skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First they came for the anti-vaxxers, and the lives of many immunocompromised children were saved thanks to herd immunity.

There, finished it for you!
First, they came for the people who are trying to bring back infectious diseases that killed and maimed millions of people.
What line are you drawing?
Engaging Users in Research Without Opening Pandora’s Box
Unfortunately failure and errorchain appear to not be cool anymore (ie I've noticed quite a few people are migrating away from failure just like they did from errorchain) and there doesn't appear to be any push from the Rust team as of yet.

I think it's a serious problem as your code base grows and I wish we had some more work on the RFC front.
Nuclear obviously has its risks. Exploring alternatives is a viable strategy. Also do not be mistaken to think that nuclear power is unlimited. It requires the mining of a resource that is very very limited.
Materials science is helping to transform China into a high-tech economy
Sort of surprised how restrictive some of ideas in this article and comment section are to say if you are writing functional code or not.

If you are writing pure functions and total functions, it's functional code. The rest is syntax.

And pure functions are probably best tagged with an asterisk because most of the time you have state to manage somewhere, you're just going to jump through some syntactic hoop (monad) to mask it
The trend is to move to 10-year exercise windows. Plenty of arguments to both sides, I suppose.
> Don't track hours.

Probably you don't mean it in this way, but I found time tracking to be very very useful, even when not tracking with the purpose of invoicing for your time.
I see google as more of robotics company in making. They have software to identify things, surrounding and object like we humans do(which I think is a big feat).

They have a lot more pieces of complete robot problem.
Not sure whether to take that suggestion seriously, but it seems like it would amount to an agreement to behave a certain way in exchange for compensation.

But the reason most of these people are in prison in the first place is they don't have a good track record of controlling their behavior. So this idea seems predicated on their doing something that we already have good reason to believe they won't.
My problem is actually: who gets to draw those lines and how can I be sure they won't use that power to serve their own personal interests.
I’m wonder why the convention hasn’t evolved to simply posting sci-hub links in the first place. There seems to be overwhelming sentiment that the paid-access journals are not helping the progress and dissemination of science.

I would expect hackers to avail themselves of the technical means to “route around the damage” so to speak.
Strace-little-book: A little book which introduces strace
Neither Nexus nor glass was killed.

Nexus became pixel. Glass never left beta and is still an enterprise product.
Part of the problem with that approach is that you're still reliant on the host OS and have just pasted a new layer of abstraction over the old one. Kinda like the web. You haven't really fixed any of the problems of the underlying platform, while at the same time you've added complexity and bloat.

I think there is, perhaps, value in a middle ground. You could take the Linux kernel (chosen here for its existing driver support, openness, stable syscall ABI, and presence of virtualization and namespacing features), but throw away basically everything on top of it and build a new "operating environment". Then, over time, you could fork the kernel away, ditching legacy syscalls and features, maybe creating a stable driver ABI finally, etc.
The story behind Amazon's next generation robot
This misinformation is literally killing people. A private company fighting that is absolutely something to celebrate; GoFundMe gets my full support here.
>And is the biggest city in France, a liberal country, really that conservative compared to SF?

The GP brought up attitudes towards drugs, specifically. I'm not arguing other liberal points. Consider that Amsterdam has similar lax attitudes to drugs and isn't nearly as bad. Hong Kong, proper, is expensive, but Hong Kong also has a very rich public transportation system. My impression of Hong Kong is that you don't need to live in Hong Kong to work there.

Personally I think most US cities, and a lot of western cities in general suffer more profoundly from income inequality. I'd imagine it's very easy to feel trapped on the streets in SF if you can't afford housing or a car (Which are problems that can come to roost after several years of poverty, if you are poor, you can't build credit, so you can't get a car/home loan). If you have no life choices, its easy fall into drug use (see the rural america opioid crisis).
I would not regulate it at all. I hope for more people to understand what is happening with their brains. Once you do understand it does not affect (as much). But with kids these days entrenched in their smartphone virtual reality consuming custom tailored ads .. the trend is unfortunately downwards.
Reviewing cleared transactions that automatically download into YNAB takes me under 3 min/day (they’re auto-categorized based on past inputs). I usually do this on desktop but it can all be done on iOS (and Android?) as well.

Initial setup of budget categories took me about an hour of reading docs and playing with the app. Historical transactions mostly aren’t available for import, so over the first 1-2 months of use you’ll fiddle with things as you get more data.

From there I found myself just reviewing the reports every so often as needed.
Not too different. Subs can be a few hundred megawatts, vs. a few thousand in power plants.
I'm confused what this offers over USDC. Banks can already issue USD backed tokens with this model. USDC is already being traded on several exchanges. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
Owning a Car Will Soon Be as Quaint as Owning a Horse
The rise in American incarceration coincides with the de-institutionalization of psychiatric patients and subsequent defunding of community mental health programs. Perhaps they are linked, and prisons have now taken on the previous role of psychiatric institutions.

The fact is, I used to see mentally ill patients all the time and have no where to send them. Often, they would turn to crime just to survive or get off the streets.

While I agree there were abuses in the past, wholesale destruction of the old system is a very American response without any real thought to its replacement.
> People believe they shouldn't have kids because "there's too many people".

This is true though. There are too many people on the planet, and you shouldn't have kids if it aligns with you beliefs.

Luckily, countries are already headed in that direction (fertility rates below replacement rate) [1]. But we should do more with carbon tax funds to further incentivize this outcome.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rates/
Got it--bad assumption on my part. Interested in your thoughts on my comment.
For one, the article seems to be impossible to read on an iPhone via safari.
Boy it sure is convenient that 6% of Americans are black males, huh?
Are you perhaps thinking about the distinction between project-based work and staff aug? Staff-aug consulting does essentially make you an effective "employee", just paid differently and with a different level of commitment.
How would one integrate that with a (Rust|go|C#|thoer-compiled-language) application on Windows? Yeah, you can do stuff like that in a scripted language. Doesn't make it a good option even in the majority of cases.
Depends on the market.

Japanese DVDs/Blu Rays for Anime sell for upwards of $40 and usually only include around 4 episodes.
Milk culture as in a cultural aspect of drinking milk, or the bacteria in the milk?
How would you know that other than the assurances of the company that designed the chip? They could easily insert a few gates in the layout to subvert protections under the right conditions.
Should probably say [audio] in the title (it's 30 minutes without transcription).
I would love to believe this is true. I don’t think we can draw a line and stick to it though.
> they're AWS lambdas

those are not servers! In fact the branding of AWS lambda is exactly "serverless". You don't have to have process restart logic, they're very transient, if a process error causes a crash (yes that happens even in rust) the entire thing is taken down. They're less of a server than a kubernetes-orchestrated container.
It is highly saline, according to the first article, more so than seawater.
Lazy evaluation is what's most commonly blamed for that, no?
San Francisco's `Super Rich' Lead a Widening U.S. Wealth Divide
I'm curious if this is mainly due to the diet being healthier, or due to hormones that are given to cows and eventually transferred to the consumer.
This is terrifying. If this, and similar ideas, gain adoption, this will undoubtedly lead to the next financial crisis.

From my understanding, JPMC wants to issue a new coin and make the market for that coin by buying the coin for $1. Then, they plan to use this coin for it's normal banking tasks, such as lending money, except they would use JPM Coins instead of dollars. By using this coin, they would be able to skirt their fractional reserve requirements. Of course, this coin only has value because of trust in JPMC. If this trust or breached, or if external economic events cause a large amount of JPM Coin to be sold, then this will effectively be a run on JPMC. Given JPMC's size and importance in the marketplace, the aftermath would not be pretty.
>The cost of bitcoin is determined by supply and demand.

That's the price of bitcoin, not the cost. Price is what you can sell it for, cost is what you can make it for. The cost is determined by the price of the inputs, which are electricity and ASICs.
> recent years have shown us that we may not always have a great political relationship with the US

IBM happily helped Hitler plan the Holocaust during World War II. Not even war could stop them from making a buck, so I doubt Trump's shenanigans would.
There is an assumption here--one that Bryan Cantrill mentions in that toxin vs cancer talk--that management and leadership are the same.

In my experience, they have nothing to do with one another. This is especially true with technical leadership. Having people whose primary concern is organizational stability leading technical decisions is a recipe for resentment and dysfunction.

I would go even further and say if a person is concerned with making technical leadership decisions as opposed to people management decisions, they shouldn't be in "management". This includes being a CTO. Most CTOs are not as natural people managers as their VP Eng brethren, and CTOs are not best described as managers of other managers: they're entirely different roles.
Do you have a source on that land _actually_ being given to the locals? I know they mentioned it, but they were also offering to buy a lot of land as people were failing to make ends meet during the shutdown.[0][1]

0 - https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1000242/rodrigo-duterte-boraca...

1 - https://www.rappler.com/nation/204796-duterte-boracay-native...
And prisons don’t? I would argue the modern American prison system has stepped into the role of the old asylum system and done an arguably worse job.
If you’re so sure, why stop at not having kids, why continue being a person?
so you go out searching for work and not necessarily know you can 'solve' or 'build' the solution beforehand? seems kinda risky
I would pay $25,000 for a proven-safe generic modification that made my son top 20% in height (excluding the absurd, above say 6’5”) or my daughter top 20% in “ideal figure.” Looks help people a lot in life.
I am not an anti vaxxer, but this is more of a philosophical question. If we ban them, what are we banning them for? What happens if something they say ends up magically being true? How long would it take us to shift the tides back?

What if this was asbestos back in the day. "It's safe, we all use it, if it wasn't then our internal study would have told us." So they start banning anyone saying asbestos is unsafe. How long would it take us to fix all the blocks that are crying to save people from actual asbestos issues, that are 100% real.

And once again, I am not saying banning anti-vaxx is bad, vaccines are proven over and over again.
Thank you so much. That's the balance I'm aiming for, but there's still room to improve!
Preferred Networks Builds State-of-the-Art Supercomputer Mn-2
Wow I did not read the whole article. But's it's actually pretty moving... Ok fuck it. I'm going to do a pluralist 'both/and'. It's both a horse-shit sandwich and a story of conscience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5xfBtD6rLY&vl=en
I feel like it was a disappointment that some of the brightest engineers of a generation went into ad tech, and next they're going into how to make the masses into part time servants with even fewer benefits than full time low-wage employees.
On a trip to India I went to a Zoo where I took a bus to tour the enclosures for the tigers, lions, and bears. Between each species there were a set of gates to make sure the animals didn't mix. There were people who operated the gates rather than having an automated system that did the same thing.

To your point, in India it is cheaper to have a human being do that work than a machine, much less a robot. It will take a long time for the economics of robots to catch up on really cheap labor in the developing world.
Arabs/North Africans are also shorter. But I don't know how many the US has.
Ask HN: Consultants and freelancers, may I interview about how you got started?
I saw a post earlier today on HN in which the poster asks for resources on how to be a consultant. [1] . I've been toying with the idea of becoming a con-free-lan-sultant myself. Personally, I learn better through conversation than reading.

Would anyone on HN be interested & willing to speak with me about how they got started as a consultant. freelancer, someone?

Here's what I'm thinking:

- We have an informal conversation about what you do, what your business model is, etc.

- From the notes, I write up a blog post about what I heard you say, work with you to make it as accurate as possible, and then give you final approval over the content before posting it to my blog, with permission for you to use the content for your own purposes, too

- the point is to tell a story about how one person, you, got started, what advantages & disadvantages you had, how you got lucky, how you had to work your ass off at times, etc.

If interested, please contact me via email or LinkedIn. Info is in my profile :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19455224
The technical term for the arrangement you're talking about is subcontracting. Subcontracting is not much better than using contracting sites; you can make it work as backfill with partners you trust, but be careful not to fill your schedule with it.
It's weird how much the anti-vaxxers have become the whipping boys of the current US. Is it because they've got both the smell of dirty hippies and also anti-science religious conservatives and also annoying soccer moms so everyone can love to hate them?

Not giving your kid vaccinations is stupid. But on the scale of "ways you can mess up your kid," it's pretty mild. In terms of the amount of harm that non-vaccinated kids do to everyone else, it's extremely near zero. Almost certainly, if you drive a car more than a few times a year, you're endangering those around you more than any anti-vaxxer is.

And if you actually want to convince anti-vaxxers to change their ways, this is clearly not the right way to do it. Pouring hate on people feels (scarily) good in a lot of ways, but it doesn't change the minds of the people you're demonizing. Is there any clearer demonstration of this than the complete persistence of anti-vaxxing sentiment in the face of steadily increasing screams of protest over the last 5 years?
Dead serious. I equally don't understand the EU/UK market for programmers. I think US salaries seem unsustainably high and European salaries unsustainably low, especially in large cities...
I'm not disputing any of that.

I'm disputing "earthquakes as offensive weapon" being useful. Not tunnels.
A 5 year ROI isn't fatal. When people buy cars rather than taking taxis, the ROI is > 5 years. Many emerging technologies (solar panels, electric cars) start gaining market share when the ROI is in the 20-30 year range.
That's really interesting. When I was exploring implementing standard notation, I also came across ABC notation. If/when I take on standard notation, I think ABC notation would be very reasonable to implement for import/export. Thanks for the feedback!
My Grandfather’s John Deere Would Support Our Right to Repair
How would a company assume an agenda is misinformation before looking at the information critically?
while I agree with your overall argument, i think this is wrong:

> And pure functions are probably best tagged with an asterisk because most of the time you have state to manage somewhere

purity does not mean there is no state! This is exactly what the monad (and similiar structures) in haskell is for, which you correctly mentioned. But they don't violeate the purity.
>Both think the other completely immoral at times.

What kind of things in Japan or Japanese culture do Westerners think is outright immoral?
Anything you can express in YAML, you can express in JSON. I'm not saying I would choose JSON over YAML for configuration... but it's definitely not lacking in equal flexibility in use for structure.
That's a common reaction, but it doesn't stand to much scrutiny. Before radiation gets to the public, about 4 or 5 different barriers have to fail. The first is the fuel pin, then the cladding metal, then the coolant itself (which can often absorb problematic fission products), then the reactor vessel, then the containment, and then dispersal. You're focusing on containment/dispersal.

But how do the first ones fail? The answer is that lack of decay heat removal allows the earlier barriers to heat up, melt, and fail. Well, if you have an intimate connection to an infinite heat sink (the sea), you don't ever lose decay heat cooling. You can't! So your fuel and clad stay intact in almost all scenarios.

Earthquakes? No problem, the sea buffers you.
Tsunamis? No problem, stay in moderately deep water and the wavelengths are so long that you'll barely notice them.
Heavy weather? The world's largest ship (Prelude) is designed to stay operating (it's a LNG facility) during Cat 5 cyclones.
Military attack? Sink and cool passively until a designed recovery operation can occur
Ship collision? Stay out of shipping lanes; worse case, sink and don't leak.

Also, keep people out of your exclusion zone by being a few km offshore.

Honestly it's a pretty slick low-carbon rapid deployment scenario that improves construction cost and safety. Operation will likely be more expensive, but maintenance maybe not (since you can go home to the shipyard and be relieved by a spare).
But injecting kids with aluminum and mercury is to be applauded?
The changes required to live a more sustainable life aren't out of reach for most people, and don't require action so drastic.

You're already here, stay for a bit.
I think the point is that those functions could have just been aliased to other methods from other libraries, in order to maintain compatibility for older applications while removing the deprecated underlying library.
PHP is not that bad. I used Laravel to build out a PHP based web-app , it was a breeze to build - great developer experience - Eg: Netbeans/Eclipse Syntax editors are easy to use, composer was as easy as rails was. Most of my work was on the JS part though (React/WebVR). Tests, Code Coverage, Deployment to AWS, everything was smooth . This coming from a polyglot dev who built apps with Scala,Python, Java and Ruby
“'I would say that a robot is a physically embodied artificially intelligent agent that can take actions that have effects on the physical world,' says roboticist Anca Dragan of UC Berkeley." [https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-a-robot/]

Industrial robots and Roombas may fit this definition, because they are controlled by fairly sophisticated software that synthesizes inputs from arrays of sensors to perform complex physical tasks. But less advanced machines like dishwashers and garage-door openers don't really reach that level.

Garage door openers do take input from an optical "obstruction" sensor, but the response is binary: don't close the door. In contrast, robotic vacuums translate distance sensor readings into a motion plan to cover every square foot of your room while avoiding obstacles.
Darklands
What size company do you work at? how many distinct product lines?

A sports team is 12-50 people, plus an immense supporting team, many with very specialized roles but all aligned towards a very well understood goal and pretty stratified options for success.

A company could be hundreds or thousands of people with very diverse or even conflicting goals, spread over countless geographies and sub-teams.

Should the technical lead know their team mates by individual traits? absolutely but the VP can't possibly maintain that cognitive load and needs titles & positions to guide there actions.

Your counter example basically says every team owner knows everything the coach or sub-team coordinator knows, which is not true.
I don't. If I decide to have children I would adopt.
First of all there are still local newspapers that have enough business to support investigative journalism. We can thank the Miami Herald for their work in breaking the Trump labor Sec. / Epstein scandal wide open. [1]

Secondly there are nonprofit like ProPublica that do amazing work. They were a major force that brought the dangers of fracking into light.[2]

Finally, Investigative journalism isn't cheap. The orgs need to pay a salary and travel costs for months and years on a story that may or may not pan out. In an interview, the journalist that broke it said that it took months to research and fact check an anonymous tip to develop it into a full blow story.

So no, I don't feel bad about NYT being a "corporation" when their quality journalism brings to light stores like this.

[1] https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html

[2] https://www.propublica.org/series/fracking

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/d...
If you scroll down on the page there is a transcription.
Yes, the codebase had several changes and improvements since 3.x.
The internet existed in a major fashion before there was any notable amount of advertising on the internet. The original goalpost was not "advertising did not exist in the entire world".

The discussion of the origin of advertising is a different issue. But I'd say that "advertising" as normally understood didn't really exist before mass-produced newspapers at the very least, so that's less than four centuries and nowhere near millennia.
> But edge detection is a lot easier on comics than on photos I would think

That should be true. But deep learning based models work quite good on natural images as Vgg dataset is mostly natural. This is perhaps one-off usage/application on comics.
it's pointless if the plan is to learn at beginner level and stop there and then believe that you have a reasonable level of understanding to formulate opinions. If the plan is to learn it at the beginner level in order to keep learning and get to advanced level, then I agree it's not pointless
I don't even want to think about the support nightmare of releasing an application with configuration beyond YAML or environment variables.
I think obviously no: language definitely contributes to SOME vulnerabilities, but it does not solve all or even most of them. java apps are great example of memory safety, type safety, and still huge vulnerabilities exist in java apps.