skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the same way you can go horseback riding today on dedicated tracks and in areas under the ownership of the farm you will still have courses to manually drive cars on for a very long time after the general introduction of self driving vehicles.

And while its not directly comparable, I still see horse and buggy carriages on public roads in PA so they haven't ever outright banned that particular obsoleted mode of transport. If the Amish lobby can keep shit getting dropped in my streets I'm sure the collective car enthusiasts of the world will keep their right to drive for a while at least.
Doesn't this already manifest in the form of gyms, advanced medicine, proper exercise and nutrition, and various other "improve ourselves" things that require money?
Eye color is non-mendelian.
So? Should we not have cars, planes, antibiotics, computers, etc. because some cannot afford them?
Awesome news! My mom ran the Santa Cruz SPCA when I was a kid and helped pass landmark legislation against this in that county over 30 years ago. I'm thrilled to see it go statewide. Next, the entire US! Don't buy pets... Adopt them.
Asked for my opinion, I gave it, and get down voted.. not expecting upvotes, but why the down votes?
Interesting. Had atm fraud in brazil from my canadian chip and pin card. No issue getting the money back.
> The spacecraft entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, and made Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.

You can’t say that and not tell us how small Bennu is! From Wikipedia, it seems like it’s about half a kilometer wide.
> Is GMO really any different than selective breeding

Yes, GMO is very different.

1. GMO crops are genetic clones. We have never experienced such small amounts of genetic diversity in our crops. This creates unique liabilities.

2. Timescales matter. Perhaps skilled breeders could create the exact same genome of a GMO crop we have today in 10,000 years. However the environment will be given much more time between each mutation, and each mutation will take more time before it spreads across the entire population. This gives other forms of life a fighting chance. Ecosystems fail when they are dominated by a single organism.

3. While our yields are much higher today, our farming practices are much less substainable than they were in the past. The types of farming practices GMOs promote are part of the move towards less substainable farming.
Hilbert’s list
Maybe the police should stop shooting people...
The main thing to stop it is that we don’t know what genes to target to make super humans. If we did, someone would probably try. As perhaps they should, under some ethical systems.
How much are you willing to spend and what are you looking for? Viberg for example makes some very nice boots.

If you were looking for sneakers, perhaps you’d be interested in MMM or Rick Owens.
“Plenty of fuel” is a PR spin. They have enough fuel for an additional flyby, but it has to be an object that is pretty much along their path anyway, or far enough out that a little tiny nudge will correct their course over a good portion of that 20 years. Hopefully such an object will be discovered once they start looking.
Bash exit code 0 is truthy, but that's not how the if statement works:

if ((0)); then echo 0=true; else echo 0=false; fi

if ((1)); then echo 1=true; else echo 1=false; fi

# output

0=false

1=true

To work as expected, the if statements should be rewritten as

if ((i % 3 == 0 && i % 5 == 0)); then echo FizzBuzz

and so on.
Harassment is not protected speech. What are you on about?
It’s 42.3601° N closer Toronto at 43.6532° N than New York City at 40.7128° N.

By comparison Miami is 25.7617° N and still above the Tropic of Cancer 23°26ʹ which is the furthest north you can get where the sun is ever directly overhead.

PS: Europe is kind of deceptive as the equator is so far down below the bulk of Africa. But so many maps stop at the top of Africa it’s easy to think of it as some sort of mid point. Further, due to weather patterns it’s warmer than you would expect.
Apple's next move is to have a credible replacement for when Netflix tries to move existing customers, the same as they have for Spotify. Or perhaps they are just waiting for the media companies to be more vulnerable to their lowball offers.
So this may seem like a stupid question, but I have been doing a lot of work on static compilation for an embedded project, and noticed a huge improvement from adding -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections plus link-time garbage collection with static linking. Would compiling firefox statically against musl and some static nss provider help?

I sorry if this question is phrased poorly, English is not my first language and I am new to build system issues.
For high res displays. The rest of us got by on 16 colors.
Why does everyone act like resources must exist in a vacuum? Use both, there complimentary to one another.
This is a great comment and a really valuable perspective. I have to note, however, that financially precarious nonprofits can also veer off in bad directions, or become ossified, or whatever, and the result is they fail outright.

A benefit to Wikipedia’s situation is they go directly to their user base for funds. When nonprofits are financially precarious or dependent and rely on small numbers of moneyed donors, they can just as easily go off mission and/or become corrupted.
Your responses come across not as explanatory or cooperative, but as having a combative and unproductive attitude

Anyways, whether you like to admit it or not, your Google discovery was 100% literally what my argument here is.

I have no ability to get you to change your tone or reevaluate this thread, even after you typed out the discovery yourself, showing that neither did you read my argument, let alone try to understand it. What I said was exactly what your Google discovery was.

There's not really anything else to say here. My argument was plain and simple. Just-so stories are Lamarckian theories that are not substantiated by evolutionary biology.

Since I'm already repeating myself, I'm going to stop responding now.

But I'm glad at least you learned something: exactly the point I was trying to make in the first place.
Justifiably and understandably are two different things to me at least, the former implying like you said condoning in a moral sense.
This article (like most articles on this topic) doesn't define what "think" means. There's no shame in that: nobody has a good definition. But without a good definition of X, you can't make reliable conclusions about what is or isn't X.

The logic seems to be: Thinking is mysterious [true]. Neural nets aren't mysterious [true]. Therefore neural nets must not be thinking [?].

That's a fallacy. Compare: The location of the buried treasure is mysterious. The place I'm about to dig isn't mysterious. Therefore, the treasure must not be where I'm about to dig.

It's a fallacy because as soon as you find the treasure, it's location isn't mysterious any more. Mysteriousness isn't an inherent property of things, it's a statement about our own limited knowledge which changes over time.

The same will be true of thinking (for any definition of that term you might care to use). When we figure out how to make artificial systems that think, thinking will no longer be (completely) mysterious.
Bring in McKinsey
The average age of American cars on the road today is over 11 years. That means they’re generally lasting twice that long.

A few decades ago, it was a remarkable achievement to get a car to 100,000 miles. Now, if a car falls apart that quickly, you probably swear off the entire brand for making unacceptably shoddy products.

I’m sure there are examples of the phenomenon, but cars aren’t it.
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. " (Larry Ellison)

Right now LLVM is fashionable and gcc is not. Little details, as in actually generating better code, are minor in comparison.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV the LLV has a THM180 (3-speed automatic --- one of the lightest duty ones in the range, so a bit surprising to find it used here, but then again the engine isn't all that powerful either) which has a compound helical-cut planetary set, so it wouldn't have the characteristic straight-cut whine and only in reverse.

Do the other cars on this list have the same reverse sound?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo-Hydramatic_180

I suspect, as another commenter here remarks, that it's mostly due to a lack of noise dampening.

Also, straight-cut gears are better at basically everything except noise, which is why large truck transmissions, racing, and off-road heavy equipment still use them. They have no side-thrust unlike helicals, and can take far more torque; the only disadvantage is the noise (which some car fans admittedly like --- including me. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMFeLvlzBwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-k3YAjIQzI (much higher-revving engine and less sound dampening)
Ask HN: What's your ideal tech stack for 2019?
There's never a one-size-fits-all solution, so I'm interested to learn of the concerns/experiences folks have!

I'm specifically interested in a consumer facing mobile/web app scenario. I'd love to hear how some of my requirements are excessive in other scenarios. That said, I have several priorities I'm thinking of:

Language:

- end-to-end testing. Not selenium. As close to the edges as possible.

- a large standard library/blessed common libraries. I don't really want to implement `sort` or `groupBy` outside of whiteboarding interviews. That said `tree-seq` (Clojure's depth-first tree traversal as an iterator, part of `clojure.core` - no extra imports) is not strictly required.

- decent concurrency support. Parallelism would be even better, but that's severe limiting factor AFAICT.

- REPL support. Mostly so I can cache things on successive test runs :P.

- It'd be awesome if I didn't have to reimplement everything between serving & ETL. e.g. Imagine ETLing your permission system outputs.

Platform (i.e. serving infrastructure):
- Off-hands DB/data data management (e.g. AWS RDS/GCloud SQL/Spanner/etc).

- Off-hands traffic management - i.e. DNS/load balancing.

- Automated, rolling deploys

- Single command rollback

- Easy logging (i.e. stderr) & aggregation.

Data-Platform:
- Record everything, forever. Not to say that the business should do that (i.e. user privacy matters), but starting here makes debugging easier.

- I have no desire to manage a spark/HDFS cluster.

- Testability would be awesome.
Cost would not be my biggest concern.

Genes are not like points you can spend in a game to upgrade stuff. Editing them is a two edged sword.

Cystic Fibrosis is likely so much more common in Caucasians because having one copy of the gene protects against at least a couple of diseases that were seen a lot in Europe for a time. So being a carrier was protective and made you more likely to survive, similar to how Sickle Cell is protective against malaria.

"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean the strongest, smartest, etc. Evolution is more about winnowing than about adapting per se. The ones that don't die in the face of unexpected new challenges are the "winners," even if it means they have a defect protecting them from something worse than what the defect does to them.

A fish out of water dies. But gills have a lot of advantages in the water.

Genes just do not work the way comments like this one (above) seem to assume. They just don't.
Every employee is expected "to be able to fill out reports, spreadsheets, provide data metrics, understand the work place harassment polices, health care benefits, present in team meetings, etc.."

Engineers are not special.
BTW, Visio isn't the only Office component that was acquired, FrontPage was as well (both the client and the server-side extensions), and even venerable PowerPoint, which was Microsoft's very first acquisition back in 1987.
How have I not seen this before. It made my day.
I am really happy for you. Genuinely. But most apps do not share your fate no matter how well designed, performant, or useful.

I am actually fine if Apple doesn't do any sort of discovery or promotion of our apps. Just don't charge 30 percent then.
OP here.

It wasn't an ad, per se -- I really do use ExpressVPN. I love them and use them all the time, in China and when I'm at clients' offices.

Whenever I mention them, I use an affiliate link. Heck, why not? But if you want to use them without an affiliate link, that's totally OK, too.
The better review is only possible because the submission rate is lower.
Let's not oversell the PE or the FE: I took both drunk and completed them in under 3 hours each.

The true point of being a professional engineer is that you've satisfied the MINIMUM requirements to be licensed and, therefore, you are licensed by the state to sign off on documents within what you consider your expertise. It relies on you to make that determination with the understanding that you should know better, recognizing the legal and professional ramifications if you practice outside your expertise.

I disagree with the Oregon ruling: holding yourself out as an engineer without licensure is not acceptable and should not be encouraged. It creates confusion amongst the public about what a licensed engineer is and who to trust.

The guy could have easily put out his findings as an interested party or something without trying to invoke the goodwill that people like you and I have put so much effort into engendering.
> Are your founders / leaders Engineers?

Actually, yes. They wrote the software that is currently used in production.

But they don't want to touch engineering with a ten-feet pole. One time they complained that engineering was taking too long to finish stuff and engineering demanded an apology.

> Why do team members think that you're moving too-slow / too-fast?

Good question. Both sides provide very good arguments, but they're super polarized.

Half the team is the MVP-lean-startup-crowd and is constantly complaining that the code is too complex, with too many abstractions and it is and hard to test and debug. They claim they want to push simpler code that works and optimize/refactor as needed, but that never flies on code reviews. They claim that the constant refactoring (I swear I hear that word ten times a day) are causing way too many bugs.

The other half comes from an enterprise background and complains that the code is currently too messy and unsafe, and claim they need to refactor weird parts before doing pretty much any feature. They believe in making bigger deliveries instead of incremental ones, and point to bugs caused by the other team as proof that they need more time to get it right.

For obvious reasons, management has ALWAYS sided with group number one, which caused a lot of problems and accusations of favoritism.

My hot take? Yeah, three years is way too long for a simple web app from a startup to be ready.
Yes, this is definitely a possibility.
Completely disagree. It says he can call himself an engineer in a non-professional context.

Having a ChBE BS, I am an engineer (although no longer working as one). I am not a Professional Engineer (not a licensed PE). There’s a difference - doesn’t mean I should not be able to call myself an engineer, and I’m sure others w engineering degrees would agree
I understand your point but I doubt it would work well in reality when it comes to public opinion/backlash.

Humans are disproportionately swayed by proximate causes, so deaths directly attributed to self driving cars are going to be more heavily weighted in the court of public opinion.
I'm all for driverless cars, but if you put an algorithm in charge then the creators of that algorithm need to be legally responsible for the outcome. I'm talking engineers going to prison when one of these cars does inevitibly hit someone. Every driver is liable for their actions on the road, for some reason SV thinks being "statistically better than humans" means they aren't responsible for however small a % of crashes they are responsible for. It's like saying I only crashed once in my 50 years of driving so on average I'm not responsible for killing that kid last Tuesday.
Did some major management change happen in your company, recently?

I've seen this happen, and many people just didn't like where things were going, and how (the "how" was particularly influential, needless to say).
Evolution seems bizarre to us, but many species do optimize for very short lifespans. E.g. spiders that die after laying eggs and then their babies feed on their corpse.
Taking people by implicit threat of force because they've been marked by some global surveillance system is bad.
Traditionally they're called firemen.

Steam locomotives aren't commonly used anymore, so I assume you're making a joke about somebody on a train being a "firefighter".
That would be a terrible idea. Aluminum can only flex so much before the metal fatigues and fails catastrophically, steel does not (so long as the stress is below a critical threshold). Aluminum framed trucks would not last nearly as long.
Google "a bias for action" and you'll see it defended as something good.
Just look at the first fine specimen already. No protection against rain and wind, but a fine view of the landscape. Good thing the village sits in the rain shadow of the Alps!
Exactly, I am sick of websites asking me to enable notifications. Apps asking me to allow notifications. At the end of the day, rarely is the app worthy of that sort of interruption. I've absolutely never seen a website that can justify. But they will still somehow notify you about enabling notifications. Companies have a delusional vision that their particular product is that important to their users. It isn't.
GT is free for in-state residents? Neat.
Law enforcement would be forced to act if Facebook informed them.

They would like to cover their asses in case something bad happens.

If they didn't act, they would be susceptible to lawsuits.
Slightly off-topic, but mindfulness approaches have been shown to improve depression and are an important part of CBT/DBT used by therapists everywhere
Skype, Facebook Messenger, GMail etc.
The New Docker Hub
Training? How long does it take to become a (professional) pilot? I bet it's longer than to get your chauffeur's license... but not so much longer to account for the pay difference.

It occurs to me, though, that vehicle cost might be a factor. How much does a new semi cost? $100,000, maybe? How about a new 737? $80,000,000. Does that influence pay?
Do you know of a reasonably sized city in the US that offers what I’m talking about?

No. Ever stop to wonder if there might perhaps be a reason for that?

(That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if either NYC or Seattle comes close to what you're asking for, or will soon.)
As litigious as our society is. And having been involved in wrongful death suits in a previous line of work(firefighter/emt). When somebody is looking for money the swath of people who get sued is as long and as wide as it takes to find deep enough pockets to get some money.

Facebook isn’t exactly the most trusted and liked company right now. So they are exactly the type of entity a lawyer would love to get in a court room.
Learning KVM – implement your own kernel
Distributing digital products worldwide isn't hard, now that we have the internet.
Ah yeah. That crater is about 30 km wide, which is pretty big. Most craters follow roughly a 1:10 scaling between depth and diameter [1], so we can approximate a 3 km initial depth for this new new Hiawatha Crater. This crater is quite young (12 ka to 3 Ma est.), but if it had existed 720 Myr ago, then our estimates suggest it would have been borderline -- probably erased unless it got lucky and landed in one of the regions with little or no Neoproterozoic glacial erosion

The number one condition for fast glacial erosion is what's called "wet-based ice": if pressure and temperature at the base of the ice sheet (warmed by geothermal heat flow) is near the melting point, then ice tends to slip against the rock and erode rapidly; if it's too cold, then the ice will flow internally instead and not erode very well. Coupled climate-icesheet models so far [2] suggest it's possible to get wet-based ice even in a "hard snowball" state with limited precipitation from sublimation alone (though not under all parts of the icesheet at once).

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/JB07...
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X0...
Can anyone speak to whether the CCL source is more or less "educational" (approachable, well-documented, etc.) than that of SBCL?
Google "suicide by cop", it's a real thing.
>It seems very unlikely that it would ever result in a situation where someone gets involuntarily hospitalized because some machine learning algorithm had a bug.

Perhaps, but people being involuntarily detained because people misunderstand communications those users thought to be private seems much more likely. I have a group of friends who share memes about suicide and make jokes about it constantly. This is actually pretty common. If some uninitiated outsider read some of my DMs, I’d expect some people I know to be on their way to hospital in handcuffs.

More importantly, why does Facebook think this is their job, and why would anybody else agree with them about it? The idea of the postal service sending the police to my house because they were concerned about the contents of a letter I wrote is horrifying, or the phone company because they were worried about a call I had. I’m not any less horrified about facebook doing this, especially considering how much less I trust them than the postal service or Verizon.
> For instance, one I read a comment on the article here
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2018/is-avif-the-future-of-i....

Jpeg was released the MPEG-1 ( H.261 ) era. Since then we have had H.262 / MPEG2, H.263 / Divx, H.264 /AVC, H.265 / HEVC, and the coming H.266 / VVC. If we consider the amount of improvement we got from Video Encoding, images hasn't changed much at all, we happen to fine tune the heck out of Jpeg. And I hardly call a new image format with 50% reduction bitrate compared to a nearly 30 years old tech a major breakthrough, and that is without mentioning the huge decoding resources requirement.

There are many project that just improves on JPEG, Dropbox had a lossless compressor for JPEG, and Cant remember if Pik was originally based on jpeg as well.

Unless there is a real major breakthrough that gives the current best JPG encoder quality at 25% or less its size, focusing on 200KB, 100KB, 50KB images size, ( i.e the new image will have to be 50KB, 25KB, 12.5KB ) while using within 2x decoding power. I am convinced our roadmap for Network bandwidth improvement in the next 3 - 5 years are going to make JPEG to last forever.
They're one of today's lucky ten thousand!
> As for push notifications—it's not surprising that Apple doesn't allow the HTTP version because it would be chaos for battery life.

Web push notifications use a browser-vendor-provided server to trigger notifications, the exact same architecture as APNS.

> Besides, any website can offer a totally free native app that simply performs push notifications for your site. You don't need to give up 30% of anything to Apple for that.

Iff you buy a Mac, pay their dev fees, rewrite your site as a native app, and put up with their review bullshit. That's not really an alternative to them supporting the standard.
Show HN: OTPCL – Tcl-Flavored Erlang
This is also about Netflix having a LOT of extra data on their customers

If you have a Netflix subscription in the first place, you've already given them a superset of what you've given Apple's app store, haven't you? (Aside from specific card details if you use a unique card for your Netflix payment.)