skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confusing? I said it was in error. Unfortunate, for an article written to debunk others' errors. But it is still a lot closer to the truth than what it debunks. In particular, both of the articles you linked make clear that (a) she was a meaningful participant in the project but (b) it was a large team effort and the credit doesn't belong to any one person, while (c) people on social media have created the exaggerated impression that she was solely responsible.

I'm not going to blame "the media" for the existence of an exaggerated impression based on two articles that explicitly debunk that impression, even if one of them has an error.

Also, while false impressions are one thing, I don't really regret that she became the face of the black hole image, per se. People fundamentally want to praise other people rather than abstract entities, and if it was going to be anyone, it might as well be the subject of such a great photo – the juxtaposition of the laptop (with black hole image visible) and the look on her face really captures the idea and emotion of scientific accomplishment.
No. Why would it be rude? He said he would do it.
I don’t know what categories you shop there, but I have never been scammed. Often make sure to contact the seller beforehand though.
Which is funny because I don't see the SEC holding any American company or executive accountable for all the shit that they pull. Anyway, I was talking about Germany.
I'm guessing this is a tongue in the cheek response to this: [1]. I think that clever people always run a risk of trying to be "too clever" and self driving cars is the prime example of our generation.

A simpler solution would be to install electronic wiring on the roads themselves to guide the cars and I daresay we would have self-driving cars within a month of installation. Now, I am not saying we should do this (South Africa, I'm scolding you for thuggery and vandalism) but it does support my argument about "clever people" having collective detrimental group think.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/04/elon-musk-says-tesla-is...
I use this program on a daily basis at work, it is so fast and easy to use, I love it. Thank you for creating it :D
Corporate mindset understanding the importance of security is more important than "implement LAPS" or "follow modern password policy guidelines instead of ones from 2002".

If you look at a lot of the big breaches, they have some pretty common patterns. Old operating systems (XP, 7, etc.), unpatched software, excessive vendor access. This isn't because they don't have money to manage these things, it's that other business priorities with immediately visible results have taken priority. "This business software sales needs was designed for Windows XP" takes prioritization over "It's unsafe to use anything older than Windows 10 on our network". If another department and IT have a conflict, the other department wins because it brings in revenue.

If you have people in the chain of authority above IT who support IT, and understand that securing your infrastructure prevents catastrophes on the same level as fires and the PR disasters, you will generally do much better than businesses who don't. People need to understand that IT/security personnel are not "annoying" them, but trying to help them avoid catastrophes they don't even understand.
A tool I've built: Agile Retrospectives made easy
Hi! I've built a tool that scratches our itch, and would love to hear your thoughts.

https://remoteretro.io makes retros easier!

The team I work with is distributed remotely. We had retrospectives every week/fortnight, and our remote team members couldn't really see the whiteboard. We used a whiteboard for cards, and skype (it was a while ago) to chat.

So, I built a thing. A tool that does one job well: Agile retrospectives.

Please have a look, and if you have questions / comments / thoughts / feelings, I'm all ears!
Microplastic Found Even in the Air in France's Pyrenees Mountains
Major cloud companies and VM providers?

Most of these vulnerabilities come from speculative execution impacting a shared cache.
Yeah, I'm not buying this troll post.

I don't think a 14yr old would write like this. Especially not on this site with a fresh account out of the blue.

This reads like what a 30 year old thinks a 14 year old writes like.
Uhhhh this statement in the article about halfway down is incredible!

“You need to be able to tell the difference between one wave front and the next, and if the next wave front is 1.3 mm behind and traveling at the speed of light, then you need to reliably distinguishing between events 4 picoseconds apart (4 trillionths of a second). So, every telescope needs a shiny new atomic clock and a really fast camera. You begin to get a sense of why the data consolidation looks more like a cargo shipment than an email attachment; trillions of snapshots every second of not just the waves you’re looking for, but also the waves that will cancel out once all the data is processed. Add to that the challenge of figuring out (generally after the fact) where every detector is to within a fraction of a millimeter even as their orientation changes and the Earth rotates, and you’ve got a problem.”

Just stupefyingly complex and amazing!
While I agree that it's not for everyone and people should have a right to decide how they spend their time, I think it's detrimental even for those who claim it is good for themselves.

If you actually ask, "Who is this for then?" -- I think you'll be hard pressed not to answer "For the young, socially less inclined(men)", just like drugs are for certain demographics or polygamy is for certain demographics, teenage marriage can work for certain people and so on (sorry if my examples are too extreme).

And by accepting such horrendous work hours you are pressuring people who actually want a better work-life balance, that's why I think it's better for society in the long run to forbid such (predatory) practices.
Adblock Plus filter exploit to run arbitrary code discovered
You'd have to be fast. HP is on it:

https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/creative-hardware/h...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/01/hp_memristor_2018/
A very similar phenomenon happens in aviation—we call it complacency. Thousands of successful takeoffs in a row make it hard sometimes to remember that each one is a completely independent event.

The way I fight it is by explicitly reminding myself that just because something worked yesterday, that doesn't mean I can skip a step today or let my guard down at any point.

It really does take deliberate thought though. Funny how the brain works.

(The upside is that every successful takeoff becomes a delightful surprise!)
With the increase in MSP style operations with an IT companys systems having root access across all their client's systems IT companies are going to be massive targets for bad actors. There's already been a few cases of all of a compaies clients being ransomwared.
Google was also blocking Microsoft Edge at every turn. I still suspect Microsoft countered this by intentionally blocking Adsense/Doubleclick ads like 50% of the time.
With this category of blowhard (Musk, Trump, Kanye West) I think it’s a self-reinforcing cycle of saying something rhetorically and then starting to believe your own bullshit.
From experience this is rare. 20kph above the limit is standard (and probably expected by the system setting speed limits), 80 over would cost your license for several months.
SlashDB – work completes in 1.0 branch with ver. 1.0.40
“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
Getting Started with CSS Battle
Sounds nice, and they even have the good stuff on github with an explaining how-to article on medium.

If you're into Digital Pathology and Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis then there is a whole undergrowth of open source tools and projects to dive into. I especially like QuPath by Pete Bankhead (https://qupath.github.io/). It has a more accessible interface than python (as in the article), it supports various machine learning algorithms and also has some nice video tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5fn7cjMZFsQKKdy-YWOFQ).
I just checked out Co-Star's website. At the bottom of their page, they have a list of endorsements. One of them in particular looked odd to me: "Good advice." - New York Times.

A brief glance at the article reveals that the "Good advice" relates to logging out of the app and never using it again.

When I plugged my information into Co-Star, it came already stacked with two dozen “updates” charting my position relative to the stars. I learned that my moon is “conjunct to natal Venus,” which meant I should “spend time with friends” because I was “particularly magnetic” that day. Also, my Mars is “quincunx to natal Sun,” so I should “excavate and examine the person you really are” and also “take a break from social media if you can.”

It was good advice. I logged out of the app and never returned.

Also, their "Bustle" and "Buzzfeed" endorsements link to the same shallow article.

Not super important in the grand scheme of things, but I found it quite amusing.
Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates
Short of being hosted for you, no, it simply can't.
I will be shocked if NCSOFT doesn't pursue immediate legal action. It's one thing to infringe on the copyright but the bigger story is that someone, presumably a current or previous employee, stole the entire CoH database AND made money off of it for years? They're gonna try to make an example out of this guy.
A "sort by length of warranty" feature would be helpful too.
Sorry, meant visual input, not to eat in front of strangers.
Please see the HN guidelines quoted below. I’m referring to the context of the API differences I’ve personally referenced, not that I drive unsafe.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Facebook Is Testing to Turn News Feed into Story Feed
If you mean detox diet then water may be a part of it but it is not a detox diet itself.
Even America wants some of the high end manufacturing jobs back...
When an intersection light turns green - all cars should begin rolling together

Will not work. The safe distance between cars is negligible in traffic lights but a lot more in moving traffic. At least two seconds is considered reasonable although in reality much lower distances are seen.

The "rolling together" would only work if the queue to the traffic light would copy the distance needed by moving cars.

That is, the cars would be spaced 10-40 meters apart while waiting for green. Only then all cars could floor it and accelerate together without having to wait for the first units to run away first.
> Tired of paying a premium for Apple products in India.

I might be wrong but, I think, OP might be referencing to the fact that phones manufactured in India are exempt from import tarrifs (cross trade avg of around 14%).

https://www.export.gov/article?id=India-Import-Tariffs
Including VAT and import duties? I find that very hard to believe.
Future of space: Berkeley Space Tech Symposium on 5/6 feat. space bio, robotics
He hasn't confirmed yet.

P.S. The startup is pretty big now as it has millions worth of funding.
Straight from Season 6 of "Silicon Valley" .
Coming soon to HBO near you.
Public, council were in the dark on police use of 'smart' srteetlights
Is the course content available online? Do you have any community around it?

The paper summarises well about current tech stack and bringing it to the University.
no at all. It's possible to use images from local folder, I'll add an example. You may not need to use Cloudimage token if you don't need responsive features (or you can make it yourself or use any other service). Only responsive features require Cloudimage token. However, it's great to use Cloudimage service as you can forget about resizing and compressing images for all devices or different screen width.

You can check how cloudimage-responsive works here [1]
[1] https://medium.com/cloudimage/responsive-images-in-2019-now-...
And it will probably be incomplete because C++ hasn't be designed with it in mind (How do you avoid shared mutability when everything is mutable by default ?).

Yet, this is good to see C++ trying to catch-up. (And if it's catching up, it means Rust is ahead in terms of static analysis ;)
Maybe I'm deluding myself, but Notre Dame just seems so much more than a "place of worship".

But then, the Taliban did destroy monumental statues of Buddha in Afghanistan. Which were about twice as old as Notre Dame. So maybe I am deluding myself :(
> my proposal is segmenting hardware and software products between the two categories of "general purpose, trusted computing" and "safe for shared hosting."

If a normal user is using a web browser and one tab has their bank information, and the other has a suspect website, then you have to be concerned about sharing resources and security.
I've not used ag but just a small shout out for ack: it's a single Perl file (easy to install, v1.x will work with even antique Perl), it works on weird hardware/OS (no compilation required), it contains its own man-page (ack -man) and is fast enough for typical sysadmin tasks and moderate size codebases.

(Ack also supports the full PCRE syntax but that's less of an issue now rg has -P).

If your work takes you to minority platforms ack is certainly worth keeping in your toolbox.
That's market forces for you.

If you just chase money all the time, you always end up with shoddy crap — there's no incentive to be any better than barely adequate, so you're constantly riding that line.

We only end up with nice things when someone dedicates time and effort _despite_ market forces. Mediocre businesses and their besuited human avatars spend so much time insisting they're “passionate” because even _they_ know that giving a shit is the only way you get anything other than crap.
The Errors of Perl 6 (2016)
Speak for yourself. In my opinion, the ability to count how many people click on which search results, and rank results higher if they get a lot of clicks (excluding cases where the user then pressed back and picked another result), seems like a good way to boost result quality without having much impact on privacy.

Full disclosure – I also allow Google to track my search history for personalization, but I think there are many good reasons to dislike that, I understand why people turn it off, and while I don't, I'd prefer a personalization method that doesn't require such granular data.
Also see: A series of posts on regex parsers by Russ Cox.

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
> Summary: Engineers need copyrighting and sales training as well.

Waaait. Your comment essentially established two things: that journalists receive training on how to write properly, and that successful salesy type know how to bullshit their audience to get what their want. I think the conclusion doesn't follow.

Observe that journalists universally don't apply their writing training - in fact, modern news reporting is one of the worst kind of writing out there, with the lede buried under 30 meters of gravel, and spread on a hectare of land (we call it clickbait only when headline is manipulative). So this shows your training matters little if incentives on the job are in total opposition to it.

As for the sales angle, commercial copywriting isn't exactly a paragon of clarity either. Effectiveness in sales isn't measured in how clearly you communicated costs and benefits, but how excitingly you communicated the benefits, and how effectively you've hidden the drawbacks. Engineering communication shouldn't be manipulative like this.

The way I see it, many engineers could use some communication training, but it should be focused at presenting things clearly and truthfully, and on effectively ELI5-ing things to managers. But beyond that, incentives within organization needs to be adjusted, because it's hard to get an engineer to explain things clearly when their job depends on them not doing it.
This isn't a local news website though, it's a branch of Fox News pretending to be a local news site ("affiliate television station").
FYI, you appear to be shadowbanned.
"oh our precious search deal"

Where was the free and open source distributed search engine?

"oh we cant support any protocol or any other technology! We don't want to be promoting anything! Unless we get paid of course!"

Where was p2p video? Why no BitTorrent? Not to long ago hosting video on a server was crazy expensive but at that time people still visited small websites.

It should have been as simple as:

<video src="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0b239d7ccff9c46e816ba4f4b3ff813bea3691f5"/>

But in stead we got youtube which is short for: adware, censorship, spying, completely unreliable, a crazy resource hog to the point of not working on hardware older than 5 years.

And then there is privatized law making & privatized law enforcement.

If I put stuff out there from my own computer from the comfort of my house I'm subject to plenty of laws and regulations created by my democratically elected governments.

There are no multibilion robots shooting from the hip, there is no false-positive punishment without dialog. If I break the law the situation is carefully examined, I get fined or even imprisoned. Its not a perfect system but its better than persecution by robot.

The Google constitution (TOS) is something like: We may terminate you at any time without explanation.

That's not someone you want to enter into a relationship with.

Something modeled after YACY should be the default search engine. Its wonderful, you have it crawl the pages you frequent and it finds everything, other users crawl other things, nothing google could ever do.

In stead, if I type "1+1" in the search box you send me to google to solve the problem.
I sometimes miss my browser translating reviews on amazon.de and get very, very confused.
I remember reading it years ago and thinking it was a large collection of straw man arguments (and this is perhaps too generous as it implies that there are actually reasoning present; in fact the story is more along the lines of: “heroes leave society, society collapses”).

Given this, it is beyond me how much attention and how large a following the book has gathered.
Clojure.spec, Datomic and webhooks to integrate with version control systems
Apple surely has plenty of average people too. Arguably the key to operating a large business is to figure out how to optimize the placement and tasking of your geniuses/motivated people with vision/whatever for the greatest gains whilst using the average staff effectively to keep the general workload off of said individuals.
I built a hacked up experimentation framework for clientside flags, that boosted my teams speed and confidence quite a bit. Hacked up because it didnt use existing serverside mechanism for a bunch of reasons.

Used the same experimentation framework for automated javascript binary releases, so at some point i could release 5 times a week, with no issues. Now i left the team, people took that on and continuing like tic toc.

Showed them how to use powerdrill (data drilling, analysis tool), and taught them metrics. It is surpising how little people care what their work is really about eventually, and bringing them data driven mindset gave even more productivity boost.
That's a good point. Clearly I still use this platform, but I do see a difference between them.

I don't “post” on Hacker News. I do comment, but I don't think anyone who are interested in following whatever it is that I may have to say would come here to look up my posts.

Or, to put it in another way, if this place would introduce some social media features, such as the ability to follow people and post to followers, then it is highly unlikely that I would be interested in using those features.
The wheels of justice grind slowly, but mince very finely.
I use Perl at least once a week for regex. Occasionally I use it for extracting web pages or splitting columns or something like that. For my purposes, Perl 6 vs prior Perl does not influence functionality. If you write more complex programs I have heard/seen that there are more substantial changes.
And maybe that's the way that Amazon goes down; quality over quantity. Hey, this is HN and we should be able to spot a deficiency in a business plan, right?! Here's how you go about toppling Amazon and building an empire:

1) open a store for online goods
2) take reviews seriously
3) profit!
But it didn't, really. NT 4.0 was followed by NT 5.0 (branded Windows 2000) and then by 5.1 (Windows XP) and then by 6.0 (Windows 7).
If you can wait a few weeks, AliExpress is a nicer shopping experience and Amazon. It’s just less bullshit.
> The way I see it, many engineers could use some communication training, but it should be focused at presenting things clearly and truthfully

There are technical communications courses, in fact, it's a required course at Cornell Engineering. Agreed, it's not at all the same as copyrighting or journalism, but the general level of technical communication is so poor, that even courses in those would be an improvement.
A mathematical model (here, the crater equations) predicts something. If the prediction turned to be larger than reality, you could say that the model overpredicted.
>I know several people who had diesel VWs and let VW buy them back for almost the same price they paid for them two years earlier. Why didn't you do that?

Parent made the wrong choices. I can tell because they talked about using the car in the city. It's the wrong vehicle for city driving. FWIW I bought a 2012 VW Golf TDI for around $25k out the door. Drove almost 200k mi before it was bought back, received $18.5k or so back on it from VW, Bosch payments and the initial 'we're sorry package'. It was my second TDI after a 98 Jetta TDI. There was simply no other competition on the market for efficient long distance highway travel, which is what I used it for... and for people that asked me about its mileage, I would tell them... it only makes sense if you drive highways for at least a half hour each day. I was personally responsible for 2 Golf TDI's, a Passat TDI, and a A3 TDI being purchased by friends and family. All but one were bought back for values that were over market. The one that wasn't was because he sold it before the scandal broke.

So no, I don't understand the butthurt on lost value. It lost value because that's what vehicles do after a few years (or even after you drive them off the lot), not because of the scandal. You can speculate all you want, but the fact was once the buyback happened you had three options to replace the car left in the market segment. 1. A pre-2007 Benz or VW that overnight became impossible to purchase 2. A 2016 'fixed' TDI that had all the issues of the DPF. 3. One of the few Chevy Cruze diesels that were ludicrously overpriced and had poor option choice (no hatchback and standard trans: did you not want to capture some of VW's market?)

I would still very much expect that even in their dirty state, TDI's put out far less carbon emissions than gas vehicles do. NOX emissions, while a problem are less of a concern for long distance rural trips. Had I done it in a gas car I'm quite certain the longterm effect would be worse, even moreso if I flew in a jet for those trips.

And yeah, absolutely charge the people involved for covering up the testing. They are responsible not just for the pollution they caused while the cars were produced, but for the future pollution caused by the void of more efficient small vehicles that electric isn't ready to fill yet (outside of burbs). I'm pro electric, it just wouldn't work for my use case. For example, I tell people with a 5mi commute to a train station to buy old Nissan Leafs, because it's ideal for their use case. It doesn't make sense owning a diesel for that because they soot up and have issues when they aren't run enough.
Seeing as most Canadians live near the US border maybe they go closer to American prices there as there's a lower barrier for Canadians to cut the fat margins by crossing the border and buying in the US?