skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human brains have scarcely changed in the interim. We still struggle to store more than a few bits of information in short-term memory and being able to multiply two two-digit numbers without having to resort to pen and paper is still tough for many.

The "bicycle" has evolved into smartphones, and is a better bicycle than ever. Instead of trying to memorize a seven or ten digit number, I always have a device handy to save a phone number (or better yet, IG username). Instead of trying to run numbers in my head and getting confused, there are apps like Soulver[] that no only help with doing the math, but help ascribe meaning to the numbers.

The Internet fundamentally changes computing, changing the metaphor as well. The bicycle (smartphone) lets us onto bike paths (the Internet), to visit stores (web pages). I can reach out to a dozen people and organize lunch from my phone, before I even get out of bed and go for a real morning bike ride.

[0] https://www.acqualia.com/soulver/iphone/
Wish it to be real, not a click bait.
Sure Chrome can. However this reduces accessibility. What if someone has never heard of FTP? Learning about it and installing an FTP client is a large barrier compared to starting a download. Reducing accessibility is a breaking change IMO.
This guy has never once published in a respectable journal in his entire career and would get laughed out of any room of economists.

By doing the podcast rounds and being vocal he's creating the impression for the uninformed that his views are respected within the field whereas in reality you could count on one hand all of the economists who take heavy influence from Marxism in all of US academia.

Marxism is an absolute joke in economics circles and has nothing interesting to say about modern economics.

I would be much gentler on Marx as a sociologist, I think he had some good insights, but he did not contribute anything to economics.
Because the bank would never let you borrow a billion dollars unless you could prove to them that you also have the income AND the discipline to service such a loan. For that you'll have to show them quite a bit about your personal economy, which may even include showing them your tax bill. They'll also want papers that prove that they have a stake (mortgage) in what you're loaning money for. On the other hand, if you know your way around law and certain organizational structures, then there are more ways than one to get quite exorbitant loans depending how you go about it. ;)
RSS is still alive and well. Podcasting depends on it.
Cargill has also slowly but steadily increased its presence around my parts of the world (Romania), taking advantage of one of the most nutrient soils on this planet, chernozem [1].

If you look at this map [2] is the stuff colored in green. Most of it can be found in the US Great Plains, and the second such zone comprises South-Eastern Romania + most of Ukraine + the plains North of the Caucasus (which are part of Russia). Making money out of Romania is easy, we are already a NATO and UE member, but the great stake for companies like Cargill is to be able to invest and take money out of Ukraine's plains, I think there are hundreds of billions to be made out there, not to speak of the strategic advantage of having Tsarist Russia's former bread-basket under your economic control.

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

[2] http://i.imgur.com/TmKdaFz.jpg
Not Surprising given Mozilla Stance to duplicate and support everything Google does in a effort to chase relevancy again

Mozilla has lost the ability to be an independent protector of the Open Web
In ftp, the ftp server is designed to act as the load balancer. (Just have the firewall point each port to a different IP.)

Also, this enables linear scale out, since not all ftp data nodes (not sure what the correct term was) need to store all of the data that’s being served, and you can store multiple copies of each file.

Come to think of it, I’m not sure why HDFS exists, given that you can just use a ftp server cluster for the same effect.
I also got into programming via games (probably like most people) and every time I meet a game programmer I'm happy I didn't end up going that route. I much prefer building apps and solving IRL problems with startups rather than being on a massive game dev team writing C++ for a mid-tier salary.

Besides there seems to be more than enough smart people making games. Not so in the thousands of industries open to business and consumer software which is pretty awful on average.
Energy harvesting with “tiny” solar cells for IoT
that's the easy part: https://www.calligraphr.com/en/features/
Web browsers existed 20 years ago. We should be able to visit and use a website written in 1999 on any modern browser.
Do kanji handwriting-recognition models even “know” (i.e. are trained on) all in-use kanji, or do they just not bother with some of the rarest ones because their presence in the dataset would decrease the likelihood of correctly matching more-common characters, which it’s overwhelmingly-likely are what you’re writing?
Indie Hackers runs Render in production.
‘Toxic cocktail’ poisoning water in fire-ravaged Paradise
You aren't wrong, but some of us have been here for 10 years or more. I have a very different measure of the cost / benefit of the increase in churn of online discourse as that which I would presume to find on YouTube
I always liked FTP support as a part of the browser platform. Of course, it would not have the capabilities of a standalone FTP client. And for those who needed those capabilities, lots of tools exist.

The web is not just HTTP. FTP has been the binary companion to the text-based HTTP protocol, and I think that for the sake of the browser being a platform and not just a viewing tool, it should stay.
Seems like at least one top level executive at Apple doesn't breathe the same privacy mindset that marketing made me believe how they operate. And I feel like an idiot laughing at friends for using alexa or google assistant. At least they didn't pay a premium to become spied on at home.
Ask HN: Could these machine learning projects produce the desired results?
Summary: 1. predict depth from a single image with an accuracy of 100% (Andrew Ng and Saxena have done this with an accuracy of 67%), then, 2. use a training set of real 3d models to calculate voxels outside of a test 3d model (ideally one generated by the first project) (first predicting a single voxel, then adding that voxel to the set of known voxels, then using the new set of voxels to predict another voxel, and so on).

Will this generate the desired results (being able to calculate voxels outside of a given 3d model, and ultimately, allowing us to see things outside of the original camera scene of a given photo)?
I think your point about the difficulty of switching crops is a good one. There is a lot of specialized equipment that goes into farming and farmers can't instantly switch crops any more than an independent grocery store could switch to selling clothes over night.

However, regarding incentives. While there aren't "incentives" aren't there government subsidies? The article talks about $28 billion in new money for farmers to offset tariffs?
There are people who used to write code at home for their own personal projects and really enjoyed it, but have become too busy, tired, disillusioned or whatever else to keep it going these days. There are also people who never could think of anything they wanted to build, but nonetheless liked coding for school better than doing a lot of other things, and got good at it.

If I was interviewing a person who told me they have never created anything that wasn't for school or a paycheck, it would definitely bother me-- but I would still do my best to look objectively at the quality of their work. After all, there are many skilled electricians and plumbers who don't use their skills in their own homes unless they have an annoying problem they can fix easily.
No one said they shouldn't get paid.

By who is the question.

That's the whole point of the second scenario. And the article you are commenting on.

Why some people think that others want to hear their opinion of things they don't read is beyond me.
As an employer (100+ people), I prefer folks that code outside of work in the same way that I prefer marketing people that study/practice marketing outside of work. For the simple reason that it correlates highly with performance.
No, we need more. The main barrier to achieving the dreams of science fiction is a lack of energy to accelerate human-scale amounts of material to high speeds (then slow them down later).
No, the statistics would not be different, because that sort of accusation — “your attitude varied by race” — is impossible to prove or disprove.
I hope they explicitly state that requirement in the job listing so as not to waste their time or potential job hunters' time.
> often as readable as a scripting language

Rust code is littered with things like |_|, (|&(&x, _), &mut, &'a and Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>.

It's anything but easily readable.
It's not about what captains want, but what the companies they work for want.

> Louttit said that as long as slowing down is voluntary, some companies will take the bad press that comes from arriving to port with a whale stuck to a ship’s bow.
I've long wondered what would be the outcome if the UK decided to auction off the Falkland Islands. Obviously Argentina would be an emotional bidder, perhaps paying far more than necessary or maybe not bidding at all, claiming it would legitimize what they see as an unlawful occupation.

Bolivia could use it as an opportunity to once again have a blue water navy. It otherwise wouldn't make sense for them but it's another case of national pride.

Or maybe China would want it to gain a foothold in the western hemisphere. Lots of possibilities.
I use RSS every day, I have 3 stops when I want to check on current events, my RSS Feeds, Reddit, and here...
I understand that these kinds of firms and founders exist, but I think it's best to avoid them. If a founder prefers obsession over effectiveness, isn't that just the textbook way to start a firm that's at best dysfunctional and at worst a self-forced failure? I find these kinds of firms really unacceptable and an embarrassment to the industry.
Everything in the openbsd base image.
Wow, talk about a moral hazard - salaried employees can break laws that fine in the millions and there is no repercussions for the individual. Instead, endowments and tuition pay, despite the fact those paying or endowing don’t share those opinions, or at least not to the point they would break libel law.
> I legitimately do not understand why you feel like this is a conflict of interest.

And you legitimately didn't read the article, so I'm legitimately not surprised you legitimately don't understand the conversation going on.
No, but they currently index ftp links.
> you would not be hired at his firm.

If they make that public it would be good, it would save me the bother of applying for a job with them.
AR has its place, but a paperless office doesn't seem like the right fit. The factory floor does though! https://www.howtogeek.com/400963/google-glass-isnt-dead-and-...
There’s some level of proficiency (whatever the percentage is) where each sentence is understood save for one word, and that word because of a single character that you can then look up in a dictionary. To me, that’s a useful level to achieve, because it means that you don’t have to constraint-solve sentences by guessing at the meaning of one character to decode the meanings of others, but instead can just hold onto the complete sentence minus one “hole” in your mind while you go look that “hole” up. Much less mentally-taxing!
Isn't this the same for companies, government agencies, hospitals, churches, etc.? I'm not sure what would be different in any institution where someone is acting as an employee.
That is certainly a big community. Are there any other resources on how reliable this is for larger projects? How long has Render been around?

The name makes it quite hard to google for, without immediately diving into some React documentation :)
I wish toady used a more parallelized code/framework/language.
But he doesn’t even use source control so who knows what a spaghetti mess it is
It all depends on how concise and easy to use this is. My experience with yaml/json API generators is that they are extremely buggy due to myriad edge cases. If it goes stale, it's because it takes an hour to figure out how to represent what you want to say in the language, vs. just writing a json blob with some non-machine-readable type annotations.

This is self-contained enough that I could see the language not mattering too much. And while I don't use Racket at all it sounds like the ideal language for this task. I'm not saying it confidently, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Racket implementation is less buggy than any non-lisp. Generating YAML/JSON is a task which lisp might be uniquely suited for.
To me, coding is more of an art. There are beauty and expression in it, not just a bunch of syntax put together.
> And that's any kind of way to talk to someone?! I don't think so.

I think the attitude being expressed is one of the problems with tech culture. If the person honestly holds that attitude, does that not make him part of the problem? There's not a lot of nice ways to describe people who hold problematic views.

> I've seen the total straw man response like yours of "requires participants to be all-in 24 hours a day". No-one's suggesting that.

It's a metaphor. Nobody may be suggesting literal 24 hour days, but plenty of people are suggesting that you should code outside of the standard work week.

> > And this sort of attitude discourages a large swath of the population from bringing their talents to the field.

> I don't know what you mean there.

Not the guy you asked, but I think I know what he was getting at. Some people have commitments (family, children, etc.) or health issues that makes this sort of commitment infeasible, or come from different backgrounds. Expecting a github profile with a lot of personal projects does filter out a lot of people who might be very capable of showing up, doing the job, and going home.
What were the examples of racial profiling? Clearly they thought detaining someone who they thought was stealing but happened to be black was profiling.
The characters of 可愛い do not have the “correct” meaning. Just like in Chinese, 可 means “can”, or “possible”, and 可愛い is a weird exception. (It’s also nearly always written in hiragana.)

Nearly every word involving the kanji 可 in Japanese has something to do with permission: impossible (不可能), possible (可能), permission (許可), approval (可決), etc.

That said, the kanji-centric view of the world is ineffective, and one primarily adopted by beginner learners who have not spent any significant amount of time studying words in Japanese. It is always better to just learn words.
Massive discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904

Many more submissions. Many more.
A platform should support the entire spec. An app should correctly implement the parts of the spec it chooses.
> son, if you go to the plumbf tomorrow morning don't forget to pick up some zlonks

As a counterpoint: “son, if you go to the jawn tomorrow morning, don’t forget to pick up some jawn”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-o...
Not really. You can't, for example, lift weights 8 or 12 hours a day unless you're taking steroids because your muscles need to heal and they can only do that between bouts. You can through-hike long backpacking trails but it takes a toll on your body and eventually you will have to rest. And you can't hike all day and into the night, you need to rest between bouts, again because your body needs to heal.

I think the dangerous thing about people thinking you have to code all the time is that they're just assuming that it makes you a better coder without any real reasoning. And that's the kind of assumption that is very prone to confirmation bias.
Good for them. In many cases, getting good enough to do the job competently while doing it only at work is exactly how you get to the point of coding impressive stuff that is unrelated to work!

In fact, I've seen friends that decide to do something in a weekend side project that's super impressive, but it doesn't mean they're doing it every or most weekends. They're usually relaxing or living a balanced life, which in turn makes it possible for them to do their best work during the week.

Think about it this way. If a bodybuilder didn't take off enough days to rest in between really intense workouts and then prematurely plateaued at a certain point because they haven't respected the ideal rest/load balance, is that an obsession that enables or gets in the way of their fitness goals?

We shouldn't think that mental fitness is an exception.
What ecosystem? It's mostly frozen.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695747

Previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20715900

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20715180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701531

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20699058
I use json-schema. I hate it but, i use it.
Intel was founded in '68. They've been around since the inception of the integrated circuit. Their war chest of patents and dollars and assets/resources aka foundries, is helpful in soaking up damage from bad calls in a way that no one else can match.

AMD could never made the same gamble as Intel did for Itanium. There's a long technical argument as to whether the world is better off in a technical CPU design sense because of that, but I disagree that it's necessarily good management of Intel that's allowed it to recover from disaster.

The best management can play the hand they're dealt perfectly and still lose. However bad management can play the best hand poorly and still win.
Don't jinx it! Luminary and Apple Podcasts are trying to add exclusive content now.
I wonder if any FTP was spoken by the spider to discover those resources, or whether those are just opaque FTP links discovered embedded in HTTP resources, that were not crawled further.
Golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
There is never an excuse to steal or hurt because you are sad or enraged.
Seems similar to what Fluent Forever (book, application and website) claims.

Memorize the 625 most used words to jump-start your language learning and then you can move to grammar and other stuff.

https://blog.fluent-forever.com/base-vocabulary-list/
Confidential company documents exposed in public sandboxes
RSS/Atom is alive but not well. It needs more support.
> despite the fact those paying or endowing don’t share those opinions, or at least not to the point they would break libel law

She was found guilty of libel by supporting & being part of the student protests/boycotts/misinformation campaign. It's hard to say what students think that weren't immediately at the protests or printing flyers, but insofar that the only public statements of larger numbers of students were those protesting, it seems they did share those opinion, and might even go much further than that.
Well here's the premise that nobody is talking about -

If China continues to ascend toward military superpower status and they aggressively press on a position regarding Greenland, the US will invade Greenland to secure the territory.

The US has been willing to invade all manner of foreign nations over the past ~75 years for varying reasons. The idea of China occupying Greenland militarily in any manner will never - not under any circumstances - be tolerated by the Pentagon and politicians in DC. Greenland is a militarily critical territory for the US superpower. The US military will invade and occupy Greenland, against the protest of the EU, Denmark, Russia and everybody else. It'll be argued as a national security matter of utmost importance and that will be the justification. They'd also say it's temporary (it wouldn't be). It'd be an annexation in everything except for name.

The US will take Greenland for $0, outside of the cost of occupation.

edit: people will downvote this because it's so upsetting. I understand. Back in reality, it's by far the most likely scenario in the next 30 years. The US paying $5t or $10t? It would never happen. Why would you do that if you're a military superpower, when you can trivially invade any time you want to, under any pretense. The US went into Vietnam and fought in a civil war that wasn't its own, a war that killed millions. But the US won't invade Greenland (a whopping 56k people) and occupy it, to keep it from China (a new military superpower setting up shop right up the street from the US)? Yeah right. An interesting part of this, is that the same people that think the US is an evil superpower, will pretend this isn't the obvious scenario that is going to happen (we'll go into Iraq, but not Greenland, etc). The US will declare that it's necessary to keep Greenland and its people safe.

Here's the propaganda bumper sticker for when it happens: Keep Greenland Safe! Short & easy to sell to the American people, it'll be on every truck.
> Kobayashi: “There are currently some areas where Blender cannot take care of our needs, but we can solve it with the combination with Unity. Unity is usually enough to cover 3ds Max and Maya as well. Unity can be a bridge among environments.”

Does anyone know how they're using Unity? I'd be curious to hear more about gamedev tools being used in animation.
> Problem: while OpenAPI is great for describing APIs, generating client SDK code and defining your API contracts, it's definitely not a great experience to write OpenAPI documents from scratch.

Personally, my main problem with OpenAPI is that it is commonly used for documenting contracts, but very rarely for actually driving the implementation. In practice, I have seen a few implementations like OpenAPI Generator [0] but a) with dynamic languages like Python code generation is an anti-pattern, and b) even disregarding the former, the generated result is (in my experience) very incomplete and still needs a lot of manual coding.

I would like to see more frameworks that utilise OpenAPI for routing and request/response validation.

[0] https://openapi-generator.tech/
As a general rule, if trust is required, I consider privacy surrendered, especially when that other party is not legally required to protect the information. Even if the people running a business today really aren't looking at your data, the people running it tomorrow might.
> OP must be a genius to pull this off, all the while being a trader at "a Tier 1 US bank" (in itself that description is ridiculous).

Mostly agree with you, but what's ridiculous about that description? His LinkedIn says he worked at Merrills and Citi. Those are normally considered top tier US banks?
technical work in SV has changed. geniuses with Cray's personality type aren't really valued much nowadays. it's important to be young, social, bearded and well-motivated by cafeteria food.
Podcasts that only work if you buy Apple's hardware? That sounds terrible.
The graph showing calories per gram per kilometer is very interesting. I wonder though, for bicycling, how the energy cost of paving the surface we bicycle on is factored in, if at all? On 'natural' ground, depending on the terrain of course, bicycling can be substantially harder than walking, well-nigh impossible over rocky ground.

And by analogy, what kind of negative impact does the computer bring to the process of mind. If I have to think hard about something, I typically close my eyes, not reach for my laptop. Although the fact that so much knowledge is now at my fingers tips probably trumps anything. Henry Ford wasn't nearly as smart as Leonardo da Vinci, but his access to knowledge enabled him to create vehicles Leonardo could only imagine.