skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook shows that people are perfectly capable of nasty things under their real names. Reading Facebook comments on popular videos and groups basically exposed pseudonymity=bad as a myth to my eyes.
Remember the Mac OS and MacWrite fit on a single LOW-density 3.5″ floppy in 1984.
Unfortunately, efforts I am aware of (like jiffydos) are not OSS.
I read yesterday they were using a bunch of servers connected with a 40Gbps network link. I'll try to find the source.
F18 Fortran compiler and runtime project is accepted as part of LLVM project
Yes, the BBC is terrible. I for one wouldn't care if a chihuahua was a co-author on one of my papers, but there will be a whole dog and pony show about it.

That's the amazing thing about science it's not about people, it's about ideas. And ideas stand on their own, regardless of the identity politics of the time, be they eugenics or affirmative action.
How–and how not–to punish monopolists
Yeah the first web boom then bust... everyone thought it was over with no way to make money.
A Software Testing Problem Led Me to 26% Monthly Growth
This gets posted a lot but there are so many versions of jquery on so many different cdns that very rarely is it the case. I saw some research on it and it was in the single digit percentage of times.
i don't think the criticism of "jobsism" is directed at her, but rather at media outlets who are spinning the story this way.
I see, but you could still wrap all other cases in some predefined functions or higher level primitives, and just have an "unsafe" mode for unrestricted recursion. It could even be treated as a side effect.
Number of lines is not an indicator of contribution. The reason I posted this repo was so that folks curious about the programming behind this science could have their fill. I am just happy to see an academic project using good version control practices released under a proper license.
I'd rather have frequent, reliable and safe public transport than self-driving cars. Can we pour billions of dollars into that instead, please?
is this still a thing?
The comparison is with other philosophy texts.
Google can't block ads and tracking scripts in Chrome without either blocking their own, or facing (valid) claims of anti-competitive behaviour. Neither of which would get the person who did it promoted.

And no attempt to fix the slowness of the modern web will succeed without blocking ads and tracking scripts.

This is the downside of the dominant browser being made by and ads-and-tracking company.
The difference is not in what is being done, but in who is in charge.

If you modify your router settings, it's you. You decided that you are not going to honor ISP suggested defaults, and it is up to you to assess costs/benefits and pick the right choice.

If Firefox overrides your settings, it means someone else does the decision about your tools. If that someone else makes it difficult to automate changing the default (e.g. ignoring DHCP; if you want, you can ignore DHCP at the system level, but this is not a decision an app should take), it means, that this someone else doesn't have good intentions towards you. Someone else decided what's "best" for you.
> If you can ignore internet explorer you can do everything jquey did with just vanilla js.

There are still lots of people who can't sadly.

That said while yes you can do everything jQuery does in vanilla JS (jQuery is written in vanilla JS after all) you often end up with more code than using jquery which means more to read through, more to understand.

So saying it is useless is a bit harsh, it may be useless for you but it's not for many and if you look at what the jquery folks are doing with deprecations you can see they are refactoring jquery to use the vanilla js stuff that was added in large part because of jquery so it'll likely definite itself out of existence at some point anyway.
It is seeming more likely by the year that Tesla is one of the biggest over estimators when it come self-driving cars. Musk has repeatedly promised "autonomous vehicles", and even promised to have a fully autonomous vehicle by the end of this year. He is notorious for his rather bold and exciting predictions, but fewer and fewer seem to come to fruition with each passing year. It seems especially unlikely considering Tesla doesn't even test any autonomous vehicles on public roads, unlike many other companies in the space: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/96c89ec9-aca6-4910...

It's disappointing to hear that Ford overestimated, however, it's reassuring that they publicly recognize the challenges and also put safety above being first out the door.
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>Because if it were for locals, it would be .amazonia and .amazonas

this assumes many, many things.

It assumes that locals do not communicate enough in English with anyone outside their locality that they can identify with the name Amazon.

It assumes that the local region does not have any interests other than tourism and commercial purposes about how their region is perceived external to the region.

If for example there was a .germany tld would you expect that the people of Germany might want to control it for something other than just tourism and commerce? I suppose they would want to control it even if there was a company called Germany somewhere in the world and Germany is stereotypically not so much into any language but German!
> That ECT is still around after all this time, speaks to its effectiveness, despite some of the vehement comments on this page.

This is nonsense. Homeopathy is still around and there’s no evidence is does anything at all.
'I was the only girl in A-level electronics'
Linux doesn't necessarily help here. Ubuntu LTS lifetime is 3-5 years, others are similar; outside this, distro maintainers think nothing of just dropping packages from the distro that the deployment may be relying on, so upgrading is not simple.
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Some background on the Adidas/Puma rivalry, which is quite a fascinating story:

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/mgz97b/the-nazi-siblin...
Still, it is a fact, that among all insurance companies, Medicare has the lowest administrative costs.
It's also in the links in that repo, but may be more interesting to some folks here:

Katie's paper on VLBI reconstruction: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413

This is how I learned about the topic and I think it's well suited for computery folks, since it was published in CVPR.
The merits of truth aren't guaranteed to win this battle.

Winning a battle is an unfortunate metaphor for public debate or democracy in general. After all, what we want is to discuss options without violence.

Someone has to win elections, right. But that doesn't make the losing option wrong, just not as popular. There are many options that I consider wrong, or very wrong, that are "winning" right now. I accept that situation, at least while there's no need for me to adopt them. What I find scary is what stcredzero points: that many ideas "win" by despicable means.
You're conflating two things. There is an EU project to observe and measure the environment around a black hole. It is a project involving 200 people going back many years - as is stated explicitly in the article you are commenting on.

Katie Bouman was the scientist in charge of the project of taking the enormous amount of data and translating that into an actual image. Not only does the article state that the larger project has 200 people working on it, Dr Bouman comments that her team deserves equal credit.

There is no problem with celebrating some of the leaders of projects. We all know Tim Berners Lee didn't single handedly install AOL into our houses but he's still known as the father of the internet because that's how media works - they publicize people who have been crucial in specific work. We don't need a conspiracy theory to explain this.
Iirc jquery was also the most hated just under drupal
Help design a battle royale-inspired arena for a ‘last person standing’ contest
I've read comments on Hacker News for many years, often finding them a useful source of additional information and insight into details from whatever the linked piece is. Sometimes these threads are full of only subtly veiled hatred and leave me with a feeling of disgust. This thread is one of those.

There have been countless threads over the years where a man gets the credit for something a team has worked on and there is practically never any comments about this. For once a woman gets credit and this thread is full of people complaining that there was an entire team.

Yes, there was a team, but that doesn't matter. For once a woman is getting credit for the great work they've done and this should be applauded. Stories like this help bring more women into STEM fields. Anyone who is complaining about the lack of fairness in this is making themselves look ignorant by ignoring the last thousand years of scientific progress.
How should Wikipedia require real names? And who would validate them?
The Nature of Code – evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in code
Those moves were meant to stop mobile search from dying. You may not believe it, but you really haven't a clue of how bad things looked for Google when they conceived of AMP to stop the bleeding of open searchable content into walled gardens apps, and proprietary HTML replacements (yeah i'm talking YOU, Facebook.). If you want all news to come from unsearchable single website apps, go ahead, kill AMPHTML, the only open alternative.
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After more than 17 years, Microsoft sticks a fork in Windows XP one final time
You mean Bouman?
It's a scientific feat that's ranked in the top 50 HN stories of all time, yet you somehow feel a profile of the central figure is somehow inappropriate?

How would you rate "Meet Robert Oppenheimer, father of the bomb"?

I'd also love anyone to point me to any similar discussion on Elon Musk and one of his companies.
Nowhere near as much as it used to be. A lot of companies shuttered and talent left the area a couple of decades ago. Off the top of my head, the main companies that are still in the area are NetherRealm, Wargaming.net, Barbaroga, WMS Gaming, JackBox, Iron Galaxy, and in the suburbs are Raw Thrills, Incredible Technologies, Play Mechanix, and High Voltage. That might be it.

Only a few of those companies seem to be actively hiring.

Midway closed (and part of it became NetherRealm), there used to be an Electronic Arts office, a Disney Interactive office, Robomodo, Sega was around when they did arcade games, Game Refuge might still exist but it's barely still kicking, Yuke's used to have a satellite office here but that shut down, probably a bunch of others, but nowadays it's difficult to be a game dev and live in Chicago. Part of the reason I'm not in the industry anymore.
Technological Advancement vs. Morality
Very very cool. Just what I was looking for. Now.sh with multiple languages and 24/7 uptime.
What you say is the article lacks depth of what you find important.

You could easily make such with a few UNIX tools such as date and seq plus a few variables in your favorite language. So that is covered in Linux, Bash, and Python courses.

Burp also has support to prepend or append characters. They could've covered that as it is rather powerful. They could've also covered grabbing pastes from dark web to use as input.
Ask HN: Do you know of any good product taking advantage of NLP?
Natural language processing seems very popular today but is it actually any good and useful?
When was your last encounter with a good product taking advantage of this technology?
>Shellenberger has zero credibility.

not an argument , bring proofs he's wrong
Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory
I would say there's a urgent quest for news, as in not propaganda.
Working as a UX-Lead
Yes, it works, by software or devices that cooperate.

With desktop OSes, it is no problem.

With mobiles, traditionally, if you enrolled a custom CA root onto Android device, the user would be nagged ("You network may be monitored").

Malware can go further, and just use it's own root, without any ability to enroll your custom one. I see this as a default with any IoT or embedded devices, so that will make much more difficult to say "no custom CA, no internet access".
I don't understand why all these car companies are trying to create it themselves ( doubted it since it was starting to be a hype)

Self driving cars is currently a not solved solution ( too complex). Instead of putting in billions of dollars to be the best.

Put in billion of dollars to work with the best when a decent solution comes out ( eg. currently that's Waymo) and delegate responsability. Currently, i wouldn't partner up with any of them.
But what do you do when you know they are incompetent?

Is your superior's superior also incompetent? What about his superior? Does your superior have someone else on his level that isn't incompetent? If you genuinely believe the company is top to bottom incompetent then what are you still doing there? Otherwise identify the competent people and start working that angle, either to get yourself transferred under someone more competent or to move critical decision making power from your superior to someone more competent (perhaps yourself)?

Or, if you're that sort of person, find a way to use their incompetence to mask your lack of giving a fuck and just slack and collect a pay check until they fire you.
> Hours worked does not equate directly to productivity.I think believing that they do is a toxic mindset.

Unfortunately, a lot of companies believe in this mindset. Heck, we have that 996 debacle on the front page right now.
It doesn't really work like this. It's a team of scientists that make these contributions, not one person.
> If you are going to geofence self-driving cars it's questionable whether they are better than trains and buses

They run on demand 24/7, they run point to point, you never have to stand, you don't have to share the space with people who behave antisocially, you have a range of choice of comfort options, there are unlimited competitors for the same route driving prices down and service standards up.

So, quite a few game changers for me at least.

If you live/work outside the geofence, this obviously doesn't apply, but if you do then you get the advantages 80% of the time, and for day to day purposes it absolutely is fundamentally better than trains and buses.
I feel as though that if you need regex selectors, there is something wrong with the structure of your HTML.

Can you tell me which use case you would need to do this? I don't think there is anything wrong with this functionality, but it seems like if you needed it, that your HTML is needlessly complex.
ok, so just so everyone is clear, the point between parent and grandparent is Andrew Chael seems to have written a hell of a lot more code than Katie Bouman, for a lot longer

* achael 566 commits 850,275 ++ 131,044 --

* klbouman 90 commits 2,410 ++ 1,265 --

However, at least at the level of reading the commit messages, Katie's are pretty math heavy:

"fixed bug in the fake briggs weighting"

"starting to fix chirp problems with polrep"

"made it possible to do a min uv cut on closure phase when adding it a..."

While Andrew's lean frequently toward code maintenance:

"updated some docstrings in imager_utils"

"moved imgsum to plotting.summary_plots"

"modified README"

That said, Andrew and others seem to have pretty good insight too.
Anyone can, the source code is there awaiting a PR
I don't know if this is illegal, but it definitely should be. It'd be interesting to hear someone with a legal background chime in.
For me it depends on the current task. For work that needs deep concentration, I appreciate solitude. But for tedious, boring work, I appreciate the background noise.
That would make it an explicit cheat. Right now, not publishing negative results, tweaking the procedure description a little and things like that lie somewhere in a gray zone and can be socially acceptable in some lab to some extent. However, if this would be explicitly defined, breaking this would be an explicit straightforward lie, which would make it harder to make socially acceptable in some limited circles, people would have to go to greater length to hide it and this kind of thing would not happen that often.
By top talent do you mean FAANG employees, well-known experts/researchers or maybe people like Max Howell? What qualifies as elite?
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Personal computers, mobile phones, genome sequencing, MOOCs, email, the telegraph, phones, the railway.

There are examples where it was just straight up overestimated as well of course, like AirPower in warfare but air travel was definitely under estimated too. A plane is a flying bus and people travel across a continent for a weekend trip.
Wikipedia should not be a wikipedia of people accomplishing things unless they have done a serious change on the world.

Blogger, youtuber shall not having this kind of statue like a trophy of them self. If they want be famous there's plenty of crap social media with like button for them.

I also think that celebrity shall not be in wikipedia, wtf people having 10 jobs without any background because you know they are famous and can be DJ, Artiste, Scenarist, and this is like a race of who have more in the BIO of wikipedia.

BTW, I want too be immortal on Wikipedia, only some part of elite can
It's the same on Reddit.

The sheer toxicity of many of the comments is something I haven't seen for a long time. They really hate that a women is getting credit and that others aren't getting the same level of attention.

I wonder how those same people think about Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs etc. They had huge teams behind them as well.
Truly optional scalar types in protobuf3 (with Go examples)
> That cost is not reflected in current electric rates

nope ''In fact, the carbon-intensity of French electricity has increased. After years of subsidies for solar and wind, France’s 2017 emissions of 68g/CO2 per kWh was higher than any year between 2012 and 2016.

The reason? Record-breaking wind and solar production did not make up for falling nuclear energy output and higher natural gas consumption. And now, the high cost of renewable electricity is showing up in French household electricity bills.

According to Eurostat, although French households pay 41% less than German households, electricity in France has, over the past decade, been increasing in price much faster than electricity in Germany.''
I mean, you could say the same thing about the assets of a hedge fund. But it turns out that if you want to, you can convert most assets to cash. Of course, the more quickly you want to convert, the more money you lose.
Clarity: I definitely didn't mean to demean her effort or profile. I'm just pointing out how media outlets are reporting this feat.
Fundamental Limits of Covert Packet Insertion
https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/commit/886b07b8a00d142...

one commit with 524,306 additions. adding a model.
Such as Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic?
That is not what "they" are saying. count(1) and count(*) are equally fast because they are doing the same thing.
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THE woman? I am not sure how other women team members should feel about the article. Or even men. She may made important contribution but so did many others. Attributing the credit to a single person in such a large scale project is not fair to any team member. I am sure it is not her fault but whoever pushed to have BBC publish a story like this is hurting the science endeavor overall more than helping it.
That i do not want some third party's permission to make my site and desktop applications available to everyone.

Note the one you asked, but i have the same issues with the certificate mafia.
In my experience this is common for this type of news about "prodigies" on HN. I remember the same types of reactions a few years ago about an article about a child who made the headlines (it even prompted a response by pg IIRC). Was it Malala? I can't remember.

I think it's just that many people feel threatened or inadequate when they (naturally) compare themselves to these people. It's tempting to put them down so that we feel better about ourselves. I think most of us here on HN like to think that we're clever but when people like Katie Bouman get under the spotlight suddenly most of us realize that we're not such hot shots after all.

It's probably worse when it's a woman/child/minority/... because it gives us the convenient excuse of "this is probably a PR stunt" to dismiss them. It's lazy and it's intellectually dishonest but it's also very human unfortunately.
Nobody is claiming it is a one person effort. Nobody.

And whilst she is getting more attention it has not come at the expense of anyone else.

And you wonder why women hate to work in IT with comments like yours where you've dismissed her accomplishments simply because she is a "women in tech".
How about no. When I don't have to pay 2x for an Apple laptop, ridden with thermal and keyboard issues and to carry dongles for everything ("but it's so thin!"), I'll be very happy to.

Until then, my X1E, which is durable, maintainable (still to an extent), has all the ports I might need, light, doesn't throttle, while more powerful, cost 1.7x less on top of that, AND running Mojave - will be making me happy, thank you very much.
It's interesting how you are concerned about your own "career trajectory", yet for women you cite work/life balance and ability to have children.

Edit: I just checked this comment from yesterday, where someone faulted Marissa Meyer for outsourcing her domestic work[0]. Funny story: it's also by you!

But I guess it's all a coincidence. Plausible deniability, right?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19620176
So a 40 hour work week does not mean 40 productive hours. Let's say that you are only truly productive at a flat rate of 40% of your work time, then 40 hour work week means 16 productive hours per week, whereas 996, 72 hours a week means 28.8 productive hours per week.

Now my question is, is the assumption of productive hour ratio real or does it start high and end low? And if my assumption of the flat productive ratio is true, then does it actually yield any good results?
I receive such emails too. The question is how many of those roles actually exist for software engineers (and how often recruiters just write a big amount in the email to get your attention - remember most of these emails are automatically generated), I'd say there's much less of these good roles in Wall St. firms compared to tech.
This may inspire women to pursue a career in computer science. Is it bad even if it's political?
I suppose you could say that, but I’m saying it’ll be late rather than not be possible. I suspect roads will start being built with automation in mind for example, and push bikes might be required to have a small transceiver to alert the cars AI to their whereabouts. I think Ford are saying here that it just won’t be good ever, I’m saying it will be better, later and slower to be everywhere but will still exist.
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almost.. like trains?