skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of that list looks reasonable to me (mainly what you pointed out, that software development costs money), but there's a heaping dose of old-Microsoft-style FUD about open-source ("Because open-source projects are directed by their contributors, there is a risk of hijacking by interest groups whose view of the future is not aligned with yours") mixed in there too. The core argument, though, seems to be that the Wolfram Language is a special case and could never be built in any other way because it would be too hard. I don't buy it. Everyone thinks their own thing is a special case, and it rarely is. Contrary to his argument, the core language doesn't really need to be informed by subject matter expertise in graph algorithms or machine learning or whatever. They're really just libraries, no matter what he says. And it doesn't really require that extraordinary a leap to have some core types like points and intervals and curves that are shared across the system, without fragmenting. His arguments are just not that convincing to me.
I believe it's juxtaposition for comedic effect.
I'm not sure I understand your point, but I don't think going online is an optional activity either.
Yeah the CUDNN dependencies are obnoxious as heck.
I sure hope Apple puts Qualcomm modems back into iPhone. The Intel ones are inferior in nearly every way.

I live in a poor reception area. With an iPhone + Intel modem, iOS reports 0 signal. With an iPhone + Qualcomm modem, I do get enough of a signal to make calls and receive SMS.

Unfortunately, WiFi calling on iOS has also gone downhill in recent years (ATT & VZW). It seems as though I have to have a bar or 2 of a signal for WiFi calling to work. If I have no cell signal, WiFi calling connects/disconnects every few minutes, even if I'm in the middle of a call.
It is much older than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_book,_and_candle

I believe in contemporary use it has become associated with witches, and I have seen it used as a general "occult" reference.
> From a public relations standpoint, Apple had always been on the side of privacy advocates and civil libertarians.

Oh give me a break. Apple only cares about American user privacy, and only then because it aligns with their business interests. Where is the oh-so-noble Tim Cook protesting the heinous civil rights and privacy violations in the business they do in China? Nowhere. Apple only cares about user privacy so much as it makes them money - in the US that means resisting the government, and in China it means hopping into bed with Big Daddy Xi.

Edit: For example, Snowden leaked an NSA slide saying that Apple had given in to cooperate with Prism, but Apple denied-denied-denied as soon as the news broke. It was only post-Snowden, when privacy could be monetized, that Apple suddenly started to care.
Hopefully including a fire sprinkler system.
On the contrary, Apple's refusal was a PR move, and this whole article is a submarine. https://www.wired.com/2016/02/apples-fbi-battle-is-complicat... has a better explanation.

What really happened is that Apple loudly proclaimed that they had made it impossible to comply with government data requests and even had a marketing page masquerading as a privacy page explaining that. The FBI asked Apple to put a build on a phone that would allow them to brute force the passcode, leaving the device and the build on Apple's premises the entire time. This showed that Apple's claim was false in practice. Apple quickly removed that marketing page in the wake of the news.
How is Miami being impacted by the 3" of risen sea levels over the past 25 years?

""thermal expansion" of the ocean has contributed about half of the 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) of global mean sea level rise we've seen over the last 25 years, Nerem said. Second, melting land ice flows into the ocean, also increasing sea level across the globe."
Robotic mowers have been very successful in Europe but struggle in North American markets. The general thinking is that the larger average size and non-uniform shape of American lawns makes robots either impractical or not competitive with 3rd party lawn care services.
As far as I know Mastodon has no particular mission. If it exists, not every instance shares it. And that's not even considering other stuff that works on ActivityPub.
Because when people look to buy something they are judging the end product and not the process. If indie studio A and massive studio B both create a nearly identical game, but studio A spend 100x less on development because of ease of development due to raytracing it still doesn't concern me. I'd expect studios A and B to get similar sales. If studio A used raytracing tech to develop the same game, but it only ran at half the framerate I would go with studio B regardless of whatever processes they used to create the game.
This point is brought up in the book Domain Modeling Made Functional [1] where the author contends that F# types (including functions) is readable to BA folk and this will help the communication barrier between them and devs. I highly recommend the book and agree with that statement at the highest level, though I could see actual implementation details going out into the weeds (result & async types etc).

I know other functional languages like Idris take this approach too where the designers could declare the input/output types and as long as the implementation conforms, you have some higher confidence in program correctness (at least API contractually). Interesting stuff.

[1] https://pragprog.com/book/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functi...
Even if it wasn't expensive to deploy, carrier customers pay for value provided. 5G will be in some way better, so more expensive. In the same way we use pay insane roaming rates until EU ruled they can't stay - suddenly carriers advertise how cheap the roaming is with them and how they're the first ones to offer it in the country...
"let's refactor these sql statements as a stateless microservice"...

so we can service 500 users with between 10 and 100 requests a day.
Algorithmic feeds are, in all cases, Satan's handiwork. What I want is to see posts from the individuals I have selected, interleaved in chronological order, with no tampering.
Show HN: Online fundraising/donations for non-profits
> Even after 30 years in industry I still fall back on this formula with great results.

Isn't this Parkinson's law in action, i.e. work expands to fill the time available for its completion? That would mean you overestimate up to 2.4x each time.

Edit: math.
Hardly ridiculous, it's inescapably implied by

> The answer isn't grey, it's black and white. The answer is always YES to doing what it takes to save one's family.

You didn't really need to make such an absolute point, but you did.
Many tech companies may not care about their programmers, but many others still care if anyone in any position has anything visible.
Nice website, but why does the "Invite Friends" mailto link includes a bcc to your email?
> One of the nice features in G+ was that the owner of a thread (the originator) could delete replies. I think that could work nicely in Twitter too.

Interesting; I think adding this feature without changing anything else would severely exacerbate the already intolerable echo-chamber effect. Sure, trolling and abuse would lose visibility, but so would even slightly contrary opinions. Thought bubbles would shrink even further, and the platform would become even less enjoyable. (Context: I'm a light Twitter user, reading ~10 min/day and sending 1-2 tweets/month)
Fact check: true.
I just started reading the same book. Seems really nice so far!
> A few 100 years ago, something like Ebola could have easily devastated civilization

As little as 5 years ago (2014 outbreak is deadliest occurrence), it was difficult to contain and spreading rapidly, it took significant travel limitations to contain it.
There is a myriad of Chrome/Firefox plugins that do just that, you just have to look through them.
Even more so that notre dame has been heavily restored by architect viollet-leduc in the middle of the XIXth century. Look at this photography from 1840: the highest peak that has collapsed was not there. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathédrale_Notre-Dame_de_Par...
Can you elaborate? They do have such a backdoor but only give it to the Chinese government? If so that would be the described “software cancer”
Probably similar to how schools in certain states ban red/blue bandannas or other gang-related artifacts
The bits about code vs doodleware hit hard for me. With a certain proprietary database that I did customer support for, the encouraged development path was doodleware. It was genuinely very nice if you were doing some toy project, but it quickly became unmanageable. The vendor was on their 2nd of (currently 3?) iterations of doodleware for this database, so the tooling for it was crap and would never get better as they would soon abandon it.

I have done in-depth analysis and refactors of dozens of these doodleware objects purely with vim macros. Portable gVim was literally the only thing I could get on the customer supplied Windows laptop to do this job. Export (through a semi-manual hack) dozens/hundreds of 10k line XML files, build a vim macro, cry, cross my fingers that the manual hack to replace the doodleware objects would work, cross them again that the objects weren't irreparably damaged.

Now I'm seeing doodleware on the rise in cloud platforms, making business process flows "easy". Connecting different services "effortlessly".
How does this compare against Google's JAX?
There are already traffic signals out there that use radio signals to communicate with each other. They are used to manage the traffic around road construction sites. E.g.: http://www.fabema.de/en/products/traffic-light-systems/wirel...

So 5G is not needed for that purpose at all.
Apple didn't "participate in PRISM." The only participants in PRISM are the FBI, the NSA, and government contractors that implemented the PRISM system, as the slides clearly show: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
I have no idea why people would want the government to step in. Forfeiting freedom because it's more convenient than being a hard-ass parent and not letting your child use the app or phone.
The confusing thing for me (not exactly well versed in networks) is that currently all 5G base stations seem to have ranges more akin to modern WiFi endpoints than LTE with regard to how densely deployments will need to be placed - am I missing something?
> you can do whatever feels right for a given case

Too bad you can't use whatever specification language feels right. Spock only provides Apache Groovy, with its tacky syntax hacks like long strings for function names, block labels having special meanings based on their name, or the OR and LOR operators being used for drawing tables in the code. In the past when software has provided Groovy for writing specs, they eventually provide an alternative when Groovy's shortfalls become obvious, e.g. Kotlin for Gradle [1], or the Declarative Pipeline Syntax [2] for Jenkins.

[1]: https://docs.gradle.org/5.0/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html

[2]: https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/12/19/declarative-pipeline-beta
Anyone who's in a position to use Tweetdeck instead of Twitter's web UI will find a free, Twitter-maintained, product with no annoying algorithms and no advertising.

It's the version of Twitter targeted at newsrooms, etc.

I assume a lot of people already know and have reasons why they don't... but likely not everyone here has tried it so it may be worth repeating.

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
I'm all 100% into that. Wish there was a way to help make this happen.
The stock symbol is a way of divorcing the discussion from the actual company, its culture, employees, role in society, etc. To traders, different companies are just different machines for turning money into more money, like the numbered menu items at McDonalds. Talking in tickers helps reinforce this.
Researchers need funding so most of them will say this to make it meaningful to ”invest” in their project. I wouldn’t take such statements literally
OK I give up what is The Citation a reference to
It's a little odd, considering things like the Stanford pos tagger that do a decent job of tense detection.
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What I really dislike is the spam in the notifications section. If someone likes my tweet, replies to it or retweets it, that's relevant. I don't however want to see a notification for something Tweeter deems interesting under other people you follow liked/retweed this as a notification.
Less prediction and more observation of what is already taking shape in Asia.

Anti zero-rating laws prevent broader adoption in U.S. (and possibly for good reason. Can't have 2-3 pay-for-play gatekeeping apps to the Internet)
IWBTG is another great example, definitely. And almost the exact same type of classic-NES parody, where Mario:Syobon::Metroid:IWBTG.

Thinking about it a little more, this pattern seems to describe an entire class of games, including non-parodies. Dark Souls is famously hard because of sheer mechanical difficulty, certainly. But it's also rife with learnable, low-threat moments like "when you walk up this staircase, a boulder will fall on you from offscreen". They don't alter the overall difficulty too much, but they clearly convey that the game isn't honoring standard design principles about giving the player a "fair chance". In an odd way, it makes later departures like "the illusory wall doesn't have anything marking its location" feel more justified.
Because of Hong Kong movie's influence, I was brought up thinking tattoos are for gangsters.
Just curious, what sort of source would you expect for that? An article from Manager's Monthly about tips on tricking your employees to do free work?
That's an ad hominem attack.

It's an inconvenient possibility (not going to call it truth) that our technology might be hurting us. We're addicted to technology the same way smokers are addicted to nicotine.

Smoking was at one time considered healthy and promoted by doctors, and now where are we?
To be fair, the default stance on interview attire for men is a suit, which covers like 95% of a persons body.
If it's an improvement, it's almost certain that Twitter won't implement it.
"SK" meaning Silent Key is not a Morse prosign, it is an initialism as you might use anywhere else in English. The individual letters "S" and "K" are sent separately just like any other word:

••• —•— or di-di-dit (pause) dah-di-dah

There is a prosign <SK> but it has a different meaning - "end of transmission" - and it is sent like this:

•••—•— or di-di-di-dah-di-dah

A prosign is sent as if it were a single letter, without the pauses you would use between letters.

As you might guess, the same prosign could be spelled multiple ways. For example, a prosign named <VA> would be indistinguishable from <SK>, because VA as separate letters would be sent like this:

•••— •— or di-di-di-dah (pause) di-dah

If you take out the pause you have the exact same thing as <SK> above.

Prosigns are customarily typeset with a solid bar over all the letters to indicate they are sent with no pauses as if it were a single letter. When that isn't possible, a prosign may be spelled with angle brackets around it or a similar indication.

This may be a subtle distinction, but in the old days it could save your life. If you ever had to send <SOS> in Morse, trained operators would recognize it faster if you sent it correctly as a prosign:

•••———••• or di-di-di-dah-dah-dah-di-di-dit

instead of sending it incorrectly as individual letters:

••• ——— ••• or di-di-dit (pause) dah-dah-dah (pause) di-di-dit

Here is a chart of Morse code characters and prosigns:

https://morsecode.scphillips.com/morse.html
It's wonderful that they were able to save the cathedral. The Tuileries Palace, an important fixture of the French Revolution, is sadly only a garden now after it was destroyed in a fire.
Thinkpad E485 seems like a nice little machine that satisfies my main requirement -- any kind of upgradability.

Other than disappointing 720p camera and one USB 2.0 port (why not USB3???), everything else looks ok:

* 14" 1080p IPS (is an option, which should be checked off)

* Upgradable RAM (Up to 32GB)

* 2.5" bay

* Upgradable NVME (128GB standard option)

* Weight 1.75Kg -- I can deal with that. Ultrabooks are ~1 kg. This seems reasonable.
No. Really. I wasn't :) I simply didn't want my analysis to be misinterpreted as an endorsement. Without that that disclaimer / clarification those reading will default to confirmation bias and have me casting a vote, so to speak, in favor of 5G.

Just the facts Jack :)
I actually cancelled my Netflix due to the price hike. I like the channel services that some streaming providers are offering now, although they can easily be more expensive than a Netflix subscription. I would like to see Netflix offer some customization of content and work to get agreements to help find content that people like.
I wonder at that - you can clearly see the difference with an HDR and Dolby Vision image in a way that you can't "downsample", so, do they/can they downsample the HDR image to hit 1080p?
PotatA-potatO. They are knowingly leaking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)...

(includes your slide in a proper context)
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I always wonder how much do the lawyers make whenever litigations like this are on-going. Easily a few millions ?
btw it seems the develop open cloud thing is mostly free, which might do it for some cases,

https://develop.wolframcloud.com
Recommendations for training and deploying ML models in the cloud
Ask your wife how often Nigerians men hang out at their friends or a bar, versus how often they hang out at a barbershop.
PHP is 25 years old this year. Despite all the hate it gets, the core team continues to move the language forward, and it most definitely has its niche in web development.
SOA - service oriented architecture
Eroding freedoms based on "for the children" is a slippery slope but in this case I believe it is well justified. There is a gross amount of what I'd call sexual aggression in these apps between primarily older males towards younger, often underage, girls (and boys). Users treat these apps like porn sites, whether its to view public instagram photos, private messages, or even public comments. If you cannot police the worst of these activities I do not believe governments should allow companies to profit off them.
In my experience, that's not necessarily actionable advice. (the first link)
Both the mentionned idea are natural, but it's ultra sad that we can only live by experiment like craftsmen for previous eras. Not that I mind craftmanship but at least school should write it in bold letters so you're not seeking a mathematical model.
I always tell people if they sign up for reddit, to immediately unsubscribe from the defaults and to specifically search for and subscribe to communities they may be interested in such as a subreddit for the city/state they live in or for any career interest or hobbies they have.
There are certainly apps that should be illegal where the government should step in, right? Unless you're arguing that all apps should be legal?
We've gotten really good at using petroleum and electricity to accelerate building construction, to be sure.

But we still have public works projects that span eras. Some of our big infrastructure projects, and things like national parks are constantly evolving. If I were president I could make a national park today but it's just lines on a map. Generations of work may have to be done to turn it into a functioning forest, especially now when we are questioning what the definition of 'functioning forest' is and how humans fit into it. Whatever we build today, we know it's gonna be wrong and a great deal of it will have to be redone.
Easy, it came with an OS, given away for a symbolic price, with source code tapes alongside.

Had Bell Labs been allowed to sell UNIX at the same price as other companies were selling theirs, and C would never have taken off.

Burroughs, developed in 1961 in a memory safe systems programming language is still sold by Unisys as ClearPath MCP.

Same applies to the IBM mainframes.

The surviving systems from the 60-70's where C only plays a guest role at most.
It's frustrating that this is the general trend today. I was using the Reddit app the other day and pruning my list of subreddits to reduce distraction when I'm in the app. Of course the app will still insert suggested subreddits in my feed. And then there are the streaming services that recommend (and auto-play) shows and movies to you.

Usually I just want to just use a service to consume specific things and then move onto some other activity, but each one is aware of the attention economy and trying to keep me in for as long as possible.
> a vetted list

Seems like this can definitely be done with a combination of a reputation system and post stats like acceleration/momentum.
I also think there is a really cool opportunity here to allow people to compete and donate to history.

If you look at the last major restoration "Once the project was approved, Viollet-le-Duc made drawings and photographs of the existing decorative elements; then they were removed and a stream of sculptors began making new statues of saints, gargoyles, chimeras and other architectural elements in a workshop he established, working from his drawings and photographs of similar works in other cathedrals of the same period." "Other craftsmen made stained glass windows in Gothic grisaille patterns designed by Viollet-le-Duc to replace the destroyed medieval windows in the chapels of the ground floor of the nave of the cathedral."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Viollet-le-Duc#Not...

Artists across France should be engaged to submit works with the promise that effort will be made to preserve them for centuries, if their work is chosen for inclusion. Even the stuff that doesnt make the cut could end up somewhere.
Somehow they never even define "SOA". What?

As far as I know, SOA means "safe operating area", and I have no idea how the hell this pertains to anything they're discussing.

Google tells me SOA probably means "service oriented architecture" (or the "society of actuaries"), but geez.
They actually measure a lot of parameters, not only temperatures, and in all the layers of the atmosphere. And they're _very_ sensitive. For some forecast needs (short term forecast, storms, etc.), the conditions under the atmospheric boundary layer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundary_layer) is what matters most, so the microwave noise near the ground is definitely an issue.
> - bring on the 5G iPhones now, perhaps this makes Samsung the biggest loser out of this as apple is now ready for the nextgen cell service and Qualcomm is no longer negotiation from a position of weakness

Apple was cornered in the 5G basedband chipset procurement before the settlement as the only viable solution was to ask Huawei (Huawei actually welcomed this :-) And now Apple's future iPhone is in a much better position in connectivity given Qualcomm becomes the chosen vendor again (before that, Samsung / Qualcomm weren't options).
In a lot of circles, a Twitter profile with a "real photo" as the profile picture usually means you're looking at a spambot with a profile picture scraped from either Facebook or a dating site.
I agree. As soon as there is any tampering of what information is being displayed, users have a difficult time understanding why they are seeing it and ultimately find it less enjoyable to use.

Research keeps showing that for users to "trust" software then they need to have an understanding of why something is being presented to them. It is one of the biggest barriers with recommendation systems.