skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Take up the White Man’s burden—

And reap his old reward:

The blame of those ye better

The hate of those ye guard—"

Rudyard Kipling

The dominant culture will get blamed for either not doing enough or for doing too much, so you have to do what you can, and what you feel is right, accept useful feedback, and realize you can't please all the people all the time.

This seems to have touched a nerve, which is not unexpected.

Examples:

- colonial powers are criticized both for exporting agricultural technologies westernizing other countries and for not exporting enough

- Hollywood is criticized both for cultural imperialism and for not including enough diversity as well as for cultural appropriation

- foreign aid is insufficient/creates dependency/empowers corrupt governments/is colonialism/...

- tourism is exploitation but no tourism is isolationist, crippling to the economies, ...

etc.

Any action (including inaction) is likely to be criticized, so you've just got to do your best, and try to improve as you learn.
You should be careful about making blanket statements like "established science" and "science denial".

It makes you come off as an extremist, and in fact, the page you linked makes no such claims and is far more moderate. It talks only about potentially harmful dietary fats.

> Research about the possible harms and benefits of dietary fat is always evolving. Current evidence suggests that the smart play is to focus on choosing healthier fats and avoiding the less healthy ones.

Researchers (particularly those in the field of nutrition) have got things completely wrong before. An important part of being a good scientist is knowing the limits of the current body of research.
This comment is deeply annoying as I happen to know the self driving field.

Tesla is the most hyped and least proved contender. They moved the conversation around the AI chip but that doesn't matter compared to the algorithms that runs on it! Waymo and Cruise are years in front but mask managed to hype you and make you drink koolaid in such a way that you know think they are the leaders.

This is laughable.
Ah. My apologies.
> The problem isn't charging for software; the problem is charging and preventing others from redistribution and access to source code.

This is simply not what Commons Clause does, you really should read it. Access to the source code is not prevented. And redistribution is not prevented either, on the condition that end users do not sell it. That is all.

> As for losing interest in maintaining software, I don't see how Commons Clause helps.

It helps by allowing someone to actually build a business around their work without fear of "unfair" competition ("unfair" is in quotes because it is legal and in line with FOSS, it just doesn't seem fair to me [0]).

[0] https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-lea...
Interesting.

>>d) Samsung panics as it learns that the technology it built might be released by a competitor earlier than them and consumers might think of them as less of an innovator. May sound silly but the Chinese companies have been getting a lot of traction recently e.g. P30 Pro.

Doesn't sound silly at all. I have a Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S and it's an amazingly good phone for the price (replaced my Google Pixel 2, which I liked enough). I'll absolutely buy a Chinese phone to replace this phone when it's time in a few years, or at least look into it. Other people constantly ask about the phone (has a striking reflective ceramic back) and haven't heard of Chinese phones, but are considering alternatives in droves due to the insane prices of flagships by Apple and Samsung.
Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art
The stats are fantastic

I've picked up a few things that were making a crazy amount of requests. I don't know what Alexa is up to but over 1000 requests to device-metrics-us.amazon.com blocked each day
The comment does not say whether or not they may be amenable to, say, stepping away from the screen when they'd normally be on HN. Nor does it explicit say no amount of time is acceptable nor why.
Great more outrage culture.

> Kodak Gold Max became appealing. This new film was billed as being “able to photograph the details of a dark horse in lowlight

If this is true please show me the ad? Magazines from the era are easy to get, many are online already.

1995 was when I think Kodak Gold Max came out, do you really think humans way back then wouldn't get what is being said?

It may have been used in personal correspondence, by someone, in an unknown context is the best source I can see.

There is a interesting discussion here, but this is not it.
Again this weird argument. If the USD were valued due to its tax-demand, raising taxes would increase the value of the dollar!

Also the gov creates more supply to the dollar than the tax demand always, so its not really clear. And most taxation is a percentage of income or value measured in dollars itself.

This argument never clicked for me: where is it coming from?
He's not writing confederate propaganda. Can we graduate from this idea of calling everyone you disagree with a nazi or racist? You can see here, what he wrote is consistent with my reading of history: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0032.105/--lincoln...
Autonomy expert: Musk's robotaxi prediction a “publicity stunt”
>> If you are separating functionality using functions, the compiler helps you spot problems.

> Maybe you could be more specific? I don't see how a compiler will help prevent coupling of modules/ internal components.

A super simple but effective way compilers prevent bad behavior is by preventing circular includes/imports. In a programming language, if module A imports module B, then module B can't easily import module A.* The compiler/interpreter will complain about circular/infinite imports. This general rule motivates developers to organize their code hierarchically, from high level abstractions down to lower level, and militates against inter-dependencies.

In contrast, there's nothing to stop microservice A from contacting microservice B, which in turn contacts back to microservice A. It's so easy to do, that many will do it without even realizing it. If you're developing microservice B, you may not even know that microservice A is using it.

Designed correctly, microservices can be another great way to separate functionality. The problem is actually designing them correctly, and keeping that design enforced.

* Sure, there are ways of effectively doing circular imports in programming languages, but they usually require some active choice by the developer. It's hard to do it by accident.
> Waymo is at about 1 driver takeover per 10,000 miles. Tesla is nowhere near that

2 Questions:

1) Anyone know what Tesla is at for km/takeover?

2) Is Waymo still testing inside tightly limited zones? If so I kinda feel this is unfair to compare controlled zone vs nationwide wherever customers choose.
Your are mixing things up.... In this situation the hacker is Facebook.

Most of the other Facebook data breaches where they didn't secure data accordingly would compare more to what you refer to.

This case is different though as Facebook performed unauthorized actions on email accounts, basically breaking in.
> only supporter devices are the Nexus 5 (which you can get new-old stock off eBay for <$100) and potentially the Purism 5 when it comes out.

There's a also the PinePhone, which might be a lower cost alternative to Purism 5 [1]. Currently in development (I think dev boards are now available), expected launch is end of the year.

[1] http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone
Sass is very much still useful today. Mixins, used sparsely, can be very powerful and avoid large doses of redundancy. Also variables with good names make the job a lot easier than communicating around hexvalues.
This is also what Google's new Flutter project uses to build cross-platform apps.
I do wish there were more advanced courses available. Tons of great intro material, but its harder to go deep
Tract – Tiny, no-nonsense, self contained, Tensorflow and ONNX inference
At the same time, Apple quietly opened a design centre in Shenzhen half a year ago.

It felt to me that they wanted to do this with the least publicity possible. They don't even have their company name at the index at first floor.
How is this different from git?
Honestbee is running out of money and trying to sell
> Ted Selker at IBM Almaden Research had an amazingly successful streak of getting useful innovations from the lab

I always thought that ThinkPads were done by IBM Japanese RnD centre
Go 1.13 is shaping up to be pretty fun
https://cointelegraph.com/news/volkswagen-joins-ibm-backed-b...

Looks like they want to use it to lower traditional auditing costs in developing countries. Not sure how the blockchain tech is supposed to help tracking materials or establish trust in such an environment but that's not really my field - presumably it adds a component of different people creating a digital paper trail that's harder to manipulate. That's an application compliance people in a few sectors seem to like these days, guess we'll see if it actually makes sense over traditional efforts in N years.
But if you go the GPL route your just a smelly old neck beard who harbors conspiracy theories about big business by refusing them a license permissive enough for a company to exploit to their liking.
Off topic, but I have to ask - what do you use the app for? In my head LinkedIn is a 'work' thing so I only use it on my laptop.
> For example, no one teaches you the way you see in this particular segment of an old EEVBlog episode [1].

That's odd. EE students in any ABET-accredited program should be formally trained to identify discrete analog design patterns like this without the aid of functional outlines. I know I was (even if I don't design analog circuits for a living). It's also standard practice in industry to segement a given system into simpler functional blocks as a first step in any analysis, discrete analog or VLSI alike.

Like an experienced developer who can often infer design intent by looking at a few lines of well written code, so too can a professional analog designer with circuits that look like magic to the untrained eye.
‘Satoshi’s Treasure’, the Global Alternate Reality Game – $1M BTC Prize
It's not a $312k salary unless the person takes no holidays, sick days, vacation and has no benefits or other fixed costs associated with their employement.
portugal did not legalize drugs, it decriminalized possession within certain limits ("ten-days supply").

It's pretty far from true legalization, but certainly better than 100% criminalized possession.
Here you go.

https://www.coindesk.com/volkswagen-to-track-minerals-supply...

> Last I checked there was literally no reason to use blockchain outside of cryptocurrencies since you get the same benefits just using GIT.

How does the data structure of a git repo differ from a blockchain? The only difference I can see is in how it’s used. A blockchain wouldn’t have more than one permanent branch.
Unicorns are less plausible than extraterrestrials imo
One way is to make sure the provenance is known from source tuples to all the way to the model version, and (eventually) retrain the model when any records upstream of it are deleted.
great observation. I think a likely explanation for a lot of these "sightings" is that they are simply artifacts in a complex sensor system!
>> It's much more effective to measure and understand those behavioral tendencies directly

> I never suggested otherwise? The term "tribal instincts" was meant to refer to precisely that.

You have a very broad definition of a "tribe", but at the very least, I would assume that it means defining a group of people with similar interests, no? My point is that it makes more sense to define and study the interests, rather than the groups.

People have lots of different interests, some overlap with others, some do not. Analyzing the underlying interests is much more important than defining groups of people who have "similar" interests.

> I think you have some fairly fundamental misconceptions about how deeply tribal instincts are rooted - not just in humanity, but primates and a great many other animals. They appear to be tied to evolution in a fairly direct manner.

I think you have a fundamental misconception on how people are different from other animals. People can change social structures and belief systems far more quickly than any other animal can. Most animal's social structure is dictated by evolution and instincts, which take thousands of years to modify. Humans are not limited to that, and can make huge fundamental changes in 20 years without any change in genetics.
Please don't anyone report this bug, let the italics roam free
I recently switch to mailcow-dockerized on a cheap 3€/month VPS and it works perfectly. I can create as many mailboxes as I want (until the disk is full) and also have as many domains / email adresses connected. It's really awesome and way easier than I imagined.

Mailcow: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/

My blog post: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/mail-server/
The thing I don't get about UFOs, assuming the alien hypothesis, is why are there so many different kinds of them.

Surely aliens would have settled on one, perfect, scalable vehicle design after millions of years of refinement? Spherical, probably. Instead, we get saucers, spheres, cigars, triangles...
I like the MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard.
Farm suicides unabated in Punjab, over 900 in 2 years
If the company fires 20-40% within first month, I would assume they are looking for too specific mold to fit in. I do not like places with too much pressure on conformity, so I would pass.

People in places where they fire easily and often are too insecure. That means taboos over things that should be discussion and fear of disagreement.
People that hacked and released NSA exploit: still free

People that weaponized NSA exploit and released Wannacry bitcoin ransom: still free (I think?)

People that weaponized NSA exploit for Monero mining: richer than Wannacry creator and still free

People that made silly exploit at NSA: still free

Moral of the story is dont get caught.
Checklists and Inspections Made Easy
This could be the killer "app" for Svelte, the ultra light web framework. A Brazilian team had trouble getting a non laggy UI in an underpowered POS device. Svelte was the only framework fast enough for a snappy UI and still had best developer experience. There are now 200k of these devices deployed.

https://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/349/
MT7621-based devices can all handle GbE and are supported by OpenWRT. Xiaomi among others sell routers based on this chipset, but personally I'd avoid them due to their locked-down bootloaders which complicate flashing. I myself purchased the YouHua WR1200JS, which is currently available rebranded on Aliexpress for under $35 USD as model "WR330" with OpenWRT pre-installed (although you should still reflash to be safe). It saturates LAN ethernet (~936mbps avg.) in my tests, but probably needs software/hardware offloading for Gb WAN, which I think is only enabled in snapshot versions of OpenWRT.

WLAN throughput is not so good, about 288mbps at 80mhz, but this was only one client device tested and not thoroughly because I don't know enough to diagnose bottlenecks. Regardless, this is more than enough to saturate my WAN connection - no issues with 6+ simultaneous wireless devices.
Well see that's the other thing: "Someday" they'll have to make these connections in case they are legally obligated to erase a data source and it's derivatives.
Using a find and replace instead of a variable holder is extremely bad practice. I should not have to copy/paste my site’s brand colors every time.

The original reason I switched was for nested structures so I could stop repeating myself. E.g.

div {

&:hover {}
.class ul {}

}

This made it much more pleasant to write in sass.

The other thing is mixins. If vanilla css doesn’t support this then it’s still a no-go.

Lastly I’m confused why sass of all things is an issue. It’s basically css, and very lightweight. You just add one step in your preferred build tool to transpile sass -> css. “vanilla is magically better” is not an argument.
Reading a schematic is a lot like reading a table of contents. It tells you what to expect on the PCBA but it doesn't tell you much about how the PCBA actually performs.

Electronics is much more practical than Software so you'll find that EEs and embedded software engineers take the pragmatic approach of looking at the physical signals to figure out what's happening instead of trying to understand the system from the schematic and first-principles. There's a huge amount of behavior that can only be observed, not anticipated. For example, capacitive coupling between lines on a board only presents itself in the physical PCBA. The schematic isn't going to tell you anything about that.

Think of it this way--the ICs and components are combined like functions in a program on the schematic. They're abstracted as taking a set of input signals and providing a set of output signals. The physical characteristics only make themselves known at the implementation level, which is like the PCBA layout. Even so, you actually have to power the board on or run the program before the performance characteristics and behaviors make themselves apparent.
Regulatory capture. EU regulators, yet again, failed to understand what and how they were regulating when it comes to computers. I find it surprising that few talk about the collateral damage of GDPR. The EU wasn't doing great in terms of internet companies. I can't imagine GDPR improved things.
This is the problem with the whole "carbs are making us fat" narrative. Sugar consumption peaked in 1999. But consumption of chicken and cheese has gone through the roof since then. As you can see from the charts, the decades where people were supposedly loading up on carbs were also decades where meat consumption exploded.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...

Americans are eating too much of everything, basically. A lot of the health benefits attributed to various diets are just the intrinsic benefits of losing weight.
How many transactions per second can Bitcoin handle? Theoretically
> Some novel things like a primaryColor variable to easily adust your theme is easily replicated with a traditional find/replace.

Any self respecting programmer will find this "solution" abhorrent and inelegant.
Persistence of Gravitational-Wave Memory
But that would be part of the point - a barrier to interrupt the ‘addictive’ aspect of a website.
I think what Elon needs is someone along side him who keeps his impulses in check. Tesla could go on to do many great things.
Why is "we will never ask for your passwords at any time" not a thing anymore? What Facebook did was phishing, basically. With the password Facebook could be doing a lot more rather than just "upload contacts". Imagine those passwords landing (or accidentally leaking) into the hands of third-party services Facebook is working with!
On the user end, what happened to "never ever give away your passwords"? I mean, that's why spear-phishing is so successful, because naïve people give away their passwords in the hopes that this darn annoying login-screen goes away.
Let's not forget the most devastating aspect of overpopulation, more and more people around to spout the same unproven theories over the last 50 years about "forest" and "underground" depletion.
I appreciate the European Collective Bargaining against corporations
There is an AI to "IF statements" chrome plugin.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ai-to-if-statement...
We moved from Gitlab CI to Buildkite

1) We moved from Gitlab to Phabricator and Phabricator CI sucks so much, we integrated buildkite with it instead

2) We quickly realised that Buildkite UI is superior, but also its runners. You can add custom extensions to Buildkite and make it do whatever you want https://buildkite.com/plugins
Machine learning merely learns patterns that are fed into it. I find it rather amusing that people do not like the result.
tech in general, I've variously: ported unix kernels, designed graphics cards, did low level chip design, chil design tools and a cloud startup, cable/satellite crypto, embedded RF/voip .....
When the magazine "Electronics Australia" was still around, they had a section written by a TV repair engineer. Each month, he would go through a repair scenario. The good thing is that he would describe what he was repairing from the actual doing and from the schematic. The explanation is quite good. From this I can correlate the two quite well.

I made the mistake of thinking I can also do some TV repair myself until I realised of the dangerous voltages floating about inside the TV.

This is similar to the what Louis Rossman is doing with his Youtube videos repairing Mac but without the cussing and the attitude.

These days, I doubt if any of these type of magazines are being published any more.
As an approximation take total revenue and divide by total engineering hours.

This does assume every hour spent on engineering is equal, and that's not even close to true. In most companies about 50% of the hours account for 99% of the revenue. Companies spend lots of time on things that don't make any money, and in some cases they knowingly spend time on things that lose money.

If you can identify the waste then you can easily find engineering time to spend on things like hiring with no impact on the bottom line at all.
Note the date on that. It’s my understanding that with modern browsers, except in pathological cases, selector performance is pretty much a non issue.
I think the core difference of opinion here seems to stem from a different interpretation of "meaningless".

You're arguing an academic definition of meaningful: can you design an AI that solves a hard problem?

gambler (and I think TheOtherHobbes, who you are replying to) are arguing a practical definition of meaningful: does it solve a problem people actually have?

It's neat that you can make artificial music, but actually generating music, per gambler's original comment, isn't a problem people have. It also doesn't actually add too much to culture. Essentially, the results are "meaningless" in that, even if it was successful at sounding good, what value would it actually have besides novelty?
They made the Internet harder to trust. Blocking certain domains has become almost a necessity.
Ephemeral is not an option then, isn't it? In face of regulation, some things can't/shouldn't be optimized. It's already the case for more established industries like pharma.
I disagree. Back then, people had a generally positive opinion about tech companies, Facebook and Twitter being held as examples of catalysts for democratic progress (being active in the Arab Spring, but that went sour later). Tech companies were seen as the victims of government overreach - being forced at metaphorical gunpoint to give up user info without a warrant. While there may have been some criticism of tech companies that supposedly bent over too easily, the primary villain in the Snowden saga was the NSA, secret courts, and other government agencies carrying out mass surveillance.

I think that's a big contrast to the situation today, where people are being called on to uninstall Facebook and Uber. YouTube, Twitter, and Patreon are criticized for uneven enforcement of their content policy (e.g. "learn to code" being a ban-worthy offense when directed to a journalist but not to others) and some countries are outright blocking social media platforms.
To be fair though, that's just a scheduling problem. Put interviews first thing in the morning or immediately after lunch and there's no way you'll be interrupting an engineer's flow state.
Henrik Ibsen invented realistic theater, and now he bores. Why?
Earth Is Dying and You're Working on What?
Quite the opposite, since it's GPU accelerated.
The Rise of the Staking Space
Please investigate 'everyone' for this.