skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So raising a point on a random internet post is now considered "yelling"? Interesting. Also, I called "that reason" dumb. Perhaps you're personally involved with the project, but please try to read things as they are instead of taking offense unnecessarily.

Counterargument: How about one doesn't remove stuff like i18n in updates? Or what about simply delaying the deployment until the i18n and other features are done? Or is removing support for other languages considered acceptable if the new, English only, website looks very pretty? [tone is of light sarcasm]

Counterargument #2: just because something is open source doesn't mean you can go "well, just open a ticket or do it yourself". No, how about people in general update things properly (or at the very least, don't remove translations)? I'm perfectly allowed to criticize removing important functionality like i18n. It was there, now it isn't, and I didn't make the choice to remove it. It's not my job to do other people's jobs for them just because I exercised my ability to criticize something. Otherwise I would be working on GUIs/UX for open source linux projects until I die. [tone is of exasperation in open source software development]
Teen Commits Suicide After Instagram Poll
Positive revenue, for the first time since 1998. I think there are more factors at play there than just the fact that they had an interstitial asking users to contribute or subscribe.
That would cause an impossibly tight schedule for everyone and no actual work would have time to happen

The way I see it is: Bursts of work combined with prolonged pauses because of others' schedules and other issues with coordination
If that were the case, most executives would stay put for decades and take pride in their company. Executives are mercenaries, staying for a few years and moving once someone offers a bigger slice of pie. Lots of people are addicted to exponential growth and wealth and blinded by the damage this behavior wreaks on everyone else.

The work argument is bullshit too. I'm convinced with a few months of hands on training, any passionate and competant person can do the job of a CEO. It is really a job that lacks any qualifications beyond managing a small network of people. CEOs don't work 100x as hard as someone working full time and a second job to make 1% a CEOs pay.
Announcing the Wolfram Client Library for Python
Yeah, Spain/Portugal/Italy isn't that into English in my experience.

Only commercially
Breaking News: Every IPO is a money grab after all the other pigs got to eat. It's been this way forever.
So you want to stifle technological process because some people can't be bothered to be responsible? Darwinism at work honestly.
"Bosch to buy lots of carbon offsets by 2020." Without any breakdown on how much is just buying carbon credits, and without any comparison to emissions further down in their supply chain, I'm skeptical about whether this is meaningful.
XSLT is Turing complete with the usual caveats about memory. Given its complexity it'd be very unlikely for it not to be, but there's clear proof too: someone has implemented a universal Turing machine in it.
Can't you override GPS too? I thought that was part of the exploit chain that netted Iran a stealth drone.
John Cochrane is not the first person to think of the economy as the transfer, flow and storage of knowledge.

See this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Information-Grows-Evolution-Econo...

The author of this book not only thinks about the economy in terms of knowledge but he relates it to information theory and entropy.
Agreed.

It doesn't matter if it is hard to recognize, if you are unable to understand something then you are by definition incompetent with respect to the task or idea.
This is an opinion about how people should feel about your speech, not an opinion about what rights people should have with regards to speech.

You're welcome to it, but it seems tangential. I certainly am not interested in you telling me how to feel.
Back when the Computing-Tabulating-Recording company expanded and renamed themselves International Business Machines their bread and butter was automated card reading and managing, but I know the manual card reading process (with rods and trays) continued, amazingly, into the 1950s at least (I had professors who had used those techniques as grad students).

Hollerith, however, already had electrical (I hesitate to say "electronic:) card reading in the 19th century (Hollerith was one of the progenitors of CTR by the way.). All those cool optimizations like mercury-bath readers, vacuum columns for tapes etc were simply expensive performance optimizations of tasks previously done mechanically, only viable for people with huge datasets.

By the 1940s the Bell long distance area code routing tables were stored as sets of metal punch cards the size of North American automobile license plates. As they were metal (they were read a lot) they were presumably read mechanically though I haven't ever seen the apparatus. Yes, they updated the routing tables by sending huge crates of metal tablets to each toll office.

Whippersnappers might not remember the ubiquity of punch cards (actually I don't remember either, and I'm the oldest of the genXers), but apparently you got one with your bills, like utilities and charge card bills, so they could assign payment to the correct account. I do remember highway tolls being collected by issuing a punch card upon entry to the turnpike and then having the toll collector use that to calculate the toll due when you exited. Apparently the phrase "do not fold, spindle or mutilate" was a commonly used tagline for jokes about the computerization of society as all theses cards bore that legend.
I may have experience, but it wasn't me that decided this. It was also from talking to a lot of new people, and their reactions to various code samples.

> I completely understand if you desire to focus the site on people with experience on Rust.

It's not, actually! It's the opposite. However, the audience is not just pure programmers either, it's also people like CTOs, etc.
1700: https://opencurtains.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/false-lights/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_(shipwreck)

(Fictional, but widely believed to be true, at least for a time)
see my reply to the parent post
In my experience, working in startups is anything but boring. You have to wear all hats and solve all problems. You have to be ready to think on your feet. You've gotta be able to think fast and act and be able to deal with the consequences of your actions on the fly. This is start up life. It's exciting, but it's stressful. Some might call it a baptism of fire.

Working in startups - especially if they have funding, is definitely not what I'd call boring.

If you're thinking about a startup, you need to be comfortable doing full stack dev, testing, infrastructure, operations, debugging in production, debugging on your local dev, databases both querying and architecture, unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, scalability and being able to be ripped out of whatever it is you're doing that needed to be finished yesterday to debug the server that just went down taking out your primary income stream; and then when it's done and you've high fived a couple of people, you need to be able to sit right back down and get the shit out of the door you got ripped away from to do that.

This is startup life. If you don't like the heat, you'd definitely better stay out of the kitchen.

If you're working in a startup and you're finding it boring, then chances are this startup isn't going anywhere. Time to get your CV out.
It's always immensely satisfying to hear a personal story of my work benefitting another fellow human being. Thanks for sharing!
I found it ingratiating.
Avoid ORMs (2018)
Hearing aid technology is used in milatary and police aplpications, mostly as small discrete communication devices.

I warn against using devices to make it easier to hear - when you have no hearing loss - as it could make your hearing system "lazy".

Just like physiotherapists now advise against overuse of knee and neck braces. Better to strengthen the muscles needed to do the function rather than supplement with an aid.
Can anyone who knows more about this than me comment on whether buying carbon offsets is more than just a PR move? Props for investment in green energy though.
So Shattered was "give me two different documents with the same sha1, I don't care what they are". I guess according to Wikipedia that's a "classical" collision.

Then there's "here's two different documents. Append to both of them until the results have the same hash". This is "chosen prefix" collision.

My question is, is there a name for an attack that says "here's a document. give me another document with the same hash."? (in which case, "the original" would have meaning).
Former commercial pilot here: we user to be doing IIIC approaches at least 3 times a year.

For the rest, usually below 10.000 feet, there van never be "two heads up", so one pilot is always watching the instruments. Any deviation from expected parameters (airspeed, verticale speed, ils deviation, radio altitude) Will result in an unstabilised approach and thus the execution of missed approach procedures (a go-around).

As mentioned elsewhere, everyone in aviation knows these systems are as insecure as can be.

Edit: forgot to finish a sentence..
A lot of that book took into account real life events and people. Unfortunately I don't have specifics on that one, so hopefully the parent does.

Also, that book is fantastic, as are the prequels.
Have you ever known poor people for whom money and charity donations actually changes their lives? There are quite a lot of those all over this big world.
> Carbon offsets are to be gradually scaled back by 2030, and Bosch is stepping up investments in renewable energies to this end.

They're temporary until they get their renewable energy infrastructure in place. Not ideal, but they seem to have a plan.
Today I learned...
I find it boring, but that's why I'm trying to get out of the industry and find an alternate career. Software development has broke me.
but that doesn't support the scary narrative!
Ask HN: Would you pay for a platform that log activities on your infrastructure
Objectively not true....Autopilot is only used in a small subset of driving situations that are less risky than overall driving. And yet in the last 8 months alone, Autopilot has caused 3 easily avoidable deaths.

Autopilot is getting worse not better with time, and Tesla's tendency to introduce regressions (as with the Bay Area crash) means any temporary improvements in driving AI are just that--temporary.
> i appreciate your optimism but i would consider it more on the unrealistic side, especially given that truck drivers probably aren't gung ho about studying for years to get retrained given most of them don't have college degrees in the first place.

That doesn’t mean we should create or endorse make work projects, jobs that could be faster, cheaper and more efficient when automated. Society has a responsibility to these people, which is why I support both basic income and job retraining programs. It’s the humane way to make progress without fear.
That's a more reasonable use case, but it still doesn't make forced updates a good thing. Opt-in automatic updates, sure, but not forced.

However, this will encourage the use of forced updates outside of that use case. That sounds like a terrible thing.
The lifecycle and performance of a Lucet (Fastly's native WASM engine) instance
Good example! Also people who move to the bucolic countryside and then complain about the pig farm next door.

We have this in Palo Alto: people move to the Cal Ave district and then complain about the noise from the dive bar Antonio's that's been there for decades. Fortunately the city has so far ignored these complaints.
Would you pay for an auditlog platform that centralize activity like aws login, private dashboard, infrastructure software?

So I read about the Matrix.Org hack recently and Citrix Hack.

I think the source of problem is that we don't have a tool that centralize all these activity yet. If we can have a tool like that soo ideally you, as a DevOps engineer, has an overview of:

- any AWS login or resource modification are log and category.

- any activity to private service: such as your Grafana dashboard, login to Jenkins, login to Sentry, login to OpenVPN, SSH into bastion or production, connect to PostgresSQL/MySQL console

Once we have that kind of information, we can easily get alert in realtime for suspicious activity.
Don't lose sight of the fact that in the case of 2008, we had absolute fraud taking place in both the mortgage bond market (abetted by the ratings agencies) as well as in the banks through fraudulent loan originations. Not only were there no-doc mortgages (NINJA loans), but also just outright fake people in the end. I don't think the same level of fraud is going on right now, okay maybe in cryptos...

Also, your grandfather shouldn't have had all his money in equities. He should have retired and lived out of a savings account while the markets rebounded then re-balanced into bonds/CDs as the market bounced back. I got whacked in '08, but then made it all back and more. 2 yrs. of living expenses in cash would have prevented losing 500K.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think the flagged comment is a troll-troll.

There are streaks of self-awareness in that comment if you squint hard enough. This troll is clearly out to "sow" discord in the community, and he's being compensated for it in some manner. I say that because it's hard to arrive on any other conclusion -- why would he waste time on an audience like this of all places?
I remember the tolls like that as well. The Ohio Turnpike had them as late as 2000, IIRC.
These days racket-mode for Emacs is more than decent!

Could wish for similar modes for SublimeText and VisualCode though.
Was it an interview for lead position or just coder? How did this end?

It looks like a good chance to outline the resource requirements for accomplishing this. No way should this be a work of team-of-one.

State the expected stages and some ideas for possible architecture and frameworks.

Then ask for resources needed to implement this with some rough-optimistic estimates, including the budget.

That should be enough for a serious conversation to begin with interested party.
Yep I’m married to the ecosystem as well, but if my main MacBook from early 2015 breaks in the next few months while not being employed, I’m not sure what I’d do. I mean I know I’d probably use my family’s older 2011 MacBook until I get a new MacBook later on. But if that MacBook isn’t available, I might have to switch.
Or the subdivision I used to live in where right before they moved the city hall across the street they tore-up the landscaping in the middle of the entrance and bulges on the sides near intersections for this reason. For a few years it was this way, fortunately there was no fire in the meantime. They added more speed humps in the process.
They could remove digits and eyes but I never saw it happen.
_Citation Needed_ - I agree we'll get there eventually, but is it currently lower?
Key development missing from this article is Jeff Wu's coining of the term "data science" back in '97.
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jeffwu/presentations/datascienc...
That's not really the truth though, is it? If nobody was happy, then the new site wouldn't have been deployed. Or by "nobody was happy", did you mean "nobody really cared, because English is their primary language, thus they aren't affected at all"?

The new website is very pretty. I don't understand why the deployment could not have waited until the translations were completed. Even just translating 4-5 widely used languages would've sufficed, although still not ideal compared to the old website.

Even if people wanted to visit the old website, it's buried at the bottom of the new one, practically invisible.
No ethics board today would allow this study at all. That said, the key finding was that people recovering from starvation need very large amounts of calories but specific nutrients don’t matter very much. There’s no reason to expect this wouldn’t be generalizable.
Go wanted to deprecate OpenPGP support. But, it looks as if they have walked that back a lot:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30141

"We will be deprecating the packages listed above, except openpgp/, otr/ and xts/.

I'll update the proposal and send a CL shortly."
Time to Ditch Mailchimp?
>Once one agent learns how to become more competitive by sacrificing a common value, all its competitors must also sacrifice that value or be outcompeted and replaced by the less scrupulous. Therefore, the system is likely to end up with everyone once again equally competitive, but the sacrificed value is gone forever. From a god’s-eye-view, the competitors know they will all be worse off if they defect, but from within the system, given insufficient coordination it’s impossible to avoid.[0]

0: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
If I didn't know better, I'd interpret the question as a (pretty good) joke.
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>Autopilot is only used in a small subset of driving situations...

By a subset of the driving population who are less risky than the overall driving population.
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There's no confirmation WhatsApp does that.
I don’t understand. I thought the brain does the isolation of single voices from an audio stream, not the ear drum.
'I wasn't wrong, I was just early'

'Thats the same thing Michael's

-The Big Short
The problem is how the cause deaths are perceived. An imperfect (aka "randomly kills you") AI is far scarier than a statistic that people interpret as "x% of bad drivers". Most people think they are better than the average driver. Not to mention that a lot of deaths are due to bad other drivers.

It's why people freak out about terrorism more than they do about car crashes or drug addicition.
Study finds scientific reproducibility does not equate to scientific truth
> when used properly by an attentive driver who is prepared to take control at all times, drivers supported by Autopilot are safer than those operating without assistance. For the past three quarters we have released quarterly safety data directly from our vehicles which demonstrates that.”

Tesla attached a lot more caveats than you did in order to assert superior safety.
These industrial parks look like the perfect semi enclosed environments to start using these level “4” vehicles in production. Plenty of wide open lanes and clear paths, not too heavy traffic and no random tourists gawking at them or being put at risk.
same reason street cars aren't hard limited to 70 mph with low acceleration
> So in other words: It no longer requires any malice to pay this way, as it's just a cultural norm in the business world.

Sure. But I don't think this is a sufficient defense — at the extremes, cultural norms can result in horrific things even though individual actors may not be motivated by malice.

> By the way, it's also a cultural norm in the US to complain about the lack of generosity among those richer than you, and yet spend almost 100% of your salary helping yourself, when you could just as easily spend it on those less fortunate.

There's definitely an incongruity between people's expectations of those above them and what they contribute themselves. We should all give more! But even if I were to donate 100% of my salary, it would barely dent things for those 500 employees.

When we complain about people above us, we're (usually) not chastising individuals but calling for systemic solutions to these issues. The overarching goal isn't for people to donate more of their resources, but to structure things in a more equitable way so that people don't rely on individual generosity in the first place.
That's a terrible mentality. Exponential growth is not sustainable. The worst thing about technology companies these days is that putting out a polished product and covering overhead + emergency funding is seen as a failure. Products must be modified to extract money from the consumer at every turn, and the market cap must rise and rise. If engineers would leave a company because its no longer growth driven, then our universites have failed to teach empathy in their engineering curriculum.
Btrfs isn't even on the agenda.
Let's not fall for this corporate propaganda and delude ourselves into thinking that a profit seeking entity will somehow pay "social dividends" at the expense of profits.

"Bosch has agreed to pay $327.5m to resolve allegations in the US that it played a significant role in Volkswagen’s diesel emissions scandal."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH#Role_in_emis...
https://www.ft.com/content/964a2f72-e898-11e6-967b-c88452263...
You're definitely right.
I wonder if he's thinking of jumping off of the swing and doing a 360 in the air.

Apparently it can be done if your swing has rigid bars in stead of ropes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6KvBn7QvzaI
> Also, if you're a company and you have a platform like facebook and Twitter, and you're a private company, not the government, you can kick whomever you damned well please off your service, or delete their posts, or edit them to make them look stupid.

According to at least some court decisions, this may not be true if you control enough of the public space to be effectively a "public square". This is what people are building their arguments around.

When the Constitution was written, there was a smaller population and towns had a clear center, so you could reach people effectively by standing on a soapbox on Main Street. That simply isn't possible anymore. Now that large corporate entities control both the physical public square (malls) and the virtual environment, there is nowhere left to set up a soapbox. This diminishes the natural right of free speech. There is an argument to be made that any entity large enough to constitute part of the public square should have to allow open access for people to stand on their soapbox.

Not an originalist take by any means, but that's not necessarily a disqualifier unless you're a strict constitutionalist.
Likely apocryphal [1], possibly inspired by a true story from 1878 about a court case involving well-known painter James McNeill Whistler [2]:

> "Oh, two days! The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas!"

> "No;-I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime."

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/

[2] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/12/lifetime/