skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think problem is not creating gantt chart but impression of knowing exactly how complex projects will unfold. If you do this without creating gannt or any other chart you end up with the same result.
Nothing special, just a few tabs and Termux open. 30 ms ping time to gmail.com.
20 Years of Evolution?
I agree that the term "startup" is not strictly defined. But often the nuances are "can we only call a quickly growing company a startup" (a la Paul Graham) or "can we call any young company a startup".

What the definitions agree on is that a startup is company, a business. Making a business involves a lot more than creating a product and is a much more complex undertaking.
My mother in law has been ridden with excrutiating phantom limb pains after being forced to amputate her left arm above her elbow due to injuries she suffered in a car accident a few years ago. Has tried everything from mirror boxes to cannabis as well as a myriad of different medicinal treatments, none having any appreciable effect.

TFA made me think of her, wonder if this also might work against phantom limb pains.
Yes, been following it closely. Let's hope it survives because it's a great distro.
Coming soon for Amazon Prime members only - “Amazon Verified Sellers!”
Can you explain why this setup is better than LDAP/Ansible/Chef (to provision user accounts) + ssh keys/CA-generated certificates for ssh authentication? This setup is well known in the art and isn't rife with reported vulnerabilities. The value of using a web flow to authenticate isn't clear to me because you have to provision user accounts on Unix systems anyway to have reasonable accountability.
The really disturbing thing about this is how devices like this make surveillance even more normal. It's like training your own children to accept what should be an unacceptable loss of freedom and privacy.
There are frameworks for AngularJS etc that handle most of the work in rendering forms.
IANAL, but I find 2. weird, my first thought was that it obfuscation would give the opposing litigant an argument for willfulness potentially increasing patent damages.

i.e. it may reduce the total sum of patent damages across all potential cases by reducing the number that result in litigation, while increasing likelihood of increased damages for an unsuccessful defense.

Can't help but think 2. really seems to me a double edged sword.
No mention of the fact that AMD seem unaffected?
Hacking a Generic Ray-Triangle Intersector
Disable Javascript, you won't even notice it's not a blog post. (After reading your comment I had to whitelist the website to realize it actually was a bunch of tweets)
It’s definitely conceptually simpler, but both conversions are a single fully-pipelined operation on any CPU made in the past 5 years, and can be folded into the arithmetic operation on custom HW. In practice the cost of conversion isn’t really an issue; the win with bfloat16 is the added dynamic range.
True although C is just an offset from K, i.e. only absolute values change, temperature deltas are the same in C and K.
The Model 3 doesn't have this "bioweapon defense mode".
> Get off your high horse.

Please keep the discussion respectful.
The drug didn't cost $100 million to make. It cost $100 million to prove that it works in order to get it approved for sale in Europe.

In a world where you could just put a drug on the market (where "the market" is, say, hospitals), the drug would have cost far less, and so the inventor would need to recoup far less.

Note that I'm not arguing for complete deregulation of drug manufacturing. Testing for product integrity through factory audits and the like is the original—and still core—purpose of bodies like the FDA and its EU equivalent(s). You want to know that your "ibuprofen, 20mg" indeed contains 20mg of ibuprofen in each pill, and nothing else.

But that's cheap! That doesn't cost a hundred million dollars to do. Proving product integrity is something that any food processing plant manages on the regular, not to mention manufacturers of generic/non-patented drugs.

If we stop with the need to prove—with overwhelming statistical power—the safety-and-efficacy of a molecule that we're planning to dispense to fewer than 1000 people (and even then only through doctors who can carefully monitor them for adverse reactions), the pharma industry would go back to being just another quiet industry that makes stuff, instead of the crazy behemoth it is.

Yes, certainly, there should be a stringent process before you stick something on a store shelf for OTC purchase. But most drugs never seek to be OTC anyway. Prescription drugs require an interaction with a prescribing doctor, a dispensing pharmacist, and possibly (in in-patient settings) a bunch of watchful nurses. Why, also, must they require an interaction with a standards body regulating the molecule they're composed of? The patients who were in the clinical trial itself got effectively the same treatment, minus the standards body, and they were all fine.

Maybe that's what I'm saying: why not just allow any random chemical to be given to people (without intention of standards-body registration) as long as the prescribing doctor is willing to do clinical-trial-like monitoring for adverse side-effects?
"Rich enough to survive climate change" mode.
From an operations perspective, this is for Business Intelligence and creating a funnel for acquisitions.

Venture is one of the best ways to spot trends in your own market(s), and lead run any future competition with an acquisition, new product or product changes.

This is one of the major things that distinguishes major 21st century companies today from major companies in the past. If you know all of the up and coming competitors, or an entire new market that could threaten you, you can't be disrupted.
Does google offer sufficient mail API's to be able to write ones own frontend?

If the storage, searching and tagging of mail are all handled by the backend, building the web frontend seems like it could be 'hobby project' sized.
Facebook transitioned from a weekly release cycle [1] to continuous delivery while I was there. It was a big project. There's a nice writeup here:

https://code.fb.com/web/rapid-release-at-massive-scale/

[1] commits were pushed to employees on commit, that's how we tested, but not to the public
Yep, but it seems as if critical problems with updates(https://www.reddit.com/r/SolusProject/comments/9xrpeq/uodate...) are more common recently.

I haven't used solus daily for about 6 months, and prior to that used it daily for a couple years. I too will be putting it on a thinkpad shortly, we will see how it goes.
Hey boss, I don't understand why the code works in devel but fails in production?
I agree with what you are saying but you saying it kind of feels like a wet blanket.

Props to these people doing what they're doing publically.
It was a typo, and it has been fixed:

"Rust and Kotlin are also on the rise, both of which find built-in audiences in C and Java, respectively."
I must be missing something; but why not plug keyloggers on IT's computers?
Plant-based protein company Beyond Meat files for IPO
> Over the years, Tesla has developed a reputation for helping out when it is able.

And calling other people who help out paedos...
I wrote an inliner once. It might seem like an easy problem, but a proper inliner is a rabid animal you can just barely restrain on a leash.

The simple part is making it work without clashing. The hard part is making inlining always be an optimisation with reasonable code growth with regards to compilation time and cache use.
I had to endure the horror of reading it that way yesterday. Twitter loads incredibly slowly and keeps showing full screen popups to sign up which if you aren't very careful will redirect you away from the page.

Why on earth would anyone thing twitter is an appropriate blogging platform.
I think its trying to be a fancy list, but it seems like it should be in the spirit of Awesome X hosted on gituhub

There's already some privacy ones of those...

https://github.com/DVigneault/awesome-privacy

https://github.com/KevinColemanInc/awesome-privacy
I checked it out, and indeed. It went up from 10% a year ago to a fifth of the revenue. Impressive, but it is still an itching question how much of this is due to an AI/crypto bubble and a few big supercomputers coming online in coming years.
It's a terrible thing for well over a billion people to have to go through in order for a tiny elite to learn. I can't think of a better solution, though.
"The language for the 21st century should be business oriented, English-like and not dependent on native types.

The most exciting thing, we already have the language exactly like this! What do you think it is?"

Not to me, no. I thought this what some poll to gauge popularity of he various languages or some such.
Also it makes sense if you're a platform, or you're an infrastructure company. You're motivated to help startups building on your platform succeed, or help prove an entirely new category you're building infrastructure for. See Stripe and Coinbase doing that now.
I'm not sure if this covers everything you're looking at, but I have been moving towards getting this from Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/products/gumslone/wifi-air-quality-te...
I'll make it a million and one. Moved from gmail to fastmail a year ago, cant recommend it enough
You can't filter lack of oxygen.
>I don't think this is accurate for wheat.

Why are you making claims if you don't know anything about the subject of discussion?

>A brand new innovation is less efficient that an existing tech that has existed for centuries?

What are you talking about? It is not tech, it is plants. You can't argue we need a perennial grain because it is more efficient, and then say its ok for it to be less efficient because it is new.

>We've solved soil destruction?

Yes. This is not 1934, no-till has been the norm for decades. If your ideas about modern farming are 100 years old, you might want to stop telling modern farmers what problems they have.
It's 95% marketing and 5% engineering. There's not much to get excited about. (yet?)
How do they make it in a lab to develop it initially? How is that possible, but it isn't possible to make small batches on demand?
As a librarian at a large university library I feel this.

I'm uncomfortable poking too much around in scihub. Even though it's not something a national security agency would care about (I hope). Could any connection between papers from scihub and myself, be a huge issue both with my career and potentially for my institutions position when negotiating licenses. It might be paranoid, but there are so many possible ways to be compromised, that I choose to direct attention elsewhere.

I find it sad that I'm afraid to inquire on one of the most important developments in scholarly dissemination in resent years. I'm a research librarian for Price's sake.
The best book hands down in 2018 is "Bad Blood". Especially if you're into tech and entrepreneurship. It highlights exactly how crazy the system is in Silicon Valley. and how VC's eat their own dog food. This is something that people like Chamath Palihapitiya and Alexis Ohanian are currently trying to finger point. Silicon Valley is broken and this book is the perfect illustration of the reasons why.

https://amzn.to/2OPGZxM

This is an affiliate link and and I would earn kickbacks on your purchase(s).
While I am sympathetic to your line of reasoning, I would like to point out that most people are massively underestimating what computers (and by extension computer aided surveillance) can do.

For example, people are still regularly amazed when I show off Google Translate’s augmented reality mode, whose technology is nearly 8 years old now.

Other tech demos I have seen include:

• Wall penetrating radar using ambient WiFi to do pose detection

• Remote sensing of pulse and breathing from RGB video

• Audio recovery from normal speed (sans audio channel) RGB video footage by taking advantage of the rolling shutter

• Lip reading to the level that specific speakers can be isolated or removed from the audio stream of a clip

• Non-voice audio isolation/removal, e.g. guitar
Frontline has a great documentary on affordable housing called "Poverty, Politics and Profit" that goes in depth on common pitfalls.
Property rights are a regulation justified on this basis. Property rights are not usually associated with communism and totalitarianism. But hey, without a utilitarian justification for regulation we do still have two choices. Theocracy is one, anarchy is the other. I'm as against both of those as i am against communism & fascism. It's wonderfully radical to be so extreme as to be against property rights or claim that Jesus had teachings on the principle.
Nearly 3,000 Votes Disappeared From Florida’s Recount
A New 'Fortnite' Awaits in Blockchain Gaming
The hardest problem I've ever solved is learning to sit down and collage. Like, where you cut out bits of magazine and paste them onto paper, etc..

My friends do it pretty often. I find it super relaxing, and know I'll be happy I did it, but the engineer / researcher in me wants to always have fingers on a keyboard.
Or you could only hire psychopaths as writers.
To learn to listen to other people, instead of just waiting to talk - that's an ongoing problem.

To understand what "controlling behaviour" means.

To empathise, and see oneself from the eyes of others.
Hi guys, I've finished my run in ~13 hours. I've made an MVP Starter Kit https://21daysmvp.com/. That was a fun ride, but there's a lot of work ahead to make it a full-scale project. Time to go and get some sleep finally.
Book notes: The Courage to be Disliked
Microsoft knew all about Google

Yahoo knew everything about Google

Google knew everything about Facebook

Intel knew everything about ARM

Yet disruption ensued. “Can’t be disrupted” is foolish.
Compare: WebARX, MalCare, Sucuri, WordFence, SiteLock, SecuPress, CloudFlare
Estimating the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow (2003)
The total arrogance of Chomsky on display. He doesn't rate caring for another person's liberty to make their own mistakes their own way. As far as he's concerned if you don't agree with him you're lacking in empathy and moral fibre by definition. Didn't the Soviet union go well? Thanks for your input Noam!
So, COBOL for everyone then? lol. Your "create file" example looks exactly like COBOL. I disagree completely that business-oriented languages (the BO in COBOL stands for "Business Oriented") are the answer.

You decry DSLs because they are "worthless" for the user to learn -- but you forget that they make the work of the original developers that much easier, which is why they exist.

You bring up Lisp as an example and then are upset at its size. If there is one language to rule them all (or at least one that's covered all the bases), it would have to be Lisp. Of course, there's no one perfect language for everything. To paraphrase Ansel Adams, there's no perfect language only the perfect language for the kind of programs you write.
Google has stopped mirroring the Fuchsia repositories to GitHub
right but those are the exceptions that prove the rule. its so rare that its known as exceptional when it does happen
Yes, as long as the state can accommodate a few exceptions.
And yes as long a it is also actively watching competitors.
A lot of blockchain tech startups raise money and then turn around and invest in other startups.

I think we're gonna look back at this in 5 years and collectively say, what were we thinking?
Faster web
The buttons at the bottom are not a survey, the rest of the article is hidden behind them.
Show HN: Web Component to emulate the old-school ⟨bgsound⟩ HTML element
This was a bug in the way we were using a third party tool called Instabug. We removed it as soon as it was pointed out.
Yeah, it appears the correct answer is TPM. Thanks.
Yes. It seems stupid, but what you outline is a 100% match with what I’ve seen in practice. Until it happened to them, the other company was stupid and careless - not them.

At risk of repeating myself I’m chalking this up to basic human behaviour in all fields of life and the lack of taking responsobility by 80% of all people.

Security is very lopsided in that you just need 1 person to be careless for the attacker to get in, while the defender needs to be 100% secure across all vectors.

I could discuss this all day, and you know the importance of the topic, I know it, but the fact of the matter is that most non-tech people think of security as an annoyance. The solution? No idea yet, other than finding the right chord to strike and “fix” this psychological problem. We’ve made significant strides the last few months but getting companies more security conscious has been a tougher nut to crack than I first anticipated.

Feel free to email me at stan@site.security if you want to exchange thoughts on the topic. I’d love to take a deeper dive into the matter with anyone that’s passionate about solving the security problem in any way shape or form :)
SpaceX Isn't Planning to Reuse the Falcon 9 Rocket's second stage
Rule-Breaking Particles May Exist Near the Earth's Core
A bank!
Profitable because people pay for those services?

No, nobody is paying for YouTube red, nobody is buying "Android", they are profitable because they put ads in people screens. Nothing more, nothing less.
No better evidence you’re in a bubble market if the billions flowing into self-driving cars and blockchain didn’t convince you. If investors are willing for their startups to use their capital in this way then there really is just way too much money floating around.
It is not "misleading" when the scientific evidence collected via NASA's satellites is that CO2 fertilization has been measurably greening the continents for decades: "From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide." [1]

Anyone who studies the biology and evolution of plants, as well as the actual constraints of their growth processes, will understand why this gigantic transformation has been happening. There are similar measurements of major increases in ocean plankton over the last decades.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
Exactly. And look at the freedoms we've given up, billions of dollars we've spent (maybe more - we'll never know how much the NSA/CIA put into their data-collecting infrastructure), hours wasted (you used to be able to arrive at the airport 20 minutes before your flight left, and still board on time), etc.

IIRC - it "only" cost the 9/11 terrorists about $1M to pull it off. Terrorism is quite effective. It's almost like an amplified reflection DDoS attack - cheap to pull off and expensive to defend against.

https://www.aclu.org/other/top-ten-abuses-power-911

"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Ben Franklin
Building a profiler for .NET. Learning the .NET profiling APIs is a massive learning curve and extremely complex. But, we figured it out! This is for Stackify, BTW.
Gmail search often doesn't even work for me anymore, I simply can't understand how decisions are made at this company.

Is there a way to migrate all your email and maintain your Gmail address indefinitely?
Learning to throw years of work to thrash with no hard feelings.
The myth of the college dropout
Props for the Inform mention... One of the few cases where writing in pseudo-English is the right answer.
What happens to the unicorn's equity stake in a unicorn-backed company if the unicorn itself goes out of business? Does that equity get re-distributed to the unicorn's investors?
Apart from being a decent demonstration, editors are deeply personal. Some carpenters might not have a favorite hammer, but others do…

There's a reason why you find emulations of most editors in history remade for "modern" systems, no matter whether that legacy system is TOPS, VM/CMS, Plan 9 or Windows.
He cites that his ext4 system only has 10ms granularity, which is most certainly not the default, but likely a result of upgrading from ext2/ext3 to ext4.

What is the granularity of your file system? Mine appears to be 3.33ms.
The large majority of ISPs still only does Perl and PHP on their classical offerings, and I know which of the two I would rather use.
I have never before seen this idea to put CXXFLAGS into a file and treat it as a file dependency. That would also work with Make. Clever idea.

Nevertheless, a build system which does this implicitly is better, imho.
So Silicon Valley’s version of the CDO or better yet and the even worse — synthetic CDO
This theory basically assumes that firms cannot get smarter over time.

It assumes corporations will never get better at evaluating the market and their place in it, or have better information than previous generations.

That's a dangerous assumption, and doesn't seem to jibe with what we see in practice.
> we're gonna look back at this in 5 years and collectively say, what were we thinking?

We did that after the housing bubble in 2008 (low down payments, flexible credit ratings, etc.)

The big question is: could this also be a systemic risk to the economy? No one liked bailing out the banks, but it was necessary to save the economy. It is not clear tech or crypto are similarly critical.
"When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing."

- Bernard Baruch
Regardless of other reasons for this observation, I think sampling bias, or the inspection paradox probably contributes to it.

Assuming that you are:

- equally likely to have the desire to learn/create something new during any given time period

- busy for the majority of your time (e.g. you are employed in a time-consuming job)

Then you are more likely to find that you want to learn something new while you are busy (since whenever you randomly find something you want to learn, you are more likely to be busy than not).

If you swap the second assumption to "idle for the majority of your time (e.g. you are unemployed, or employed at a more relaxing job)", then you are probably more likely to make the opposite observation.
The crazy dance of falling knots
Reminds of this book I found at a thriftshop, "The New Hacker's Dictionary" : https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-new-hack...

(though probably with a lot less snark)
> metered

Ah!
There is absolutely no chance of Sandberg putting together an effective run for president. Further I can't see a reason why this would be the most likely scenario.

Get out of the SV/HN hothouse and talk to some people who are not in tech.
Definitely building a design language that had a minimal learning curve, yet the expressiveness to build any website or shop imaginable. The MECE analysis of CSS, the development of a flexible JS framework for users to mix and mash without ever seeing the code. Took a few nights of thinking :)
Protocol Labs (best known for developing FileCoin & IPFS) launched a $5M crypto grant program.[0]

[0]https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-startup-protocol-labs-an...
Check out the source sizes for Firefox or Unreal Engine. A project that's so small is a project that isn't putting big demands on the build system anyway, so that exception proves the rule.
Certainly there is too much surveillance which not only prevent your freedom but also waste too much energy.
Nope, jstmpfile had it right.

> 25/31 < 31/37.

Is what I meant. Clearly I should have been more specific.
This has applications both to gene scientists and fluid dynamicists, but may also have applications for storing data as perturbations (air pockets or other materials) of fluid flows, which may eventually lead to data storage via subfields of faster moving fields, e.g., electricity, magnetism, etc. If that sounds crazy to today's audience, I agree. Maybe we'll be able to look at some of those things 50-200 years in the future...