skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, a compiler is doing part of the job of an old school programmer who only had machine language to work with, just as mathematica is doing part of the job of an old school mathematician or physicist who needed to work out integrals by hand.

It's not "AI" in the sense of actual intelligence of course, more like a labor saving device.

That said, it's entirely possible that letting the computers do these tasks, something important has been lost. It's more obvious in programming when people ship 10 or 300 megabyte "hello world" output when entire operating systems used to fit in 4k binaries. Might also be true in mathematical physics anyway, as they haven't exactly covered themselves in glory for the last 40 years.
Well it looks like a rare good application for a cryptocurrency.
Sustainable business models?
Popping the VC bubble that insists these companies employ parasitic business practices to prop up their massive valuations?
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Complete outsider (literally learning about this fight via this post), but I have to admit you seem somwhat biased:

> At the same time, ffmpeg merged pretty much everything, even if that lead to worse code, or security issues.

Do you have proof of this claim, especially for "security issues"?

> That’s nothing different from what I said, I just tried to phrase it more nicely.

Your phrasing makes it sound like the project lead was the instigator.

> FFmpeg is one of the buggiest and most broken collections of code on this planet.

Again, do you have proof of this? I'll admit my experience with ffmpeg is minor, but it seemed like a fairly normal software project when I worked with it rather than a buggy mess.
I’d be silly not to mention what I use at Checkly for production monitoring and simultaneously harass you guys with a covert product pitch:

- Infra metrics & graphing (AWS, Heroku and custom metrics) on AppOptics (formerly Librato)

- Some metrics on Prometheus

- Logs on Papertrail

- Some AWS native Cloudwatch alerts

- Sentry for backend error tracking

- Cronhub for a single background job

- API monitoring with our own product

- Synthetic monitoring using Puppeteer scripts with our own product.

I love Datadog in general but it’s too expensive at this stage.

Full disclaimer: founder at monitoring SaaS https://checklyhq.com
Agreed.

Did he commit a crime? Yes.

Did he commit a crime against criminals? Yes.

ATT is such a horrible, rent seeking parasite on our economy, I'm rooting for whoever is redistributing that wealth. I'm not too fond of the guy, but the enemies of my enemies can be friends.
> Lineage OS and openGapps despite passing safetyNet

I don’t know what any of these words mean, and I’m relatively technical

The sign-in I use requires a password (something you know) and a OTP generated by an irretrievable key, eg, something I have.
I've been reading https://althea.net/how-it-works and I don't quite understand one aspect:

The article says there's a "backhaul" that connects the althea network to the internet. I understand this means the community will then need just one subscription to the internet, as opposed to n, so it's cheaper. But doesn't this mean that every user in the network will experience vastly slower connection than if they had their own internet subscription?
I've never heard of AAVE before. Wikipedia claims it is "natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_En...

So if it is so commonly used, why on earth should it be offensive to refer to it? In what way would you consider my statement "mocking"? I don't think it is very relevant what racists commonly do. I don't feel obliged to obtain knowledge about the lifestyle of racists, and neither should anybody else.

Even more interesting in the context of the original complaint of there not being enough books with black heroes. So if a white writer would write such a book, they wouldn't be allowed to use the word "momma" or refer to anything that PoC might do that is different from white people? You are creating an impossible world.
Could you suggest such a phone because that sounds wicked awesome to experiment with.
Bwahaha, I still remember getting those 'codepacs' for Windows that'd install like 20 codecs at the same time, including one that was a thin wrapper around libav/ffmpeg. 99% sure half of those violated all kinds of EULAs and copyright issues.
Let's not forget that "Islamic Golden Age" is a misnomer that became current in recent decades after Ummah's push to normalize Islam in the West. Islam was never conducive to science and never progressive, despite some Muslims contributing to science and progress.

Also, Islam is not to be praised for "preserving our scientific and cultural knowledge" - Islam never preserved any previous cultural or scientific knowledge, wherever it went it destroyed any mention of previous religions and cultures.
Without any specific relevant experience in a hospital, isn't the most likely reason procedures fail that people are required to ignore/bypass parts of them constantly, rather than having them updated to match reality?

It seems so very obvious to me that any time you start asking, from a 40,000 foot level, why people can't follow simple instructions, the answer is going to be, not that they are all idiots, but that they are trained and required to ignore them selectively based on complex ever shifting criteria. That is basically what makes any job require a human and not a computer in the first place.

The more rigid you want people to be, the better the process has to be.
Obviously anecdotes are everywhere, but at my work I never had any issue saying "we will need 2 weeks for research on how to use this technology", if you say you need 2 weeks to assess something then you need 2 weeks. What, my producer is going to tell me that I need less time? Based on what?

I think your issue is that you're doing open ended research - if you don't specify upfront how much time you need to investigate something then no wonder you're being asked for updates after 2 days.
How is it possible to attribute cyberattacks to a state sponsored hacking programme?
Three-letters have known this for years. I know of countless situations in which a company gets ransomware and the FBI has relayed that the attacker is known, it's classified as terrorism, but nothing will happen. They've all seen it happen to many more companies. Basically, our government hasn't stood up to the evil communist bully that is little rocket man. He has committed horrible human rights violations, has attacked our companies (which is typically an act of war), and our government has done nothing.
> and then these two Russian researchers

Fix: and then these two researchers
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I too enjoy the Mad Max movies.
Wait a tic - so the creator code forced the opening program to always be the same for a given file? There way no way to declare a preference that `.csv` files should now be opened with textedit or some such?
Not per se, but that would allow for any inefficiencies to be moved around, which is not contrary to what I'm arguing. It's quite a bold claim to say that people will think faster or more efficiently in general, but not as bold to say they will think faster or more efficiently about some things. You might be able to make a language more efficient for technical communication while making it less efficient for poetic communication, but I don't believe you can make a language more efficient at everything people need to communicate.
> seriously why is 'open now' not a default filter

What app are you using? It’s a default filter for me on iOS, and I’m likely not running the latest version. It’s actually a one-tap filter (button) that appears on every results page. I remember it behaving this way for at least a year or two, and I don’t frequently update my apps.
I disagree. POSIX, although somewhat dated, has provided a good enough abstraction layer for filesystems and OSs. My proof of this is the number of different and successful filesystems for Unix/Linux. If the abstraction didn't work, everyone would be forced to use the same filesystem.

The issues and subtleties are with bidirectional sync. It is not "the easy part". Dropbox didn't get it right in the past, we have no proof they have it right now.
Social media use is associated with a number of psychological dangers
>it works better if you substitute 'arabic nations' with 'dictatorships'.

But that begs the question of why the Middle East, which for thousands of years had ruled western eurasia, was conquered by the West. I say it was because the West developed a form of culture, politics and military that is simply more powerful. And the article is giving some of the particulars here.

>Well to me it reeks of Orientalism

So is it your view that the Middle East would be a wonderful, just, egalitarian, materially comfortable place if it weren't for the evil West?
Just out of curiosity, how would you write software to catch that those two URLs pointed to the same thing?
Are you talking back in the day or now? Now Arabs are the minority in the Islamic World[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
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Very. Honestly, they're often not that stealthy (especially N. Korea and Iran) because they have the mantle of an evil regime behind which they can hide. China and Russia barely moreso. Companies with whom I work have been ransomed by these actors, and the FBI has almost always said they know who did it and can do nothing. Policy set higher than them.
It's a fairly crowded space. Two of the newer monitoring stacks are Prometheus + Grafana and InfluxDB's Tick stack, both of which are metric based monitoring system and tend to be used with containers. Older open source systems include sensu and nagios, which are check-based systems. Sentry and rollbar are examples of exception/error based monitoring systems. There are a number of commercial solutions available that fall into one of these categories
This article is being applauded by folks left and right. With good reason.

Could civility and decency be coming back?
AFS is a good example of a network filesystem that takes properties of the network into account, however its a little weird and not fully compliant with POSIX filesystem semantics.

However, it scales like crazy and is very powerful and reliable.
At least for copying nothing should be hidden.
This fact about Blue Zones and the fact it only just got pointed out shows an incredibly broken system.

In both science and general information flow

Something so simple should have been checked or questioned on the internet, and it should then have risen to the top as a concern.

Not sure where it's broken.

Real information doesn't float to the top on HN, but equally I've never seen this at all on HN.

I think PG was wrong here, I never understood this comment fully https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692598
You forgot pay the opposition party to demagogue. Lobbying has a higher ROI and they can keep treating internet service as a luxury good instead of a commodity.
There was Meraki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Meraki
Ah, I didn't know this was a thing. Thanks mate.
>$700/m

Is that $700 a minute, month or something else?
Light-seeking mobile houseplants raise big questions about the future of tech
Tech is the new wall street. Between privacy concerns, screwing of small businesses, blindly supporting mega corps with copyright... sometimes I feel even wall street is better :(
Flying car which hovers steadily for a minute, Japan
Ah Rinkworks...so sad it doesn't update. Like crank.net...
They neither give the most aid in total nor in % of gross national income.
And how long's the border? 1950 miles? 650 miles of fence is one third of that.

Anyway, that's not the point. The point is, how many people attempt to cross illegally (per year, say), and how many succeed? My Google-fu is letting me down; I can't find those numbers so far.

And even that isn't really the point. The point (per the article) is that these people think "This is an invasion, and we're about to be overrun, and the government isn't doing anything, so we have to". Having a better-secured border (or a more-obviously-secured border) might drain part of the swamp that these peoples' ideology breeds in.

It won't drain all of it. They will move on to legal immigration, or to those who have been here for multiple generations, or whatever. But there might be fewer people believing this alt-right garbage if the border was removed as a focal point.

Presuming that this line of thinking is correct (both the article and my thinking here), it presents Democrats with an interesting dilemma: Would you give in to Trump on the border (and, from their point of view, waste all that money), if doing so would cut down on mass shootings?
> It was impossible for the user to change either (in the stock OS).

That's... much, much worse than dot extensions.
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I don't understand why you have to click twice to show this info. That's just bizarre.
The 40 year lifespan caught my eye because for a long time I’d always had this idea that in our near past old people were rare. I recently learnt that in historic context that it’s skewed by a lot of infant mortality.

So if you lived over 2 years old you were probably likely to live to be a lot older than 40.

I’ll try and find a source, but at the moment I can’t remember where I read this.
Google's business model ultimately revoves around deception. They need their assets to not know or care where they really are or who they really are talking to or who is reviewing thier words and movements.

I had to laugh when they started parading thier fake-human avatar "to call and lie to people".

But really, their big value item is language engineering.
A history of AWS service announcements and releases
>Can anybody chime in regarding the resolution limit (640x64)

Light exposure on the sensor, the faster the frame rate, the darker the image as its a fixed aperture. Photographic buffs could explain it better, but my take is the faster the exposure the bigger the aperture that is needed to let more light in to make the photo look well lit. I don't know if parts of the sensor also work faster due to its circuit design but I would imagine this is also a factor just like its possible to read more data form the outside of a spin disk than the tracks close to the centre.
Given the implementations I've seen of file metadata outside of the extension I'm okay with this - every time OSes (especially windows) tries to strip away the extension it ends up switching the file type from being a description of "what am I" to "what can open me", I really dislike "what can open me" especially when we get into a lot of common office work file formats. Knowing the difference between .rtf, .txt, .doc and .docx is important because of the special attributes of those files - additionally I frequently run into issues with character encoding and that should be an even easier problem to solve so... my outlook is not very optimistic.
Trump’s own campaign helped radicalize a violent video game community
No I am not wrong on any of this stuff.

Solar and wind aren't projected to be more than around 3%-4% in 2040 there is nothing exponential about that at all.

They cant compete and have made energy more expensive in ex. germany and Denmark where it's being subsidized by the taxpayer any look at an invoice from the energy supplier makes that painfully clear.

The fact that renewables can't solve those things makes it less attractive because with oil you get those extra uttilitizes so when you extract the cost is divided on those different areas. Thats just hard to compete with. So yes the other renewables aren't hardware, thats just one of their problems.

No nuclear isn't hard, it was at times almost as cheap as coal back when it was less regulated.

Renewables aren't cheap they are expensive which you would see once you started investing in it and which is why almost no one do. Keep in mind this isn't some product market fit problem. If we could do fuel-cells it would be a pretty safe bet so there isn't really much excuse when investing in energy which is exactly my point. It's pretty hard to find alternatives, not hard to find one that works if it existed.
They own the search results. Google isn't a public utility that gets hijacked.

Yelp can start their own search competitor if they enjoy(ed) the synergy.
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Uber's 911 button is now available for riders in the app
i feel like he may have learned the wrong lesson here
That's a great product! But... I can't change the language of your website?!
Amazon price alerts push sellers to raise prices on Walmart or risk losing perks
Something that's slowly becoming more and more troubling to me is when I come across proper adults, people between the age of 30-46 who are more obsessed and compulsive with instagram than I am. Especially those who aren't using it for commercial purposes or to push a personal brand of some kind.

It's sad and scary at the same time that an adult is eliciting the same kind of selfish over indulgence and conceit as a spoiled 13 year old.
No, everyone can agree that they'd like to support the public good as long as the costs they incur are proportional to the benefits they get. This is why taxation and public spending exists, and most of us agree that this is a good thing and don't have a problem with paying our taxes.

The fact that no one wants to be the sucker who everyone else freeloads off has nothing to do with lack of empathy.
32kb RAM, 2MHz processor isn’t that about the power of a ZX81?

I bet the RAM back would have come loose during launch
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Should Patients Be Allowed to Choose – Or Refuse – Doctors by Race or Gender?
iirc the title translates to something like "the Study|Art|Practice of balancing and restoring." I recall "al jabr" means "of/relating to balancing"

This source[1] states it as

>the science of restoring what is missing and equating like with like

[1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/algebra
Semiconductor industry is a very reliable canary for the long term economic situation.

Semi industry employs top economists. It is critically important for them to have extremely thorough economics research when they decide on their financials. Fabs cost billions, and whole fab complexes close to $10B. They take many years to construct and make running.

Financing plans for them have to be done impeccably, and account for way more than capital forecasts.

The financial outlook for a fab changes dramatically depending on how the world changes during its construction. The few fragments of such report done for TSMC I saw included everything down to political, cultural, and technological black swan events.

One of the most bizarre one that they actually managed to predict was the current regulatory and sociocultural "dotcom backlash".

For example, they see big server chip buyers like Facebook, Amazon, Google greatly scaling down their ambitions, and therefore they did not include the option for big reticle sizes in their lithography equipment buy list.
This is, I think, something that a lot of people who push back against checklists missunderstand. They feel that the checklist is meant as a replacement for their knowledge, skill and experience. An insult to their ability. But really it's just meant to help them not make very human errors of ommission or miss-sequencing that anyone, no matter how smart or experienced, can make.

Too many experts, in every field, stuggle with the idea that they too will make mistakes sometimes, and that this is perfectly normal no matter how good you are at what you do if you doo it often enough.
We do a lot with splunk and graphite/grafana. More and more, we are incorporating sysdig and lightstep. We integrate these systems with pagerduty.
Doesn't mean they are any less entitled to the right of free speech.

> They want to kill people, deprive them of rights, shout down everyone who disagrees with them, and justify all of this with a tissue of lies and conspiracy theories grounded primarily in bigotry and self-importance.

You're talking about a vocal / violent minority of conspiracy theorists. Most are investigating their theories about possible conspiracies. Is there anything a conspiracy theorist could say, to try and prove they aren't against you?

Because your blanket description of 'the people whose speech I'm defending', and your implication they should be denied the freedom to speak their theories, makes you look disinterested in an intellectual discussion with any conspiracy theorist.
A HAM license doesn't help you: you cannot legally use the amateur radio bands to transmit an internet connection.

I suspect the Amateur HAMmers would detect and enforce that: I imagine there are HAM goonsquads.
Particularly given that “maliciousfile.pdf.exe” gets displayed as “maliciousfile.pdf”
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I gave the Diapers.com parent company example elsewhere. They were doomed with Amazon’s relentless price cutting and marketing. Either they sell or they’ll become worthless. You can say they have a choice, but did they really? I don’t think they did.
There probably was alot of things in alot of places before us...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
How do you disable onboard clock or is it automatic?
Month. Yikes that would be expensive otherwise!
The Fed’s new Real-Time payments system is no threat to Bitcoin
The moment the NK people are well fed and able to focus on things other than survival is the moment that the regime will be overthrown.
Can you crowd-fund Cannabis?
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It's not always 1-3 characters. google-payments.sbc.net for example. For the third time, I'm not arguing in favor of Google's implementation. What I'm saying is that this has nothing to do with Google being out of touch with users as the GP suggests.
> Your phrasing makes it sound like the project lead was the instigator.

Fixed that

> Again, do you have proof of this?

Most media code is already a huge bunch of a buggy mess, and more obscure codecs are usually the worst examples of this. Which is why gstreamer splits the codecs into groups based on how well they are maintained and how clean the code is.

If you read the CVE lists for ffmpeg, you’ll notice that a lot of them are in not so well maintained codecs or functionality (often in parts libav threw out, which annoyed the people who needed this), or in parts where ffmpeg reinvents the world.

It’s a common issue in many projects, and especially in the media world with obscure codecs which often only a handful of people — or only one person — even understand anymore it’s a major problem, and just like with OpenSSL/LibreSSL, it’s a good reason to rip this code out.
To be honest, I don’t think Hong Kong has anything to do with it.
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