skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The true “dark age,” of course, was the early 1940s when, simply as a side effect of industrial killing, great swathes of the past disappeared. One small yet major example—the extraordinary series of paintings of the visions of Hildegard of Bingen, made in the 1170s either by the saint herself or under her supervision, disappeared in the general catastrophe that unfolded in Dresden in early 1945. We only know what they looked like (except from black‐and‐white photos) through accurate and beautiful copies painted by a group of nuns, by sheer chance, in the 1930s.

This feels like a weird argument. Yes, the paintings were lost. But we have tons of documentation about them! We have records of their creation by Hildegard of Bingen. We have photographs and reproductions to tell us (imperfectly, but still) how they looked. We know they were taken to Dresden, and we know when -- 1945. We know that Dresden suffered a devastating firebombing by the Allies in February of that year, and we know that nobody has been able to locate the paintings since that firebombing occurred. In other words, we may not have the paintings themselves anymore, but we can construct a pretty reliable history of them -- what they were, how they were created, and when they were (sadly) destroyed.

That's a very different situation than we're in regarding post-Roman, pre-Carolingian Europe. There are hundreds of years in there where we have practically no documentary evidence for anything. Kingdoms rose and fell, wars were won or lost, languages and faiths adopted or abandoned, and we can't even begin to tell any of those stories today, because nobody was keeping records. Who can say how much art was created and then destroyed in this period that we'll never even be aware existed? Who knows how many geniuses there were whose insights have been lost forever?

None of this is to say that what happened in Dresden in 1945 isn't a tragedy; it absolutely was, and for lots of reasons beyond just the loss of some paintings. But the loss of something that we know existed (and can even look at photographs of!) is very different than destruction so total that it even obliterates the possibility of remembrance.
Chicago Police Bust Alleged Car2Go Theft Ring, with Up to 100 Vehicles Stolen
I did not write it for brevity.

Some people live on their company's computer and when they leave they do not have one.

Yes, I always add "there is a machine set up for you if you do not have one". That said the machine has a generic setup with most common editors but no plugins. But good engineers will probably have a script on a Github Gist or something like that will setup the machine as they want it.

In general, a candidate with their own setup will do better. I think this is one of the reason that big companies do not let people use their computer.
When you write like this a lot, you end up talking like it, too.
Cool, so I guess at some point, you should just brute force the rest of the unknown bits.

E.g. if you’ve figured out 255 of the 256 bits, don’t keep running through more signatures because you’re likely to get bits you already know.
"A lower flight level to decrease the cabin pressure altitude was also requested to assist with the captain’s recovery."

Doesn't flying lower make the cabin pressure increase?
> The AirPower debacle

I'm not sure "debacle" is the right word for a product they announced, and then later decided they couldn't make, and so cancelled. There were no physical copies out there, no consumers wasted money on it, it was just... a cancelled product.
Current self-driving cars are already orders of magnitude safer than human drivers. I agree convenience is likely the largest driving factor but safety is definitely emphasized.
The model 3 doesn't look like an ordinary car, it looks like an "I own the road" sports car.
Luckly not everyone thinks like that.

http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm

https://www.wildernesslabs.co

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc
Exactly what area should they invest in that could make even a 10% difference in their revenue? What technology do you see in the foreseeable future that will be even a fifth of the size of the phone market?

Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if even the Apple Watch isn’t more successful than any other consumer electronics besides the smart phone and the PC. If you define success in terms of profitability.
You should use those alarms on PG's writings:

https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

As for the particular author, he was born in another culture (not all cultures appreciate the matter-of-factness as-you-talk anglo-saxon style of writing, many prominent European writers have called it "barbaric" and "only good for business"). He was also born in a whole other era.
Abusive managers are a significant legal liability. In what way are the people who report them a liability?
This hasn't gotten too much attention on here, nor has Car2go released any details. They have said it wasn't "hacking" per se, so I assume fake IDs and credit cards. However, surely there were safeguards in place that failed. I know they can disable cars remotely with ease. Curious what HNers think happened here?
How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public
「天高皇帝遠」 as the Chinese saying goes. (en: Heaven is high and the emperor far away)
Simulator is macOS app to view multiple opened simulators content
Native compiled modules are called NIFs or Native Implemented Functions. these are functions written in a compiled language (usually C but there are other bindings like Rust, etc.) The downside is an NIF is kind of a black box as it can't easily call back to native erlang functions without some rpc hackery. They're great if you need to do something which just returns a value. Typically, they are used for high computational speed or accessing things like hardware not available through native interfaces. See the Erlang interop page for more details: http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/introduction.html
It would be interesting to hear about it from MS. Do you know of other settings / configurations / features that could greatly influence the result of such comparison?
This is true. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKtaFU2ky9E
It is possible that the Spanish flu originated in China and was brought to Canada by laborers: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140123-span...
I’d argue it’s good advice for people that value clarity over sounding smart.

I’d guess there were people that valued this in most times and cultures.
Pressure altitude, they describe cabin pressure in terms of apparent altitude, usually 8000ft+/- and by lowering the outside altitude they can increase the internal pressure/decrease apparent altitude.
Seems like his companies do best when he's not running them
The list was not compelling at all.
Windows 10 May 2019 update blocked for anyone using USB or SD storage
Ask HN: How do you create your resume?
I created my last resume in pure html and it is a pain to update. I don't like MS Word either. It would be great to hear preferred tools from the HN community.

Thanks
Pure opinion until you explain why Excel figures suck and which bad habits it introduces?
Surveillance economies do have a societal cost, but calling that cost harmful is completely subjective, so the people that choose utility over that cost don't necessarily believe they are harming anything.
It takes time to get to where it needs to go. There would still be a shock.
One good snowstorm or something else that interrupts delivery... No food for your family. Seems like it makes society more brittle. Kind of like internet everything.
The Hertz Corporation vs. Accenture LLP [pdf]
Illegal Numbers [video]
The thing with keyboards is that... well, for one, scissor switches are perfectly acceptable (the ones in the 2015 MBP and older, and pretty much all laptops today). Further, the thickness of the scissor mechanism can be made to be REALLY small. See: Acer Swift 7 (9.95mm thick, total), the XPS 13 (11.6mm thick, total) the X1 Carbon 6 (15.95mm thick, total), and pretty much any other Ultrabook. This is compared to the MacBook Pro, which is 14.9mm thick. Note that the X1 Carbon has TDP-up configured to 25W vs 28W on the MacBook Pro and the XPS 13 has TDP-up configured to 26W. Point being, thermal constraints did not force a keyboard redesign to fit the new form factor.

This feels like something Google would do: Take something that's perfectly functional, change it entirely, remove features, make it less functional, have it be buggy as hell, then release it while deprecating the old one. Now, sell it as an innovative new feature.

In short: the keyboard redesign does not appear to have any real reason behind it, and it's essentially change for the sake of change.
The advantage of PayPal is that I can make one-time purchase at random vendor whom I have no prior experience with, without having to trust them to protect my Credit Card info.
I doubt it (but I don't know). Pork doesn't store well, your best best is freeze it, but that requires constant energy. You can salt it as well. Either way though after 1 year quality goes way down.

China does have large stores of Corn and Soybeans, which they can feed to pigs. Grain stores fairly well once you dry it, no need for expensive refrigeration. Quality goes down over time, but you can still get several years. Since most of this is feed to animals quality loss is not as big a deal (poison of a few animals is an economic issue - moral concerns can be hid from consumers much easier)
Ask HN: How to Sell a Domain Name
I am shutting down my startup and have a domain that is likely worth something (madebeauty.com).

What is the best way to sell a domain name?
Cytochrome P450 phenotyping could save a lot of harm by accurately prediction drug responsiveness and outcomes.

There is an entire field called Pharmacogenomics for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacogenomics#Cytochrome_P4...
This quote stands out to me:

"just as a dog is much better at finding drugs than people, but you wouldn’t convict someone on a dog’s evidence. And dogs are much more intelligent than any machine learning."

Because in my head I followed it with the sentence "but we're all confident that we will have dogs driving our cars in about 5 years." Food for thought for sure.
Python is a second class citizen in the world of Spark. Perf issues for UDFs. Some functions are only available through Scala. Python support for new features is always late. And so on. It is good to have .NET support but I will stick with Scala for the same reasons I switched from Python to Scala.
You are not incorrect but if someone gained access multiple recordings, and recordings have location data, if they gather two or more from the same person, they can piece together the history to the extent of how many recordings they capture from the same location. So the history need not be explicitly served up in a tidy package.
This story has been constantly misrepresented, because Reuters absolutely botched their initial report. Amazon was never building a tool to decide which interviewed candidates to hire, they were building a tool for discovering candidates. It was biased, but that gender bias wasn't the proximate reason for scrapping the tool.

As far as I can tell from later stories (e.g. 1, 2), what Amazon actually did was build a tool to show recruiters 'quality' predictions for all resumes, for instance as they scrolled LinkedIn. But they trained it on resumes submitted to Amazon for various positions, possibly also adding weight to resumes which produced hires.

In which case the problem is painfully obvious; the system effectively had no negative training data, and its positive examples (submitted resumes) didn't actually match the desired output (qualified resumes). It was computing degree of similarity between a gender-neutral-ish pool (resumes posted online) and a gender-skewed pool (resumes submitted to Amazon), and tried to make that conversion with whatever data was available - like devaluing resumes that mentioned women's colleges. (This wasn't just a proxy-variable thing, the model essentially learned to weight on gender.) Amazon's team apparently caught this issue and did the usual things like blinding on those words. But they were scared of uncaught factors; reading between the lines, they were unable to "detrain" biases like neural nets do because their dataset and task didn't match.

Ultimately, the tool was apparently scrapped because it made selections "almost at random". Which, again, isn't exactly surprising in light of the absolutely bonkers choice of training examples.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/womens-rights-workpl...

[2] https://www.ml.cmu.edu/news/news-archive/2018/october/amazon...
I was including time spent reviewing documentation there. I definitely don't have any of those memorized. I almost never write code without frequently consulting an API reference.

Am I misunderstanding you, or are you really saying that you expect someone to take a week to write a program that spawns a couple of threads and makes a couple of HTTP requests?
The church tax occurs on property or on income?
Fair enough. I jumped the gun because I agree with your actual point and then I moved onto the sliver where it's possible to disagree.
I've done work in this area. It's really hard to monitor the bleed air because the required equipment is very expensive and degrades fairly rapidly over time due to contamination from random stuff. For example, when you sit behind another airliner waiting, the engine ingests exhaust and that causes lots of (mostly harmless) stuff to enter the bleed air which you then need to worry about getting in your sensor.
This reminds me a lot of bigger companies (IE Microsoft and their "lost decade") that lose time and experience and product margin to their competitors but that get back after a while- the Romans had so much consolidated power that, if it weren't for people jockeying for power, they could've survived in a shrunken, but still pretty huge form.
Self-driving is a safety feature. It's a really advanced form of driver assistance, which is a safety feature. ABS, Forward Collision, Lane Assist, Blind Spot detection, these are all safety features. Self-driving is a combination of all of those with extra radars and cameras and AI.

Safety features can also be considered a convenience, but that doesn't mean they aren't safety features.

Humans zone out, they get tired, they have slow reaction times, they only have 2 eyes, they get complacent. Computers do not.
So I had the opposite experience-- learned to do all my data processing in undergrad+grad school for physics using Python. Moved out to my first industry job developing simulations and learned that everyone (other scientists, management, etc) would rather me process results in excel (unless we were working on a database scale, in which case we used postgres). I actually had to learn excel properly for the first time for this job.

I'm now at another large university-affiliated research lab and excel is king here as well, though I can get away with using Matlab generated plots in my slides when I'm working solo. People still don't like python for some reason.

I had a similar experience with paper writing-- in academics it was conventional to do everything in LaTeX from my first lab courses in freshman year. In both workplaces, we've just been using word.

And it's not that people don't know python/latex here-- we've just apparently developed a culture of using these matlab/excel/word tools instead.
You're 100% right, what Braintree does can be done using PayPal's API directly, even what Braintree calls their "in-context" PayPal payments. This is pretty much exactly what we've done at https://processout.com (shameless plug!)
I really like Nim. I hope the threading interface improves though, I found it lacking last time I checked about half a year ago.
You're absolutely correct, thanks. Edited for accuracy.
> "The Dark Ages" is also a Eurocentric view of history.

That's like describing 'The Great Leap Forward' as a Sino-centric view of history.

"The Dark Ages" refers to a time as well as a place. Specifically, Western Europe.
so is "the one true UNIX" just history repeating itself?
chef and puppet are very popular
on term of UX i would go Paypal > Punching in a credit card number.

Punching a cc is the worst horror UX ever in the history of life
It spent me a bit of time, but I usually write it in LaTeX. It looks a bit unique, and you can tailor it to express yourself too.
TFA says:
"For decades, the Chinese government’s top priority has been the preservation of social stability."

It should say:
"For millenia, the Chinese government’s top priority has been the preservation of social stability."
A lot of people are tired of his fanboys. It’s similar to how people reacted to Steve Jobs fans.

Personally I think Musk is smart but highly overrated. He makes a lot of dumb mistakes by ignoring advice, and seems to have a lot of impulse control issues. As an ideas man he’s one of the best, but hike badly needs an “adult in the room” to moderate his worst impulses.
Jobs himself once said “Somewhere between the janitor and the ceo reasons stop mattering”

And the discussion about the quote on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524855
I agree. From personal experience, here are some organizing principles I find useful for exploratory data analysis:

1. A single Jupyter notebook should either tackle a single question, or use collapsible headings (https://jupyter-contrib-nbextensions.readthedocs.io/en/lates...) to organize separate questions.

2. The Jupyter notebook should be written such that all cells are executable in order, and it should produce exactly the same output every time (unless the input has changed) for reproducibility. The entire notebook should be executable on the order of seconds - if it's taking longer, this is usually a sign that plotting should be scripted instead, or the data needs to be subsetted.

3. The jupyter notebook should have a clearly annotated input file / folder of data (typically pre-processed using scripts). I usually include this in the title. The notebook must have a creation/last modified date (fortunately this is automatic, but it is crucial when the input data can change over time)

4. Observations, general conclusions, preliminary answers to exploratory questions, etc from data analysis should be written in the notebook in comments or Markdown. This is for your future self.
I always hear a lot about using LaTeX... but haven't tried it yet.
cross-platform desktop apps
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To be clear, we're the ones that renamed it the Byzantine Empire. As far as the people who lived there were concerned, they were living in the Roman Empire, and they would not have understood in the slightest why anyone would think otherwise. Constantine moved the capital, and there was no disruption in the government and administration of the empire until the Fourth Crusade, although they did lose a tremendous amount of territory in the early Muslim conquests.
Are there other ways of implementing ACID transactions on Spark tables?
Types of Simplicity
Any support for EU VAT handling coming to this? A lot of work seems to have gone into European support here - odd that VAT handling not part of that.
Rails 6.0.0 Rc1 Released
Streisand effect is one of the variations.
I don't think it should be deleted, I never knew this existed until your post just now. Thanks.
In addition to several other examples.

C++ did it in the 80's with Lucid C++ and the ill fated Visual Age for C++ v4.0.

Eiffel also thanks to its MELT VM.
> Only those who've been tried and tested in court prove something, and only for that specific moment. It could be different now. We do not know.

How about you provide proof that your ISP doesn't store your stuff, as you claimed?

> Because I live in the EU, and it is illegal to do that without my consent.

That's not how it works.

> If that is legal they might, but so could a VPN provider. If you want to avoid this, Tor makes more sense.

ISP data is attached to your damn real name. There is nothing worse. A VPN would first have to rat you out to the ISP, which at least creates another step.

> That is not an issue everywhere in the world, and Tor would work for free and just as well.

It is becoming an issue in more and more places. And do you want to risk it? If Tor works for you, great. But it is blocked much more often than VPNs are.

> You know who benefits from your narrative? The companies selling the VPN snake oil.

Stop it. I didn't recommend ANY paid VPN at all. I myself use only free ones.
Theres no transmission, the battery cooling system isn't a moving part, the AC has one moving part, power windows have 1 moving parts, power steering have one moving part, electric components aren't moving parts.

Moving parts are mechanical parts, electronic, and pumps because of simplicity work for longer.
Pegasus's chip is more general purpose and doubtless has far more general purpose compute power. But that's irrelevant. What's relevant is Tesla's chip is optimized specifically for their NN pipeline whereas Pegasus is based off of general purpose GPU architecture, thus Tesla's chip achieves a better TOPS per Watt than Pegasus. And it'd be strange if it didn't.

"Tesla's chip will NEVER be able to scale above 100W" okay, based on what? Tesla has a higher performance chip in the pipeline right now, and they could've used more silicon to achieve more TOPS if they needed it.

EDIT: Pegasus has 500W at 320 TOPS. Tesla's has 72 Watts at 144TOPS. Thus Tesla's chip, because it's focuses specifically on Tesla's NN pipeline, is about to get almost 4 times to performance per watt of the Pegasus and is much cheaper. Tesla's NN chip wouldn't help your video game, and Tesla isn't intending to compete in all the markets Nvidia operates in.
Having read the article, I disagree. What "style" of writing? The sentences aren't excessive, the language is all fairly common (the author even takes pleasure in simplifying "scramasax", clearly inviting us to take pleasure in it as well). What's wrong with it?

It's not meant to be a list of purely literal facts. It's entertaining and a pleasure to read.

As for Paul Graham's opinion piece; well, that's just silly. Something written is inherently different to something spoken; they have different strengths, different attributes, different purposes and, should they have the same goal, can best achieve that goal in different ways. Why choose to discard the strengths of the written?
It's new because it is being done in the atmosphere. I work with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) which have employed this method of propulsion for at least a decade. For AUVs the variable buoyancy is achieved by having an expandable bladder of fluid which can be contacted to allow ballast to enter or expanded to expel ballast. Check out Slocum gliders if you are curios
I'm an electronics engineer who started to learn programming Assembler on PIC16 micro-controllers. My arguments is not against learning the fundamentals.
I just know from teaching that the primary problem people have when learning is that they get stuck and stop. Making GUIs in Python (given good educational resources, like a book) will give results much faster, and more quickly become a practical skillset for GUI programming and other useful tasks.

For learning C and starting to poke at low-level embedded stuff I would recommend starting with Arduino (and then into plain AVR) - and not go anywhere near a GUI toolkit.

There is a reason we don't actually throw kids into the deep end when teaching them to swim. Most of them would just drown...
Your post made me curious and I raised the issue with MS at https://github.com/dotnet/spark/issues/45. I hope that benefits the community and gets MS on the right track (by finally supporting Arrow).
Everyone loves /like/ company, to a point.