skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crowd here tends to interpret code signing requirements as nefarious steps down a slippery slope where Apple locks down macOS and applies draconian rules to deny us access to our own computers. The reality is a little more boring:

macOS has a growing malware problem. The initial solution to this was to introduce the Mac App Store in 2010, where users could acquire trusted apps that had been vetted by Apple.

But the Mac App Store wasn't successful by many measures and users continued acquiring apps elsewhere, including the occasional malware. So in 2012, Apple introduced Developer ID, tying every app to a developer identity which is supposed to be verified through the Apple Developer membership application. This means malware cannot be released by a nameless entity, and that it can be revoked.

However, having recently cleared off a relative's computer of something like 5 separate "Adobe Flash updaters" all signed by different, and apparently fake, developers, it seems that the $99 membership fee and identity verification was not enough to deter fraud and abuse in the program.

The logical next step to protect users is to give Apple more insight into what is being signed, so that they can be more proactive in detecting and blocking malware. Thus, notarization, which involves uploading a copy to Apple.

Apple's software engineering org is populated by some of the developers of your favorite open source projects and indie apps. They're not trying to destroy the platform that they love. In the past, they've given advanced users an escape hatch---option-click to run an unsigned app, Gatekeeper settings, System Integrity Protections settings---and I hope this doesn't change in 10.15. But they are trying to balance this with the needs of 99% of users who just want their Mac to be protected from malware.
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"But well, that's the world we live in."

- Sunday afternoon thought of George Washington, sipping on a glass of wine in a certain alternate universe one Sunday afternoon.
I always hear this comment and yet no one can provide one example where a technology or innovation was similar in the past. From air travel, electric cars and medicine, the rich get it first before prices drop for mass marketability.
There's no disconnect when those are entirely different categories of event
I don't think people think social networks look like Facebook or MySpace because of branding but because their raison d'etre is allowing people to share their personal interests and communicate directly with people on the site. cf Wikipedia where most lurkers are blissfully unaware of the editors, and editors actively frown on and delete attempts at social interaction and personalisation across most of the site except in the ultra-limited context of explaining that User:X's personal opinions are irrelevant here and they should find a source and seek consensus before editing the page.

Sure, it's a website edited by multiple people - some identifiable - and you could in theory be so impressed by a person's contribution to it you end up wanting to meet them, but to some extent so is the vast majority of the rest of the internet. There are comment threads on local newspapers and Amazon.com too.
Same here, maybe it's cause it's in beta right now but even that logic doesn't make much sense
There's indeed always going to be a line somewhere. What's vital though is that whatever censorship you do enact, is limited, proportional, and most importantly, accountable. Allowing rapid action to block harmless content based on false reports seems to fail those criteria.
The sweet spot - like in most phenomena - seems to be in the middle: for trend correction we need informed people, not people addicted to trivia, neither people that only care about their own belly button. From a stream of 'news' to History essays, there is a place somewhere in the middle for monthly/quarterly 'digested news'. Even weekly news (like the Economist) seems to be too much.
This is also true for open source projects. You can literally start a widely used project under a pseudonym (if you really feel the need). If it is good, it will be used.

It is easier to complain, especially if these days money can be made by complaining.
Demand is there
Driving on the road is about cooperating with the other people so that everyone benefits. Almost everyone underestimated the social aspect of it.
Is that kind of speech permissible on HN nowadays?
Welcome to 99% of the BBC's science output. Outside of Radio4, it has become a barren wasteland where no numbers can increment.
SSH-tunnel will quickly degrade in throughput if you use it to breach the GFW. Some kind of traffic analysis I think. You need other tools to bypass GFW consistently.
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I would certainly use it, probably when I'm creating a new talk/presentation/workshop in order to find connections that I might not think of otherwise.

By its very nature I'm assuming it will be somewhat haphazard and "incomplete", because it's not intended to be a "search engine" - you might want to make that clear in the brief opening blurb, otherwise people will unfairly criticise it for not being wikipedia.

Does it always give the same results, or is there a random component underneath? It seems to have a random component (which is good, for my purposes) - can you tell us a little more about the randomness?

But it's an interesting thing - thank you. For how long will this link remain working?
The page linked doesn't offer any additional information to what the actual author's page does.
I see a lot of mention on various forums about the storage they used (5pb) but am just wondering if anyone know what kind of backend they used to house this? From what I saw there were too many disks - in the wrong type of enclosure - to be running on a single server, which suggests multiple physical servers. I've seen a prior CERN research paper on gluster and ceph (iirc) and am just wondering if anyone in the know could enlighten me?
Tesla was, is and for some time will be only for the rich. More adoption, competition and improved processes of manufacturing will drive the price down for the masses.
I'm annoyed because of the breathless coverage. One would see less hyperbole if a dog had done the work.

The worst thing is how soul crushing academia is. I left my physics PhD when I actually started talking to my colleagues and seeing my career trajectory. I bailed as soon as I realized I will be working until my 40s on the per hour pay of a fast food employee.

I do not see why you want to push women to a field that pays starvation wages, has worse work/life balance than programming and will pretty much require them to put off kids until their late 30s, if ever.

But the dying media get their clicks, which is all that matters to them in the end. Regardless of the long term damage they do.
How can you possibly develop a product when none of your developers have been around for more than a few months?
The only way they can somehow remedy this is by not crawling and indexing ghostwriting sites. I've severally got 100% on my papers. https://www.westwriters.com/
> https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors

Huh, I wonder how accurate this is. All the code is beyond me in any case, I'm in no position to judge the relative value of any of it.
Katie gave a TED talk:

https://youtu.be/BIvezCVcsYs
~I feel bad for the team. I would rather see the whole team praised for the success not just one person that fits the narrative "women in tech".~

People I right, I made an assumption based on the title and not the content.
I totally agree. I was pretty young at the time. It was one of the experiences that taught me to ask for the salary that I want.
9am-9pm really is the period of presence in office. It's always that way in countries where the stats show high "working hours".

It is also traditional in Chinese work culture to have a nap after lunch, which provides a break and helps with staying later.
Dinner is also usually early (6pm) so 9am-9pm days mean a lunch break and a dinner break.

Working 6 days a week has been quite standard in Asia. I remember Korea moved to 2-day weekends only a few years ago, and it's hard to change work culture.

It's probably also compounded by the fact that in China there is no day off for shops, restaurants, banks, etc. Everything is open 7 days a week by default, which is great as a consumer but probably means pressure on staff.
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Not reading anything will not allow you the relevance of climate change.

I prefer to read specific things to stay in the loop and I see it as a responsibility to be aware of things as my position in our society allows me to do so.
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As I understand it that’s how articles look when a major organisation establishes SEO as a primary metric.
> in essence: Brace yourselves Germans, the Chinese people will crush you with their productivity.

996 isn't a matter of productivity (other than perhaps indicating exceptionally poor productivity). Productivity is closer related to how much output you generate in a given unit of time.

Brace yourself Chinese, the Germans are smashing you when it comes to productivity with their $48,000 GDP per capita and 30 hours per week of work.

A balanced mixture of high value output and quality of life (fewer hours worked) is the ideal. If China had an epic GDP per capita, it'd be worth considering the merits of how they're doing things. As it is now, they're still losing horribly. The premise properly should be that 996 dies - it becomes an absurdity, a relic of development - as they push up the economic ladder. If they can't escape the middle income trap, that may never happen.
This. Best job would be: Remote (your own timezone); Pay: $180K-$360K; 40 Vacation Days; Work on hard crazy tech; Will be surrounded by smarter people etc
Why would it need to be shut down.
What does the effect of harassment on males have to do with whether males are more likely to be harassers?
It's a bit of both - she was the lead behind the algorithm used to process the data, so she rightly deserves credit for that aspect (being the first to do something always gets the credit in the research community). At the same time, it's disingenuous to say it would have been impossible without her, there were multiple competing methods that could have pulled this off, and there were large parts of this achievement that had nothing to do with computational photography research (the astronomy / radio physicists teams).
Last HN post from auslander, bitches :) It was a good run!

Changed password to the blindly typed one.

Google must die, lol
This is not a judgment nor an implication. It's a widely reported fact that turnout is low. So the 'the EU population' can indeed be characterized in this way.

https://www.politico.eu/interactive/voters-turnout-in-the-eu...
I can't get this to work but I gather the figures are not impressive.
Yes, and she's the first to acknowledge this:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1021332602552304...
That wont stop the latest institute from touting that their latest glorified BLAS reducible ML will take over the world tomorrow if someone doesn't continue to fund their work.
From article: But Dr Bouman, now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology, insisted the team that helped her deserves equal credit.

The effort to capture the image, using telescopes in locations ranging from Antarctica to Chile, involved a team of more than 200 scientists.

"No one of us could've done it alone," she told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many different backgrounds."
Back when pg used to run the community [0], he'd deeply think about problems [1] and then later solve them [2] but not without controversy [3]. news.yc was better for it with such a strong personality at the helm who'd withstand the backlash and hold on to their convictions. I guess, we need someone of that caliber, someone to step up to usher in to the post-pg era [4], as it were.

What I do to find my share of interesting links is to search on https://hn.algolia.com with different keywords and sift through those discussions, follow links in the comments, follow the commentators previous submissions and posts, follow other submissions from the website, gather new keywords and search again... it is kind of a rabbit hole once you start. Though you'd quickly begin to realise that it is great folks continue to submit links that don't end up hitting the front-page, as the aggregation of links is valuable even though the discussion is missing [5].

That said, I have stumbled upon a lot of interesting things aren't simply shared at all on news.yc, though, I guess this is by design. I just hope folks don't stop sharing links just because their previous submissions didn't generate discussion or upvotes on news.yc.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494708

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

[2] http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3122233

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Ask%20PG:%22&sort=byPopular...

[5] Some would argue that few news.yc comments are worth their weight in upvotes anyway: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
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Because it is. If it reads like a child book they did a great job. If you studied journalism you’d know making it as easy as possible for all audiences is a key skill each journalist needs to have. It’s not a science journal that it needs to be full of jargon. It’s meant for general audience and they did a great job. If you want a hard piece go read the journal papers that got published.
I'm not sure what the idea behind posting this is? In a large scale project rarely does someone high up the command chain do any of the "grunt" work (i.e. programming). Also, by training she appears to be dealing more with theory than the actual implementation aspect of this all.
The Economist is good, but I find it still a little too frequent for me, especially considering it costs about £5 a week. This for me is a little too much for something I probably won't get through every week. I tend to just buy it when I go on holiday when I know I have the time to get through it.

I'd prefer a digest version once a month, the same size as the weekly version, with "more important" news and the same cost.
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So recovery time was just about 20 years. It makes sense though. You replace $0 labour with $min_wage labour isn't going to put a big hole in wealthy person's pocket considering the fact that now they don't pay for food, cloths, shelter etc so the difference would be pretty minimal (the net gain for ex-slave population is left over from $min_wage, i.e., their savings which be zero to negligible). On the other hand, capitalism generally doubles wealthy person's assets every 10-20 years so any loss would be easily erased within couple of decades.
The point is not stopping them downloading this stuff.

The point is stopping them downloading this stuff using schools property or infrastructure. If they download it elsewhere, it is someone others problem then. If someone complains, its someone elses' fault, and the school can fingerpoint.

If they just bring it to the school, they can be disciplined, but no other steps need to be taken.
Net neutrality is a requirement to give no special treatment to any kind of network traffic. Am I right on #1?

I must say that my impression of the issue is totally opposite, because to me the idea of net neutrality makes no technical sense whatsoever. There's a multitude of reasons one might want to shape the traffic.
Any verification schemes employee?
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Imagine if something doesn't work and you followed exactly the documentation... at first I wouldn't think that there is something wrong with the docs but that I did something wrong on my implementation, that could lead to a lot of wasted time just because the company didn't write his own documentation.
She is getting a lot of press:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/computer-scientists-play-key-ro...
> One would see less hyperbole if a dog had done the work.

I think you should take a moment to think about just how offensive that statement is.
This guide requires binaryen... I tried to build it once, it was not fun.
why are you equating PhD with money? Why shouldn't a fast food employee be paid the same as you? Is PhD even a job? What is life?
This is something I hear a lot of (overwhelmingly) American people say, after which I am inevitably reminded of poor healthcare, food deserts and exploitative corporate practices. At this point those are all so entrenched in the "american experience", I don't understand how you can say unironically that "the market" is a fix for anything or does in any situation "work well".

It's a superpower, and it is in it's entirety an example that disproves that this is the case.
Reads like an advert :-/

And an oddly narcissistic one at that... "me, I, my, I, I, me"
You need some form of unbounded while loop for Turing completeness, but it can take many forms.
Delayed allocation was adequately supported.

Implementing it in ext4 increased the risk of zeroing out a file from “having all files updated in the past 20ms be zeroed out” to “having all files updated in the past 4 seconds be zeroed out” in the event of a system crash.
If you haven’t watched this beautiful first person account, by Sherwin B. Nuland, who believes his life was saved by ECT, it’s very much worth watching: https://www.ted.com/talks/sherwin_nuland_on_electroshock_the...
Didn't know that, great, thanks.

On the other of the common problems: I assume there is no way to blackhole existing, public records, other than extension ala uBlock/Adblock?
I doubt they underestimated the social aspect of it given I was at a talk about self driving cars about 10 years ago and one of the developers went into detail about how the hardest part they had to work on was the social aspect of driving.

I remember at the time being surprised to hear that as it's always something I'd taken for granted but it's something that I've consciously noticed ever since.
Until yesterday, everyone was in awe and gender was nowhere in the picture. But political people will use this for their propaganda (can already see references on social media), unfortunately. Fortunately, gender identity/politics is not the factor for talented people.
This is extremely misleading and fake news. 200 scientists from 40 countries participated in the project [1], not just this one. Saying that she's the one "behind the first black hole image" is clearly pushing for some propaganda, ignoring all other people work.

I have also seen countless tweets on Twitter that feature both her picture and Margaret Hamilton, saying that "The first one took us to Moon, and the second one showed us black holes", getting in total more than 1 million likes and retweets. Both are fake news and straightforward wrong.

[1]: https://erc.europa.eu/news/eu-funded-scientists-unveil-first...
I thought scientists and academicians do it for the heck of it (and have large amount of wealth to inherit anyway) not because they want to get paid more.
Honestly I was just trying their service because I'm excited about a company offering Cloud Service that is based in Europe, this is just one thing I don't like about them, that's it.
Based on initial conditions, the two-sided spacetime behaves differently with respect to the (thermodynamic) arrow of time.

If the initial conditions are of low correlation, the two sides move in opposite time directions, but the structure as a whole follows the thermodynamic arrow of time.

If the initial conditions are of high correlation, the individual entropies of the two sides can increase and decrease, there is not a dominance over time direction, and the overall structure is that of a one-sided spacetime.

So, their argument on the dual structure is:

less correlation = more disconnection between spacetime forming two-sided geometry

more correlation = more connection, forming one-sided geometry

Remember, though, that we are looking at dual views: gravity vs. quantum information theory and depending from which view you are describing, the words used to describe the system would be different. For example, two-sidedness in geometry refers to the gravity view.
She is definitely not an astronomer. A lot of highly specialized and talented people who aren't astronomers or physicists are are critical to the success of big science projects.
Everyone, from government to education to tech companies really, really, really want more women in STEM. A smart, photogenic woman making a contribution is the real story because it fits that narrative. I don't mean to take away from her contributions and I'm not making value judgments, that's just how I see it.
Thanks to your post I just learned about the big query public datasets
https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/wiki/datasets
I'm not sure this will get the suitably nuanced discussion it should on Hacker News, but there's a whole school of discussion about 'Great man theory' view of history.
How to validate the best market before launching a product?
How to study or even be prepared to launch a product (software specifically) to another's market?

Just like, I'm from Angola but I want to create SaaS products, softwares to sell to another's countries but I know there is a risk to fail without knowing the market needs. How I can validate before a product launch?
I dont hate jQuery but I just find it useless for modern web dev. If you can ignore internet explorer you can do everything jquey did with just vanilla js.

I tried vuejs recently for a little interactive page on my website and found it revolutionary compared to jquery.
"Jobsism"..... Wow...
Focus on an academic superstar at the expense of their team - or a big 'team lead' at a place like Google or Facebook is far from remarkable. Any particular reason that this story stands out for you?
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I've often wondered why consumer-level self-driving cars are being pushed as a thing when the logical step would be automating service vehicles first - low-risk vehicles that cover the most miles, which can go much slower if working 24/7. Instead of trying to replicate complex pedestrian routes at standard speed, why not handle established delivery routes instead, and optimise over time for new routes?

It's interesting to see how the numerous players in the field, including startups across the globe, are trying to handle this problem, but no one seems to be close. It's a slow race, where everyone is noisy in order to not seem they've been overtaken.
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Seems like what you are seeing on the image of the drives is part of this: https://www.haystack.mit.edu/tech/vlbi/mark6/index.html

Found it through this pdf: https://fskbhe1.puk.ac.za/people/mboett/Texas2017/Doeleman.p...
> Ajax, selectors and CSS transitions are the Nickelback of creative possibility.

And the jQuery Ajax methods are super-handy. POST with the fetch API is long-winded; while the jQuery promise-handling sucks, it was enough to make me use $.post() in the current project.
I assume people who don't think about DOM manipulation and the performance toll it takes are responsible for how slow the web is today and, what's even worse, how that waste of CPU has been pushed from the server to the client.
How come all of us people that drive cars and are not in the car production business ,all knew the predictions Hackett and the rest made was loony?
Has some overlap with the wave scanner from Elite Dangerous.

http://wavescanner.net/