skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But from what I have read in this thread, much of the speculation about the loss of the 'unique' Japanese culture has more to do about what is happening in the west than what will happen in Japan.

Yes. Japan has become sort of an ideal example of a successful modern ethnostate for Western opponents of multiculturalism. A lot of fears Westerners express about Japan losing its cultural homogeneity are just a proxy for fears of the loss of white power and identity in the US and Europe, as an expression of the current right-wing xenophobic reactionary shift going on in the West.

It's just a weird new form of Orientalism. Instead of fetishising them for their art, or their business practices, or their "submissive" women, we're fetishizing their ethnic identity and racial purity.
It's fast for being on a Pi. Any trick that's worth to share?
Not really, but it’s probably eating CF’s marketing budget - Adobe really puts their energies into the enterprise products. One year at the Internet Retailer show (my company exhibits) I stopped by the Adobe booth and introduced myself as a CFUG manager. They didn’t even know CF was an Adobe product.
This approach is called "cap and trade" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading), and the main political problem with it is that most of the people arguing for it turned out to be doing so in bad faith, at least here in the United States.

When there were lots of options for dealing with emissions on the table, including more intrusive ones like carbon taxes and outright emissions restrictions, cap and trade was the favored alternative of conservatives because it was "market-based." When President Obama settled on cap and trade in 2009 in order to get conservatives on board with doing something about climate, though, those same conservatives immediately turned on their heel and started denouncing it as an example of Obama's "socialism."

(Yes, they went from praising a policy as market-based to condemning the same policy as socialist. Such is the sorry state of American political discourse.)

So, the political problem is: if the appeal of cap and trade is that it should theoretically get the support of conservatives who would usually oppose action on climate, but those conservatives will stop supporting it the moment all the other options they like less are taken off the table, is there any point in offering them a cap and trade olive branch in the first place? How do you negotiate with a faction whose only goal for the negotiation is that you have to lose?
Bureaucratic processes tend to get more and more complicated until the host organization is barely able to manage it. Computers allow better process management, so it allows complexity to expand for little overall gain.
Downloaded and tried it out, really nice. I think I'll use it as my default terminal to test it out some more.
It's interesting how much has changed since that movie came out. What was then shocking, now is mundane. Watching it now it's hard to see what the fuss was about. We've just all gotten used to it.
edit: oops, nvm
> That seems plausible, but also pretty speculative and it seems like there could be negative consequences too. For example, if the Chinese market switches over to Chinese chips, a lot more money will be invested in Chinese chips and they will probably develop more quickly.

Those negative consequences presume that the Chinese won't have the goal of switching over to domestic chips if they have access to American chips, but I think that's false. They've shown a strong desire to pursue import substitution and then turn those companies into international competitors. Denying the American supplies forces them to switch before they're ready, rather than when they're fully ready.

It's also not guaranteed that the Chinese investments will bear fruit. For instance, China has been trying to acquire modern jet engine technology for decades and decades, and still hasn't succeeded. IIRC, jet engines and microchips have a major characteristic in common: most of the magic is in the manufacturing techniques and those are difficult to reverse engineer from finished products.
U.S. Close to Banning Swimming with Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins
Congrats guys! For anyone interested, here's an interview on how Dependabot started:
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/living-off-our-saving...
The familiar nihilist refrain of globalism.

"We live in a global world now, homogeneity is futile."

And they wonder, after presenting their ideology as an unstoppable, all-consuming force of nature, why people take issue with it.

As humans we have the agency to control our nations and their respective cultures and genetic makeups. This only becomes impossible when you adopt a Western value system that makes never-ending economic growth your only goal.
First off, thanks so so much for engaging. Truly grateful <3

From the FAQ[1]:

> In the first year, GitHub will not charge any fees, so 100% of sponsorships will go to the sponsored developer. In the future, we may charge a nominal processing fee

https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-sponsors#ab...

And yes, money feels nice. But there are politics here that are real. The meaning of a sum of money is also wrapped up in the future that it creates. Decision-makers at GitHub aren't stupid, and so the future their money creates should be assumed to be the one they intended.

If someone comes into a town with boatloads of outsider money, and set up shop next door to a critical local business, but selling at loss leader rates that burn money, with plans to bump up prices once the locals flail and weaken -- that's understood as anti-social and kinda asshole behaviour.

It feels no different here. We shouldn't be applauding, despite the good deal.

Money ain't free. We're being paid off to accept a future of collapsed possibilities.

imho of course :)
I'm confused how you could film a light pulse this way. It seems that the light pulse would itself have to be emitting light somehow. I'll assume it was travelling through a gas that scattered it.
To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
I wonder what makes you say that? There is more social focus on security, however that seems more a consequence of the pervasiveness of computing in our society then in fundamental progress in our systems-thinking. As far as I can tell, the basic security models have not changed much since the late 60's.
> high-ranking team member

Is there a connection between their opinion and how they came to be high-ranking?

Is it Java Shop Politics[0] at play?

I find their opinion frustrating.

[0] http://sasamat.xen.prgmr.com/michaelochurch/wp/2012/04/13/ja...
If you like understandable tools, you might enjoy some of the projects the bootstrapping crowd posted to the page below. It's not very organized since it was just a dump site for work that a small crowd of people were taking inspiration from.

https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
You can do better than average but still overestimate yourself. And in a world where people judge by appearances, that can be a real advantage.
This, and also total lack of control.
I would think that effect is due to impurities or lack of uniformity in the material which causes some spots to light up more than others.
The google trend curve linked reminds me of the same graph for linux: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=l...

Linux is NOT dying, quite the opposite, but I guess since 2004 more and more non-technical people have come online who have nothing to do with linux.
It turns out the perfect OS already exists: Inferno OS [1]. It doesn't need a MMU and runs with less than 1 MB of RAM. I did not dive into Limbo yet but at first glance it looks rather sane.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
And some people object to testing knowledge of the basics of algorithm complexity analysis with big-O in programming interviews because they "never need that theory".

IMO complexity analysis is possibly the single most important bit of theory to understand if you work on apps where there is any n which grows to a large number. More important than being able to reverse a linked list or whatever.
I actually have this setup instead. I bought the original Intel Compute Stick with Windows for the 2GB of ram, threw Linux on it thanks to the efforts of one Ian Morrison[1], and I use a Logitech K400 plugged into the single USB port. It's a wonderful computer to take on trips, like the author noticed, HDMI is ubiquitous.

I still like the portable Pi idea more. I don't need Netflix or Steam installed on my Pis or Intel Compute Stick, but the ease of using flashy entertainment on the latter is detrimental to my productivity.

[1] http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/2017/06/customizing-ubuntu...
Funnily the another me deep inside somehow agree with you lol. I even think about it while archiving 'Do I really need it in the future?'

However as a neat freak, archiving things, put it out of sight, gives me a bit peace of mind. With bookmark, I still see its accumulated through time and always feel the need to do something about it, even it not necessary.

Maybe one day I will realize and decide that all the thing I save is just nonsense and throw everything away. One day...:)
In my CS area, many results aren’t interesting enough to be replicated, even in high quality journals. Often the results aren’t even very relevant to what is otherwise a design paper, and are just there to check some boxes. The fact that research results aren’t replicated is just symptomatic of a much larger disfunction.

It has been a long time since I’ve read a paper where I actually wanted to use whatever they were selling, let alone reproduce whatever results they were claiming. We don’t even have “novel, exciting, fancy” work!

When something comes out of a paper that really changes the game (like say MapReduce), it gets replicated a lot.
Start by fixing this issue- make it so `yum install dstat` installs the real dstat program.
> Some of the binding in WPF is quite complex, especially since you don't get proper type safety for all that effort (there is a lot of stringly typed things sticking out).

You can add a design time view model to get compile time warnings(and autocomplete) about incorrect bindings.
Yeah the usual argument is that package managers make worrying about the tidiness of the file system unnecessary. But on Linux at least it just never really works out.
Immutable data structures let you use pure-functional patterns without most of the associated costs. The OP's original strategy would work just fine with immutable structures.
Ask HN: How and where do you keep your notes/references?
I’ve been trying to consolidate my notes, references, long term lists. I tried using software like OneNote, Evernote, iOS Notes app, etc but it seems to get very disorganized very quickly.

I see some GitHub links posted here that shows people using their Readme.md as a reference file for various things.

Then it occurred to me that I can start organizing my stuff on a local static html page.

But I am also wondering how everyone else here stores and keeps track of their “knowledge”?
I definitely see better rates for CF contracting. I’m sure the same is true of FORTRAN.
A lot less people driving, but the people who did drive would have a higher chance of being able to repair them without going to a specialist.
S3 is Amazon. In some cases you want to exert control over your state without being dependent on external parties.

Currently Terraform Enterprise is the only approach to solving that and its a good one but... only if you're one of the big guns and even those sometimes think twice because the infrastructure state requires much more security than that offers.
You misunderstand. The USA does not have a list of Japanese Citizens, meaning that if a Japanese citizen decides to become and American one they have no concrete proof that he discarded his proof of Japanese citizenship (in this case a Passport) unless they reach out to Japan.

Unless you are an international criminal the US will not waste time or resources requesting that information.

This is true for most countries.
Could be pen testing. I wonder the motivations behind the individual(s) doing it.
> When we modeled that to the earth, it predicted much higher temperatures than we have.

Source?

I did find one a year or so ago (from a site like 'skeptical science' or similar name), but when I dug into it the author cherry picked data to make his conclusion accurate and left off recent data. But, when I went to the author's own publications with current temperatures the model was accurate over the full time period. Merely the skeptic simply choose a time period ending that showed a short term divergence.
US Leads All Developed Nations on Teenage Pregnancy
Doesn’t seem to be much judgment going on in that comment towards people. Maybe judgment towards a preexisting narrative or meme. People need to take things less personally in arguments, and feel less offended when the ideas they’re repeating are challenged.
The Demikernel is not a unikernel. It is a library OS compiled as a series of shared libraries. It is not compiled together with the application and doesn’t take into account what features the application uses. It is designed to work with kernel-bypass hardware, like DPDK.
There’s quite a few territories where you need to get a license/seal/stamp/signature from the administration of your current citizenship. Going deeper, it’s then common for that request to only be authorized given the promise of the administration of the new citizenship to grand you this new citizenship. A two-way commit of sorts.
Modern persistent tree-based data structures are usually O(log32n) random access, which is essentially O(1) for all practical purposes. With a mutable array of references, random access follows one pointer, while these structures follow usually less than 5. Sequential access is usually O(1).

These kind of persistent data structures are already the standard data structures in Scala and Clojure, and they are fast enough for the vast majority of non-numerical purposes. In typical access patterns, they are faster than mutable arrays.
I hear you, but security wise this point is countered by the fact that every (n-1) iOS operating system has a public lpe exploit available. A user might not be able to jailbreak their idevice, but a hacker can.
I love my smart watch, i'm able to share my health info with my doctor (heart rate mostly) I can go running without my phone, I never miss a call/text from my wife, and it nags me to standup and stretch once in a while, and it tells me stupid jokes. I can also see the picture of my kids every time I look at the time.
a frame is just a picture essentially. What you're refering here with 24 up to 144 are usually frames per second. Here we're talking about 4 trillion frames, so a frame would be 1/4 trillion seconds.
Many developers, IMO, actively ignore their community (close issues, ignore pull requests) and take their project the direction they want to without external interference. (and this is their divine right)

However I think this implicit obligation you refer to would keep projects open.
Virtualization and static code analysis existed before 2000.

Granted - the tooling improved.
If the Titanic does not hit the iceberg, it does not enter a failure mode. That doesn't sound like "working around failures" but "avoiding failure" which seems very different.
Also, 19% of pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) in 2014 ended in abortion. Approximately 926,200 abortions were performed in 2014, down 12% from 1.06 million in 2011.
Microsoft Edge Canary on macOS Installer Telemetry
RIP. I miss Pebble.
> desktop UIs are still about the same as in 2000, just with more shininess.

That is because the majority of people fundamentally do the same things with computers than they did 20 years ago. Browse the web, edit pictures, videos, put together presentations, document layout, spreadsheets, etc.

Of course now your home videos are in 4K instead of 320p, and webpages are 10MB of JS instead of 10k of text... but these are changes in scale, not in kind.

However, shiny features is what gets people attracted to your platform, so we get shininess (never mind if functionality actually gets lost in the process).

The perfect illustration of this for me is George RR Martin, a professional writer of indisputable success, doing all of his writing work on a 1980s workstation with WordStar 4.
Sounds like one of those a descriptions of technology you hear in the news from some ancient company's legal team, invented to explain some run-of-the-mill technology (that's not going away) using a prior era's analogy. ie "Stealing a file on the internet".
late 2019 release - need to fast forward life
What do UIs have to do with systems research? And given how much easier it is to use an interface that you're already familiar with, isn't it a good thing that they've mostly stayed the same?
This is incorrect. The first student rocket to reach space was by the United States Air Force Academy

https://archive.is/20121212202343/http://www.af.mil/news/sto...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwuvfKuNqZxQQ2xudkwtQXB4V0k...

From here:

https://twitter.com/skulumani/status/1131351960622391297?s=2...
To be fair, there is an open source implementation. (We’ve run Railo/Lucee for years on our old CFML code)
Funny, my experience with a smart watch has been more positive. I find that getting push notifications on my wrist allows me to dismiss them then go back to what I was doing right away. Without the watch I tend to linger on my phone after dismissing the notification, addictively checking hn or emails instead of getting back to the real world. This is the only feature of the watch I really use, though. I'd love a "smart" watch that just received notifications and had a much better battery life.
Ask HN: Dear Recruiters Stop Asking why do you want to work for our company
Nothing worthwile came out of this question.
At the end of the day everyone wants to get paid.
Air travel is safe enough as it is.
I wonder if anyone can explain more about how ad bidding works? Does information from bidders (websites) go beyond the ad exchange? Do ad exchanges log bids? How does information leakage happen, and what gets leaked?

(Please don't speculate if you don't know.)
How to Make a Conversion-Driven SaaS Landing Page [2019 Edition]
I'd be curious to see the dual-slit experiment done using this camera as the "observer".

I'm not sure it'd yield anything we don't already "know" - but it might be worth trying just because.
You can add sponsor button next to Watch/Star button [1] which supports opencollective. For example, ReactiveUI [2] repo has one.

[1] https://help.github.com/en/articles/displaying-a-sponsor-but...

[2] https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI
I mentioned this elsewhere in the thread but you can get compile time warnings and autocomplete on data binding by adding a design time view model.
Because if cultures are real, then it stands to reason that an immigration policy set by Japanese people would be different from one set by Western Europeans.
Glad to hear it's improved!
I meant that the "Allow personalized ads" in a Google account is on by default.
I recently learned about beech masting in NZ, which has a similar (but much more frequent) blooming cycle based on the difference between successive summer temperatures: https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications/newsletters/...

"According to their ‘delta T’ (ΔT) model, the likelihood of masts by several species, including beech and tussocks, is positively correlated with the difference between average summer temperatures in successive years: a high positive value of ΔT (i.e. last summer warmer than the preceding summer) corresponds to a high likelihood of a mast in the coming year."

I'd always imagined that these types of events involved pheromone-type signaling, but this is kind of a cool way to do distributed consensus based on external signaling.
Targeted (i.e. better) ads mean you are manipulated harder, and have less chance to notice it or defend against it.

Ads work.
He's talking about research, so you have to look at the state of the art, not what the masses were still using. In 2000 I used FreeBSD, which was pretty good. It had jails [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail] by then, which a reasonable person might still prefer to modern Linux containers.
I don't know that they ever said they wouldn't.
> Nuclear would probably win out, then oil and coal

Possibly, but it doesn't seem likely. In most parts of the US, it's cheaper to build new solar or wind than any of the fossil fuels. In some areas, I've read that it's cheaper to build new solar or wind than to run existing fossil plants. I don't know what the rest of the world looks like though.
If you accept premise of unlimited budget and outsourcing, sending something to space is about as difficult as saying “Hey Elon, I want this thing to go to space.”

The point here is that college students are able to pull this off with a small budget and lots of DIY.
Unless AGI can do 1000s years of human thinking in a few weeks. Or, you know, read wikipedia.
I am not worried. This should be expected and seen as a good thing. I believe there are far too many distros because people want to create their own garden with their own favorite flowers. Very rarely is there a reason to fork a distro and even less common are there enough people to maintain an entire distro. Rather, people should be focusing on and contributing to one of the popular distros so that more people benefit over all. If people are ignoring your merge requests that is a different problem.

A simple analogy would be television channels. 400 channels of crud, including 15 different versions of C-SPAN or 40 channels of great shows, which do you want?
Yeah, it isn't literally impossible to build-- but the fact that it's enough of a pain to do so that they distribute a docker image should sort of tell the story :). Unfortunately, for IT policy reasons we couldn't use that, and our platform was a bit unusual anyway.

In terms of packaging, it's nothing exciting-- we just had to produce a .deb if we wanted to install something on a build or test server.
The disconnect between research and development* has been constantly increasing.

* "development" as in making a technology usable, not software development
The purpose of WinRT was to avoid having to depend on .NET. Developing WPF to fix this would have meant rewriting the whole thing in C++, which is what Silverlight/WinUI sort of was, but I agree they dropped the ball on compatibility and migration
The Vegas Strip is the absolute poster child for the American mentality of prioritizing drivers even when pedestrians radically outnumber them and could make much better (and more profitable) use of the space.

Fremont St (the Old Strip) is much more enjoyable than the new strip now, because they actually had the balls to pedestrianize the entire thing. It's a much more enjoyable experience; you can walk along at ground level, popping into whatever businesses you want while drinking your beer, and at no point do you have to take a bridge over a giant highway wasteland.

Just compare these two photos and consider which you'd rather walk around in as a pedestrian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip#/media/File:La...

https://www.playnevada.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/New-De...
> It seems like one possible future here is that open source becomes less like passion projects that scratch an itch and more like driving for Uber.

Is that a future we want? I would much rather work towards a future where everyone makes enough at their day job and can work on passion projects on the side.

Why are we okay with the idea that in order to get by, we should have to do work in our supposed off time as well? Uber/etc love to bring up the fact that it's often their drivers' second job, as a defense of their independent contractor status and pay. Which is, to me, a pretty damning indictment of how we've structured our society.