skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mostly, I send what I consider important messages into the ether and I get them back; I read The New York Times and Washington Post, as I always have; I use Slack to talk to my co-workers, and that’s certainly useful; I check my Google calendar to find out where I should be; I write ideas and notes for columns and podcasts and more; and, best of all these days, I rent scooters.

> All convenient and good, for the most part, which is the balance I think we all have to find as tech keeps eating the world.

This is what an NYT opinion piece writer thinks is good. Checking Slack, reading mediocre news sources and figuring out where you have to be by using a Google Calendar. Real compelling stuff.
There are GPU-accelerated database engines which can stream the database database from NVMe. I am not sure if they do direct device-to-device transfer which has only become supported recently or whether they still need to bounce through the main memory.

In raytracing complex scenes can exceed your VRAM so if you don't want to fall back to CPU tracing you need a renderer that can swap parts of the BVH in and out on demand.
thunder bay/a lot of the east really shows the contrast between toronto/west end development and other areas
You can read the details here (https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploadedfiles/Ano...) It makes a lot more sense when you dig into the specifics.
Ask HN: What is the Tech Scene in Switzerland like?
Hello HN !
I would like to have an overview of the tech and startup scene in Switzerland. Are there any so called "Unicorns", When and what was the biggest exit there and what the job market in the field is like there.
Thank you.
Anyone in the ad-tech industry that can comment on the ITP changes? It's the thing I look forward to the most.

>Updates to Intelligent Tracking Prevention add new restrictions to cookies, further reducing the ability of hidden third parties to track users across websites they visit. To do that, support for partitioned cookies was removed for domains Intelligent Tracking Prevention identifies as having cross-site tracking capabilities. Going a step further, Intelligent Tracking Prevention now also limits long-term tracking for JavaScript first-party cookies.
This is where the laws need to be tightened -- people tend to not know what their rights or obligations are, and have to rely on expensive professionals to advise them (and it can still go wrong). When a government agent makes a request, often it can come across as a demand, with the implication that your are required by law to comply (they can even lie to you to get you to comply).

Now in the case of a large business, I would expect that they have the resources to figure out when to comply or when to ask for a warrant. But individuals have a harder time -- imagine getting sued by your employer for complying with a TSA agent's demand that you open your laptop for them to search through, then you get sued or fired because of that. It should always be illegal for a government official to imply that you are required to do something, if that isn't the case (and make it clear that there is no penalty, such as not being to board your plane, for not complying).
One of the truly awful things about SimCity was that transit was unrealistically beneficial. It was some sort of awful joke, the sort you might roll your eyes at and say "oh brother, this is idiotic". It felt like somebody was pushing a transit agenda hard.

Similarly, pollution was unreasonable. Coal power may be dirty, but SimCity made it absurd. There was also the nuclear plant explosions that pretty much never happen in the real world. Both the failure rate and the failure consequences were way above normal.
That's not quite how it happened, or do you think Ptolemy came up with the geocentric model because of the Jewish scriptures?

https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...
Citation below:

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/...

With further breakdown:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/190226/dq190...

It seems to me the key drivers are increase in guaranteed income supplements and the child tax benefits. Also believe the economy in urban centres have been doing quite well combined with highly educated workforce. As others have mentioned nobody feels better off, the dramatic increase in housing prices makes everyone feel as if we are living worse off then before. However I believe the housing crisis isn't due to immigration alone but a combination of factors including low interest rates, increase in personal income, limited desirable housing supply due to poor public transit investment and bad planning policy in the urban centres.
There was a big discussion on HN recently about what exactly the message-passing-oop is, with no apparent consensus:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416511

I don't have a strong opinion on the topic of OOP vs FP, but it's worth keeping in mind that people mean different things when they say OOP. Furthermore (and more importantly for this particular discussion), it also appears that people mean different things even when they specify they mean alan-kay/message-passing variant of OOP.

For many, it's something like Smalltalk and Ruby, with their very late binding and ability for objects to respond to messages even without matching methods. Others find Erlang and Elixir to be good embodiment of Alan Kay's vision. And the third groups seems to define it as "kind of like how bacteria communicate, and kind of like microservices", which is really too fuzzy for meaningful discussion.

In your link, Alan says: "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things."

That is... quite vague.
otabdeveloper1 said (four parents to this post) that there aren't many successful Haskell projects because businesses can't (or at least don't) hire good programmers. Jtsummers said to hire good ones, or train them to be good.

So in context, you could read my post as saying that run-of-the-mill companies don't know how to hire good Haskell programmers.

> For the purposes of discussing the technical merits between different technology alternatives, we must assume some baseline competency of programmers.

No. If it's harder to find good Haskell programmers than it is to find good Python programmers, that absolutely has to be figured in. It's not a technical merit of Python or a technical flaw of Haskell, but it certainly has to be factored into the decision of which to use.

Perhaps the summary would be "Technical merit doesn't matter if all the good programmers for that language are unavailable."

Then there's the problem that, even though we have a good track record of hiring good C++, Java, and Objective C programmers, I am not sure that we would be competent at selecting good Haskell programmers, even if they were available.

So if I'm the CTO of RandomCo, I probably don't use Haskell for that new project, no matter how technically good the language is, because I can't identify, locate, and hire good people for the team. And bad people for the team can turn Haskell into... something less.
Nobody who is a long-term friend or close acquaintance of Jake Appelbaum (ioerror), and isn't a sociopath themselves, believes he is innocent of rape. By association, it is quite hard to give Julian the benefit of the doubt, given their closeness and Julian's presence at several parties where Jake is known to have drugged and raped unsuspecting women/groupies.

Either way, Assange is free to be a man, walk outside those doors, and face his day in court for the crime he definitely committed: Violating the terms of his bail.

Bail. B-A-I-L. Assange was given bail. If he was going to be extradited to the USA, he never would have been given bail. Assange is just an attention-seeking snowflake who failed in his own Breitbart-esque attempt to control the political narrative, and now he's throwing a 7-year long pity party.

It would be nice to know if I committed a crime I could hide out in an embassy with free housing, free food and no bills.. I certainly wouldn't poop on the floor as a thank you.
Did you even open the article?

"Killer drones are a big concern....dangers of abuse, especially by authoritarian governments...AI can amplify discrimination and biases".

Bengio is specifically talking about malicious actors using AI. So saying "just unplug it" isn't really applicable, especially when it comes to governments.
Not illegal, sure, but the lack of warrant may (should) mean the information is inadmissible in court. It's no different than if they stole it.
Can't tell if you guys are being facetious or not. The fiat model parallels the currency debasement in ancient Rome pretty well, and it'll probably have similar results.
I found it surprisingly hard to get access to the primitives mentioned in the intro, on a modern pc. How does one draw a pixel on a specific coordinate in a modern OS?
This is pretty interesting. People can do amazing things. I remember hearing about his death on here but didn't realize what he built was so unique.
> Dismantling the capitalist system and giving workers control of the means of production?

I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but what empirical evidence have we ever had that shows "you'd have millions in the bank AND you'd have a latte every day" is the result of dismantling capitalism?
Yes they do. I'm not actually releasing code. This is just the images and text associated with the store. Not the actual app
>I merely assert that the motivations for racial profiling stems more from actual statistics and cost-benefit analysis than intrinsic irrational racism as I think you suggest.

That doesn't make racial profiling any more ethical or correct. The evidence is so overwhelming that intrinsic irrational racism is part of the reason why it is done. That evidence includes direct rhetoric of the current administration.
Google suggests that users can enable a "Java Access Bridge" (ships with JRE but disabled by default) that enables the Windows Accessibility API to work with Swing applications.
Life of creator seems reasonable to me. Something approaching that for something created by a company also seems reasonable to me.

There's a big difference between something which is copyrighted and, say, something which is patented. A patent is a discovery, which implies that it could have been discovered by somebody else, so I think it's pretty reasonable that patents don't last as long as copyright. Copyrighted works, on the other hand, literally could not exist without the specific people who created them. Their existence it tied, intrinsically, to the creator. If Prince never existed, Purple Rain would have never come to exist. So I think something approaching the life of the creator is reasonable and reflects this special existential relationship between the creator and the work.

Just my opinion. FWIW.
>So, you think that it is rational to believe that virgins can give birth and that people can come back to life after being dead for more than a day and without modern medical intervention, to pick some of the most universally accepted doctrine of Christianity?

what i think mostly irrational in Christianity isn't the belief in the accident of semen finding its way after non-penetrating sexual encounter. What really puzzles me is how strongly that belief in that semen accident drives Christians right into the desire to burn witches and, when they cant burn them outright, prohibiting gays from the "joint" filing option on the 1040.
Even if that's what cmurf meant (and it probably is), I still don't see how it results in avoiding drugs.
Thanks for the update to my mental schemas! I had no idea it was that far out of whack!
No, but https://github.com/3drobotics/rust-mavlink would. The enterprise version of Solo actually ships with a Rust app running on the onboard computer for camera control, which uses rust-mavlink to talk to the autopilot.
I must be losing my mind, because Puri.sm is charging $1,599 for the following laptop:

- Dual-core Intel Core i7 7500U

- 250GB SATA (yikes)

- 802.11n (not ac) wireless

- 8GB of RAM

- Intel HD Graphics 620

- USB 2.0 ports

And for the "best" offering which is $3,997:

- Dual-core Intel Core i7 7500U

- 2TB nVME (not dual-SSD)

- 802.11n (not ac) wireless

- 32GB of RAM

- Intel HD Graphics 620

- USB 2.0 ports

This is a joke, right? 802.11n is completely unacceptable in 2019, as is charging $4k for a computer with Intel HD 620 on-board. What a joke.
I got rid of Netflix DVD by mail only because I'm lucky (I think) to still have a locally owned and operated video rental store on my way to and from work.
How does one contact you outside of HN?
I guess it really depends whether you consider a DRM-protected digital asset to be something which is possible to own vs rent. The button might say "purchase", but it's really still a rental.

(Yes, I say this from the point of view of someone who has "purchased" dozens of videogames on PSN and Steam, fully aware that any of them could have the plug pulled on them at any time...)
That depends on who the "they" is. Movie distribution companies want to maximize the value of their product, and that means marketing and advertising, exclusivity periods, product tie-ins and collaborations with different streaming providers. They know that they can get the audience numbers from anywhere, but the question is how much a particular streaming provider will pay over a competitor.

So movie distribution companies are certainly engaging in rent-seeking behavior–only you're not the customer. The streaming providers are.

(Reasonably good pun though)
I don't pay the upcharge for Netflix 4K, but the streaming 4K content I have found (YouTube, mostly) has no such problems, so it's certainly not inherent to streaming.
Welcome to Walled Gardens... we should all read 'Carry On by Bruce Scheiner'
"Dropping $5 you don't have on overpriced coffee is proving that it has no power over you"

Surely it depends on motivation?

I wouldn't say money has power over me, but I want to be a responsible member of society, pay my own way etc, so I make sure I have money to buy coffee now and in the future.
Whereas if you're buying overprice coffee with money you don't have, just to impress your mates, that think you're rich and successful, and you want to impress them...

Further, if you're spending $5 you don't have (assuming it isn't stolen), its borrowed, which means someone else has power over you.
Pretending Canada or Iceland or Norway are some kind of utopia where everyone is rich, in perfect health, eats pixie dust, and shits rainbows isn't doing anyone any favors.

Those countries have their own problems, even if they aren't the same as in the United States.

Different cultures, different economies, different priorities.

You can't solve a problem by saying "look how awesome this homogenous country with a population the size of a medium sized US city is!".

That argument will always fall flat on it's face. And on deaf ears.

Certainly we can and should learn from other countries. But it's getting really tiring to hear these empty arguments trying to hold some other country up as some kind of wonderous Paradise when it's simply not true.
Another bonus to rolling -- it is initiated with your core, so it uses large powerful muscles. Once the roll is initiated you can feed your kick and your pull with that momentum. You end up using more powerful muscles to feed your stroke, so you can pull harder without wearing out your arms.
Astronomers discover a chunk of a planet's core around a long-dead star
I'd love to know. AFAIK all builds include debug info, so it can't be that.
I'm all for an investigation. I'm very much against public calls for jail time before we've been able to properly investigate the actions and intentions of the parties involved. The OP's stated justification for jail time is "[purely technical description of system functioning] ... if this is true, I sincerely hope [people are jailed]".

My basic point is that when ther's a tragedy, there's a knee-jerk reaction to punish people regardless of mens rea. Putting pressure on courts for predetermined outcomes, particularly without regard to intent of the accused, is the slightly civilized version of getting out the torches and pitchforks.

Deterrence requires interrupting the ill-intentioned thought process. If there are no ill intentions, then jail time has no deterrent effect. We may feel better if someone is punished, but if the public's feelings are the only positive outcome of punishing someone, then punishing them is barbaric. (Note that restitution is separate from punishment. Restitution, if possible, is still called for if there's no ill intent.)
> Families that drive cars are new to human history.

Yes, and we rigourously studied child safety seats, distracted driving and crumple zones to improve safety, did we not?

> Families where both parents have had orthodontic work are new to human history.

Yes, and we studied the effects of fluoridation, anaesthetics, retainers, braces and other corrective measures, did we not? And we continue to do so.

> It takes a special seed of bigotry to question whether LGBT people are inherently unfit to be parents.

Except I never made that claim. While some people certainly do, that does not detract from the point that I made that these new circumstances could have some unexpected effects, and you should encourage such research.

Furthermore, it doesn't diminish my point that people who stand against your lifestyle choices could prove beneficial by advancing our understanding of these issues, simply by being the combative jerks you see them to be.

I'm sure you've heard of the replication crisis, where up to 50-75% of papers fail replication. The liberal echo chamber of academia is one factor that contributed to this outcome. More ideological disagreement would have resulted in publication and peer review that was more robust.

> You're ignoring my point. Gays being treated like people is not an extreme left-wing ideology forwarded by activists.

That point is has never been in dispute in this thread, so I don't even know why you keep bringing it up.

> A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance.

Bullshit. A tolerant society cannot tolerate violence. Speech is not violence.

And please, don't trot out that tired paragraph from Popper that nobody has actually read in full context, where he says exactly what I've just said: tolerance extends up to but not including violence and incitements to violence.
Adobe has a write-up about the impact this has on the Adobe Marketing Cloud:

https://medium.com/adobetech/safari-itp-2-1-impact-on-adobe-...
It would force a revolt, after the economy collapses and unemployment shoots up over 90%.
Yep: https://dvd.netflix.com/
Isn’t it your duty to protect the privacy of your data and your customers regardless of who is requesting data? I thought companies like Twitter and Google routinely rebuffed requests for information from government agencies and opposed restrictive rules, e.g. in China, and are praised for it. The concept of resisting government requests for information is well established.

If the police called and asked for my customer list, I’d check whether they had that authority and many other issues before turning it over. I think we had an article on here earlier about ‘second order thinking’ that would cover that... getting an invasive request from the government, and fulfilling it regardless of consequences because you want to ‘help’ or consider them to be like Mom and Dad is first order thinking.

I’m no expert, but it seems increasingly common to have state laws that oppose or are stricter than federal laws, and you do have to be aware of all laws for your jurisdiction down to the county and city. Especially in any voluntary action, you have to consider whether it violates other laws or duties, and if they weren’t legally compelled to do this t was voluntary.
All this talk about tracking prevention, but it also seems like safari 12.1 REMOVES link tracking (<a ping>) prevention: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/Safari-link-tracking.htm...
Well, unemployment is supposed to be the protection against this. It is basically mandatory insurance that an employer is required to pay premiums for so that if they fire an employee that employee still gets money to live.

It is not a perfect system in practice, but I don't think it is conceptually incorrect.
This is fantastic. It would be great to use this to also train text-to-speech models replicating specific people by feeding unsubbed video clips of the same person into it, a la something like wave net [1], or what Google is doing with John Legend [2].

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHghcYqeto
Hopefully there'd be an option to roll back to some previously approved/released version. So your users may have to wait longer for the exciting new functionality, but at least they won't be screwed.
Yeah, I often read the subtitles before the words are spoken, which sometimes ruins the surprise when they say it.
The week long delay may well be a mechanism to discourage developers from sending lots of small changes like OP, to lighten the workload.
From what I can tell looking around on Steam forums, this isn't the range of the service. There are two things going on:

People who live close enough to services get an additional happiness bonus for living close to the service on top of getting their needs fulfilled. The service still operates citywide, and people will still get all the benefits of having that service no matter where they live, but living close to one gets them an additional bonus.

There is also a traffic flow element here: people who live past a certain distance from the building have to deal with longer than expected travel times, so their ability to make full use of the service starts to degrade outside of the green. They're still covered by it, but it's not as efficient.
> Dropping $5 you don't have on overpriced coffee is proving that it has no power over you.

what
The parent is not claiming that it's illegal, just that it ought to be. I was the one who was suggesting (wrongly, apparently) that it might be illegal.
Surface Realization Shared Task 2019
What should an equivalent of the first sale doctrine for digital content look like?

It seems like we need something new here to cover things like streaming content, ebooks, digital delivery, drm, etc.

I'm sure I'm not the only one annoyed by how the world has moved from selling to renting, especially when services and the companies providing them seem more ephemeral than ever.
When I made that comparison I meant to highlight the fact that physics determines a certain minimal amount of work required to raise a body of a certain mass to the top of the mountain. Any improvements in efficiency is small in comparison to that required work. So that is the first thing we must understand: there is a large cost to building something complex, and nothing can drastically reduce it.

Formal methods -- or any other useful technique -- are beneficial only once you understand this. Most of the cost is determined by what you build, not how you build it, so the only way to drastically cut it is to build drastically less. Once you've decided what it is that you need to build, you must be ready to pay the cost.