skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's like saying Autos killed Horse and Buggies, and auto manufacturers contributing to horse farms means they are bad people.

How likely was it that local news was going to survive the digital transition as is, when suddenly, people who never ventured more than 25 miles from where they are born, and mostly obtained news by paper delivery or local TV, can suddenly access the sum total of human knowledge and any news all over the world?

Suddenly your local paper, which had "default" access set almost like a default app on an OS, is no longer the default because the barrier to accessing everything else is way lower.

The writing was on the wall, in the same way that streaming killed optical media and optical media killed LPs. Or in the same way that e-commerce is killing retail once logistics gets cheap enough to make delivery cheaper than buying in store.

This was going to happen inevitably.
> For example noncompete clauses are not allowed in California.

Post-employment non-competes are generally invalid in CA.
The paper that this article cites is a far more interesting read than the summary: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1249KS8xtIDKb5SxgpeFI6AD-PSC...
Some countries have legal minimum severance, sometimes well above what other countries pay in exchange for signing away your rights. I wonder what the incentives are in those countries (sadly not the ones I live in).
My wife is a pro athlete, she got a P-1 visa. I have a "spouse" visa, associated to hers, P-4. It just allows me to be in the US, but not much else.
The one-salary experiment, ten years in
What happened to Heather Heyer was also not speech. What happened to Clementa Pinckney and 8 other African-Americans at the Charleston church shooting was not speech. What happened at the Tree of Life Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was not speech.

Shouldn't the same argument apply to the videos that radicalized those murderers?
First Millimeter-Sized Bluetooth Chip Invented to Send Low-Energy Data Packets
Distributed POW eliminates ASICs by not paying for centralized mining:

https://medium.com/@SaitoOfficial/eliminating-51-attacks-in-...

The problem is that the approach does not pay the peer-to-peer network. But then neither does LN, so who is counting?
And what do you think happens when two objects slam into each other at orbital speeds? The entire premise of an ablation cascade is a series of kinetic collisions.
That does sound fancy indeed
New Findings Provide Incentive for Cracking Dark Matter Mystery
Invoking "thousands of engineers at companies like Google" is a logical fallacy. There are tons of incompetent people out there writing code, and lots of them work for FAANG.

>I just find myself respecting other people's work too much, even if I don't like it.

Maybe that's the difference between us, then. I don't feel that we should hand out Participant ribbons. I'm sure the nodejs people work very hard, but the fact is their product is just objectively awful.
The Australian tech sector is not that large, an ill-conceived law like this one could potentially worsen the job prospects here, to the point that one may consider working overseas. I'm not saying that it's likely, but at the same time it's not impossible.

So, yes, I was thinking primarily about foreign companies; (by the way, your argument in relation to Australian companies, "Because the first is very illegal", is not bullet-proof, because there are many things in this world that are illegal, and yet they happen).

My home country allows dual citizenship but I don't think that it would be so easy as you say to withhold this crucial piece of information from an employer: given that about half of my CV is made of positions I've held in Australia, I believe it's not that unlikely that a prospective employer may ask about my citizenship status.

Anyway, I haven't taken any decision yet, I'm just basically taking my time. I agree with you about participating in the democratic process, when I evaluate pros and cons of becoming a citizen, that's the biggest pro in my mind. Being entitled to live in Australia, on the other hand, is not a big factor in this decision, because I already have a permanent visa that lets me do that.
We don't even know the real problem, how can we make speculation like this. Every article seems to cite "faulty sensor data", but is this really true? Would making the sensor more reliable or having an additional backup sensor have prevented the issue? Is it possible for the software to even detect when the sensor is faulty? Maybe the sensor worked fine, and the MCAS worked fine, but the plane itself has faulty aerodynamics.

At this point, it seems clear that MCAS had something to do with the crashes, but it's far too early to point to the root cause.
> For a high threat environment (i.e. China or Russia)

In what fantasy world does anyone actually posit it not devolving quickly into nuclear war with these nations?

We've had MAD for half a century and yet today so many people seem to spruik this idea that conventional direct warfare is possible between nuclear armed states. It's simply not going to happen.
Think about how the stack works. I'm not saying this measurement is definitely wrong, but if you're finding exactly 0 overhead then you have to suspect there is something weird going on with how you're measuring it.
Ida64/Binary analysis tooling, I presume.
There's also the issue of the "faulty sensor". We don't yet know if the sensor was faulty, but if it was, whether MCAS could have detected that fault.
And chess competition (Spasky vs Fischer 1972)
Allow me to summarize the story of the boy who cried wolf, because you seem to not have the correct understanding of the story:

In a village there exists a boy that is tasked with protecting a flock of sheep by shouting "wolf!" if he sees a wolf, to alert the townsfolk to come to his aid. Out of boredom (or self-satisfaction of his ability to get a reaction out of the townsfolk, depending on the variation) he shouts "wolf!" despite not seeing any wolf. After a couple instances of false alarm, the townsfolk no longer heed the boy's alarm and do not come to his aid when a wolf really does attack the flock.

The boy knew that there was no wolf attack, but claimed that a wolf was attacking the sheep anyway. I am doing no such thing.

Facebook as only just announced this policy, so no one has any observation of how they are enforcing it. This is obvious. The post itself states that the policy will only go into effect next week. That you are asking me if I have historical evidence regarding a policy that has yet to go into effect does not indicate that the original post was read in much detail (though it does make your previous statement that this announcement is about "Preventing people from trying to kill people" a lot less surprising).

I am not, and have never, claimed that Facebook is using the guise of white supremacy to ban mainstream politics. Again, this policy isn't even in effect yet. I am, however, highlighting the fact that a significant segment of Facebook's work force (tech workers in the Bay Area) espouse a view of white supremacy that does categorize things like opposition to affirmative action and immigration as white supremacy. Will this impact the enforcement of their views? I don't know, but my take on this situation is that it's a significant risk.

Also, I'm not sure why you're claiming that my data is outdated. My data was from 2018, at which point independents were at 44%. The latest figure on your linked Gallup poll is 42% - not very far off. It's still significantly above the historical average of the mid 30s.
The really radical stuff doesn't happen on open platforms, they're more of a tool for early exposure.

The actual planning and such happens on private sites with secret forums.

As a real-world example, a Danish right-wing nationalist network called ORG was exposed in 2011, after having allegedly been active since the mid-80s. Its members counted a number of well-to-do individuals, as well as members of the police and known violent white nationalists. The group ran and had control over several sports clubs, including martial arts and gun clubs, which they used for training members in street fighting and tactics.

They ran a database of basically every politician and public figure who ever espoused left-wing views, and thousands of ostensibly left-wing citizens as well, labeling them as "traitors" to be "dealt with".

At least one of their members was from the armed forces in some security-related capacity, and they had reasonably good opsec procedures in place.

I have no doubt that even after being exposed and having its members publicly named, the group or a new equivalent still exists, with new secret sites and a heightened level of paranoia towards possible infiltrators.

By deplatforming these people and driving them further underground and paranoid, we limit their ability to attract people through social media, for fear of exposure.
You suggest it was just one lone engineer being incompetent. Then you respond to downvotes with the non-sequitur "take some pride in your work" - are you suggesting pride is a fix for incompetence? What?
A book on the relationship between poker and wall street:

https://www.cfapubs.org/doi/full/10.2469/br.v2.n1.2
But every time you download your 1TB media, you pay $100 transfer+request fee. At that cost you can nearly buy a 1T ssd hard drive.
> Thousands of engineers at companies like Google

That's an appeal to authority. It's also worth noting that nodejs is not a Google project and it is barely used internally at all. Only for small toy projects. Google uses python for scripting, or java for real servers.
Debugging live in erlang and code hot-loading is addicting, but sometimes one small mistake means you blow up a server or even whole system. And it really feels like mid air airplane repair, especially when your server is serving 1M events a second and you try not to drown your console in debug output. One mistake and your terminal is blocked trying to display several GB of text.
> Android apps "distributed via Google Play may not modify, replace, or update itself using any method other than Google Play's update mechanism. Likewise, an app may not download executable code (e.g. dex, JAR, .so files) from a source other than Google Play."

Obvious question: why did this get approved, and will Google amend their process to close this loophole?
Note many/most of these excess PhDs are not “researchers” in the pure sciences.

We’re talking bout PhDs in fields like “environmental psychology” as mentioned in the article.

Such invented pursuits have minimal societal benefit. It’s unsurprising that society is unwilling to subsidize many tenured positions in the study of bullshit.
What's impressive is that you can get a sensor for temperature, air pressure, "air quality", and humidity for $12.80 in quantity 1. "Air quality" is strange. It measures volatile organic components, not CO, CO2, or particulates. Sensors for those cost much more. So this is measuring what's easy to measure, not what's useful for, say, HVAC control.

8GB and Docker, plus a "cloud" server, seems a bit much.
Also thanks to "zero training delta" commitment pilots probably didn't even know it exists or in a high-stress situation like imminent stall probably just forgot about it all.
Clojure dialect written in Go (Joker)
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19499515 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/technology/turing-award-a...
beyond that if the guy in the ground need precise explosive delivery just build laser guided medium range rockets, a ship could bring thousand of those into any theatre with reasonable safety and skip the expensive delivery platform along with all the concerns for the meatbag inside
My one year Google Trend time range was deliberate. When both 'Bangalore' and 'Bengaluru' is equally familiar with public AND 'Bengaluru' is being pushed by govt institutions, we need to see which name is still in trend with locals. 'Bangalore' name should have been at zero if all the locals were using the new name.

If the time range is increased to the time when Bengaluru was not yet a familiar term then it is quite obvious that this new name would trend upwards to the current time.
NITI Aayog to Set Up 500 Atal Tinkering Labs in Schools
Smart criminals. There's plenty of dumb ones who don't need ideas.
> But in most situations involving External Storage, the SAF is really what you want to use anyway.

Or not. A File Picker does not work for playlists, linked MKV/MOV files, subtitles autodetection (subfolders and such), and so many other multimedia cases.

Also, it is a pain to use from the NDK... And incorrectly documented.

And then, the UI to allow people to give you access to the folders is extremely confusing, hard to explain to users, not customizable, and changes from version of Android to another, so very hard to document.
Hopefully this will also be a fix for all the 737 Max posts on HN.
In Sacramento, for awhile from about 1988-1992 there were monthly meetups where everyone who had an Atari ST would bring them and play MIDI Maze. We occasionally had so many people that we would make two rings because we exceeded the limit of 16 computers.

I owned two Atari STs at the time, so I was always popular at these events.
Unless you just came up with the idea, it's useful to have talked to users already and/or have some data that the idea is good. Having revenue or being launched already is not a requirement.
I might be inclined to believe you, but node's ecosystem really is a trainwreck
I'm willing to bet any amount of money that that's not what he meant.
Didn’t California forbid employers from asking about salary history?

I think it’s ripe for disruption, maybe more so outside the US. Many otherwise progressive countries still expect a headshot with your CV.
It's going to be cyber war and no one is prepared. Here is an example how it may look like:

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2018/07/what-cyber-war-w...
I wonder if there was a proposal to make the time an equal split between GMT+
I figured I'd check: is "Ken" Ken Thompson?
History of Philosophy Backwards
How Slaughter and May Is Making Use of Legal AI Across the Firm
My dad's in his 60s. Runs marathons once a year. Works on backend stuff in a ML startup.

I am not sure I can make 10 km these days...
For many people the latter implies the former.
Copy and paste the link. It gives a 403 because the referrer is HN (so not from the same domain). No referrer, no 403.
I'm really curious what the Software QA process is like at a company like this (or any company where automation failure can result in loss of life).
I find it worrying that a) you’re being downvoted and b) there actually being sympathies for white nationalism and fascist thought on HN. We all who love freedom and love our friends whatever background they may have should be working to not let these kinds of people obtain more power.
There are two points.

1) Any engineer involved in implementing this "fix" is incompetent.

2) If you are not incompetent and management tries to force you to implement this "fix" then you should take pride in your work and refuse to do it, even if it means quitting your job (or forcing the company to fire you).
Constrained currency supply is definitely a problem. It rewards the early adopters by many orders of magnitude, making Bitcoin look more like a Ponzi than a real currency.

Constant issuance for eternity would have been a much better solution. For example 1 BTC per minute, for an eternity. Rewards early adopters because low price, but still doesn't restrict the use of the technology as a form of money as it's not a constantly diminishing pool, but has reasonable tail emission, possibly reaching an equilibrium, unlike Bitcoin.

No doubt there will be a big fight about this in the future.
Welcome to running Windows on your computer. What a steaming pile of garbage software is that companies can defraud people like this.
I don't know about Salafi Muslims specifically, but Facebook already does censor radical Islamist groups like ISIS. This move is trying to be more across-the-board by including white supremacy under more of its aliases.

As for the others--when's the last time a Stalinist drove a car into a crowd or committed a mass shooting?
> We’re talking bout PhDs in fields like “environmental psychology” as mentioned in the article. Such invented pursuits have minimal societal benefit.

From the internet: "Environmental psychologists often study how the built or physical environment affects human behavior. They may conduct research on this topic, or apply their knowledge to designing safe and ergonomic spaces that are conducive to emotional well-being, such as colorful, open floor plans."

Building appealing work and home-spaces may not save the world, but why isn't it a worthy area of research?
White nationalism is not a legitimate thing and I implore you to get in contact with networks that help individuals get out of hate groups.
it's not common sense, it's fear. That's very different.
But the New York Times doesn’t cover my local city council, which has a way bigger impact on my daily life than national news does. Without a more local paper, people become disconnected from the own town.

It’s very much unlike horses vs cars because in this analogy even if the buggie makers go out of business, people are still riding horses.
There are just as trustworthy as any airline is now - making big mistakes like this is one of the best ways to change company culture.
Thanks for the clarification, I should have been more specific. But are they also invalid if signed outside the employment context?
It would seem that "experience" is of little value in information technology, while knowledge of the latest technologies is all that is valued.

It says something about the industry that (it appears) there are few lessons to learn over time. Perhaps the term software "engineering" is a total misnomer.
Encryption isn't illegal due to the bill. In fact encryption law itself hasn't changed. The bill gives the government the ability to compel someone to circumvent encryption (backdoors, spyware etc.) if technically feasible while acting to service a warrant.

It is much worse than banning encryption as it is silent subterfuge and forcing the hand of citizens who would otherwise just be going about their day.

Laws should be able to stop people from doing certain things but forcing people to do something they had no business doing in the first place is insane.
> I want my socially maladept neckbeards and terminal junkies back plz.

the MBA types don't like these hacker types - personality clash and whatnots.

But the MBA types control the company from above, and the hacker types don't like to do management work. The result is obvious.
> Through all of mankind we had strong mechanisms to form consensus, including social repercussions.

This is a dangerous, dangerous path to go down to if you belong to any kind of enlightment inspired ideology. What kind of things were supressed the hardest? Sexual Deviancy. questioning authority. Questioning relgion. You really want this kind of society? I think maybe we can stand some antivaxxer ...
People really use this browser?
I compare that to Windows which has been around two decades longer than iOS and Android and which APIs have remained remarkably stable and backward compatible. It is possible to do it. It is just more work.
Stephen Colbert is also a comedian and not a linguist.
> It is a relic of colonization that is worth leaving behind.

Should the name India be changed to Hindustan or Bharat as well?

Instead of wasting tax payer money on changing names maybe the govt should focus on actual issues.
Disruptive startups get less money
Article about Features in Messengers
Interesting, thanks for sharing! Some questions:

Where is the data sourced from?
Is there an offline DB?
How often is the BD updated?
How is reputation calculated?
Isn't there a drop-down in Bitbucket that lets you choose between commits?
1.5 million what? Fix your title.
Show HN: Janos' Cloud Scanner
> I find it worrying that a) you’re being downvoted and b) there actually being sympathies for white nationalism and fascist thought on HN.

Ugh... I knew this day would the come. The slashdot crowd has found out about HN.
About 10% of HN readers are in Silicon Valley. I don't know the numbers for the west coast but it must be less than 15%.
Who knew you could also feel dumb by calling a city a certain name, and feel modern by calling it another?
I think many do not understand typical practices of regulatory agencies. As a related example, what do you think the FDA requires in terms of genetically engineered foodstuffs? Many seem to think there's extensive oversight and safety testing. There isn't. They treat genetically engineered products and natural products identically. If a company has all their regulatory issues in order to market e.g. corn, they can cook up a new genetically engineered corn in the lab and bring it to market with literally 0 additional oversight necessary. All the FDA offers here is a completely voluntary consultation, and that in turn basically is little more than the company signing off on some checkboxes.

This leads to a bemusing and disconcerting run around.

Monsanto: "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for the safety and appropriate labeling of food and feed products grown from GM crops." [1]

FDA: "It is the manufacturer's responsibility to ensure that the food products it offers for sale are safe and otherwise comply with applicable requirements." [2]

Sound similar? It'll be the exact same story if/when a company inadvertently releases a harmful genetically engineered product. The assurance of safety provided by regulatory agencies is often illusory. As an aside, this is all clearly described on the FDA's page as well. [3] But the phrasing is designed to mislead consumers. They state repeatedly that it is unlawful to ship unsafe food to consumers without ever directly clarifying that they themselves never actually test the foods. Inventions go straight from Monsanto's lab to your plate. Obviously they have a major incentive to ensure their products are safe, but they have a long history of failing in that obligation yet remain a multi billion dollar company.

[1] - https://monsanto.com/company/commitments/safety/statements/a...

[2] - https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articl...

[3] - https://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GEPlan...
The SAF APIs are cumbersome garbage up there with Account Manager and ContentProviders. Its missing important providers like DropBox, and even Google Drive doesn't implement it completely.
> I think that TBL is very incorrect here.

You think Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World-Wide Web, is very incorrect about what makes up the World-Wide Web?
After porting VLC on so many platforms, to be honest, working on Android applications is not too bad. Notably compared to other mobile platforms.

The tools and IDE are quite good (they need a lot of RAM though), the deployment is easy, the development workflow simple enough and the devices are easy (and cheap) to come by. Even the Play Store console is not catastrophic.

A contrario from Youtube, you can get questions answered by Google, and the dev communities are quite large.

The API changes are known 6 months in advance, which is good enough, for most cases. And you get them usually only when targeting the new SDK version (except for Android Q... why?!?)

What I don't like though, is their abysmal NDK support (notably compared to iOS), the removal of use-cases (just use SAF, right? wifi?), but mostly the APIs that are never finished and always buggy (Audio API for example), and the impossibility to send patches to fix those bugs.

Finally, the Play Store Console is so-so, but the user-facing part is quite nice.
Well, I'm saying it from experience. Explanation of it cold be, in that times we got this disease in age around ten and, also we were in good health condition. In that case, this will be majority in developed countries, measles is harmless.
How CNN Misled Its Viewers