skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't get your PhD in US/Canadian/European universities without publications.

This is not a national requirement however. I bet you could find a PhD granting institution in the US that doesn't require publication.

Moreover, there's spillover effects from requiring this; I'm told in China that medical journals are facing a dire problem of research fraud, due to research publications being tied to promotions in the medical community (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...). It seems reasonable to assume incentivizing publications will reduce the quality of publications, whether the incentive is a promotion or a degree.

The question I have though, is what harm there is in reverting to a socially enforced standard. It's pretty easy to screen out PhD applicants without a publication, and I don't know of anyone who's too busy churning through PhDs to give their scholarly output at least a brief glance. If the screening device is available cheaply, who is harmed by this legislation?
CDMA.
I think we've all seen lots of examples where somebody took an existing license and tacked some extra verbiage onto it. The recent controversy around the "Commons Clause" stuff is a good example.

My take is just this: if it's a deeply held ideological thing for you, then by all means, go for it. But if you want your project to be widely adopted / used, etc., then in pragmatic terms I think you'd be better served sticking with a straight-forward, conventional license. Not everybody cares about this sort of thing, but a lot of people get uneasy using projects that use "non-standard" licenses.
Well the upside is that the city actually allows this at all. If I were still living in Texas, land of freedom, this would be completely forbidden in most cities.
Every time I see a performance issue/solution of Python, I was wondering why there is no company maintaining a distribution with a high-performance Python JIT compiler with patched, GIL-free packages. Given the prevalence of Python and what have succeeded in JVM, it seems like a fruitful business.
Interesting Pre-Suasion Examples: Gaining Compliance by Priming
Are you terrible at writing in general, or specifically for self-evaluation?

Personally I feel very confident at writing, to the point where I fantasize about a professional writing career. But I can completely imagine freezing up at a self evaluation.
There's the Freelancer's Union which offers some group benefits

https://www.freelancersunion.org/benefits/
My assumption is that the US wants innovative space programs. You are right, the government became lackluster. Then the individuals stepped in.

Now, you are assuming the government won’t step in even when the individuals no longer want to do it. Either they’ll revamp nasa or start handing out subsidies. Either way it’s the government stepping in. Unless there’s another way that I’m missing?
> My Lenovo X1 yoga is way more durable than my phone. My kindle reader is too.

Neither of them are water proof, so how does that work?
The zoning laws are just ridiculous. It shouldn't be illegal to live in a tiny house, or to have mixed-use dwellings, or build more dense, efficient spaces that cost less. There's a good reason why these laws came into practice, but there's also good reason to make exceptions. But it's also impossible to change them without a couple million dollars and an army of lawyers.
Here is my collection of Lorenz equation implemented in 140 characters of Javascript: https://www.dwitter.net/h/lorenz
My favorite is the flying butterfly with flapping wings.
In all my experience with support, I have been referred to a document that helped me with my problem literally zero times, because if something went wrong the first thing I did was Google it and so I already saw the unhelpful document.
What we need is more billionaires interested in shifting the political climate in regards to climate change.
Maybe we should all of our pollutant industries over to Io so at least it’ll be warm by the time we need it.
Electro mechanical connection requires springiness action to be reliable - one side of the connector needs to work pushing pins together. In full size and mini USB elastic pins are inside sockets, plugs have rigid contacts

http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/image/cache/data/rapid/mini-us...

Micro swaps that around, moving prone to failure (bend/pushed pin etc) elements into the cable.
This page perpetrates an apparent contradiction. Starts off with:

> Pilosa is built around the concept of representing everything as bitmaps.

What this literally means is that not a single datum is stored that is not in the bitmap.

But then the diagrammed examples look like this:

manatee loris sea_horse
Vertebrate 1 1 1
Invertebrate 0 0 0
Breathes Air 1 1 0

Pardon my ignorance, but I see here a bitmap of 9 bits plus six character strings that are obviously not inside that bitmap.

If those strings are removed, the bitmap means jack squat.

Are they understood to be in another bitmap?
This law sound like it was written by data brokers. It does nothing at best and legitimizes corrupt practices at worst.

WTF is "consent" doing here? Why would ISP ever need to sell someone's data in order to operate? Do they also plan to explicitly prohibit ISPs from torturing customers and selling their organs? From selling illegal drugs to minors? Dear state of Maine, I too would like to waive all my legal liabilities by making my victims sign a bunch of paperwork!
As far as I'm aware there's no beta blocker that's approved for performance anxiety in the US.

Paperwork for Propranolol in the US has on-label usages listed as: Hypertension, Angina Pectoris, Atrial Fibrillation, Myocardial Infarction, Migraine, Essential Tremor, Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis or Pheochromocytosis.
Considering how the current administration has - or at least feels it has - been treated by social media companies, I’d give good odds that the administration is the impetus behind the investigation.
"Apple was a major contributor to the Type C design"

Citation?

As far as i know, it was created almost entirely by a team at Google, and the agreement to get Apple on board was to not publicize this fact. Which is really sad, because then John Gruber then went off and credited their work to Apple without bothering to fact check it.

IIRC, Apple was not even at the USB meeting where it was first presented.

I'm sure post coming on board Apple contributed, but yeah.

(Various xooglers and others have confirmed all this publicly now, AFAIK)
This WSJ story has details about the FTC recommendation to sue Google (overruled by the commissioners at the time). They accidentally sent the WSJ every other page in a botched FOIA request.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-u-s-antitrust-probe-...
Do you not have zoning in your city? Or are you just not familiar with what is allowed in various zones?
I now think twice about digitalocean, which was looking to me very nice company before.
Let’s see, an odd chance of extinction in several million years due to an asteroid or certain extinction within several hundred years due to a climate catastrophe, which one should we prioritize? Hmmm.
Well I think when it's part of a main house there's probably a middle ground. I've got a separate exterior entry, building out a full kitchen, bathroom, etc. Not trying to just rent a room. But I think we'd do well to find ways to permit spaces like this that are "lower end" or somewhat integrated with the main house.
Good. To quote an old friend who worked for Google:

"I'm worried that if the rest of America knew what we were actually doing here they would literally come here and kill us..."
Your mistake is in assuming that the government handing out subsidies will result in a manned space program that works. It hasn’t. Go lookup the history of SLS/Orion.
USB C is no MagSafe.
I think the reason they're not integrating upstream on the social stuff as much is because they've removed more than added. They do less, on purpose. I like that their Mastodon instance doesn't have the firehose. It seems to help keep peoples posts more diverse and personal and avoids people feeling like they have to pick a side and comment on whatever is #trending today. If they gave the option to turn on the firehose, it would loose that feel because many of the users would fall into the same trap. Even if they still post interesting stuff, their overall feed could be lower quality.
IPv4 the Hard Way, IPv6 Made Easy
WASI is in very early stage right now. We already have a start of a proposal to unify reading/writing from file and network streams. Unifying filesystem paths with URLs is something that's certainly in scope beyond that.
Obsolete in what sense?
I heard this is a sort of hail-mary for the company's existence, that they need recurring revenue and need it badly.

Their products haven't been selling well and if you look at the last few puri.sm updates posted on HN they didn't even attract 10 comments if any at all.

The last macbook update thread was past 1000 comments when I read it.

If the HN crowd isn't interested in a privacy-oriented FSF-friendly computing devices, who is?
It has been one year since the EU's GDPR law went into effect. What they did and why they did it is described in the PDF linked below. Some of their rationale is spelled out in Section 1.1.1. Key principles in Section 3.

https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-co...

There are plenty of opportunities for abuse here in the US, and we're all reminded of them constantly. The proliferation of ad-blockers and anti-tracking software shows that 'extreme hostility' is widespread. I have yet to see any substantial animus in the EU over the reasonable measures they've taken. Hopefully action on a state-by-state basis in the US will encourage the industry to demand explicit legal restrictions.
This just further supports that Uber and Lyft drivers are indeed not contractors? For example Uber drivers don’t set their rates, have not negotiated a contract with Uber in any way, are engaged in work that exists only because of Uber, and their driving is basically the entirety of Uber’s business.

Compare to a plumber: plumbers and plumbing companies set their own rates, hours, often provide estimates and negotiate a price and contract with the company, don’t engage in work solely setup by the company (e.g. the pipes are already there; company is not in the business of manufacturing broken pipes), and fixing plumbing is not any portion of the vast majority of companies.
Note that iPhone is water resistant, not waterproof.
I appreciate the discussion.

> most of the time, the engine is in the quiescence search

That seems to be the best case for GPUs. Whenever a GPU SIMD thread finishes a quiescence search, just grab another position that is under quiescence search.

Frankly, the quiescence search part seems most ideally suited to GPUs out of all, as long as it is appropriate batched.

> Imagine you're in the q-search and you're at a node with two captures. Might as well search both at the same time.

Put them onto the q-search queue, which will be checked as GPU threads go idle.

The q-search problem is exactly identical to raytracers. GPUs don't know if a ray will bounce zero, once, or even 10 times. But that doesn't cause divergence because it's just about sticking rays onto a queue and evaluating them

Rays in raytracers can even spawn multiple rays in a bounce, such as subsurface scattering. This pattern is solved!
Me too. Here are my thoughts on the current state of "realtime databases": https://hackernoon.com/why-eve-will-be-perfect-for-realtime-...
> US system computes hell out of statistics for ranking and validation of quality. Other countries, including India or China, has no such things. There, universities/institutes are "ranked" by sort of public perception and media image.

Having worked in university administration, I can assure you these two things are not so different after all. US News ranking, is for example, a survey of professors and high school councilors, plus some reporting about things like overall budget per faculty member and per student, and yes, some statistics about the incoming class.

And... the ghost writing problem is not unheard of in the US. After all, a lot of PhD candidates hail from India and China, so this shouldn't surprise you overmuch.

> Government mandates have typically evolved in these countries for a reason.

I suspect it's because of government mandates in these countries and others. For example, advanced degrees help in obtaining visa status in the US.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuclear_power_plant_...

There's a source for the recent data given in the 'description section'.
When I first heard of Krikalev's story, I wished that someone would write an alternative universe historical novel where being "the last Soviet citizen" became more significant for him.

Imagine some legal quirk in the interpretation of Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty:

"A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object, and over any personnel thereof, while in outer space or on a celestial body."

where the International Court of Justice required the UN to treat the Soviet Union as still existing, with Krikalev as its only citizen (and thus government).

He could nominate himself as the Soviet representative to the UN, and exercise his country's veto, while also having to pay the country's contribution to the UN budget. Things would be even more complicated if some members of the Soviet armed forces, and ambassadors, accepted him as their rightful leader.

It would effectively be an extreme case of the odd situation regarding the status of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
I agree with you, and I was coming here to find similar thinking folks in the comment section and the most worrying thing is that I haven't found any except you. Most people seem to take it as a normal thing that software simply ruins lives and businesses. Todays developers' simply have no ethics. Also most developers seem to think that they can do whatever and they can get away with it, because y'know "Reasons". Sigh. :(

I really don't understand this sheeple thinking, for example most people simply don't understand that an automated fraud detection system is not a technologically important thing, it's an economically important cost management system effectively.

Just like companies externalize the cost of helpdesk personnel by operating an automated call center (and by proxy making the customer bear the cost), the goal is the same with fraud systems. But we cannot just simply throw our arms up in the air or shrug our shoulders when the companies leverage our lives this way.

Take Facebook for example, they acted like they had no responsibility or any power to review and take down or prevent toxic and/or hateful comments by employing human reviewers until they were forced to do so in some countries. And guess what, they had no trouble doing so, their profit might have reduced somewhat, but not that much.

So all in all, anyone who thinks he has integrity as a developer should take a look into himself when he justifies systems like fraud systems (or any other unnecessary cost reducing actions) as necessary. They are economically beneficial, yes; necessary, no.
Have you seen how large the national debt is already?
I don't think homeless can afford consoles and escape reality.. however they can afford drugs to escape reality.

Also note: Prison provides free housing, free meals, free gym, and free healthcare.
Which internet would this site be on?
All camera examples are broken.

(GET ERROR )https://trackingjs.com/bower/tracking.js/examples/[object%20... 404
Maybe, maybe not. There could be potential ultra-long-period impactors that share a similar origin, and therefore a similar period. Or perhaps crossing the galactic orbital plane changes the odds. The question of periodicity of mass extinctions (and what, if any, causes there are) is a valid line of inquiry, although there are no clear smoking guns.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/the-next...
From that perspective, the big question is if their decisions statistically more profitable than cheaper alternatives.

There are some companies on a very predictable path. You could replace Eddie Lampert or Johnny Ive with a D20 mapped to management tactics and get pretty much the same outcomes at least on a short to mid term.

Plenty of competent companies have enough self-contained knowledge that you could make good decisions simply by surveying the on-the-ground employees, weighting them in some way, and generating policy that way. One would hope a widget factory with a combined 200,000 man-years of widget industry experience would know more about the widget business than a drop-in CEO that had to look up what a widget was on Wikipedia before he made his introduction speech.

I suspect the real justification for the wildly overpaid C-suite is that you need someone to be a scapegoat for Wall Street's whims.

A local and autonomous team that knows their market and is competent is not going to sack half of their own to finance a stock buyback, but a $30 million a year stuffed suit can impose it from above.
Can you elaborate? I left Google years ago but it wasn't that bad.
You don't need hoogle -.- It is a very cool tool tho
Maybe because the Mac platform (or Windows and Android) are platforms that have proven a developer can make money there.
What bugs me about these doomsday articles about how Americans are unprepared is that they never mention what Americans ought to be doing. Saving more money? Sure. But what exactly am I supposed to be investing in / divesting from / etc?
I used redis for something very similar once before and found that redis was a bottleneck on hd video unless the frames were compressed as JPEG. I came away feeling that it was an easy way to solve the problem but not very efficient.
Linode was more of a bootstrapped business, it grew slowly and steadily. Digital Ocean was always built to grow fast from the beginning.

I think that the size of the company or how fast they grow is a good proxy for having poor customer support. What we should be doing is finding the slow growing businesses or the mid-tier (not too small, not too big) businesses to take our business to.
They went the other direction for the 2018 model - my work MBP has a death grip on my non-Apple USB-C cables and I have to use excessive force to remove them.
Actually, you can implement cheap external backups even in a 1-man company.

But I still support that DO here is a 100% liable toward their client. Now the liability between the said client and his own clients is an other matter.
Suddenly, any regret from not pursuing a Google interview is gone...
That is the claim.
I'm no longer able to edit the above comment, so to elaborate on #1:

Following is a comment[1] by Moisey Uretsky in another thread[2]:

> Depending on which items are flagged the account is put into a locked state, which means that access is limited. However, the droplets for that account and other services are not affected at all. The account is also notified about the action and a dialogue is opened, to determine what the situation is. There is no sudden loss of service. There is no loss of service without communication. If after multiple rounds of communication it is determined that the account is fraudulent, even then there is no loss of service that isn't communicated well in advance of the situation.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18296344

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18294940

This is why I'm so confused by the case under discussion, because the customer appeared to have been completely locked out without warning.
exactly!

i am reading all these replies and i found them really interesting. i think the same people being annoyed by sms-like writing, would get mad at me not using proper casing with my sentences.

at the end of the day, i think it does not matter. i am not writing a book or an article. and when i am texting, i would rather keep it short, sms-like.

i would like to understand, truly, why people get mad at such things. it has nothing to do with being disrespectful or anything.

last time someone was mad at a particular emoji. i believe it's the next form of shortening messages. and guess what? i would rather have an emoji than type a sms-like message. maybe some of us just like being efficient?
That's called MOSS ("measure of source similarity"), and it's been used by universities for over a decade.
Oddly enough I've actually had much worse reliability with Lightning than with MicroUSB. Our home has suffered bad from corroded power pins[0].

What happens is you have one lightning cable with a bad contact, and that causes electric arcing to corrode the power pin in the phone, and now the phone will have bad contact with any new cable you bring in, causing arcing on that cable. Now if you have multiple devices in a household sharing the same charging cables, the "plague" spreads. The only solution is to buy all new chargers, iPhones and iPads all at the same time.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/lightning-cables-failing-due-t...
> This is not a national requirement however. I bet you could find a PhD granting institution in the US that doesn't require publication.

You could find UNC Chapel Hill's School of Public Health, one of the best in the country. They require a paper to be submitted.
Depends on your use case I guess? I've never lost a micro usb cable but at this stage I've had tens of them fail on me.
Of course! Nothings free though, they charge corporate consulting rates. There are temp agencies, same deal.
This is accurate in every
field I’ve worked in (synthetic organic chemistry, comp chem, statistics, genetics, clinical trials).

The top glam journals have an additional layer of politics. It’s the worst system aside from all the others that have ever been tried...

(last time I was actually excited to review was for NEJM & was disappointed)
"DigitalOcean Caused an Outage for Our Company" seems like a more accurate title.
Haven't the cost of illegal drugs been falling in real terms since the 1970s. Would be interesting to look into what the cost of drugs does to crime rates.
As a faculty member who works with students in other developing countries where this is required, this is a great step forward. The requirement not only pushes students towards rapid publication, predatory journals but it also produces poorer quality science because the focus becomes entirely "What do I have to do to get just enough for that publication?"
Please share a link to this stuff that I can share with my parents
Then it's not truly free, buy a license. You don't get to eat off the free labor of your framework developers.
There are many many people who do good work at Google. Quote a random to suit your pitch forks. No name, no context , no source.
Beyond a doubt the sensors on a 2019 smartphone would pale in comparison to what is on that craft, and not just in resolution.
Yeah same with morphine
Yep. Been coming. Platforms are super interesting with laws/regulations. Going to be interesting to watch what is decided.
I wonder how severe the backlash is going to be, not just for Google but all the tech giants. Our anti-trust laws were mostly written around monopolies abusing pricing power to rip off consumers, but with the intersection of data and hosting and analytics and everything else the potential to abuse people is far greater than just raising prices. And they have expanded their ability to profile and experiment on individuals worldwide, regardless of whether you create a Google account.

It's just getting scary at this point.