skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Heegner numbers are a good gateway into a brutally ugly and weird corner of analysis, with lots of almost-numbers and almost-facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number

In higher (n-)category theory, there is not a single canonical way to describe higher categories, leading to lots of careful use of "strict" and "weak" qualifiers, as well as many different non-equivalent flavors of higher category: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/semi-strict+infinity-category

Speaking of categories, the number of finite categories, or other finite abstract algebraic objects, is not a beautiful combinatoric theorem, but instead a nasty study of computer-aided searches: https://www.mta.ca/uploadedFiles/Community/Bios/Geoff_Cruttw...
The sweet spot of limitation :)
In my opinion; the main difference here is that the government entities used bots or paid people to post propaganda. While the pro-democracy non-government camp used their own account to share their views. This I'm okay with.

But a good example on how not to do it is the /r/hongkong subreddit, it's filled with pro-democracy accounts who will delegitimise any posts that goes against the general sentiment. It's impossible to have a constructive discussion there without being marked as a troll, or a pro-china bot. That to me is just the same as spreading propaganda and preventing free speech. That's not ok.
> Analysts have suggested Apple TV+ could top 100 million subscribers in the next half-decade, which would make it a major challenger to Netflix and Amazon.

Doesn't Prime have 100 million US subscribers now? And Netflix is something like 60 million. I guess these analysts predict they'll both stagnate while Apple will grow from 0 to 100 million in 5 years?
We need this space to become so fragmented that, in its final phase, you end up paying the copyright holder directly... just need to find a way to make the process easy for the user
Thanks, this should be fixed shortly.
I cannot speak for the general US populous, but if California were protesting a decision by the US federal government, I would want your support.

It is exactly because of their power that large institutions should be treated with caution. They can be tools for progress or oppression.
The exact same way TensorFlow supports TPU: by writing another backend. TPU doesn't support CUDA either.
Ads are at least usually marked as such rather than through fake accounts controlled by bots with an agenda pretending to be real people.
Many emerging markets don’t have enough capital to invest in infrastructure and businesses in order to build there economies. When done responsibly it’s a way to grow your economy.
Those who don't want it for themselves still can't opt out of the problems created by unchecked population growth. Everyone is screwed.
The Apple originals aren't out yet so why do say it's an amazing lineup? While not everything is a hit Netflix does have solid original content but Apple is not a content company. I'm taking more of a wait and see approach here. Good content is not easy.
A Team of Grad Students Built a Mobile App for Entomologists
Zero information about the display technology being explored. Don't read.
It's so easy to tell lies and have people believe them. That's a big human flaw it seems :-/ that needs to be corrected, governments and corporations get away with public opinion manipulation way too easily. >:(
New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)
Related questions: does anybody know:

1) which was the first language that introduced the async/await keywords? I want to say C#, but I’m not sure.

2) are there any papers that describe the code transformation to state machine that is commonly performed to implement these keywords?
For the sake of climate change, HTML with minimal JS/without JS is preferable.
> Manipulation implies a level of deceit and deception that persuasion does not.

Actually, if we're going to get into this nitpicky level of semantics, none of the words "cleverly, unscrupulously, artful, unfair, insidious" mean "deceit" or "deception".

I'd argue that advertising is pretty inherently unscrupulous, and if it's at all effective, it's clever, artful, and insidious. And you can argue all day long that it's not "especially to one's own advantage" or "to serve one's purpose", but the fact is that if it was really providing a service to customers and not just serving advertisers, that service would be better provided by a neutral third party (such as Consumer Reports, OutdoorGearLab, etc.).

But while we're at it, plenty of advertising is deceitful and deceptive too, so even if that's a prerequisite for being manipulative, advertising is still often manipulative.
That was really neat, thank you for sharing this. Summary: the right blames religion/extremism, the left psychological/social issues. The author claims a third option, "narratives of insecurity", that spread kind of like Dawkins' idea of cultural memes [0,1]. I agree with him but I would categorize this as a psychosocial issue though, similar to "mass hysteria" [2].

[0] https://www.wsj.com/video/richard-dawkins-on-the-cultural-me...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
Maybe 10-15 years ago. Today, the traditional telcos are just letting the cooper service rot.

In my city the copper service had a significant 3 week outage that when a CO switch failed. They would rather attrit the CWA people and pay a fine than maintain it. Verizon’s position is to wait for direct subsidy or 5G in urban areas.
I'd like to have somebody compete with YouTubeTV. They are very expensive now ($50/month).
I think getting [human consciousness] software to run in other hardware will come before biological immortality, and once that happens there's no point in keeping a biological form.

The only pain point that I have as a software engineer, I have no clear idea on how to not shutdown the software before loading in to another medium.
Usually, it's more like this:

LO |---*------------------*----*--*-| HI
^ ^ ^ ^
| | | |_root of all evil if premature
| | |_you should be here
| |_you can be here if you don't do stupid things
|_you are here
In a web context, rendering is populating html template with data.
Oh, I meant homegrown as in amateur or home-made. Basically not regulated, irrespective of where it's made or used.
I don't know how optimistic I'd be about the whole industry. I'd suspect medical devices are way more disciplined than EHR apps.

A friend's sister is a doctor. We happened to be visiting her hospital the week they were rolling out a new system. If if I recall rightly, her hospital was part of a multi-hospital company, and they were developing it in house. The developers were in some location distant to the hospital, and my doctor pal had never met anybody who worked on it.

From my perspective, the thing was a disaster. Not only was it laggy as hell, but the interface was dumbfoundingly bad. For a doctor to prescribe something for a patient, the would have to pick the medication name from an absurdly long drop-down. Then they could type in a quantity and pick a unit from a pulldown that had mcg, mg, g, and kg choices. Once that was entered, it would show up on the reports nurses would use to give medication. However, they didn't have the field sizing right on the reports, so 100 mg would turn into 10 mg. It was only nurse experience that kept people from getting dangerously wrong doses of their medication.

The whole thing was hot garbage of exactly the sort made in a big waterfall process by developers who never met the users and never saw them in action. I'm sure every bit of it was technically to spec, but I'd be amazed if nobody died from it.
States to Move Forward with Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms
Weird, because with a mouse, expecting mouse conventions, I click them every time, but on a phone or iPad I always want to flick them.

I guess it goes back to my other post about "intuitive" not actually being a real thing, and the actual factor being "what you're used to".
> you lose all the type conversions between Java arrays and Scala arrays

This is what killed scala to me. It talks up a big story about Java interop, but the reality is that the separate collections really drive a wedge between the scala ecosystem and the rest of the JVM world so it does not have the kind of seamless iterop that Kotlin and (especially) Groovy do.
Would this give strong competition to Netflix?
We have a platform that amongst other things automates filling in a fairly complex government form, including online signature.

We did a demo the other day to a large new customer. I learned that when they filled in the existing paper form, they didn't just sign it, they also stamped in the signature box with a little rubber stamp that "signed on behalf of the CEO".

It wasn't immediately clear whether anyone handling the form was looking for that stamp, nor what they did when they saw it. As a result, it's not clear to us at this stage whether our pdf generation now needs a new feature to allow a user-uploadable image file to be imprinted over the form.

That's the sort of thing you get with the joyous "flexibility" of paper.
The pole rentals are extremely expensive and the existing players aren’t required to play with you.

A few players like this tried to use streetlights for this sort of thing with WiFi. Hanging a WiFi point on a pole is outrageous unless the city owns the pole and plays ball.
> begs the question

raises the question. Sorry, it's a pet peeve.
I never said they were on my network.

When I see patterns in traffic coming from 45,000 one-off hosts for a month straight it is clear that there is a distributed botnet behind the requests.

When I see a vulnerability scan from an Azure cloud instance seconds after I ban a block of Russian addresses, I can be sure there is coordination.

And don't get me started on the Moldavian Registration Bots. Those are a combination of automated and human-assisted CAPTCHA solvers, and it took me almost a full week of careful observation to weed them out.

These are some of the things my application firewall can detect automatically. Every now and then I see a new pattern, that is all I was trying to say.
Meritocracy?

Talk about an ivory tower.

Sorry for the cynicism, but we are not meritocratic. Maybe once similarly advantaged people are organized you get a temporary meritocratic competition, but that ignores all the presorting and all the nepotism that follows.

Exhibit A: our president.
The Interdata (PE) OS/32 manual is here, for those interested: http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/interdata/interdata-os_32_mt-pgm-...
The probability to get murdered in a lifetime is already higher than that (a little bit higher in Europe, a lot higher in US).
Scientists extract hydrogen from oil fields
Does his article provide some value the official k8s docs or k8s quickstart tutorial doesn't?

One thing about building deploying and maintain k8s clusters from scratch over the past two years is the noise from these tutorials that effectively repeat the docs to give the author of the medium post street cred to get a better devops jobs, but as far as value add for.devops engineers deploying and dealing with edge cases and mvp case (Lua plugins for rate throttling in ingress controllers for example if you want more control than a gcp load balancer exposing ips to the public for which vpc peering native clusters didn't exist in GCP until late 2018) it is annoying self congratulatory noise that leave new devops engineers stray when they might be better off with the off with the original documentation.

If you have a cool short tutorial on how to iterate on an MVP or solve a security default setting for secure that might be helpful but I rarely see it.

A good example of this is how many articles I saw about how simple it is to share pvcs across an nfs server. 12 "senior level" devops engineers wrote about this and every single one left out the nfs storage class enablement on the gcp platform, a beta security feature presumably some other devops engineer who does more work and received less credit probably enable for them but would leave every devops engineer following their tutorials left stranded.

I used to think I was just a newb devops engineers but when I read devops posts like this I wonder if should just copy and past existing documentation, install some helm tarts via tiller with no rbacs in GUI dashboards enabled, call the data set "AI" and apply for a senior level position.

Sorry to go off on this post but there is no reason to have an 8min intro of the 5min intro on the k8s docs themselves which hyperlink any concept to drill down into with an interactive tutorial in browser that requires no local setup unless you truly desire to use minikube.

I am all for devops tutorials, but useful ones, of which I have barely found any during my two years of teaching myself how to deploy clusters from the ground up.
> Server rendering has had a number of developments over the last few years.

> Streaming server rendering allows you to send HTML in chunks that the browser can progressively render as it's received.

Hasn't PHP done this by default since, like, forever?
Author probably has tenure and good benefits.
I'm always bothered by the "either/or" framing. Who only subscribes to a single streaming service? A trend I could set though (and I'm doing this myself) is the locust approach to streaming. You subscribe to a streaming service. Watch everything you want and then unsubscribe. Then you move on to the next and come back to each every few months or so. I don't think one more streaming service is gonna paint the envelope here.
German food delivery people found collective to replace Deliveroo
I like this idea.

After reading the comments here and visiting your site, I decided to see if there was specialty information on developing software for silicon (i.e. FPGAs) as that is very different than software development at Facebook or Google--yet all might fall under the description Software Developer. I'm thinking some way to differentiate that so that people can figure out if they want to make horizontal moves or what a horizontal move might be like would be useful--especially when you get more reviews.

Another question I have is about the incentive for people to provide job descriptions--are you thinking karma or some other benefit?

This idea has a lot of really interesting crossover--for instance just confining it to the developer space, not only is it interesting to contrast being a developer at say NPM, Mozilla, Facebook, Google, Maxim, Xilinx and Qualcomm, but to also see those development environments and tools (i.e. Twitch style) is interesting. I know there was someone who was doing that and I followed it briefly a few years ago.
Al least provide proper IPv6 support before charging for IP addresses.
But isn't Disney+ only Disney properties and family-friendly content? Apple seems more like a HBO or Netflix.
Building a Decentralized Social App with Cosmos SDK
It's very uncommon, but every now and then there's a news story like this: https://www.inquisitr.com/5042023/couple-tried-to-have-a-bab...
Simple and Effective Noisy Channel Modeling for Neural Machine Translation
Tumblr Should Copy Patreon
Loading to the new medium would work like a multi master db cluster; attach, copy, verify, shutdown old master.
>Well, let's examine that. On the one hand, you probably disagree with the Chinese Communist Party using this site to try to gain sympathy for its doctrine. On the other hand, you might think it's OK for millennial Americans (who for whatever reason have culturally decided that capitalism sucks, and that some form of ism is the only alternative, if perhaps half-jokingly) to share articles with a similar message. They both may preach communism, or denounce capitalism. Which is OK, and why?

No, I think that debating ideologies is fine, and even healthy. I have no love for capitalism and no hatred for communism. But that's not the only thing China represents: communism does not imply the brutality China lays upon its people.

>The only easy solution is to make a site which is literally dedicated to the morality of a single person - an autocracy. The rules are whatever that person says they are. But since some people don't like that idea (!) what you end up with is a benevolent oligarchy. A few people run things and try to be nice to the users, but basically it's those few people whose morals and values become the de facto rules. Those rules are intentionally fluid and based on interpretation and guidelines, to encourage as many users to use the site as possible, yet provide enough of a LART to keep Eternal September at bay.

I'm not opposed to HN taking such an approach (in fact, I reckon I'm in favor of it), but the mods should be bolder in drawing moral lines (blurred though they may be). They already do this regardless - so they should do it with confidence in their own moral compass. And assuming they do so, then we can use their action (or inaction) as a lens to evaluate our moderators with and so decide whether or not we wish to cast our lot with HN.
IPv6 is not yet that useful for external facing sites (what do people use IPv6 for on external sites?), but AWS does let you get a /56 for a VPC which should be enough for most VPC need (you can't specify your own CIDR however).
> ... the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work ... It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions

This volume of work coupled with a closed feedback loop (Do - observe - measure - tweak - Do) allows for achieving astonishing results. Also taking a skill apart, practicing and improving individual skills and then putting it all together is the basis of acquiring and mastering skill.

I do not believe a mentor can help with acquiring skill. But a good mentor can quickly identify and guide you to the parts that need attention and practice.
I don't remember Encarta but we had Sierra's Britannica and then later another (can't recall the name). I remember reading the articles particularly the ones on transistors and radio circuits as I was getting interested in electronics with fondness. There is something there in the limited scope that developed a persistence in me. If I was going to understand the transistor and build a toy radio, I had to understand THAT article and the few others I might find in a real encyclopedia around the house or maybe an article I got online. I wonder how my children might develop such persistence with information availability we now enjoy?
While respecting the attempt to be fair and nonpartisan by way of moderating this site I cant help but feel this soft-touch approach by mods is somewhat naive.
> I am certainly no FB apologist, but I think the language of 'coordinated inauthentic behavior' is a really smart one that well defines the problem.

This also defines well online outrage mobs. But I doubt they would crack down on them.
EIP's are 0.01/hr I think on AWS. But if you can deal with an amazon ephemeral IP you can usually get those for free.
Most of your understanding of how money operates is a legacy of the gold standard, ( A large part of neoclassic and austrian economics is ).

Lets take some of your conclusions to its limits shall we ? and see how much predictive power it truely has.

In 2008, why did the Fed print 4 trillion USD ? If we cannot spend our way to riches, surely the fed should have shut the liquidity taps ?

If the Fed did stop the liquidity taps - it would have caused a second great depression like event, surely we cannot spend our way to being rich ? Many people in the 1930s would have agreed with you !

You could argue that "The fed has made the situation much worse and the chickens will come home to roost".

I do not see any chickens 10 years in, do you ? in fact everything seems to prove the amount of money printing was not enough due to non-existant inflation and outright deflation.

Lets go back in time to the 10th Century, to the origin of fiat currency - the emperor of china build the great wall, how did he pay for it ? well he just issued paper money to create new purchasing power which allowed him to build his wall.

1000 years in - we just sit back and admire how it was possible to build such an engineering marvel in ancient times.

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The chinese have a much more sophisticated understanding of money ( they were the ones who invented it after all ) - and they are using it to build railways, cities, supply chains, ....

1000 years in hopefully we are not ruled by people who do not understand the role of money in a modern state or else we will be left wondering how china was able to pay for terraforming Mars and turn an entire new planet chinese.
Can this interface with nuget libs to crrate desktop apps as well? Can i use it with , say, sdl and create a pong game?
The most succinct way I've heard this explained is: "Const means 'I won't mutate this'. It doesn't mean 'nobody will mutate this'."

To do optimizations, compilers really need to know that nobody will mutate a value; just knowing that a particular function won't mutate a value isn't that helpful.
> Can I ask for an account deletion and removal of all posted content? Thanks!

I asked for that once and was refused with the reasoning:

> I’m sorry to disappoint, but Hacker News doesn’t delete entire accounts because that would gut the threads it participated in. We do sometimes remove specific comments if users are worried they’ll get in trouble, and we’re also working on the ability to rename accounts. Would either of those help?

I can't say I agree with it.
> Who only subscribes to a single streaming service?

This was the whole attraction of Netflix - it was a single service that got you most of what you wanted. Now there's Netflix, Stan, Amazon, Disney Channel, etc.

A few do what you're describing here. One of our friends switches back and forth between Netflix and Stan every three months. But more and more of my friends who were perfectly happy to pay for 1-2 streaming services are going back to good old torrents because none of the streaming services offer a good value proposition any more.
> Encarta is a great example of Microsoft winning a market, and after it was defeated, letting it fade out.

Felt the same way with IE until Mozilla came along after Netscape died.
For #1, there's a well-sourced Stack Overflow post https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/377514.
It'd be cool to have a watch or smartphone app that translated some animal sounds into estimations of what they might mean. Shazam for animal sounds.