skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefighters also aren't allowed to grow beards for the same reason.
Nineteen-Eighty Four is the Nineteen-Eighty Four of our time.

It's visionary. For example, even in this sense: we are just entering the age when you not only watch screens, but they watch you.
We've made massive progress on the accidental complexity. That's what a lot of the "bloat" is that people complain about, and why even though I am a bit sympathetic to that, it's only a bit. There's a reason that, for instance, Electron is so popular, and that reason is a lot of Electron apps would not be paragons of efficiency if Electron didn't exist, they would simply not exist at all, or with a greatly reduced feature set or greatly higher expense.

Improving the essential complexity has not moved much at all, which is why my computer science education from 24 years ago is still pretty much the same one people get now and hasn't lost its relevance. The removal of the accidental complexity sometimes means it's only the essential complexity left shining through.

In that sense, while he may have had the humility to time-bound his predictions to a mere decade, they've still stayed fresh much longer than that.

(Reading the entire Mythical Man Month in 201x is a bizarre experience; all the specific tech references are so dated that they are more myth than fact now, yet, the underlying points those references are in support of are still quite fresh. Arguably a bit incomplete now, we have teams of a scale well beyond what they had then, sitting on piles of software yet larger, but still correct at the core.)
Tutorial mode is a great idea! Yeah, this is definitely geared towards experienced people.
Yes. That was best for me. Although I had to replace the blades every few months.
"no personal investment in the car"

That seems excessive. Plenty of professions require significant investment in equipment. Many truckers own their own trucks. Mechanics buy their own tools. It's just part of the equation.
> Brave should recognize its total dependence on Google and its continued goodwill

What do you mean? Brave is based on Chromium, which is open source. Google can't stop people from using it.

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
The team has been capturing deviations from Chromium on a wiki page here:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

The page goes over (high level) how the project is built and links to patches where functionality was disabled or modified (ex: proxied, etc)
Do you use Lola data? What resolution and from where?
Show HN: Using Crypto for Data Ownership and Privacy with Virtru SDK and Dev Hub
Thanks for the feedback! It is definitely a different way of budgeting. My target audience is more first-time budgeters. I know it would be an uphill battle to convert YNAB'ers since they are loyal to envelope-based method.
> in a way that benefitted everyone

I can definitely get aboard the taxi hate train, but do bear in mind that there has been a higher incident of sexual assaults tied to uber drivers over taxi drivers - it's not a free win for everyone, they broke both rules intended for regulatory capture and those intended for public safety.
Web Clickjacking Fraud Makes a Comeback Thanks to Javascript Tricks
Er, I learned Prolog last summer and realized that about half of my professional career was wasted because I didn't learn it sooner. Dunno if Prolog counts as a Silver Bullet but those folks have slain a lot of werewolves.
They're a holdout from a different time. Think 30 years and having an obvious root in shell scripting.

They make sense to shell users coming to Perl. No more or less.
This was pretty cool. For fun, I tried to get the best possible score I could, using XGBoost, without any feature engineering and achieved a MAE of 0.042422154541399665.
Many of these seem to describe performances or theatrical props.

>They use some of the forces and themes mentioned above — hydraulics, fire, and flexible or interlocking parts. But because cross section and other visual techniques such as perspective were not used by (and likely not known to) Fontana and perhaps also because his imagination exceeded his skills, what he meant to make and how he thought it was to be done remain something of a mystery. His captions, written in code, do not help much because they describe the function he intended them to perform rather than explain how they were actually constructed or operated.

Is it just me or does the code script or alphabet look a lot like the Voynuch manuscript? Could the Voyneuch manuscript have been based on this book?

Fontana:

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4753/27950680369_89fb9a46e6_o...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4669/39822484052_e6c9686e64_b...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4622/25857692428_4f255d1032_b...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4611/39857848872_495b4eb26e_b...

Voynuch:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Voynich_...

Perhaps theater groups needed books to describe their ideas, performance, perhaps even dialogues, but wanted to simultaneously protect them to prevent them from being copied? If they traveled a large part of the year and never stay put it is hard to prevent others from copying you, but witnessing a single long immensely decorated show would be too much information to copy, so one just needed to protect the knowledge (which might need to be written down, in case an actor or theatre engineer dies,...?)

VM is full of naked ladies in vats and pipes of water, which I never understood but this article explains:

>In addition to his fiery constructions, Fontana also designed many fountains and other hydraulic devices. Before modern water infrastructure, water sources were more visible in people’s lives than they are now. The importance of water and the fragility of its supply were not hidden by massive
administrative schemes. Water was life, and it was danger, too.

so perhaps the VM is also about theatrical performances for the church or the elites? ("Your tithes at work.")
I have the budget, but not the time.
Unless by budget you mean paying you own household QA technician. Dolby Atmos over HDMI and HDR does not rhyme with NVIDIA drivers, or very few of them, which then again tends to breaks my VR.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/ao4c0u/anyone_with_...
For shell scripting, no bash is still very much the champion there.

For interactive shells, I'm seeing very high usage for zsh (mostly due to oh-my-zsh) and a handful of fish users. Essentially lots power terminal users.
Looks interesting, but like most financial services only helps with my American accounts, and provides only manual entries to help me track my accounts in the EU. The multi-currency aspect would be nice though once Plaid expands more in Europe.
But a hardware keyboard takes up a lot of potential screen space, even when it's not in use.
I am against it because it will increase the cost of their services
> one could imagine

Sure, we can imagine it, but it would be asinine to take legislative action now when that isn't even a problem.
The economic argument however, also includes taxes, the welfare state, etc;

If a job pays less than the cost of living in an area, then the job is somewhere between subsidized by the government or not economically viable.
Gathering data and doing analysis seems like a much better skill set to look for than can this person press run on this model. I hope you guys can figure it out; interviewing in the software industry is broken.
I think it was CPAN that killed Perl, at least that was a major nail in the coffin for me. I have no idea what the CPAN of today is like, but back in the mid-late 90's it was horribly unreliable. There were dozens, if not hundreds of modules that did the same thing, and a lot of them had major bugs. But installing one was the big issue, as it would always choose the latest release of any module in the dependency chain, including the perl interpreter itself. And this was done without any hint as to whether the module actually worked with the latest versions of those modules. So, you'd end up upgrading a bunch of modules, very likely breaking things that worked. And at the end, it'd "upgrade" the perl interpreter. And by "upgrade" I mean install a new copy, replace all OS references to the new version, but not include any of those modules you just installed. So you had to re-install everything again.

Perl's main use at the time was developing CGI scripts. It had big disadvantages over things like PHP and Netscape Commerce at the time, but people still seemed to like Perl. As complex web side code grew more complex, requiring a lot of 3rd party components to get Perl to do anything, people seemed to abandoned it pretty quickly.

I still use Perl today, version 5. Mostly just to process text files, but I still don't use any 3rd party libs.
Agreed. Data Science is a very broad term. The challenge is designed for Data Scientists. We are trying to target all experience levels as of now through a screening/take-home test that should take about 60-90mins at a stretch. Do you think the timed challenge should be different for senior vs junior data scientists?

What skills would you consider important for senior vs junior Data Scientist?
What evidence do you have that the CEO doesn't bring that much in value to Walmart?
Dynamically generating SQL queries using Node.js
Ask HN: We're building a visual builder for cloud platforms
Hello,
my friend and I have been building a visual builder for AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Think Webflow for AWS. We would like to know whether you'd be interested in such a service?
Take a look at our landing page - https://codelines.dev

With our tool, you'd be able to connect different resources (e.g.: database, cloud functions, storage) on a graphical canvas. Then configure each resource to behave in some predefined way. For example, cloud function can expose its HTTPS endpoint, crop uploaded image and then save it into the storage for the given user.

The way we came to this idea was that we have been creating different projects for the last ~2 months. We noticed that every time we were building almost identical backend solutions with Google Cloud platform. And we were spending literally days building these solutions.
Actual atoms in molecules also vibrate all the time, so the provided bond length he talked about should be seen as an equilibrium bond length.
> 3. The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they're different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they're called "javac" and "jvm." This wifty "no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you're running is Rakudo and Parrot" distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.

Pedantically, and this also helps serve your point, Parrot isn't used by any modern Perl 6 implementation, it's effectively dead (if not totally). MoarVM is the less ambitious (not trying to support every dynamic language like Parrot was) and more mature VM that is in use now.

And the requisite, ParrotVM is just pining for the fjords joke goes here. It has ceased to be, gone to meet it's maker, it is an Ex-Parrot.

EDIT: For reference, Parrot VM really was named because of that sketch. It started as an April Fools joke and kinda stuck. https://web.archive.org/web/20100718195724/http://www.perl.c...
Kudos for a refreshing take on software project management. This hits a nerve with me - taming JIRA is a royal PITA (couldn't help the 4 letter acronyms, sorry). Especially if you don't have time to combing your backlog all day.

Nonetheless, we have found that JIRA can scale nicely from simple to more complex workflows if you take the time to set it up/customize the workflows. But a "Feature Oriented" view that allows me to easily track progress on concurrently progressing streams of work (larger than a single epic) is sorely missing. We tried to come by with Portfolio and Structure for JIRA (both are plugins) but they feel somewhat awkward to use as they require tons of clicks for simple things.

Zepel looks like a great idea. However, JIRA is already so embedded in our workflow (thanks to bitbucket integration, ticket bots/plugins etc.)... I'd love to have something like "Github Projects" which sits on top of my normal GH issues but allows me to roll them up. Concourse for example is a nice example of using this effectively: https://github.com/concourse/concourse/projects

Anyone have a recommendation for a tool/plugin that can do this?
A "living wage" bundles the assumption that a single wage must pay for all your expenses in maintaining a predetermined standard of living and that there's no other possible arrangement that should be considered.

And that is, in fact, insane, as it's contrary to the experience of anyone who has worked two jobs, shared a flat, budgeted, or otherwise been creative in making ends meet.
Don't forget that Uber is operating at a huge loss. (And it seems they can't even get rid of the competition that way.)

These are good times for the consumer, but of course the situation won't be this way forever.
Mozilla needs to fork Chromium, build a super good privacy shield on top of it and thats it.
Thanks for the feedback! It is a bummer that Plaid is only offered in CA/US right now. I'll be working on allowing importing of bank transactions via CSV soon so hopefully that takes out a bit of the manual work.
No! Read the article. Teens are vaping more but smoking less. The article is equivocal about the health effects of vaping and smoking but that is ridiculous. Smoking is a known cause of early death. Suggesting that "we don't know" about vaping is just silly. Replacing a known killer with something that probably doesn't kill is good.
Any assessment that directly provides data sets - even with "gotcha"s like missing values - is testing, based on the conventional wisdom, at most 20% of a real-world data science workflow. And IMO it's the least critical 20%.

The only good end-to-end "technical" data science assessment I can think of is to pose a broad question or business problem that's addressable by applying data science techniques to publicly available data. But a nontrivial version of that assessment would take half a day on the very low end, and long assessments anti-select against good candidates.

IMO, when it comes to evaluating data scientists, the only thing that online coding assessments are good for is to ensure that they can perform basic coding and data manipulation tasks. (I'd include tasks like web scraping, image manipulation, API calls, and ORM stuff in this category). Everything else needs to be evaluated in person.
Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?
Artistic license. http is less of a circus than a couple million apps anyway.
Ah, you are correct with the daily usage amount. I figure in about 10-15 years, that will drop to maybe 1/4 of the daily use with the solar->battery->car upgrade that society will engage in. So, I'd stretch it out quite a bit further than 40 years.
Yeh, and of the ones that do work, employers have gotten much more permissive about appearance. When I first entered the workforce if you had an unkempt beard, visible tattoos, unnatural hair color, or piercings you were almost entirely unemployable. Nowadays I see people with all four not only employed, but employed in customer service positions!!!

My friend was the exception - when we were younger she was allowed to work with a lip piercing, but only because she worked at Spencer's!
This is an intensely slippery slope, allowing companies to pick and choose which laws to follow is dangerous - would you be okay with sweatshops existing in the US because it allowed the companies to make more profits? What about outright slavery?

Laws are the social contract that we've all agreed to - I am totally in agreement that a lot of laws were created through corrupt government action, but giving free reign to any private entity to ignore laws they find onerous pretty much removes lawful society.
Collective hysteria has affected the extremes of both parties and their outliers as well.

If politics follows society, and society follows individuals then I’ve got real worries for any future in numerous first world nations.

The ultimatum for a societal decline is always political domination followed by authoritarianism.

This isn’t party/wing exclusive either. It’s merely a morbid goalpost which we used to fear, but are inching towards nevertheless.
Major issue is that the trend is going down: see https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
This looks great, but is there any writeup on how the security for it works? Are things encrypted at rest? Has there been any auditing?
What's your point? Plenty of twentysomethings smoke
Your response is to point to non-existent statistics. No amount of wishful thinking is going to make statistics appear that violate common sense.

Well...

10%

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18535811/google-android-9-...

Vs

88%

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ios-distribution-news/

But I guess we should be satisfied because...

Irrelevant. I'm not buying from the second hand market. If you want to push that benefit, push it on somebody who will.

Because you upgrade frequently

Users who don't upgrade phones frequently have no good options. Users who upgrade frequently have Android devices that fit the bill. I don't consider iOS's security updates reasonable, as I have already explained.

Well your “explanation” that iOS security is not acceptable because you have to reboot. Compared to not getting a full update at all is laughable.
Well, I mean they should - they're highly skilled and paid a lot of time and $ in education and training. And these things are relative: they're specialized and require more training that many other positions - more so than drivers.

If they're going to be paid less, they need to be compensated elsewhere.
I thought I couldn't grow a beard for forever until I followed some advice to just give it three months to fill in natural bald spots. Looks great now that I gave it the chance to actually grow instead of just giving up after 3-4 weeks.
The instructions start by telling you to have a sighted person help you sort the pieces by color.

https://legoaudioinstructions.com/lego-11001-classic-mobile/
Carmack actually discusses this in the podcast when Neuralink is brought up. He seems extremely excited about the product and future technology (as am I), but he provides some, in my opinion, pretty convincing arguments as to why this probably won't happen and how at a certain point AGI will overshoot us without any way for us to really catch up. You can scale and adjust the architecture of a man-made brain a lot more easily than a human one. But I do think it's plausible that some complex thought-based actions (like Googling just by thinking, with nearly no latency) could be available within our lifetimes.

Also, although I believe consciousness transfer is probably theoretically achievable - while truly preserving the original sense of self (and not just the perception of it, as a theoretical perfect clone would) - I feel like that's ~600 or more years away. Maybe a lot more. It seems a little odd to be pessimistic of AGI and then talk about stuff like being able to leave our bodies. This seems like a much more difficult problem than creating an AGI, and creating an AGI is probably the hardest thing humans have tried so far.

I'd be quite surprised if AGI takes longer than 150 years. Not necessarily some crazy exponential singularity explosion thing, but just something that can truly reason in a similar way a human can (either with or without sentience and sapience). Though I'll have no way to actually register my shock, obviously. Unless biological near-immortality miraculously comes well before AGI... And I'd be extremely surprised if it happens in like a decade, as Carmack and some others think.
I agree, it’s useful to look at these types of funds over time. Thought it would be useful to post since there was some context in the piece.
Between the 2006 gas shortage and 2008 recessions, we actually started to see this. As gas approached $4 and $5 per gallon, all of sudden, TCOs were approaching $1/mile
> Bad example: Java actually has many VMs available for it

And it always had a single official and complete reference implementation in the form of the Sun JVM and later the OpenJDK. kbensons description makes it look as if Perl 6 had/has neither.

> And "Dalvik", for all the Android fans

Dalvik was intentionally incompatible in many ways and wont run a spec conform jar no matter how hard you try. Might as well call CPython a Perl implementation.

> Python has CPython 2.0, CPython 3.0

With CPython X being the official reference implementation for the corresponding language version and all other implementations being incompatible to varying degrees.
A lot of languages — in fact, a lot of software in general — is designed to make things easy for the computer/programmer: "This is how it works and you just have to adapt, deal with it."
Larry Wall put a lot of effort into making Perl try to adapt to the way the user already thinks instead, including taking advantage of having studied linguistics to figure out how the "language" part of a computer language fits (or doesn't fit) the way our brains process languages.

The result was a language that has a lot of power and flexibility. People who like Perl tend to love it, because it fits like a tailor-made suit instead of all those off-the-rack languages. People who dislike Perl tend to hate it, because all that power and flexibility can be easily abused (even when you're trying not to — there's a reason so many people buy off the rack instead of making DIY suits).

•https://bigthink.com/videos/why-perl-is-like-a-human-languag...

•https://www.perl.com/pub/1999/03/pm.html/

•https://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html/
"While neural nets are good at organizing a world governed by simple rules, they are not proven good at interacting with other intelligent agents." This is an interesting point, for example squeezing information through a narrow channel forces a kind of understanding that brute forcing does not. I've stopped paying close attention to the field a year ago, but I have seen a handful of openai and deepmind papers taking some small steps down this route.
where do you work? this is one of the major deciding factors i have in a new employer
I really like where this is going. It looks like a much more polished version of my own personal solution for this problem.

The one thing I really dislike is the way transactions are brought into the system. I get that it's preferable to outsource that to entities that specialize in it, like Yodlee/Plaid/whatever, but when I get to that IFRAME asking me to enter my banking credentials... sorry, I just can't bring myself to do it.

I understand banks are probably unbelievably slow to support standard authorization schemes like OAuth, but of all the credentials for me to get sloppy with, my bank credentials are pretty much at the top of "no way" list.

Any chance as an interim you could support manually importing CSV?

(And yes, beware of the non-paying "customers" that like to suggest the _one_feature_ they need...)
Uber paying their employees $21 doesn't make sense, they will get undercut on pricing by race for the bottom competitors. There really isn't anyway to grant a viable minimum wage except via legislation. Paying more to the driver isn't the same thing as paying more for top-tier engineer. It isn't like getting a nascar driver in the seat is going to justify higher wages. So what do you recommend?