.
> I'm trying to manufacture a theory that better fits all the facts. Intimidation is a simple theory, and acceptable as a fallback, but if that's all that was going on, then it raises some questions.

You definitely seem like you're trying to manufacture a theory, but nothing you've written "better fits all the facts."

At best, I think you're operating under a set of faulty assumptions that's causing you to mistakenly reject most likely explanation.
Ask HN: What do you think about wordpress.com's new editor?
I don't understand why you have your privacy policy as it is right now, at all.

Privacy is important to us. We want to do it right. (...) At no time is your DNA data shared - or sold - to any external party, period. (...) If a genome is uploaded, but the user does not continue and generate a report, the uploaded genome is automatically deleted immediately. As soon as a report has been generated (no more than 10 minutes) the uploaded genome is deleted.

Wow! A company that isn't out to steal your data! Great!

When using Meports you are uploading your genome to our central website for analysis. (...) By uploading your genome you grant us a temporary, limited, revocable, royalty-free, world-wide license to process and use your genome for the purpose of providing you with the service.

"Vision: We believe in using data and software in order to maximize everybody's quality of life. "

(Actually - you even have a different company "vision" on gene.meports.com. Which one is it?)

So what does this mean then? Are you using the word "analysis" to trick people into thinking you don't store data derived from the genome on your servers, but you're not storing the literal file someone is uploading? While, at the same time, reassuring clients you'll never store or sell their data?
Or short: It's not what you do, it's what people think you do.
I do the same as you're essentially guaranteed the pressed on date and a much fresher product than what's available at any shop sort of a dedicated oil store. A lot of what actually has a pressed on date labeled at the store currently is November 2017 harvest and with some 2016 harvests thrown in too! You can now order 2018 pressed oil if you go direct for the freshest product available.
Visual programming languages will only take you so far, but often that is far enough. What the author misses is that we as professional programmers miss the success stories, because we only get called in when the boundaries have been reached.

In my career I’ve often been asked to rewrite Access DBs, InfoPath forms, or SharePoint sites developed by amateurs into something more usable. My early reactions where along the lines of “what insane person tried to do this in Access.” I realized at some point that was the wrong approach in my thinking. These systems are working software delivering value. I now say “wow, congrats on doing so much on your own. Let me help you take this further.”
Again, I am not sure what race has to do with this at all. The CEO happens to be black and had a negative interaction with someone on Charter’s board. Oh well. There are many other cable companies and networks out there. That’s why there is something missing from this story. Why would this guy care so much that he was being barred? It’s like the gay wedding cake thing. The plaintiffs specifically found a baker who had strong religious beliefs.
The article title is confusing architects with structural engineers.
Somewhere around 1994-95, I had a Usenet signature that included "This post brought to you by Bill Gates, Inventor of the Internet". I included it in an attempt to get the unselfconsciously self-righteous to correct me, but I ended up being surprised by how many people seemed to actually believe it.
> What is Google's or Facebooks uptime?

99.9 percent. Cloud services from Microsoft, Google, Amazon typically have only three nines or less for paying customers. They also seem to have same level of uptime in their own services.

But these are not "firm guarantees". For example Amazon just gives service credits after downtime exceeds what is promised. They "undergo unscheduled outages" from time to time. Whole regions are down at once.

Remember Amazon's Prime Day outages? It's not good for business when tings go down.
As much as I love the rumble of an ICE (the Japanese straight-6 is my aural drug of choice), its days are numbered. We're closing in on a future where gasoline is too expensive due to rarity, too polluting or just too socially unacceptable to power cars with. As a pure mode of transport, EVs tick all the boxes, and they've even proven to be performant, too - even the best drag racer is going to struggle to match a machine with maximum torque available for 95% of its rev range, from zero.

Embrace the electric!
> I'm not sure why you think anyone is advocating for change for its own sake.

Your only remotely objective criticism of Make is that "it just won't evolve". That's not a reason at all, and only advocates change for the sake of change.

Perhaps you could start to have a case if you could identify any aspect of Make that has problems that need fixing. Until then, any argument based on vage notions of evolving is pointless.
ROT-8000 is only touching the first 65536 Unicode characters (UCS-2). Unicode has >1M code points. [0]

Most emojis seem to be above the first 16 bits. [1] But there are a number of emojis in the first 16 bits, like the "frowning face" emoji at U+2639 -- it rotates just fine -- plus others in the first 16 bits.

(TIL you can't paste emojis into HN comment threads. Probably all for the best.)

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

[1] https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html
Tools for visual programming have seen massively less effort spent on them than text-based tools. This is why text-based tools have much more conveniences, and better integration, than visual-oriented tools.

Another important aspect is that humans use words to communicate, so some amount of text is inevitable (and welcome) in visual programming tools.

Also, text-based tools use the most common and open format of all, a stream of ASCII (UTF-8) characters. This allows to mix and match text-based tools (editors, compilers, formatters, linters, etc). Visual languages were (and are) dominated by proprietary formats. This keeps visual programming tools in silos, profitable for the vendor but preventing the wild expansion that text-based programming languages periodically enjoy.
> It seems as though many of my friends and I had a mass exodus about 4-5 years ago.

Seems common for platforms to wind down and for exoduses to occur, but I haven't heard of another tumblr-like. Where did people head off to?
Ask HN: Why do you still use Emacs/Vim?
Modern IDE’s have many nice, fancy features. Yet I still find myself preferring Emacs. I also have much respect for those who use Vim. So, why do you (or not) use Emacs or Vim?
Ford buys e-scooter company Spin for $100 million.

Ford has committed to making a $200 million investment in the startup.
can't get it to use any data sets that i have in the normal .vcf formats, etc
There's a limited amount of bandwidth that can be carried over your cable line and its pretty much tapped out until more carriers switch to an IP based system. Ultimately these providers do need the ability to "discriminate" on which channels they choose to allocate bandwidth to. It's a strange case trying to make a racial discrimination case here (more so for Comcast as apparently someone from Charter said a few things out of line)
Every HN submission is treated as if it's a breakthrough discovery to herald in a new era of human society. Constructive criticism (like the parent comment of your comment) is helpful, considering that the author of JAB Code makes no mention of this obvious issue (that I could find).
To answer the question in the OP: yes, the processor cache might be more susceptible than RAM, if the RAM is ECC.

I've heard many stories about bit-flips causing serious problems at higher-elevation sites. Apparently a major installation at either NCAR or UCAR was delayed by a month fighting such problems. While I haven't actually confirmed any of these stories first hand, I've heard enough to believe that a little paranoia is justified.
Ask HN: Source for possibly-connected outages
This morning, I have experienced outages with Facebook, NPR, and LastPass.

Is there a good resource to identify outages that may not appear to be connected? It could be that they are using a shared service provider or that they are part of a coordinated attack.

As a small SaaS, I see these outages and immediately want to know if there is something going on that may impact us or may be a source of support requests.
A preface before you read this- it's just a long joke :)

I wonder if instead of new programming languages or VPLs aren't the problem, but lack of meta data structures (going beyond a class or interface) that tie together data with expected structure and their implicit validations (including relateable data) to code that performs business rules (booking airplane tickets) and code that draws a UI (ticketing screen).

I know about 10-15 years back this was called "4GL" (fourth generation languages) but instead of that taking off, a sludge of just new procedural programming languages took hold (rust go ts etc..). I think VPL tries to fill that same niche space where the goal is to think meta-like, not procedurally about each input box. If the system understands and records data in similar ways, we can eventually get to a place where data is ubiquitously stored in the structure the system defines, not the programmer defined way.

So while right now we may not have the correct primitives for 4GL or VPL, maybe one day and that's why these ideas won't die - because it is likely going to be the way that software is designed in the far (or near?) future. Especially in the wake of AI where we might have a chance to let the system write the UI/business logic.

In other words, instead of thinking of AI as writing code in C/C++/Rust, etc.. AI will be in charge of moving data - at first in human defined chunks (likely spec'd out in VPL or 4GL structures), but eventually for AI to define its own objects of related structures. Eventually getting to the point where us mere humans ask AI to build things that fit human process.

The last step is that humans would no longer define the process, and AI be able to incrementally add processes with the data it has, by defining the most optimal path for humanity whether it be tax rates or human production or smoothing out effects of electricity futures based on incoming solar mass ejection predictions. Eventually in the final stages of humanity, defining the work output each human needs to make during a day. By this point enough people will have opted out and the giant war between the owners of AI and the people will start. Killing off most people, but at the same time many of the oligarchs will have been assassinated by members of the public that were willing to rip out their tracking chips in the left eye.

Enough of the planetary population will be gone and totally untrusting of anyone, but we'll have finally visioned our AI future. Won't it be grand!

Oh sorry off topic again yeah we probably should stay away from Visual Programming.
Proprietary software not only hides what it's doing from its user, DRM has all sorts of problems and could even damage your data/hardware, not to mention exfiltrate all sorts of information in the name of 'enforcing IP'.
Transportation as a service is coming.
On the other hand, some architects could stand to learn quite a bit from structural engineers...
Is the "a" icon added to my Firefox toolbar supposed to do anything? Clicking on it does nothing.
Top reasons your development team can fail
1. Politely greet the people you pass by in the halls.

2. Practice small talk:

-Ask others about their lives and thoughts and work.

-Listen.

Try to have at least one such interaction per day. This will be really hard at first, but it gets easier.

Politics is mostly leveraging relationships. You grow them with care and a little attention over a long time.

Here's a secret. Most people are uncomfortable talking to others. You're not alone. But once you make friends with others, interactions will be more enjoyable!

Good luck!
Of course she had the right and doesn't have to explain herself, but it would certainly have been informative if she'd done so.

Maybe she thought that listening to the official story would be a waste of time and that they would only try to pressure her. But knowing where the official story differs from what she personally observed, and what kind of changes in her reporting they'd have demanded, would have been interesting in itself.
Well not fine from a business perspective. The fines were larger than the money made from such activities. If HSBC were primarily a front for the cartels, it would have gone bankrupt.
Interesting! I made a very similar tool earlier this year.

It comes with presets for various different areas of Unicode, and some example text, although the intended use case was very different, I looked at it from a steganography perspective rather than an honours-system obfuscation perspective.

https://incoherency.co.uk/mojibake/

I initially thought it would be able to decode the rot8000 output without any modification but I think the utf-8 escaping that my tool expects (from its own output) gets confused by the output from rot8000.
I'm relatively certain that's not where any milk I've ever had came from...
Is it weird that this headline makes me think of Jon Bon Jovi?
She has been unemployed for eight months but last month her income with big fat bonus was over Bucks 9000 just working on the laptop for a few hours. <3 :)
https://www.cyberjobsonline.com
I find it baffling, that parent comment made just a comparison without giving any opinion, and pretty much every sibling comment is telling them they are wrong... lol.

Fascinating how people project their opinions onto others and argue with them. Parent even got called a moron and told to eat a plastic bag xD

Pretty much every one assumed that on a human scale weight it's not that much, though still wrong.

I wonder what's the name for this behaviour.
So you're saying whales can be used to conveniently filter plastic from the sea?

How many whales do we need to deploy to get an entirely clean ocean?
So you would make the same argument for Facebook, YouTube too?

Or, as I have learned from HN, different rules apply to Apple vs rest of the tech companies?
> The static site approach still isn't that well known

Static sites predate web apps. In fact, the first websites were purely static.

> reduced complexity

you're telling me webpack + react + node_module hell + graphql reduces complexity?
This will be a controversial one, but have you tried alcohol?

The next time there’s a staff night out, go to it, drink, lose your inhibitions and talk to people.
There are people who swear by Labview, especially those more familiar with electronics than code. There are very good researchers I know of in soft condensed matter Physics who know they can't code but feel confident using Labview.

One of the interesting things I found was that the 2-dimensional layout helped a lot in remembering where stuff was: this was especially useful in larger programs.

I believe Labview barely scratches the surface of what is possible.
question with a question. Why does everyone still use bash?
Have you been to India ? No one does this in the cities, it's a problem in the villages where the govt. hasn't built enough toilets (due to corruption or plain neglect). The current govt. organized a program just to counter this, how effective this program is up for debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swachh_Bharat_mission

Any problem, including education about safe hygiene practices, is massively difficult at scale. Educating people in the rural areas will solve this problem, but when it's many millions it can be slow so more innovative methods need to be thought of.

Even in the US there is a rise in the "anti-vaccine" crowd. A topic that is supposedly so-obvious that everyone should be against it. Yet, education at scale is an important solution to protecting kids against anti-vax parents.
It's already here. I know people who sold their cars and rely on Uber now. I also know people who never owned a car and take taxis everywhere. It's not new.
That is a awesome attitude to have.
It can be hard. I would recommend you to search for freelancer that would like to be engaged into your project. While working on startup you need to put heart in what you are doing, often working much more than needed. You will have a problem with freelancer that is doing only his tasks and nothing more.
Have you considered therapy? It sounds like you need some self-reflection skills and a therapist could help you develop those skills.
* Select 2 random contacts A & B. Swap their details (phone no, email etc)
Elm-Ui: Forget CSS and Enjoy Creating UIs in Pure Elm
Yup, it's censorship for the sake of censorship. We've had zero problems with master/slave terminology for decades because everyone dealing with it was cognizant enough to realize we weren't talking about human bondage. Then people who are incapable of compartmentalizing word connotations came in and declared their use "problematic" and demand everyone conform to their worldview and to waste time changing code comments, lest you want to be called racist/sexist/fascist/anti-Semite/Trump supporter/etc (mind you, all over words). At the end of the day, nothing changes except the vocal minority's frivolous complaining temporarily ceases.

Now watch me be angrily downvoted for no other reason than someone got upset and offended.
Paraphrased: Herd immunity created by most people getting the chicken pox vaccine would make it less likely for people who did not get the vaccine to get chicken pox early in life, leaving them susceptible to contracting it later in life.

It sounds like those people should also get vaccinated, rather than not requiring anyone to be vaccinated.
Simulink isn't really a visual programming language? It's a block-diagram simulator for simulation and analysis. You link together simulation blocks, and Simulink runs a ODE solver to "solve" for the time-varying output.

Simulink can generate C code for productionization, but to write custom algorithms, you typically need to write S-functions, which are typically in C, C++ or Fortran.

Visual environments let you set up topologies quickly and reliably. It's not really programming as such though -- kinda more like scaffolding. Any kind of complex logic is still more efficiently achieved in code because many abstract ideas cannot be efficiently expressed graphically. Visual abstractions are more useful for ideas that can be concretized (typically data-flows type ideas).

Source: used and taught Simulink for many years for control systems engineering.
Aside from Dale Carnegie, I found "Stealing the Corner Office" very useful (despite the cornball title).
cool. seems very ambiguous and watered down.

without intent seems like it should just be called "watching" or "recording". also does it stop being called "Sousveillance" if done on a plane? or hiking above a certain altitude?

we are very interested in pulling data from "accidental" surveillance.