skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually makes sense to me.

Compile-time programming is a very powerful feature of C++ that does not have an equivalent in other systems languages. It is commonly used to effect several types of compile-time verification of code design and safety that would be difficult to do any other way, in addition to its more obvious use case for effecting relatively complex performance optimization algorithmically. The ability to algorithmically generate almost arbitrarily complex types during compilation that are fit to purpose is an extremely useful feature for fast, high-reliability code and used pervasively in modern C++ as the facility has become more expressive. Filling some of the last remaining holes in its expressiveness would be high-value novel capability. Think of it as a hardcore safety feature.

You can put me in the camp that adding more support for concurrency in the language beyond a feature like coroutines (in C++20) and the existing primitives is not that useful. It would have the same issue as STL containers, where there simply isn't enough control of the implementation details for them to be used for many applications C++ is used for, so most concurrency infrastructure will be purpose-built anyway.

Pattern matching functionality can already be effected in many cases, albeit quite ugly. This would be more syntactic sugar than new capability, so I can understand why it isn't prioritized as much.
Appreciate your comment and posting the article.

> The biggest omission here is what the benefit of trust is: a tremendous amount of efficienct throgh goodwill.

And the key question is how companies plan to use that goodwill/trust. If they plan to harness it for public benefit, they can expect a virtuous positive feedback loop. If they're going to harness that for profits, then the logical outcome is public cynicism.

I think Barry Schwartz captures several aspects of this well in some of his talks/writings. Check out his talks on practical wisdom, doing the right thing for the right reason, and the way we think about work (available on YouTube).
How to Fix the Baby Bust
ASM is assembly.
grow human organs inside rats and? how does that work? i don't understand. meanwhile we are entering the sixt mass extinction event caused by a massive climate change. what good is this technology when you have failing crops, extreme weather, no electricity and mass immigration at your doorstep?
Discretion still matters – don’t ruin your career by sharing too much (2017)
Building DAOs with Aragon
Paul's work on Distillery has been amazing. It's such a nice tool to work with.
Being generally happy with my life -- whether it be over the course of the day, week, year, etc. Is the work I do meaningful / helpful? Can I spend time with the people I want to spend time with? Can I do the things I want to do?

As long as the answers to those things are positive, or are trending positive, things are good.
No. That is not what I wrote, nor is it what I implied.

I simply mean that the claim about fingerprints of 350 M EU citizens copied cannot be true.
There have been plenty of attacks targeting image and document viewers/editors over the years. It's a great vector, because recipients are more likely to open a document than run an executable.

Some of the very "best" vulnerabilities of all time have been attacks taking advantage of scripting features in Office.
That is not necessarily a bad thing. If the experts were highly correlated with what the rankings already were, there would be no point in using them. You want as many independent inputs as possible; the more correlated they are, the more redundant they are.
Iosevka as well, which has custom builds (on of which is aimed at making it as like pragmata pro as possible and it is damn close).

Gorgeous font, bit of a bugger to build but once you get it working hours of tinkering ;)
Sadly, your analysis is 2o years too late. Your arguments are from nowadays. Think if the Matrix brothers had today's knowledge the movie would have been the same as in 1999?
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Survey of Alternative Displays (2016)
I started entering a Pioneer project because I liked the idea that many projects start as "small ideas" and some of those ideas may have more potential if the creators receive the right type of positive feedback from others early in the process.

Also, it could help, in theory, to be forced to provide progress reports on a project, as Pioneer encourages. Also, Pioneer got a lot things right with their UI for participants.

However, it seemed like most successful projects on Pioneer are pre-existing projects that are shimmied into the Pioneer format: Often they're projects that already have a year of work behind them with significant existing funding that are dressed up as a 1 month project. Or, often they are projects that are completely impossible to evaluate within the Pioneer model (such as a new car suspension system or something, that an online reviewer can't possibly give feedback on without an in-person meeting to observe the device) And yeah, the algorithm of the point system is completely impenetrable to the participants.

I think it would be great if someone created something like Pioneer but with a more tractable ethos, supporting projects that truly are only 1 month old since inception and involve only projects on which progress can be directly observed online by community evaluations.
One of the things I value in HN today is the top-level moderation. Are you saying that wouldn't work anymore and this new community would operate purely on self-moderation instead?
Unity could potentially get squeezed between Godot in the low-end and Unreal in the high-end. I've played around with Godot, and for small, performance-insensitive games, like a Candy Crush clone or indie puzzle platformer, it is a nice, license-unencumbered option.
Originally the ‘Switch’ character was supposed to be a man in the real world and a woman in the Matrix (or the other way around).
Comic Sans is a good font if you want to make the thing look like it was made by a six year old on a computer. It is the printed equivalent of a lazy note written onto a crumbled sheet of paper by somebody who yet has to drink their first coffee of the day.

Comic Sans are the equivalent of office calendar quotes like: “You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps”.

If this is the message you wanna get across, it is the perfect choice. For most other messages there are other more appropriate fonts (many of which can also be quite funky).

Comic Sans was my favourite font when I was 8 and made birthday invitations using it tho.
You will add another point of failure to your stack, additional warm-up time, and get to route your traffic through their network to save a couple of bucks.

No thank you.
Animated Selfies and Other AI Image Processing Magic
> One could argue there is a better right to free speech in the US, and that it has stronger legal protections, but it's by no means absolute or beyond comparison with that of the UK.

Yes in the UK freedom of speech and religion is tolerated to an extent that exceeds the word of the very restrictive law, but the US has actual legal protections and a culture that protects those legal protections, there is a very big difference between the two.

You can compare the US free speech with our limited speech but at the end of the day Spain has free speech and privacy laws and culture thats way closer to the US than the UK nanny state.

There are other big differences between US and UK culture like GUNS! to name one

The only thing the UK and US hold in common is the want to have an empire. Oh and to steal brown people oil.
> true evil can only be if the actor knows and intends harm

Between born psychopaths who seemingly can't even empathize with current or future victims https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-about-kids/..., and criminal rational choice theory http://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/criminology/theorie... which posits that even most of a criminal's willful acts are rational given their circumstance and motivations, I don't think there's a tremendous amount of room left for "true evil".

I can't help wondering if history will look back on most of what we see today as "willful evils", instead as "misunderstood tragedies"... see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman whose tower sniping was initiated by... a brain tumor.

The truest evil IMHO is that committed by people who believe they are doing good (but perhaps are "making the tough decision"): see the Nazis.
I support you and hope you can reclaim yourself. A lot of good advice has been given here. One thing I realized when I stepped out of Ops is that lots of the life-and-death situations we felt were, to a certain extent, self-imposed. We always thought the world was going to end if $bigcustomer became dissastisfied that the site was down (or whatever).

In the end, it turned out (as long as we did our best), it didn't really matter. The business was constantly making best guesses at allocation of resources (human, equipment, etc) and hedging that against the customer experience. 100% reliability was never the goal. Violating SLAs and potentially having to give the customer a service credit was just part of the calculus. We were taking it upon ourselves as the most important thing in the world to keep the service up, because that's how it was presented to us, but to the business it was not nearly as important.

If you can de-couple yourself from these stresors somewhat, keep them at arm's length, you'll be doing yourself a great service.
it's fairly complicated but basically that's the magic of induced pluripotent stem cells. It's possible to turn human cells into cells that are prepared to become a specific organ, and then place them in an environment in which they will grow to that organ. This is because most of the necessary commands to differentiate and multiply cells into an organ are encoded in the genome and cellular state.

I think the wikipedia page helps understand this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell although the part where you can actually make a rat/human hybrid is still undefined science.
Yeah, Fira Code is an excellent font, and it is something I have used in the past. PragmataPro looked prettier to my eyes so I bought it, that's all. In fact, it's linked as an alternative on that Github page.

The condensed look and lack of interlinear spacing of PPro are a nice bonus, not that there aren't other condensed fonts. I suppose for intl use PPro might be nice too since it has 9000+ glyphs, and the dev is still adding more.
> for people who still live there

You're making it sound as if people were suffering and running away from there. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but the net migration is positive and rising.

Companies like Siemens are doing business there. For now, they have to pretend that they don't even know about it, but that is going to change too as the U.S. continue to lose their hegemony in Europe.
Yup, pretty much exactly that. YMMV of course. For me my triggers were linked to breath anyway. I would have them, and then when I exhaled get tension in my neck and shoulders. Doing the box breathing with an exhale short circuited that. I think it gave my mind a thing to focus on, and helped train my stress response.

For sake of completeness, I did do one other thing. I had periodic worries about financial certainty in my business. But as with stress, I was past the point where this was a realistic concern. Problems could arise, but it would never be instant, total destruction of my business.

So, I wrote down all the things I was worrying about, how realistic they were, how much harm it would cause, and what my responses would be. I then kept thinking about this for a few days. Did a lot to remove worry. Then the breathing combined well with that.

I also found out fodmaps caused me digestive trouble + stress feeling, but the breathing had had its day to day impact before I discovered that.
[This is because most of the necessary commands to differentiate and multiply cells into an organ are encoded in the genome and cellular state.]
N2O: Distributed Application Server in Erlang
This reminds me of Product Hunt in its heyday, which turned a blind eye to voting manipulation, especially by VCs who were helping to push/promote a submitted product without any disclosure.

Of course, that's why it got VC funding in the first place.
Another interesting thing about this survey is that the categories don't have equal representation; so for example, "pattern matching" has two papers, one of which is extremely popular, but "compile time programming" has thirteen papers, with a few of them being significantly more popular than the others (one has only one vote, for example, but another is, in my mind, one of the most exciting proposals coming down the line for C++).

There's tons of reasons why this could be this way; and it shows why creating these kinds of things is just hard.
What I tried to say is: you can't explain the points manipulation with "experts", because "experts" changed little in that regard, as can be seen on that screenshot.
Are you seriously asking if anybody today opens links by simply tapping on them?

Is this some sort of weird fake-question nerd-brag?
> In general, we should try to build escalators, not elevators.

Agreed, but what is the better escalator in this case?
If the plot was 1) I wouldn’t watch your movie. It sounds worse than some episodes of Mr Robot.
I don't see anything like that. In that last image, in the same column "not in top 10" there's the project ranked #3 on the image above, and the project ranked #17.

In this image, two projects mention being upvoted by an "expert", and the two are in the top 10 indeed.

Overall, I find that the evidence fails to convey the point, I may be wrong and the case is strong but right now, I don't think it's convincing that anything shady is happening.

I'm not surprised that the ultimate choice of giving out money is closely guarded, because the very little amount of voting happening makes it very sensible to fraud.
(When a photo of an egg can get 20 million likes on twitter, basing a contest on handfuls of votes would seem a bit...naive.)
If you have uBlock Origin installed you may not see this, but in the top-right hand corner there's the text: "In Association with Corteva Agriscience".
Now you'll be paying new VC customer harassment department instead of developers.
Presumably, the eventual goal is to grow full-sized organs inside some larger animal. Then the organ can be harvested and transplanted to a human who needs it. Per my understanding, medicine does a lot of work with rats because they're cheap and easy to work with, so any new technology of this type would be tried on rats first.

By the way, my neutral explanation above doesn't mean that I approve of doing such things. Honestly, I'm quite torn about the issue.
Pretty typical for Standpoint. It's a Britsh, culturally conservative magazine, so the default position you might expect is that anything that Her Majesty wouldn't approve of is morally abhorrent
Yeah America has all the moral debates about genetics and experiments with embryos. But the bottom line is other countries are going to move forward no matter what America does.
"Process improvements" is a bit weird. You measure software engineering performance by their dev ops skills?

It's a completely different skillset, and you're probably only measuring how eager people are to have breadth of knowledge or how familiar they are with your specific system.

Similarly, the explanation for "Debugging and troubleshooting complicated issues" is a bit odd. Why is knowing where the log files are, and knowing how to do complicated test setups for your specific environment a performance measure. Again, that's not really measuring skill but familiarity.

The other two measures are just "Do they complete tasks" and "Do they follow code review guidelines", neither of which are very good measures beyond pass/fail.

The conclusion is:
> Once a set of skill areas for a role is landed and agreed upon you will want to make sure your team knows in advance what they are being measured on

So, to do well in your business, I need to pick easy tasks, snipe code reviews, make pointless CI tasks and spend all my time learning the build/test processes not actually developing the product? :)
You might need to double check your requirements — SFTP is a very different protocol from FTP/FTPS. Using SFTP for something like document scanners without strong Unix roots would be surprising to me, at least.
The EU has been collecting fingerprints since 2004, they do have that data.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-fingerprints/fingerprin...
The author needs to maybe get over it? He goes through the typical complaints.

>They think that by having themselves tattooed they are shocking the bourgeoisie à la Baudelaire; and in so far as their parents don’t like it, and are in effect silencing them by a fait accompli of which it is useless for them to complain, they are exercising power over them.

>It seems obvious to me that if a person feels he has to tattoo himself in order to “express” his difference from others, he must have some difficulty in individuating himself, perhaps indicative (when this difficulty is on a mass scale, as it clearly is) of an individualistic society without individuals.

But in large part people get tattoos because they like them, nothing much more than that. It's just a skin mod, not a big deal, not worth wringing hands over.

It sure is nice that people don't usually get beaten up anymore for having weird hair or modifications.
A solution to a real problem.

It turns me off that there is nothing said about pricing up front, it makes me hesitant to sign up for the service.

I have been daydreaming about a system that scans a POP or IMAP web server, maybe even a Maildir, and detaches the attachments and stores them in an object store and makes them searchable. One problem with FileFern is that it is active instead of passive, that is, you have to remember to send files to FileFern and the people who send you emails have to do so too. If you just scanned your own mail spool you would just be able to find your emails and that is that.
It is! Music is particularly amenable to chunking. The structure of measures, phrases, sections, forms, and pieces lends itself to efficient memorization or perhaps musicians/composers select/write more memorizable music with this structure in mind.
The original comment wasn't about if tripods should be allowed or not but people using them despite not being allowed.

Have you been to that place? Because it sounds to me that you want to solve the issue of people breaking rules by allowing them in the first place, when you might not even know any specifics of the environment where it's applied?
[In 2017, Nakauchi and his colleagues reported the injection of mouse iPS cells into the embryo of a rat that was unable to produce a pancreas. The rat formed a pancreas made entirely of mouse cells. Nakauchi and his team transplanted that pancreas back into a mouse that had been engineered to have diabetes, The rat-produced organ was able to control blood sugar levels, effectively curing the mouse of diabetes1.]
WOW :O
The thing is, there are much better easier ways to generate power. Especially when the earth is already dead and you don’t have to worry so much about the environment. Hydroelectric, geothermal, nuclear... even coal power would be much easier than keeping the entire human race in farms and imprisoning their consciousness in the matrix.
I once worked in an environment that I liked a lot where after review, the reviewer would deploy the code out. I think this enforced some nice ideas like -- code reviews are point of collectivizing the code in the team (so now this is the teams code, and I'm deploying it, so I'm incentivized to not phone it in on the review). It also made sure that the reviewer understood the impacts of code changes as they verified/promoted through staging environment.
Do small startups still have a chance, or do people just pretend to like them?
Do small startups still have a chance, or do people just talk positively about them while continuing to use sites like facebook and linkedin and expecting perfect polish? For example, I started www.nextcept.com a few months ago as a venture network. I'm focusing on a unique method for co-founder discovery, and users seem pretty pumped, but if I post in various startup communities I get told I'm spamming them even when I'm just asking to for thoughts or wanting to talk about my project.
I don't think so. My guess is that the industry of consumer electronics is moving toward the right direction. I have two pieces of IoT in my household:

1) Robot vacuum cleaner, and I am absolutely felt in love with it. My floor now is always clean during weekdays, when I am busy working, no more visible dust, crumbs, etc. I just have to clean filter and container once a week, otherwise it is fully autonomous. The only thing I want to add is a self-cleaning and automatic floor mopping, but I've seen such a project on Kickstarter, so it is close.

2) Cheap WiFi RGB light-bulb. I have connected it to Homebridge and it is nice to say 'Hey Siri, turn off the floor lamp' or 'Hey Siri, set the floor lamp to 10%', but it is not one of essentials.

There are a lot of questions of course: there should be an option to work completely without proprietary servers and continuous internet connection; 'smart' kettles, hairdriers and so on are useless stuff; security; universal and open protocols; etc.
OK, when there are articles like that, it’s finally time to sell. :)
Efficiency is an area where there can be a lot of cost hiding. We recently saved a lot of money by:

- Using the Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler (https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertica...) for CPU and memory scaling, and switching to metrics like requests per second and connection count for horizontal scaling

- Collecting metrics on container CPU and memory allocation vs utilization

- Writing scripts to auto-submit PRs to SREs with better recommended sizing based on actual usage

- Tuning our VM instance sizes and autoscaler configs

A few engineers were able to save the company several times their salary with a few months of work, and plan to 10x the savings over the next year
Yeah, I think someone should develop a replacement for Pioneer that mostly does away with the prizes and VC enticements & instead just focuses on peer feedback and the progress update system.
For individuals with paralysis, Google Nest gives help at home
That's what I do in general with articles. Russia Today has a pretty consistent and documented history of being a propaganda outlet for the Russian government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Propaganda_cla...
> It is not realistic to give an early software engineer defects within the first few months of a project assignment. So this skill area might not apply until a little later in their career.

what?

Please don't listen to this. Give junior engineers bugs right away. It forces them to set up their environment for debugging and begin to understand the flow of the project.

Even if he/she needs to be guided to the solution, this is a GREAT litmus test for the standards of your documentation, and ease of environment setup.
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Amazon Ring tells police to advertise services for free Ring cameras
Not all people who voted leave are racist, but all racists voted leave.
Hopefully the use of animals for tissue incubation and harvesting is a bridge to a future when animals are no longer required for human tissue synthesis.

Artificial womb experiments are going well [1], as well as tissue synthesis for cultured meat (which is just animal muscle), so...maybe?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-...
I'm willing to sell something to "normal" people and crypto are kinda complex.