skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quotes from the article:

> Drowning people cannot wave for help.

> drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements.

> Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water for 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs
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Essentially, we have a public good which is consumed by huge numbers of users, but which almost no one pays for. Fortunately, there exists a funding model that usually works for public goods like this – ads.

I like how advertisements, which are inherently unethical, are now being billed as ethical because they lack the awful things piled on top of an already awful thing. I anticipate this going about as bad as it possibly can, and I'm going to find it amusing if and when it does.

It's always these JavaScript projects I see doing this stupid shit. It's amusing to see these people, many of whom participate in shoving advertisements on others, not care for the same treatment.

I write Free Software libraries and the only thing I'm currently asking for is that people share the work they base on my own, which is why it's under the GNU Affero General Public License version three.

These JavaScript projects use a great deal of Free Software, but they act as if they're important or significant enough to warrant such things. I use GNU Emacs, GCC, various other compilers, various servers, and many other things, but these code artisans put advertisements in their drivel because they don't think they're making enough money from it, and this is an attitude many of these JavaScript people share. I intend to try to make money off my future projects by either selling documentation or being paid for writing the project to start with.

I could go on a much longer rant, but why bother?
"Death was strongly associated with substance abuse, risk-taking, and the experience of childhood adversity."

"These additional accidents are most likely related to higher rates of alcohol abuse [...]"

Not exactly groundbreaking research.
Why not move social policy to the states? Scotus justices have said that, and that's what the constitution directs.

Let people have real democracy, and get what they vote for and experiment with what works and not. Move with your feet if you have to.

The whole world doesn't need to be united under the same social policy. People are also very bad at figuring things out without experimentation.
>Remember how video streaming was theoretically possible on 3G but totally shit in practice until 4G came along ? 5G is a similar kind of step up. You can expect an order magnitude more bandwidth on mobile than with 4G, and that matters.

5G-NR standard only gives a 15-20% gain in data thoroughput over the same bandwidth as compared to 4G LTE. The vast majority of the increase in thoroughput has to come from the millimeter wave bands. Think about streetlights to get an idea of coverage and propagation. Now think about running internet fiber to every streetlight. It's quite a task. It'll only be done (and has only been done so far in the USA) in areas that require high bits/khz/km^2 like entertainment stadiums and parts of the largest cities.

Additionally, almost no two countries actually have overlapping 5G bands. It's a mess of competing standards. So it'll be different frontend modules for controlling the antenna arrays required on the handsets (high power usage and space requirements) due to the integration required. Handsets are going to have to get bigger. Unlikably big and specific to region.

And beyond that the 5G setups being implemented now aren't stand alone. They're both LTE and Non-Standalone (NSA) 5G. The 5G just provides extra bandwidth and isn't used as a control for the handsets. It more than doubles the complexity of setups because of the trouble RF designers have to take with harmonics and intermodulation. All the competing national freq band standards mean different filtering solutions.

The future will not be evenly distributed.
Apple privacy huh?

Not surprised.

Apple should be actively avoided like BP and AT&T.
I fear that it would get so popular, certain habitats would become destroyed by people wanting to capture a little bit of it in a jar.
That's not true. One user has 46,000. What did you see that made you think this?
I had taken it for granted that when someone says a language "has types", they mean it is statically typed as opposed to dynamically typed.

This is also made obvious by the idiomatic use of each technology.

So, no. My little chart is correct.
To me this sounds absolutely insane. Package managers that work in a couple of megabytes of ram is a solved problem. How can this be unsolvable?
Listen and hear all perspectives:)
I mean, I dunno, I feel like you have to look at it from the other direction. A lot of companies agree that that the premium for SV engineers is "simple status garbage", and therefore they don't want to pay it in markets where they don't have to. It only makes sense to pay your developers in Houston the same as the ones in SF to the extent that you believe the higher paid engineers really are more skilled.
Is there a way to stop rm from running if there’s a space?
Guess I'm Done with Discord
Probably almost every wet-bench lab has a magnetic stir bar, as in [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3BoXEWCF2E
A delay of a project of 20 years or more is beyond my comprehension. That's people's entire careers. That's the entire senior staff of the project dying out or retiring. That's an extremely non-negligible amount of time from a people perspective.
Your right and everybody feels like Steve Jobs online and demands change today.
These fires are set by humans to make land for farming, so it is human based CO2 emissions from industry.
Even if it were evaluating the entire library of Congress, there's no valid reason for it to consume gigabytes of memory. I really can't understand why this is so...
Think about how much time you spend on this.

When you find yourself halfway through one of these responses, ask yourself: Is this really a conversation I want to have? Do I really want to dig deep into this and find evidence to challenge this person’s views, and am I willing to consider changing my views if it turns out the evidence is there for it? Is doing this a good use of a half hour or so of my life?

Usually I find the answer to this question is “no” and I close the tab.
Right, and even covered in Wired in 2013: https://www.wired.com/2013/04/siri-two-years/
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For a more complete look at the changes, this should also include the diffs of the project-internal dependencies that were bumped.

https://github.com/standard/eslint-config-standard/compare/v...

https://github.com/standard/eslint-config-standard-jsx/compa...

https://github.com/standard/standard-engine/compare/v11.0.1....
I think some dating advice made it to the front page a while ago, it was a link to someone's wiki of life lessons.
You're interpreting the guidelines too narrowly. Historical material has always been welcome here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

One way of looking at this is that the contours were originally defined by what pg's own intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html). He knows more about history than probably anyone I've ever met.
Loving how this is getting downvoted.

Hi Googlers!
If you know the domain then by all means assert (and explain why), but real expertise is rare so stray from that and you should be questioning.

Questioning, or leastwise buffering with caveats, indicates one's own limits are recognised, which I find a positive trait as it shows an open mind.

Also if I question something instead of stating it, it invites kinder answers from experts, and I feel less of a fool when said expert demonstrates I'm wrong.
First, anemic models work well in service contexts. You can't send a business rule from a web page to a web service as part of a data entity. And so such models have a valid place in the world.

Micro services are still services. As such we always validate data crossing a trust boundary - whether monolith or micro service. The rules to do that validation cannot travel with the data.

So guilt because anemic strikes me as... odd. Modern connected apps aren't written as single-tier Smalltalk apps.
But that would just mix in air from the top of the jar?
Maybe, but the employees of google are not starving and downtrodden. The ones with the access to the official internal gripe boards are, dare I say, "privileged."
Me neither. In fact, both will be important components of future AI. I like to see deep learning as intuition, and logic-based AI as formal reasoning.

Intuition allows systems to avoid search problems, to some extent. Formal reasoning introduces structure.
The issue is, there’s so many other things in the “faster internet” story than 5G that it really seems like a bit of a scam...

Personally, I’d much appreciate full-coverage, limitless, unthrottled, can-be-tethered, cross-border, always available (unlike in Central London) 4G. If mobile network operators can’t even achieve that, maybe they’re not up to the job of setting up 5G.
We found that the capacitors were all in good shape with the proper capacitances. This is in contrast to modern capacitors, which often leak or fail after a few years. NASA used expensive aerospace-grade capacitors and X-rayed each one to test for faults, and this made a large difference.

That's also because these are hermetically sealed wet tantalum caps, not the dry type that's notorious for shorting out and catching fire. "Wet tants" are very expensive and you can still buy them today:

https://www.mouser.com/Vishay/Passive-Components/Capacitors/...

We were somewhat surprised that both power supplies worked flawlessly after 50 years.

I'm not all that surprised, actually --- but perhaps that's because I've seen plenty of videos on YouTube of more mundane equipment, like vehicles and appliances, coming back to life after several decades of storage or exposure to the elements with minimal repairs, so for a clearly high-reliability component like this AGC PSU to work is almost expected.
This is absolutely amazing! I live a few miles from the ocean so I'm totally going to try this!

Crabs - there's hundreds of thousands of (very small) crabs living on the beach, at least around here (from what I've seen) so grabbing a tiny one accidentally isn't unusual or unexpected.
I am quite familiar with Spec. In my few years of professional Clojure experience, working with people who write Clojure every day, and enjoy it, and advocate using things like Spec, I have never actually seen anyone do it successfully in practice.

I understand the idealist world view is seductive — we'll be discipined, we'll write the tests, we'll make good use of Spec, etc etc.

In reality, I have never seen this happen. Humans are lazy and undisciplined, so that's what I optimise for.
Don't lock the kids in a jar! :D
Did you sit out the entire election, or did you vote for state and local candidates for whom you could show support?
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> data to be downloaded really isn’t that large. We’re talking images and 3D models.

I think you underestimate image sizes for modern AR/VR applications. For example, good quality light-field can take few gigabytes for one image. Also there is a big UX difference between downloading full image ahead and downloading parts on-demand (similar to modern video streaming - today we never download full video ahead).
I worked in my father’s camera store/photo lab for many years. A photo lab typically has about 3 billion of those plastic canisters film used to come in[1]. During slow hours, we’d have wars flinging the plastic lids, which you could send a good 100 feet by holding them between your index finger and thumb and snapping your fingers.

1. http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MzYxWDUwMA==/z/iEEAAOxy4YdTWJrr/$_...
Must read: the structure of scientific revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_...

tl;dr most of the time science is incremental innovation. and big discovery comes as paradigm shifts, usually first started by a group of “non-mainstream” researchers at the time.
She was identified internally. And was recently promoted.
Usually when someone invests in a plot of land, they're also considering what surrounds their plot of land. Obviously you don't own the rights to the surroundings, but it's reasonable to expect you would have something to say about it if those surroundings were to get ruined somehow.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...

Alas, mostly the rules have changed quite a bit to favour the incumbetents and the grandfathered-ins
Speech recognition is one such case. We thought that by breaking down the incoming speech into phonemes we would be able to get words from the bottom up. That never worked too well, whereas statistical speech recognition has been much more effective.
one of the major reasons that so called mm-wave is far safer than previous low/ mid-band (i.e. < 6GHz) technologies is the following.mm-wave frequencies (e.g. 28Ghz) allow the use of array antennas (i.e. Phased Array Antennas, PAA's).
The reason this is so much safer is because the PAA's produce "pencil width beams" that is, the beams are very narrow. Rather than blasting away in all directions like the sub-6Ghz bands, the beam is focused on the PAA antenna. Why is this safer?
because, if something, like, let's say a human, comes in between the transmitter and the receiver, the signal will be completely lost. Hence, at this point the PAA controller will stop transmitting or scanning in that direction. So there is no radiation in that direction.
So, if you are worried about it, just turn off mm-wave capability (e.g. turn off 5G UWB). But honestly, you don't have to worry, the beam (and energy) is very focused, if anything comes in the way, even a wet piece of paper, or a person, it stops. This means that mm-wave is far safer than previous 4G in the mid to low bands. 5G in the mid to low bands are basically the same as 4G but have a much more efficient use of the spectrum.
So overall, 5G is faster, lower latency and safer than 4G or 3G or anything that came before.
Of course there is a lot of misinformation from various propaganda sources that want to confuse the public.
The funny thing is, all the models I've handled require the same number of screws to be removed to disassemble.
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I developed osTicket and we now have a growing profitable business- we have a SaaS offering and provide commercial support to enterprise users.
> I expect more from Apple.

I expect them to improve their voice recognition which is way behind essentially everyone else's, especially Google's. There's nothing wrong with improving the tech in this manner as long as user's aren't surprised by it.

The fact that people are surprised by it is a problem though.
Regardless of the merits of his actions, 10 years in prison seems extreme here. It's this normal for IP theft?
Nowadays with modern linkers, your delay function could have a strong reference to a delay init constructor which would get dragged in, as needed, and run at program start up time.
This is a full book. I expect discussion to be limited.

Very interesting topic (cybernetics) and concepts. Author is Heinz von Foerster, mentioned in my earlier Ted Nelson submission.
It’s not a secret and it’s not new. (2013) https://www.wired.com/2013/04/siri-two-years/

Now sure they could say every individual think they do with this data. But, Apple makes it clear they collect and use this information to improve Siri. What else do people think this means?
You can be a minority because you live in a small state,

or because you are LGBT,

or because you are black,

or because you have a disability.

But the small-state kind of minority seems to be the only one who deserves electoral protection from tyranny of the majority. Oh what a coincidence then, that these minorities also happen to be mostly white, christian, and straight.
The point was that it’s more than just an issue of what I personally see but the topic drift of the site.

And please be respectful.
There is some ongoing confusion here. Using domain-driven design has no bearing on microservices vs. monolithic architecture.
The loop was in the initialization code of the unit, and the initialization code was monolithic and triggered simply by the "uses crt" statement.
Interesting to see the age distribution of committers! I wonder how it compares to other large established infrastructural projects (operating systems, compilers, databases etc).
What kind of a license doesn't have to be observed by one of the parties to the license?

That's every license. You might be thinking of a contract, which is a binding agreement between two parties.

Think of a license as a grant of certain rights to the licensee. There's no binding agreement upon the licenser.

(Not an HN lawyer.)
Carrots are vegetables. Vegetables are edible. Is this a picture of something edible? Having a bunch of propositions in a database is not much help if you can't relate them to messy sensory input. It turns out that making sense out of mess was a hard problem. Eventually, logic* will have to be brought in again, but at a higher level, to help out.

* Ofc Hinton's approach is based on logic too, but in the form of probability, calculus etc.
I might be damaged from years of Java, but my main imagined issue with Clojure is the lack of a component system. Call it OCaml functors or OOP classes, but instantiating a component with replaceable components as input is what I personally need for large scale programming. To make things more concrete, let's say you are writing an integration to another system using HTTP. On the surface you'll have functions like `fetch-album-information` and they will internally use a HTTP client. How do you handle TLS configuration, HTTP connection pooling, etc. and make the function testable and lifecycle-managed to allow clean shutdown? The easy answer is to parameterise the function with another function that takes care of all of that. But that function will need to come from somewhere and I imagine threading these kind of functions explicitly through your entire program will make it less than palatable. The alternative of using globals that can be replaced in testing carry all the usual problems that global variables have but seems to be what many settle with judging from Clojure code on GitHub. It seems like others are feeling this pain and have invented band-aid solutions like https://github.com/stuartsierra/component but this is something I think needs a first-class solution to encourage this kind of programming.
Relative to the house value, it most certainly is.
> As far as I'm concerned this paper more or less describes HTTP(S) fairly well.

Sure, but only if you ignore the specifics and over generalize. As overlaying is fundamental to all client server communications.
5G will probably drive AR and VR adoption. Enabling remote surgery, and other things like that. Who knows what else.

Really we have no idea of the the doors it could happen. In the 90s many people thought the internet was a gimmick or a fad. Today the most successful companies are built on it. It's very likely the same will be true for 5G enabled technologies and companies.
That’s a specific way of asking, “why bring the employer into it?” And the answer is, because their resources were used to commit the alleged crime.
This is a typical response from service companies in the Internet age. They don't care about truth, or what actually happened, the algorithm says you're bad then you're bad. There's no human to appeal to, no human oversight of if their algorithm is right or wrong. They use another algorithm to check it, which tells them that you must be a bad actor.

I've had my own issues with Lyft that are similar. Banned from using their service even though I've never actually ordered a ride from them. Banned upon sign up. No review, no appeal, they don't even follow their own terms of service.

I'm not one to normal advocate for government regulations and oversight, but there's way to much consumer abuse for these Internet age services. Consumer protections can't come soon enough.
Siri depends on internet connectivity.
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Buck converters, as any fan of Big Clive videos knows, are still widely used in low cost power supplies for LED light bulbs and cheap USB chargers, due to the few components needed and wide tolerances the circuits can handle.
I don't understand the issue you're referring to with health care. Can you explain further? I also don't how being "willing" to "throw" elections helped change Democrats' opinions on gay rights? What are you referring to?

Helping a third party is counterproductive and irresponsible. The only "impact" you will make is in harming the issues you care about most. It's the same as just volunteering to help the major party you like the least. It's basically the worst thing you can do. At best, third parties in the US take advantage of well-meaning people by using magical thinking and cynicism. At worst, they're used as patsies to let foreign dictators influence the election[1].

In our first-past-the-post voting system, you have to get a majority to win, not a plurality. The party with the most votes doesn't win – the party with over half the votes wins. This means it isn't possible to have more that two competitive parties under this voting system.

I don't like that system. I think we should have a different voting system that more fairly represents people and eliminates mathematical loopholes. I also think the major political party that most closely represents my views is also the most likely to offer a chance for electoral reform.

It's a much faster, easier, and more plausible strategy to try to move the best viable party in the direction you prefer. There's effective alternatives to third parties – look at the Democratic Socialists of America or the Tea Party. These groups were able to use the major political parties to launch and implement their platform very quickly (like in one or two election cycles). There's more actual politicians aligned with groups like this than any third party, and they have massive influence over US politics. And they don't have the downside of forcing their members to shoot themselves in the foot every election.

The US absolutely needs people like you who are passionate about important issues and have the time and energy to dedicate to making real change. But please, for everyone's sake, do it in a way that doesn't directly harm the only peaceful strategy for political change that we have.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-...
Sure, I guess what bothers me more is how indiscriminate it is, like how Atlas Obscura just gets fast tracked to the point that it (and related oh-so-clever) stories make up a disproportional share of the links.
In the sense that if you are in public with "wrong" views, you'd be shunned socially and professionally, your peers would avoid you or shame you, you may be attacked (verbally and sometimes physically) by unhinged activists, your career development may stall, you may be excluded from professional conferences, groups and projects, your employment may be threatened and in general the overall costs of maintaining such an opinion would be much higher than the "correct" one that "everyone agrees".

I am not saying this is the situation everywhere. Not at all. But it is the situation in some places, and Google seems to be one of such places.
Timing on history is way more fungible than existence of towns.

Got downvoted to hell so clearly hn didn't appreciate/understand my town no longer exists joke
We use spec a lot, using orchestra’s defn-spec combined with expound for improved error reporting.

It’s not a type system, but it’s very concise and easy to add validations to important functions. This removes the “lazy and undisciplined” part of the equation.