skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your optimism regarding the future of the US empire is belied by long term trends, not only the phenomenal rise of the Chinese economy: The EU has since it's inception had its eyes set on greater independence from the US. Case in point, Macron and Merkel are calling for a European army now, but not because of Trump, it's been the plan all along.

Trumps current heavy-handedness in international relationships is instead a direct response to this disintegration of the empire, and it's just hastening the demise. The worrisome part is how the US (and all its hurrahh-boys) are signalling that they will not accept this turn of events peacefully.
Not a bike guy, but definitely watched to see their creations in the end.
> And if you're thinking, "Isn't the test set up so that 100 is always the average IQ?," that's only true because researchers rescale the tests to correct for improving raw scores.
Oh, interesting! I wasn't aware of this research. I would be surprised if this were connected, but a fascinating idea nevertheless; I wonder if anybody has discussed a potential connection?
I think it depends on the content. I had a book in front of my face for about 6 hours a day for 13 years in grade school. Not counting college.

A majority of the content I watch on YouTube gives me more knowledge, from Programming to Fishing. A chunk of what I look at is absolutely junk and I feel like it rots my brain if I watch/read too much.
Journals can be study-space filters for large-P-value results. Statistically a certain number of these results are by chance, and will prove irreproducible. That can mean, depending on the mean size of studies, that a good fraction of everything in a particular journal is wrong.
Correct. It is disabled on a brand new iOS 12.2 install.
Most of the tech companies these days speak in terms of "revolutionizing," or "reinventing," or "re-imagining," and it's all fluff. I don't even suspect this is strictly deceptive. I think people (and founders in particular) are starving to be meaningful and important. They need it in their lives. And so, they tend to describe their work aspirationally. Claims such "No one's ever do this before" will accompany a website that sells goods and services. People are clamoring to be important, and aren't really sure how to get it.
Why don’t you just commit to your opinion?
> Even in capitalist societies there are still places like that, with free healthcare, basic necessities available for everyone, guaranteed roof over your head, and even full employment. These are called prisons.

I've seen this quote elsewhere, and the spurious correlation bothers me. That prisons supply inmates with basic necessities does not make systems that supply members with basic necessities akin to prisons.

In practice, many of them may operate with restrictions to freedom, but so does employment in most fields under capitalism. Even business ownership is a significant restriction of freedom if you cannot delegate work (i.e. you cannot afford to hire), liquidate assets, or stay free from mounting debt.
Sound Transit, Wsdot Cited in DuPont Amtrak Derailment: NTSB
> Developed countries' citizens consistently outmatch people from undeveloped countries when in comes to immigration crimes almost everywhere

[Citation needed]

Just an example, it is assumed the US has around 11Mi undocumented migrants (rough number). Switzerland does not even have that many people.
I think it will always have its place.

For example, I predict the increasingly suffocating digital zeitgeist will give rise to a form of competition which would be the mechanist's version of a demo scene.

People will compete to "hack" non-digital mechanics as far as they can go, from analog sensors to mobile, programmable, multi-function automatons such as Theo Jansen's Strandbeests [0].

Resources like this, even if their maintainers have long gone, will become coveted gold mines.

https://www.strandbeest.com/
I've heard this too. I think it is that people fear change intrinsically. Also they want to avoid anything that could kill property values. Plus there it is just competition in general that people view incorrectly as zero sum.
Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
Got this email today

> To protect your Spotify account, we've reset your password due to detected suspicious activity.

Haven’t used it recently or logged in to any new device. Leads me to suspect a data breach.
A diplomat would say that while the FAA tests planes to the highest standards, there's no harm in testing to the highest standards twice.
Dynamically unstable means that it will leave controlled flight if it does not receive control input, and that the departure from controlled flight will accelerate after it starts, therefore requiring constant computer-assisted control inputs. Pretty sure this is not the case, but it will have different and potentially dangerous behaviors for some speeds, angles of attack and thrust settings.
I posted about an extension I built to help me manage my bookmarks yesterday. It sends you an email of all the bookmarks you make for that day at the end of a day (similar to a news letter). You can find it at linkdrop.co

It sounds like you are more concerned with management than rediscovery, though, so it might not solve your usecase. In that case, I would definitely recommend getpocket.com for saving bookmarks across browsers/machines.
> Can you properly analyze the reasons behind this without going into ethnic differences in IQ?

The article mentions a Norwegian study [1] measuring an IQ decline within families.

So it looks like the cause must be environmental.

My pet theory is that reading as an activity has been replaced by the consumption of audiovisual content.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/26/6674.full.pdf
I think what dullgiulio is getting at is when working with large, code bases and teams Java's multiple paradigms leads to more difficult code to maintain. I've been experiencing this on my current project and its completely new development.

One package is written in the "new" functional style, another is written in "old" object oriented style, other parts use classes for nothing more than name spaces to house static methods. The reality is it's already a mess.
I don't think this is a practical solution at all. What would a licensing board certification entail? Thousands of certifications already exist, and we don't take any of them seriously. Why would the licensing board have any power? We'd need software engineers to form a union or have government regulate that companies hire certified engineers. Either way, there needs to be some enforcement mechanism.

Shifting the onus on security away from the companies and onto the developers also seems like a bad idea. With GDPR, there is a financial incentive for companies to use good practices. With a licensing board, companies will care far less if Joe Q Developer might lose his license. Why would they care unless there is financial or legal incentive? I just don't see how this would work without getting back to government regulation. I'll definitely reconsider my view point if you have a solution to this hurdle.
Should not look too hard on these numbers. When I took the military "IQ" test it consisted of 3d objects printed on paper - figuring out how the next rotation should look like, and understanding old/unusual words. I can guess they are still using the same test.
Even when proprietary software is used in these types of fields, like vworks,the source is available for you to build. I wish more proprietary software would include the source when you purchase a license.
Not entirely true either, as the ban only applies to the US and ARM is a British company, with a Japanese parent company, so there's no conflict. They just can't use Qualcomm chips.

As for Fabs, they can't still use TSMC, Samsung, and the numerous smaller companies in mainland China.
The bootloader is the part I dread EVERY time I set up a new Arch install (basically every couple of years) I have to relearn it every stinking time! I'm using rEFInd these days so that either helps or hurts the cause.
It's a big problem that our current political imagination is so narrow to only allow the false dichotomy of either neo-liberalism or Stalinism. The number of top-down Stalinist within the general leftist movement is tiny.
The thing about ARM is that they more or less act like they own the ISA itself, and have a huge patent portfolio. There's an expectation that a company have an "architecture license" to make their own ARM-compatible core from scratch (unless it's an obsolete version of the ISA, e.g. Amber [1]). So while you're right that Cortex per se isn't relevant, there's still a question of whether HiSilicon will legally be able to sell any new ARM-compatible core they design.

[1] https://opencores.org/projects/amber
Does that mean that analogies themselves are an analogy of hash functions?

(not serious; hope it is not against the guidelines)

More seriously analogies are better for a bigger picture of a complex system, as they effectively describe mode of interactions. The dog/smell analogy was not bad but you have to also add a role for the other actor in the system (here I would say: the third party, and the database)
The Dark Web Is Smaller Than You Think
That head-in-the-sand approach doesn't make these issues go away.
Except it will just be huawei for now. We are talking about just one vendor, not the whole Asian/European market.
You're thinking of Existence from 2012.
Same way that you'd document exceptions in a library.

> If the user is not handles the error(forgets about a type or a new type is added in an update) will the user notice the error happened?

In Lisp, ERROR invokes the debugger if the condition is not handled. So an unhandled error condition pauses execution. One cool thing is that the user can use the debugger to invoke restarts. It's extremely nice.

There's also CERROR, which establishes a restart to return from itself — so some errors can be continued on from — WARN, which offers automatically, mufflable warning output, and SIGNAL, which offers non-erroneous condition signalling (i.e., while ERROR never returns, SIGNAL can).

It's really, really full-featured but also easy to use.
I use Tor for about 30% of my browsing. Tor is handy if you are doing research on a topic and you don't want to leave too much of a 'data exhaust' or otherwise alert people to the fact that you are interested in certain topics.

I typically stay away from Tor when it comes to online banking or finance in general (logging into Amazon with Tor can raise some red flags for example).

In terms of speed, I have noticed personally that Tor has gotten a lot faster. Sometimes you get a slow circuit and have to spawn a new identity / rebuild a new circuit to get a faster one, sort of like 'circuit roulette'.

The rest of my surfing is for fairly innocuous subject matter and using Tor for it would be overkill. Again, Tor would be handy for privately researching general health issues, sexual health issues, mental health issues, etc

Tor is also handy for recon[0] in general too. For me privacy is how you present yourself to the world, and doing recon[0] in a certain community, or (anonymously) 'lurking' in a community is useful before you re-register an account and start posting as the 'real you'.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reconnaissance
> on a Boeing plane

yes but limited to -MAX

the others have a good track record and for some reason they seem to takeoff and land smoother, even if probably it's selection bias due to the high correlation of [airline, plane, destination] variables.
Sloped / beveled edges, a strong material, and a ratcheting mechanism should keep gear lifetime about the same if I had to guess.
for music, I've tried lots of different genres and have settled on progressive house mixes as a good focusing background sound. It's complex enough to occupy me without any jarring changes or vocals that cause me to pay active attention to it. There's quite a few playlists on YouTube and I just run random ones each day, this is the one that's currently playing for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w23j_nspEy0
As much as a I like the movie it's worth noting that on such short timescales there's probably a more significant impact of nutrition differences and the failure of IQ measures across different society structures ie agrarian, industrialized, service oriented.
The article covers this:

> One potential explanation was quasi-eugenic. As in the movie “Idiocracy,” it was suggested that average intelligence is being pulled down because lower-IQ families are having more children ("dysgenic fertility" is the technical term).

> [...]

> However, a 2018 study[1] of Norway has punctured these theories by showing that IQs are dropping not just across societies but within families.

The studies would seem to contradict each other, which isn't all that surprising.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/26/6674.full.pdf
One huge assumption no one has challenged is the notion that IQ is a valid measure of intelligence. One reason to doubt this is that above a low threshold (80 IIRC), IQ has no correlation with salary.
The article discussed this but said that even within family's IQ is going down by generation so it cannot be entirely the effect you described.
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Can you give a good example similar to what you experienced? The issue is that we read daily about ridiculous patents.
This study seems to base its conclusions for the most part on a study from 2016[0] and a study limited to Norway[1]. Both of these studies base their findings on data from 1995-2005 (with the exception of the Netherlands and Britain which both span larger periods) this data itself is collected from variety of experiments with varying sample size and testing methodologies.

There certainly appears to be something interesting here, but I'd be hesitant to draw any conclusions from this data the way TFA does, which reeks a bit of sensationalism. At best I'd call it something worth investigating more thoroughly, at worst it's statistical noise.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2016-dutton.pdf

[1] http://differentialclub.wdfiles.com/local--files/assigned-to...
The Art of Threading – A Conversation with Tinker (@TinkerSec)
767 Thrust reverser as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004
For the sake of everyone involved, I suggest a company is remote either entirely or not at all. So if everyone else is in the office, I would consider being in the same room a requirement.
The other thing they could address is that more than one password can map to the same hash. But it would not improve the explanation.
I wasn't aware that Tor tested services and had a trustworthiness score but an attack like that could still be quite useful for certain purposes and possibly stay well hidden. If you set something up that only did it for Google IP blocks for example it might go undetected. If you actually got shut down you could refine it by only targeting a small percentage of those users. There would be some rate of account collection, however small.
Utilities Are Giving Microgrids the Jolt They Need to Get Up and Going
Well, what can I say? We have access to all human knowledge at the palm of our hand, but we don't have the discipline to use it wisely.

1. The rise of social media is a huge contributing factor to misinformation and shortening attention spans.

2. Consumption, consumption, consumption. Most consume but don't create.

3. The unknown effects of technology on our brains. We're all just primates playing with extremely complicated toys. We don't know their effects on us.

The next decades will be interesting...
Because they want everyone to think/say the same.
> My 2FA for gmail is now my iphone and ipad

sorry - how does that work? what's the platform / messaging service?
You seem to confuse between basic science and applied science. What you are saying is government should direct resources to every research. Basically saying that planned economy is better off than market economy. I wouldn't say market economy is a complete solution but time and again it has been proven to work better than planned economy. And also, why do you look down on applications? They are what actually make people's life better.
Though if you are at risk of US intervention you might be better off surrounded by human shields and the like.
Arm has said that they are not gonna work with Huawei.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48363772
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It's all politics, they're just trying to give what advantages they can to Airbus.
I agree with you that most of human psychology is on a spectrum and that there is no shame in having a mental disorder or in seeking treatment for it, so I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me or adding more information. At the same time, I think we should be cautious about suggesting to someone that they have a particular mental disorder for a behavior that is common.

A psychiatrist or neurologist would want to know significantly more about the original commenter than "Procrastination is an addiction [for me]... I've been praised for my excellent work and rewarded with raises and bonuses, even though I often procrastinate until the very last minute" before deciding that they had ADHD. That experience exists well beyond the 5% of the population that has ADHD and in my opinion is not nearly close to sufficient in the DSM-5 to suggest ADHD, particularly as even extremely severe procrastination can explained by a number of other causes.
I agree, the greatest thing about Go is all the stuff it left out. Which is still annoying sometimes coming from more expressive languages (no exceptions! no generics!) But thanks to the simplicity and the common format standard it is so easy to read and understand. If I want to know about an edge case of a library function, I just dig through the code in my IDE until I have the answer. In most other languages I'll hesitate to do that, either because it's hard to read the code, or hard to access it.

I rarely have to think much about how to write the code itself, just about the actual problem that I'm solving. Once I know where I'm going, there's really only one way to write the code for it. Reviewing and using a co-workers code is also a breath of fresh air.

I think languages fall on a spectrum with regards to both typing and expressiveness, and it's not good to be on either end (e.g. PHP vs Scala or C vs C++) the designers of Go were very disciplined in walking that line and struck a great balance. I'd hate to see that undone by turning it over to a committee which results in a million compromises that turn a language into a Swiss army knife of features. It needs that strong guiding hand and the discipline to say no most of the time. Go has become my favorite language, I just wish I get to use it more in my work.
Yeah, I disagree. Most companies would just not sign up to the licensing board. Also, from a practical standpoint, imagine trying to license every site on the internet!

I've never built a website that doesn't securely store passwords. I've definitely _used_ websites that do though [0]. Up until now my only choice is to stop using any of these sites and just hope they magically fix their crap.

It's obvious which would be a better motivator for any of these sites, either receiving an email stating "what you're doing is wrong, and unsecure" or one stating "what you're doing is wrong and unsecure and, by the way, you could be fined €50,000" [1]

[0] https://plaintextoffenders.com/

[1] https://www.gamingtechlaw.com/2019/04/first-gdpr-fine-italy....
A lot of this takes the form of a Western company contracting a Chinese manufacturer to make some goods for it. The company pays for research and development, specialist tooling and such. They contract the factory to make 10,000 widgets. They then find thousands of the exact same widgets on the market in China. The factory just makes more and sells them directly.
It's a hell to be a freelancer software dev in Germany.

People can make much more money by doing that in London, which has proper/more flexible laws.

I think you could hire a consultant. There are some great consultancies in Germany that might be able to have the professional you need.
Yes, absolutely. I apologize, I didn't mean to aim this at founders. I was just thinking about overwork in general, and its effects on people.
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The 787 is weird (and possibly unsafe) for at least two significant reasons.

Firstly, Boeing totally re-invented their approach to assembling planes. Previously they built most of the aireframe components and assembled them in their own plants. But the 787 was specced out during an ongoing Boeing/Airbus anti-trust dispute over government cross-subsidies that turned nasty (escalated to USA/EU level, mediated via the WTO, with sanctions threatened). For strategic reasons Boeing decided to outsource subassembly production to third parties and retain only overall control and final assembly (the goal was to have 51% of the work go through the EU, so that the EU would shoot themselves in the head if they applied sanctions against Boeing aircraft). (Similarly, Airbus did much the same: you can buy A320s—the 737 series' Airbus rival—built entirely in China, for example.)

Anyway, this resulted in huge cost overruns, delays as small suppliers grappled with trying to supply components of reliable quality and consistency in Boeing-scale quantities, and so on. On the other hand, it gave Boeing a shiny new 21st century supply chain which they're using on new projects, so the $30Bn wasn't entirely wasted on just one bird.

Secondly, Boeing went full-tilt for composites in place of aluminum as the main structural material.

Now, Airbus had been building composite airframes for decades at this point, but they got there incrementally, and not without fatal accidents. See for example the crash of American Airlines flight 587:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587

It turns out that switching to all-composites from aluminum has some serious gotchas, including entirely different wear/fatigue/delamination issues.

Boeing has done surprisingly well up to this point with the 787 (although the early Ethiopian Airlines hull loss ground-side due to a runaway battery fire should be a warning—it was a shiny new plane and the battery fire burned through the top of the hull, turning it into a $200M write-off; an aluminum bird could probably have been patched and repaired). But we have no idea whether Boeing managed to avoid baked-in long term weaknesses in the airframe, of the kind that only show up 10-30 years into an aircraft's life. Such weaknesses can show up suddenly and kill an entire type within a matter of months (see for example the fate of the Vickers Valiant, a British strategic bomber of the 1950s that succumbed to cracked wing spars and was hastily scrapped).

Anyway: this is why I'm very dubious about flying on 787s, at least for another few years. Your mileage may vary, obviously ...
Show HN: Simple Workout – Weightlifting Tracking App
Hello!

I got a little tired of the UI in other popular Android fitness tracking apps, so I decided to make my own.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harrisontu...

I've stripped away all the other features, and left what I thought was essential. I tried to optimise for ease-of-use (and speed!). Let me know if there's anything you think I missed.

Check it out! Hope you like it. Its the first app I've ever published.

Built with Google Flutter, if anyone is curious about that development experience. Also happy to consider open-sourcing this!

Cheers,

Harry