skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not OP, but why would an engineer write a "paper on the impact of #MeToo" that anyone would need to "trust" purely on the engineering experience of the author?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab

> Some recurring themes of work at the Media Lab include [..] designing technology for the developing world.

What about this? Is this not also activism in a way?

IMO, if engineers were just making little toys they in engineering clubs with no impact on wider society, sure, they could have no interest in human affairs for all I care. But insofar they want to draw from and impact on human affairs, they need to assume the responsibility they have anyway, if they accept it or not.

From the 2017 award page:

> Their work shows that science and scholarship are as powerful tools for social change as art and protest, and it challenges those of us in academia to use our powers for good.

And again, this is really not a rhetorical question, what would a paper on "the impact of metoo" by an engineer even look like?

Would there be a personal opinion in it somewhere, if not of the author then of "subjects", or would it be all "objective" and mathematical, employing "best practices" with no judgement calls in sight? I'm totally not seeing it, so my main "opinion" on that is surprise, and interest, like when a program exhibits a really odd bug where I don't even see how that part could possibly affect that other part. I don't have an opinion on it at this point like I would on a program feature because I can't even parse it as such. It seems like a category mistake, if that's the right term.
I'm bullish on selection approaches generally, but I think editing is not as promising at the moment. Editing via double-strand breaks is just way too unreliable for use in embryos, and base editing is too limited to make use of GWAS info.

This could change if the tech improves, but it would need to improve A LOT.
A minor update: Now Chez Scheme is open source (Apache license) https://github.com/cisco/chezscheme
Lying with Gun Data. Again
Depending on the legal criteria (if quotas) decided by society, that could be true.

It could not.

It really comes down to implementation (of which "doing nothing"/autarky is one choice).
Bitcoin ETF Roadblocked for Lack of Safeguards, SEC Chief Says
And if it's created for China, it will sooner or later be used everywhere else. Like Cisco routers were.
Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
> So it actually is a draw! (sort of)

There's been a tournament of top engines playing out the position after the draw -- I think black (Carlsen) won 11 games and white won 2 games, with the rest draws. So this declaration of the lack of advantage just isn't true.

> just take things to the tiebreakers where Carlsen has a significant advantage.

But he had a significant advantage on the board, too. The question is the magnitude of the advantages. Caruana has previously been a world blitz champion too, so it seems unlikely that any advantage would be more than 60%-40% to Carlsen. Which seems smaller than the advantage we see from the computer tournament results.
IMHO the best way to learn a language is a Michel Thomas audio course. Also, whatever way you choose, adding another one or more (whatever) as soon as you become fluent in the way you have picked up initially is a great idea.

The most annoying problem with Duolingo is it quickly becomes boring by asking you stupid questions repeatedly, you start daydreaming and clicking-through the questions-answers too fast, making mistakes purely out of lack of attention (so you click a wrong one although the right answer is obvious to you) and it reacts with asking you more stupid questions, the same or on the same topic. It really should let you progress faster then just ask you to repeat what you have learnt occasionally (but not too soon and not too much).

Nevertheless I wish more subjects would be available to learn the Duolingo way. I.e I'd love to study math, history, literature, biology, geography etc like that. I hope Duolingo authors will eventually come up with such a universal non-language-centric kind of platform and let users publish courses on different kinds of subjects.
Sixel is an old graphics format:

• [1988] http://www.vt100.net/docs/vt3xx-gp/chapter14.html

• [1990] http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax90b1/krypton-nasa/al...

It is one of the reasons why iTerm2 got so popular: https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html
> Something we as techs need to push up in the agenda of management.

And you're absolutely right, we should. It just seems like a losing battle at times, that's all I was trying to convey.
Show HN: Use of AI to monitor 15M corporate websites
Interesting.

You'd think HDMI would be able to use ARC to send a signal back, since the TV would know the exact moment it is displaying the image.
As a Midwestern raver in the 90s that was regularly in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis, I love this little history and philosophy piece.

I can't quite explain the feeling of the midwestern rave scene in the 90s, but it was very racially diverse, utopian, punk, looking somehow back and forward in time at the same time enmeshed in psychedelics and psychedelia but somehow also part of both machines and cultures far older than machines. A super important part of my history.

Cyberia by Rushkoff comes closest to capturing parts of it from an anthropology perspective I think.
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Postgresql gets native JSON support (at least since 9.2 onwards) to store schemaless free flowing text. Dynamodb gets transaction guarantees.

There is globalization and intermingling happening on technology too.

On a similar thought, a few years back, C# and Java got `Any` generic types, while Python/JS got static types (via python3 typings, typescript)
The UK Civil Service already does this. They ask you to remove all PII, school/ university names. That said you can leave your previous employer names in it.

They call it "name-blind" recruitment.
I’m making $200 a month off of it, and I live in San Francisco. Needless to say, I’m practically fully funding it out of my savings. It’s this, anyway, it was on the front page a few weeks ago: https://getaether.net

Basically, a passion product, something I want to see exist. It has the chance to sustain me eventually, but I think I’ll run out of savings long before it comes there, unless, I don’t know, I make a business version and sell B2B...
> Asynchronicity is just how sequential models are extended to support concurrency.

Asynchronicity just means not existing or occurring at the same time, i.e. not synchronised or without synchronisation.

How you expand that definition to computer science is a matter of opinion. I personally take the opinion that an asynchronous operation could be either concurrent or parallel.

> Parallelism and concurrency are orthogonal, so a concurrent model can be executed in parallel.

Completely agree with that.
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Bitex Exchange Opens in United Arab Emirates (UAE)
The Asian crypto exchange Bitex has just launched services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Bitex itself just launched earlier this year with a vision of improving some of the limits they see in other exchanges. Its main goal is to offer a more local, bank-like service. @bittpress.com/bitex-opens-united-arab-emirates-uae
Newcleus' "Jam On It" is one a the few pre-acid songs I can think of that tries to find a use for the 303. They also didn't bother attempting to emulate a bass with it.
I find it eerie that the movie War Games came out the same year, actually five months before.
It seems like reducing the cost/making MRIs more comfortable would be much more useful.

Presumably if the machines didn't cost 3-5 million, with huge energy requirements, etc, you could get scanned a lot more often which probably be better than just using AI/ML?

If you were able to scan cancer patients cheaply and quickly for a much lower cost and faster, I'd assume that would have a significant impact.
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Docker can save tons of time by letting you bundle up a copy of your staging environment/backend onto an image that mobile developers can run a copy of on their laptop without having to know all of the custom CFLAGS you used to install your wonky dependencies.
Do people actually think they'll die if they sleep with the fan on? Thats pretty weird to me.
Same issue with California's Whiskey town. We have a lot of portable meth labs roaming the woods and trails, and only 2 rangers patrolling a huge swatch of land. They do not last long.
I know. Dpkg is more consistent anyway.
I don't know where in the world you are located, but 3000 USD after taxes for 20h per week sounds like a lot of money.

Some companies in major cities might pay that much, but it's going to be hard to find part time jobs -- companies prefer employing people full time.

A possible solution could be contract work. Here in Austria, there are lots of small agencies that send developers to big companies and banks. Rates for experienced devs can be 80€ per hour, so at 20h per week you might be able to make 3000€ after taxes. I'm not sure how easy it is to get a job like that, though.
No true Scotsman...

Any group has to own its bad eggs as well as its good.
Literally planet scale.
You are right about the confidence-building, but wrong about everything else.

When I'm walking in a dangerous area, or even a safe area, I always look directly at all who approach in the other direction, from afar. I intentionally look friendly, but ready for a confrontation. Anybody who looks even slightly troublesome gets a head to toe scan, not because I intend to do anything with the information but rather to signal that I'm not going to be an easy victim.

Troublemakers, muggers, beggars, prostitutes, pushers are just like you and me: they are looking for an easy job. If you act - not look but act - like you would be difficult to handle then they will look for another victim.

Oh, and I should mention that vigilant situational awareness had saved me from many more speeding electric bikes than terrorists. Nice side benefit.
Racket also has a package manager and central repository.
I think Duolingo is great for forming habits. Ultimately, if you want to learn something new you need to work on that skill over a decent period of time, and this becomes hard to do without a regular habit.

Duolingo is also great at exposing yourself to the language gradually, but unless your goal is to simply be able to hold a conversation or say a few phrases, I don't think it will get you anywhere in the long run.

As I'm getting more into language learning (specifically Japanese), Krashen's input hypothesis seems to be an important part of the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug
Essentially he makes the distinction between "learning" that word A in language X has some meaning Y, and acquiring an unconscious understanding that word A means Y.

His main point being that this unconscious acquisition (that is, being able to hear a words/phrase and not having to put conscious effort into to translating it in your head) only comes from comprehensible input, that is, listening to the language and understanding messages (I'm not so convinced that it has to be entirely 100% comprehensible, rather from experience think language can be acquired even from something like 20% comprehensible material).

Communities have been rising up around Krashen's theory, one being AJATT (All japanese all the time).
alljapaneseallthetime.com

The creator of the site advocated listening to native Japanese material 24/7 (or at least as much as you possibly can during the day) as well as making i+1 sentence (linking back to Krashen) flash cards using Anki (or equivalent SRS system).

More recent innovations on AJATT have been arising thanks to MattVsJapan (https://www.youtube.com/MATTvsJapan).
He is currently developing a method he's calling MIA (Mass Immersion Approach) that refines AJATT into a more general approach that is applicable to any language (for now it's more focused on Japanese since that's what Matt is most experience in).

One common criticism of these methods is that they advocate NOT speaking until you are have achieved some form of basic fluency. The reasoning being that training your unconscious model on listening will prevent you from making mistakes early on, until you are ready to train your model from your own speech.

Honestly I'm not doing these methods enough justice, there is a lot of background and theory behind them, and MIA itself is still evolving (Matt is actively trying to change the way people learn languages, or if not that, at least the way people think about how language learning works). If anyone is serious about learning a language to a highly proficient level, ditch duo lingo, textbooks and tutors and read up on these methods instead, you won't regret it.
Blame emissions standards. They effectively killed everything in the Ford Ranger, Chevy S10 size range, and pushed the survivors up into the size parameters of what an 80s or 90s half-ton pickup used to be, if perhaps not the weight, due to steel vs aluminium/plastic construction. Notably, modern Toyota Tacomas dwarf their predecessors.
In condensed matter physics, there is a lot of good and original work coming out of top Chinese universities and being published in top journals. Also, for those in the 1000 talents programs, the startup grants that they receive are draw dropping.
ISIS use Bitcoin and Zcash, Europol said in a report
No argument on the doxxing side, but I wasn't talking about Assange. We were talking about the "behind the scenes" movie, and the maker of the film might have been a Putin critic at some point, but is no more than a clown now. His Twitter feed is quite delicious, complete with claims that Russian press is freer than Western, and with adoring comments from people with English-sounding names, but written in such a stilted and obviously translated word for word from Russian language that one could do another HN post how Twitter's claim to have banned Russian bots is nothing but self-serving bunk.
Racket is now integrating the best parts of Chez Scheme, for a future release.
Thanks for the tip. I was using the ‘Salted’ template from Litmus as a base. MJML looks quite polished though.

This is how it turned out with Salted:

https://mailsend.app/sendy-airlabs/w/qP3rC892jhLqY763Z0DTBnY...

Not too bad for a first try, I think. If anyone needs help with Salted, happy to take a look.
There was a quote by Andreas Antonopoulos (Mastering Bitcoin) saying something about the cost vs. risk and how you can afford to sell a cup of coffee instantly without fearing a double-spend attack. You might wait for one or two blocks to be confirmed before you sell a laptop. That scales exponentially for six blocks being so expensive to double-spend past that it'd cost you a hangar ship.
The Politics of Debt-Serfs and Tax Donkeys
How a simple bug in ML compiler could be exploited for backdoors?
Transcript: Human Embryo Editing (Jiankui He)
Which is not a lot of vacation and way too much work.
The American Physical Society recently found that international enrollment in graduate physics programs I'd down by around 10%. But, it's uneven. At say Harvard or Stanford, things are probably still fine, but a smaller institutions, it can be much greater. What's worrisome (as an American) is that these trends may not be reversible
One disadvantage: they wound and kill hedgehogs.

The hedgehog will curl up and (at least some of) the machines will drive into it.
I don't know anything about this field, so I'm hoping I could bug you with some questions because it seems really fascinating!

First of all, could you give some concrete examples of the kinds of data people using this would be handling? The examples provided in the article are incredibly vague, and the linked Wikipedia articles didn't help clarify.

Could you give some ballpark numbers and breakdown of the costs involved? How much does it cost to manufacture and launch a small satellite? What about buying a dish and operating your own ground station? What about regulatory fees for licensing and registration? There's a few mentions of hobbyists, but I have a hard time imagining many people with enough money and interest to deal with all these challenges. Is there some secret cabal of millionaires and billionaires that are really into space?
So you're saying that people of a sovereign nation use local products and that is somehow dangerous. You're also saying that you're entitled to their money.

I find this line of thinking to be very troubling, to be honest.
Smaller coins are very inexpensive to double-spend.

There was someone on hacker news some months back who collected donations to proof-of-concept abuse one or more.

So a safer alternative would be a token coin on Ethereum, since you're not actually switching to a microscopic, unknown and thus abusable blockchain.
They can get fired. If they're still an H-1B, that basically requires them to leave the country immediately.

There's a short grace period in practice (usually, and this isn't official) if you have another job all lined up that is ready to sponsor you. But if you were an H-1B applying for a green card via your employer, this basically resets your position in line, unless you're in late stages of the process. And keep in mind that the wait is measured in years for many countries (e.g. for India, >9 years right now unless you're in the "exceptional" category).
> Saying they spurned Google...the majority of the substitute employers are already in China.

There is life outside of the FAANG/GAFAM bubble. If you refuse to work at Google, it doesn't mean that you're then obligated to work at Amazon or Microsoft, etc.
Your product is wonderful, and arguably if you'd just had the conversation on Aether instead of Github, the moderation tools you've spent so long building would have prevented you seeing that crap. Respect.

Building is hard. Listening to your customers is hard. But criticism is easy, and it hurts even when it shouldn't - take it from another builder. Deep down you have a massive moral high ground - it's a shame the human psyche can't internalise that against these stone-throwers.
Except the bureau chief of Reuters is a Korean, and not a person prone to sending stereotypes over the wire.
I also use a tiling wm, and use tmux. The main reason is that it means I can easily transition to using the same tool when working with remote machines using mosh. Personally, I've always felt odd when trying to use i3 tiling for terminals (maybe that's because I used tmux before I used i3).
This is not the opposite of their experience; this is identical to their experience.
Buying over priced bags would be too obvious and flagged quickly. It's better to buy property as it's a hard-to-compare good.
As I said in my comment, a lot of the stuff I see as positive for making code more readable more often than not adds extra lines as comments or as code, because you keep it simple. You are right that cramming 5 lines in one, doesn't really reduce code, but I have worked with enough programmers that thought it's a good thing.

Sure if you can reduce code without making it more complex, that's a good thing.
Not a R6RS fan myself, so no definitive answer. But AFAIK Chez (now open source as someone else posted) is R6RS-compliant and one of the fastest implementations. Also, R7RS-small is final I think. Not sure about R7RS-large. Here's an old discsussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11700167.
It's more complicated than that. Is co.uk simply a domain?
SWAT teams use them as rams on wheels to bust through walls.

Oh, and they do that to serve no-knock warrants on weed possession, no violent crimes involved.
> On the other hand, a new class of more dynamic and complex applications are also on the horizon, with an increasing demand for application constructs such as in-situ analysis, workflows, elaborate monitoring and performance tools. This complexity relies not only on rich features of POSIX, but also on the Linux APIs (such as the /proc, /sys filesystems, etc.) in particular.

If I were to design a new class of a thing to manage complexity efficiently today I would rather choose to rely on something Plan9-like or entirely new rather than the legacy "rich features of POSIX".
I found a way, pretty straight forward:

https://www.youtube.com/annotations_invideo?features=1&legac...
Inb4 more realistic damage in racing games.
> Many companies simply just waste employee time making them sit around or do busy work in order to appear that they're actively engaged in business activities.

Incredibly true. When I worked there, I had to literally sit at my desk until 8pm despite being done with work by 6 simply because 8pm for my office was the “end of working hours.” Then off to a Soju-fueled dinner with coworkers whether you wanted to or not which would often degrade to a session of mandatory fun at the Karaoke. Rinse and repeat. I love Korea, but the work culture can be brutal. Hopefully that has changed a bit.
In the early 2000's I worked on some Fortran-77 code that we were parallelizing (As a babe, this was my first experience with Fortran-77). We were having strange bugs because it seemed like some MPI calls were just not happening and others were. There were no compiler errors or warnings. Everything was supposedly fine. However, certain properties were propagating across grid elements just fine and others weren't. e.g. A particle might cross a vertical boundary and be just fine in the next CPU's element, but if it crossed a horizontal boundary it would lose it's horizontal momentum but keep everything else.

Eventually we figured out that the lines that weren't working were just over 80 characters long and the ones that were working were under 80 characters long. The compiler we were using was adhering to the Fortran-77 spec of a maximum of 80 characters per line (because that's what would fit on a punch-card), but it was just ripping those lines out and ignoring them without raising any kind of warning. If a line of code was over 80 characters long, it was just silently ignored. All we had to do was split the lines over 80 characters up and that particular bug was squished.

In my humble opinion, if a language can trip you up because of how many characters fit on a punch-card, it qualifies as "old school".
Yes, we did until 5 to 10 years ago. Not anymore. Some incorrect information from TV made people believe like that from maybe 70s.

edit:
What really happened was, some very old people died because of hypothermia by fan when the fan was just introduced in South Korean market. At that time, no one knew about hypothermia so people believed it was suffocation. That became the urban myth.
> Which domain registrar

Gandi, I've used them for over a decade now and never ceased to be impressed.

> hosting provider do you prefer?

Joyent, (full disclaimer, I worked here previously) they really got containers right, just compare Fargate or ECS with Triton both as a developer and an operator. Joyent's path makes much more sense to me. Manta is also impressive, and being able to spin up a container right where an object lies is perfect for some workloads.
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This sounds so true. I recently managed to get to 100% of my side project and now looking for customers. I got SUPER excited when someone responded to my cold email saying they are interested in my product. I gotta day, until I got that email I was super bummed out. Now I’m talking to another person and I have a feeling I’m into something in terms of outreach. Once I get my first customer I’ll aim for 5. Then 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 3 , 4, 5 1k 5k etc. I think short term goals make the most sense for motivation and that’s what I did to get to 100% project completion. It was hard, I wanted to start on something sexier at 80%.