skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't need to link to soundbites from liberal leaning sites for this. It's all two clicks away on YouTube, for anybody willing to watch.

I also have an interesting perspective on die-hard Trump supporters. You see, despite being a liberal, I'm also pro-gun - and so I end up in many of the same political spaces side by side with them. So I get to hear a lot of unchecked, unfiltered in-group talk. It's actually far worse than a literal take on what he says, especially wrt Muslims. I've heard people say things like "I hate Muslims" and "we should strip them all of citizenship and deport them", with nodding all around. I've seen police officers describe the people they "serve as protect" as filthy subhuman animals - not some people, note, but literally the entire (majority Black) population of their precinct. And so on, and so forth.
In terms of undoing, I use git and I could undo it with just a few keystrokes. As for the refactoring, yeah, you're right, that stuff would be difficult. I'll keep it in mind if I ever do need to do that stuff. It hasn't happened yet, though.
And if I am wrong please correct me, but I recall high deductible health insurance became more common/prominent since "obamacare". Which i viewed as at best a half measure at the time.
An example of Frank's original worldview.

Anybody who's only seen the fictional film representation may find it surprising.

https://youtu.be/yrM6sLx_DXo
I’m aware not al of them do. This is why I said “many” and not “all”.

There are roughly 3 main groups of European languages: Italic (or Romance as you described it) for Western Europe, Germanic which is predominantly Central Europe, Scandinavian countries and the UK; and Balto-Slavic for Eastern Europe. Generally speaking of course.

However there is still a fair amount of cross pollination even with the Germanic and Italic languages, not to mention shared characteristics (not least of all a shared alphabet) that doesn’t exist with Japonic languages such as, well, Japanese.
For someone to be criminally liable you have to show that they knowingly recorded somebody without their consent. An accidental trigger would definitely not qualify. For them to be liable civilly you'd have to show that you suffered some harm from the accidental recording and that they were negligent in allowing it to happen, and I have a very hard time believing that there are many situations where that's possible.
Possibly, but the point was poorly formed, lacked specificity, and is outside the scope of conversation.
Nonce isn't short for anything. It's a word, like "number" or "short".
I think we mostly agree. 100% with you that we've got to help everyone learn to say "no" firmly.

I disagree with your assertion that employing other tactics diffuses energy that could have been used in the pursuit of more complete solutions, and I really don't think the codewords thing is that silly. It was used in a bar, and the bartender was in on it. This is kind of an elegant solution to make help available if someone wants it. It's not like the bartender would then call in a swat team to arrest the offending party, he/she would (I assume) find a tactful way to help the two parties end their conversation or whatever is appropriate to resolve the situation. In this case the solution was only offered for women, but it wouldn't be much additional effort to have an equivalent offer in the men's room.

>it doesn’t provide a real solution, but diffuses energy meant to solve the problem; it portrays the issue of sexual assault as a gendered issue, and fails to help male victims; it creates drama and victimhood mentality for no reason, by portraying sexual assault as James Bond style crime, when really, you generally just need to firmly say no.

I just disagree with you on all but "and fails to help male victims". Even the item "portrays sexual assault as a gendered issue" - This particular suggestion only helps women, but it is just one suggestion, and it's not implied that it is a complete description or solution to the issue.

To go back to the beginning - you accused the author of unserious social LARPing, and in doing that I think you're angrily and seriously disagreeing with her. If I'm right in assuming the author offended you in a pretty serious way, can you help me understand the cause of the offense?
>The control group was exposed to the actual disease _at the same rate_ than the treatment group.

Can you show me where this is demonstrated?

>A study were all the participants are exposed on purpose to the disease is very difficult to justify, with or without control group.

I agree, solid scientific study on vaccines is nearly immoral.

So from a dispassionate scientific perspective, it seems reasonable to state the science on vaccines is not settled.
Of course, but then we're not talking about raw S-exps, but something built on top of them. And then you get something like EDN anyway.
You're right in that this insanity is not uncommon.

Without formal verification, there's no guarantee deadlines will not be missed, hard realtime will not fail and people will not die.

Sometimes failure is cheap; Other times it is not. A lot of systems out there make outrageous claims of fitness with no formal basis.

What a sad state the industry is in.
Yes. The drone and drone camera industry has made 3-phase brushless DC servomotors with position encoders into consumer products. This robot uses camera gimbal motors. Most previous robots in this size range used either more expensive industrial motors or variations on R/C servos like the Dynamixel.

There are many Dynamixel based robots. It's basically an R/C servo with an encoder and a useful communications protocol. It's a fast motor with a lot of gear reduction, not very back-driveable, certainly not enough for force feedback. Typical pricing is in the $1000-$2000 range. The tier below that is robot arms with regular PWM R/C servos. I have a UArm like that on my desk. Repeatability is about 5mm. Costs a few hundred dollars. Not back-driveable at all.

Servomotors and motor controllers used to be incredibly expensive for what they do. Over $1000 for a motor controller was not unusual. The actuation end of robotics is getting cheaper, at last.
So, in other words, the AI cheats?
> Speech recognition doesn't work like that, there's no yacc/lex for you to just "run locally"

Why not? It _could_:

> In our recent paper, "Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition for Mobile Devices", we present a model trained using RNN transducer (RNN-T) technology that is compact enough to reside on a phone. This means no more network latency or spottiness — the new recognizer is always available, even when you are offline. [...]

> The RNN-T we trained offers the same accuracy as the traditional server-based models

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...
I would 100% rather edit JSON (in vanilla vim) than ever touch YAML again in any editor I've used. It has weird rules for what whitespace is significant and what indent level I need for things, versus JSON where % will match quotes and parents and braces quite easily.

The only significant thing missing from JSON is comments. JSON5 or convention can solve that, so it's not as bad as you'd expect.
> "Lack of programmability" is a feature.

True... for end users, but absolutely not for other developers. I often see this mentality used as a crutch to baby developers from having to write original code.
How about: learn new programming paradigms, and be very picky about the actual languages representing those paradigms that you choose to learn. Life is short, and programming languages are a dime a dozen.
Interestingly the "Hadal zone" being referenced in the article is based on the greek myth "Hades":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadal_zone

> The cumulative area occupied by the 46 individual hadal habitats worldwide is less than 0.25 percent of the world's seafloor
One data point - a co-op student of yours - is not reflective of STEM as a whole. As this Sydney Morning Herald article points out, STEM includes fields like biology, which don't have crazy wages.

As an analogy, consider someone fresh out of high school who plays for a professional sports team and is paid $5 million per year. That 'crazy wage' for a 19 year old does not mean that all professional athletes are well paid.

What do you think "shortage" means? Because my understanding agrees with bloomer's. There is no shortage of Volvo V60s simply because new ones aren't available for $10,000. But the calls for STEM training sound very much like that sort of complaint.

While it's true that (nearly) "Every industry always tries to market itself", those are market forces.

"Extra-market forces" would be like the government including two years of plumbing training for all high school graduates. That's a non-market way to drive the cost for normal plumbing jobs down. (Note that this means other topics would be covered less.)

Similarly, the government might greatly increase the number of $10,000 scholarships for CS majors. This would almost certainly result in relatively more people with CS training, compared with other fields. The prediction is that this results in a higher supply of programmers relative to demand, and thus a lower salary.

A market solution is to have companies including training as part of hiring new employees. Companies don't like this because it places the expense on them. It also increases risk in two ways. First, someone may decide after 9 months that this isn't the career for them. They still get paid for those 9 months. Second, after the training is over, the employee may decide to take that training and go elsewhere for better wages. Calls for increased STEM funding can reasonably seen as a way to push the risks onto the student, and onto the government ("socialized", rather than "free market").

There is no need to reference rent seeking for this interpretation, which I believe is also the standard interpretation.
If only Signal had reasonable multi-device support.

I don't use Facebook, but the rest of my family uses it for group chat. It honestly makes sense as it's more usable. We also have a Signal group, but it's fallen out of favour.

The other thing that I know people like about Facebook is groups (different from group chat). If Signal also had the equivalent of that, it would be much easier to get people to switch.
Actually Jumia was founded by 2 West Africans but it seems it’s history is being rewritten [0][1]. Unless there are two Jumias.

This article [2] in particular, written in 2013, is no longer available and doesn't appear to be available in the wayback machine.

edit:

Seems there's a more in depth article from 2014 [3]

[0] https://vc4a.com/blog/2013/09/03/online-retail-becomes-a-reality-in-africas-biggest-market-behind-the-scenes-with-nigerian-internet-startup-jumia/

[1] https://techcabal.com/2014/01/30/jumia-confirms-exit-tunde-kehinde-raphael-afaedor-announces-new-ceos/

[2] https://vc4a.com/blog/2013/08/09/jumia-nigeria-how-a-local-e-commerce-startup-became-a-multimillion-dollar-company-in-less-than-a-year/

[3] https://ynaija.com/how-tunde-and-raphael-got-here-a-profile-of-jumias-million-dollar-ex-ceos/
A launch from a balloon of course.
Also known as a hapax legomenon.
• Be honest

• Live a chaste and virtuous life

• Obey the law and all campus policies

• Use clean language

• Respect others

• Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, and substance abuse

• Participate regularly in church services

• Observe Dress and Grooming Standards

• Encourage others in their commitment to comply with the Honor Code

Are you saying that they offer you financial incentives to conform to this puritanism, and then issue 'actions' when you don't obey?
The Science of Game of Thrones
I read this thinking it might be interesting because I'm organising a book club at work. But it's more "how to make a safe space". No. My book club will not be a safe space, it is open to everyone who reads the book.
shutting it down to make some fixes.
I think a more charitable reading of that part is like: "If you have to inconvenience someone, inconvenience those who are better equipped to deal with the inconvenience."

It probably goes without saying that you want to avoid inconveniencing people if possible, and that all members of a group should chip in and contribute in some way.
The white paper on online harms is a global first. It has never been more needed
The author set up a GoFundMe, if you're moved to help:

https://www.gofundme.com/deadoralive
HTTPS: //Youtu.be/G9sL6flvo34
> Besides, many small guys — independent developers, three-person teams — don't even have the resources to patent their stuff. Which means patent laws disproportionately benefit big companies.

Are you talking about software patents?
Building a live video streaming website – Part 1 – Start Streaming (2018)
Yes, you're right. I was focusing too much on censorship.

Edit: And with Assange and DPR2 in the news, I got triggered. Mea culpa.
Rufus
>The Vatican library has never been digitized, and nobody really knows what all is in there.

Seems like a clear case where public interest should override private property.
This is a new one, Johanna’s Urban Farms, in Stockholm. We are just now building the pilot installation. https://www.johannas.org
> Remember, we're comparing with XML. There's no dates or numeric types in XML at all. This kind of proliferation is far worse in XML.

XML (or rather, XDM, which is the appropriate level of abstraction to talk about this) has all those things:

https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#built-in-primitive-dataty...

Nor does it doesn't require an out-of-band schema - you can slap xsi:type on any element. And you can do that without breaking the data model, because namespaces keep data and metadata unambiguously separate, and code can easily deal with the former while being completely oblivious to the latter, unless it needs it.

JSON also has similar higher-level abstraction layers with more metadata. The problem is that nobody can agree on which one to use, or even whether to use one at all, and most code that's deserializing JSON in the wild is not going to be able to distinguish metadata from data.
Honestly selecting a different path sounds like it could fall under the rubric of "trying harder", or at least, trying smarter.
He constantly emphasizes that it's the entire team bringing SpaceX to what it is. However, there is an important difference between working for a company and leading one. Boeing/Lockheed, Arianespace, NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, etc, etc not also only have brilliant scientists and engineers working for them, but also have billions of dollars and have been around for many decades.

The big difference in outcomes comes from the leadership. These other companies are headed by people of different abilities, different ideologies, different technical abilities, and so on. This is why they've all been, more or less, surpassed by a company started on a shoestring budget in 2002.

In other words, I imagine if you had let Musk have complete control over ULA (united launch alliance - an arguably anticompetitive merger between Boeing and Lockheed) he'd not only achieved as much as he has already, but likely far more given their vast resources - both economic and human. Similarly, if you put Marilyn Hewson [1] (president, chair, CEO of Lockheed) in charge of SpaceX's people in 2002, SpaceX almost certainly would have catastrophically failed.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillyn_Hewson
By "someone else's" you surely mean "the bank's money". I don't think individuals are going to benefit from this, just a few large players around the world.
Noob here. If anyone could translate as to what technique they're talking about for circumventing the lack of velocity on Volca fm, it'd be super nice.
This a thousand times over. Academic code will take every shortcut and simplification possible. Hardcoded values, globals, no modularity, no error checking, shared-everything architecture assumptions, single-letter variables with mixed naming convention, anything to get the job done.

Once the paper is written, the data analyzed, the project is done. There is no such thing as "maintainability" because the code isn't used past publication.
I'm sorry and I know these kinds of posts are sometimes discouraged here on HN but do you have a eli5 for that or possibly some reading I could check out. Why would https everywhere allow advertisers to enhance their targeting?
> if I am looking to join a group of 3-4 people and they have a code of conduct already defined - I am just not going to come, simple as that.

I don't see why this is bad - groups shouldn't necessarily reach out to as broad an audience as possible. Like a sales funnel, the advertising in the group works better when it serves to filter out people who are incompatible with the group.

Your mindset reminds me of the ask/guess culture post on metafilter, which is a framework where people typically adopt either an attitude of explicitly asking for social expectations vs intuiting them through social context. You seem to prefer the latter, where people are expected to understand the implicit boundaries of the group through personal observation. There's nothing wrong with that; it doesn't mean the other way is inherently wrong, though.
But .. if the internet is such a distraction because there's so much to read on it, maybe we don't need more writing?
Does code cracking still work in the era of modern cryptography? I thought that cryptosystems like AES and others were essentially impossible to crack if implemented right. What role do codebreakers play these days?
Something I never managed to fully confirm or deny:

I manually disabled all the data collection on my Google account (search and location history).
Is Google still tracking my location? Would I still appear in that database?
I'm pretty much Google-free at this point except for some spam emails and the need for a google account for Android Play.
Thanks, updated my profile to include our new startup.
I've been beating my head against a brick wall trying to encourage my (elderly) parents to get (& use) a dvr. To this day they channel surf when the ads come on, grumbling every time.
One surprise for me regarding idm live was how Amon Tobin's ‘nice soft electronics for listening in your room’ turned out more like eye-popping industrial hardcore when played on a club's huge speakers.
Web app calculates how the current air quality affects different groups' health
> Disabling Location History and not using Maps or other Google location based apps or APIs means they won't get your location.

Which is impossible unless you don't use the phone at all, hence the 3 hour long congressional hearing[1]. Turn off location history, turn off location services, it doesn't matter, your location tracks are being logged.

I'm not sure what you're trying to argue about since you seem agree with the premise. You think the news outlets exaggerated the fact that Google grossly underplayed the language around their always-on tracking and mislead hundreds of millions of users into thinking they're not being tracked when they in fact were? Okay then.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfbTbPEEJxI
The cost of cross-border payments needs to drop
If it's cheaper for that person to commute in order to eat then it's probably less wasteful from a financial perspective at least. Definitely possible to be even less wasteful of course, but I think without perfect weather and population models (which will never truly exist) it'll be hard to eliminate waste to a certain extent.
Aside from the stuff mentioned everywhere else, my biggest complain was ephemeral nature of the feed.

If I saw something interesting I had to act on it at that percise moment or never ever see it again. No scrolling, no page reloads, no "I'll do it in a sec". Once something was out of my sight the Facebook fold seemed to devour it forever ;p

If I recall correctly the feed wasn't always like this, but once it became like that it took only a couple of frustrating months for me to start truly hating FB.

Nowadays, just because of that, I use FB only maybe once per month and usually only when I have to. Hell, maybe that ephemeral nature of the feed did some good afterall? ;P
How a startup is solving the problem of Daily Commute just with a team of 10
EasyCommute an Hyderabad (India) based AI based ride sharing platform is solving the major problem of employee commute with its tech and man power, reducing the time and cost of the commuter to reach office. And also provides the safe and secure transportation system to women. This startup is making a huge revenues just with a small team of 10 members.

http://easycommute.co
This is how I do it. I cache everything I need to send and send it when I can. I do it in the context if sales information in places with poor connectivity like music festivals.
I'm not sure this is historically supported. There's a long list of innovators who do not end up making the lion's share off of their achievements. I think innovation is just what we (humans ... or maybe even life in general?) do best and cultural values and need dictate how resources are allocated in this respect.
Environmentalists Are Wrong: Nature Isn’t Sacred and We Should Replace It
Idem. I don't miss IRC because I'm still on IRC and it's still the same as always.
At least at my university (major well-known one), many if not most biology majors were intending to go on to medical school, rather than try to get a job after graduation.

Bio was just a pragmatic and convenient choice as the course requirements for the bio major itself pretty much also fulfills all pre-med course requirements (bio, organic chemistry, etc...)
You're picking a particular way to handle that common case. A common way, I agree, but you have others if verbosity is what you're optimizing for.

And with respect to data and metadata, what you propose is not fundamentally different in terms of verbosity:

<foo metadata="bar">baz</foo>

{
"foo": {"value": "baz", "metadata": "bar"}
}

And it's even worse if you also need to preserve order of keys.
You can already run an offline google translate that will not only recognize your words but translate it to a foreign language.
What you seem to be saying is that they're sending location data periodically even after disabling location history. That I believe is false. Any location sending after that is by user or app demand.

Achieving this on an Android device isn't impossible by any means: deny location to all apps and those apps won't be able to call the Google Fused Location API. If you want location without using Google's API, allow only select apps which use direct on-device GPS access, it's readily available in the Android API without the need to pull in the Google Play Location Services package.
> The SNCF is a nationalized train system, and it arguably works well

It SO doesn't!. Apart from the flashy TGV Network, Frances Railways are a total mess. Try taking a Train in a rural area and you'll most likely find it's been replaced by a bus, or there's gaps of Hours between Services.

The French governement will soon, finally, Long after most of the rest of Europe, allow private companies to bid to provide the Government-subsidized local rail Services. The regional goverments who actually provide the subsidy are champing at the bit to be able to Dump SNCF, who can essentially Name their Price, with the regions then forced to give it them.
I've always liked the idea of a language that combined syntax level support for functional reactive programming and symbolic programming. So you define z as x + y. Then you change the value of x and that change cascades across your program, like a spreadsheet almost.
Taiwan develops Asia's first ASF rapid test kit
>someone deleted my account using my unlocked computer

Strikes me as insane that they'd allow account deletion without entering password for confirmation.

Also, what an asshole, whoever did that to you.
Things like the decipherment of Linear B are probably what come close to classic code breaking.

With AES etc, though, building a system that uses them effectively is the core principle of modern security and crypto.