skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moral issues will get swamped by practical ones pretty quickly.

Driving while checking a phone is illegal in most jurisdictions I'm aware of. Humans driving cars could eventually be seen in a similar light - there is no defense of choosing to drive yourself if a machine that is statistically better than you was available to do the job. It would literally be endangering other road users. And it isn't clear why a rational driver would choose to drive themselves anyway, other options being available.

The only blockers are (1) how good are computers really? and (2) how much extra does it cost?
brutino physics?
The Catholics address the question every so often.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2014/may/14/po...
"send me to the chip shop"

Do you have an accent by any chance - pretty much all voice recognition technology (Android, Apple, cars...) appears to be utterly flummoxed by my fairly mild Scottish accent.

[Edit: to be fair, my accent is probably fairly mild by Scottish standards, not compared to RP].
If this problem has to be solved by law then the laws should be the reverse, privacy by default, opt-in to tracking, laws about how that opt-in is presented and verified.
> My only complaint is that Vanguard has patented this method, so nobody else can immunize a mutual fund from taxes by bolting on an ETF

What the...? How is that possible, patenting a tax loophole?!
I'm tree weeks into:

git clone https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.git && cd hosts && pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt && python3 updateHostsFile.py --auto --replace --extensions social porn gambling

and going strong.

What I figured so far is that the trick is to stay away from the browser. So I've removed Safari on my iPhone (well, more like hidden), I've changed my rss client to newsboat - command line one, I moved all of my youtube subscriptions into rss, I've written a script that keeps track of videos I would like to watch from those rss subscriptions, downloads them in bulk in background (all hail systemd timers) and then gives me dmenu to pick a video to play in mpv.

I had Google app installed on my iPhone but I noticed that I use this thing to surf mindlessly again, so I deleted it. Basically I can't google stuff anymore on my phone =/. But so be it, it turned into communicator/navigator/music player/food orderer.

I did start reading books again because... Well, taking phone into toilet is pointless now, gotta do something, so I started reading books again. I'm actually reading multiple at the time, there is a paper book in the toilet, there is a book on my iphone and there is a book on my laptop, three completely unrelated topics so whenever I feel like procrastinating I read one of them. Well, except the one in toilet, I'm not procrastinating, I'm working hard there ;-).

Stay away from the browser guys.
It's striking that the rather obvious solution of the elites self-regulating a little as a way to avoid the dramatic problems they worry about doesn't seem to have been discussed.
I'd like for people to go back to understanding why atomicity is important and not "design" systems with microservices that have at most a few thousand users. As for the future I'm already extremely happy with the compromises Elixir gives me but I'd like to see a redux/mobx type thing that is setup from the server infrastructure and knows how to interact with the frontend without me constantly having to keep things in sync and up to date manually.
Making of Newton Protocol
Yeah if you get into PM it's a big hole.

I was suggesting stay within the narrow confines of customer comms. Just a shared calendar, some phone/sms/email integrations, and some kind of "den mother" supervisor to make sure comms are in sync with reality.
New volcanic island grows, connects to older island as eruption continues
Experts skeptical of Facebook’s moves to protect sensitive health information
"It's actually incredibly logical and intuitive to use if you have ever used a terminal."

Or even a web browser... First you open a tab, then navigate to the content you want to display there.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14830797
FreeCAD is the FOSS equivalent type of tool to Fusion360. Lots of learning material available on YouTube. I have designed wearable electronics / jewelery in it several times.

One can drop down to Python to do code-based parametric there also, with cadquery. But even as a software developer, I have only done that for 2 out of over 100 designs.
I have also maybe 2 times used the OpenSCAD importer to include some existing designs as parts into my project.
Just how was this discovered? "Hey, no food or drink in the lab. DARN IT - look what you did now!"
A big issue is that this can surprise a driver since an update can change the car's behavior.
Using pread would have been more work from the start but provides a more robust solution and doesn't have problems on Windows. I would argue that the incrementaly built mmap based solution is strictly worse, thus difficult to justify doing again.
SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA or Remote

I am a full stack ruby on rails developer with 7 years of experience. Worked at 4 startups and built a total of 15 web applications.

- frontend (React, Vue, JS, Jquery)

- ruby on rails

- databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

- work on mac osx

- 100/hour

- Portfolio: http://iqgiantllc.com/projects/

Contact: developer.judy.ngai@gmail.com
That's interesting. Basically the only reason I don't use Alexa or something like this is that I don't want 3rd party listening to me 24/7, so an open source alternative would be of great use. But I don't understand: it says it's open-source, yet the first thing I have to do is to create an account on their platform. So, what's that "open source" thing I ought to download and install, is it just a client? Can I use the thing completely self-hosted?

Also, how does it compare in terms of usability to Alexa/Siri? In fact, I'm not even sure I've seen a good open-source TTS at this point, nothing comparable to proprietary stuff. Is this mycroft thing better?
> most accident are in the 15 Km around the drivers' home

You’ll often read this, yes, but I read a fascinating breakdown that called BS on the whole thing.
Should I get this book on my Kindle? It’s available there.
Company provided iPhone SE with Vodafone support contract.

Backup/iCloud access are forbiden as per company IT securiy data management rules.
Link might be wrong (I got pointed to an Uber article). I think this is the article: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-vanguard-mutual-fund...
I'm going to take this in good faith and assume that you are thinking of old school FORTRAN77. Modern Fortran (90 and onwards) is a very different language in many ways whilst maintaining high backwards compatibility. You should check out modern versions of the language and code examples.

Fortran is a language more suited for numerical computing than C++. Modern Fortran is simpler, more maintable and more easily optimised than C++. Yes one could pick a subset of C/C++ and write fast numerical code but it would require more work and more discipline than using modern Fortran.
Pretty sure there was enough developers whom hated JavaScript. What happened is that made more if it.

A reality that we would still be supporting IE6 today because so many businesses still use it seems realistic to me. Maybe we would have developed a facade for it..

This brave actions of the OldTuber saved us a ton of effort.

Hopefully somebody from Oracle sneak in Clojure in the JVM!
SEEKING WORK

Location: Vilnius (Lithuania), Remote.

We are a three-person full-stack highly professional development team with extensive experience in online advertising and fintech. We can consult on architectural problems, work as a discrete unit or a part of another team on implementing the solution.

Describe us your task, project or idea and we will provide a timely response with estimates and a plan. We offer very flexible rates and will help you with suggestions on how to best optimize the development effort.

Our technology stack: .NET [Core] (C#, F#); ASP.NET; JVM (Clojure, Java, Scala); Python; AngularJS; Vue.js; React; iOS (Swift); AWS (wide range of services); databases: Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Datomic, Couchbase, Redis, Event Store.

For contact details please visit: https://www.8bitstudio.dev/
>$?? million aircraft
>mic made of rotten potato
But how do I get visitors in the first place, this is the first challenge. Twitter is pretty good at hiding my promotion tweets from other users...
China uses smartphone app to target people for investigation: Human Rights Watch
Having access to email is huge issue not only for fast.co but for all sorts of services. Little hope is 2 factor auth.
Not true. Rotating bodies experience acceleration without any material contact.
1. That article makes a number of very important assumptions which make or break the model.

The first is 5% interest. Mortgages can be significantly less interest - mine is 1.08% right now (fixed for 2 years, but those are the most important 2 years for paying down).

The second is that you'd pay the mortgage off over 30 years. It's entirely possible to pay off much quicker - perhaps 15 to 20 years - in which case the total interest paid drops significantly.

2. The article completely misses the other huge value of buying a home - risk mitigation. You can't be evicted suddenly for reasons out of your control, you're not subject to market whims in rent (there's an upside to this, but generally rents are sticky - you need to move house to get a better deal even in a falling market), you have no unexpected moving costs, your kids can stay in the same school. Looking at it purely from a monetary point of view completely misses the point.

Ultimately the benefits of stability are worth a lot, especially as you get older.
This article is great, and full of really helpful advice!

I think the best advice for me was "Add sample data to avoid an empty nest." I just realized that my product has this problem, so I'm going to be adding some sample data for new users. I think I'll also have a toggle switch so you can easily hide all the samples. (It would be annoying if you had manually delete everything.)

Concierge setup is also a great idea, and I've recently been offering that to new customers.
The nick was unknown to me.

From the ticket it seems to me that the root cause was not handling text as GUI applications are supposed to do(aka like Wordprocessors).
That criticism doesn't make sense if one syntax is completely identical to another in terms of the underlying semantics. Different syntax, same language.
> Our recent study on the Do Not Track (DNT) browser setting indicated that about a quarter of people have turned on this setting, and most were unaware big sites do not respect it.

I have not enabled it for this reason. Any site can just ignore it and there's nothing you can do about it.

So I take care of that myself with running a PiHole, uBlock and alike.
Every few years my phone breaks, and I take my sweet time replacing it. Recently I went about a month without a phone at all. It's much more relaxing, and it's nice to spend 20 minutes on a train just looking out the window.
You are absolutely correct, cuts is just their goto excuse this time around.
> the Cantor set or the Borel Hierarchy is like the USS Enterprise or the Iron Throne. In fact Star Trek fans talk of the Star Trek universe and GOT fans of Westeros and they talk like these places really exist.

You're right, it feels like quite a loose analogy, and only holds when discussing a "canonical" fictional universe. Still, I'm sympathetic to the idea that when we're talking about a circle we're talking about a shared abstract understanding rather than something which objectively exists.
Am a former military intelligence officer of an MNNA nation, had SIGINT and VISINT postings during my career including in the aerospace command which is integrated with the national air and strategic missile defence systems and while we could track loose bird flocks with OTH Radar probably as far as the Indian subcontinent we've never seen aliens.

Don't get me wrong some of these are really fucked up and can't be dismissed as a weather balloon or a sensor error easily, but saying that UFOs are an open secret is simply wrong.

So either the US is unique in the of attention they get or that UFOs ignore the area between the Straights of Gibraltar and the Straights of Aden like a plague which would also contradict the first assumption given the sheer number of US assets in the area.
Expecting life on other planets can be justified that way. Expecting intelligent life can be weakly justified, it only happened once here and seems to involve a lot of fluke. Expecting UFOs can't rest on that argument alone - you'd need new physics to get from any A to any B at an interstellar level and even more new physics to pull right-angle turns at high mach numbers in an atmosphere.
The link was intended to point to one of the article subsections, the one called Tax Dialysis.

Can't link straight to it, unfortunately.
Online Shopping While Drunk May Be Worth Billions to the U.S. Economy
But that doesn't expose all other accounts associated with that email address in general. But this approach makes them all vulnerable at-once which makes the hacker login to any site I am registered with that logs in using this service.
I’m always sharing diffs of code, screenshots, browsing code snippets online etc. Unless every single one of these tools also allows me to configure the way the AST is rendered then this approach adds a lot of confusion for not much benefit.

The actual representation of code is just as important as the AST in many cases. If it wasn’t then we would all just code in lisp.
is it bad if i'm 31 and I don't get lured by office events either?
> without copying

While it's true that memory bandwidth is sometimes a limiting factor in performance, I've found that much more frequently people overestimate the cost of memory operations and don't check their estimates against benchmarks.
> [people with money] overwhelmingly choose to live in high cost of living cities.

You're confounding your observations. People with money choose to live in areas that maximize their quality of life, and they don't mind paying a premium for that.

Quality of life matters to all, whether rich or poor. Poor people aren't masochists.
None of those things are literally circles, though. If you look close enough there will be a deviation.
N-body physics simulation on OS X Metal
Those scripts are loaded asynchronously; you can start seeing content before they are ready.
>How did you do?

I don't know what I'm supposed to see here, but it looks suspiciously like the first photo ever taken.
What bugs cause production cloud incidents? [pdf]
You would be able to integrate Hal (http://halisback.com) that’s is the best assistant out there to all the different components from different companies and make him do basically everything
AWS S3 has bittorrent support...
90% piracy is about par for the course. Doom and Quake's was even higher IIRC. It basically tells you that your game runs on cheap PCs and poor people won't spend more than 5-10$ on a game. Steam sales and region-based pricing are one way of trying to capture that market.
I'm wondering if somewhere someone has a program running a simulation on combinations of chemicals to see what would happen.
I've been going 3-5 miles for over 5 years because it makes me feel good. I never heard of these people or their habits until yesterday.

By the way, if you can walk 5 miles effortlessly, you can probably walk an entire day with little breaks. I've done some 15+ mile walking sessions in NYC. By the end of it, it's really not bad if it's a nice day out (it can get ridiculously hot and cold in NYC).
zoom:1;float:left
They could just be making observations and taking measurements. Maybe they don't want to interfere and are more interested in studying our development.

Or maybe they are scouts that were sent all over the cosmos for the purpose of exploration and they will report back their findings to their home eventually.

There are plenty of rational explanations for their behavior, especially if we are extremely far behind them in our technological development.
I was a bit sceptical when I read the title, but the author raises a good point about calcifying users into suboptimal ux decisions.

Wofkflow breaking UI changes are always hard and there's always someone whose use case [you're breaking](https://xkcd.com/1172). Then again, you can't please everyone and it might hurt to stick with older decisions.

Onboarding itself is extremely valuable. No application is so self explanatory that everyone gets it without a guide. When should you onboard then? I'd say when you're sure that you're not doing any major changes within the next few months.

All UIs can and should be iterated upon and it helps if you have a timeline on when you're upgrading which views and components and it'll help you decide when to launch the initial onboarsing process.
Will China Export Its Illiberal Innovation?
There’s clearly contradictory information going on, so I can see why a customer may be confused.
WebLogic RCE Flaw Triggers the Deserialization of Code to Spread Ransomware
Why not using git, as in every significant code section, which deserves a comment shall be commited and commented freely in the git commit message?

Then what you need is just a git blame(?) to visualize the current code section's comments.

Would this work?
Turns out most people use the ‘alternative app stores’ to avoid paying for games and developers are just following the money. High quality games are appearing on iOS.
Which view source app did you use?

I used to resort to firebug light (DOM viewer) bookmarklet but it doesn’t seem to work anymore.
This is essentially how databases like PostgreSQL work, but in essence it only avoids the sys-call overhead. The OS is already caching the file, regardless of mmap, so using pread would have likely been enough for us.

It totally would have been simpler overall, but each incremental step we made was significantly less work than the refactoring required for pread.
So just to fuel a conspiracy theory: the huge budget overstretch of the F-35 fighter could be a cover for a secret set of drone fighter jets.
Oh sure, but that's why you have the context. My point is that the time gap between a tool like this becoming technically possible and someone executing it successfully will be incredibly small. So the chances of the current moment in time being in that gap is tiny.
and possibly just 'younger' folks who've only ever known or worked with whatever came out in the last 1-3 years?

the older people get, the less time and interest they're going to have in spending a long weekend with random people trying to work on something collaboratively.

i've done a few - my team (of 3) came in second place (against a team of 16!) with around 20 teams in total. Good feeling, but nothing ever came of it - protip, learn if your team members are actually at liberty to work on the project after that weekend. Mine were both barred from pursuing the project in any meaningful way (work visa for non-citizen, and non-compete with existing employer for the other).

Did a followup hackathon later - all teams seemed to self-organize before the event, which wasn't promoted/explained beforehand (but apparently about 80% of the people 'knew' already). Left with working with random people who didn't understand the idea that '48 hours' mean 'consecutive' hours. Two hours into the project, my one partner said "hey, i gotta leave to pick up my kids - i'll be back tomorrow around noon for a few hours"... and then left.

That was also my first taste of 'sponsored' hackathon - you had to use one of 4 sponsor-supplied APIs to qualify for anything.
Hi Seagreen!

Thanks for stopping by, and sorry to disappoint you. Our developers do use a number of technologies, including Python, and yes, Haskell. Call us old fashioned, but we like to chose the best technology to solve the problem, and to give our developers the freedom and autonomy to do that to the best of their skills. Hey, it works for us :)
Ha, this is how we've been advertising our wearable, personal assistant (aidlab.com) during the launch on Facebook (such a copyright infringement!). We've been facing the hardware limitation to add the NLP directly on the MCU, as we wanted to omit the 3rd parties. Secondly, adding ‚reasonable’ voice commands like setting appointments, wiki search or alarms is nothing we could have done alone, so we’ve discontinued this idea for now.

If we define J.A.R.V.I.S. as a pseudo-intelligent assistant, with a basic understanding of voice commands and biosignal tracker then it’s certainly doable, as there are some commercial implementations. Otherwise (like real-time voice chat, or even accurate suggestions based on every-day habits), it is still too soon IMO.
You can do that with a MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED mapping too: that kind of mapping is writable by both parent and child, but isn't backed by a disk file and so can't be truncated or surprise-removed. The article's points about mmap infelicity applies mostly to mappings of disk files. Anonymous mappings don't have the same problems.
Come on. How is USS Princeton video not already debunked and classified as optical effect in camera? If you look at it, you can see how the "UFO" rotates at rate ~2x faster than the camera, which implies some reflection is happening. If it was an actual object, why would its rotation be coupled to the sensor recording the video?
Writing Apps You Should Try in 2019
Where does the Modern Fortran community congregate? Any websites or mailing lists?
Agreed. See also: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2VxeIm1no

CGP Grey talking about water proof phones invading his shower times with podcasts
Controversial Wikipedia Edits Wipe Out Denuvo Crack History
where the guy that helped stop the attack got locked up by the US feds for stuff he did in his teens while visiting a security conference. They've kept him locked up on anything they can drum up for the purposes of flipping him. Has it been two years already?
You should see the men too given how many doctors are women. Pharma sales is the most competitive of all sales jobs and doctors one of the hardest professions to sell to. The outcome is unless you has totally stunning and dripping in charm you are not getting into see the doctor.
Easy. No need to claim the Garden of Eden is on Earth.
Do you really think the military, with all their technological snazz and pizazz, is going to be chasing lens flares?

Consider the fact that this was a radar incident too. And that the ships were using meshed synthesized radar, not just one ship at a time.
Can you elaborate? As far as I know the immunesystem "has no access" to the brain?

Also by "factor" do you mean protein?

I'm just an electronics guy, would love to know more.
Yep, still there. I picked up a nice tree ornament last month :)
Are you suggesting the other OECD countries don't also have an absurd wealth distribution that absolutely has a massive impact on the health of the citizens?
If you want the symbol just to avoid typing an extra key, you can use a workaround.

Get a keyboard with some extra keys (or a small side-board) and just get a ≤ key. Then just program it as a macro for <=.

Wouldn't really solve the "programming language recognizing the symbol" Though that could probably be hacked in as well if you _really_ want to.

I mean, I know this is not ideal. I'm just throwing out bad ideas :D
> The OS is already caching the file

Not necessarily. With O_DIRECT, pread() doesn't put pages into page cache: it just DMAs them directly into your process. Using O_DIRECT and the process-private caching we've been discussing, sophisticated programs (like databases) can (and do!) implement their own "page cache" systems. And because databases have access pattern information that the generic kernel VM subsystem doesn't, such a database can frequently do a better job doing this caching on its own.