skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing bubble, car bubble, etc. 10 years of economic growth and 0% interest rates and a few trillion dollars of QE will do that. Once interest rates rise sufficiently and the bubble pops, it'll hurt, but we get to get back on the ride again. Rinse, repeat.
That is entirely by design?

If you collect so much diverse data that you exploit in 100 different ways and share with 1000 different companies that you require a hundred pages of individual consent checkboxes, the system is working as intended.

Will most users just accept all? Maybe. But I think the share of concerned users is larger than you believe it to be. And if history is any indication, "reasonable default settings" have a bad habit of never erring on the side of data collection minimization, particularly for new and novel features.
How is HTTP/2 a benefit for a file store?

The design of HTTP/2 helps websites more. It supports push since webpages include resources that a server knows a client is going to need anyways. This avoids request latency for websites. It also allows connection reuse (via multiplexing. However, again this is mostly helpful for websites. Decrease latency by avoiding tcp hand shake. It allows for slightly smaller headers since it's a binary protocol.

However, pretty much none these really help with large file downloads, and other use cases like APT. Even the headers will be dwarfed by the files themselves, and the header information is probably already pretty minimal.

Also HTTP/2 does not require TLS it's just pretty much all the browsers ignore that the standard does not require TLS. However, they are trying to push for more encrypted traffic. A decision I don't really think browsers should be making.
Please define what is "the internet" first ^^
What would you call the US's massive increase in oil production if not preparing for possible problems in Saudi Arabia?
Cypht Cypht (pronounced “sift”) is like a news reader, but for E-mail
There was Rancher 1.6 with Cattle was the sweet spot for us. Rancher 2 went full kubernetes. Probably makes sense for their customers. We're looking for a replacement in that sweet spot.
I feel like there would be a lot of confounding factors here, I'd like to see the survey. People who are belly breathers are going to be people who are either avid practitioners of relaxation techniques (known to decrease incidents of heart attacks), people who are health aware enough to make it a priority, people who are physically fit enough to have found the technique naturally, or people who are engaged heavily in yoga (which will overlap with the relaxation techniques and fitness), and thus be in better shape than the average population.
Google made $32.32 billion in Q4 2018.

That's $384.76 million per day.

Fines this small accomplish nothing.
Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence
I’d love to discuss it some other place, but this seems counterproductive to civility here.
I normally go through HN comments before I decide to read the article. And so I decided to read it indeed to see how it could possibly be this bad. Wow! Just imagine how much different the article would have been if the author had just posted his misunderstandings as "hey I tried googling but did not understand these points, can an expert in the field help me understand the following...?". A world to live in indeed!
1,500 Private Jets Predicted to Descend on Davos This Week
The only bubble I see are of programmers who work at Google and Facebook thinking most programmers have lives like theirs and make as much as they do. Most surveys of programmer salaries do not conclude that they routinely make $300k-$400k.

And when talking about just the top-tier tech companies, of course the economy around them is bubble-like. That is the danger of allowing them to maintain nearly monopolistic reign of their markets.
"He also noticed that instead of making progress down fruitful lanes or improving detailed knowledge of important areas, most develop enthusiasms for the latest non-experimental wank fest; complexity theory, network theory, noodle theory."

What exactly is the issue with complexity and network theory?
>The industrial ancient DNA publication machine is real. A few giants control the vast majority of ancient DNA samples behind a wall, and these giants decide when and where to release these samples.

Who controls the samples? That sounds like a sci-fi thriller plot in the making.
Build tagging with vue-multiselect and Laravel Tags
I have a close friend who spent a lot of money so they could “roll coal” on people. Only one person, but he talks about it a lot. A lot.

He claims that he likes spewing this out onto people he doesn’t like. He’s never mentioned how awesome it is to pollute or anything. It’s the equivalent of spy hunter smokescreen.
I think the comparison to biology/chemistry/physics is interesting. Perhaps even more than software, there's a huge spread between the value of low and high performers - the best scientists make new discoveries that can be worth billions.

On the other hand, if you think the software industry has a hard time figuring out (at hiring time) who the high performers are... science is driven by serendipity. Nobody can predict who will find the billion dollar discovery. Not even past performance is a reliable indicator.

So it makes sense to me that the salary spread in science is relatively even. If they could reliably figure out who to dump money on, they would. On the other hand, the FAANG companies clearly believe their hiring practices can select out the high performers... and perhaps they are right? If they're paying 3-4X what everyone else does, they expect to get at least 3-4X the value.
Depends on what the outcome is. If it makes the site 50% more performant on 25% less hardware, pretty easy to swag it. Same if the outcome makes developers on the team able to ship new functionality 20% faster with 33% fewer bugs.
Sure, it's not 100%. They included those images to illustrate some challenges that they ran into (negative space and low value boundaries, not surprising given their relatively small data set).

But the ones that they open with are dramatically better than HED.
I don’t want a 5 minute onboarding process to read a news article.
> It can be anything from high-grade factory-new silicon to material with over 80% bad sectors.

Guess I hadn't considered that a 512GB SD card could be repackaged as a 32GB card if the wear pattern isn't even and only 90% of the cells are dead. Also, 2013. I'm not convinced recycling this way is cost-effective.
I also second PragmataPro. I've been using it for 5+ years now.
The ligatures are fully optional, and the font comes in several variants for software that doesn't allow to select features.

It's a slab serif, condensed. You have to like the style. Some people prefer the opposite (wide with ample interline spacing).

It packs quite some columns on the screen while still being perfectly readable and basically every glypth is hand-tuned for small pixel sizes. There's not much else comparable designed with that amount of care.

The closest font on a stylistic basis I've seen is Iosevka.
As someone who has (once) written an opinion piece for the NYT, I wonder how much the published piece resembled the author's original text. My experience: https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/nyt_opini...
It's not about personal preference. The GDPR does not talk about a "reasonable default", but about "freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous" consent from the user. There must be a "clear affirmative act" by the user, so consent has to be opt-in.
I use a firefor add-on[1], which works for the Quantcast banners (adds a "I refuse" button), but would definitely like something that works equally well for all websites, or that websites fix it themselves. Maybe even better, if they could simply follow the DNT flag, or not track their users in the first place.

I worry that accepting cookies once, for one of these sites, will lead them to try and de-anonymize you, maybe even across private browsing windows, or different sessions. If you give them the right to basically fingerprint you, be assured that they will abuse it.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qookiefix
The Open Source Radio Telescope project hasn't setup any phased array setups yet, but the Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy uses GNU Radio for it's phased array receivers looking at pulsars.
http://www.ccera.ca
ISPs are heavily regulated.
You're missing some letters.

And even among the ones you listed, g, p, q, and y are fully as tall as every capital except Q.
I dunno, man. I read this stuff as France collecting taxes vindictively, while not really caring how the regulations play out in the larger ecosystem.

At some point French regulators we pushing for a rule that any processing of French citizens had to be done in France... Which is a great combination of untenable and an obvious jobs program.

Likewise, this comes across as incredibly arbitrary, with enforcement driven by fines rather than actual clear regulations. Non compliance on their own website just hammers it home.
Sufficiently advanced technology.
Doesn't really matter either way - there's a bunch of crawlers and scanners out there such that you can pretty much Google any IP and find a list of sites that are hosted on it.
Further discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958321
Ironically, knowing that I can get a good salary with relatively shit skills makes me want to up my game. Because it seems like a situation that is inherently unstable.

Eventually it has to change (imo), either through companies becoming more scrupulous in their hiring, or through a massive flood of new devs.
Coingate to Integrate Lightning Network in Litecoin Transactions
It's about the same scenario as email: if you've got backups of your mailbox (or Mastodon equivalents) you just set the same accounts back up and restore from backups. In some ways Mastodon is slightly better because it makes it easier to backup/restore everything about an account versus there are a lot of email hosts that provide no way to restore a previous mailbox from a different provider, whereas in the Mastodon hosting world more of the hosts seem happy to help you restore anything you need to. In other ways it is a little weirder because the people you follow might get resubscription notifications when you restore from a Mastodon backup, but that's not really a huge deal.
CS has been through a couple of salary busts in the US previously though, no? One in the '80s when all the then-new CS programs started to release graduates into the market, then another after the dot-com bubble; or have I been misinformed?
Resident Evil 2 fell apart, then became one of Capcom’s biggest hits
I remember back in the early aughts after the .dom implosion and the resultant uptake of outsourcing. There was a pervasive attitude that the high paying software jobs were not going to come back in any meaningful way. Yeah, well...

There will be a day, but when is hard to say. Thinking it's right around the corner is akin to the belief we're on the cusp of true AI. We're more pessimistic today than we were in the mid 80s. And non-programmers were programming with hypercard, filemaker pro, VBA, etc, back in the 90s.

There are of course former well paying jobs such as old-school front end devs (html/css/sprinkle of js) that are largely commoditized, but that's a given considering the low barrier to entry.
It might not be a bubble, but what you are describing (which I agree with) is not stable. At the moment there is a boom in software development because there is a lot of software to build. But, as the industry stabilizes, we will find that once we have built the software, then the software is already built. At some point in the future, there will be an inflection point where there is simply less software work to be done today then there was yesterday. I don't know when this inflection point will happen, but it will happen.
A carbon tax is actually the conservative solution to climate change.
Just have 2 amazon accounts, SFW version and NSFW version
> All software has bugs, so if you add two buggy security solutions, you might only be able to exploit a bug in one, but the other still gives you the safety.

I am unconvinced about the last part. More commonly an exploit in either will cause security to fail, so adding more steps just adds more attack surface and leads to less security.
> Also, what's with "holding the bed with my toes and fists" ? I don't picture that really well.

The bed didn't have enough space for him to fit with its legs on the floor. I imagine he was lying face-up under the bed, with his arms outstretched, fists balled up supporting one end of the bed (under strut). At the other end, his heels would have been on the floor, with his toes bearing the weight of the bed

edit: uploaded my badly drawn interpretation https://imgur.com/a/Q3kBA1T
The only ethical thing to do, is to block advertisement: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
The point was to suggest that everyone has time to do pushups every day before hitting the shower, to substantial effect. That you don't need to join the military to access the core of what makes them more fit than the average person: a disciplined daily physical activity, regardless of its brevity.

I'm operating under the assumption that this is of value to the average young sedentary male computer geek I presume the HN crowd is largely composed of. Most people seem to be under the impression it requires hours of workouts and access to special equipment to see any results. The law of diminishing returns applies very strongly here, meaning you can see a significant portion of what's on the table with very little investment.

Using a soldier as reference was more intended to illustrate that doing the thing consistently every day is the important part, and is a major component of what the military forces onto its soldiers. You don't need a gym membership, you need a barrier to getting on with your day that shouts in your face "get down and give me $number", every, single, day, indefinitely.
Where do you think the PR comes from? Most of them put these links on their sites; for example, Rigetti: https://www.rigetti.com/news

Doesn't matter: everyone, literally everyone, is acting like this is just around the corner and RSA and friends are near doom. There needs to be more skepticism.
Science is a deductive method, which means that it can never "confirm" anything unless it can disprove the complement. Strictly speaking that is impossible in real world cases. For example, quantum electrodynamics, one of the most well tested theories ever, holds up in the lab to some absurd number of decimal places (I recall the figure 9, but I read that years ago and it's got to be more now), but we can never be quite sure than the theory won't fall down with the next improvement in measurement. None of this detracts from QED being one of the great human intellectual achievements.

From a programming perspective, there is an analogy to software testing. Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, it can't prove their absence, except in the case of exhaustion. Since on (most?) modern systems exhaustive testing is impossible, we're left with an imperfect solution that still works quite well when applied properly.
Massive rocket creates a fireball as it launches, and that’s by design
https://www.beauzee.fr/2017/07/04/videolan-and-https/

And you haven't read my comments here. Which said we don't know the whole story.

Read the above link and don't believe everything you read online. I have given the developers of VLC the benefit of doubt. Rightfully, so it seems
Okay, but this is the author's opinion here, not EWD's. It was quite a glib dismissal, and footnoting it seems a bit disingenuous even, hinting to casual readers that there is some substance to his "obvious mess", when really the footnote is just to Codd's own paper. (You find these cunning footnotes everywhere btw.) Did EWD feel the same way about the relational calculus? What are the criticisms? I know plenty of ways SQL doesn't live up to relational theory, but this is about relational theory itself: the paper suggests that there is something unsound about it, and that Codd could have invented something better if he had gotten help from a professional logician.
Gwern continues to be one of the most authentically curious and transparent researchers around. I highly recommend perusing his essays. Thank you and keep up the excellent output.
Is this news?
So you're reading a number and then -blurp- your mind goes "Danish" or "Norwegian" letter?

Context doesn't come into play?

I mean - I can understand such confusion if you are dealing with some kind of multi-character random code or such (ie - a "confirmation code" for instance), and the site is primarily targeted to Danish or Norwegian users; in that case, the confusion would be valid.

Much like such codes in "English" (maybe "Latin" might be a better description?), without having a distinguishing mark for the zero, and depending on the font used - where a zero can look like a capital letter "O". Was that "0" or "O"? That can be an issue, depending on the language of the users, etc.

But aside from those particular cases, which aren't very frequent, most of the time you can infer what is meant by what, based on the context of the surrounding characters and the information that is likely being conveyed.

I'm not sure one should get too upset by such a minor thing...?
I wouldn't choose to give up any personal information to read a news article.
> the negative effects on frogs haven't been replicated

The liable chemical company responsible for atrazine said they could not replicate the study.

> Alex Jones

What layman commentators say about a published paper has little bearing.

> a few videos

Looking through their videos they have "The Young Turks are Morons", "You should not fund Greenpeace", "Kyle Kulinski - Lazy", more anti-Greenpeace videos. Ok.

The video text says the EPA wanted to repeat Hayes findings. This was not the process the EPA fostered (incidentally, the EPA is currently run by a coal industry lobbyist, taking over for another fossil fuel advocate who said he was the "leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda").

The last YouTube text paragraph is correct - Syngenta, the company which makes atrazine did experiments and said atrazine was not harmful.

The text also says Hayes "resisted...answering questions about his data". Syngenta had a formal ethics complaint launched against Hayes at Berkeley, had his personal life investigated by private investigators (as legally obtained documents show), tried to get his papers retracted etc.

Also it should be noted - Syngenta/Novartis hired Ecorisk to fund Hayes and others to look at atrazine. Hayes found these problems, and there was a subsequent conflict between Hayes and them.

Any how, the OP paper is independent Australian scientists.
Choose a better paper!

The Guardian labels comment articles with a big orange “ in the headline on the homepage, an orange "Opinion" on the article page, a pastel orange background in both places, the author's name under the heading in orange, and "commentisfree" in the URL.
Bubble, no. Supply is going up for engineers, traditionally trained or not. So it all rests on demand, which I don't see calming. The real cliff for programmers is when code starts to write itself.
The USG has a bad history when it comes to "aiding" telecommunications security[0]. Historically they have prioritized making sure things are weak against their own attacks over making sure things are secure against other attacks (and, of course, from the perspective of a private citizen the government's attacks may well be malicious.)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
One thing to keep in mind about running Office on Wine (especially a version as old as 2007) is that the software has a number of known vulnerabilities, and the Wine installation breaks Microsoft's patching system(s). All patches have to be installed manually (unless there's a good script for this that I'm not aware of). Fortunately, most of the exploits will be designed to attack a Windows system, but it's still dangerous to leave it unpatched.
You should probably narrow that since you're almost exclusively talking about the US market. There are a few pockets outside the US where you can earn that, it's just quite rare comparatively.

The US has anywhere from one to four million software developers, depending on your source. The BLS lists 1.2 million US software developers, with a $103,560 median pay (excludes benefits) in 2017.

You have closer to a 5% to 10% chance of earning $300,000 in total compensation as a software developer in the US, at some point in your career. Frequently high incomes don't last, there's a relatively high turnover because peak earning power only lasts so long, layoffs happen, specialization changes, job changes, et al.

The giant caveat to this, as everyone here knows, is you have a <1% chance of earning that outside of a small group of markets (ie it's very much not evenly distributed; if you're in New Orleans or El Paso you have almost a zero shot at it; if you're in SF or NY you have a legitimate shot at it).
Over 38,000 practice swings hard. Wow. Really puts professional athlete's jobs in perspective.
I realize he's writing to a general audience here, but I hope he writes a more technical version of what the heck he's talking about here. 5G is basically L1. IMO most of the security should happen at higher layers, for practical implementation reasons as well as flexability. For how long it's going to be around, anything built into the protocol will probably be broken at some point, and since it's L1 it's extremely hard to fix.
TLS instead of GPG signatures might be a bad idea, but adding TLS to the transport of signed packages can't make the pipeline less secure.
JIT isn't really compiling the runtime performance penalty of the Proxy "away" though.

JIT compilation still involves a runtime performance penalty of the JIT compilation step itself, that has to be traded off against the runtime performance penalty of just running the Proxy logic without any runtime compilation step.

That's a nuanced tradeoff that has to be weighed on a case by case basis by various heuristics, and can reduce the runtime cost of proxies when applied to the right cases (and at the same time, could increase runtime cost if applied to the wrong ones: think overly aggressive inlining and its effects on memory usage), but either way it doesn't result in the Proxy abstraction becoming "compiled away" into something that has 0 runtime cost.
Great insights, but let's not forget, at most companies being a programmer is no picknick. Some places like amazon, things are so bad employees cry (that amazon article).

Also, don't forget, FAANG employees are the exception not the rule. Those are probably the top 5% in terms of engineering compensation, so it shouldn't be used as an average case for software engineers. You have to be a top 5% engineer or at least top 5% lucky to be in one of those companies.

And, let's not forget 400K isn't so much when your employer chooses to be in a location where housing costs an average of 3M to 4M and day care costs 30K per year (if you're lucky enough to get it).
Yes, you can tell the difference between a virtuoso and a regular player just by how they tune up their instrument. A lot of violin is in the right hand.
Is this article just implying that because security isn't regulated the network is insecure? Or has some legitimate vulnerability been found here? Seems very politicized too.
When you start from a very small base, it’s easier to continue to grow and reach “all-time highs”.
I guess that's why firefox containers are for, just don't forget to name it 'vintage-math-books'
Random factoid: IIRC, part of the backstory of the 80s movie Red Dawn was a failure of Soviet agriculture, which then motivated the invasion of the US.