skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the craziest I’ve seen all weeks and I’ve seen so many crazy stories regarding law enforcement already this week.

Officer’s son shoots man in back of head, lies and tampers with evidence and isn't charged with murder: https://www.news4jax.com/news/fdle-arrests-baker-county-man-...

Corrections officers neglect prisoner who dies, one goes back to work: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/05/21/j...
An AGI will think much faster than 7 billion human brains put together. It will also self improve much faster.
Interesting, it seems we are in the midst of famine conditions if it doesn't stop raining on the USA and droughting in Australia. It seems every part of the planet right now is having trouble with it's food supply.

One theory I was researching was the grand solar minimum.
I love this kind of stuff! I don't travel for work, so I never had a good excuse to set something like this up.

Not having a screen is a bit of a downside, you could use your phone as a screen but that would defeat the purpose as you can SSH into a box at home/work from your phone.

I personally have a cheap (200 euro) 11" Acer ES1 laptop with Linux installed that I leave in my car or suitcase for those moments that I am not willing/able to take my work laptop. It runs for about 14 hours on a charge and can be charged directly from my car's 12V outlet. It can boot from a SD-card or even boot straight from the internet. The keyboard is actually really nice.
I understand that and that's why I haven't said there's anything wrong with your opinion or that I disagree.

Yes, we'd all love to have our tools (repository, package hosting, CIs, ...) both satisfying our needs and be free of whims of for-profit companies.

Some of us simply don't care that much as long as what we have now works and I just wanted to append that to the conversation.

That's why I only said that your message reads like... and not assumed you really believe the service is bad in overall just because it's bad within scope of one aspect that's close to your heart. :)
> If you want 100% of SLIME goodness without sacrificing vim, try spacemacs.

Or just Evil + Evil-collection. Spacemacs is pretty bloated.
there are an estimate of 7,714,576,923 AGI
algorithms residing upon our planet. You can
use the vast majority of them for less than 2$/hour

Way too expensive for many tasks.

most of it goes to waste

If it was $0.0002 instead of $2, it would be used for translation and other tasks humans are better at then current software.

Also a human is pretty big, needs to eat and fart. A phone one the other hand is pretty small and only needs battery.

Superhuman artificial general intelligence
is not something that we can define

Google will define it as "AI translations increase our KPIs more then human translations.". And measure it via A/B-tests.
We developed a number of applications on it, but found it to be very verbose, quite brittle and needlessly complex.

It is brittle because XAML itself is a compiled language without the ability to step through or debug well, which means runtime errors in the object tree usually causes the entire app to crash with very abstract error messages.

it is complex because the language is supposed to be an object tree building mechanism and thus needs to be quite generic.

It is verbose because of the underlying abstracted data model. e.g dependency properties etc.

Compared to HTML, where the 'evolutionary' pressure to create a workable compromise is much higher.

I used to think XAML could be better if architected well, but the missing ecosystem and usage around it made it so, that HTML was and still is massively more productive.
You've definitely had this shift from chinos/button-down shirts/boat shoes business casual (i.e. more or less traditional East Coast preppy) to jeans/hoodies/t-shirts/sneakers among much of the tech set at least outside of settings like meeting with customers.

I used to pretty much always wear the business casual "uniform" but a few years ago I found myself going a bit more casual at the more developer-oriented events I would attend because I was starting to feel overdressed.
Versus the "eat more meat", "drink more milk", "ingest more HFCS", "build more sprawl" campaigns?

Freedom Markets™ proponents always obsesses over taxes and ignore the incentives.

Consumption will follow the subsidies.
What are some current trends to watch out for?
Trends in software, technology, culture, etc.
From what I can gather, it appears that a large amount of industry in Japan relies (or did at some time) on the long flowering cycle causing continual growth of the bamboo stalks, only further complicated by the cloning process that likely cuts from the same plants.
otoh, sponsoring developers avoids the friction between teams about how to share sponsorships etc. they should offer both though
The CEO gave everyone a dressing down regarding dressing down?
Purely on a practical level we don't tend to eat apex predators as they have a build up of unpleasant chemicals within their flesh.
Homer was wrong in his assumption. If there however does exist a button, and it works, and there is no danger associated with ignorance about its internals, then there is nothing wrong with using the button. After all, someone put it there.

> If you don't want to know how your tools work, I question one's competence or desire to do this job.

I in turn question one's competence when, instead of getting the job done, hours upon hours are spent on irrelevant parts of configuration or getting some ideal solution to work where something less elegant would perfectly suffice. Unfortunately, the folks insisting on 'mastering' ones tools tend to often be in that category.

As an analogy: I don't care if the craftsmen that fixes my house uses his hammer holding it upside down. I only care that my house is properly fixed and stays so. How that was achieved, I could not care less about.
Some fellas at work started Formal Fridays. They like the excuse to dress up.
This entire project is about implementing already-existing functionality in its own way, with minimal dependencies, for fun.

Its use of the C++ language strives to be modern. There is no attempt to use modern 3rd-party C++ frameworks.
> how many string formatters do we have now? Could we please decruft and dump some of them while we're at it? % or f' or .format or whatever

To me, there's a difference between "one way" and "one interface." I agree we should depricate %-formatting in strings, but .format / f"" are different interfaces on the same functionality - which seems fine.
The study was also done on a small number of people (1127) on a very small area right in the middle of Paris and is 4 years old; of the people studied half of them were delivery drivers, reducing further the amount of data.
Terraform is an amazing piece of technology but the biggest thing holding it back is HCL. I guess the intention was for it to serve as a happy middle ground between a full blown programming language and a configuration language - enabling some abstractions, but yet rigid enough to stop developers getting too carried away. I think unfortunately that trying to have it both ways doesn't really work and ends up leaving those writing the code frustrated - it's almost as if it's teasing you - you can feel there's all this power under the hood and you are given things like modules which are nice, but you always feel like you're on a of short leash.

I switched from Terraform to Pulumi for a personal project recently and haven't looked back (no affiliation). Writing it with Typescript means you get excellent IDE support (using VSCode here) and access to the enormous JS ecosystem. I've also found myself creating a number of useful abstractions - that I would never have bothered to with HCL - like IAM helper functions, eg:

const limitedReadAccessPolicy = createPolicy(
"product-table-read-access",
allow(
["dynamodb:Get*", "dynamodb:Query"],
[table.arn, interpolate`${table.arn}/index/*`]
)
);

vs

resource "aws_iam_policy" "product_read_access" {
name = "madu_${var.env_name}_product_read"

policy = <<EOF
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Action": [
"dynamodb:Get*",
"dynamodb:Query"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": [
"${aws_dynamodb_table.products.arn}",
"${aws_dynamodb_table.products.arn}/index/*"
]
}
]
}
EOF
}
What a beautiful site.

Look at the initial. Look at the notes in the actual margins.
This is a really interesting article. I'm going to take some of your ideas and use them at home. Thanks for sharing!

I should note that during the workweek I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 as my primary PC. (just to save power, and keep internet tasks productive.) And, just as you guessed there are no problems with the GUI on the Pi3.
All the more horrific when people can’t get on a train, but get their clothes caught in the doors, get dragged along the platform and then slammed into the wall at the tunnel entrance.

That would leave about a thousand people traumatised. I hope they can retrofit platform doors into the stations soon.
Agreed Adderall (and to a lesser extent Ritalin) turns me into a raging nympho but also made certain parts not work (pretty crappy biological joke if you ask me), due to the fact that Adderall is a blend of both left and right amphetamines. The left amphetamines stimulate the peripheral nervous system which is why some may experience sexual side effects like impotence as well as more cardiovascular side effects. As well as provoke panic attacks in people with anxiety disorders (which I fall into).

My doc switched me to Desoxyn and it's night and day, it is like I have a laser in my mind and can focus it on anything I decide to focus it on. It has far less of that Adderall punch to the back of the head when it kicks in, and more of the calming but alert effect that one gets from the right handed amphetamines in Adderall. I cannot understand for the life of me why Desoxyn is not the front line medicine for ADD and ADHD

It took a long time for me to get a proper diagnosis as sometime ADD can look like depression because of the lack of emotional control as well as just plain beating yourself up for not getting stuff done and not being able to get started. But for me it has been a life change and for the better.

I started abusing nicotine at and early age and after that any time I would quit I would have a fog in my head that never went away (quit for 5 years once and had it every day). I eventually resigned to the fact that maybe I just permanently damaged my brain and now it would never function correctly in the absence of nicotine. Little did I know I was self medication and just did not realize that the fog was baseline me. With proper diagnosis and medication I can forgo nicotine and I am still completely clear. The meds make me 10x clearer than nicotine ever did.
I'll never stop buying CDs or tapes. No ads, no WiFi needed, and when I'm playing them on my stereo they don't use any processing power. Plus I can rip the FLACs very easily.
At the time there was no alternative to IBM and their technology. Same can be said of Dow Chemicals.

Now there is competitors. Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud will gladly help anyone with facial recognition . See how evil America refuse to help you with your needs? We will because we care about your needs, China will support you.
The right to object: How do I oppose organisations from using my personal data?
It makes it more human :)
Pipenv!
Note, I’m also especially interested in green energy projects and considering backing Tesla from the bears after I made some very decent gains 3y ago. It just seems to be a bit overvalued On most days and I want a bigger portfolio. Anyone knows about interesting power to X and energy storage companies in general?
i would never consider using an electron-based terminal, but for casual users it looks really pretty
Really? Do you have static IP?
But they're SAFE and reliable. Their track record in the air is pretty amazing.
We built a few small web games with phaser. It was very easy to start and also easy to finish. You can prototype with it very quickly and there are a lot of resources explaining things to you. Recommend.

I don't know about changes in the last 2 years, haven't used it since then, maybe it's changed for worse but can't imagine
It leads to something positive to them, it seems.

"more modern, open view on diversity and acceptance" is not positive by itself. Unless you're looking from the point of view of those entering the country, which are people that nationals don't have to care about.
How does it prove anything? It is just the preference of the blogger who is also pushing it by way of being an Amazon affiliate.
IEX Cloud – financial data platform for developers
At the same time China is producing more banned CFC, no one is doing anything.
Even better (imo), try to buffer one time payments over months. This (and other similar features) could allow a developer to see upcoming income from OSS, if it's declining, etc.

Being able to predict how much you're going to make it hugely helpful imo. Especially if you're a freelancer. You might see that in 3 months your funds are drying up, so plan accordingly.

Just brainstorming: But "similar features" could be trying to favor longer term donations. If a user wants to donate $20/m, maybe ask them for $10/m for 3 month increments?

Though, I suppose this isn't any better than the developer themself buffering funds in their bank. BUT, it seems like a meaningful concept, regardless.
What fixes frozen fingers?
CloudFormation has an “easy button” if you are part of an organization with a business support plan from AWS. If you can’t figure out something you can submit a ticket and start a chat.

Also CF is the “native” language of AWS. There are plenty of getting started examples from AWS where they give you the template. Also Elastic Beanstalk extensibility is built on top of CF.

Not to mention Codestar that will set up environments for you for common use cases and exports templates and the lambda environment lets you configure everything from the console, test it and then you can export the CF definition.
They caught the Times Square bomber 2 days after the attack:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Times_Square_car_bombing_...

Also took 2 days from the first attack to catch the NYC/NJ bomber:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_New_York_and_New_Jersey_b...

He was caught sleeping on the street at 10:30 AM, so maybe not exactly a master of evasion, but still, 2 days to catch him ain't bad.

He was caught 2 hours after the police sent an alert to people's phones by someone who got the alert, but not too quickly for Anil Dash to criticize the alert as useless:

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/777849637592006656
"I would thus argue that the climate crisis calls for (...) us to adapt Paul Lafargue’s phrase, the ‘necessity to be lazy’"

I didn't know it, but my laziness has been saving the world from global warming.
I’m in a very similar situation with the OP-Z! No musical background, bought it because I was curious about the UI. I find myself getting sucked into it for hours at a time, even though I haven’t yet made a beat I’d be comfortable sharing.

My original plan was to sell the OP-Z after a few months, but now I think I will hold onto this thing until it dies.
That's the way the Senate was (essentially) until we explicitly changed it with the 17th Amendment.
Yes, that's my point. The legislation treats this as an emotional, opinion issue. Not an issue where there is a truth of the matter.
It looks POSIX-like but uses high-level queues and fixes some issues with epoll. The lack of an atomic data unit and the overhead of the poor epoll interface cost too much to retain for kernel-bypass. Take a look at the paper for more details.
Taking notes in meetings can help you stay focused.

You can also record meetings on your phone for reference later.

Lots of other good suggestions here too.
I'm pointing out the legislation is incompatible with the view the human body is sacred.
The app is great! It so smooth and a true iOS citizen

However I have a hard time finding my bearings because I use http://hckrnews.com almost exclusively and I've gotten used to the way it works: it displays a chronological list of posts that made it to the front page. This way it's easy to find interesting posts and discussions, as well as what's new. I'm a completionist and I like to see everything and make sure I've not missed anything.

Would it be possible to have something similar? I hope so but I understand that it may be a lot of work and that you'd not be willing

Also, that makes me think: it'd be great to be able to specify a view to open the app on, instead of the list menu

Anyway, thank you and congrats for the launch!
I find it irritating when people move the goalposts and don't acknowledge opposing evidence, so I think it's really important to stop here and acknowledge that this is relevant evidence, even though it wasn't exactly what I said I was looking for originally.

It's not a case where the US and EU companies are on the same side like I originally proposed, but those might be too rare to test anyway, so I was probably being a bit silly.

Failing back to these more common cases, I don't think (and shouldn't have implied that) one case alone in a decade completely decides the question of bias, but it should definitely shift the probabilities here, if you want to be bayesian about it.

EDIT for emphasis.
To each their own I guess. I often find that Japanese prefer to speak to me in Japanese and in fact are relieved to know that I can communicate in Japanese. I have never once experienced this attitude that you are describing and I've lived here for many years.

I have only ever felt welcome. And I frequently meet foreigners with a chip on their shoulder describing how we will always be "outsiders". I find it rather odd to be honest.
Personally, for me, it dipped pretty far into uncanny valley from its execution. I'll concede the notion is pretty funny though, having experienced the same from my stint in IT.
A Go (Golang) package for building frictionless command-line interfaces
Ask HN: Publishing a Book with Screenshots and Copyright
If I were to write a book on a particular technology (think SAP or Oracle). Would I have to seek permission from the vendor to publish screenshots of the application as I walk through a standard implementation?
> Looked at emacs the other day but I need to read a lot of manuals and tutorials and practice to get to grips with it)

My recommendation: Go with spacemacs. It is perfect for people who just want to use the goodness of emacs without it weird edges and spending hours on configuration. One day I might switch to emacs, but for the coming time I am perfectly happy with using a pre-configured emacs. The time I don't spent working, I'd rather read more papers and do non-compsci-stuff.
Yes it can run external commands via custom resources.
That figure is 4 years old and was done only in a very small area right in the middle of Paris, so the figure of 50% of drivers coming from Paris is not very useful.
Why Your Teamwork Doesn’t Work and How to Improve It
I’ve been surprised by Amazon’s commitment to and progress in this area. I only recently learned that half of AWS was powered by renewable energy in 2018. That might not be good enough for these people, but I was pleasantly surprised.
I always had a rule of turning down interviews at a company on Fridays. For me, onsite interviews are a chance to see what the company is like ie. stiff or relaxed. Dress-down/casual Friday masquerades that.

Anyway, I always practised dress-up Friday. I always wear my loudest flowery Hawaiian shirt I can find on Fridays. Every Friday.
CRT rot... the grim reaper lurking behind the few remaining good monitors. I wish someone would make high-quality CRTs again, every time I use my C1701 I feel like I'm slowly desecrating an artifact- that I shouldn't be so shamelessly using such a limited resource. I suppose there's a chance I'll be able to keep up using CRTs until I die but I really am not ready to switch my old setup to an LCD.
I'm always changing. But you could point to a moment before and after I hit puberty, or, on a long enough scale, the period during which I morphed from teenager to adult.

This "the climate is always changing" was just classic anti-intellectual rhetoric spread in response to changing the name from "Global Warming" (Oh but the Earth isn't warming during winter!) to "Climate Change". Be careful. Don't let yourself be swayed by those who only wish to harm you.
We just need a better diet for the apex predators then, so they'll be good eating.
I'm willing to risk removing the subsidies for carbon. Then let the Freedom Markets™ decide which sources of energy are better. Economically.
Yeah. In the scheme of things, Patagonia is not a luxury clothing brand. It does tend to be pricier than a lot of other outdoor clothing/gear brands but their stuff is well-made and generally looks good. I own quite a bit of it, albeit mostly purchased from one of their outlets.
Solution Architecture Part 3: Conducting a Web Scraping Legal Review
Today, perhaps. Back in the 70s/80s it used to be a source of pride (plus sneer at Japanese cars, or complaints about how the Japanese ripped off US products, etc).
So if you're part of a certain racial group, you don't have to pay?
It won't as there are no emergency brakes on Tubes, they're just called emergency brake. The train continues to the station and will then remain there.
For you, the day my Hawaiian shirt graced our workplace was the most important day of your life. For me, it was Friday.

(I wear mine on Tuesdays.)
I look at this from a different angle. Doing business is always going to be associated with some regulatory overhead.

Traditionally, the footprint of a small business was the owner’s local area, where the scope of rules and regulations is small enough that it can be managed.

With the advent of the Internet, it is now possible for a small business to have the same reach as a large multi-national. Along with this market potential comes a massive number of jurisdictions, each with their own particularities.

I find it quite liberating that a small business has the option to go to the entire world market by paying a small percentage of their sales (a cost that can be quantified and factored into their pricing model) rather than being forced to spend massive amounts upfront, without any idea if their investment will pay off.

Of course, there’s also the option to simply ignore the regulations, which many small businesses do (often out of ignorance). But as a business becomes successful, not following the regulations of the jurisdictions it does business in becomes an ever-growing liability.

I was a witness to a transaction where a small business was approached by their much larger (publicly traded) competitor. The larger company made an offer to buy this small business for many millions of dollars. During due diligence, the buyer discovered that the small business had not been collecting VAT in the EU for the digital products it sold there. The small business asserted that since it did not have an EU presence, the EU couldn’t force it to do so. The buyer, however, did have an EU presence, and worried that with the acquisition, it may inherit the large liability of many years of uncollected VAT.

This nearly wrecked the entire deal. The resolution was that the small business had to indemnify the buyer that if a claim was made by the EU for the uncollected VAT, the small business would be on the hook for most of it.

So, to me, paying a very small percentage to an external party to not only take on the burden of managing the regulations, but also to assume the risk of penalty for being out of compliance with any one of the thousands of governmental jurisdictions around the world seems like a very good value.
Well then you’d be stealing...that’s a real downside to me.
I'm sure there are but those would be hard to misuse by passengers.
Check this out, you may find it useful:

https://alexvermeer.com/getmotivated/
Is it? I’m not sure I see that. The 4,5,6 doesn’t appear to loop anywhere as far as I can tell, nor do any of the NYC lines.