skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it won't work no matter who good the site was, simply because I am nobody with no street rep.

Sadly this is the case so many times when I read these types of articles with hopes of real insights. There's some mention like "so I was talking to my friend who founded Huge Startup and he was like 'yea, great idea!'. So I built my prototype and sent it off to other person from Hot Unicorn and it just grew organically because of my hard work and smarts!"
Building a cheap 3d printer kit and improving it is a good project with achievable goals. it might be lower level than you want to begin with. It need not be more difficult than plugging boards together and routing wires but its a good reason to learn about why those components need to be beefed up etc.
You spelled github wrong in your first link.
Free year-long accounts from IBM:

https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/ast/mtm/audit.nsf/enrollal...?
This is great! Giant step using iam over ssh keys.
It's abandoned, not finished.
> FB and Google are the equivalent of Superfund sites waiting to happen, and storing that data should be considered criminal.

I would think, that in the EU, under GDPR, collecting, transmitting and storing that data is in fact criminal, or at least subject to heavy fines. And under GDPR it won't help to just note the data collection in the TOS or ask the user for permission (under threat to not allow access to the service). So I really wonder how google plans to run this in europe.
Just spit balling, because we can always bikeshed names.

Wouldn’t it be cool if Apple had like:

- a thin-above-all laptop, called like... MacBook Lite or maybe MacBook Air

- a pragmatic laptop for the professionals who need something great for work. Maybe call it like... MacBook Work or maybe MacBook Pro

Too bad that is only a dream currently. I think that would be a cool future vision for Apple.
Silicon Valley’s whiz-kids finally ran out of friends
Could you differentiate LoCal programs and generate succinct data structures? Apply transforms to make the code incremental?

Sounds like magic, so I make requests for more magic.
Adam Smith's words about specialization apply to programming too.

One of the best places I ever worked, I sat right next to a guy doing computer vision algorithms. He had a PhD, and was extremely smart and knowledgeable and fun to talk with.

He also wasn't the most... practical programmer, and I was able to give him a variety of suggestions about how to improve his code, and of course I had ideas about data modelling and web programming that he didn't know much about.

Neither one of us knew much about the details of the firmware, or the optics (mirrors and lenses and such) that another colleague was working on.

I guess the point is that for some of us, the point is that we're probably not good candidates to become domain experts, but knowing enough to find help is probably a good move.
given this persons previous posts, i wouldn’t take what they’re saying too seriously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061936
I mean, this is definitely cool, but we should also try to stop using ssh so much. There's a long list of reasons why using ssh leads to bad things (but not an anti-pattern - I wish people would stop using that phrase to mean anything that sometimes leads to bad things) so I just hope this functionality doesn't exacerbate its use.
>it may be that we incorrectly solved a "problem" that turned out to be a feature keeping humanity from harming itself with its own speech

OK. Explaining ruins the humor but I'll explain.

The pithy point I was making is that a bunch of words on a comment thread is not likely to harm humanity any more than the printing press did.

Or the writing on a toilet stall wall for that matter, now that I think about it.

The larger point I was alluding to is that the people who would call for the banning of text from a printing press are probably the people we should really be worried about.
So it effectively runs arbitrary javascript in the current page? I mean, if I run it on my online banking page, it'll have access to everything. The extension isn't ideal either - access to the current URL is too much - but at least it can't run arbitrary JS in the page itself.
Wow, this is so timely! I love the visual references. I'm still a little confused about the section on Matrix Indexing. Overall, great work!
So, is this film available in China itself? That would tell us interesting stuff.
If it is on Netflix, not officially, but I mean, is it something you can get hold of a pirated version of without attracting the attention of censors.
Not gunna lie, it makes me sad that we need some huge, fancy graphics engine just to emulate a 25 year old technology. Why are people so obsessed with their browser? No matter how much JS you layer on, it'll never be as fast as a terminal.
EC2 has had browser SSH for ages too! They're just improving it.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstarts/latest/vmlaunch/step...

(But..yeah, at a time it was an applet)
Handcrafted CSS had a profound influence on my career as a front-end developer. That said, these days I'm neck deep in JavaScript like so many of us. To more simple times!
Exactly. This is why EV certificates are a waste of time, too. People notice the presence of things, but they don’t notice their absence.
Anything requires time and effort. And everyone's pace and starting point is different.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) is a pretty big denomination.

On the bright side, they are gradually adopting more progressive views - black people are no longer cursed by God (as of 2013), and drinking soda is no longer forbidden (as of 2017, at least on BYU's campus). Tea and coffee are still haram, however.
I see people are pointing out the 95% accuracy. I think it’s worth reminding everyone that the current American criteria for killing people with drone strikes requires that they 1) be male and 2) appear from orbit to be above a certain height. There’s no requirement to have someone on the ground to pick out targets or make sure afterwards that the right person was killed.
Hacker Laws Update: Hutber's Law – Improvement Means Deterioration
Not exactly. They've basically accepted that a huge portion of the world will never pay for Windows: https://time.com/3749434/microsoft-windows-10-pirates-free/
Ask HN: Strategy for Dealing with 0.5PB of Data and AWS
I work at an Neuroimaging lab which is in the middle of a transition. We have about 0.5PB of data which may grow to 1PB in next 1-1.5 years. We have limited funding to utilize AWS services to store the data.

At any time we need to have maybe around 100TB of this data be available locally for computation at a high performance computing cluster. We have ample local storage.

Funding is a big concern, so what kind of solution (based on AWS) will be most cost-effective for this scenario? Do we need to think about offsite back-up when AWS is available? Is there a resource or case study which we can learn from?
> I don't see any foreseeable risks involved in building this Unhackable Computer.

> Because:

> It only uses currently available components in the USA and other countries.

> All the materials used are readily available in the market.

So it is already hackable...
Yeah, more likely he already has various clauses in his contract. But since his new company is doing business with Apple they could also add conditions to that deal.
This was the case in neither of the larger companies I've worked for.
Go hold a 4S.

Pinnacle of industrial design. Even the bottom speaker holes are symmetrical.
Some forgotten limitations of railguns: There is a maximum speed for projectiles in naval warfare. Earth is round. So anything moving too fast (~8000m/s) simply cannot hit distant targets. If fired horizontally, the shell will climb up as the earth curves away. This causes all sorts of difficulties if trying to attack another ship. At best, your shells will hit horizontally, far above the waterline. You would need a shell that could either fly itself downwards, bleeding speed, limiting penetration, and defeating the point of using a railgun.
Agreed.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/05/takeaways-o...

I don't understand how this isn't the most concerning thing to everyone rational more than tribalist right now. And if I wanted to tear the US apart, this is exactly how I would do it. Slowly and over time. Especially if I was Russia. :P
You’ve never seen it because you live in a city with garbage transit.

(It would not be better if all the passengers had cars, because then it would lead to greater congestion and it would take everyone 2 hours to go 10 miles.)
This probably varies greatly in different areas (in California almost all of how it works is specified at the county level, so even two counties in CA can be very different). Everything that follows is specific to where I live.

The actual social workers that I've interacted with are reasonably well trained people. However, they are overworked and underpaid, so a lot of the good ones move to the private sector.

Also the heavy caseload means they tend to remove based upon ease of substantiation rather than severity of the situation (i.e. if it's easy to prove a minor infraction that will get you tripped up more quickly than a hard to prove major infraction). This definitely appears to be a function of the system rather than any individual maliciousness.

That's social workers. As far as case-aids go I can't think of a single positive thing to say other than "there are a few good ones." It's a low paying job where the only prerequisite is that you can pass a criminal background check. A friend I know ended up as a case-aid by accident! She checked with the county to see if they had any job openings and they said roughly "We need someone to provide transportation" and it wasn't until she showed up to work that she learned she would be transporting foster kids to family visits, and in some cases would be supervising those visits!
I wasn't trying to portray as some kind of super-worldly religion, simply saying the exception does not prove the rule.
XuperChain: A blockchain system that supports smart contracts parallelization
I take their point, but there is always going to be somebody that is hungry to make an impact and reap the rewards. It even sounds crazy to think of my job in the context of “how can I sustain this for years/decades”. The whole point of hustling is to level up and do something hopefully more interesting or at the least more lucrative. Most workaholics that I have known were perfectly aware of what they were doing and burnout was not even a factor worth considering.
Took me a while to get used to it, but I feel like it’s less damaging with me typing all day. It’s also a fun keyboard. Very clicky.
Also noting the significant increase in ‘big screen’ phones, perhaps the majority of the people want a better camera?
Non-starter. The whole point of ordinance is its cheap. What's wrong with ye olde ground based x-ray laser and a mirror on a satellite?
I’ve always wanted a Designed For TempleOS laptop!
Sure, but the USSR just openly ran modified versions of OS/360. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM China certainly has the capability to do the same to all of Microsoft's products. It's not a fundamental part of software that China isn't bilking Microsoft blazenly, there's something deeper going on.
Aw, thanks for the correction. My eyes missed the section break as I was scanning. Will fix.
The survival instinct is the greatest motivator of human activity. Nothing provides an impetus for the mind to innovate quite like "figure this shit out or we're dead."
Modern GPU have no issues with branching.
Are you arguing something can’t be poorly designed if it makes a lot of money?
We should treasure poetry and literature because it's about the experience of reading, just like video games are about the experience of playing. Describing Super Mario Bros (You jump on, over, and around things, sometimes throwing fireballs, until you rescue the princess) doesn't do the experience of playing the game justice. Describing "i carry your heart with me" (I love you so much that all I do is by and for you) doesn't do the poem justice.

And here is the poem:

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

-ee cummings
Andrew Carnegie owed the world a huge debt.
A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, Jenny Martinez and Noah Feldman
Ive was equal to Steve. That was part of the agreement they came to, and why he was given the CDO title.

In his shoes and with his talent and ability to leave, I also would not have agreed to be in charge of all design only to have Steve Jobs keep veto power over me.
Theoretically you could have a projectile with downforce. This would allow you to break that limit. I imagine it's highly impractical though. I hadn't thought of that limit though, good comment!
The main problem with this logic is it is much easier to steal technology than invent it, so by doing this you are not only assuring your enemies will end up with that scary tech, you are building it for them.
Can you find a screenshot? When I just search iOS 7 in image search it looks 99% like iOS 12 to me. iOS 6 on the other hand with its drop shadows and reflections has aged super badly.
I expect my government to spy on foreign citizens and governments. If they do something truly terrible like kill civilians or disrupt the natural society of a country I'd have to take a hard look. Google is a private firm and subject to market forces like boycotts over military contracting. It's because governments and Google are two very different things.
Those international orgs are run by humans.
This is stupid.

Uber and Lyft said the right thing. If they are forced to take on drivers as employees, they aren't going to hire these random people who are driving for them now, and they aren't going to hire them to work flexible schedules.

They are going to hire the best people they can get for an employee's salary and benefits ... and that isn't going to be the same people benefitting now.

People seem to think that they are going to get the jobs once those jobs become more desirable. No, they won't. Once its a more desirable job, it's going to get the best worker willing to work for that wage. Not the hodgepodge who are driving now.

Something similar goes through the heads of teachers that demand higher salaries. If salaries get really high, existing teachers won't be the ones parents will want to hire. They'll hire really highly skilled people that are currently in other more lucrative careers. If you look at Finland where teaching is a well compensated job, the people teaching are similar to people going into lucrative consulting or programming jobs. It's not the bottom performers from third tier universities, as in the US.
Huh? A hobby?

Transcript from Alphabet Q1 2019 Earnings Call; April 29, 2019 [1]

> Sundar Pichai, CEO Google:

> We are also deeply committed to becoming the most customer-centric cloud provider for enterprise customers, and making it easier for companies to do business with us thanks to new contracting, pricing, and more. Today, 9 of the world's 10 largest media companies, 7 of the 10 largest retailers, and more than half of the 10 largest companies in manufacturing, financial services, communications, and software use Google Cloud.

> Some of the companies that we announced at Next included: The American Cancer Society and McKesson in Healthcare; Media and Entertainment companies like USA Today and Viacom; Consumer Packaged Goods brands like Unilever; Manufacturing and Industrial companies like Samsung and UPS; and Public Sector organizations like Australia Post.

> Finally, to support our customers' growth, we also announced the addition of two new Cloud regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City, which we plan to open in 2020. These new Cloud regions will build on our current footprint of 19 Cloud regions and 58 data centers around the world.

This doesn't seem like just a hobby to Google.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019_Q1_Earnings_Transcr...
China made investments in AMD when they weren’t doing well. If they wanted to, they could have hired away AMD’s team instead. Maybe people miss the notion that this particular strategy had likely kept jobs in the US in the longer term. It is a similar strategy to Geely’s ownership of Volvo.

But of course you can expect the WSJ to spin it this way.
I was shocked - shocked, I tell you! - to find out that people who wear razor blades on necklaces, get drunk, do front flips onto each other, scream about authority figures, and throw fists while they dance, might have attracted some anti-social people.
GSMA Released 2019 Asia Mobile Awards at MWC Shanghai
No, but it is overkill compared to a single hdmi cable.
Autofill sounds convenient, but it's actually a dangerous feature. You can by mistake change focus, and autofill your password into some public post, because you don't have an extra interruption between user name and password being entered.
Apparently people expect the US embassy to fly the pride flag on the official flag pole.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/11/mike...
I think Norman is criticizing Apple's practices, not encouraging them.
That's the aptly named Multiplier Effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplier_(economics)
That and it has ads.
There’s a lot of firmware flashing stuff that runs on DOS, because it’s easier to have direct access to hardware without the OS trying to access that hardware simultaneously.

The alternative is correctly disabling the device under Windows/Linux/whatever, flashing the firmware, and re-enabling it, which is a process likely to have bugs and potentially result in bricking the device. Modern operating systems are big and constantly doing things in the background that may interfere with the firmware flashing process.
Exactly the market my startup is targeting: https://metacortex.me/

Turns out “burn out” (turnover) is by far the largest single cost to employers. It adds huge overhead per employee and dramatically reduces a companies profitability if they can’t keep a low turnover.
Perhaps some might have gone, but the majority in Silicon Valley would have just stayed there, going to Intel, IBM, Apple, and other ARM makers. People don’t change countries randomly (and so drastically) because they lost their jobs.
A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
Don't they?

School is one of the more difficult environments for time management: students have half a dozen (or more) different bosses, all of whom reguarly impose hard deadlines, and have a tendency of imposing major deadlines at a simmilar time to each other.

The social environment is probably one of the most diverse that many people will see in their entire lifetimes (not nessasarily along racial lines), with some of the most difficult to deal with people (children) many will face in their lifetime.

Granted, schools often take a trial by fire approach to these lessons (I should know, I burned out during highschool), but I don't see how you can get through school without learning them.
I've noticed the search results get more and more centered around hot spot sites. My most hated is when xyz site is shown and it just runs a search on that site's internal search that shows 0 results. I just don't understand the idea of making it seem like that site had something when it totally didn't.

What is even weirder are the Chrome recommended pages. I have noticed more and more ads disguised as articles being recommended.
TBH I'm still waiting for console serial access via IAM. All my bare metal machines have that. And it's absolutely essential when you bork networking.

And as much it pains me to say it, Azure has that feature.
Article references a goal of achieving a 100 mile range? How do they plan on doing that then?
Ugh, I'm a new full stack guy. Could you enlighten me about the evils of SSH?
I’m puzzled. Many of the comments here seem focused on browser-based ssh which isn’t new, or even the most significant thing here. Using IAM instead instead of passing around .pem files feels like a huge improvement.
This is literally the way I feel about it as well. I’ve seen the ears as increased space rather than the notch cutting into the display.
I think the important bit is that you are making the copy.
It supports extensions in general, specifically one of the best ad blockers, ublock origin.
They probably meant that while voice chat would normally be a reason to stop you from migrating from Discord, in this case it wasn't because the OP doesn't like Discord's voice chat. The rest is privacy concerns. I'm actually with the OP. IRC with Mumble is a pretty nice setup for casual conversations and it's really easy to self host (and takes very little resources). Filesharing is potentially a problem, but there are other services for that.
But if it is circumvented then it wasn’t effectively controlling access; therefore, this isn’t applicable.

A savvy lawyer might argue that’s not what’s meant by effectively, but it’s at least a little ambiguous.
You can send .MP3 and .WAV files via DCC. Sure, it's pretty high on the latency, but it's a voice chat all the same.
I had a VT102 for many years, it wasn’t fast.
The biggest thing to entice most people could be an individualistic legacy. Under Apple, Ive's designs are not his own. With a separate entity, Ive probably intends to have products under his name that have massive impact.
Good point. I removed the reference to sustained fire. Still a lot of ordinance for the receiving end to dodge! The dent those guns put in the water when firing is mind boggling to me => http://i.imgur.com/5aKQulg.jpg
I'm still in 2001, Dave.
Most very recent editions of poetry or plays have decent formatting. It took publishers a while—roughly a decade?—to figure out css. :/
While there are good criticisms against iOS 7, it is a bit unfair to quote a criticism timed approximately against beta 1.