skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Facebook user if a friend encounters racism I'd like to see the link to blog post about it as well. If a friend is performing in a concert I'd like to see the link to the concert program. If a friend writes a news article or is in the news I'd like to see it as well. If a friend launches a startup I'd like to know. I often don't see these things because they're links.

I'm referring mostly to friends' content only. Decreased external links from non-friends is fine, but I'd like to see everything from friends and what they're upto, and in whatever form they want to share it in. That's why they are friends.
> I think an engineer needs freedom to be able to exercise judgement say "I don't understand this task well enough to estimate it yet."

Absolutely. This is itself a valuable estimate. Very occasionally engineers will give a very high points value to indicate that the proposed story is simply too complex as written and needs to be decomposed further.

> Establishing this freedom is hard:

It absolutely is. Everything we do at Pivotal that works well is actually hard. Our cheat code for bootstrapping these practices is that we already bootstrapped them years ago. But maintaining a culture is harder than building one, which is a trillion times harder than improving one.
Hotel Engine Is Hiring a Lead Java Script Engineer and a Sr Java Script Engineer
By catering to influencers in SOME models, they would be in a much better financial shape to continue R&D for the pros.
Wealthfront ran into some trouble with the SEC recently. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-300
I fire up VMs for windows-only [mostly graphical] applications from time to time and the experience is never very good. No matter how beefy my host system is, the experience is awful and I end up giving up out of frustration. I have an old used Toshiba laptop with Windows that I fire up on those rare occasions now.
Pretty sure a lightning link is more "elect-fire", not select-fire. Not to mention much more dangerous than the relatively well documented and simple (highly illegal without an SOT) procedure that can be easily found to do a proper conversion.
The General Theory of Walkability (video)
The Chomsky hierarchy covers all of that.

It's linguistics for formal languages. Grammar, syntax and semantics together with reflection allows for formalisms and meta-formalisms.

It all culminates in Turing Completeness. Chomsky Type 0 grammars.

If you find something more powerful than a Chomsky Type 0 grammar - you have made a ground-breaking scientific discovery.
The act of not replacing things though doesn’t go further enough imo — if b is truly better in every way and also functionally equivalent to a then in the version that b came out in it should only have b and deprecate with compiler warnings or fail to compile with a so as to move the language forward
I suspect the best way is algae, but we'd likely destroy the oceans overusing it given humanity's inability to do things in a metered and sensible way.
I think most people would agree that "stop burning fossil fuels" is a utopian idea that doesn't actually work in practice. You're not going to get people to give up on it (at least near term) so you need to focus on solution that can actually be achieved.
Ask HN: Do you maintain a changelog for your SaaS product?
There are two types of changes we have:

1). Externally facing changes (visible changes like features or UI) and

2). Internally facing changes (like server config changes, code. updates, bug fixes)

Curious to know if people are showing their customers a changelog and if so, what type of changes do you show them (only type 1 or 1+2).
Android doesn't need a system update to update the messaging app.
Tony Ma's daughter better not go to any of the Five Eyes countries at this point.
I recall being told that when I worked for British Telecom they caught some cleaners stealing just the what they where thought where computers but where in fact just the key boards :-)

Probably in Manchester as that was a bit of a thing up there -Later on I helped refit an office for the third time after they had been cleaned out twice.
The main difference between those things is that one is easy to understand and the other is not.
In practice it was less useful than people assumed, because:

1. Things like drivers and filesystems are usually written by a small handful of vendors, who already have rigorous engineering cultures (hardware is a lot less forgiving than say web design), and a large base of demanding users who will rapidly complain and/or sue you if you get it wrong. When was the last time you personally had a crash due to a driver or filesystem issue? It used to happen semi-frequently in the Win95 days, but there was a strong incentive for hardware manufacturers to Fix Their Shit, and so all the ones who didn't went out of business.

2. You pay a hefty performance price for that stability - since the kernel is mediating all interactions between applications and drivers, every I/O call needs to go from app to kernel to driver and back again. There's been a lot of research put into optimizing this, but the simplest solution is just don't do this, and put things like drivers & filesystems in the kernel itself.

3. The existence of Linux as a decentralized open-source operating system took away one of the main organizational reasons for microkernels. When the kernel is proprietary, then all the negotiations, documentation, & interactions needed to get code into an external codebase become quite a hassle, with everyone trying to protect their trade secrets. When it's open-source, you go look for a driver that does something similar, write yours, and then mail a patch or submit a pull request.
How it is appalling that people disagree with you? You say yourself that it is a "net benefit" meaning there are things to disagree with. Your opinion isn't the one being hidden en masse. I tend to find it appalling to when hacker news argues against for example a free press and when publications like valley wag and democracy now was banned. Arguing against arguably the most powerful software company in the world because you disagree with their practices? Not so much. That is essentially the entire raison d'etre for being a hacker. That doesn't mean you have to agree with them, but it certainly makes it weird to dismiss people for it. Especially in a "we should know better" way.
This is analogous to the debate about when to break long functions into shorter ones. The simplicity argument usually doesn't consider the increased complexity of all the interactions between the new, shorter functions. If you omit that, you get a misleading picture, or as Linus puts it, a false simplicity.
The Making of “Margaret by Moonlight”
That transition was the worst. I write a lot of python and golang of late and am convinced that opinionated (only one way to do things) languages are the way to go as they tend to be simpler.
Well, you could save money and use it to feed yourself while learn new skills when you're out of a job. That works too.
Environmental Defenders Killed in 2018 Others Labeled Terrorists and Criminals
Washington state is like Texas: there is a huge variation on climate. The same is true in Ethiopia, whether you are in the high planes (erm plateau) or towards sea level.
In Firefox on desktop you can use a container just for HN, another for Reddit, etc.
Agreed - it's turned out to be a privacy and security fiasco. Hopefully, the ICCL challenges will put an end to it.
If this works, it won't actually stop strong e2e encryption, it'll just make people download their strong e2e encryption communication apps from non-mass-surveillance states.

This isn't p*rnhub. You can't backdoor everything.
> The US has done more or less the same.

Far less in fact. The US hasn't done most of those things.

Which artificial islands did the US build in eg the Gulf of Mexico to steal all of Mexico's gulf territorial waters? It didn't. Instead, the US has maintained a fair split of the gulf with Mexico, despite being a superpower that could take it all anytime it wants to. The US could take most of the water territory in the Caribbean if it wanted to, any time it wanted to.

Where are the vast number of examples of the US getting its military tech directly - via hacking - from cloning it from the USSR, Russia, Britain, Germany and France. Is that where the US got the F22, by stealing it from Russia? Is that where the US got the B2, by stealing it from France? Is that where the US got its 20 year lead in drone tech (eg Global Hawk 25 years ago), by stealing it all from Germany? Or how about the innovations in carrier technology over decades, that was stolen from which country, Spain? Italy? Japan? None of that happened.

When did the US send a large army of labor into Africa to extract resources there? It didn't. What the US has done for Africa, is push hundreds of billions of dollars in aid into the continent and save millions of lives with programs like PEPFAR. And its cure (thanks Pharmasset) for Hepatitis C will save millions more over time (see: Egypt).
Even if the USN decisively won a war with China, the likely outcome would for all practical intents and purposes still resemble a loss. The cost of war between two nuclear super powers is so high that anybody who suggests trying to win one shouldn't be taken seriously.
Looks like you can mention anyone subscribed to Microsoft Teams
Gimp's not as bad as it used to be. Feels like photoshop to me now.

UI design in open source software has been greatly under appreciated though... Maybe its having a revival
Most of the YouTubers to whom I subscribe, who produce video and mention or show the equipment they use to do so, turn out to be using Canon DSLRs. If you're already doing video production, the single additional step of pulling an SD card out of a camera and sticking it in a computer to pull your raw takes off isn't a high bar to clear.

With regard to Instagram, sure, you have a point. A DSLR-to-social-media flow doesn't have anything like the same ease of use as one involving a phone camera. But I'm willing to argue that the production values involved in being a serious Instagram influencer, and the degree of artifice that's necessary to that sector's pretense of an artlessly beautiful life, means the bar for switching to an interchangeable-lens system isn't as high as you think it is. Indeed, I'd be astonished if a significant segment of that crowd has not already done so.
Thanks for the info. I wasn't surprised in the least that there was something out there. I am a nomadic dev at the moment so most of my kit is locked in a warehouse and I am stuck using MacBook pro.
I actually tend to find the opposite - with a multi repo, CI/CD is often just plain broken and people waste significant amounts of time cargo culting working setups (and often do so badly or don't keep up with upstream changes).
Apple needs new sources of revenue. Anything marginal like cheaper iphone models won't cut it.

I like the recent wave of acquisitions. Smart cars? Smart homes? Iterations of Apple Watch - deeper connection to the body itself?

What's next for them?
I love this feature :) So thank you.
"Canon rush to reassure investors as camera profits plunge 64%" is the title of the article.

Profits dropping 64% is a pretty good indication that things aren't going great.
But it does need system updates to update parts of the system....
I don't agree that a-priori truths are limited to axioms—it's a much larger category of "necessary" truths. A theorem which has been proved is an a-priori truth.

Sure, programs are proofs in the context of Curry-Howard. But not necessarily proofs of what you want them to prove.
German Engineering Yields New Warship That Isn’t Fit for Sea

> ”There’s a whole generation of German engineers who haven’t worked on a major defense project,” said Mr. Mölling, the defense expert. “It’s not that they lost this skill; they never learned it.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/german-engineering-yields-new-w...
They should fix their keyboards and things might start working again.
But that first comparison function is usually not what you want, you want lexicographic ordering. This very example is in fact discussed in the article, as an example to how people often mess this up...
To me, Netflix is probably the most benign out of FAANG. I wonder how many people there are at the other companies wringing their hands over the effects of their work. Facebook in particular, what with the exacerbation of vitriol in the country, as well as potential for foreign actor misuse.

I respect you for leaving. I decided a long time ago that the boost in resume for working for one of these companies really wouldn't be worth the moral baggage (Netflix being a possible exception for the reason I stated above).
Apple has been stagnant since Steve Jobs died. His momentum keeps the company moving forward, but they haven't had a fresh idea since he passed.
The same company which originally built MoltenVK built MoltenGL for specifically this purpose.

https://moltengl.com/moltengl/
If you want to write TF, then you are a ml engineer. If you want to use TF, then you are a scientist (data, research, whatever)
Why do people think this worth trying to implement? Is it because it looked cool in movies like Minority Report? What is the target demographic for this? What is the use case? Why would I want to add additional and unnecessary complexity to my workflow?
yes, definitely sell your stock, I want to get more at a good price
I did use some very interesting software over the years and I can absolutely relate to this. For instance,I used to run Alias Studio,which wasn't even part of Autodesk at the time,which is obviously a bit obsolete by now but I'm pretty sure that there are still some shops out there running it on old machines,as the software is really powerful,not to mention the licensing costs back in the day( I think it used to be $100K per desktop)...
Stock is up 4% after hours on the earnings beat.
I don’t think a government actor would put them on the same public github that is linked to their resume.. The only way I can see can see her being so smart and yet so dumb is if she didn’t think much of what she was doing.
For those of you searching for good E2E-encrypted messaging apps, Wire is really good. It has true cross-platform support without being tied to a phone number.
I thought about this some more and I think the distinction comes down to whether I am made to pair against my will. I'm not. So to me that doesn't feel forced.

But if I worked for Company X and then one day Thou Shalt Pair Or Else, then yeah, it would feel shitty. Labs developers pair with client developers on engagements and sometimes it feels like they've been dropped from a very great height.

Most of the time it works out fine: people are people and we work in the same industry and share many of the same experiences and passions. Sometimes it just doesn't work for everyone, which is also fine.

But insofar as anyone from Pivotal is explicitly or implicitly saying "or else!", I think they are making a mistake and hope they get feedback about it.
China's ambition is not purely reactionary. If that were the case, then all countries would be acting similarly.
That was not discovered by P0. If P0 found it, there is no reason to believe they wouldn't have disclosed in 90 days.
Except for AirPods, Apple Watch, .....
Oh, I totally missed that news.
You can already customise the behaviour of a Canon DSLR, because there's an open-source third-party firmware option with a Lua API.

https://magiclantern.fm/
You say you don't disagree but you keep disagreeing...

I made a simple, yet fundamental statement. It's either true or false. There is no need to argue as if you had to out-do me in any way.

Vacuum cannot have a temperature. This follows immediately from the definitions.

This also means that the temperature of a vacuum's "walls", by which I'm guessing you mean particles in 'contact' with the vacuum, is just the temperature of these particles. It's not an indication of any "vacuum temperature".

Have a nice day.
Well, if they are using the phone as their primary computer, it must be good enough. How is Apple stopping people from doing what they want to do with their phone?

And before you bring up an esoteric development scenario, I assure you that developers aren’t using their phone as their primary computer.
Agreed Shenzhen I/O is a very nice game. It's more of a 2-bit, 3-bit than just 1-bit (I think the first 2 microcontrollers are truly 1-bit but later ones are 2-bit, and you can store state in p registers) (also not quite bit as IO is analog) but your circuits look very similar to the one in OP. I bought it off of Steam when there was a sale and it was only $5; best $5 ever spent!
And the stock increased over 4% in after-hours trading, as increases in non-iPhone hardware sales and services overcame the decrease in iPhone sales. Earnings per share slightly beat the consensus forecast.

An interesting quote from Cook in the press release:
"The balance of calendar 2019 will be an exciting period, with major launches on all of our platforms, new services and several new products"
There are a lot of intolerant people of all kinds around. I can't blame people for being low-key about it. Arguably being open helps change that, but the more fringe content is going to take time to be accepted.
Unstoppable play-while-browsing plus the price hikes has me poised to drop it as soon as I finish two shows I'm near the end of. Probably in the next month. Either problem alone wouldn't get me over the "bother to cancel" speedbump, but I dread opening Netflix unless I'm browsing straight to something I already know is on there, these days. If it were still super cheap, whatever, but I can get a couple cheap services for its price now. Out it goes.

I'll just start picking it up a month a year or so to binge whatever I've missed.

Playing-on-the-menu and autoplay-after-episode would keep me from recommending it to older relatives. The last thing they need is their devices doing shit without their telling them to, especially with audio and video involved for extra confusing-the-hell out of them, doubly so when they're trying to direct it to do something (browsing the media selection). Probably direct them to Hulu, I guess, if they asked.
It's not like the parts have become bigger over the decades. With today's tech, you could easily make a laptop with a quality keyboard, with a form factor reminiscent of those old ones, packed full with modern hardware at fraction of the weight... that is, if manufacturers weren't optimizing for vanity metrics at the expense of utility.
Has LIGO Just Detected a 'Trifecta' Signal?
I can't find it at the moment --- it was an essay about a Russian mathematician's experiences coming to the United States and the culture shock with respect to education --- but in it he offered that Soviet academics' relationship to mathematical education was rooted in it being a safe avenue for self-expression and collaboration amongst all the censorship. Students had a drive to solve all the problems they could due to how much of a precious resource these groups were. (I believe the Math Circles program in the United States is inspired by these arrangements.)
I made a mistake mentioning Prometheus - it's the least important point in my post. I get that you may provide something for monitoring (performance and tracing, at least) that's more baked into the whole AST/graph model and that sounds really very compelling. And obviously end developers won't need to monitor the systems/services because as far as they're concerned there aren't any. It feels a bit like electric cars - a bunch of new (and hard) problems arise, but it's compelling as a bunch of older (also hard) problems just cease to be. Huzzah. I'll certainly agree with you that the potential upsides here are very large and very compelling.

But the need for things like code review tooling, test coverage reporting and mocking frameworks (yes, I will want to isolate stuff via mocks) aren't going to just disappear with this kind of model. They're far from exotic use cases for the kind of business customers you will need to scale this and get real adoption and thus positive cashflow, more of a necessity. It's a real leap of faith to think it's worth rebuilding so much of these kinds of ecosystems that have taken thousands of man years to evolve and develop for existing languages. And if you don't have plans to provide that sort of thing you'll be missing out on most of the market, I would have thought. Yes, you'll get hobbyists but surely they won't provide the volume or reliable subscription-style revenue you'll surely need to make this sustainable?

Unless of course your endgoal here is being bought out by Google, in which case fair play. This is cutting edge thinking and tech, full of nice hard problems to work on and lovely "oh but if we just don't have that then we don't need this either, or can do this like that instead" type insights to be made. Cool stuff, but it still won't get me to bet the farm on it. I really do wish you well though!
Being able to sustain human life with minimal inputs is a ridiculously useful trick if we can pull it off. It could be an answer to environmental threats. learning how to survive on Mars could teach us how to live on earth.
"It turned out the winners had more in common than an aptitude for spelling: Six of them had relied on SpellPundit, a coaching company started last year by two former competitive spellers."

I see a striking parallel to LeetCode. 8 way tie this year, could be 30 way tie next year.
>> Of course in a Good team, needless dependencies would be weeded out in code reviews, and a Culture would evolve over time avoiding needless dependencies.

Heh. This reminded me of a different story, which I remember vaguely enough that I'll paraphrase from memory:

> "The Excel team will never go for it. Their motto is 'Find the dependencies... and eliminate them.'"

> This probably explained why the Excel team had its own C compiler.
Unfortunately, breaking a 10 gig repo into 5 repos often means you have to now download five 2 gig repos.
Both of which have had so-so reception. Certainly nothing like Jobs' industry-disruptive innovations.
Chatbots are revolutionising contact centres
What's driving bills like this is simple - people need things to campaign on and instead of addressing real problems they're busy trying to 'solve' easy ones.
Though for the most part I hardly use advanced mathematics in my day to day job, it is sometimes the case that math is like a super power. Where if I programmed the obvious idea to solve a combinatorics problem, the solution would never be tractable. But, then I learn the mathematics of combinatorics, and suddenly I can write a much simpler and much more powerful solution.

So, math doesn't help frequently (or perhaps not trying to use it enough), but when it does it can help tremendously.

It can also help deflate a lot of the hype in AI and ML, especially if you know the fundamental theory of ML.
Ours has definitely ended up playing to an empty room for a good long while, a few times.
iPods are huge success
The NYT has like 4,000 employees. There are 40,000 journalists in the US (just journalists). All of patreon has 100,000 creators.

The number of sustainable journalists is much more limited using crowdfunding than other monetization models.

How many patrons are giving to high quality neutral journalism? How many are giving to people that they personally like and agree with? Look at somebody like Jordan Peterson for an example of how on can leverage culture wars (instead of quality analysis) into cash.
Canon needs the consumer market to subsidize R&D costs for the professional lines. I'm sure the they're not selling at a unit loss, but like all R&D heavy manufacturing industries, there's a lot of fixed capex that's easier to offset with high volume offerings.