skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate change and its impact on our agriculture, infrastructure, and political systems will be an increasing damping force on technological changes this century that I'm surprised didn't get a mention in this article.
How to Put a Fake Island on the Map
Recently, they were discussing how to best secure their offices because a deranged woman came to the office and tried to kill all of them. [1]

And yes, they're also human and discuss whether single-use water bottles are bad enough that they're worth replacing, how best to keep fit so that they don't cost their employer-funded health care program too much in the long run, and yes, like many nerds, they discuss the type of laptop they like best.

But hey, if it makes you feel better to judge people, go for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting
In the other hand most of the reporting in the west is obviously giving the violence perpetrated by the protestors a free pass. From what I gather the protestors can no longer be called nonviolent.
Suffering is always relative and it's a slippery slope to dismiss as whining. By this logic, 99% of issues in the US are "whining" because other countries have it much worse.

Anyone in Sierra Leone could claim to a US citizen: "Sugar lobbies are meddling with public school meals and making children diabetic? Lucky you, my country doesn't have public schools and children are starving". This of course doesn't invalidate the issue.

Having lived in a third world country it would be very easy for me to dismiss "they refuse to call me by my preferred pronoun" as whining. After immigrating into the first world, it's a clear realization to me that suffering is relative and that's necessary for civilization to continue progressing through time.
That's sad. I am sure Yahoo could have made more than that in 3 months by just injecting 3rd party ads.
Tinnitus being caused by muscle tension could explain why ADHD medications have that as a side effect?
The article feels a little weak (though the bit about Wright, Lindbergh, and Armstrong were interesting). Scott Alexander has another take on the topic here [0]. It has more examples and charts, but no real conclusion.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-dow...
One small nitpick:

Marshal Law = halfway decent comic book

Martial Law = military dictatorship of an area
Elsevier's wickedness goes beyond coercive publication contracts. They set up a vanity journal for Merck to publish their dubious results concerning Vioxx in. Merck basically published marketing material as scientific papers in order to promote Vioxx, while conveniently withholding information about the drug's dangerous side effects, and Elsevier covered for them, making these publications look likr an independent journal.

The Vioxx debacle is one of the most blatant and straightforward examples of "evil big pharma" in the modern era, and Merck holds most of the blame -- but Elsevier is complicit in the deaths of people who took Vioxx also.
This is part of Baidu X-Lab's efforts to make MesaLock Linux (https://github.com/mesalock-linux). They are creating memory safe versions of tools for their distribution.

Baidu has even made a memory safe version of TPM (https://medium.com/baiduxlab/mesatee-security-formal-verific...).
> 4,294,967,296 possible values isn't enough to match a real instrument's range

I don't think this is true -- I doubt our ears can recognize a 2^-32 difference in anything, and there's no way physical instruments can be played with that kind of precision either.
Ten trends in Deep learning NLP (2019)
The blog post is a lot more informative than the email I received from them selling it (points at https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/magic-transit/).
We used to wrap them in tin foil and put them on the barbecue while we ate the main course. Lovely.
> The big one missing is mobile telecommunication/computing.

The major technological advancements that permitted that are old. Cellular telephone technology dates to the 70s/80s, etc.
> Python GIL takes away lots of viable solutions.

Agreed the GIL is annoying, but I've had no issues with creating large distributed job engines with Python. Actually the tooling made it very easy. If you're trying to do this without using existing frameworks I guess it may be difficult.

> Lack of metaprogramming / code generation at runtime.

IMO Python is the definition of metaprogramming. Actually, usually you use something that is literally called a "metaclass" to do so. Also everything is an object that you can override as you like, so not sure what you mean here. Maybe you were not aware of these features and functionality?

> Python is not an interactive programming language

That just isn't true...

Are you using libraries at all or are you avoiding them?

I've met a lot of developers who do not like to use libraries, but that is a major strength of the Python ecosystem.
are you advocating for the same solution here with search engines...? Because that would just give the same result.
> since nobody actually runs Windows Server on the Cloud anyway.

And how did you actually come to that conclusion?
>Selecting a jury in Taylor’s case was tricky. There was a raft of potential bias or conflict of interest... Half a dozen potential jurors had concealed-carry permits, all reportedly for self-protection.

God forbid the jury include anyone who's ever had to mentally grapple with the possibility they might be in a situation like that.

The whole trial smells of a prosecution that has lofty and unrealistic ideas about the immediate relevance of its authority in BFE.

Last time I checked murder required intent. I don't see intent here.
I haven’t stated nothing has changed — obviously much has to get better results (and I wasn’t talking about just NN — the field is far bigger). But fundamentally the types of problems being solved — identifying and segmenting images, speech-to-text, etc, are the same. We haven’t gotten anywhere in terms of _understanding_ what’s in that speech that just got turned into text, for example. Sure models like BERT have more command of language than anything previously, but it cannot be used in an AGI sense to make sense of a passage at a fundamental level, or tell you _why_ something it “read” occurred.
Snap Announces Spectacles 3
Bought some a few months ago and my issue is the price premium. $20 for a 1 meter long lightning cable feels like highway robbery but I've never had an issue with them failing so it's worth it.
For sure it can be very welcoming if done correctly but you are dealing with vulnerable people and you seem to be deflecting on what the religious angle is. What people certainly don't need is to be data mined and then pitched, subtley or otherwise an e-meter test. Can you promise that this site is not a data mining operation for a religious organisation?

I'm just using Scientology as a stand in. But if you are interested, they are a (pseudo) religious organisation with a habit of pitching psychological tests to vulnerable people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
And what about the exponential miniaturization of everything? We can now have high res cameras that are crazy small and cost almost nothing. We are starting to make nano technology to use in surgery. We starting to use gene editing (poorly). Those all seem pretty freaking major.
Yeah, we're on Hackernews so I assume most people on here make at least 50+ an hour. The CA DMV will cost $200+ at least.
As others have pointed out the study itself is too small to draw significant conclusions, but I agree with the hypothesis at least that developers are risk-adverse with their time and data.

I think developers especially are worried about getting locked into an ecosystem, so as a new product it may be useful to make it easy and obvious in how to both IMPORT and EXPORT data from competitors.
The last two sentences of the article seem to at least obliquely address this:

> In this century, we urgently need to undo some of the consequences of the last great boom by developing affordable zero- and negative-emissions technologies. That's another hard problem—and to solve it, we'll need to recapture some of what made the “special century” so special.
not the first time and won't be the last time...
are they trying to get more people to use linux? because that's how you get more people to use linux
The Rule of 140
This is wonderful and works well with traditional Pomodoro.

Thank you for sharing.
If you aren't spending tech debt, you don't have a sound monetary policy. Zero tech debt is not a healthy goal.
YMMV (from Reddit thread):

---

Strong temporary relief from tinnitus:

Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.

~ Dr. Jan Strydom, of A2Z of Health, Beauty and Fitness.org.
Moving large amounts of data over the network can be cumbersome. MicroSD cards can come in pretty handy.
I'm failing to see the point in calling a technical dept "good". As far as I can tell from the article, the author is measuring 2 possibilities of technical dept and choosing the one that incurs the least dept. I can see how good a decision this is but I don't see how this makes the dept good.
Self-cleaning house seemed like it would be here already. If you had described the technologies available in 2019 to myself in 2002 (when the roomba came out) - I would have expected there to also be a boston-dynamics-esque floor, window and countertop cleaning bot that was reasonably affordable. I didn't expect that walking around a house and picking things up would be this hard to automate.
I just read that Elsevier made £2.54 billion in revenue last year. I didn’t know academic publishing was such a lucrative business.

By comparison Penguin Random House makes €3.3 billion euros in revenue last yr and they sell a ton of books. Simon and Schuster makes $800m/yr.

I guess annuity’s from businesses and non profits using a legacy business model that predates technology beats selling books. No wonder they want to protect the business.
It is a blog post...
Simpler and repetitive does mean worse - for you. I actually agree with you, but I know plenty of people that love club/dance music, which is about as simple and repetitive as you can get. I think it's important to take the context of the music being played/performed as well: a simple, repetitive piece would likely not be received well in an orchestra hall, while a song with complex melody, deep lyrics, and rich harmony would likely be skipped at a football tailgate party. Music serves several functions in many different environments, and labeling a piece or style as universally worse is almost never true.
Carlota Perez - Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital.
You can ask me things someone like me is supposed to know, see if I pass your Turing test.
Snapchat's boom, FaceApp's bust: The lessons of data privacy with AI on mobile
It's possible that the Chinese are involved in this with their hacking. The Chinese Communist Party has their spy tentacles in who knows where and I bet the steel mill IT guys haven't figured it out.
Voila, here's the problem with these systems. Check Twitter: groups of people mass reporting other accounts for nothing and most of them get banned.
Apple brings contactless student IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch to more
As you say people can lose hearing without tinnitus. Having mild tinnitus myself and looked up how the hearing system works, I think the lead suspect must be the gizmo that converts the mechanical movement of sound waves into the ion level changes of neural impulses. It looks a bit like a tube that is opened or closed a little by movement of the hair attached to it, letting K+ ions through the hole or not. Damage to that could let ions go through when there is no actual movement of the hair.

It's kind of remarkable the things work as well as they do given the difference between 0db where you can just hear and 110db or so where it breaks is a 300,000x or so difference in amplitude.

(diagram of movement to ion flow gizmo close up https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-Diagram-of-Ste... zoomed out a bit https://jcs.biologists.org/content/joces/126/8/1721/F1.large...)
> Most likely in private, invite-only chat servers and email lists of various kinds. Anything that's publicly exposed to the internet has too much noise these days.

Honestly, this is the best answer. I would argue private IRC channels and servers because the people who use IRC are less likely to use the data-collecting behemoths that are Slack and Discord.
It's useful to have a seed able Rng when running tests in cryptographic use cases, as it allows you to reproducibly debug failures. I guess that's why they're using XorShiftRng. There are definitely cryptographically safe SeedableRngs; maybe they should use those?
There's a drop-down element in the top-right that lets you switch, but it's nothing as easy as Slack.
Show HN: Good Music to Work
If necessity is the mother of inventions shouldn’t it be an amplifying force?
One thing: If you say community for unusual people and then at the bottom have this:

"We want to help people with mental illness and social phobia to become more secure and connected, live a happier life."

I personally wouldn't sign up. Being weird isn't necessarily implying mental illness and social phobia. And the fact that you seem to use it as a euphemism doesn't sit well with me.

If I was looking for a site for people with mental health issues, I'd look for it directly and wouldn't mind if the site I was on used plain, clear language. Yes, some people will be offended. No, you can't please everyone.

Just my 2c for the creator of the site.
I experience brain fog about once every two weeks in exactly the way you describe and I've thought it's anxiety as well. I tried describing this to a psychiatrist and a cardiologist and neither of them took me seriously and said it's nothing. The only thing that helps me is meditation followed by weightlifting, and it helps tremendously. The hard part is that it always occurs around late-morning/early-afternoon, so if I'm at work I just have to suffer at my desk and get nothing done for the rest of the day.
No. Moore's law is that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 months. People confuse this with clock cycle doubling every 18 months (which did stop) but with the expansion of multiple cores, AIUI, Moore's law is still continuing.
Oh well... I was the one who asked the question and that's how much I make (software developer in southern Europe, currently working for a bank of all places).

I'm not offended by the statement, but if the difference's so pronounced I'll be happy to hear any opportunities for remote work :P
If you were the sys admin at that stell mill and you come into the office on that day. What would be different?
I promise that it's not a religious organization in any possible way.
> This is my experience on irc today as well. It’s dead.

It's not dead. You're just in the wrong severs.
while thats a different tragedy resulted from incompetence of soviet assigned government, no, I am referring to what they did in 3 different countries.
1-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January
2-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy
3-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events_(Lithuania)
World War II is chronologically a mid point between the American Civil War and now. The progress made in the first half of that period seems to me vastly more impressive than that of the later half.
Python2? Is this script that old?
The emojis look like they came straight out of the early 2000s. It's about as bad as if the had picked Comic Sans as being the default font.
Very odd that a judge, working on behalf of the United States legal system, would create a new punishment specifically in response to a citizen calling police officers "pigs", which is not illegal in the United States.
To be honest, the developed world hasn't convinced me it cares enough about human rights to risk its economic relationship with China over them. I'm really not sure how political leaders would react to Tiananmen 2.0.

The self-censorship on the part of the Western heads of state thus far has been a testament of the PRC's clout unto itself.
A person's server list is like a little black book. They'll likely not share so other people don't pollute it.
Fong-Jones, Whittaker, and Stapleton did resign as per this story.
Autocratic apologists? In my hacker news?

From the article you linked:

> The rulers commonly known as the "Five Good Emperors" were Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.[4] The term was coined based on what the political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in his book, The Discourses on Livy

Machiavelli isn't really a great foundational source for modern government.

Further:

> The concept of "The Five Good Emperors" reflects the internal Roman point of view. [...] It is, however, not necessarily the point of view of provincials and of Rome's neighbors – particularly, of those targeted by one or more of these emperors in a war of conquest or in the suppression of a revolt."

It very much depends on one's point of view, and if you happen to be the right type of citizen to fall on the right sight of autocratic rule.

Don't defend tyranny.
Always open to new stations to add or new visualizations.
Friendly reminder that the app works on the background too.
Go A! Go A! Go A!
Jeff Bezo’s Idea of “Memo” Turned into a SaaS Application
Escape Sequences for Managing Whitespace (Preview)
By not being a computer science student.
Documenting Software Architecture
You're explaining static typing vs dynamic typing. I'm still failing to see how different Strong vs Static. If the only difference is "Static" means "types are figured out statically by looking at the source code" do you mean it's possible to change the type unlike strong typing? If not, can we say Static encapsulates Strong?
A 1980s Grocery Store Is London’s Latest Protected Building
You can do a web search on this: "Popular Java web stacks 2019"
This is the most shocking part

> “the only way to deal with all the heads of the medusa is to no-platform all of them.”

Shouldn't it rather be the heads of the hydra ?
The advances in computer power is great. Unfortunately what is the computing power being used for?
How does blockchain promote privacy? Doesn’t it just store the data in a decentralized, permanent way?
What about short, rare bursts of high bandwidth transmissions from a mobile platform?

Depending on how creative one was about the locations and operation times of the transmitter, I'd expect it'd be pretty difficult to find.
HP now is incredibly different from HP then. My dad was there for 38 years before retiring, my mom as well before choosing to stay at home and support the family once I hit 1st grade. Growing up most of our family friends were HP employees and engineers (they were the 2nd largest employer in town). I remember summer picnics meeting high up managers from all over the country. From maybe 2004 to 2010 the culture and management style changed a lot especially under Fiorina. Honestly, from everything I've seen and heard she was the death knell of OG HP simply by crushing the free form engineering spirit of R&D by streamlining and significantly cutting back research. She made HP a lean machine that couldn't innovate and so the dream died.
That's exactly the point. Even homeless Westerners have access to expensive toys. And opulent wealth is taken for granted so much that Westerners don't even see owning a rusty car, used tv, and cellphone as noteworthy.
The article did a good job of explaining the events that led to that. Basically just a bunch of internal controversies involving shit-slinging, leaks, and basically what has become the standard for internet discussion in the past few years have combined to erode the trust and protections employees had to openly discuss even their far-right/left beliefs without retaliation.
That cannot be right. Tumblr has fallen from grace but 3 million???
That's interesting, if you could share your story I think we would eagerly like to make your acquaintance.
Unfortunately the pictures seem to be intentionally cropped to be low-quality with apparent JPEG artifacts. Originals look great. Granted my screen is 2560x1440, so it's more apparent, but still.
i'm a lurker. i don't normally comment on HN but this article is such low quality. i can't believe such garbage article get posted on HN.

i'll never use The Duckbill Group or recommend to anyone based on this garbage click bait article.
> "Not interested in politics" is an euphemism for clueless and easy to manipulate by those that are.

Or a polite way of saying "I fundamentally disagree with you but don't feel like getting into a debate at work, please leave me alone."

That there exists a vocal minority does not mean they are right. There exists vocal minorities calling for the dissolution of most of your most fundamental rights.
China is a behemoth. Even if they storm Hong Kong with soldiers and beat the protesters bloody, many leaders won't stand up to China, mainly because Pooh Bear is a bully and too many countries rely on China financially.
I'd say most uses of Windows Server would be to host SQL Server which is a hard stop for many enterprise firms.
It's general design guideline and I like Zen of python PEP-20. Explicit is better than implicit and most packaging system in python are explicit which I like. Been using it for over 15 years after perl and been happy with it.

Nothing to complaint as every language has their own set of good and bad. This is what makes it interesting, there is always a room to improve and make things better.
"Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can see into the warp where the creatures from beyond our dimension offer me power in exchange for overthrowing mankind. Should I see a doctor?"
I can’t find the posts now, but MaidSafe switched over after their CEO gave Rust a try and was extremely impressed; this was back in 2014? You might want to dig into that, they explained their reasons at the time.

WebAssembly has also been on an upward trajectory in this space, and so there’s some synergy there too.
Taking their 78% figure I get 6.8 million people who would need one. I don't think I would call 1,150 even a toe in the water.
I wouldn't think Windows Server is anywhere close to a monopoly, unless you define it narrowly, like Windows Server is a monopoly for Exchange installs or something like that.
That's been my experience as well, possibly because I mostly sell into corporates. They seem to love wasting my time and are often cheapskates.
> Now MG wants to get the cables produced as a legitimate security tool

Can someone explain how these could be considered a "legitimate" security tool? What legitimate use would require the cable to look like a genuine Apple cable? (I'm honestly asking.)
Getting "whoops it failed" on all browsers. Might be a new level of "hit-the-monkey" annoying!
Just do stats all the way down.

There are 6 possibilities:

1- stop early, effective

2- stop early, ineffective

3- passed all trials, effective

4- passed all trials, ineffective

5- failed trials, effective

6- failed trials, ineffective

Assign a utility value (lives saved, risks, cost,...) and a probability to each situation and do the maths.

P(1) = P(3) + P(5)

P(2) = P(4) + P(6)

So, if (P(3) + P(5))U(1) + (P(4) + P(6))U(2) > P(3)U(3) + P(4)U(4) + P(5)U(5) + P(6)U(6) it is better to stop early.

The risk of fraud can be taken into account.
Has anyone tried Focus Mate https://www.focusmate.com/
Think of it as part of a "blues riff" where I noodled around at the end in a peculiar way as a signal that I'm not really a blues player. :)
I've got a lot of respect to the ppl who work on OSS, especially the maintainers since they're in the trenches tending to a lot of the daily crap we often don't see.