skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a misconception here.

Dr. Bouman is a talented, enthusiastic and no doubt indispensable force on the larger team responsible for this achievement. Her role is as a co-lead for one small team which is responsible for one algorithm (out of four) used for imaging, as well as for an imagine verification algorithm (with Dr. Bouman's focus more on the latter). The larger imaging group (about 45 people by my rough count, led by Drs. Michael Johnson and Kazunori Akiyama) is itself one part of the analysis group, which has three other working groups, and then the analysis group is one of a half dozen larger groups in the EHT project which produced this result.

So it's not a case of the project lead being presented as the face of the project, which is par for the course in academia (and the outside world). It is a postdoc one level above the grad students who form the least-senior rung of the project, and many levels from the top suddenly being misleadingly presented as the key figure in a major result.

Imagine you worked on a small team of a couple of postdocs and a few grad students near the bottom of a hierarchy of teams involving hundreds of people, and then came in one day and your colleague and co-lead at the same level as you was suddenly presented as the face and key contributor for not only your small slice of things, not even the larger component to which the slice belongs, but the entire project?

You'd probably be pretty happy for them, but also confused as to why the many people with the actual role as overall group leaders or the project leaders aren't mentioned. One might also note how distant the general public is from the machinations of the academic world that no one is asking how a 20-something CS postdoc ended up leading a multinational astronomy project involving top faculty from top institutions? In terms of notability and improbability, that would probably be a bigger story than any image produced by the group!

Explaining her actual position and contribution is not in any way to detract from her contributions: only to clarify the record in the face of an onslaught of misleading media articles, which seemed to largely sourced (transitively) from a few misleading tweets, themselves triggered by a viral image.

On top of that, none of this is doing Dr. Bouman any favors. Although they are mostly silent, no one in the EHT project is confused about her role, and none of the other people in her faculty or almost anyone else who matters will be under any misconception despite the headlines. If anything, academia is even more picky than other fields when it comes to attribution, so any type of misplaced credit can be viewed very negatively and can attach itself to a person indefinitely. Now she hasn't invited this or propagated this story, so one should consider her a blameless victim here: but not everyone in a position to care will necessarily remember that subtlety.
You’re taking the use of that word too literally. I meant it as what perceived impact would the addition/omission of an engineer of that level have on a company? The stuff that factors into determining annual budgets.
Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access emails
Different planes require different training (see 737 MAX new recently about trying to avoid this).
Retraining isn't uncommon as a pilot advances throughout their career.
To save you from the clickbait: 'The simplistic portrait masks a mind-bendingly complex reality' is the subtitle.

If you plan grace the site with your visit be prepared to be forced to thank them for telling you about their tracking.

And if you actually plan to read the text be prepared to be forced to thank them for putting some advertisement in front of it.

I left feeling violated and disgusted.
Here's the thing though: You could build this in pure Node and call Windows APIs, Qt, etc and it'd be much, much smaller.

But everyone just goes ahead and pulls in Chrome.

It's shameful, and the worst part is that I get it - at this point I'm suggesting we go to Electron for a new application at work because it seems like the best maintained UI frameworks with readily available 3rd party components are all web based.
Twitter @naval.
I found that Kubernetes + minikube (or a variant of that) is a fairly straightforward way to handle this. Teams / developers can easily set up a local testing environment, product owners can QA that way, etcetera.

This of course depends on your level of lock-in with various cloud environments.
...he should have used was a hole, as in a hole in the ground...
He did, I think. Why else would he show an interest in the hollow part of the cup?
Yes, esp some languages are deceptively similar: if you know C, then PERL, Javascript, and PHP looks very similar, but it is hard to remember the differences.
Given the original title of the submission I was expecting some clickbait drama but it's actually a pretty inspiring read.
Ah, bingo, I was scratching my head trying to remember where I'd heard the name, because I was sure it was definitely not in the Assange/wikileaks context. That's certainly wild.
Just OT and jet still X-files-themed, but wasn't there a media-promotion a few days ago, pointing to 'future-tec', where people can breath in vaccinations through the nose or nanobots, doing '1st aid' at the mall...? (-;
Yes. I have already been burned by it. Some scripts were developped without bashism in order to be portable on posix shells. Initially, they were used on ksh. Recently, they were tested only on bash. I had to use them on ubuntu (where /bin/sh is a link toward dash). Nothing was working and it was hard to identify the issues. I have changed the first line of all scripts -> problem fixed. Portability of scripts is an illusion: all you can do is test on all the target shells. If you do not have budget for testing on other shell than bash, do not waste your time trying to write portable code.
Hollywood is a monopoly that has gone on far too long. Weinstein, mono-think, corruption all around....

I hope technology can democratize things somehow. Hollywood needs reformation.
The use of the word 'deceptive' in this headline is astonishingly disingenuous. I don't think the article intends to accuse the publishers of the image of deception, but the headline sure reads that way. The article is just trying to explain that imaging a black hole is inherently counterintuitive.
Yeah let’s destroy all the cute neighborhoods which makes San Francisco one of the only beautiful cities in the US, and forget about prop 13.
Madrid public transit is pretty comprehensive, but not particularly cheap or accessible. The rail is a bit archaic to use (single use tickets require source and destination stations despite being mostly one fare zone), station layout is fairly confusing at the bigger stations IMO. Perhaps most importantly, the stations are often pretty deep requiring a lot of waking -- not a problem if you're able bodied though.

I didn't use the bus system at all so I can't comment there. Barcelona in comparison has fairly easy to navigate stations and a much friendlier fare system.
What is this site's USP that distinguishes it from https://www.codetriage.com/?
True, but this harm is handily offset by the benefit of an expanded use for the original tech, due to the very fact of its lower price. Critically, the more the thief is able to "undercut" e.g. Samsung on pricing, the higher this benefit. IP protection is thus more socially beneficial for tech that is expensive per se, because then there is too little "undercutting" to matter, and more like a direct transfer in value away from the creators. Folding phones are an interesting case; they obviously cannot be duplicated "costlessly", but their raw manufacturing costs are low enough that IP protection for them might still be somewhat undesirable.
> If they had some crazy leak to make, it doesn’t seem like something they would just sit on to use as personal leverage for assange.

Really? They seem to have a narrow focus of interest with their leaks. I wouldn't put something like that beyond them at all.
I don't understand this counter argument. I drink less than a glass of wine a day and because quantity is a critical factor when considering a poison, to me, alcohol is literally not a poison. Just because some people drink too much, but not including amount in the argument don't you miss completely all the safe uses of it?
Third here. I was talking about this book just yesterday on HN and also briefly with my team at work. It's definitely not life advice, but it also helped me change the way that I view most things in life.
For those of you not using an adblocker for some reason, the Outline link works fine, as usual: https://outline.com/DHUuhM
Why is that the only definition of complex? Most complexities in business comes from process complexities or even business complexities. I once worked with a software as a service company that provided software for the car repair industry. We had to translate these rules for both the repair shop and the car owner.

https://www.railinc.com/rportal/documents/18/260737/CRB_Proc...

There is more to it than this.

Did we have millions of users? No. The rules were complicated, and most processing happened once a month. There is a central exchange that both sides go through.

I’ve had three jobs in healthcare. While the scale of users weren’t anything crazy. The business requirements were complex.
When isn't this true, though? JavaScript behaves differently based on your browser and version. C runs differently based on your compiler version and system libs. This is just the nature of software.
I believe in them as well, but... but where are they?

With all the benefits of hard working people and without stupid, greedy managers standing in their way, co-ops should be literally everywhere!
> Why must we assume that?

Because you should distrust flawed methodologies by default. The incorrect assumption is that the sample produced by a known flawed methodology is representative.

> Its just a flat out arbitrary assumption.

It is not at all arbitrary. It is based on well known issues with this particular method of sampling.
That may be, but it remains a fact that every competent speaker of English knows what it means to "dig a hole in the ground", and the result of that process is not a topological hole.

The problem is that topologists chose the wrong word. Consider: Bob digs a hole in the U.S. and Alice digs a hole in China. How many holes are there as a result? Clearly there are two.

Now suppose they dig deep enough that their holes meet. Now how many holes are there? Answer: zero. What you have now is a tunnel.
Have you seen this?

http://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3
> Mmmmaybe C

Lol - I remember years ago bouncing through javascript, python, lisp, prolog and others, all using ";" differently; then coming back around to C, and despite once knowing the spec by heart and having written C parsers, writing some one-line test programs... because I just could not believe that semicolon was a statement terminator - it looked so "this just isn't right". :)

> [syntax]

But when swapping languages, I had more trouble with cognitive interference on higher-level constructs. Syntax can go in cheat sheets[1], and idioms gathered in example files. Badly organized and incomplete documentation (once common before the programming community exploded in size) can be overlaid with tables of contents and notes. Because remembering how to find things in each languages' documentation was for me a major pain. But for designing say large apis, you have to remember things like some type-system path does look pretty... but only until you hit some language-misfeature monster that lives on it. And also not shy from some approach because of a misremembered or misattributed gotcha from another language. Though maybe that's easier now with so much discussion of best practices, and so much code available to read.

> cheeseburger and lasagna [...] they all get your belly full.

Or alternately, that they're all shambling toxic wretchedness, but you choose the one which seems likely to poison the customer the least, cooking it as well as circumstances permit. Cockroach popcorn and fried millipedes can be tasty. And even with swill milk... gypsum plaster is non-toxic... it's the other adulterants, little nutrition, and absence of sanitation that burn you. I do love programming, but I so look forward to less crippling languages.

[1] http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.htm...
Next year, ask: "Compared to developers of similar position, experience, and willingness to respond to Stack Overflow Developer Surveys, would you consider yourself less competent than average, of the same competency as average, or more competent than average?"
Ola Bini is quite an interesting name, phonetically speaking. Both first and last name sound very feminine (to me), yet it is a male Swedish name.
making salaries public within the company should very much improve things

Is it how you run your company?
> You can never convince someone of something by using reason and evidence, and your counterparty will suspect (rightfully so!) that your "evidence" is just the sort of rhetoric-disguised-as-dialectic that I'm talking about.

I personally agreed with your general idea, but the place where we are today was developed intentionally via propaganda systems designed to question the validity of expertise. If a person believes that government bureaucrats are all ineffective, that vaccines are dangerous, that all scientists believed a new ice age was going to start back in the 80's, then it is very easy to deny anything that experts say, and that your gut is right most of the time. This, of course, couldn't be further from the truth.

There are huge swaths of humanity that are willing to change their opinions based on the presentation of evidence. What is clear is that they are not good at generating enough political power to start the grand collective ideas that are necessary to fight homelessness locally (I know that I'm having trouble pushing housing first ideas - I think that Americans are punitive, culturally), or to fight climate change globally.

Still a dismal conclusion.
People act against their own self-interest all the time (e.g. the modern Republican Party in America).
It's right if its people in power abusing their power.
Honestly I think they’d be safer if the owners had control of the firmware.

Tesla has pushed updates which were broken in obvious ways that have killed people. It’s certainly possible to have a company like Tesla develop firmware in a safe way so that restricting what can run on the cars makes sense but that’s not what’s going on right now.
I do think there is some legitimacy to the view, though. It's a bit like saying that no future people could ever do something more important or more interesting with a location than what was done by someone long in the past.

Especially in a world with a growing population and increasing centralization, there will be fewer and fewer opportunities for individuals from new generations to do new things.
I love LA, was born there.. have moved in and out of the place a dozen times in my life. I don't live there now, but I visit often, and I am drawn tor return again, permanently.

I've always said that LA is beautiful at night, and pretty ugly during the day. That can be more or less true depending where in LA you're looking, but some of my favorite places in LA are absolutely hideous by the light of the day. But after dusk, same places can be magical.

Some of those old houses are built really beautifully, but there were a lot of shanty buildings that have been patched and patched. But some of the trees between those shanties are old and gorgeous. Somehow it works, but it's not a model for anything else.
> Historical preservation is stealing from the future.

Historical preservation is sacrificing for the future. It's literally the exact opposite of stealing from the future
At the end of the day it's more about applying the right patterns. A language is just a hammer. But you won't make good furniture without design skills. So it does not matter that you need to Google up things and forget things.
Well, from the other side of the peanut gallery, I think your outrage is misplaced. "Deception" needn't be malicious, and the title already calls this out as an "astonishing achievement."
I wonder this as well.

I've only flown 12 hours in a traditional aircraft (piper warrior iii), but there's certainly a few things I'd imagine a pilot would want to know before taking off in something traditional (oil pressure, manifold, switching fuel takes, checking fuel quality, etc.). Maybe just enough training in a traditional aircraft for a few extra hours to be rated properly.

I'm certainly excited for the possibility for electric aircraft, hopefully in my lifetime. Less maintenance, less things to go wrong, cheaper, (quieter/less vibration?) etc.
Can we please stop making people like this famous?
> any conclusions drawn by such studies must be taken with a not-insignificant sized grain of salt.

Please be more careful about drawing conclusions about the statistical significance of salt grain size. ;)
Most states require between 20 and 50 hours of continuing education for MDs per year. (https://www.boardvitals.com/blog/cme-requirements-by-state/)

Most states seem to require between 8 and 15 hours of CLE per year. (https://www.lawline.com/cle-requirements)

You'll find that with most actual "professions".
https://twitter.com/PokemonGoICU/status/1116456539106234369
Perhaps I’m cynical, but the outrage from the media over the arrest of Assange smacks of duplicity for me. After all, it was Asaange who helped leak documents which then the media could write about. He was almost doing their job for them. Distant echoes of when Gizmodo found an iPhone 4, and some tech journalist ( Who would have loved the scoop) scolded them.
> Long lines formed on a sub-zero morning last week to buy marijuana over the counter from three different shops in Ottawa, the first capital in the industrialized world to open them.

Ah yes, Netherlands: a land of barbarians, murder and rampant disentery. Not a single industry in sight.
I couldn't agree more, but if I could make a recommendation. If you already know a mainstream OO language, you won't get much benefit out of learning another in the same arena. Going from Java to C# you will learn less than going from javascript to ocaml or Java to Haskell.

The best thing (for my own learning) I ever decided to do was learn Haskell. I have never been paid to write code in Haskell but it gave me such a confidence with languages that I don't think I've seen any language features in any other language that has ever surprised me or that I felt like I couldn't learn. Haskell and it's language extensions will expose you to many many different ideas. It helped me learn Rust, I feel like I can read ocaml, any other functional language doesn't feel like a stretch to read, etc

So, don't just learn many languages. My advice would be to pick languages across paradigms and learn them. Don't waste your time learning 5 object oriented languages.
I can't name any tech companies who do it, but I've seen in traditional businesses (the kind that don't lose VC money for years). They just aren't really the companies you're going to read about on here or cnbc.
Thanks, I understand better now. These kinds of dataflow-OOP environments always look like magic to me.
I wonder sometimes if writing articles “Trolls did thing trolls are known for doing” is incidentally giving the trolls exactly what they want.
Open Source Portable Development Applications for Windows
Not sure. Have an extra Tesla you can send me?
In fact the promised Foxconn plant in the US was/is going to be almost entirely automated. And why wouldn't it be?

The Foxconn plant is turning out to be a complete fraud....

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wiscons...
FTA: "An object in the centre of our galaxy (the Milky Way) called Sagittarius A* is thought to be such a “supermassive” black hole."

If this black hole is 55M LY away and the center of our galaxy should have one. So, why is it that we can see this one, but not the one at the center of our galaxy? Is it because there are things in our line of site with it?
Curious about the taxes. Isn’t that why you provide SSN?
I wonder how the traffic is like in these large Chinese cities. In India, esp Bangalore traffic and the crowding in the streets has grown up astronomically, and the road system can barely handle it.
Microsoft doesn't own the upstream code?
{CL, Scheme, Clojure}, {all kinds of shell scripting, maybe Perl}
> He did, I think.

Well, he tried, but he did it the mathematically geeky way, not the ordinary-human-speaking-English way (which is my point). No non-mathematician ever actually calls the concave part of a cup a hole. It kinda sorta looks like a hole, but the process by which it is created is different from a proper hole, the kind you create by digging in the ground with a shovel. It also has some saliently different properties. For example, you can touch the "bottom" of the "hole" in a cup on both sides. You can't do that with a hole in the ground.
Real estate agents too. 6%? Why don't they get paid hourly like other contractors?
Dynamic Columns in Phoenix: A Tale of Two Use Cases
Those really aren’t what I would call applications. They’re more like documents that groups of people can append to.

And none of them need JavaScript for anything more than glue either. (Facebook actually has a no js version)
The OP wasn’t talking about Japanese. They were talking about European languages- many of which share a common heritage
What makes one of them private and the other one isn't? Aren't all governments just the way we organize ourselves in groups and give power to the group?
In fairness, the Netherlands does not have legal cannabis. It just has deliberately lax enforcement.
It depends on the quality of the IMU but yes. All US military systems use ultra-high precision IMUs and will only accept GPS corrections within the (classified) error margins of their inertial measurements. US military-grade IMUs lose precision very slowly, it is an area where they have a huge technology lead over everyone else so (ironically) they are less dependent on GPS than anyone else that might use GPS. Access to state-of-the-art IMU technology is very strictly controlled by the US.

GPS was created in part to allow the US to measure the world precisely enough in peacetime that they have an accurate model to feed their IMUs in wartime. It was never designed to be a robust navigation system even though everyone commonly uses it that way.
The UI works fine for me.

> I have to rely on tooltips just to work my Gmail and that's ridiculous.

Pick a better mail service that doensn't 'require' JavaScript? You're complaining about a thing that lets users control what sites are allowed to run and you're trying to use one of the most JS-heavy sites on the internet...
Then you should distribute the plans.

R&D documents are not distributed fyi. Totally different things.

PS. I do agree the example isn't that good, because everyone has other opinions. But then again, i don't know if your architect would appreciate it, if you give your plans to someone else.

Because he created it, not you.
People aren't robots to be warehoused.

Heh, that's how I would describe much of the SF market in comparison to the (better designed subset of) suburbs. An apartment in SF that is anything more than a place to park one's sleeping corpse is quite expensive.
Thank you. As a European who has spent a lot of time in America (and is married to an American, even), I appreciate you recognising and articulating this.
It's not even a random sample of SO visitors, as the there is, at the very least, self-selection bias.
Though I’m not impressed by much of modern architecture... I guess it comes down to personal taste for some.
Our local SMBH isn't presently eating anything substantial, so it isnt very bright. M87's black hole is eating something enormous, so it's easier to get a picture.