skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus a myriad of additives in the plastic, plus various contaminants. Which makes it kind of hard of to recycle without seriously degrading the end product, even if we had everything nailed to spec and not the chaos we are in now.

I my book, we need to make energy production seriously cheap (renewables, plus maybe nuclear) and put some of the energy excess into transporting heavier but inert packaging such as glass, metal and carton. And by decree lock down the types of plastic and additives which are allowed to use.
We already recycle 50% of them: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/07/12/lithium-ion-recycling.... And we can recycle them 100% https://www.scribd.com/document/406401162/Tesla-Impact-Repor... (p. 26)
In fact, I'd even say blind trust is the "mutate as side effect" of human understanding. It may work in small, isolated incidents, but apply it at scale and everything goes wrong.

A junior who learns engineering dogma from his seniors and repeats it without understanding it is a liability, since when his code goes wrong, he won't know why because he doesn't understand the principles at work. So it's the responsibility of the mentor to not settle for blind trust, but ensure his protege does actually understand the principles.
I created a very similar app:

https://alexgarces.github.io/loststories/

The titles of all the videos shown are random strings based on the default media file names of some popular devices, such as iPhone or Samsung Galaxy. Some examples of these titles would be IMG_8869.MOV, DSC 0711 or MVI 6710.

All the videos, requested in real time, are not more than one year old. They are almost undiscovered, usually with very few views (or not even one).
>es too, Trump's administration is more authoritarian than at least the past handful.

In what way, in actual policy not twitter ranting.

What actual new policy or law...
I'm based in the Netherlands. After my post I went searching and found we have a "early phase funding" from the government.

https://www.rvo.nl/subsidies-regelingen/vroegefasefinancieri...
Contributions are welcome :))
As for current atrocities, look no further than the American border, the Chinese surveillance state (and the western hemisphere's complicity & avoiding the issue) or corporate monstrosities like FB enabling the persecution of minorities like the Rohingya.
More like 50-10000 years.
I'm not sure there's a huge distinction between "how we structure and pay for our healthcare systems" and "western medicine."

As for the holistic view - there's a difference between check-list diagnosis (left arm pain -> possible heart attack) and what is effectively personal medical research, which may require knowledge of everything from diet to sleeping habits to emotional stressors to historical infections and illnesses. (That's a very short list, and not in any way exhaustive.)

There are limited professional incentives for doctors to dig into patient history with that level of detail. It's not a matter of specialist referrals, because some problems can be caused by multiple minor factors interacting with each other. Or they may have very generic symptoms, like fatigue, with a ridiculously huge number of possible causes. Or the causes still aren't understood.

Medicine is an example of a huge market failure. Not only is it the single biggest cause of personal bankruptcy in the US, but most people have had personal experience of obvious delayed diagnosis or outright misdiagnosis.

An effective market - rather than a "rational" one - could easily support a much larger number of doctors and supporting medical professionals, including non-corporate researchers. The effect on "western medicine" would be a dramatic increase in effectiveness.
That's what bothers me most, it's sold for such a junk purpose. Your privacy is bartered off for cents so that a company can spam you with products you'll never buy. If we put half as much effort into bettering the world as we do building the advertising machine we would be a utopia.
Do you know any authorities using Windows 10 who handle personal data? Last I looked the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) hasn't blessed Windows 10 as appropriate over battles with MS on telemetry.
You could just get the thing going running an external file/script. And stop it with an if condition. It's a classic structure from very noob admins.
Very easy to set up a small database that non-tech people can also access. It's also a very light-weight way to implement a CMS with users and version control etc.
Loststories – Unknown Imgxxxx YouTube Videos
It will be like paper maps and stamps, available yet only used by old people who grew up with it.
I think you're focusing so much on particular examples you're missing the larger point. To repeat what I've said repeatedly I'm not defending every single instance of UB in the standard. And I can't keep going back and forth with you to to debate every single one (yes, int overflow = no UB, NULL deref = yes UB, out-of-bounds = maybe UB, etc.), which is what we're ending up doing rather pointlessly right now. The point to take away here is that UB itself as a notion is something people in both camps desire in many scenarios, so you can't just get rid of it in its entirety and say "map it to hardware" or "always reason forward". Because, again, if you do, in many cases, those would inhibit optimizations that people want. The only real solution is for people to stop seeing C as a portable assembly language, which it is simply not. It's defined in terms of an abstract machine, so either people need to switch languages, or switch their mental models.
There are also call center programs that call specifically to fill in those details. You answer, they ask who they are speaking to, then click, they're gone.
Ask HN: What do you think of GrapheneOS?
link: https://grapheneos.org/

From looking at the repository (https://github.com/GrapheneOS), it feels quite ambitious.

Is anybody using it?

From looking at the project, it looks like a one dev job. So I wonder, how secure can an Android alternative be when only one developer works on it? Is it really more secure than Android ?
Anecodatal but: In London there are already multiple shops/restaurants/bars that no longer accept cash.
You’re right. Regime carries a negative connotation and it’s generally why we don’t hear about a Merkel or Obama regime, though technically speaking they are all regimes. Normally we call them “administrations”: Obama administration, Trump administration, etc.
> and perhaps hopefully become a "standard" API people can target on Linux without having to carry 29892482923TB of libraries for a trivial app since you cannot rely on anything outside of X11 being there

so, uh, what would you depend on ? at the bare minimum you would need, for a gui toolkit :

- dependencies to X11 (xcb) and wayland (and cocoa and win32)

- dependencies to xkb, etc.. for keyboard handling

- dependencies on ICU for unicode text handling

- dependencies on freetype, fontconfig, harfbuzz, pango, etc... for font rendering

- dependencies on GL to allow your users to have a GL viewport, and potentiall on a software implementation of GL on windows because yes, even in 2019 this is still a problem on some user's computers

- dependencies on cairo, skia, QPainter, or something like that to provide a canvas-like API

- dependencies on libinput because that's the modern way to get mouse input on linux

- you are going to want a library of useful datastructures that aren't provided in C -> dependency to GLib or something else

- dependencies on libpng,jpeg, etc.... because you want your users to be able to have images in their app

- dependencies on dbus to be able to provide desktop notifications, etc

and you aren't even starting to match all the useful functionalities of GTK & Qt
Facebook is going to get fined just like Wall Street banks
Alan Turing is the face of UK’s new £50 note
If you walked into your kitchen with the goal of making a sandwich and decided you wanted some oatmeal instead, would you call that a "failure?" Did you experience a "defeat?"

Most wouldn't say that you "failed" at making a sandwich unless you truly attempted to assemble a sandwich and were unable to do so.

Most would not consider me to have "failed" to become a game developer unless I'd made a true attempt at doing so: applying for jobs and failing to obtain one, or perhaps obtaining jobs and failing at those. Just as very few would consider me to have failed at becoming an astronaut or a professional hockey player, two other things I wanted to be as a child.

Strict definitions of "failure" aside, though, what I found really bizarre and bleak was the parent poster's claim that enjoying one's newly chosen goal+outcome to require an act of willful cognitive dissonance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

It says 19 on his Wikipedia page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_law

This says his conviction was in 1952.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_young_people%27s...

This page says the age of majority was actually 21 for both genders until 1970. So, I had it wrong, Turing would also have been considered as having a relationship with a minor if he had been with a 19 year old girl. Supposedly the actual law he was convicted under was written in a very vauge way due to "Victorian morals" (Wikipedia), and he was convicted under "Gross indecency" without much description.
If you lived in a $9/h region and had excellent development skills, why wouldn't you move to a $90/h region?
Notes from Peter Thiel’s speech at the National Conservatism conference on July 14, 2019

https://medium.com/@bonniekavoussi/notes-from-peter-thiels-s...

Twitter thread

https://mobile.twitter.com/foggyanabasis/status/115062882956...

MarginalRevolution comments

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/07/so...
Blackberry failed by not embracing apps. The app landscape was a mess of incompatibility, had poorly made apps, and no unified App Store. This where iOS killed Blackberry.
I agree with your point. I wish Mr. Thiel were less conspiratorial and provide more detailed information.

The same concerns he has about Google, anyone else can have about Planatir.
Yes sure, that if thievery didn’t exist and we were all honest (within accepted range), we wouldn’t need these things and more people would be served.
To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
Georgia Tech has print-and-play files available free on their site [1], and somebody made a kit for the full game on The Game Crafter [2]. There are also 3D-printable game piece models on Thingiverse [3], if you want more-accurate meeples.

(1): http://pwp.gatech.edu/suffragetto/print-and-play/

(2): https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/suffragetto-

(3): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2810153
Especially since there isn't any good evidence that modern neural networks behave anything like our biological ones.
“Not in the Same Class”: Pentagon Mauls Oracle as $10b Cloud Bid Thrown Out
This is a political opinion. Whether the presidency is doing something good or bad is one. Half the nation disagrees with you. By expressing this in an implicit sense in media, the media is biased.

Also, you're wrong: obama was Mister "I've got a pen and a phone". One party spent eight years centralizing power in the executive, then complains when the other side gets elected and uses it.
I also posted one recently, a plugin to connect to APIs directly in Google Sheets [1]. The primary use case I had in mind was for people looking to grab data from various APIs, in which case it's pretty clear why someone would want to directly access the output in Google Sheets. However, I was surprised to discover a lot of people are actually using it as an alternative to CMSes like Wordpress, like bolting it together to other plugins and sheets to create their own apps. It's a trend for sure, I think it all falls under the "low code/no code" movement.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/api-connector/cebn...
https://youtu.be/OFXAK8WcJ1A
In this list of loop-special-languages, XQuery also deserves an honorable mention.

With the sequence being the root datatype, it makes loops rather implicit. You can write

declare function local:formatName($person) {
xs:concat($person/@firstName, " ", $person/@lastName)
};

and it will format the name of zero, one or many persons.

Working with XQuery makes you think differently about iteration and shows how much plumbing we normally use for it.
It's pretty cool that the first video that I got was on my language and one of the more classic songs about the struggle against oppression here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t&v=brNbYfwMEjM
I think his point is that what's considered "leftward" in the US is actually not really leftward for the rest of the word, so for him, the "left bias" is actually a "normal bias".
Well, I would say that to my mind we are not there. That is, despite the label of neural network, we do have a bottom up explanation of how it works (although it doesn't guaranties that this model is "what really happens out there").

On the other hand, despite the advances in neurosciences, as far as I know we don't have such a consensual bottom up model for human behaviors.
It makes perfect sense when you think about it.
How to Find Instagram Influencers 101
Now you people will be seeing this everywhere.

I've noticed that Infiniti goes out of their way to not have a Hofmeister Kink on their "BMW 3 Series killer" the G35/Q50. The Q50 has an especially pronounced Not Hofmeister Kink.
Live+and+Sleep+Mattress+Savings
Sheets and Docs are the primary office apps used internally by thousands of Googlers. Seems unlikely that Google would kill them and give everyone Microsoft products.
Learn Go with Tests: Maths
For Sheer Romance, Enjoy a Salzburg Honeymoon
What an unfortunate way for them to view life. It's a bit heartbreaking to think about people viewing life in those terms. If I walk into the store intending to buy a shirt and decide I'd rather buy some pants instead, it would be very odd to consider that "a failure" to buy a shirt.

And even odder for somebody to accuse me of "cognitive dissonance" to be happy with my pants instead of admitting "defeat."
Ask HN: WhatsApp feature request: Allow marking “n” upcoming messages as read
Hi HN!

I was wondering about ways to filter out spam in WhatsApp. I think allowing to mark "n" number of upcoming messages as read automatically is much more convenient and effective over the current mute feature. What do y'all think?
It’s cool, but the circulation for these notes is really low - I only ever used to see £50 notes when working in a shop that sold timber to builders!
The new desktop design is unusable.
In the UK we have the open electoral roll, which you can opt out of.

Worse still, companies such as Experian and Equifax have open access to the full register.
Strange .. has GPS ever been down? That would certainly cause major disruptions on all sectors of the society.
Eric Weinstein – The Portal Story (Podcast Announcement) [video]
Also this https://www.rvo.nl/subsidies-regelingen/groeifaciliteit
Seeing France’s Wild Mountains Through a Clouded, Classic Windshield
I am not a developer, not a product owner and I have no down-voting privileges here, but as an IT manager with over 20 years of experience I think almost everything you wrote is wrong. There is no point in taking sentence by sentence and explain why they are wrong, the answer would take pages. Anyway, the very rare 10x developers I met were not writing 10 times more code in the same unit of time, they were doing things simpler, faster, avoiding unnecessary work and writing very good quality code with sound design and a very small number of bugs. This is how they get to 10x, it is 10x in total productivity and not lines of code.
Agreed. The especially weird thing for me is that when I suggest ads are perhaps not great, I get energetic replies along the lines of "why do you hate newspapers/TV/video and want to kill them!1!"

I think of the ad ecosystem as like a tree that has grown so tall and dense that little can grow beneath it. If that tree weren't there I don't think we'd have nothing. I think we'd have a richer ecosystem with many more things growing.
> The average might be 71, we cannot deduce that one way or the other from "IQ of 70 or greater".

We cannot deduce that from this single quote alone, but there are far more detailed figures available[1]:

> 31% of children with ASD have an intellectual disability (intelligence quotient [IQ] <70), 25% are in the borderline range (IQ 71–85), and 44% have IQ scores in the average to above average range (i.e., IQ >85).

If only the autistic people with IQ of 70 or greater are considered "high-functioning", then 64% of them have IQ greater than 85.

In other words, 2/3 of people with High-functioning autism are of average or above average intelligence.

[1] https://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-facts-and-figures
I don't think that's happened.. Now, you're not saying WHY they make more money/get more acclaim/praise, but assuming it's justified, I look up to them and respect them. I don't strive to become like them, I'm me, and they're them. Now, people who's getting credit for something they didn't do, or that I did, that's another matter, but then I guess it no longer qualifies as envy.
If DuckDuckGo can change their stupid name they will gain market share overnight.
I don’t want to break Google’s monopoly on search. Google’s search is fantastic. It’s their advertising business knowing too much about me I care about.
One of the lines in my /etc/hosts file is the following:

127.0.0.1 reddit.com www.reddit.com

I put it in so that it would force me to use old.reddit.com instead. After a couple weeks old.reddit.com has became entirely automatic.
It is rather cool. But I don't think that was it. Maybe it was http://guifi.net/en/ which seems similar to Freifunk.
> Not sure Churchill would make it on anymore either tbh.

Churchill was added to the note quite recently. Unfortunately, most British people seem to have a nearly uniformly positive opinion of Churchill, despite the unconscionable atrocities he committed.
I find travelling to Germany a nightmare for cash.

In the U.K. it’s almost at the point of being cashless - indeed I ate at a restaurant on Saturday night which didn’t accept cash.

In Germany it’s like going back to the UK in the early 90s in that regard. Charges to withdraw money from ATMs, the newly built canteen at the office of a large experiment doesn’t accept card, but also wouldn’t take a €50, which was also what the ATM gave me!
Because “Google” was a sensible name?
Wikipedia says the crashes weren't caused by the windows:

"The accident report's use of the word "window" when referring to the Automatic Direction Finding (ADF) aerial cutout panel[121] has led to a common belief that the Comet 1's accidents were the result of its having square passenger windows."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
This might be stab at people who use certain IDEs. Historically many IDEs were said to be designed for “morts” (aka enterprise developers on Windows) and “real” programmers supposed to be using heavily customized Vim/Emacs on Unix. Tools like Visual Studio, Delphi, IntelliJ etc had white default backgrounds which arguably strained your eyes if you worked long hours. In old days, black themed tools is what kool kids did at funky startups and white skinned tools is what tie wearing programmers did at insurance companies (this is obviously not universally true, but I think that was the perception).

For many years, most of these IDEs now have black themes and VS even now has it as default I think since 2015. Like all animals, we collect data (aka set of anecdotes) and build statistical model of word around us. Sometimes these models are hopelessly narrow, have too many false predictions and very quickly gets outdated.
Sounds like a lot of infrastructure would be needed to swap, handle, transport and store the batteries. Also presumably at some point you'd need to charge the batteries, which means you need .... charging points. So the economics are those of charging points plus a lot of logistics and man power. That sounds like bad economics to me.
> Leftward bias has been repeatedly demonstrated in the literature.

No, it hasn't, and if it had, the Right wouldn't keep spinning findings of a predominance of Democratic Party membership among media employees as if it were the same thing as a finding of leftward bias.
Also around Universities in my experience.
When you say the rest of the world, I assume you mean that Europe is much further left than America? If so, that has no bearing on how we judge American media. Other nations are farther left or right; we judge bias based on the political center of the respective nation. American media does not have a "normal" or "center" bias just because politics in your nation are farther left; American voters determine where the American center is (not those in europe).
I remember this comment. I believe he discussed using a bloom filter.
No, but Google is two syllables, and DDG is three. Also, Google doesn't have a duck in the name.
Or AltaVista
I think that the comments have covered pretty much everything to break the problem into fundamentals. I would just like to add that:
- professional envy is futile
- use the opportunity to step aside for a while, and think of a another route to get ahead of the person you are jealous of

This way you would not just stop wasting time in constant comparison, but also likely to find a constructive mechanism to beat your competition.

In my little career, whenever I found myself being jealous of others, I thought harder to differentiate myself, isolate from comparison/competition, and always learnt something new to get ahead.

In the end, I don't know if my own narrative of professional journey would reach my milestones, but I am 100% sure that I wouldn't be too jealous.
There are probably discussion sites not dissimilar to this one where people who are into stolen credit cards and the like hang out to swap notes. It would only really take one person to post - hey check out this new thing - for a few to try it. I was a victim of a vaguely similar thing - having a squatter in my flat in Spain which went from something that didn't really happen to loads of them all of a sudden because someone put up a how to guide on the internet.
The American blind spot – the hegemonic mental space
>> Having to cook from scratch rather than eating out every day, or maybe even only having meat a few times a week. Riding public transit

In another Hacker News article, these would all be things we should be striving for
I did. And the top results are from Obama critics, or quoting Trump said that. There is also that web page https://www.debate.org/opinions/should-the-obama-administrat...
There are environment factors that contribute, not 10x but maybe the 3x mentioned in the article. That makes bad developers work like the average ones and the average as top developers in terms of productivity, to make the parallel with the article. The one thing the environment will not replace is skill: a top developer is also doing the right decisions in terms of design and architecture of the code, an average one will not know how to do that and a bad one will be clueless about the topic.
I love how programmer Twitter is in total butt hurt denial over this meanwhile Linus Torvalds created git in like a weekend.

I have no problem admitting that guy is vastly more productive than me. I don’t understand all the FUD.
I don’t see any mention in this article of what seems like the most obvious way to split up Google, separating their search and ad businesses. (Edit to add: although maybe the effect would end up being similar, if API users serve their own ads but without access to Google’s ad infrastructure.)

That obviously wouldn’t be a simple job, of course, and maybe there are some interesting reasons why it wouldn’t work well.
Master the Egg (2014)
Ok, but then you ignore serious injury caused by cars, which is around 20x more often than deaths. And something you don't really get with airlines.

Cars are the deadliest thing we have in modern society.