skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And when the next generation's MLK shows up and gets persecuted again by the powers that be, except now there are even better deplatforming tools to silence him? Whoops, game over.

Hey, you're the one who failed to think things through. The tired old "b-but deplatforming will only ever by used against _bad_ people" argument is exactly a failure to appreciate the lessons of history, of which MLK is an excellent example.
> It's OK to enjoy military porn from glossy magazines

Even when I do this, it's for the kid in me. Show me big guns, fast jets, and give me some astounding numbers. This article has none of that!
> However, the Army actually wants F-35s rather than the Warthog for CAS. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said as much at a symposium last year.

Is this desire based on technical merits or political/practical realities? What criteria could be used to evaluate which aircraft is "better" for CAS?

Seems that the F-35 has higher operating costs, is less maneuverable, is more fragile, etc. Does stealth have an advantage when one is strafing at less that 10K feet in a (generally) low-threat and low-intensity environment?

Given all the combat engagements the A-10 has had over the decades, wouldn't it be prudent to at least have the F-35 run some "live" CAS missions to see how it does first? IIRC, the F-35 can't even fire its gun yet (until there's a future software update).
It does seem so obviously simple to sidestep that it makes me wonder if they pushed it because they had an active attack they believed it would mitigate. Were they concerned that the attack was already baked into some automated script in the wild and this could perhaps at least trip up the script long enough for them to engineer a real fix?

Scripted attacks can of course be modified too, but it still takes more than zero human effort to do it.
The Rise of Totalitarian Technology
Do you have any objective comparison metric to prove you are really so far ahead of the others, and not behind them or somewhere in the middle range?
Good job! Reminds me of my favorite email service http://abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza....
Used to work in finance, now work in fintech. I read Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter every single day.
If you like The Wake, you might also enjoy Riddley Walker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_Walker), which uses an imaginary psuedo-iron-age dialect transcribed phonetically:

"On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen."
Yeah. My last company got bought by them and was told that in spite of their rep for shuttering and turning companies into shells this was absolutely not the case. Cue a few months later almost 10 percent of staff let go, hiring freeze for everyone except the sales department, and closing of the Chicago office to make money. They won't hire new devs even when they quit. If a company gets bought by them and you work there, cash any immediate bonuses and start looking for a new job.
You can be a great preacher but a bad practitioner and vice versa.

Your story reminds of people pointing fingers at misbehaving children of kindergarten teachers.
> The UK doesn't have a formal constitution

The UK doesn't have a single written document that lays out the Constitution, but I wouldn't necessarily call the Constitution informal.

> its executive is subject to the legislature in a way it isn't

True.

> one house,

The UK still has a bicameral, not unicameral, legislature, though it now has priority in the lower house (unlike the US, which retains greater power in the undemocratic upper house, a feature it copied from the UK which has since shed it.)

> The UK is a parliamentary democracy and the US is a republic.

The UK is a representative democracy with a ceremonial monarch and the US is a representative democracy without a ceremonial monarch; the absence of a monarch is the sum total of the difference indicated by “republic”.

> Also, the UK wasn't a democracy in any meaningful sense in 1776.

Neither, though, was the US in 1776, or 1789, for much the same reason: the colonies had imported and retained (in some cases added to) the kinds of restrictions on the franchise found in the UK, and kept them past the revolution and Constitution, which left decision of who could vote to the States (and, while not in the federal government, also often had even more stringent property, etc., requirements for office holders.)
I'm in my 50s, so I hope you take this the right way - is it actually age discrimination, or is it higher salary discrimination?
Remote work. It's 99% over the phone/skype/webex (usually voice only).

On occasion, it's video.
Great! Just checked it out, does this support exporting into Nuxt?
Well, software folklore seems to say that COBOL graybeards get paid A LOT.
Hey All, OP here, contrary to popular belief I did not make this :) I saw it on GitHub when I noticed someone who starred the Prefect repo had the username `programming`, clicked their profile and saw this: https://github.com/programming/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... and just thought it was hilarious. Knew you all would get a kick out of it!
Why is that odd? I expect a web page to be viewable in my browser and to be delivered over http and use a combination of html, css, and JavaScript.

Calling some thing that is not playable in my podcast app and doesn’t use the same protocols as my other podcasts, isn’t a podcast. No more than a Word Doc is a web page.

I expect to be able to subscribe to a podcast using my podcast player via RSS.
128 bits is like, what, ten words chosen randomly from a suitably large dictionary? Is that really prohibitive? Even as random alphanumeric string that doesn't seem beyond muscle memory. Seems like the biggest pain would be to input it consistently on a phone keyboard.
Audio Watermarking Algorithm First to Solve Second-Screen Problem in Real Time
The Great Miscalculator: Response (why there won’t be a debt crisis in America)
> not really, because the people themselves decide to study PhD's

> to alter your analogy: imagine there's space for 50 cookies in the cookie jar. 1000 cookies bake themselves. 950 are going to be disappointed at their outcomes.

Yes and no. The people did decide to pursue a Ph.D, but also they have to get accepted into a program to get one. It's like a job: I can choose to work at Google, but I can't unless they hire me.

When the Ph.D programs themselves are the only groups that consume their graduates with their credential, they can perfectly balance supply and demand (and pretty simple at that).
You can think what you like about anonymous accounts, but at least they do not try to build a personal brand using blog posts and HN.

That is the other side of the coin.
What about integration/ subsystem level testing? It seems MCAS wasn't thoroughly tested with all boundary values. Whats the use of systems like IAHM [1] if they can't predict what faults can occur how safety is ensured/ guaranteed in various scenarios.

[1] https://www.phmsociety.org/sites/phmsociety.org/files/Fielde...
That the F-35bis a compromise designed for several sorts of missions it itself a criticism: it might not succeed at any.

(and let me be clear; I’m a pacifist... putting all the money spent on weapons into increasing interdependence is a much more effective strategy. You don’t want to level your debtors/creditors.
>In some ways it's easier to exercise self-discipline when someone is super rich, but in others it is harder. For example, look at all of the rich and powerful with drug and alcohol problems. When someone has almost everything it is easy to become lazy and/or abuse substances.

I look at them, and also see how it's easier for them to get out of their abuse problems, with top notch rehabilitation facilities and everything set up for them.

They also get top notch medical assistance while doing them, and first rate drugs. Many even have their doctors prepare the stuff.

Which they can afford and do at a nice environment, not some crack house.

And when they're caught by the police, they usually get a slap on the wrist and some rehab time, not hard jail like commoners.

And when you stop doing drugs, you get to go back to a nice warm house, and financial independence. Not to your abusing home, or living in the streets.

There are tons of junkies around where I live (not a shabby or poor neighborhood even, just has a shabby square nearby), that don't have these easy ways out.

Now, imagine a rich person, getting out of drugs, while enjoying all those niceties while he was abusing them, and saying "I did it all through my self-discipline" -- and implying by that that common junkies lack the same level of self-discipline (while they might have 2x his self-discipline but face 10x the problems to overcome).
I haven't seen any evidence that Trump is anti-Semitic, although some of his comments (in particular his equivocation with the Charlottesville incident) lead me to suspect that he has some bigoted views regarding race and ethnicity. However, it is undeniable that his campaign and rhetoric were attractive to the alt-right, neo-reactionary and white supremacist communities, and the narrative of his election as an act of defiance by "angry rural white males" afraid of the loss of white cultural identity and demographic majority in the US has been well documented.

The US has always had a problem with anti-semitism, not to the same degree as Europe, but it's a bigotry that's nonetheless been baked into Western culture since the dark ages. It's not separate from hatred of foreigners, those are closely correlated, and it's exacerbated in the light of a rightward shift in culture and politics by the view that Jews in the US comprise a leftist cabal within academia and finance undermining traditional American ideals in favor of a Zionist agenda.

Of course, now we mostly don't talk about the perfidious Jews who secretly run the world, we talk about "New York elites" and "cultural Marxists" and "globalist bankers," and let people who know connect the dots. Distance from the Holocaust and WW2 and web took the fangs out of that ideology for years and history, having become tragedy, became shitposting edgelord meme culture.

To me, Trump is like a bright light attracting American bigots like moths. He didn't create the swarm but it is drawn to him regardless. It is more complicated, sure, but it's also simple - Trump attracts them because he, his irascible, politically incorrect personality and his populist rhetoric makes him seem like he really is one of them, just incognito.
Deploy to Multiple Heroku Instances from a Monorepo
The theory of broken windows applied to the codebase
Show HN: MЯO (ORM backwards) write SQL then generate its host-language wrapper
Because I have bills to pay right now.

But the alternative that is being proposed - unions - aren’t about fairness if your definition of fair is that people who work harder should be awarded more.
Is the deconvolution layer the same as a convolutional layer?
Best thing I've seen on HN this year.
It always amazes how bad enterprise systems can be. My company uses SuccessFactors and also a thing called Windchill. After seeing how convoluted Windchill is you will think that SuccessFactors is actually quite decent. Kronos is also a great case study in terrible design.
Surprised there wasn't any mentioned of [1] in the paper's citations. This notion of articulating the internal sub-systems of a DB as first class elements of a distributed realization has been emerging (from various quarters) for the past few years. I would also include Apache Pulsar in this category. Aurora itself seems very interesting from an architectural point of view and definitely worth studying.

[1]: https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...
I would love to try some but at least 10-15 years ago all these tool weren't very usable for productive work. The generated code was ok, but you could have just written that yourself. That would be especially educational for beginners.

Additionally, fresh programmers, that had an introduction to OO and some design patterns, would probably create excessive wallpapers.

That said, I really like tools that go the other way by visualizing the structure of your code. Not applicable to every language, but still interesting.
Is EE actually the correct field to study for formal verification? I have been looking into this at one point and it seemed very much within the realm of computer scientists.

For instance, our EE study program does not include even basic computability theory, the formal logic/graph theory was pretty minimal and besides some K-maps also zero boolean function theory.

This compared with the CS program that contains multiple very in-depth courses exactly on those topics which seem pretty critical for formal verification of hardware.
You made an account for that comment? Really?

If you can’t taste or smell the difference between McDonalds and In-N-Out then you must have poor taste and senses. The meat, buns, and fries are completely different. I’m not saying it’s the best burger in the world, but it shows you can get better quality burgers than what McDonalds is selling for about the same price. McDonalds chooses not to care about quality.
I'm not Indian (or from any nearby country!). I do not care if BJP wins the next election or whatever is going on. I am not part of the opposition. Your passion is so overwrought that you are seeing opposition where it isn't.
A doctrine against doctrinaires: the enduring radical modesty of Karl Popper
> Look up Communications Decency Act, Section 230

Sure, but it (1) doesn't apply to copyright—that's the DMCA safe harbor not the CDA one, and (2) was specifically created to eliminate the added liability web hosts were then subject to if they engaged in content moderation, not to require them to abstain from moderation to secure the safe harbor.
To give the parent to your comment some benefit of the doubt, some vehicles do have mandatory breathalysers fitted, but as far as I'm aware it's only commercial vehicles in certain sectors of the market (some buses and coaches, I know of, it's possible they're required somewhere in goods transport vehicles)
> My line of reasoning was that if he didn't have relevant
> domain experience why wouldn't get paid not much more than
> a new grad?

Presumably because you're paying him for his ability to apply his broader knowledge and experience to this domain; he is not coming to the table with the same limited set of tools as the new graduate. He will be up to speed more quickly, and his solutions will tend to be more comprehensive because of his wider perspective.

If the interviewing company isn't looking for that, then the offer reflects their present needs -- not the candidate's capabilities. I could see how that's insulting, since that's a whole lot of wasted time.

> I've always enjoyed talking with them about how software development used to be back in the day.
From your words I see that you value their knowledge of things past, but I don't see anything about enjoying the discussion of current/future development with them. Is that not something that you value as much, or that you find in some way lacking? Or something that you haven't explored because of age?
You can now search old AP Stylebooks and guides online
npr recently bought pocket casts, which immediately went from my favorite app to a bug-ridden mess
You should care about older folks because discrimination against the elderly is illegal and is a signal to your employees that they will not be valued at your company based on their merits but instead valued for a quality they have no control over and thus reduce morale in your workforce. Furthermore, as the lifespan expectations of humanity grows, we can anticipate that the economic view will also expand- more older people means more customers for products regarding their needs, more jobs available to understand their needs.
The point is to create a system that is private for all of society. You don't just drive a car that is safe if you go on a risky road.
AI can predict when someone will die with unsettling accuracy
Ethereum Loses Luster as Apps Move Elsewhere
Economic growth was actually even worse before glasnost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union#/m...
I've had to debug around a short-lived bug in the Firefox rendering engine that only showed up in the FF rendering engine before. The site itself? Standards-compliant; there was flexibility in the standard (ironically, for flexboxes ;) ) about performance constraints and our site just fell down Gecko's slowness tree and hit every branch on the way.

Given the engines are allowed to vary, this experience is inevitable from time to time. The user-agent is really valuable in helping us figure out when that's what we're seeing.
If someone invests $10 million in stocks and loses 2% of potential growth through inflation this amounts to $200,000. The poorest members of society with $10,000 or less in their bank accounts are going to lose at most $200 per year. So tell me how does this affect the poor more than the wealthy? Those price increases you mentioned don't happen in a vacuum. They are caused by higher wages.
> The popularity of this essay in the 1980s poisoned so many minds and is one of the reasons we have to deal with so much bullshit today.

If the people who read this essay don't get that it's a joke after at most the first sentence, you have bigger problems than that.
Donald Knuth wrote TeX in Pascal. I think he chose it because it was the language most widely available at the time in universities where people wanted to use TeX; many were already using Pascal for teaching. (The first version had been written in SAIL, because it was the language available at the Stanford AI Lab where he had computer access.)

Because Pascal did not have good support for strings and variable-length arrays, TeX manages all its own memory (allocating and freeing from a single giant Pascal array called “mem”); because Pascal did not have “break” or “return” he implemented those features himself with a preprocessor and a certain disciplined use of goto; because Pascal required certain things (type declarations, labels) to be all in the same place and other things to be scattered apart, he wrote a preprocessor to rearrange sections of a program in any order; because Pascal compilers varied in their support for features like pointers and nested procedures, TeX uses only a very restricted subset of Pascal.

Real programmers do whatever it takes.
We already have them. I'm agender and I'm typing this from my workplace (during lunch).

The response to this AI voice demonstrates that a lot of people automatically hear any human(ish) voice as either female or male, one or the other. Similarly, people automatically recognise individuals as either female or male, one or the other. There's a very narrow band of presentation that won't be read automatically as one of those two options.

See how difficult it is to stop your brain from making automatic (possibly false) assumptions.
They were slowly decaying like Cuba is doing now. Same for East Germany. There wasn’t much growth going on. Stability only in the sense of stagnation.
The only way, and I mean the only way, this gets blocked is because a manager (not a dev) assesses the risk of improper fixing to be higher than the reward of not doing a shit ton of work justifies.

A significant portion of that is making sure the manager is fully cognisant of what the quick fix means. Alice's job is to ensure that happens. The managers job is to advocate to his bosses that this has to be done and is a net win to do it properly.

It is as likely manager person failed in advocacy as it is she failed in information transfer, but there are plenty of gradients here.
Some clever/lucky Serbian back in the Kosovan conflict days realised that even then-old low frequency radar was able to pinpoint the F117s making nightly passes over their country, helping bring one down.

Given that was nearly twenty years ago and we've since had massive advances in passive and synthetic aperture radar otherwise, I've long wondered about the worth of the massive extra cost stealth brings to Fifth Generation warplanes.

Given the Russians don't appear to be in a great rush to make all their wares stealthy, one wonders whether they've preëmpted its limited use in future?
Wow - this domain name causes HN to be wider than the screen on mobile!
Doesn't this mean Google Podcasts is not really a podcast player? You can't pop arbitrary RSS feeds into it.
Reading literature and philosophy is both an acquired taste and skill. If you're not used to that sort of thing it may just be that you need to work your way up to it. It's a very different kind of reading from pop-anything (-fiction, -history, et c.)

Or you may read plenty of that sort of thing but just bounced off Aurelius. Still happens. I'd recommend Staniforth's translation as the best balance between easy-reading and fidelity to the text, if you want to try again. Probably don't need annotations—it's very straightforward by the standards of philosophy. If you'd like an overview of Stoicism to accompany a reading of Aurelius, and you plan to read more philosophy, it's hard to beat Russell's A History of Western Philosophy for a single volume treatment of the field's classics; people complain about its having a lot of opinion in it as if Russell were trying to trick them, but it's pretty explicit when he's describing something and when he's opining so I've never understood what the fuss is.
Netflix Secret Codes: How to Find and Watch Hidden Movies
>This describes how to summarize a language in a computer system.

It describes how to summarize a language from a information theory standpoint (which is something different).

There's a good reason to believe evolution would use something close to the most information theoretic efficient implementation (and even if not, it's a good lower bound)
Vue community growing! Did you go to vueconf?
This seems to me a bit like a kid begging their parents for a Neo Geo. The parents don't want to, of course, because it's horribly expensive, and not that useful, and their kid already has a Super Nintendo and a Turbografx 16, and doesn't actually need any more video game systems, and probably shouldn't even be playing so many video games in the first place. And the kid's mode of argument is to just keep reminding them, increasingly loudly, how awesome the Neo Geo is.

Obviously, it's not a perfect analogy. One difference is that, in this case, everyone involved is a grown-up.
This is a one day free event in Edinburgh in June. Please send in nominations of interesting people and organisations doing amazing stuff with free software in the UK. And come along to the event on the day!
I am 100% with you on the ads model, I think the internet would be a better place without all of the unnecessary tracking and crazyness used to make ads more effective.

I love the trend toward premium versions of things that are ads free, if I don’t want to be tracked and have annoying ads I should have that option. I think the internet overall would be a much better place if every service offered this.. pay for the service and escape the ads madness.

Totally agree on the rev share as well and I think that should be democratized much more so.. it should be possible for things to remain open as well as for creators to get paid
The source code (JavaScript) is quite readable.

This seems to be the backing store:

https://www.jsonstore.io/9cfa993cd55704f2254949dc21a5f3a7a63...

With the ability to get a specific key from this style of URL:

https://www.jsonstore.io/9cfa993cd55704f2254949dc21a5f3a7a63...

And post to it to set a value.

There's no security though - anyone can overwrite any URL - e.g. in the console on that page:

pushJSON(endpoint + '/AAAAaaAaAaaAAaaAAAAAaAAAAaAAaAAaaaAAAAaA', 'http://www.example.com/');