skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the article fell between the gaps between two different disciplines

This is exactly right - Dr Sweeney went on to cofound a PhD program at CMU focused on this intersection, called "Computation, Organizations and Society". It's not just that policy folks aren't tech literate and that applied cs folks don't know law -- there are interesting technical results that evince at the intersection, like differential privacy frameworks and mechanism design.

A challenge of this kind of work is that it's difficult to prove generality or prediction power, because you are studying distributed systems that don't repeat themselves. Economists and sociologists are used to this problem, but it's hard to intersect with the more technical applied sciences that you would like to vet the work. So most practitioners have to pick one side or the other (hard vs "soft" communities) one publication at a time.
Ah, I missed the hissing part. Apparently he gets that noise only from a CD player, and that noise is constant through all song and unaffected by volume settings. That would mean the audio section of that player is really noisy and/or possibly the volume control has been put in the wrong place, for example too far (circuit wise, not distance) from the power amplifier section.
When connecting multiple stages together care must be taken to minimize noise. Besides careful design and choosing low noise parts, some practices can at least reduce the perceived noise even on noisy devices, for example by putting the volume control just before the power amplifier. This ensures that when the user lowers the volume the noise generated by previous stages gets also lowered along the signal.
If I had to choose a phone, iPhone. I doubt they can build anything close to it in terms of security. Not that I would use any phone I have with me the majority of the time for it, but I doubt they can do better in that form factor.
Vivo Nex 2 Will Comes with 10GB of RAM Leaks
This is a tired argument, comparing Bitcoin to stock and using words like "actual" in the context of stock while using words like "pretending" in the context of Bitcoin.

Most stock today doesn't pay dividents and has no direct relationship to the company's assets. You own some tradeable tokens and you bet on them going up or down in value. Implying stock ownership gives you something that's tangible and non-speculative is the real pretending.
I'm not seeing the links to the official websites, on the few examples I tried its pointing me back to wikipedia, ex:

https://visalist.io/algeria/visa-requirements/united-states-...
JS starts immediately but even if the function's return value is "ready" synchronously, you can't get its value back synchronously.
Most of the major countries information is available out of 201 countries
Uzbekistan has E-visa for all countries. Also, it has visa free for 5 days option if you are using a transit.
...and I literally did, in the next paragraph.
Nice suggestion. Thanks!
I don't think mixing is the right way to describe this. It's just moving more of the ui logic to the server.
Yeah, I concede that it's greatly surpassed in terms of volume. And that bubble probably wasn't the correct term.

However, my comment was more arguing against what you said with the context in a previous comment:

"What's so great about the web, that makes you say it is one of mankind's greatest inventions?"

-I don't believe that an invention being used largely for unhelpful uses makes the (still large) amount of benefit any smaller. So, even if educational use is dwarfed by facebook, it's is still a wonderful tool for many.
Blind to Luck
It could be over radio, analog or digital. Or perhaps some other em frequency. Or hyper-sonic transmission. Perhaps x-ray frequencies despite the poor irradiated cleaning lady. It doesn't have to be a script-kiddie solution.
Righty-oh: as Han Chinese, the Taiwanese are highly dangerous to the mainland Communist Party's narrative that there is no alternative and that top-down Party heavy-handedness is just being reasonable "with Chinese characteristics".
Any Finland-like scenario would demonstrate the effectiveness and societal value of obtaining more democracy to all Han Chinese.
MX-100 and green bar, for the win! (smile)
I personally don't like Google, they constantly mess up my writing/publishing and a lot more of bad/evil things. I don't have their software/code, can't selfhost it (not libre-freely licensed), and believe that things should always work offline just as well. Still, do you have a link?

Others in the community usually don't have such reservations/objections, or don't care enough about their own work and capabilities available to them.
The purpose of the "regulation" is to circumvent the US constitution, without actually amending the constitution.
Not sure, TBH. I think he said I would be mobile, but my 1+ hours a day walking was probably not possible. I knew from after the 2nd surgery that it help, so I completely ignored him.

We put so much trust in doctors, so I agree, who knows how many people he's harmed with that attitude.
Hydro is limited by your geography and largely tapped out. In Ontario it's about 20%. Trying to replace the remaining 80% of supply (plus future growth for EVs) with wind and solar (there's not much waves in Ontario) is an incredibly daunting proposition.

Again, the mount of electricity consumption is public info. The amount of output a wind turbine or solar farm per km^2 is available. Put these together and ask yourself how easy would be to convince people to do this.

Our old nuclear plants are our golden-egg-laying goose. Not only should we not kill it, other places should get their own.
I'm definitely doing less damage to the environment and my financial security if I spend my commute playing games on my phone than if I were to spend that time making transactions on a blockchain. Which is to say I don't think there's actually any sensible comparison that can be made here.
There's a big problem though, we already have many ways to do that. They have flaws but they are mature and generally pretty easy to use. Cryptocurrencies are not breaking new ground, they're trying to offer an alternative. That's a very different proposition. It's not enough for cryptocurrencies to work, they have to work better than "fiat". So far I'm unimpressed.
> Does this get thrown off if the rich don’t buy the new high end homes to live in?

Not really, it just implies that you should build even more of them. Soak up all the demand from rich speculating idiots, then let them take a haircut when it turns out you can build more housing than speculators have capital to buy with. As soon as they realize that prices are no longer going up, the speculation ends and normal people can go live in all the housing you've been building.

It's not as if building a different kind of housing would change anything. If you built two smaller units instead of one bigger one, you don't think speculators would just buy both of them with the same amount of money? What you need is to get the supply to the point that it's clear speculation will not be profitable.

There are also some known methods to discourage them, like vacancy taxes, if you're looking for a more immediate effect.
> If you think about imprisonment differently, perhaps as a means to protect other people from future crimes, issues like gut biome and “free will” aren’t really relevant.

They are very relevant, because then the question becomes "how do we best protect everyone, including the offender". It's highly unlikely that imprisonment is an appropriate medical treatment or harm minimization procedure for a medical condition.
Show HN: The upcoming release of Corman Lisp 3.1
T.b.h. I am not sure, been a long time since I played with it. I think so?
> and will be brittle because of the global nature of js and css.

Modules have existed in JavaScript for several years now, and there are numerous solutions for dealing with global CSS (CSS Modules, Glamor, etc). There are many large production web applications using React, probably generating billions of dollars worth of business - I don’t think they’re “brittle”.

> You can implement the same element as a Web Component and now it will work in any application regardless of framework... you can just drop in and it will work.

Sure, you can just drop a Web Component into any framework. People use React for a lot more than just defining components - they use it for data fetching, animations, etc.

> If your application has conflicting css classes or element ids or javascript variables the Web Component will still work reliably.

If this is the case I think you’ve got much bigger problems with your app than choosing which JavaScript library you’re going to use. React apps will work despite conflicting element IDs as well, but they’re still a bug in your app. Web Components don’t magically get rid of JavaScript variables. CSS classes still matter unless your whole app is going to live in the Shadow DOM, which isn’t really what the Shadow DOM is for.

> That’s hot! React components will feel a bit cold as cross-framework Web Components take over.

Again - you can use both. They solve different problems.
Everyone knows the best teams are homogeneous, and everyone knows that if a candidate hasn't looked behind the curtain of React, then they probably don't look behind the curtains of anything.
It doesn't sound like you watched the talk because I do justify the latency claim in quite a lot of detail, and no, it's not just about the language being safe or fast.

For example, even on commodity existing hardware, doing your audio processing inside the audio driver itself with kernel-level privileged control over its threading, affinity, and ability to write directly to the hardware buffers is going to be faster than than passing buffers and task-switching between multiple user-space threads, and dealing with all the scheduling jitter issues.
"You get this little machine you can control
from the outside, and it has a sword. The machine
gets in the water with a paramecium, and you try to stab
it" 35 years after this statement these nano devices still do not exist even in laboratory settings. What has gone wrong? What is preventing this?
If you’re a developer, build a bunch of high end housing, and try to sell it off, and no one wants to buy it, you have approximately three choices:

1. Leave them empty to deteriorate.
2. Cut your losses and sell them for cheap
3. Let them out for less than you feel they ought to be worth in the hope that people will be willing to pay your high price soon.

Option 1. Is unlikely to happen as it is very unprofitable. This leaves options 2,3, each of which leads to people living in the newly built properties, so the total supply of housing has increased. Even if people are just renting, this means there is less demand for rentals so less of an incentive to buy houses to let them out, decreasing the demand for houses.
Show HN: Scheme Macros for Common Lisp
I bet he’s only looking at POD. He could get a lot less if he did an offset run but then he has to manage warehousing books for an indefinite amount of time.
The notion that everything is kumbaya among all Han Chinese automatically is a silly government line.

> China can offer same government or laws for at least for x decades...

Wasn't Hong Kong supposed to be independently managed til 2047? The Taiwanese are not blind.
Gold at least has legitimate industrial uses that put a floor under its valuation.
Or exacerbate the conflict, the deaths from both sides in Taiwan and China could create hate that might just lead to a eight-year-long civil war like the Syrian Civil War with no end in sight.
I found this conference talk about WWII being at its heart a "battle of the factories" enlightening on this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xLMUifbxQ#t=26m20s
I've yet to see a bug system that is anything close to as good ss Bugzilla was in 1998.
This is absolutely correct. I've seen the analogy of the city build-out occur again and again as teams become fixated on tickets instead of understanding the overall problem and architecture.
Flawed premise as Jira Software is not Jira and the Portfolio app addresses their main complaint.

Junk article. They also point out that Jira is no longer in all caps but couldn't be bothered to search and replace.
Good news - you can do both! I use Spotify for regular everyday listening and finding new artists/new albums by artists I like, and I collect vinyl for fun and to support artists more directly.
Crypto Notepad
Looks like it’s designed to connect to an existing network, assuming the DEA didn’t make any modifications to the device. You can see the specs at the Canon website: https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/d...
Because they can pay to either insulate themselves (private clinic, fake names, etc), or pay to have such things silenced/changed/denied would be my guess? Especially if their businesses somehow benefit from not having privacy legislations...
No, not really. It looks a bit like C++/Java syntax but is very different in structure
Granted — I subscribe to EF for other reasons, not the visa information.

But perhaps you could look into using it as an API backend to gather the data for your site.
As the maintainer of InspIRCd i'm biased towards it but ngircd is a pretty solid piece of software if you only want something which is simple and easy to set up without a bunch of fuss.

I have to look through the source code of other IRC server implementations regularly when checking for cross-server compatibility and looking through ngircd's source code is always a pleasure. Its extremely well written and easy to follow unlike the irc2-based IRC server implementations (UnrealIRCd, etc) which usually are a pain to find out what they're even doing.
> Even Google goes down (sometimes once or twice a month)

I have been using Google since 1999 and I've never seen it down once in more than 19 years.
Interestingly enough I haven't read anyone suggesting this: Macromedia Freehand. Before Adobe acquired Macromedia and killed it in favour of Illustrator, it was probably the best vector drawing program you could get at the time.

I'd love to resurrect it and make it open source.
> Go ahead and ignore it right now. It's still building time.

I've been hearing this argument for years, but you that doesn't take away that global broadcast doesn't scale to any kind of useful TPS rate unless you're willing to decrease the network diameter, which implies centralization.

All the wishful thinking in the world can't change the laws of mathematics and physics.
And the website.. global and mail... seriously, this is not HN worthy.
Ask HN: What skills should back end software developers learn today?
To be a bit more precise, what do you think will be the next big opportunities for software developers in backend development. My focus would be on concepts that may become more relevant in the future. Links to notes / tutorials always appreciated.
Check the "Simulation" part of the Snow White paper I linked above for instance[1]. You're right to ask that, because indeed most Proof of Stake algorithms either have weaker[2] or slower[1] safety guarantees.

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/919.pdf#section.5

[2]: https://docs.zilliqa.com/whitepaper.pdf
>Anonymity of payments? Bitcoin is a shitty way to pay for anything and I want convenience first and most of the time I do not care about anonymity at all.

Unfortunately Bitcoin provides much less anonymity than cash or credit card payments. Bitcoin provides excellent censorship resistance, in that Bitcoin lets anyone who has Bitcoin send Bitcoin to anyone that wants Bitcoin (assuming of course internet access and fairly technical users). Additionally Bitcoin lets people custody Bitcoins like cash or gold and also lets those same users send Bitcoins digitally. This is a new development and something people couldn't do before. We are still in the early stages of seeing how people use this new capability. Check back in 20-100 years.

Smart contracts, especially legally enforceable smart contracts, have existed well before cryptocurrencies, however cryptocurrencies provide a fairly natural setting for them.

>Did not happen, because finance is still largely a business of relationships and trust.

Relationships and trust mean a high cost of doing business, both because trust is expensive and because relationships are not able to be automated. Cryptocurrencies and smart contracts offer a technical substitute for trust. This substitute is not good in all cases and has some serious tradeoffs. However there are some areas in which it is a clear improvement.
You can use ILSpy and disable async decompilation to see that C# creates a state machine.
Russian Tanks Drag Race Madness
Not enough attention is given to this point, IMO. It is the root of all our problems. Energy consumption, and thus climate change, would have been much more manageable issues without the world population doubling in less than two generations at the end of the 20th century.
That’s true for `async` methods, but keep in mind that you can `await` any value in C# that implements the ‘awaitable’ pattern. A custom ‘awaitable’ can perform its own scheduling however it likes, including when it begins its execution.

The pattern-based implementation of `await` is, in my view, the coolest part of the async/await feature set.
Though F# Async is quite a bit different in that it is the computation rather than a cold invocation. One can use Tasks in F# of course but last time I checked, it will only use a CPS transformation rather than the more efficient state machine representation C# has (F# does use state machines for seq expressions so it’s not a fundamental limitation but more a matter of work).

Aside: This can be a source of errors in F# code I’ve seen as folks will mix up the cases where they want to result vs running a computation many times. There certainly is plenty of expresivity but in practice it’s a muddier representation (it took me over a year to appreciate this).
Is There a Signal in the Noise? Yield Curves, Economic Growth and Stock Prices
+2 I have two and have had fewer than 5 paper jams (all due to folded / reused paper) in something like 15 years.
I bought a SQ-13 camera off AliExpress for $20ish, which streams over Wifi (it acts as an AP) and is about an inch by an inch cube. (It's small enough to be carried on my N-scale train cars for a train-eye view.)
Hunters are intense conservationists. We should encourage more people to hunt and we'll get lots of conservation.
It's a language + API. And no, you don't compile it natively, it's more of a JIT/VM solution. But yeah, more docs are needed, and on the way soon!
This is city- and neighborhood- dependent. San Francisco as a whole is seeing 8% YoY gains [1], while Menlo Park has seen 0% median sales price growth [2]. Nearby Redwood City is seeing 10% growth [3].

The rate of increase is lower than in 2017, but most places in the SF Bay Area are still experiencing high growth rates. Those rates are apparently more in line with historical norms rather than the white-hot multiple-cash-offers waived-contingencies heyday of 2016 and 2017.

I don't doubt that there are many price drops. Realtors expecting offers 30% over ask likely were setting list prices with too much growth expectation and had to reset to the comparables' sales price. Last year using the current comps' sales prices would have been listing the home too low.

1. https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/

2. https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Menlo_Park-California/

3. https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Redwood_City-California/
> Yet if a bad day can cause a headache, why can’t many bad days cause more serious physical problems, even decades later?

Wow. That's quite a leap.
> I haven't had any of those problems in moderately sized on-prem k8s clusters.

Just out of curiosity, how are you managing your on-prem k8s clusters? (Is there a toolkit you'd recommend using? Kubespray?)
Thanks. Back surgery is something I consider last resort. Luck for me, a single shot got the inflammation reversed. Now I do plenty of stretching and make sure that I always bend properly, even when doing something simple like putting on my socks in the morning.
What format is the book in? A regular PDF isn’t as good in Apple Books, for example. Taking notes, night mode, bookmarks, ...
Is there an emulator that handles this printer? I am working on a 3D multicore libretro frontend with Lua scripting. It would be interesting for me to have virtual printouts (images) to go along with a 3d model for something like this.
They're good for logging things, because they print one line (or character at a time), not one page at time. If you redirect your logfile to one, everything will be committed to paper once the line is finished, and you wont need to buffer things to disk or memory (where they are vulnerable to erasure by hackers or power failures) until you have a full page
Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan by Giangreco is a comparison of the American plans for the invasion of the Home Islands with the Japanese plans for their defense. It talks through the cost in live of such an invasion. Though it doesn't explicitly speak to the value of the Manhattan project, it argues for it indirectly by explaining the horrifying brutality that would have been that invasion.
I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but not it's not encouraging on the international side that Russia can take Crimea - resulting in a bump to Putin's approval ratings. I bet China is taking notes. Something for the China's gov't to consider if it falters (eg. crash in their economy isn't far fetched).
Thats a great idea!
What exactly does that imply, in layman terms?
That's true, but actually we've seen very little negativity, which given the expected grumpiness and cynicism level of developers is a good sign!

(I wish we had a marketing budget!)
Your Life as a Tetris Game
The best way to choose a language is always to look at what problem you're trying to solve and what kinds of problems the languages you're looking at aimed toward.

If you're not familiar with programming already, python has a very low cost of entry and a massive following.

If you're familiar with programming and looking to get into functional stuff, Haskell will give you a pretty good start.
Ah yeah, the OP is arguing elsewhere that Bitcoin is legal tender in some European countries, and here he is trying to say you can use it to pay your employees and Amazon etc. I can see how I am confusing things, sorry.
Gold plating? Ridiculous. All my cables are mineral water shielded.
That's if they're encrypted in the first place. Avoiding re-use is far more important, as others have said in this thread. And humans are bad at remembering random combinations of letters and numbers, but ok at remembering words. If I could get my parents to use a password manager, I would.

But until then, three words is better than re-use, and your pedantry still isn't helping the people who need it most, i.e. people lacking technical literacy in the first place.
The Chinese feverishly discover and exploit every scammable niche imaginable, both illegal and legit. This appears to be key to their success. This scam will tank, but the mentality and culture that produces it drives the entire country forward at break-neck speed.
Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies
Your 2018 will be 0 if you dont see that
Humans are surprisingly adaptable. We're a species of Saharan apes that somehow managed to find a way to thrive in the Arctic before the miracles of modern technology. Currently, we "waste" a lot of economic productivity on things like advertising and entertainment. In the time calls for it, we'll turn Siberia into a breadbasket before we let society collapse.
This is awesome. My first thought was "church" and that's the top comment at the moment.

"Yeah but atheist" was expected and my first thought was U-U, and, bam, there it is.

My work is done here. Time for another Manhattan.

(BTW, I suspect urban Methodists (of which I am one) will also be cool, and will discourage the lunatics a bit more.)