skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How could you possibly say point 1 while also being a big oil shareholder?
Gradle 5.0 is just released
Yes, this article was disappointingly pointless, and the HN title doesn't fit.
> is not morally or ethically defensible

Based on whose ethics and morals? Eventually a country is going to go all in on robotics and genetic engineering, ethics be damned, and the rest of the world is going to be left in the dust -- economically and militarily.
It doesn't seem to say anywhere what drives the HDMI output, just "2D". Is that just for connection to a PCI card? Or is there some rudimentary VESA frame-buffer chip on it, just to watch it boot?
> so they should have appropriate distance from anything in front of them, and go slow enough to stop

This doesn't make sense. Crossing pedestrians go across the road, so if you are driving on a lane next to the sidewalk, then you could only go in first gear hovering the brakes, because any pedestrian on the sidewalk could start to cross the road in ~one second or less and would have right of way. Basically all streets would be zebra crossings. Obviously not how it works.
Looks like Debian supports POWER9 https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64
I think the real reason is people are realizing bitcoin, as it exists today, has no real utility, and solves no real problems. Also most of the speculators have lost so much money they're not touching it with a 100 ft pole. Its value is dropping accordingly.
Show HN: YCensus – Census of YC startup founders
I think the problem here is that OCaml/ReasonML is a relatively large language - the flip side to the nice syntactic sugar, and there's a paucity of material to get people into ReasonML if they haven't touched FP before (which for FP to take off is the target audience).
Churner, curious for more. Email's in my profile. Thanks!
I read that as "not even grey". It actually achieved its purpose.
Should be an Ask HN:
5 Business Warning Signs That Signal Ethical Exposure
The movable type printing press in Asia predates Europe's by centuries. Although it's admittedly more practical to use with a 26 character alphabet.
This was an odd presentation. There were a bunch of interesting data points and ideas about how the Internet really hasn't change commerce as much as it will. But then it ends on a bit of a whimper mostly saying "we couldn't see what was coming in 1993 and we can't tell right now".
> EventStorming ... is ... a flexible workshop format for collaborative exploration of complex business domains. EventStorming is a technique that uses visualisation to minimises assumptions by engaging in deliberate, collaborative learning between different disciplines. EventStorming helps to solve complex business problems in the most effective way beyond silos or specialised boundaries.

So, deciphering this BuzzwordStorming: you get together and model your business domains in a group, using visual aids.

Quite revolutionary! cough
And memory management productivity.

I agree GC free management is necessary, but it should be constrained to certain high performance niches, which cannot cope with GC + value types.
Couple of points.

Governments regularly dole out tax and other equivalent subsidies all the time to businesses. From these bail outs, to funding stadiums, to getting new jobs or headquarters.

This is all comes with risk and the risk should entirely be on the government making the deals. If they are making bad deals then hold them accountable. Part of this is making sure that all other taxation and such does not eventually price manufacturers out of your region.

With regards to the auto industry, the key word is industry. It is spread across multiple countries which means all must be taken into account when it comes to where vehicles are produced. This gets more important as the industry shifts the types of vehicles being made.

EV production will lead to the largest number of plant closures in the history of automotive production. The drive train savings alone in complexity will remove the need for engine and transmission plants as well as many plants which make the supporting hardware like pumps and more. The cascade effect on repair and maintenance shops will be even more hard felt.

edit: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-restructuring/gm-to-cu...

Appears they are dropping three plants and a few cars
Oh yeah, it would be great, like the news about the particle whose speed exceeded c. Unfortunately I don't think it is going to happen after all these years and all these advanced experiments that only confirm it over and over.
If you look at it that way, my blog has something like That 100k users. In reality, users from Google analytics mean people visiting and clicking something.

If they use ad block, you don’t get that info (typically), if they don’t click around they aren’t a user, if they click something and leave they are a user... users simply represent visits by a single entity.

If you want good analytics either roll your own on the app server side (which is what I do) or use one of the many other options. Users in this context is nearly meaningless
You do realize that Bitcoin adoption constituites a mortal threat to the financial business? Perhaps that is why they were dismissing Bitcoin.
Totally fair. You can definitely take the stance that without knowing what a substitute is for publishers it's still worth trying to destroy them, and have faith that something will rise up to fill the void. My argument would be that you need to be careful to not underestimate the publishers, particularly Elsevier. The shift to OA hasn't yet harmed the publishers. In fact, all the major publishers are among the largest publishers of OA articles. Elsevier is full of incredibly smart people who can adapt. So if your goal is to put them out of business, you need more than just a strategy to burn their business model (although if you could figure out how to remove money entirely from the process you'd succeed I suppose).
I stopped listening to commercial radio maybe 20 years ago. The commercial aspects ruin the experience - too many ads, too many loud strident and annoying ads, too small and repetitive a playlist. Very little news, talk, science, comedy etc.

Classic FM was OK for a while, but these days I almost constantly listen to BBC radio in the car or at home because unlike TV I can do other things at the same time. When I'm listening to R4 at home (talk radio with news, science, current affairs and comedy) it's often interesting or funny enough to deserve full attention. I still prefer radio as a day's background noise over constant streaming thanks to the variety in programming through the day, and the periodic talk, and news. I turn off or switch for some of course. :)

TV I mostly gave up on, except some BBC, and films and a few series via Netflix etc. I hate UK commercial TV - way too many ads now, enough to ruin the programming and stop me wanting to watch.

Without BBC radio it would ruin my day. Most days. I'm not sure what I'd do without it. Listen to a lot more audio books maybe, as I don't want 100% music.

If you want to experience the BBC a lot of radio is available for ad free download, podcast, or streaming on site, and there's always the World Service. Not sure how TV access is from abroad. World Service is interesting because it gives a distinct perspective that's different to domestic UK broadcasts. I used to listen a lot when I was often up late.
Show HN: Collection of highly rated programming courses of all time
Unleashing the power of Cloudflare Workers
Can you write a more full-length post with more details and put it on here? I find your post intriguing but you left most of the problems in the background, vague and undefined. Let's hear what they are, please!
Just because something is revenue doesn't mean that the purpose is entirely to increase revenue. That is the claim you made. I have presented a counter-example to that, where revenue increase is clearly not the only reason for monetary fines. We have the stated purpose of the legislation -- you can call that PR or whatever you'd like but the stated purpose is not revenue increase -- and you have the fact that these revenues do not benefit any police departments or anyone directly. Instead they make up an absolutely tiny fraction of the total revenues of the state.

Just for fun, I calculated this fraction for a given year. The revenue from all traffic violation fines accounted for a whopping 0.1% of the total state revenue.

So apparently the only purpose of these traffic fines are to raise the state revenue by 0.1%, despite the explicit stated purpose of the legislation and any evidence to the contrary. Does that make sense to you?

Is this one of those things where you just know you're right because you feel it in your gut and nothing can ever convince you otherwise?
user's session time is 26 seconds which increased to 50 seconds later. But how many of those are returning users?
Transactions are only now taking place increasingly electronically. That's why only now are banks being moved into the position of police investigator and enforcer.

Whether gold is transacted in for daily items is a non sequitur. It is used. It's simply expensive to transport.

You've also ignored cash entirely.

To be honest I remain unconvinced at the weight of your counterargument.
Oh that's just how I think haha. Hadn't even noticed. What is it, breaking it down to steps?
Thought people would be interested in seeing stats of YC startups beyond the typically funding and acquisition stats. This also happens to be an IMDB as well, when you click on founders and what they've worked on.

For more context, https://medium.com/@they_made_that/introducing-the-ycensus-3...
Due to your comment, I checked out the slide. She's not skinny (seems normal/healthy), and I was expecting more legs. False advertisement.
Get where you're coming from, but I don't think they're entirely wrong. Whilst you can't buy Photoshop once now (your point), there are plenty of models where the choice is still there. Netflix and Spotify both have one-off purchase equivalents. You can still buy Jira as a one off purchase instead of SaaS.
Yes and no. It's possible to ignore the OO features and use OCaml purely as a functional language, in a way that you can't really do in Scala.
How so?

OCaml has bytecode + native code compiler, both much faster than heavy C++ templated code, or plain Rust code.
Revealed: faulty medical implants harm patients around world
Claim of first Human babies' genome modified by CRISPR
This is true. Someone else in this thread posted the long-form article about the history of Robert Maxwell, which is absolutely worth the read. I'm definitely not of the opinion that the existing publishing system is the only way (or the best way) for science to be conducted.
My 1975 (Dutch) house came with screw style valves, not push style which this document seems to describe. I can imagine there is a large amount of different screw type valves that have no adapter of any type available. I ended up replacing the valves with proper push types which here in the Netherlands are mostly normalized to one of the more common German valve sizes.
Sounds like you aren't very familiar with Bitcoin. I'm talking about Core, and Blockstream. If you were truly familiar with what's been going in with Bitcoin for the last couple of years, those names alone would be enough.

Considering they maintain the /r/Bitcoin subreddit and pay millions of dollars towards astroturfing campaigns and subversion tactics, considering how they have completely transformed the Bitcoin community into a mob with half a dozen talking points and bone to pick with every single other coin out there, I don't know how you could say I'm overestimating their influence.

I strongly suggest reading a few of the links in the first paragraph of this post[0] to get an idea of what has been going on.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9lfjrb/frequently_aske...
I just read the article and I don’t even remember the girl.
It's a pretty loose priority system, with the basic heuristic being that I try to choose the task that brings the most value to the project at the given moment.

That usually means I end up sort of ping-ponging between feature development and refactoring/tech debt. I develop features until I feel like structural issues are annoying/slowing me down, and then I focus on code quality until I can move fast again.

But honestly it's a very loose system and it's fairly sensitive to what I am most driven to work on in a particular time period. But I'm not really trying to micro-optimize the project, my main goal is to have a system which lets me be consistently productive. That means it's loose enough to not get in my way when I'm in flow-state, and it's organized enough that I can have a list of achievable goals to work through when I'm lacking in intrinsic motivation.

I also don't mind having a pretty huge back-log. When I'm totally uninspired it's nice to be able to pick up on ideas I haven't thought about in weeks and play around with them with fresh eyes.

edit:

> It's a pretty loose priority system, with the basic heuristic being that I try to choose the task that brings the most value to the project at the given moment.

I built my own very simple tool for that. It's a bit redundant since there's a lot of great tools out there, but it does everything I want and nothing I don't, and it's very low friction/distraction free.
There's QUIC (protocol) and HTTP/3 (HTTP over QUIC). DNS over QUIC uses the first but not the second.
It has a server-style BMC which drives the HDMI port. It's only a basic 2D framebuffer device (with basic 3D "support" through the LLVMpipe OpenGL/Mesa software rasterizer), though Raptor Computer claims it's good enough for daily use. Obviously if you need high-performance 3D or more than 1 display you need would an add-in card.
That's because Git already provides the same solutions for problems which exist in reality (immutability, trustless, distributed). All that's left out is the opportunity for some grifter to [if we're lucky] match it at substantially greater cost.
How do you define "best" here? What outcomes are you optimizing for? Profit alone? Number of cars produced? Carbon emissions?
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Is Tainted by Crisis After Crisis
Python makes it easy to start a program. OCaml is easy to finish one.
Thanks for that tidbit, I was wondering if 'anyone' was using it.

Though, I don't think that's what understood generally as an AAA game:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry)

I think Dead Cells was made by 11 guys, so more like indie than AAA scale.
Comment from the website source code:

// sometimes when the user reloads the document Netscape 3.01 does not trigger the onLoad event

Netscape 3.01 was released in 1996

The JavaScript code is also commented out, in case the browser doesn't know what JavaScript is.
That struck me less like "subscription economy, wink wink, here's a hot chick and all the associated connotations of women and payment" - and more like "it's the subscription economy! everything is great! here's a happy person to represent the future potential"
Process as a way of getting conference gigs.
So basically anyone that can understand the basics of a good salesman from Wolf of Wallstreet can land deals better than the “moderate” personality types that have been shown to statistically deliver better sales results for most companies? Am I missing something about how those studies were conducted that this emotionally based rather than fact-based approach is better at conversion rates than a mix of approaches? On the flip side, is this why more successful people have a habit of defaulting to “no”?
A critical part of composite materials is that they are dimensionally stable. They don’t warp, elongate, or shrink, which is better than true wood. The glue and different grain orientations counteract the normal movement.

The grain patterns in OSB look a lot like those in parts made of forged carbon, and provide a similar purpose.
You do realise that Bitcoin is experiencing much more inflation in its supply than the USD or the EUR, don't you?
> Choosing Ruby/Python over Java was at the time an act of rebellion and a show of technical superiority.

Not much of a rebellion, it was just that back then you had instant access to Python's REPL by just typing "python" in any Linux distro terminal. A Python "program" could have been just a simple script_that_does_stuff.py file run from the same terminal with:

> python script_that_does_stuff.py

On the other hand Java was a total mess.

Source: me, a Python programmer for 13+ years who directly referenced this (famous at the time) "Python is not Java" blog post [1] during my first interview for a programmer job

[1] https://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html
Personally, I see Elm as an interesting development in such a direction, i.e. humane FP language, with the author relentlessly striving for simplicity and ease of use kin my opinion, successfully). That said, it's currently limited to a web dev./"frontend" domain (JS replacement).
These kind of blog posts are one of the reasons why I love the internet, and why Hacker News is such a great place.
WebCodeSniffer – Validate your code for consistency with a coding standard
Doubts within China on gene-edited babies story
Please describe how Spotify and Netflix offer these lifetime price one-time purchase options.. quite well hidden in their exclusively subscription pricing
If your job is an academic then of course the job implicitly includes reviewing papers. That's what being an academic involves. It's part of your normal paid day-job if you have an academic position, either in industry or in a university.

Do you think academics and industrial researchers take holiday when they have to travel to a program committee meeting? No of course not, they do it during work time and are paid for it and their employer pays for flights etc.

While I was in academia I was specifically tasked with reviewing papers for an external conference, and so were all my colleagues.
I'm sorry if I come across as obtuse, but I just need to understand this clearly. Is it your belief that the low usage of Linux has nothing to do with Linux itself?
Superhuman CEO on Optimizing for Product Market Fit. Video, Transcript, Q&A
Huh, that's actually... a decent-sounding intention.

Is there any way to do that in a secure manner? Because a hash says nothing about the length of a password (and you certainly don't want to store the length, which would make the attack space much smaller)... so if passwords are anywhere, say, from 8-64 characters, then for each chat message you'd need to hash every possible consecutive string of characters for every possible window size separately, which if the hash is even remotely computationally intensive could possibly turn into too much -- especially if being done on the server instead of the client (in order not to expose the hash and salt).

Is this just something it's not possible to protect against?
It's all about when large masses of HN users show up at work, check their email, get their coffee and post on HN and the demographics/opinions/ideology of those users. If you make a comment that is critical of SV (and SV's definition of "critical" is highly inclusive) or doesn't take the official California compliant line on some political issue when you're on lunch break on the East coast you're gonna get down-voted hard. HN users on the west coast might be slightly more pro-China than the east coast and you're noticing the effects of that.
Super interested in joining this Slack - steve at stevedomin dot com. Thanks!
It’s a slippery slope when you leave such a wide range to a boards discretion.
CSS-Only Walking Dog
HTTPS isn't only used for webapps. It's widely used for APIs from mobile phone apps (for example). There are also a ton of libraries etc. for handling HTTP and HTTPS making it easy to adopt.
This is how China is going to take the lead. They will start breeding disease-resistant, stronger and smarter humans, and the west will take the moral high ground, tweet about how evil China is on their new phones, and fall behind.

Our ethics will be our downfall.
No, in many companies, different sales people thrive on different sales strategies. Good sales decks are not feature reviews; like the article says-a deck is a launchpad for discussing a compelling narrative, which is why they’re only really effective as part of a presentation (as opposed to a downloadable resource).
Smart contracts are a bet on our ability to write code that is free from flaws. History suggests that the odds of that are not good. I'd rather trust a bank and the legal system.
Crispr/CAS9 is not necessarily about large sums of money, though. It's a cheap technique, I could probably teach you it in 3 days of lab work, and someone with lab experience could learn it even faster.

The issue is more the genomics. We can tinker with genetic code quite effectively these days, however we can't reliably predict which developmental processes will be affected by our tinkering; in short, we are far behind in our understanding of the array of specific roles of genes beyond the narrowly defined disease pathways we want to affect.

Just as an example, say you want to change the encoding for one of the dopamine receptors to discourage dopaminergic activity, hoping to lessen the risk of addiction and reward-based activity. Well, dopamine is also involved in dozens of other processes, including movement, executive function, and more. Who's to say what effects will occur in a fully grown human?
AWS DataSync
A lift that is stuck misaligned with the floor is by definition in an error state. It's something that should never happen. Lift programmers are -- much like ordinary programmers -- not omniscient. The chance of an elevator running into a bug in the software during normal operation is basically zero. The chance of running into a bug in an error state is much much higher.

If you're lucky the lift will have detected something wrong and gone into lockdown itself. If you're unlucky it'll start moving with your body halfway through the doorway. It's not incredibly likely to go wrong but the price when it does is too high to risk it.
Someone totally needs to write some fan-fiction where bitcoin running on mechanical computers prevents the rise of fascism.
It is. Ping me at dgreisen (at) openlawlib.org if you're interested in helping out.
Replace "user data" with "toxic waste." Does it still work? History seems to indicate that it doesn't. Why would this be different?
>For example, the article is ambiguous about whether the student finished his computer engineering degree at university or not.

No it's not. There's explicitly a part of the article that asks if he was able to get a job without a degree. He does not have one.
Are you hiring in Bucharest office?
The best! He is going for more!
WILKALDO is the best in the world, OYOOOO
Nice example of the grasping at straws. Can you actually answer parent's question with an example that is not almost 100years old?
You might want to seek out a local maker space? Is the USA these aren't too uncommon. Or, with the kids, take things apart and rebuild them, modify them. Unscrew, unclip, use a solder iron to remove components. Hours of fun. Maybe since we care nowadays, first check (google) for toxic materials such as Asbestos or lead or mercury.
WILKALDO IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD, cherries
Yeah, iframe aside, I actually like layout from those days.

Skeuomorphic spiral notebook was all the rage
CRISPR inventor Feng Zhang calls for moratorium on gene-edited babies
This is a great blog post. If you want to know more, this is Rahul speaking on the subject at Business of Software Conference USA. Video, transcript, slides and an excellent Q&A.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18533535
If you find 1.5x-faster gzip useful, you should consider benchmarking pigz, a parallel gzip implementation that goes faster still: https://zlib.net/pigz/

Similarly there's lbzip2 ( http://lbzip2.org ) for parallel bz2.
Turkey Wipes Out the Christian Culture of Occupied Cyprus
I have a question. Why do cryptocurrencies illicit such strong responses from both sides?