skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Test driven development. Making your tests first, or at least early, helps you mentally nail down what you want your software to do. It also helps you think defensively early-on about corner cases and race conditions.

But that isn't really where the biggest benefits lie.

When you come back to that code a year later and have to make changes to it, but have forgotten how it works, having all the tests pass with good coverage provides a significant (but not absolute) level of confidence that you didn't break anything.

Given that so much development time is spent editing/updating code, rather than writing it from scratch, this can be a huge speedup in productivity.
Patreon would be more appropriate as an after-the-fact compensation.
Her name was on the front page of HN for almost the whole day under the story "Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image". 900 upvotes, 500 comments, posted 5 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086
For reference, here are some of those languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag....

Swift, Scratch, Go, and TypeScript seem like they will be around for a while.
Worked pretty well in early Israel. Generally it's an interesting study model, in that it saw and continues to see absorption of (Jewish) immigrants as a national mission, not just an unwelcome burden.

It includes what's essentially a full-time salary to study Hebrew for 6 months, subsidized housing for a year, subsidized daycare, job counseling, and assorted miscellaneous benefits. Not always sufficiently funded, but the basic model is endorsed.
Not necessarily. They might not be able to afford to hire a data protection officer, or meet the other absurd requirements of the GDPR.
A VPN that makes you appear American would still work in that case.
I actually have core memory that I built myself on my desk right now! It’s only one bit, but consists of three cores, the two additional ones are not memory but there to cancel out the big inductive pulse when “accessing” the core that is separate from the actual memory kickback pulse (real core memory does it by clever wiring across the entire plane of cores, no extra cores needed).

You can see the kickback pulse here, the big one is where the bit was “set”. Reading is always destructive, so the next pulse does not have the kickback: https://live.staticflickr.com/7890/47241409541_5915191605_o_...

It’s great fun and actually very simple once you understood the (already relatively simple) concept. My “magnetic core bit” is literally just a few wires going through the cores (https://live.staticflickr.com/7874/33365624228_61caed6e71_k_... ), though I later added a couple of transistors to form a sense amp. I got the cores by just looking for tiny ferrite cores on eBay, highly unlikely that they were meant as memory cores.

For driving them, I just set my function generator to its maximum output, 10V at 50Ohm output impedance. Anything less than that and you barely get a kickback, so it’s really not efficient, in any way.
For non-essential products, yes, I think most developing countries should impose an import tax on non-essential luxuries. In India same rules apply to imported cars as well - which has massively helped local industry because Mercedes, BMW, Audi all have factories here. There's no reason for Apple to get special treatment.
Off topic, but I would recommend the Gregory Hays translation if you haven't read it before first. I also liked one by Maxwell Staniforth. Hope that helps.
I am not saying islamists did this thing but are you really saying that it doesn't make sense for them to destroy places of worship of other relgions? In Indonesia and other places they sure think differently.
I don't understand why this kind of support of long-obsolete (and officially unavailable) multiplayer games is met with negative reaction by the copyright holders. These might be some of the most loyal fans of your game that you've ever had. How is this a danger and not an opportunity?
The thing is you're not required to pay tax on money that you reinvest in the business.. you would do away with that?

It has upsides and downsides.. it certainly encourages reinvestment, rather than pulling the money out.
That’s what Apple usually does: they keep roughly the same digits, and change the currency. And it usually makes their products significantly more expensive outside of the US.

I live in Sweden, and the pricing will go like this:

- The US: $999

- The EU: €999

- Sweden: 9900 SEK

Depending on currency rates, it can become up to 30% more expensive.

My favorite discovery was around the time of the trashcan MacPro. It was cheaper to fly to New York, buy the Mac, and fly back than
to buy one in Sweden. And you would still have money left over.
I think the key here is the word "fact". Scientific models are models. They are good models if they correspond with measurements that we make in the real world. The are even better models if they make a prediction that we can test in the real world. However, a model is never a "fact". "The FSM did it" is always going to be a possibility, even if it is an incredibly remote one.

We use scientific models because they are useful not because they are fact. Even if our model does not always match our observations it can still be a useful model in some circumstances. It's very important when talking about science that we understand that it isn't fact. It is a model. It might be a good model. It might be a bad model. It might be a useful model for our application. It might be a poor model for our application. That's it.

When you see a headline that says "X is Y" and it's about a scientific model, what that means is "If our model is consistent with the real world then the model predicts that we should find that X appears to be Y in the real world". But that's a bit too long to put in a headline and you would have to do it for every scientific conversation.

It is extremely unfortunate that on the first day of junior high school when you start doing "proper" science classes that they don't sit people down and explain what a scientific model is. Mostly I think it's because the teachers don't know, because their teachers never taught them.
bpf_ktime_get_ns() returns nanoseconds, is it not adequate?

I can't really speak to the use of dma and memory, I haven't really looked at that.
Can any of the security folks on here tell me what good secure systems really look like? If I wanted to build a company infrastructure from scratch what would "default secure"
look like? I am fairly sure I know what a good software engineering process looks like, but if I guessed a secure infrastructure I would be concerned I am
missing basics. (Hence no examples to get us started)
Is shakti related to kx? What is going to happen with kdb+?

I also have a practical question. Does `brandelf -t Linux bin/k` violate the License agreement?
You can have a tiny amount of material be very hot, but you could cool it with a small amount of water. Its thermal load is low.

If you have a large amount of material be moderately hot, you'd need a lot of water to cool it. The thermal load is high.
This is a great trend I'm seeing in college-level CS education, where (generally younger) people are bringing real-world ideas into the classroom and presenting them by their underlying theory - this will certainly be useful knowledge for your students and I thank you for doing so!
Any memory-safe language. Pick your favorite.
I had a client in the US (my company is in Thailand) whose bank charged him $30 for an ACH domestic transfer to my (Thai) banks NYC branch. An international wire transfer cost him a lot more.

I do prefer bank wire transfers, but TransferWise has worked well (to receive money) too, and the smaller businesses I deal with seem unlikely to have free international wire transfers (it’s presumably marketed at bigger businesses)
I didn't downvote it, but it sounds a bit like "learn to code" to me. "Go tell amazon" isn't a feasible strategy when Amazon's general disinterest is a big part of the problem.
Wow, thanks, that project is super cool! Unfortunately those cars aren't my faves but I probably won't be buying a new one for a few years and I bet many more will be added to that list in time.
Self Driving Cars have two advantages:

Data Transfer allows for instant start/stop so the car can actually stop before the light turns, allowing the cars on the other side to go quicker and go immediately.

In the future, we may not even see self driving cars stopping at red lights (think of all intersections as four way roads)
Lets use what scientist writes and meta studies: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12062/gender-differences-at-crit... A copy of a comment on this article on key findings from page 153, various highlights:

- The findings on academic hiring suggest that many women fared well in the hiring process at Research I institutions, which contradicts some commonly held perceptions of research-intensive universities. If women applied for positions at RI institutions, they had a better chance of being interviewed and receiving offers than had male job candidates.

- The percentage of women who were interviewed for tenure-track or tenured positions was higher than the percentage of women who applied.

- For all disciplines the percentage of tenure-track women who received the first job offer was greater than the percentage in the interview pool.

- Female tenure-track and tenured faculty reported that they were more likely to have mentors than male faculty.

- Women were more likely than men to receive tenure when they came up for tenure review.
It is possible with VMPK, and some people have shown they can play great music on it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhfSF_RpxjI) but I don't know how hard it is to get to a stage where we can be productive. It would be helpful if you have an NKRO keyboard.
If you’re sending money offshore without an invoice how exactly do you account for that?
No. It's just working as intended and drawing the simplest hypotheses based on patterns.
Foucs... You can't protect everything, but can ensure that handling of at least some truly important data is as paranoid as it can be.

Protecting a company's FTP server that is open to thousands of employees is not a doable task, for example

And the same is true of human knowledge, a company saying that all and everything within its walls is super secret, can't truly hold anything secret.

At one of my first jobs in Canada, an owner of the company was very clear on the point what is a commercial secret and what isn't. Whenever there was a meeting genuinely demanding it, he clearly stated at the start "this is a commercial secret covered by confidentiality agreement."
Great, you’re a contractor.

The “easiest” way for you would be if the company setup a presence there and you worked for it.
Looks cool! However, my main interest isn't exactly developing the ML algorithms myself, only being in a car that I can control with my phone / voice / joystick.
The closest you can get to a top fuel dragster lighting up is about 30 feet. You really don't want to be any closer. Before you go, buy a good set of shooting range ear protectors.

The great thing about top fuel is it's the only motor sport where a pit pass is actually a pit pass. You can go into the pits and talk to the mechanics and drivers if they're not busy.

Once a crowd was hanging around a team that just finished putting their engine back together. They started it, blab-blab-blab-blab. Then they blipped the throttle. I knew it was coming and had the ear muffs on, but most didn't, and the crowd leaned back and cringed as the blast wave hit them.

3000 hp running through those little V8's is incredible.

Their souvenir stand sold blown up engine parts :-)
I suppose if most VCs don't want to fund an astrology startup because they know the product is bullshit, those who are willing to hold their nose and invest anyway will probably get a pretty good deal.
Yes, but since you mentioned the repeating pattern (or absence thereof), I think we thought you were talking about mistakes in the bit pattern, and not material failure? And in this case, I certainly hope they just read out all the bits and compared them against expectations before launch.
Maybe a 100 years ago. With today's fundamental physics experiments (accelerators, non EM telescopes, and especially quantum foundations tests) the mathematical constructs are an inseparable part of the interpretation of the experiment.

And there it is hardly over fitting when the same results come from vastly different mathematical constructs.
So in a similar vein to nuclear fusion, self driving cars are always two years away.
FYI while America seems obsessed with cheque’s still, the rest of the world has moved on.
I also love ripgrep and use it all the time. Thanks!

I've lately been doing some Windows programming. Ripgrep from a Git Bash command-line can generally find ALL instances of some word before Visual Studio's Find In Solution can even return one result!

The only downside is that rg does not understand namespaces when searching, so a commonly used member variable will show up all over the place. Can still usually find the right location by visual inspection before VS2017 though!
Vancouverite's phone hacked in real time after number ported without permission
Trying to migrate my $work from hosting on manually configured onprem physical servers, I evaluated OpenShift, K8s, Docker Swarm and AWS.

I had drank the Docker kool-aid pretty hard and spinning up individual nodes was easy, until I started projecting forward what the final architecture would look like - patching, failover, backup, disaster recovery etc.

Eventually I convinced my boss to pay for Heroku and went home early.
So at least sites that spy on their users will have a worse UX than before. That is an improvement, though a small one.
They are mentioned several times, but no description is given for how they might work.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Heisenberg_compensator
Self-hosting is a greater burden for larger organizations?
I would like to add a few things on top of the relatively technical reasons why this lack of .com doesn't matter.

I'd say most users won't type "mastodon.com" in their "browsers". They will type "mastodon" in their "internet" or, if technically savvy, into Google first.
Second, from following the fediverse (not just mastodon, but also pixelfed, peertube etc), i have a feeling that they aren't into mainstream, general audience anyway. A lot of them are small focused instances and as such, won't even be attracting new people via Google, but by invites anyway. Many instances have closed registration anyway. So if you need to land anywhere it's likely not on mastodon.social, but something like ...(checks last five accounts to post directly on top of timeline):
icosahedron.website, fostodon.org, mastodon.social, mastodon.technology (my instance) and hackers.town.
> I agree that her treatment was unfortunate. It seemed like a rush to narrative to me, which was totally unnecessary given how special the moment clearly was.

I don't see it that way. Combining societal elements to a scientific or engineering challenge is nothing new (e.g., Voyager's gold disc recording, Armstrong's one-small-step line, SpaceX launching a Tesla roadster).

Similarly, imaging a black hole was an achievement of human society at large, and the fact that an achievement in one aspect of society (i.e., scientific knowledge) is linked to another (i.e., egalitarianism) makes the moment even more special. It makes the event feel like this isn't just a single narrow step in one direction, but movement forward of our entire civilization.
Also includes some direct economic benefits for parents - e.g. the food/clothes pantry mentioned, where parents can have basic needs taken care of without payment.
OnePlus – Pandata
Looks good! Just for my understanding, what would be the advantage of working with wasm binaries instead of, let's say, C external libraries or DLLs via ctypes?

I can think of:
1. Portability of the wasm binaries

Is easier interoperability between data types an advantage as well? Ctypes can be a nightmare when passing around structs and pointers (and pointers of pointers, etc.)
It's always amazing to me to hear assumptions that decentralisation is a feature in and of itself.

For most people it's an entirely secondary concern, not a concern at all or even an anti-feature.

Who do I appeal to, to take down that cyber-bullying material? How do I get my transaction reversed, as the victim of fraud? What do you mean I can't and the system was deliberately designed that way?
It works exactly as planned. Google can prove to regulators that it makes sufficient efforts - which is enough to wash it hands. On the other hands malfunctioning algo allows Google to make some extra advertising dollars.
...only that Amazon, instead of taking this eroding of consumer trust anywhere as seriously as they should, are adding gas to the fire by introducing their own brands all over the place.

Looks like they‘re going down the LinkedIn route: If you have so many business models that they start cannibalizing each other, it‘s getting dangerous.
You're vastly overstating how much the author is "twisting" the 2016 election into this article. It's pretty straightforward from the app creator's mouth...

>>President Trump’s election inspired Ms. Guler to leave her work in fashion media and create Co-Star. “I was like, ‘We gotta figure out something more meaningful than what we are doing,” she said. The role social media played in the election — and how “it is changing how we operate as humans in the world” was a part of her concern, Ms. Guler said.
Automated guylines are not going to help if the booster crashes on the pad.
Buy Google Reviews's answer to Where can I buy Google reviews?
> It hurts the German auto manufacturing reputation big time.

Does it? US sales figures don't reflect that claim. They'll be back to their 400,000+/y US sales rate in the next year or two. The hit after 2015 was modest, never going below 300,000.
First, this is awesome. I have always been fascinated by traffic flow and how it works. This assuages my curiosity in so many ways.

Second, removing all of the politeness has an interesting effect. I think I can learn some lessons from this, thank you!

Third, they should use this in driver education classes.
Israeli Scientists Print World’s First 3-D Heart
People like to say that "modern" science has moved past Popper. In my opinion, this is because it allows them to attach the gravitas of Science [0] to whatever their pet topic is, even when that topic does not admit falsification.

This is not to suggest that we should not inquire on these topics, but rather that they should fall under some other umbrella besides Science.

[0] Or whatever is left of it at this point.
Which means that

> Many sites outside EU jurisdiction still abide by EU privacy/cookie laws.

is completely wrong. I would not be surprised if those popups put many sites out of compliance because they mean that the site is targeted at EU citizens.
I hear what you are saying and agree with the danger fatigue observation, but it is different to the managers at NASA and Boeing that are reviewing the slides.

By default of your situation, you are facing these life and death decisions on a constant basis. The NASA and Boeing managers do not. I can't imagine they are part life and death scenarios very often, if at all.

Critical thinking failed them that day.
This illustrates why all of those stories[1] about why Apple can't manufacture in the USA are relatively hollow.

Apple doesn't manufacture in the US as they are not forced to manufacture in the US. If they were, they'd make it happen and work-around any issues, just as they have in India.

Apple doesn't want to manufacture in India (via Foxconn) but the Indian regulations and government didn't budge which forced Apple's and Foxconn's hand. Result: Apple/Foxconn is now making iPhones in India.

If the US citizens stood up for their own interests more, then there would be a Made in the USA iPhone... perhaps more expensive than a China made one, but Apple may decide to absorb the margin hit to retain marketshare in their largest market.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/28/18200330/why-apple-cant-m...
Xbox Co-Founder: My Life in Games (Seattle Hacker News Meetup) 2018
both of these are slower than rg. ag has issues with big files, it's unreliable.
Hard to believe that it took 200 people to photograph that.
understood, thanks for the explanation - keep up the great work! is there anything external contributors can do to help? :)
I didn't find any issues labelled "good first issue" but I did find a related issue[0]

[0]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/267
Canada: $1379. (On the $999-in-the-US iPhone XS.)

They do not always use the round numbers.
Oh. Noted, thanks.
GDPR is there it wasn't as difficult as everyone said. I am, honestly pissed of by the hysteria by know.

Sorry that we Europeans have laws that need to be followed even by white collars...
Yes, because it makes so much sense to generalize the actions of individuals to a wider group. Totally not a logical fallacy at all.
The only prerequisites are basic discrete math (first-order logic, sets, etc.) and computer systems (C, memory management, threading) knowledge.
Your points are good, but I think there's another possibility, besides "too big to hide" and "too easy not to invent".

What if there is a very big SSP, but secrecy is extremely important (natsec, earth security, competitive advantage, greed, power), and all kinds of measures at every stage were taken to preserve it? National security oaths, unacknowledged compartmentalized programs, with black budget funding, research done in underground facilities, memory erasure, permanent off-planet postings? To me that is conceivable. You would have two systems, a public system of earth government, and a parallel system devoted to preserving the SSP and off world colonies. I think it could be done. Couple that with a strong PR / propoganda / psyop / disinformation game to discredit leakers, mimic real disclosures in pop culture media, and spread fake narratives, and I think it's like "magic" as in the "art of deception". I think mass psychology could be effectively used to "plug any holes" that the system might have, and over time, with secrecy as an "equal first" priority, I believe they could succeed. Is that not concievable to you in some way, where do you get stuck?

So that's "big and hidden", but not too big to hide.

Secondly, I propose, "inventable but not publishable", as in, what if it's somewhat easy to invent the basic technologies (electrogravitics, zero point energy), but owing to secrecy and economic concerns, these tech have a high "activation energy hump" to get over to actually proliferate in the world? Combine patent suppression, raids on technology to seize and destroy it, intimidation and ensnarement of inventors, and I think you'd be able to keep a lid on it for probably about 100 years, which is what we've seen.

Another way to think about the second point is this, clandestine nuclear devices (dirty bombs or actual fusion/fission) should be possible to deploy for non-state actors, but it's never happened. Surely there's coordinated effort to suppress this tech and prevent it's creation. Now what if SSP tech was an even higher priority, and "approximately equally as difficult to invent / create", if world governments and corporations could prevent a nuclear terrorist, could they not prevent rogue proliferation of zero gravity or free energy tech, especially if they consider that more important?

Again, which part of these arguments is sticking for you? I'm fine if you don't want to engage, I know that even in 2019, there's still a lot of shame and fear attached to these topics, but I see that changing, a lot of whistleblowers, a lot of intelligent, well-researched youtubers (edge of wonder, secureteam10, bright insight), and officially sanctioned evidence (uss nimitz tictac video).

I mean, maybe the whole narrative is just a massive psyop or mass delusion, but there's likely something here that's plausible to you.