skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming is special because of the outsized speculation still occurring and the willingness for tech firms to ignore regulations and morality to defeat entrenched players. The amount of money this approach can capture is staggering.

Programmers, even those of us working outside of the valley, therefore demand high wages - ultimately because of amoral unicorns and deceptive business practices. The demand outstrips supply, making programmers in other roles overvalued as well. This leads to a sense of entitlement, and a perception among programmers that we are somehow superior by virtue of our chosen career and the skills that accompany it.

This in turn leads to outsized egos, unreasonable tolerance of bad behavior, and toxic culture.
Everything interesting has been touched :-) I'd recommend looking at l1-minimisation methods (which seek sparse solutions) and how best GPUs can be used for those problems.
In case you or anyone reading this missed it, this heartbreaking story

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/a-tech-pioneer...
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Did this compare pdfs formatted for 8.5x11? Ironically, I cannot effectively read this on my phone because the formatting requires constant horizontal scrolling, though I find the same issue with reading documents like this (that don't wrap/reflow) on a regular computer screen.

I guess I'm wondering does this study compare the medium (paper vs screen) or whether it's easier to read when formatting matches the medium (a document formatted for paper read on paper vs screen)?
A sad situation - but not unexpected. For decades we have been sold the values of milk by milk marketing boards. In truth, milk is costly for that you get - 3.5% fat and some sugar and protein milk solids are 6% or so of the total. 100/6 = 16.6 cost multiplier. so $3 for a gallon of milk(8.6 pounds or .5 pounds of solids or about $6 a pound for the solids the rest is water and some minerals and vitamins. I use an ounce or twp a day for tea/coffee
So we see this collapse. The loss of farms might allow economics to raise the price, but people are stopping consumption of milk for various reasons.
What can you do - change what you do, as this farmer has done.
It's Google's responsibility to create a system where false positives do matter.

Neither users nor even copyright holders really have that power (at least against automated system). Consequently, it seems like there's nobody in the room pushing for better outcomes for false positives.
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I doubt it. That would be like burning a zero-day exploit. I think the airports have been absolutely asleep at the wheel because OF COURSE this was a risk. OF COURSE I would have set up TDoA equipment and had a company with anti-drone tech on speed dial (at the very least) if I were responsible for an airport bigger than a hobbyist field.

I bet you could get cover for Gatwick with TDoA equipment for less than $10k easy, say another $10k to have it installed.

Hell, you could probably get some amateur radio people to install it for free, but paying $10k is more CYA.

Anyway, my point is that now they sure as hell will prepare, so next time (well... give it a year for them to get their thumbs out of their asses) it will not work as well.
Of course, this “sandboxing” is the equivalent of running apps in a CoW virtual machine.
Plenty of stuff, but what stood out most is elixir along with phoenix
> I know, I know, now you're asking "well, why didn't someone just put all the tools together in one box that would do it with one sane UI?!"

> They did. It's called Docker.

Yes I see that. But I was hoping more for a toolbox like GNU fileutils, not a toolbox with a billion dollar valuation (which is what Docker is)
Tim Bray: Serverless Latency?
Hmm looks to me that besides Google spying on us, it's even more dangerous that the only two platforms for mobile apps are censored by people with Disney morals. Or American puritan morals, whatever you call them.

There are tons of people now whose only internet device is a censored cell phone... looks like we need a third option that is not based in the US.
All women are going after the same top x% of men, so most men miss out. Men are a lot less picky, but the women they’re interested in are too determined on being with the top x% to be interested in them.

I think all problems with dating and finding love in general can be shown to stem from this.

The obvious solution is to send the top x% of men off to war. Sorry guys ;)
That is pretty standard for any ISP that uses ACS. It allows a tech op to manage the router remotely, which is something most customers both demand and hate.
It wouldn't change much even if there were 10 metaphysics papers for every mathematics paper. The main difference is that math is rigorous: there is an agreed upon standard for correctness that is falsifiable in two ways. Firstly, a proof of a theorem can be falsified by finding a mistake, and what is a mistake is agreed upon. Second, and more importantly, the system of proof itself is falsifiable. If a theorem says that an equation p(x,y,z) = 0 has no solutions, and a proof without mistakes is found, then it better have no solutions. If somebody comes along and demonstrates that x=43,y=23,z=809 is a solution, then the system is in trouble. This ensures that math is not a formal game of arbitrary axioms that is internally consistent but ultimately meaningless. That is important, because metaphysics could develop internal correctness criteria that everybody agrees upon, but it could still be meaningless.
I'd like to make a couple of comments to put things into perspective.

First, this is all US-based. Granted, Tinder is a thing here in Europe but as far as I know the overwhelming majority of sexual encounters here still occurs in meatspace. I do believe online dating only caters to a certain demographic with a certain personality type and the market will be eventually saturated.

Likewise, 'dating' as most people know it is primarily an American concept. Due to the cultural influence the US has over the world, this concept has been imported/distorted here (to my dismay, but that's more of a personal view), but the concept of repeatedly taking someone else out until things evolve or devolve (first base, second base, whatever) is just not the norm everywhere in the world. In many places people just hit it off first, then 'date' later. There are also things like arranged marriages, 'debutante balls', and so on.

Also, it bears repeating that online dating, in its current implementation, is a privacy nightmare rife with plenty of repulsive and shady practices [1]. There's plenty of research done about this, but what I find worrying is that researchers may request access to the entirety of everyone's conversations with everyone else, complete with username and location database, as well as the history of matches, dismissals, and so on. Likewise, Tinder execs harvest all this precious and intimate data for advertisers with little concern for security or privacy.

It also reveals worrying trends about society. Research has shown that "the average woman’s desirability drops from the time she is 18 until she is 60. For men, desirability peaks around 50 and then declines." Likewise with education, "desirability is associated with education most strongly for men, for whom more education is always more desirable. For women, an undergraduate degree is most desirable; postgraduate education is associated with decreased desirability among women." [2] As for ethnicity: "there is also a clear and consistent dependence on ethnicity, with Asian women and white men being the most desirable potential mates by our measures". Black women and Asian men would be the least desirable. (For information, desirability is usually computed by giving everyone a score, usually derived from a PageRank-like method or something like an Elo rating.)

I get that people working behind the scenes are not trendsetters and only follow what is currently the norm to maximize user engagement, but in this age of reckoning about big tech and privacy, perhaps now is the time to imagine a product that actually caters to people into dating instead of selling their information, doing creepy data mining and compelling them to stay on the apps?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18713837

[2] Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets (http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaap9815)
I will take this opportunity to thank you. Not only was your talk very interesting and informative, I also found it very inspiring. It really made me rethink what my goals are as a developer. Hope to see more from you.
I know. And the linked project is an effort in that direction too. The point was that a knee jerk "sandboxing in linux is hard" argument is just silly on its face. Because Docker. Just go read any of the bajillion tutorials and testimonials about how to get your process to run in a sandbox.
Only the most radical suggest eliminating philosophy, because that would include ethics and from that law, and also some art criticism. A much more common stance is that certain "impossible" areas of philosophy are a waste of time, and if you ask a "science-ist" to be specific about what they don't like, they'll probably only list those parts of philosophy.
I think the right to privacy vs. printing public info about the actions of our police is always going to be in tension. Of course, there's no argument that innocent people should have their privacy invaded, but ideally, innocent people shouldn't have been arrested at all. The flip side is when famous/powerful people are arrested but not charged, and the public not being able to know whether they got off because strings were pulled. And there's the overarching problem of people being disappeared with the public/press having no idea whether they were arrested, and for what reason. Which has led to some absurd situations in China recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/world/asia/china-fan-bing...
> 2. It is well known that the bible was subject to extensive editing prior to its official canonization, which makes it somewhat questionable as a historical document.

I've never heard this claim before.

The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that written copies made through the centuries were accurate copies.

The only editorialization of the Bible was church councils deciding which books/letters to include in the Bible, not to edit them.
I work with small drones, sUAS, and back in the day some of the guys were too lazy to go to the airfield to fly them and would just go to a beach park instead but it was close to an airforce base and an medium size airport. Anyways they were flying pumas and had the entire police force of the city show up. Luckily the drones they had were fixed wing and designed to just fall out of the sky so they brought them down really quick and got away. I'm sure no one ever figured out who was flying drones in their airspace.
> I wonder if people will be able to settle down

Seems like it, if 10% of the married couples in the Times mention they met via an app?
fast.ai looks promising for just that
Ok, put me in jail (I just flagged yer message)!

I agree though that there should be severe penalty for large scale, intentional false flagging with intent to profit or cause losses to someone else.

Smaller scale "accidents" that slip through from companies that do mass flagging should probably have at least a small penalty, and if the flag caused monetization to shift in favor of the false claimant, then all of that income must be returned to the rightful owner. This would disincentivize false flagging, and incentivize companies to fix their shit (or stop mass flagging until they figure out something that doesn't have so many false positives).

AIUI the current system on YT is completely in favor of those who fraudlently claim copyright, because they have nothing to lose and something to gain. This is all Google's fault as far as I can tell.

Ultimately Goog will need to do human review in cases of dispute but they're already doing that anyway for other reasons (e.g. child porn, gore, and other content that isn't allowed on the site).

Though I'd really prefer that this isn't handled by Google at all. It should go to courts, and if it's too much paperwork for courts to handle the flood of copyright cases, then it's on the lawmakers to fix their broken laws and make the system workable. One can dream..
I think the idea is that you are somewhat a specialist in 2 areas (but not a worldclass specialist). As I recall, that advice does not apply to being a generalist.
Cool names seem to work.

Take the Mersenne twister algorithm for instance. It is a non secure pseudo random number generator that is found everywhere even though there are alternatives that are better IMHO. I'm sure it's success comes from the fact that it is good enough and that it has a cool name.

I also think it is the rationale behind named vulnerabilities like heartbleed and spectre. Grabs attention.
agreed. after i learned common lisp and smalltalk, i realized that since there has hardly been any innovation in programming since the first languages half a century ago.
In regards to sex, finding casual sex on Tinder isn't as easy as people make it out to be. I have done it a decent amount, but getting dragged home by a girl at the end of a night at a bar happens more naturally.
Girls interested in casual sex have always had plenty of opportunities. If anything it has made it easier for the top 5% of male profiles, and harder for everyone else. The current generation is having less sex than previous generations, and I think Tinder contributes to that which is opposite of everything written about Tinder.
> You'll know the names of the states. How many other foreign countries do you know the subdivisions of

United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales, ...

Canada - Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, ....
Neat! It’s like xtrace (https://github.com/yuq/xtrace), but for Wayland.

Many years ago I wrote https://x11vis.org/ (it’s not that well-maintained, but works for me). It offers interactive filtering and a bunch of smarts that come in handy for debugging X11 wire protocol. Think Wireshark, but purpose-built for X11.
Yup. You can't take an argument with such a deontological axiom and then criticize it for failing a utilitarian calculation later (about the welfare of the final generations) -- the argument already told you it's not consequentialist. This anti-natalist argument is bad, and so is the article's argument.
So this year I learned:

Rust: While I'd dabbled in C++ before, it was mostly just a pain, while I found Rust to be a nicer way to work on lower level projects. Ported a game side project I've been working on from Python + Kivy to Rust + Piston, and came out with a nice performance boost.

Mypy + SQLAlchemy: So while I have moved some projects from Python to Rust, others are still Python based and so I took the time to actually learn two of the libraries I've used at a surface level.

SQL: I mean, technically I've been using it for 10 years, but took the time to actually expand my knowledge from basic CRUD + table definitions. The one problem: Basically none of the nice stuff I learned works on the MySQL 5.7 we use in work :(

Docker: Another one of those things I'd been using but not really understanding, this is the most recent one where in the last month I've been working on a dev image to simplify running a few of our services in work, plus also redid my personal VPS to a dockerised setup for my various side projects so now it's way more reproducible than four years of ssh+vim methods of installation/configuration.
My experience using nvm has been quite annoying.

What you could do with simple npm command now doesn't work unless you give additional command lines when it comes to cron and other non interactive environments like process monitoring to restart the process.
Afaiu 2fa primarily protects from password leaks on the part of the service and coincidentally some other kinds of leaks such as keylogging. Not so much from data theft on the user's side.

A different question, though, is whether a password keeper web service could leak passwords like any other service.
Any patch available beyond making your box unavailable to the internet?
Interesting article about something we should definitely be having a conversation about.

But i want to point out an anecdote: we have a newborn and we share pics of her privately with fam. All the pics are of her good moments: her first smiles, her just being cute, etc... We don't share pics or videos of her screaming her lungs out, or of her diaper explosions, which intuitively woul be weird.

Reading this article it sounds like we are doing ourselves a disservice by not sharing the bad. Like we're not being honest with ourselves or our family. But are we? isn't the point of memories to preserve the good ones? The printed photo albums my parents have of my childhood don't have any pictures of me having a meltdown. There is a saying among mothers that you forget the pain of childbirth otherwise you'd never have a second child.

I'm sure social media makes things worse by being too present in people's self esteem but I am not sure memories have to preserve the downsides of reality.
I'm primarily a frontend dev. This year I joined a new company and have been working a bit in Go and Python. Enjoying it so far, since I've always wanted to well-round myself with languages other than JS.
It doesn't mean it doesn't, but it doesn't mean it does.

Oracle in particular is an interesting example here. Their revenues are $40 billion per year. I know for a fact that some of that revenue is from companies that are stuck using Oracle for historical reasons; they wouldn't use it if they were starting fresh today with, say, Postegres. Oracle surely knows this, and so has an extractive, rentier approach to pricing.

Are they a company that creates $40 billion in value every year? I doubt it. Is it possible that net of costs, they are a net negative? Definitely.

This is even more true with financial companies, who act as intermediaries or are external actors to transactions. I used to work for a proprietary trading firm. We had no customers. Our job was to go into the markets and turn a pile of money into a bigger pile of money. As market-makers, we provided a little more liquidity to the markets. But did we create societal value in line with how much money we extracted? I sure don't think so. Which is part of why after a few years I got out and never went back.
The Large Hadron Collider is shutting down for two years of upgrades
Well, it is possible to fake a name. Still, real names became the default and it changes the global landscape (and a few exceptions, even if allowed, don't change that very much).

> There were so many people (mostly men) harassing other people (mostly women) on OkCupid. I think this was a proper measurement to reduce unwelcome messages.

It is a big problem. Yet, as I said - there are simpler ways to go. E.g. just introducing rating for anything rude, and filtering out plain "Hi"s.

Now the problem is that to see a message a women needs to like a profile. Superficial features say little about if a person is going to be nice or abusive; certainly, much less than the content of the first message. (See the Reddit post I linked.)

And for me personally (men dating women), the quality of interactions, felt drastically. (Apparently, my first messages were inviting enough.) Plus, crucially, if "like first", then why not Tinder?
> the top 80% of women matching with top 20% of men

That's simply not true. An actual scientific study [1] shows people match with people 25% more desirable than them on average, not the absolute top 20%. Interestingly, that 25% figure is true for both men and women.

[1] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaap9815
In general, you lose some protection, as a two-stage exploit might write some data in W state then flip to (or wait for) X state for execution. That being said, a self-decompressing binary would only do this at startup, before it consumes untrusted input, so given a way to drop map-executable permissions that wouldn't be a problem.
I’ve learned golang and ethereum this year! It’s been a lot of fun.
This would be completely mitigated by rolling out CG-NAT for all customers. Orange Espana has been working on this for their fibre customers (I think almost all of them are behind CG-NAT already), but ADSL customers are still waiting for it.
The funny thing here is that Taleb dismisses Nate Silver as a wanker, calling him "does not know how math works"...
WebAssembly / WASM. With C/C++, Rust, Golang compilation targets. Still very much a WIP. But DOM / WebGL manipulation in non-JS environments is def worth pursuing ;)
So basically ad hominem?
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- NodeJS
- MongoDB
- PHP
- C#
- Java

I've sorted the list as my knowledge is in them. HTML, CSS, JavaScript is where I'm best and PHP, C#, Java is where I'm worst.

Interests that I have are, Math, Programming, Electronics, Physics, Chemistry.
JavaScript has been stuck with an ancient version because of browser adoption like IE6.

There's a good reason people wanted to migrate to newer JS and I never heard people say ES6 got something wrong over ES5.
Thanks! I didn't know that was possible.

The only reason I put anything on YouTube is because it's the most convenient video hosting platform. If archive.org can host videos, that is perfect.
And you really do not want to work in an environment without any kind of trust, because that is damaging in its own way.

So having a certain degree of trust and accepting the few cases of misbehaviour might at the end be the best possible system.
Can I Bank Cognition Now for Old Age?
What field are you working in?
Show HN: Sciter and Node.js versus Electron
That's a recipe for the destruction of society. It's a good thing that people development a reputation visible to would-be mates.
THaNks for the nice write-up."In the process I started automating my Electrical Engineering job in python"
Care to explain more. I am an EE aswell and could some inspirations and ideas to Automate the boring stuff.
HN title should contain NSFW tag.
So you trust all the services you use to never leak your password. Good luck with that.
k8s,Go lang, Prometheus, ebpf, Influxdb, Grafana,Boostrap 4, JS, vuejs(not completed yet).
Did you listen to the history podcast in my original comment? He presents a very strong case for there not being a Jesus. Everyone keeps saying there’s some sort of consensus on his existence yet I’ve posted a very thorough argument that argues the opposite. Last I checked, Stanford was pretty reputable.
You’re pretty much paying for convenience and consistency. Juul is not the greatest or cheapest way to vape. But it is the lowest-time-commitment way to vape (pod systems are no fuss, and then juul has both brick-and-mortar footprint along with online maturity that rivals don’t have and can’t be built overnight). And every pod is going to roughly smoke the same.

This isn’t going to break down the same way for every vaper, but there is going to be a large (probably majority) marketshare who this appeals to. I think the Altria deal hints at the next phase which is probably to leverage lobbying and government to build a regulatory moat.
Webpack v5 Alpha Changelog
Badger is an lsm-tree storage engine which makes some unusual tradeoffs. Good background info here:

https://blog.dgraph.io/post/badger/