skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether you think inflation is justified or not does not negate the argument. It is still theft. If savers did not have money, economists would not have anything to inflate. The inflation benefits the money printer, because they spend it at the market rate at the time of printing, but by the time it works its way through the economy, the effect is reduced purchasing power for the saver or consumer.

Yes, inflation is a deterrent on saving, pushing people to instead invest their money. Whether it is a good thing that people blow all of their money on junk consumer goods is another question.

What if some people just want to save, and not take risks? Well, it's their own choice, and now they are able to make such choice because there are no economists controlling the monetary policy of Bitcoin. What you think was justified previously, might no longer be possible. If we slip into depression due to deflation again, we might have to come up with some other solution, which isn't just kicking the can down the road.
I think another aspect of it is the auto industry's reluctance to admit that cars are dangerous. Before seatbelts were introduced, manufacturers didn't want to include any overt safety systems, because they introduced the idea that we needed protection from the cars. There were no dangerous cars, just bad drivers. There's a great 99% invisible episode about it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/nut-behind-wheel/
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Sure, at the moment it's just LAMP with Elasticsearch to speed things up. We also have a list of all the libraries and services we use here: https://www.serverhunter.com/licenses/ :)
Show HN: Matlock Extension – Discover the Open Source Libraries Pages Are Using
Yeah, on first load they load... like a web page. Because they are a web page. "Grey rectangle city" is not something a progressive web app does unless the creator of the app tells it to. Like I said, it sounds like the complaint is with single page apps, not with progressive web apps.

I guess I'm not sure what the preferred alternative is here? First load of a native app involves going to an app store and downloading a multi-megabyte app. A PWA involves loading a normal web site, then once it has loaded, cache resources to allow instant loading in the future. I know which one of those two I'd prefer.
TL;DR: "[Coding perfectly and anticipating any possible change to how the tools work] are not reasonable expectations of a human being. We need languages with guard rails to protect against these kinds of errors."

I definitely agree with this. And it also applies to a lot more than what the article is focused on (low-level security). It seems that right now the entire programming ecosystem seems to jump to "you just don't understand it" rather than "this should be more intuitive, or at least safer by design."
High growth, low growth, no growth: systematic growth with DAU replacement
It's not JIRA, it's YouTrack.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048809/
That was a shockingly low figure relative to what I’ve heard from friends in medicine. Looking up the original paper showed that the estimators used for that figure were very sketchy, and the authors of the paper did not claim otherwise. They were simply grasping for any estimator they could.
What about the idea that senior people design stuff but then hand it off to junior people to write and then coach them through the bug fixing and refinement? (Honest question; doesn't seem like there's much of this where I work and I'm considering trying to introduce it because it seems to me like a good way to leverage the senior folks' skills while also transferring them to more junior folks, but I'm wondering whether there is some kind of taboo against it or something else that I'm missing)
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Forced arbitration is broken, but not entirely useless.

The actual problem is vendor lock-in and the conflict of interest in those who choose the vendor.

There should be a law that allows you to pick whichever arbitrator you want (within limits, like picking court jurisdiction), rather than being forced into a single vendor.
This makes me so happy. I started out as a short wave listener (SWL) before becoming a ham. WWV was part of both hobbies though it's been quite a while since I've heard those tones and it took me right back to my childhood. WWV should be part of the web, thanks for bringing it there.
Sounds like you should version control your files...
Docker image security scanning in 5 minutes or less:
You cannot determine someone's age by the fact that they have/use a credit card. Teenagers can have credit cards.
Thanks for your post.

I am currently at a startup and have been here a few years. I came to really hate the environment, mostly because the people this company can hire are not what I would personally consider talented (due to a mix of non-exponential company growth and lower compensations than FAANG companies). The result of hiring low quality professionals is that the engineering standards are so low that it really depresses me.

For this reason, I've interviewed and got offers with 3 FAANGs, and I am contemplating about moving to one of them. After reading your post, I recognize I am perhaps romanticizing FAANGs a little bit more than what's fair, but the thing that intrigues me the most is the ability to work with and learn from other very talented engineers (so I can grow), that I have a hard time finding in startups that don't have big pockets as them.

And of course, also the financial aspects, since financial freedom is relatively high in my priority list.
I have Elasticsearch running on our development area with just 256 MB of RAM assigned. In production it's quite a bit more, but fortunately, we used Server Hunter to find some great deals for our own infrastructure as well ;)
Researchers hide malware in Intel SGX enclaves
Graduate engineering student found dead at Stanford
It's Youtrack, a product by Jetbrains:

https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
Hi all -
Been working on this extension with my buddy Adam (for both Chrome and Firefox) for a while. I wanted to know which Open Source libraries pages were using, and pull in info/context/data from GitHub (and a couple other sources) based on those libraries.

The idea is pretty straight forward: you click on the Extension Icon, and it'll analyze the page you're on and show you the libraries, basic data from GitHub (like star-count and when it was last committed to), the location of the developer(s) (if shared), and the description.

Open to any feedback or questions :)
>The happiest employees I see (at least outwardly) are those that fully buy in to the Koolaid and do not consider the nuance of what a company or technology enables.

yep, this. those who focus on what is directly in front of them at all times are often the most content. these are the people who are convenient cogs for any machine.
It's showing two whole kilobytes of text, there's an upper bound on how fast such vast volumes of data can be displayed, you know.

It frustrates me how little pride in their craft the average worker displays, in any industry.
That's mostly inaccurate and only true after they had been taught by the Indians how to hunt in the new world. The first year the pilgrims were in America was spent ransacking Indian villages destroyed by the plague for food. It wasn't until a friendly Indian called who renamed himself "the wrath of god" showed them hunting that they stopped starving. Again the death records for the early colony are fascinating reading.
Google and Facebook are news organizations, people get their news from them. Whether you agree or disagree with how the UK regulates news organizations is orthogonal to the point that the same rules should apply to them as apply to other news orgs.

If the companies don't like this they can either spin off their news related products into a separate company or stop actively trying to control the news narrative.

This is simple.
That and the ubiquity of cars. If everyone flew their own plane to work every day, it would probably be different....
I'm pretty sure it isn't JIRA. It's their own JIRA alternative called YouTrack - https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
Nothing you described there is “agile” however. In fact they run counter to every fundamental thing agile stands for.

Sounds like your company slammed an agile label on a broken process and thought it would fix it.

Agile has nothing to do with those problems, if it wasn’t called that it would a crappy implementation of some other idea.

The problem is you have a terrible engineering culture & leadership at your company.
> She and her colleagues found that in the 1970s, women accounted for 59 percent of acknowledged programmers, but just 7 percent of actual authors. That decade was a pivotal time for the field of population genetics, when the foundations of much modern research were laid. “Based on authorship at the time, it seems that this research was conducted by a relatively small number of independent individual scientists, nearly all of whom were men,” the team writes. But that wasn’t the case.

Nice way of glossing over that section.

At some point you just have to reject the argument that it was "best intentions" or "that's just evolutionary psychology". It was only 45 years ago that the "Equal Credit Opportunity Act" was passed. There are still tons of weird attitudes about women and their contributions to society. One that I see often is that "Women select lower paying jobs", but I rarely see the obvious counter argument "why in the hell doesn't our economy reward women for raising the next generation of workers?", as they do 80% of the house work. Women are often ignored in history books, Texas even made an attempt to have Hillary Clinton completely removed.

This discussion is just one such example. There are mounds of evidence of the sexism in our society. There might be scientific reasons that it exists, but there is no scientific or ethical defense of it's continued existence. Whether in the workplace or at home, women have been supplying half of economic output for the entirety of our history, and it's time to stop pretending that it isn't the case, or that historically those in power were powerless against some natural economic state.
Thank you for creating a hub where server providers are indexed. I've been looking for something like this for a while now. :)
>skydiving

You misspelled "elevator operator"

I used to work at an airport that had a skydive operation, we jokingly called them elevator pilots (because they just go up and down all day). They used to only pump a the required amount of fuel to get the aircraft to altitude and idle back because carrying more fuel up and down is a waste of fuel. Occasionally they would run out of fuel and glide in. One time they ran out of fuel really short and landed in the pond.
Are you jokingly referring to the fact that they were flouting (ie, ignoring) the rules, while the article seems to say that they were ostentatiously displaying (ie, flaunting) the rules?

Or are you just saying that it's good thing that they could operate apps against Apple's rules?
Shield AI Fundamentals: On State Estimation
Whole Mensa concept is based on the abuse of a tool. IQ was deviced as a method to discern - excuse my language - idiots from normies, not to identify geniuses from a general population. I don't doubt those that pass Mensa gauntlet are not fast, but a high IQ is a very narrow and barren method define giftedness.

The fact that it has been used in that specific usage time and again does not really vindicate it in any way.

But ok, so the sampling is of Mensa members in general. That's fine, like the article states the targeted population is difficult to sample as it is.
All they need is a small dosage of existentialism. Life is indeed meaningless by itself, we are born to reproduce, meaning is what you choose to attach to it.
It's harder to implement on cars.

1) People would (and do) cheat at mandatory breathalyzers.

2) It's not speeding that injures people, it's the speed differences that cause issues. Limiting a car to 70mph won't help when it's icy, and they should be driving 40mph.

3) How exactly would a car detect reckless driving? How would it know that it wasn't warranted (ie swerving to avoid a kid)?
That people voted for the candidate they wanted to win based on their own analysis, thoughts and free will.

If advertising can win elections, then Hillary would have won since she far outspent Trump on media. Let's not forget she had a much larger army of astro turfers (Correct The Record) pushing her message on the internet and it was all for moot. It turns out people aren't as easy to sway as advertisers would have you believe.
Let's see what startups come out of Raleigh vs Seattle.
Don't forget about Digsby, which I believe was OS Native and written in Python.
Question for anyone who has coded on a 4k display: is it worth it? Is the scaled image that much sharper, and is that sharpness worth having? I feel like I still see so many scaling problems, and I'm curious if people feel like the better display quality is worth it.
Vim won't speed up your typing. It'll speed up your editing. Adding/discarding/modifying large blocks of text, or spread-out blocks of text. It'll let you think in terms of moving this block there, replacing these words, duplicating these patterns, etc. The efficiency increase comes, in large part, from allowing you to make steps that are closer to how you think.

And even if we're talking about 20% of your time, improving that 2-10x is nothing to shake a stick at. 20% of 10 hours is 2 hours, if Vim makes you edit 2x faster, that's 1h saved, per day. And that's without accounting for other work you could move to your suddenly more efficient plaintext mode, and the work you don't even consider doing because your editing experience is too painful (it sometimes work the other way too; there are things I won't do in Emacs, but I will in IntelliJ, where project-wide, language-aware refactors can be done with two clicks in full confidence that nothing will break).
Yes, the article actually does a decent job at discussing this. For city driving it almost certainly doesn’t make sense compared to going electric. Neither does it make sense as an alternative to going to a carbon-free electric grid. Where it does make sense is in industrial processes where energy is not the largest cost factor, or the parts of transport industry where energy density and charging speed the most important characteristic (e.g. air travel, long-haul trucking).
Interesting! I guess I've never learned much physics more recent than 1904.
Continuing with Zig for ARM Development
This is one of those areas where nuclear power might be useful. The main expensive input to this process is energy. If you had several nuclear power plants powering this process, you could remove a substantial amount of CO2 from the air. Additional energy input could be used to create hydrocarbons, and you could have a carbon neutral fuel that is ultimately nuclear powered.
Thank you. Another surprising redwood tree is in the "Rieterpark" in central Zurich.
Slack May Be Hurting Your Workplace Productivity (2018)
The point of Bitcoin is that the trust is not in specific humans or groups of humans, but in a set of humans so diverse and distributed that there is no conceivable way for a minority of them to collude to screw over the other users. Moreover, they are deterred from attempting to screw over others, because they must exhaust massive amounts of electricity to attempt to cheat them, which can't be returned whether they succeed or not.
They're entertainment. You read with the expectation that they're mostly false, but the possibility that any one of the absurd situations is happening for real.
The US is terrible at educating independent thinking, there are heavily religious curriculum being enforced in a few southern states and the government has backed off of viewing education as a funding priority. We need to change that because it's seriously impacting our ability to have a working democracy but... it has nothing to do with regulating Google & Facebook, both are news organizations and should be treated as such.
I'm sorry. Allow me to qualify my claim and restate it:

It's a complete win for everyone except for the morons in charge, and their so-called expert economic advisers, who think the functioning of the society has to depend upon everyone needing to work 9 to 5, Monday through Friday in order to have food, shelter, clothing, health, education, justice. (Even if it means creating more and more bullshit jobs).

If your pathetic obsolete-jobs-are-always-replaced-with-new-kinds-of-jobs economists cannot update their worldview and their economic policy in light of technological progress, that's not a problem with technological progress. (Only a handful of economists, Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Robin Hanson, to name a few, have a realistic view of what's coming in terms of socioecononmic impact of tech progress).
I'm a hardcore believer in the Church of Emacs, and yet I strongly second your message. What you're saying is not evangelism; it's common sense.
> Do people have access to more wealth (things they desire) than before? The answer is yes.

You lost all credibility right here. I suppose people living in their economically-alright bubbles will never be able to look objectively at how awful things are in so many places in the world. You just prefer the cozy illusion that it's all getting better.

Statistical averages mean nothing to the millions of family barely making ends meet and not being able to pay for the kids' gyms and proper nutrition. But sure, "on average things are better" -- and even this outlandish claim is proven wrong by this article, with hard data.
(imho) difference is as night and day - once you start with 4k there is no turning back...
The movement keys also help: () for moving by sentence and {} for moving by paragraph.
I would use Franz, but I don't want to sign up for a Franz account. Why would I need to create an account with them when it's a client for 3rd party services? I don't want to hand over any data to another party.
Representation is irrelevant, it has 0 value, and it is a silly game anyway, because you can just pick another arbitrary category. For example: blonde people are underrepresented, and so on. Is it interesting? No. Is it relevant? Not really.
True, VIM may not be better, but it's a standard so it's well supported.
Only if there is a taxation function that takes money from the top and distributes it, which gets derided as full on communism on HN. One of the big issues with automation is it tends to concentrate wealth with a few big players
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was found guilty on all counts
Same here. I've certainly had slowness issues with IntelliJ, but I hadn't noticed any correlation with whether I do or do not have my 4K external monitor plugged in. Sounds like, surprisingly, cranking down the resolution on the monitor (which is not something I've tried) makes things _more_ laggy.

I've got to imagine this is a maddening one for JetBrains to deal with.
Well, living somewhere that gives me 33 days elective holiday and doesn’t try to ration out sick leave helps. But I honestly just enjoy my job. I think relating it to actual people and working at scale gives you the power to think about the direct effect your code is having on people’s lives.
The headline to this story is "Vim is saving me hours of work..." which is a lot like "Find out how to lose 10lbs in one week" or "You too can earn thousands of dollars a week with this easy trick".

And trends go around in IT just like any other field. So before someone jumps into vim to save themselves hours of work they should know that it requires practice use to use well.
Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)
I would hold compassion in higher esteem than stoic virtue. Remember that society where stoics came from considered enslavement as good and natural and feeding people to animals as good sport.

That's not to say Epictetus does not have lots of worthwhile things to say, but that there are other facets to living a good life in addition to what was stoics prescribed.
Java is great for server apps where you care more about throughput. But on the desktop where latency matters, I have yet to use a non-trivial Java application that didn't have latency issues.
No, vim is a layer on top of the ide. normal keyboard shortcuts and other editor features still work in say Xcode or visual studio.
Maybe you can simplify it, have a checkbox for "Dedicated CPU Cores" so that we can filter those who provide it officially.

I think it's safe to assume that those that don't have this information available at least somewhere, are shared cores by default?
The point I meant to raise was that the underlying axiom of the piece is that the lottery is fair, when the mechanism for that fairness is simply removing information. There are lots of reasons for it, but a lottery is a fig leaf.

The proportion of input students of a type will be the same as in the the output of a fair lottery. Appeals to randomness just forfeit responsibility and ownership of the decision.
As a python user I understand the need for better invariant checking, but should it be encoded in types, contracts or conventions?
Yep, I agree. The reason we have this problem at all is because, at least in our part of the world, education isn't well-funded. I think we should still have a lottery system but yes, other stuff will produce better results.

I also think that all the volunteering and whatever should be cut from applications. Who gives a fuck if you played the oboe for ten years? Does that really matter? The point of music is enjoyment, the point of volunteering is to serve other people. I had a friend who was forced to play the saxaphone until university and it was tragic: he wouldn't talk about it, he only played to pass exams, he took no joy from it...like great but if you are being forced to do this then who cares? It has become another way to discriminate...and it isn't that much fun if you are a kid.
As far as I can tell, stoics believe that being an excellent man (or woman) is the purpose of a man (or woman). Just as being an excellent horse is the purpose of a horse, or being an excellent chair is the purpose of being a chair.
How is anything you said related to the points defended -- and others debunked by -- by the article?

It was mostly talking about the amount per day needed to have proper nutrition. Why do you shift the goalposts to abstract terms like "it's improving faster"? Sure, if you are on the rock bottom, it's only up from there on, and obviously you want to go faster when distancing yourself from the bottom.

Zero relevance to the article.
I have children and I am infatuated with helping them grow, learn and become good humans.

I also am at a job with unlimited vacation and took 8 weeks PTO last year. So I make up for the days that are boring with my vacations.

I don't feel the urge to "change the world" and I'm perfectly happy working hard at work on interesting problems, and coming home to my family and just being happy, which is the benefit of being almost 50.