skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ok, I admit that a lot of papers compare only against other metaheuristics, but only in cases where it is already accepted that those other metaheuristics far out-perform weaker methods.

Those methods are invariably other evolutionary methods, and benchmarks are cherry-picked to show only encouraging results under the convenient guise of the "no free lunch" theorem. That' pretty much the norm, such as the repetitive recipe for inventing a metaheuristic algorithm of a) coming up with a clever nature-inspired metaphor with a catchy name, b) put together an algorithm that is arguably inspired on the metaphor, c) come up with a benchmark that arguably portrays the algorithm as being any improvement, even if only on a fortuitous corner case.
From the official tweet:

> @Space_Station is open for commercial business! Watch @Astro_Christina talk about the steps we're taking to make our orbiting laboratory accessible to all Americans.

Why is it limited only to Americans?
Cherry-picking the first sentence is a bit dishonest:

"I made the choice after the heads of my department branded me with a kind of scarlet letter that makes it difficult to do my job or find another one. If I stayed, I didn’t just worry that there’d be more public flogging, shunning, and stress, I expected it."

... are the next two sentences, and sounds like this weighed on her just as heavily as a pending childbirth.
Language, trees, and geometry in neural networks
Also Standard Oil (have since changed their name) supplying $20MM oil to nazis prior to the bombing of England.
Ask HN: Why doesn't software have credits screens anymore?
In the olden days, desktop apps shipped with credits screens with the names of individual contributors (sometimes in the splash screen, sometimes in the About panel, sometimes hidden in Easter eggs).

Then they went away! I don't know if it was IP concerns, the fact that it gave headhunters a hitlist of people to poach, or just got unwieldy.

Sometimes SaaS apps have a friendly "Team" page on their site with headshots and bio blurbs, which is the closest I think I see nowadays.

Are any of you shipping credits screens in your desktop, mobile, or SaaS apps? If so, why and how? If not, why not? Should it be revived?
What takes time in clearing is not information transmission.

Most of the time is spent managing risk. Sure, that includes persistence, but that is also marginal. You also have to validate integrity, authenticity, cross-reference against legal requirements (eg. enforce rates, detect fraud — including internal fraud, apply sanctions lists, estimate AML-CFT risk, …). You have to make sure all accounting rules are followed. You have to abide by the procedures that you and the regulator determined. All that with no downtime.

All of this takes time. Historically, a large part was manual. While automation has helped, there are quite a few clearing houses where an army of programmers is spent battling the chaos.

A system least tolerant to inconsistencies and most tolerant to failure, increases reliability while reducing risk.
The cryptographic properties of a distributed blockchain help there, regardless of whether the system has open membership (which is not Facebook’s case, unlike most cryptocurrencies).

A different ledger design can be equally powerful or more. In fact, I expect that a lot of the compliance and accounting logic can be expressed elegantly in a custom design.
It's easy when you've made sure the entire company leans the same way though. It would be odd to be a right-winger and work in Google--knowing that they're doing everything they can to hurt me. But of course money is money and everybody has a price.
1) In my company, IT is organized under HR. Also, in most companies, IT exists to implement the technical needs of the rest of the company, not to decide what tech the rest of the company uses.

2) I get to pass judgments on Google because I'm a customer and I'm voting with my wallet, and because in the nearly 2 decades that I've been a customer they've gone from being a bastion of idealism and representing the possibility of the internet to being one of the fundamental problems. They're very close to embracing "be evil" as a motto.

3) Google's not going to be a $1 trillion company for long if it keeps this shit up. People vote with their wallets.
How a private equity boom fuelled the world’s biggest law firm
Scanning the comments, I don't really see anyone discussing the value of "superior general knowledge".

I like knowledge, so I find value in attaining it. However, depending on your goals, intellectual humility will set you back a great deal. Most people use confidence and certainty as a signal, and suppressing these means they'll pick someone over you (for a promotion, for a relationship, for a contract, for your knowledge/expertise (even though you likely have more of it than the other guy)).

The people who are ahead are rarely the ones who are the most knowledgeable (with the possible exception of academia).

I've been told: "Be humble and tentative on the inside, but self-promoting and confident on the outside".
> government program that accepts responsibility for doing so.

We already have that.[0] But it doesn't do any good, because it's purely advisory, but they need regulatory and enforcement power. We need an SEC for cybersecurity. Obama put Rod Beckstrom in charge of the National Cybersecurity Center, and that was great, but he resigned after a year because there was no funding behind it. It had been limping along since, but Trump deleted the position about a year ago.

The point is, if we want to fix this problem, we need the political will to hold people accountable instead of just telling people to not do stupid things. IT and Legal are cost centers in 99% of organizations, the difference is that if Legal and IT tell the C-suite "We need to do X or else bad things will happen" Legal gets listened to but IT doesn't. This is because if Legal's "do X" fails, the outcome is an expensive lawsuit, but the outcome of IT's "do X" is a blog post about their continuing commitment to the safety and security of their customer's privacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cybersecurity_Center_...
Even though the verse context is listing a bunch of bad things that are happening?

Bad thing;

Bad thing;

Bad thing,

Bad thing, and

Bad thing;

Good thing, and Good thing!
> Imagine an initiative to create a standardized open-source GPU for Linux?

A CPU that can do number crunching like a GPU as well as general purpose computing would be amazing.
Kyma – extend and build on Kubernetes with ease
People should stick with religion talk! And of course the Tabs vs Spaces thing. Do that instead, yeah.
I don't need peer review because I'm not asserting anything.

Perhaps more than halfway there.
It's a recurring theme with me, though a bit different where my name is under step 3, and I only realized that when I tried to upvote the question and couldn't.
Fosta: A Hostile Law with a Human Cost (The Broken War on Sex Trafficking)
There's a DFW area startup I once interviewed for called iuzeit (not affiliated) that is trying to solve some of the problems of consumer items and reviews. I am unaware of whether they could solve your pressure cooker conundrum, but I know they intend to increase the breadth of the type of items they cover.
It comes up at work consistently in "future of the industry" kinds of discussions or when I get drinks with old coworkers and we talk about parts of our jobs we don't like. I've worked at pretty major companies, but also not saying my experience is universal here.
not really, they had no probable cause. an eerie text message is not probable cause - it didn't specify the whom or the what. his gun was legal, hence the charges dropped. so basically, he was arrested for having a tiny bit of weed. That's not fair, that's obnoxious and a waste of tax payers money in every obvious regard, and a further waste of taxpayers money for the consequence of police officers pushing too hard.
This is why when raiding a "hacker" LEOs were[1997] supposed to take immediate physical control of the device and not believe anything said "hacker" tells them about the device.
now that mobiles are more common than desktops, but not commonly controlled entirely by the user, heuristics have become sloppy.

"Assume That Every Computer Has
Been Rigged To Destroy Evidence"

https://www.govtech.com/magazines/gt/Computer-Evidence-Proce... [1997]
I'm sad to find there aren't any videos on YouTube of this Panasonic Penwriter printing something. If you or anyone you know has access to one of these device then please consider sharing a video!

Here's another review from an old electronics magazine, it's in page 49 of the PDF: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Hands-On-Electr...
There is a process to quash an unlawful warrant. You can't just refuse to obey.
Someone recently mentioned something called “LHT00SU1”. It’s primarily a logic analyzer, but it has one analog input. (I’m not into EE, never used scopes, just randomly found a discussion about it recently)
What benefit does Facebook gain from getting the ability to store my personal data for tax purposes? That doesn't give them the permission to do anything else with it anyway.

If they were going to use the "for tax purposes" data for ad targeting or something else, then that's a GDPR violation - if they're going to intentionally violate GDPR, then they might as well simply store and use the data without permission and lie that it's been deleted; there's no need to bother with the charade.
You want the world to be more straightforward and less creative?

Huh.
This is something I've wondered... Do all Facebook/Google employees drink the Kool aid? Are there no privacy proponents?
I often say "That's not programming, that's just typing". (Stole it from someone, can't remember who now.)
Same as Arab spring- much ado in the press, not much lasting change.
A Google Cloud Catch-22 Broke the Internet
I think that’s the assumption, but it takes a lifetime to do that. Being an advocate for yourself is the defining characteristic of adulthood, to me. I don’t think it’s something you pick up in the classroom, it’s very experiential. So I would be happy if people did things like work and live on their own during a gap year, then go back to college.

I definitely think this skill shouldn’t be tied to university.
Racial and gender biases plague postdoc hiring
> we will just end up being part of the system that creates the next level of life

That does seem likely. I'd rather say next level of something like consciousness, awareness and/or intelligence.

Maybe we'll evolve into it. But from what little I know about AI, what works will likely not be much like we work.
I think of myself as an "engineer", but more in the "keep the steam engine from exploding" sense.
One potential reason is you can get the token listed on a cryptocurrency exchange but other than that. I do not know. If you use cyrptocurrency you are almost always better off with a decentralized crypto.
Statement Regarding FedEx’s Relationship with Amazon
> Understood as senior: Communication skills matter most.

I've been of a similar opinion at some point, but now that I see people _optimizing for communication_ as juniors in lieu of actual technical skills, I say: both matter a ton. I hate dealing with a junior that is an extremely good people person but a terrible developer: they tend to think they got everything covered just because people like them so much, even when their actual solutions are terrible.
A variant of no 3 is used for some large scale telecom equipment supporting multi millions of attached users with serious uptime requirements. State is distributed and handled locally and replicated to a sibling node for fallback protection in case a node goes down. The replication is dynamic so new sibling relationships are established when nodes come and go. There is also some more persistent state (like billing information) that is used to recover in case of total node failure but a lot of the transient state can be rebuilt when users are forced to reattach
That's a great argument, but he didn't make it. As I said above, if you feel the warrant would violate your First or Fifth Amendment rights, there is a process for that. You can't just ignore a court order, or you will end up in jail.
They probably are getting more business
> The bigger companies in particular are your employer, your restaurant, your gym, your laundry service, your transportation, your social life...

What companies besides Google and Facebook could qualify as all of those?
They are only allowing a very small number of people to go aboard, so I don't think it's that bizarre that a US agency is only picking Americans for the initial program.
It's good and all that you have a policy, but the fact remains that you have the ability to make exceptions for collecting PII in category 4. That's what I mean by "don't collect" -- this stuff isn't your data. Get your mitts off it.
Ignored the internet in terms of distributed systems, which I assumed was obvious from the wording.

Look at that 1994 paper, none of the things in the paper show any background to build a distributed key-value storage or really anything for the cloud. I'm not sure why people are trying to claim otherwise. Even ZFS from a decade later reflects both a complete lack of experience in distributed systems and ignorance towards the internet.
There were some nebulous plans to split off the Russian modules as a core for a new station.

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

I'm extremely dubious of their ability to fund such an endeavour.
Bingo. I completely agree. Yes, it is kind of a hassle to have FB using this globalcoin rather than just use a standard decentralized crypto but it is a start at least.
I, personally, am against abortions. I, however, understand that it’s not my body that a baby will grow in and it’s not my circumstances that the persons considering an abortion live in. I can’t put myself in their shoes. I’m firmly pro-choice. It’s their bodies and their lifes.

I’m also pro-life as in “create the circumstances that make as few people as possible face that choice.” Create circumstances where being a single parent is not the first ranking cause of being or becoming poor. Create support networks. Create a suitable safety net. Ensure proper childcare options. Make sure that mothers don’t die during childbirth from entirely preventable causes. If you want to be pro-life in a real sense of the word, care about what happens after the baby is born.
Vaguely reminds me of the work of Chuck Tingle[0].

0: https://www.chucktingle.com/ebook.html
Is there an alternative to Neo4j you would recommend, or do you think graph dbs are bad in general?

I have a pet project that works with data that’s very graphy (timetabling app with lots of interdependent events); I tried using postges at first since I’m used to it, but found myself writing really ugly looking recursive queries. Neo4j seems to fit my use case a lot better, and their graphql plugin has been really useful.
Why would they oppose Google when they're Mozilla's wallet?

Where else does Mozilla get revenues from?
I use spotlight a lot, but never for calculations. I’ll have to try that out.

The ability to use variables, math functions, lists, loops, and completion in Python will likely keep me using it as my basic calculator. Although I need to figure out a way to edit my REPL history to fix typos better.
> Second, there's no "false light" if the recording shows the plaintiff plainly performing a criminal act.

While pulling on the handle of a locked car door and then moving on is certainly shady, I expect it's not a criminal act, right?
just try being depressed. video games, running, things I use to care about bore me to no end. days drag by slowly. sleep goes by to quickly. i hate my life.
I know distribution lines are routinely buried, but can transmission lines be buried?
The ISS has had several defunding dates set and extended, by both Republican and Democratic administrations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station_pr...
This is seems to be true of apps names as well. For example, to pick a few random examples;

- Spotify's actual name on Google Play is "Spotify: Discover music, podcasts, and playlists" (so catchy!)

- SoundHound's actual name is "SoundHound - Music Discovery & Hands-Free Player"

Rather than fixing whatever search behaviour incentivised this, Google seem to have just joined in;

- Google Maps is actually called "Maps - Navigate & Explore"

- Google Keep is actually called "Google Keep - Notes and Lists"

When I got a new phone recently I actually found it really confusing and had to check I wasn't installing phishing apps by mistake.

Thankfully Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are currently named with their actual names!
"When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or cease to be honest."
Probably not going to generate any lawsuits but kind of shows how complicit the general public is about constructing a surveillance state. We bitch when the government spies on us. But with this we're effectively making it so that the we spy on each other for the government.
Both of which will be dead in 10 years, the former because it's solely focused on the desktop, latter because it's a vendor initiative not a community one.
THANK YOU!!!

I really thought this only happened to me :-)
"...and lack of reviews".

If they had reviews (reason we had affiliate code) organic search would work just fine.

Instead we give google the affiliate cut, in exchange of the privilege of tweaking our content to their search.
Jaepa covered it. The state is allowed to brute-force entry into phone or other device.

Thus the simultaneous push for Apple and others to provide back-doors. And large sums of money paid by the FBI to Israeli(?) IT firms to crack phones.
Not only did I read the article, but I'm pretty sure that I actually read the book when it first came out, or at least lots of discussion about it, from several angles. This isn't exactly "new" news, after all. It might behoove you to track down some of the discussions from the time. I don't recall IBM coming out smelling like a rose, though, even if you gave them some benefit of the doubt.

But I was referring specifically to the census. IBM was in the census business at the time, after all, and Germany had a legitimate need for their services, which they provided at least until the war broke out. IIRC, some years passed between when Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany, and when they came to be considered "evil incarnate". Which was plenty of time for folks to do business with them which they might later come to regret.
If you're fascinated by the unintended consequences of technology it might be worth picking up a copy of "Understanding Media" by Marshall McLuhan. This hacking of book subtitles is a great example of what I like to call the "McLuhan Effect", but honestly I just can't remember the proper term for it.
You might be interested to learn about MakerDAO / DAI[0], which is a stablecoin pegged to USD using CDPs (collateralized debt positions) and decentralized governance.

0: https://makerdao.com/en/dai
Applied across all actors, your strategy results in nobody taking the deal, the worst outcome for everyone but me.

It’s such a strange, “everyone loses” attitude, but people are strange. Studies of the Ultimatum Game [1] show that people will actually refuse free money if it meant someone else got more.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
GOTO return(); is the droid you're looking for. :)
There are only 66 years between Kitty Hawk and the Sea of Tranquility

reddit post of the same:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6t1580/there...
So perhaps this is a suspect due to other factors that aren't mentioned. Maybe the location of this video is near other documented break-ins and it fits a profile.
lazyness of the people trying to stop those scams should amaze you.

Nothing proves the scammers are not using those other alternatives for all you know.
> And I will definitely concede that the space of problems in which they excel and are tractable is smaller than the space of problems for something like a neural network, in my experience.

The only thing that EAs and neural networks have in common is the buzzword abuse. Neural networks are actually useful as they are at their core an efficient way to approximate multivariate functions, while EAs are computationally expensive heuristics abused by being passed off as optimization algorithms even in domains where deterministic algorithms (and even brute force approaches) actually perform better.
Rather unsavoury of FCA to publicly badmouth the other side this way just because they did not want to let you have whatever you wanted.
"lead -> led" (past tense of the verb "to lead") is also a pretty common one for native speakers.
With Chrome hampering ad-blocking, here's a look at the “Other Chromes”
Not at all. =) Just talking about the Apple app store class action suit specifically.

I think HN's servers are powered by bad analogies.
Most likely that "way" would be supporting private space station developers with various subsidies. Though it's fun to imagine the "Singapore scenario" where California goes independent due to some spat over space rights, with Musk becoming a space general in the rebellion ;-)
So - on my Linux machine, I shouldn't trust /usr/bin/python?

There goes probably 10% of the software I can apt-get install.
Implementing a CMS in 3 Days – How to Move from GitHub Pages to Netlify CMS
For the scope part:

- This board is 750kSPS, the most well known cheap alternative (not necessarily open source), is something from JYeTech, e.g., DSO-138 [1] (it's 1MSPS)

- Both 750kSPS and 1MSPS are hopelessly inadequate for serious work

- In the USB scope arena, the two top contenders are OWON VDS 1022i, or Hantek 6022 variant (I prefer 1022i; it's 100MSPS [2], I think Hantek is 48MSPS).

- Finally, the best bang for the buck, and open source, is the Haasoscope v9 selling on ebay (directly from the creator, Andy Haas, who's a physicist and wanted to create a cheap but good open source scope). The bundle is $139 [3], but there is an add-on that further increase the frame-rate or something that's $40 or something, though I consider that to be essential not an add-on. (it's 250MSPS)

- if you wanna get a new and stand-alone scope, Rigol ds1054z $375 [4] is a hot favorite (also watch out for Keysight, they're trying to get into low-cost scope market). 1GSPS.

Disclaimier: No affiliation.

[1] https://jyetech.com/dso138mini-diy-kit/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HC4KY2G

[3] https://www.ebay.com/itm/283330921663

[4] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012938E76
Does the Netherlands have a system for mandatory conduit sharing?
That's because our tools are not good enough so what we lack in tools we compensate by individual developer quality.

I spend a lot of time within WordPress ecosystem and I've seen people coming to me with 20K products shops they've built and maintain without a single line of code written.

I've seen companies operating online without having any developments either on contract or in house.

Because for certain simpler scenarios, there's UI based tools you can run your business on.

Sure they come to me because eventually they need something they can't do with tools they use but those are becoming more and more high level jobs.

Web development is pretty much figured out problem. You have legions of repleacable low value developers churning out pages and you have subset of highly paid specialists who can do more advanced things.

But those gazillions web pages are doing their job, they drive sales, improving information quality etc. so I could say digital workers are factory workers of our time.

On certain jobs line is blurry - designers can do basic WordPress but they also can set up MailChimp because machine needs to be humming.