skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The safest place in a car crash may not be the back seat
Search on the Replay Buffer: Bridging Planning and Reinforcement Learning
ANSI used to have several interesting standards (C, C++) as PDF for 30 dollars each. Unfortunately, they upped their prices considerably.
Nominally to cover the costs of production. However, this is a convenient barrier to entry for Open Source and amateur developers that many companies who are standards participants don't object to.
I do remember watching a documentary about medical devices where it describes a FDA loophole; if the device you are trying to introduce is similar to a previous already approved product then the scientific rigor involved is significantly less. I wonder if this has something to do with it.
I use HNES and love it. But sadly it seems to be abandoned and hasn't kept up with a few changes HN have made along the way.

I'll give this new add-on a spin to see how things go.
I moved away from Firefox, Vivaldi is just far better...Mozilla screwed up, you can get better built in features in Vivaldi, than Firefox even has addons for.. because those retards at Mozilla.. they might aswel work for Google.
Can you make it so that I can upvote this multiple times :)

Really good job.

Editing comments is a bit funny though: after clicking Update it takes me to the standard update page on HN instead of staying inline (on FF).
That's not it. Those are all things your normal (non-devops) ops teams do. Ops teams run the gamut from "I can barely install an rpm, we have dedicated people to configure postfix", to teams that write their own batch scheduling systems. At the high end, we call these teams SREs. At the low end, tier-1 helpdesk.

Devops is when those things cross over into normal developer work. The developers take on these "ops" duties themselves. It may or may not involve actual development. It always involves devs having to understand the infrastructure their code runs on.

Done right, it's a good thing. It makes devs sensitive to how their code is deployed and run in production, without being able to blame some other team for the application not performing well, not having adequate availability, etc.

Usually, it's not done right.
The tooling does provide that yes, as it does in e.g. Java. But Ruby does it without tooling, the feature is a runtime message to the class object.
Only 21% of E3 games are non-violent
The 68000 and 68010 were 32bit CPUs, released in 1979 and 1982 respectively. Intel didn't have a 32bit x86 CPU until 1985 when it released the 386.

At the time though, the 68K was regarded as the best general purpose CPU you could get and was sort of a "default choice" for building any reasonably high performance systems. Unix workstation manufacturers like Sun and SGI originally built their systems on the M68K platforms before their respective RISC architectures developed and matured.

With that said, it's totally reasonable to make the hindsight argument that Apple should have developed the IIgs line further, with its 16-bit 65C816, and then reevaluated the CPU landscape in the mid 1980s, where you had more mature 68K chips, 32bit x86 CPUs, and a plethora of RISC options. In that world, I could very easily see the Macintosh make its debute on a RISC or 386/486 platform.

Speaking of the IIgs: It's rumored that Steve Jobs requested they downclock the CPU (it only ran at 2.8mhz) to prevent it from seeming faster than the Macintosh.
This is like RES for HN, RFN!
ISO is full of vested interests that don't want hobbyists, the interested public, academics, and professionals to access the documents and be able to implement them at a lower cost.
Great timing of this article given that tomorrow (Jun 14) is World Blood Donor Day.
perception matters more than anything when it comes to dealing with kids(and most adults).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues, however, is exactly the place ;-)
Whenever china appears on hackernews...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I'm not sure a crappy SVG file is going to cut it in the real world.
I like this thought. What would it take to certify the form? 10 hours a month? 20? Can you redirect other people on your team to work on this?

When it is broken down to a cost (time) calculation then it might actually become reasonable to invest in a better system for accounting and analyzing expenditures.
What's your definition of superpower that it doesn't apply to all three out of USA, Russia and China? China is very much a superpower, just look at the "Made in ..." labels on the things you are using.
Huh. I had no idea I was limited in the number of reads. Amazing how Medium went from consistent minimalist hosting for long-form articles to this.
There are no complete sets, just loose bricks and a few instructions.
I see you have not met substack, Dominic Tarr, myself, Titus, and others. Here is substack's lifetime earnings: https://twitter.com/substack/status/829802572508639232 This Twitter thread is also quite on topic with your comment.
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Please do not use the quote from the Bible in an inappropriate context.

Matthew 13:11 is

He replied, "Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

The context makes it clear that 13:12 is talking about spiritual possessions/riches, and not an endorsement of the 1 percent. Camel, eye of the needle, not serving God and mammon etc. all deal with this.
Whirlpool Tumble Dryers – the danger in our homes
There is another alternative as well, require that anyone submitting a purchasing request sign a document with substantially similar if not identical wording and provide their case for why a purchase is needed. That way you build up your own paper trail if someone submitting requests is doing so nefariously.
Can anyone comment on the validity of this publication? I'm sceptical towards the site given it's "flashy" title and I'm not well enough schooled in distinguishing good vs. bad publications.
All the more amusing when you realise that Pratchett's job prior to becoming an author was as a public relations officer.
The ability to suppress discussion/political action in response to such a significant event (such as Tiananmen Square) would seem more difficult now with ubiquitous cameras.

Many records can be made, but can they also be shared widely enough to maintain political pressure? Maybe not, if the population is dependent on government controlled internet infrastructure. This makes Starlink more interesting. How do you prevent your population from using foreign built satellite internet if that country should choose to make it freely available to your citizens? Do you simply lose control? Do you try to rebuild/force roll out a proprietary, non-interoperable telecommunications system?

After seeing the impact of telecommunications and social media propaganda on recent world events (for instance, the Arab Spring) - I’m sure there are smart people thinking about how to plug populations into the internet against the desires of the home country. Satellite based internet seems like an obvious solution, but maybe it’s not even as complicated as that.
Is there an abundance of competent workers over there? Companies can easily replace people? It just seems like bad economics to fire people for taking a week off, even if they're perceived as lazy in the short term. It is usually a lot more expensive to hire and train replacements. (I thought)
That’s fair, but taking Apple’s fee, you could offer engagement that leads to 30% lower revenue and it would still be better for the business no?
Kids are different. My kids also generally doesn't have tantrums, and I don't stay home. She's just a mellow kid (and also was never ignored or left to get over-heated -- what are you implying here?). Compare to a friend of mine whose oldest can turn into a nuclear meltdown in 5 seconds; she stays home.

Hope your kid 2 doesn't destroy all your certainties about children :)
I could convert my website to a paid model, but as you mentioned I use it for growing my career.

But really, I just wanted to help people.

Here is my great question, can I help more, if I charge money?
Denver Police Testing Idea of Civilian Teams Responding to Some 911 Calls
>Do you have any (semi-)scientific references that support your opinion?

Does arithmetic count? The stats are available to look up yourself, the math is simple to do. But there's nobody funding publishing "debunk vegan nonsense" papers like there are people funding "make up vegan nonsense". So the only people you can find doing the math for you are just random people like the blog I link to later in this post.

>I agree that we don't eat much corn directly, but if it weren't used to feed livestock, we could use the land for something else, like potatoes or lentils or whatever grows in similar climate to corn, which are actually eaten

Most of those alternatives produce far fewer calories per acre than corn, which is the issue. An honest comparison shows most plant crops produce very low calories per acre, and require lots of diesel to produce and transport. Yes, you could grow something else. And almost all of those something elses are worse than corn fed chicken from an energy efficiency standpoint. If vegans want to argue the impact of meat vs plants in this way, then they need to apply the same standard to plants, and that means demanding that the vast majority of crops being grown are abandoned in favor of the tiny number that meet corn's energy output: corn, sugarcane, potatoes, palm. There's your acceptable vegan diet if we're going to limit things for being less efficient than corn.

>The usual rule of thumb for going up one level in the food chain is that you lose 9/10th of the energy

We're not talking about a natural ecosystem, which is what that rule of thumb is for. We're talking about animals that have been bred specifically to grow very large very quickly on very little food.

>and corn only produces on the order of 12 million calories per acre

No, corn produces 12 million calories per acre in human edible calories when converted to corn oil and HFCS. It produces 15 million calories per acre as livestock feed.

>This random google result here [2] indeed claims about 1.4 million calories per acre for chicken.

And it is very wrong. It is making up a silly number by using the human figure for corn calories per acre not the livestock feed figure. Then assuming chickens are fed 50/50 corn and soy when in reality their feed is almost entirely corn. It is also assuming a feed conversion ratio of 3, which is nearly double the actual ratio of 1.6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio#Poultry

Here's a post that shows math for why this vegan meme is wrong: https://bovinepracticum.weebly.com/ruminations/the-beef-vs-v...
Huawei Presses Verizon to Pay for Patents
Maybe "exploited" is a little strong but some of these projects are essential components of modern development stacks.

So it's not just the injustice of people toiling away and eating ramen that is at issue here. What happens if people take you up on your advice? What is incentive for quality people to keep churning out open source tooling?
Consider public-private licensing. Choose a license that requires sharing back, or limits to noncommercial use, and sell individual exceptions to that rule. https://indieopensource.com/public-private/indies
>to actively seek out independent, governmental and non-conflicted clinical research

does this mean private sector pharma studies are to blame?
Ok, let's take as an example a string equality comparision algorithm (strcmp() == 0). What would be your definition of a meaningful input?
Democracies are accountable only to issues that affect turnout in swing districts. Businesses are accountable to everything that might send transactions to competitors.

It’s quite difficult to stop using Facebook, but it’s effectively impossible to get an electoral outcome changed over a niche technical issue, or even a general one like the trains not working.
May I then suggest drinking water instead? It's healthier and even cheaper.
If this "hacker" really wanted something lucrative (or possibly fame), they would find a way to procure Wu-Tang Clan's "Once Upon A Time In Shaolin" - the double album they released a single copy of that was bought by Martin Shkreli. According to Wikipedia, it's the most valuable album of all time.

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

I won't lie, I'd be quite interested to hear it.
Jobs of the future: teaching empathy to artificial intelligence
We trade with China so readily without even a thought of the kind of dark totalitarian regime reigns, anything for profit right ?

Feel very sorry for the HK citizens but there is nothing the UK can do, HK being returned to China was seen as part of the end of UK influence which (people wanted?), meaning we have 0 influence now.

However being under the sphere of China's political surveillance system is clearly not what anybody wanted.

I noted with interest how citizens binned all digital methods of payment and comms to avoid be prosecuted for being at the demonstrations retrospectively and presumably extradited to some prison factory in China if the extradition dictat gets through.

Anyway IMHO Trump has inadvertently tried to reset the balance and caused the Chinese alot of problems by starving them of tech know how and trade. But as we know Presidents come and go - Communist China is eternal - they will just wait for the next leader to turn around and sell out everyone.
Don't just throw it away.

I shall try but I'm sceptical there is much interest in a pile of unsorted 1970's Lego. I could be wrong though.
You're right about that specific verse but that line is repeated throughout the Bible - some within the specific context of compounding money (Luke 19:26).

It applies to the article because the Pareto principle (also known as the Matthew effect [1]) explains why there's so many open source projects with low revenue and only a few with six figure revenues.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
We're not going to help you get out, so please accept these token socks and soap because you're on your own and you will need them in there.
It goes both ways. I get the soccer game through cable but would never watch it. It is part of a bundled package.

If I walk into a bar I may get a partial view of a screen / sometimes sound. That isn't worth the cost of a monthly subcription. Pro rated if the account is worth 10 dollars a month I would expect the actual usage to be around 10 cents per person. Not to discount the added ad revenue/tsheet sales/increased individual subscriptions/increased ticket buying.

It's hard to make the case that this revenue is critical to the survival of the game. I would say the opposite is true, the more bars offering the game the bigger and more valuable the game becomes. It's free advertising and if you could get my local little league into all of these bars on single subscriptions I would be the next unicorn.
Thanks. I was wondering.
Pasture is not harvested or stored, so there is no rodent or bird deaths from harvesting equipment, and no mass rodenticide usage as there is with grains.
LOL, no, we won't :)

We'd _love_ people to work on the upstream project, but forking GIMP and truly making it your own is perfectly fine.

We actually got a few useful ideas from GIMP-Painter. So who's to lose?
That's because people eat a lot of chicken and eggs, and don't each much salmon. When deciding what to eat, the amount per serving is what matters, not how much of it the average person eats. And again, arachidonic acid is just one omega 6 PUFA, being specifically singled out for promotion by vegans because it is found in meat. The rest of the omega 6s are all just as bad, and our intake is almost entirely from vegetable oil. A serving of chicken has less than 2g of omega 6s in total. That's less than of the omega 6s in a serving of tofu.
AI-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy
Author here. Actually I did mention in the article that company time was a good option:

> This doesn’t mean the people working on those projects are poor, because in several cases the maintainers have jobs at companies that allow open source contributions. What it does mean, however, is that unless companies take an active role in supporting open source with significant funding, what’s left is a situation where most open source maintainers are severely underfunded.
It's very easy to spend 15 minutes every time you go to Starbucks. It's not my thing (I mostly drink free coffee at work, from my espresso machine at home, choose other coffee shops, or if I must use Starbucks, I place a mobile order). But the lines tend to be very long, and it takes a long time to get a beverage. I guess people don't mind it because it's a part of the day, a break, a 'treat'. I find it a hassle, but in a way if it's part of your 30 minute coffee break from work, maybe it's not so bad.
How to Roll Out a Company Knowledge Base That Everyone Uses
> No automatic keychain integration for login forms.

Chrome also stopped doing this, AFAIK.

Fun fact: I was subscribed to a firefox ticket "Password manager should support OS X Keychain" which is 18 years old, it got closed some months ago.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106400
> You are right that big (especially enterprise) projects in Go are also a mess. But one of the main reasons is that people have a Java (or C++) background and try to replicate all sorts of complexity.. not because Go is "underpowered".

That hasn't been my experience at an employer. Their devs mainly had Python and NodeJs experience and similar languages (which is what the first version of the code base was written in), and disliked "enterprisey" code. Somehow, the decision to move to golang was made.

Yet, they somehow managed to come up with their own mess, and yes it is mainly because how underpowered golang is. I keep thinking about how much simpler the code base would be if it were written in Java, let alone something like Kotlin.
Yeah, you need a sense of perspective, dude. It's rock music.
>Do things differently in the weekend.

<music>Jose Cuervo you are a friend of mine...</music>
It's crazy to me that they decided to ALSO use a 950 max score. Like, you couldn't have been SLIGHTLY creative and made it out of 1000, or 100?
If there was ever a contender for the most complex _thing_ humanity has ever made, I think DoD bureaucracy is a strong favorite.
Author here. I agree with your point. The show is not only news but a political cartoon and most of my arguments could share the same criticisms that come with those formats.

However, I do think the show differentiates itself with the extra mile it often goes to act against issues (even if the call to action is small). It engages the audience further and I think has led to some misplaced idolization in a time where talk is especially cheap. From there, viewers' critical thinking faculties might start to break down and their biases, strengthen.

Thank you for commenting critically :)
I've been claiming SQL is better than ORM for a longtime. Everytime i use sqlalchemy, i endup falling back to sql. everytime i use flask-sqlachemy, i have to pull it or code around it.
That's an extraordinarily mild way to respond to a massive and thoughtless leak of extremely sensitive information. I wonder if you are so charitable towards the US government! They no doubt would also have claim to have mended their ways since the release of the "collateral murder" video.

>even asking the US State Department for advice

A disingenuous request.

>and it's clear they adjusted their ways.

This is actually far from clear.
Ask HN: What do you use to handle auth in side projects?
I am working on a side project and want to secure an ExpressJS API. I really do not want to roll my own auth, but would love to be able to own my own user table -- not just federate out to Facebook/Google/Twitter/etc.

I cannot imagine I am alone in this. What are you using for your auth? What are the pros and cons of your solution? Is it worth it to go with a service like Okta/Auth0?
Good to know, thanks. Luckily I never invested in such devices, since they were always Intel only.
>when project breaks like open ssh companies will chip in...

Although, in that case, they really didn't. At least not enough. That's why you ended up with a Core Infrastructure Initiative. (Which, to be sure, is indirectly companies chipping in because that's mostly how the Linux Foundation gets funded but it's not individual companies bankrolling critical infrastructure software.)
I believe you meant "RHN". Nevertheless, thank you so much!
Please back up your preposterous claims with data.
But some things they seem to remember forever. I'm always amazed at the connections my child makes and the details he remembers.
Yup, this happened to me too (signing off timesheets for an exempt position)
Apparently parenting is all about consistency in punishment.

What about reward?
citation would help. here's one telling: https://devops.com/the-origins-of-devops-whats-in-a-name/

(sorry you'll have to hold your nose at the stench of the site)
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Yeah, like project zero forcing Microsoft’s hand to be more responsible, for example. Tavis doing this now is what paved the way for the next Tavis who comes along, who will now be able tonget issues fixed without threat of their lives being ruined by a megacorp.
I feel like it makes sense to use COBOL to talk to a government mainframe that’s likely also using COBOL, and likely has a wire protocol specced as a set of ready-to-use COBOL client structs.

Sort of like, in the modern day, it makes sense to use Go if the goal is to write an adapter that takes stuff from your database and pushes it out to some remote consumer that speaks ProtoBuf, and has a ready-to-use ProtoBuf schema.
A company is there to make a profit. People have preferences. From the perspective of the company your interest should lie in maximizing the profit, given your target groups preferences. This is what is essentially the argument here.

It's not about discussing what is or isn't moral, your example probably isn't regarded as moral in most moral frameworks. But that is built into your subjective preferences. The company has to operate in a world with various preferences given as fact.
Mac OS X wasn't originally planned to have Carbon. Adobe basically told them there is no way they are completely re-writing all their apps for OS X. So Apple took another year, added Carbon, and Adobe ported Photoshop over.

Apple doesn't benefit from higher average quality of developers; they just benefited from having much fewer of them to support. The long tail of Windows is really really long -- businesses run on multi-million dollar software packages designed in the 90's. Apple has no such ecosystem.

The big ecosystem they do have (iOS apps) is very different and far more forgiving. There are thousands of unmaintained iOS apps that simply don't work anymore but they only cost $1.
The stupid can't be convinced anyway. All that remains is to point them out to others.
I don't have the background to evaluate how good this article's methodology is or is not, but 2003 is really, really a long time ago if we're talking about the confluence of archaeology and genetics.

Again, not saying it is or isn't wrong, just that orders of magnitude more is known about this now than was known in 2003.
He did however admit that the market for an amphibious Tesla “would be small. Small, but enthusiastic.”

I’m not sure ventures like this are the best thing to bolster their bottom line, but at the same time I’m dying to see what comes of this.
Call it what it is: a pop-up. You know, the thing we've spent years trying to block on the web because it's an anti-pattern that malicious actors abuse to steal clicks and make interaction harder.