skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Framing the discussion that way is disingenuous, though. Most people don't realize the extent to which Google and Facebook track them and collect data, so they're not in a good position to say whether they trust them to protect the data or not. Google's essentially made the decision for them - they're "protecting" it because they've collected it.
> how many pilots did not get into dangerous situations because of the computer taking care for them

Agreed, that kind of computer control is helpful and good. The problem comes when either (a) those secondary/contingent systems aren’t built to the same standards (redundancy, fault tolerance, etc.) as the primary systems; or (b) their reasons for existence are to artificially alter the flight characteristics of the plane, for no other reason than to make the plane fly “like another plane” or in a more familiar way — so the perceived aviation experience is effectively an abstraction, and a leaky one at that.

I’m not against abstracting away some of the flight characteristics, given that in doing so, proper due diligence is done to make the resulting system reliable and fault-tolerant.
Or, you could just hollow out a big inkjet printer and tell people it was an Edison, which is pretty much what they did.
Very handy for songwriting. Great work :)
Hey Pedro,

Awesome work. Some 'notes' (pun intended):

- demo mode, click it to load a set of chords to show what the end result would look / sound like

- real time midi output rather than the built in synth as an option

- allow 'chords' of only one note to be dragged as well as placeholders to build on later.

- ability to erase a single chord from a progression, rather than only all of them at once.

Super nice work, thank you for making and posting it.
It sound horrible, morbid and even psychopathic, but it is the truth. Most people do not think about life in such practical ways (read: realistic), instead it is idealized and made an abstract concept.

It is not. You consciously choose, every day, egoistic actions that harm other people. You could have saved countless lifes, yet you did not. Do not pretend to care when you do not.

Same thing goes with eating meat. Animals aren't things. They feel, they suffer. And we make them suffer. Just because they taste good.

But harming a dog? Abandoning a dog to get a new puppy? That is horrible! But is it, really? Or is it just the same thing we do every day?
This is inappropriate.
Only if you insist on inlining all of the functions. Do yourself a favor and name a few of them. People that come after you will appreciate it, too.
UX and CX: Same Language; Different Dialects
You are a much fitter person for your morning run than without it - good skills. Ditch the fags and booze and you might live to tomorrow.

You are still curious.
I will admit that there aren't as many direct Clojure libraries, but many of the core things out there; core.matrix works pretty well for elaborate matrix processing, there are several decent web frameworks, as well as parsing libraries.

There's a metric ton of libraries for Java and Scala out there, and as a consequence of Clojure's ability to use Java stuff, you have access to all of it. I admit I've not done a ton of machine-learning stuff, but I've used Spark ML, which works well.
well... you never know with these hobby DSPs. Once bitten, twice shy.
Really, you can’t see how not everyone can be a manager? Who are they gonna manage?
Different circles! I think the line of thinking you've brought up is a method of control to never enact meaningful tax policy; but I understand the thinking.
It might constrain the space of things that can be used to fire you "for cause". Firing for cause can affect some compensation like stock options. Some state level organizations (Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination, for one) have the power to sieze assets or freeze assets during an investigation, which seems a heckuva lot more convenient than an actual lawsuit.

So, maybe it can be a strategic defense against getting fired for a bullshit cause around the time your options vest, or when you finally scrape together the cash to purchase your NSO options.
Thx a lot - next questions follow... :)

(I tried, but the wikipedia chapter is too complicated for me => trying to simplify here)

> ...it's momentum and energy.

Therefore, if the photon does not have a mass but is still able to have an effect against the target body it impacts with, then the photon must lose energy, right?

[puah - for some reason I cannot reply to the my post's - typothrowaway's - reply...]
Yeah.

We're at a crossroads. There's different roads we can go down. There's different ways this whole thing can develop. What we look like when we come through this might be pretty ugly? Or not? We don't really know right now?

We just have to hope that society's stewards are being responsible and considering these very real mechanisms when settling on plans for our long term future. These forces are not going anywhere. Technology is with us to stay, the only question is how we live with it.
It might have been a SCSI drive/controller, but it might have also been that you used FastFileSystem, which was pretty efficient.

One of the HD manufacturers of the time, either Conner or Maxtor, was known to use Amiga 3000 machines to test their SCSI disks, because of the CPU/chipset/OS/FS combination. Not many systems were able to extract 90%+ of theoretical throughput like the A3000 could.
Woah, thanks.
Having seen many instances of someone not pasting the full function on a move, the "whitespace defines otherwise invisible changes of scope" is not something that endears me to the language.

I almost buy that it encourages simpler blocks, since complicated ones are impossible to parse out rather quickly. But my later reviews shows it doesn't remove them.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5917888
You could write 6502 code to be completely relocatable, but at a cost of space and a more complex assembler.
The 737 Max saga reminds me of the hazards of flying on third world carriers.
As a resume editor and owner of a professional services in Shanghai, the "resume building" world is fractured along the lines of MS Word oriented and everything else (LaTex, Markdown, pdf) IMHO. There have been some valiant attempts to provide good final products in multiple formats but still the problem seems challenging. The biz world works on MS Word regrettably even though there are beautiful layout formats found elsewhere.

I for one would dearly like to keep all client work in markdown and then have perfect docs created whether in pdf or .doc/.docx. There is still too much tweaking required to get there which doesn't save time vs. pure MS Word use which I despise. My $.02. Thanks for this thread!
Have none of y'all heard of rental cars? Just a few weeks ago, I missed my morning flight from SF to LA and was told the next one wasn't until later that night, so I opened my phone, booked a rental car, took a Lyft to the pickup spot, and just drove myself the rest of the way down for the weekend.

I would imagine that a world in which fewer people are buying cars would also lead to one in which there are more options for different lifestyles. It wasn't that long ago that the idea of randomly picking up an electric scooter off the street was a novel one. Now there are multiple unicorns putting them everywhere. Getaround/Turo/ZipCar are already things, and I imagine they'll just become more widely adopted/less expensive in the future.
Great to know you are considering these. Introducing these will make Fyne a real Thing.

As for the data binding API - sure, this is an extremely important part to architect so it will be both easy/concise and flexible. Yet, IMHO, tree and grid views are vital for practical use. I can't easily imagine an app I could make without these.

As for HTML view - having a full browser widget like Qt WebView would be very cool but it's not a primary necessity. A simple HTML renderer able to display a plain HTML document without user inputs and without JavaScript (just paragraphs, lists, tables and pictures, some basic CSS for text formatting perhaps) would already be extremely useful.
How is this IP stuff not considered a massive violation of privacy?
> People in tech make well above the median income in most cases.

But have to live/work at places where the costs of living are enormous.
Downed Boeing 737 Max 8s Lacked Safety Features Boeing Only Sells as Extras
Yes, I understand, and I contend that being able to do this, and leverage Java libraries bidirectionally in impure Java-y ways is an explicit, deliberate and fundamentally useful feature of Clojure. Unless you're trying to say that things like protocols are fundamentally un-Clojurey because they smell of OO or something in which case I just disagree.
A very exciting story.

But in order to be fair, having $500k in savings is nowhere close to being a millionaire.
Looks like Tableau but can't say for sure. Looks beautiful.
Regardless of the legal situation, this is a pretty shabby way to treat an employee.

While the bonus was good, he contributed patents. How much did the company profit from those? Quite a bit more than you paid in bonus, I'll wager.

And now you've cut the bonus, but still expect (and seem to be trying to force) the employee to continue contributing in his spare time?

Sheesh.
I have a Model 3. Not a serious problem. I have seen a few drops of water fall into the trunk once, but only when parked on a slope. If the car is relatively flat the water will fall to the side. Also, you can access the trunk from the back seat if you really don’t want to get water inside.
>the rest of the developed world hasn’t accepted refugees and economic migrants at the rates the US has taken them

https://www.pewglobal.org/interactives/international-migrant...

The U.S. is ~14% foreign born, as of 2017. That's below Norway, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Switzerland (and that's just the first world countries). It's one percentage point above the U.K. Expanding beyond the first world, Jordan (with population 6 million and some of the highest water prices in the world) took in approx. 1.5 million Syrian refugees. In America, we took in 15479 in 2016, 3024 in 2017, and 11 in 2018. That's with a population of 327 million.
The Guardian view on statistics in sciences: gaming the (un)known
Train service between Utica and Buffalo is routinely affected by this.
B2B sales are not necessarily long. Our B2B sales is around 30 minutes average.

You are right, we should build products not features. The startup mentioned may not be the best indicator of an ideal startup : too crowded and users don't care about features

And our startup is in that position the article mentions but we still need funding to scale and hire. His points resonates with us.
For specialized subjects there is a need for some MIT mettle, but I find many freshman courses are very clear and easy to understand, even more so than their equivalent Khan Academy materials.

Before his controversies, Lewin's Course 8 classes/recitations were a gold standard in Physics learning. He combined intuition and rigour masterfully - along with some brilliant practical experiences.

The recurring theme in many courses (not only Lewin's, but Calculus, Economics, or even Strang's linear algebra) is the great care and preparation of the materials to get the point across. I think this, more often than not, is very successful.
Fyne doesn't appear to follow the material ui guidelines very closely. Probably to its credit. Here's some screenshots: https://github.com/fyne-io/examples/

It seems to borrow the icons and some widgets, but not so much the container elements.
Police deaths are at record lows in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_police_office...
Teen'a death by gunshot while hands cuffed behind back ruled suicide
>The problem is you can't really run an economic system where only a very few percent of people take all the gains, at least not one that is socially stable or resembles liberal free market capitalism of the past 100 years.

I don't understand this sentiment in the context of the world I live in. If you had to choose which point in history and which place you'd be born into, not knowing your race/gender/sexual preference/family income/level of health it seems very obvious to me that the best time in all of history to be born is right now. And the list of places that are even considerable as best places to be born to is fairly small, but slowly growing. If right now is the best possible time to be born for the "common man" and most people reading this are in list of best places, how can we be so concerned about social stability? Do you disagree with that general sentiment? Over all, is there a different time in history you'd choose to live?

Now I want to be clear that I'm not claiming today is perfect/ideal/etc. in any way. We surely have many problems in life. But I genuinely don't understand where this feeling comes from. Could you help me understand?
Google engineer leaks internal diversity training documents
So there’s Foucault, Dellueze, Derrida and a bunch of other icons of the left. Who are the famous far-right authoritarian postmodernist thinkers? I’m drawing a blank.
Simplicity matters more than power.
Arxiv vanity is very nice!
FWIW I believe KaTeX’s coverage is always growing. I found out it can do everything I wanted in https://introtcs.org , though there were a couple of times I had to reformulate some macros after looking at the documentation.
Put me firmly in the camp that believes the speed of light is a hard limit on the universe and I'll use Isaac Arthur dismissal of FTL travel as to why.

He contends that there likely isn't a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable. Now this isn't to say there isn't one that's say, 600 million light years away that built their first Dyson sphere 500 million years ago although, in practice, this doesn't really change the probabilities that much.

If there's FTL then that billion light year practical limit really goes out the window as you can effectively get anywhere in the universe, making the volume of absence be many, many times the size of the observable universe.

I'm not sure why the author is talking about gravity ripping you apart in a black hole. It Is Known [tm] that larger black holes have pretty gentle event horizons.

I'm not sure why it matters that a black hole would be spinning. You can pretty much assume every significant mass in the universe is spinning to some degree (a state of zero spin being highly unlikely over even small amounts of time).

The author talks about the inner event horizon and I guess that's the point. But all of that is highly theoretical. Nothing is known about the inner workings of a black hole. It's all highly theoretical and beyond the ability of general relativity to describe. No other theory has been able to adequately explain or describe gravity let alone extreme gravity so your view on what's within the event horizon probably depends on which unproven theory (eg string theory) you subscribe to.

So this is speculation based on speculation.
A few years ago, I had for a year a green laser of 5W pointing in my direction over an optical table. It was redirected and used before it reach me, and there were a few security measures like a "wall" to stop the beam. Anyway, I was always slightly nervous ...
Some businesses can hand the expense straight on to the customer.

Government 'cost plus' contracts are that for example. If you are contracted to build a bridge, the concernment will pay for all the hours your employees worked on it, and all the concrete and steel they bought for it, and some profit percentage.
> We are in urgent need for donations in the form of server resources. Please contact us at team@instantbox.org if you are able to help. We appreciate it!

And I can choose CPU cores, Memory and duration (default 24 hours). No surprises there.
The "0" "1" on the top of your table make me curious how I translate a 0xff octet into a position in the table. As it's written, it seems like I need to know whether the 0xff I'm looking at is the first, second, etc., which would require scanning the string to figure that out, which would defeat the lookup table entirely. Perhaps we could fix this by storing the index of the 0xff, mapped to codepoint:

index => codepoint
1 => 0xc389
3 => 0xc3a9

This would require a binary search; we could change that to a hash table, to make it O(1) w/o too much trouble. However…

This degrades pretty badly for strings that don't contain any/much ASCII (Greek, Russian, any Asian language, Indian, …); each of these table indexes is also presumably sizeof(size_t) (for the index) + 4 (for the codepoint), so 12B, probably 16 bytes/slot (after padding). That's 16B per codepoint. Perhaps some more could be squeezed out w/ some sort of variable length deal, but we're already in over our heads, I think.

> UTF8 doesn't use values 0x80 <= unused_utf8_values <= 0xFF.

UTF-8 uses all octet values up to an including 0xf5, except 0xc0 and 0xc1 (see the table[1]), so there's a few values, but not many.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Codepage_layout
Sometimes when I feel a strong urge to downvote someone, I realize that in real life we would probably have a fantastic (may be a bit heated) conversation. So I don't.

How great would it be if we could just gather over a beer and chat.
I read the article as they were fully supporting it through downgrade. Then again, as you noted, 6.2 doesn't appear to be out... So more lip service by these network security vendors. I think the most interesting marketing aspect of this is they never claim the methods they often use to meet performance claims is by weakening overall security. Hypocrisy at it's best.
Yes, thank you, that is exactly my point. The nature of creative work (the kind that is least likely to be automated) is that the output can be highly variable (think Botticelli's paintings vs 99% of everyone else), and thus it is impossible with that type of work to create a broad base of jobs where lots of people (percentage-wise) are well compensated.

Another way to think of it is not just "repetitive vs non-repetitive" jobs, but "variable vs. well defined output" jobs. It may be currently very difficult to become a radiologist, but at the end of the day a diagnosis is either accurate or it isn't, and those types of "right-or-wrong" jobs are the ones most amenable to automation. So what you're left with are non-automatable jobs where the output can be highly variable, and in those highly-variable output jobs all the gains go to the very best.
I agree; once I beat the initial scariness of Lisp, I found it hard to go to any non-Lisp language.

Macros, while easy to abuse, are kind of a game-changer; the ability to add new semantics to a language make it borderline impossible for me to go to any language that doesn't have a good macro system.

I started with Clojure, which I still really enjoy, but due to how much I grew to love the `define-syntax` system in Chicken Scheme, that's become my latest weapon of choice.
They don't have to do anything. There are tech jobs everywhere. Maybe you can't work for one of the big corps and make ridiculous money, but you can still make great money for hardly any effort anywhere the regional economy isn't crap.
> (I tried, but the wikipedia chapter is too complicated for me => trying to simplify here)

I can imagine. That stuff on the wiki is not even in every physics bachelor. It's definitely not for a general audience, but I thought it might help a little :)

> Therefore, if the photon does not have a mass but is still able to have an effect against the target body it impacts with, then the photon must lose energy, right?

Yes, or gain it if it slows down the object, if the object is traveling towards the light.

Or the internal energy of the object is changed. This happens when a photon is absorbed.
Back in the 90s through early 00's when I worked at Microsoft, they had a strict no moonlighting policy. I think they ended it because this was given as a reason no one was writing any mobile phone software for windows phone.
‘This Is Not About Me and Google,’ Says Dunford, Who Will Meet Execs Next Week
For a sine wave, the energy scales like

E ∝α ω^2

where α is amplitude and ω is frequency. So lower frequencies need propotionally larger amplitudes to carry the same energy.
>>Put me firmly in the camp that believes the speed of light is a hard limit on the universe and I'll use Isaac Arthur dismissal of FTL travel as to why.

I would modify your sentence to say that the speed of light is a hard limit through space. Space on the other hand does not seem to have that limitation [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
If this isn’t censored I’ll eat my shoe.
More widely, Clojure's pragmatism and the fact that it's not overly sniffy about what paradigm to use is one of its nicest features. If I wanted my programming language to make me feel bad about myself, then obviously I'd just use Haskell and be done with it.
I don't see why programmers, chemists, researchers, engineers, etc. compensation would follow the way of athletes. Those specialists are paid for skilled use of their time, they are not paid for being famous. If you have more skills, you get paid more, that's ok. Those fancy 10x programmers don't make regular programmers less valuable though.

As for the entertainment industry - too many people agree to be underpaid for a chance to become famous one day. A career in those industries is not employment, it's running a personal brand business. No surprise that outcomes are so unequal.
Sorry for the late reply:

On the internet (which is where the quality of rhetoric could most use the principle of charity these days), it is hard or even impossible to tell the difference between a troll or a crackpot.
It’s designed for problem solving. Plus you get to read a book instead of having to watch a video.
Or Amat Cama
https://www.zdnet.com/article/tesla-car-hacked-at-pwn2own-co...
Sort of odd to choose the victims location rather than the criminals location...
1) So, the wavelength is basically its "energy"?

2) Therefore "momentum" needs only "energy" and velocity instead of "mass" and velocity?
Does he have a Wikipedia page?
Have you done indentation with anything else other than whitespace?

I prefer to let this idea of required indentation to FORTRAN.
I'm just speaking for my experience in the US, but I definitely disagree that now is the best time to be born. For your "average person" the best time to be born was about 50-80 years ago (obviously racial disparities complicate this a great deal).

But my viewpoint also seems to bear out in lots of social science evidence in the US, where there has been an explosion of "diseases of dispair", e.g. suicide, drug-use, disability, etc. among large sub-populations in the US.
Assuming you're talking about USD: are there really any/many programmers making 7 figures? (Except for those that got lucky with shares)
You might think that, but Java had the same problem with substring and decided that it WAS actually better than the alternative of sharing the original buffer. I might be wrong, but I think Java 6 or 7 changed the behavior to always copy after significant analysis of the trade off space. Pathological cases do occur and often enough to render a process entirely dead.
I'd say there's a good chance he was a proxy who had full control of many/all the bank accounts involved, but also had little knowledge that they existed or were set up in his name.