skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uBiome files for bankruptcy after raising over $100M
The best jokes on 30 Rock were the ones lambasting NBC's then-owner GE's business culture.

I honestly never realized Six Sigma/green belt/black belts were actual unironic terms it used until much later in life.
Ask HN: Advice for a Helicopter Technician?
I am currently a helicopter aircraft maintenance engineer (AME-M, diploma program) in Canada, with 5 years as a licensed engineer, taking care of 6 helicopters and a base by myself. At 27 years old, with 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off this would be the dream job of many. However, I have hit a plateau in career advancement and lost interest in aircraft, as a majority of the job is dealing with systems that are 50+ years old, to which I am only a parts changer. One of my career disappointments is being unable redesign failing mechanisms within aviation, even if the recurring problems have known solutions.

Throughout the past few years I have experimented with 3d printers, learning arduino and designing parts for mechanisms in the tinkering field. I have a keen interest in designing my own devices to function as tools for jobs or every day life activities. I am interested in automation systems or simple robotics to finish a task. In 2012 I enjoyed running a small company designing 3d printed tools to be used on helicopters in place of expensive metal cnc tools, however the industry is too niche to be fully self employed.
But sometimes I feel I am missing out on a lot of useful information and skills learned in university through an engineering degree program.

Is going to University to get an engineering degree worth pursuing at this point?

Given that I wish to pursue my own ideas and designs, what degree program would you recommend?
Is protocol if you find these things a security researcher not to share the link? I read about these leaks a lot and am always interested in viewing them but never can find them. I assume the links are shared with people carefully because a small number of people will use them maliciously.
Thanks! I was poking around trying to figure it out, but did not find this.
lmfao nice account

it's an important point to make, that clearly there is an "organic" component and a "psychic" component to every ailment (or human experience for that matter). as anyone who has recovered from a primarily psychosomatic chronic illness can attest, you're eventually faced again with the contradiction between organic and psychic when you get your first head cold or whatever. this is a question of internal vs. external, dialectical vs. mechanical.

if someone murders me, we could assume this is a mechanical act. the immediate death obviously wasn't some sort of psychosomatic construction. no matter how mentally prepared i was for the moment the bullet pierced my forehead, a fundamental biological law asserted itself and there was nothing i could do about it.

but here we have no problem jumping straight to asking the question "what was the murderer's motive?" perhaps i was in the middle of robbing a bank. why was i robbing the bank? naturally these answers help construct the etiology of the death (and extend into other etiologies!). the question is: where do we draw the lines between moments? the radical answer is that we shouldn't. we should be willing at any moment to consider the many possible ways in which the various forces interact. bring the mechanical into the dialectic, so to speak.

in this light, is "stress" a useful etiological category? i don't think so, or at least i think its utility is much weaker than the pharmaceutical industry would hope.

freud had a client named elizabeth von r whose leg pain of two years was suddenly cured after working through its origin: her father, on his death bed, would rest his head on her legs as von r cared for him. was von r's leg pain caused by "stress?" hardly more than it was caused by "living." both of these proposed causes are obviously cop-outs.

edit: the point then is not to find the singular cause or plural causes. the point is to abstract the forces to analyze their underlying laws of motion and then to creatively synthesize them to predict and change the future. that's what science is. this is not the level of operation of our medical or psychiatric industries or their researchers.
The deadly hidden risks within the most prominent economic climate change model
Glad to see some thinking going on in this area. We're using Rust at FullStory and it's about 1/3 source-wise for one of our projects. A few of these concerns echo conversations that teammates have had on Slack.

FullStory itself is somewhat polyglot (Go on the server, TypeScript/react in the browser, Java/ObjJ/Rust on native mobile) and we've felt some of the pain around having a consistent and reliable build environment. We've also had internal discussions along these lines - ie: which deps can we trust from various package managers (npm has interesting arbitrary code execution as well!).

Building tooling to manage all these languages in a common system is a _huge_ commitment. We're actively hiring for the role of productivity engineers which is something that I see becoming more important in orgs as they scale up, the same way that devops/SRE split out in the 2000s.
This appears to be for emails and passwords, neither of which are reported to exist in this dump.
The title got me excited for another 4" iphone. I have hand pain (RSI) that is really exacerbated by the larger phones. I recently bought a used SE and am kind of dreading this last generation reaching end of life.
That just means the database was updated a few days ago, not that the data is new.
Parkinson's disease may originate in intestines
Yeah, for sure pure marketing. About the only interesting thing are the words ”flow chemistry” that are never explained.
I'd disagree that it's a modern equivalent for the child. Maybe the same thing for you. There are plenty of times I need a break. It only takes an extra minute to redirect to something that takes effort for the child. Remember when your mom said, 'if you're board, you can clean your room' then you found something to do? Try that instead of handing them a phone.

It's funny that people are worried about letting kids play around their neighbors outside but letting any random person have access to them from YouTube is preferred? I can at least vet my neighbors.

I don't give a fuck what people think. There's no laws against it. I send my kids outside and tell them to come home for dinner. I live in a major metro in the US. They visit friends, neighbor dogs, bring home flowers from neighbor's gardens.

It's hard to believe that you can trust a kid on the internet if you can't trust them outside by themselves. And let's be honest, the chances are actually higher that you're a threat to your kid than some random person trolling the neighborhood.

Where did common sense and doing what's clearly best for your kid go?

edit: if you give your kid one hour per day to take a break, you need to come up with 7 hours of viable content a week. That should be pretty easy to do without going through youtube. There's stuff out there that is reasonable and we haven't even dipped into minecraft.
Because that's exactly what software engineering is, coming up with "methodologies" aka algorithms to perform a task more efficiently.
Why am I ok with that? Or why is it obvious?
I think the limitation is volume. Scale a phone by 10% in all directions, and its volume goes up by 33% (-ish). Its display grows by only 21% in area, though.

So, roughly, you get 10% more power per pixel or square inch of screen.

And I think it’s even worse for the smaller phone. The faster CPU and GPU and more memory you need to drive 21% more pixels and to light 21% more screen area do not take up 33% more volume, and Bluetooth and cellular radios stay the same size, so you can scale the battery volume by over 33%, and, likely, its capacity even more, as the fraction of the battery’s volume that is lost to the battery housing can be lower for larger batteries.

Scale a phone by 30% in all dimensions, and the effect is a lot larger; 69% more screen area, but 120% more volume, so almost double the power/pixel.
> There are comics in black/latino/asian dominant countries where the heroes (if the comics are not realistic, like Marvel) are all kinds of shades, yellow, green, pink, red, brown, white, etc and are still supposed to represent black/latino/asian etc folks.

You mean, one colour generic yellow isn't enough for professional animators? This observation doesn't seem to be supporting the position you're defending.
I’ll listen to people complain about how bad markets are, as soon as they cease exchanging what they value less, for something they value more.

Edit: To clarify: when you claim markets are bad, maybe don't engage in "market" behavior for your own benefit, while encouraging the use of force to deny others the same benefits.

And, if you do believe in markets (as virtually everyone does, for themselves anyway, even avowed socialists and communists) -- but you have a problem with corrupt markets, then be specific. Say "I disagree with Mercantilism masquerading itself as a free marketplace", or "regulatory capture and rent seeking by those aligned with government is corruption".

Don't say stuff like ... this. It reduces your credibility.
*was. He amended his proposal such that UBI is additive to current social programs.
Totally agree. Small body is appealing. Update the tech, keep it small. I’d be willing to forgo touch and Face ID, just to use passcode if necessary. Remove the headphone jack, increase battery life, update camera so it’s stabilized with gyroscope.

Not realistic, but I would also love an e-Ink or Mirasol display option, so that battery life would last much longer. The tech has gotten a lot better, and readability in sunlight is fantastic.
Not to mention checklists for all sorts of things.
This is how you take the air out of your iphone 11 launch. I was considering upgrading my X when the 11 came out but now I'm probably going to wait to see what this SE business is about.
Ask HN: What's your best tips for building a “Plans and Pricing”-page?
I'm currently designing and building a "Plans & Pricing"-page and wanted to ask if you have any good design tips that might help improve conversion? What split tests have you ran that proved successful?

I've done my best with learnings from past experiences, here's my progress so far (feedback welcome): https://imgur.com/se5KiyK
The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
This reminds me of The User Illusion. The number "40 bits/s" is quoted as the processing rate of human consciousness.

Maybe humans can only transmit information as fast as they can think of it?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion
Eggcorns are neat.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/01/411231029...
This website's UX is very confusing.
> nothing is really collected without their opt-in.

opt-in is the least thorny aspect of GDPR.

but honestly, you don't have to worry about it.

There are 6 bases for collecting Personal Data. You should review them and see if something besides explicit consent (opt-in) is more suited. Opt-in is a trigger for other things. Avoid it if you can.
I'm not blind, but I've tested some of my apps for VoiceOver and it's just utterly unusable with a "reasonable" speed. You have to pretty much set it to your reading speed for it to be useful, and that happens to be significantly faster than most people are comfortable speaking.
But where does your PII end up, only at Google, no?
No they are not. Seems like most vendors don't unlock them anymore.
Good question!

I suppose that the experiment wants to capture the actual 'information density' of the language, and hence looks at the full language. Then, they want to avoid any modification in speech rate due to the semantics of the spoken text.

This does not make sense for a hypothesis where the actual bit-rate of speech tends towards 39 b/s. That is, when your text happens to convey more bits, you slow down.

However, for an alternative hypothesis, this design does make sense. The idea here is that a language naturally converges to a speech-rate that gives 39 b/s. The idea here is that the actual speech-rate is much more constant, and just drops until it becomes too fast. For that, I'd argue you don't want the mean bit-rate but something like the 90th percentile bit-rate. Because it seems to me that speech-rate that is 'too fast' more than 10% of the time would not really be natural.
My biggest issue with it from a public policy standpoint is that we don't have any problem putting the same burden on individual people. A person accused of a crime they didn't commit runs the same exact risk of bankruptcy and financial ruin if they can't make bail (and sometimes, even if they can), despite the same presumption of innocence.

How are we supposed to reconcile giving a corporation, with vastly more resources, special consideration that an individual person does not get?
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You are totally fundamentally wrong. You are disagreeing with most scholarship on how revolutions happen in political science.

Hope doesn't work if there are tanks who shoot at you. The people in Poland were not braver then those in China or those in Hungary. The difference is that in those cases the political system had the will to oppose them with the force required.

Unarmed protestors simple can not win against an army. Its pure idealism to believe that.
The issue is that your comment broke the site guidelines by insinuating astroturfing without evidence. That's the main thing you're not allowed to do here, as I explained, and have explained ad nauseum before (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...).

Separately, there was an issue with your copy-pasting the same comment about this story repeatedly in a previous thread. That is what I called spamming (not the actual story). Doing that is no doubt what led to your being downvoted, rather than manipulation as you implied above.

In cases where the story is relevant, of course it's fine to discuss it. But I don't see that it's relevant here, and your history of bringing it up in ways that break the site guidelines suggest that the bar for relevance needs to be higher than how you've been drawing it.

But the main point is that you can't make up sinister stories about why you got downvoted ("I can attest...") and post them here. Long experience has shown that nearly all such comments are baseless, and as I just said, they eat everything if you let them. Therefore we mustn't let them.
My PS4 "Pro" (lol) retroactively dropped support for my 4K monitor in a software update.

I knew consoles were screwball, but that was special.
They were a rabidly anti-Semitic party whose central principles were racial purity and complete submission to a single cult-like leader, a guy who wrote a book calling for Germany to conquer "living space" for ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe. This party had a paramilitary organization that beat up its political opponents in the streets. It wasn't difficult to see that the Nazis were horrible.
A program that prints “CORRUPTED” if any byte is mutated
As I know GDPR is for startups and companies with more than 50 or 200? employees.

It means that the majority of startups and small companies don't need it, until becoming a firm that can afford the costs of GDPR consultants

There are a lot of websites that generate GDPR templates free of charge for startups and small companies and those templates are enough
I’m going to leave this here as a “performance cars and cameras” easter-egg for any discussion archaeologists:

https://mobile.twitter.com/classicretro/status/1169344101973...

You’re welcome.
and 64 seconds is relevant here because?
I built a knowledge graph editor in react, then svelte, and while svelte is good in theory, React was much easier to debug, had better tools and components, and eventually I just switched back to react (Preact, actually, but I like Ant Design so much I might use vanilla React)
Nicely put, but then why need your example even be a pair of fancy glasses? It could be an energy generating device, or a transportation method, or a cure-all pharmaceutical or something.

I think the answer is partly that you're right and that technology in the more general broad sense has particular tendency to keep improving in value; partly that the OP is right and your example has some unstated implications (these non-upgradeable devices might well be prone to competition and hence generate surprisingly low shareholder returns); and partly that there are some other factors beyond OP's, to do with how the goods are produced.
It would have been obvious to anyone who actually read Mein Kampf.
That is an interesting point, I honestly didn't think about it. The initial thought was to automate everything, so no code has to be written, just a simple import - but this comes at the cost flexibility and customization.

I'll try to figure that out as well for 2.0, maybe there's a user friendly way to customize it
It’s not the god damn price, it’s the screen size and form factor. Okay it’s a little bit the price, but I’d pay $600 for a modern SE.
Don't feel bad. Green Belt offers a neat set of tools that can help you prove something to a manager in the future. Black Belt just continues to build on the same information.
Depends on your definition of bribes.

Professors either have to grade themselves OR assign a publisher's book, with a one time code, at no cost to them/their department where the publisher will grade for them. All for free from the professor's perspective.

In both cases the professor is likely using the publisher's resource to assign homework, because that's one way publishers encourage expensive book requirements: Allow professors to offload their work to the publisher.

There's 101 classes where the professor only turns up to teach. That's it. No homework creation, no grading, and they just have a TA take the publisher's grade report and import it into their student system.
I heard they had a lot of feedback along the lines of "I really like this game, but I'm not sure if other people will" (this from a friend who is friends with one of the artifact devs, so take it with a healthy dose of salt).
There's a difference between saying that technology in general breaks down trust in general, and saying that a specific technology breaks down trust in something specific.

I agree the general case seems intuitive as you're describing. The trends are certainly correlated, and I don't know if it's even possible to refute.

But talking about specifics seems like possibly assigning undeserved blame, and can lead to ideas that if only we could prohibit a certain type of technology, that we could retain trust. But rather what a lot of technology is doing is exposing that perhaps that trust was never deserved in the first place.

If we're thinking about responsibility for the lack of trust in media, should we gripe about how better information availability allows people to check the mainstream narrative? Or rather, should we admit that perhaps they've been selling us paid-for agendas the whole time, and are only finally seeing the repercussions?
What do you mean by "general consensus"?

If you mean "current market values", then those are being set by the aggragate opinions of active traders. If there are less active traders, there is less brainpower being devoted to finding this consensus, so it would be suprising if the consensus did not get less accurate.
It's easy to use a TUI remotely over SSH.
Absolutely love VS Code... works everywhere I do (Linux, Windows, Mac) and has extensions for everything under the sun. Almost don't like some of the UI additions in favor of just editing the settings json files.

Also, the remote/ssh extension is fantastic.
IANAL, but I have spent a lot of time reading the GDPR and associated guidance as the DPO for my small company.

As I understand it, you're correct. The Data Controller (Google) is responsible for getting consent, and the Data Processors (the third parties in this case) don't have to get consent themselves.

However, assuming Google's legal basis for processing your personal data is based on consent (rather than fulfillment of a contract or one of the other legal bases), then Google is required to get your unambiguous, opt-in, and non-coerced consent for each specific way your personal data will be used.

It seems likely that Google is covering themselves by acting as a Data Processor, not Data Controller, and the web site using Google is the actual Data Controller. In that case, the web site, not Google, is the one responsible for getting consent.
I think jumelles was referring to something like "don't do that" uttered as fun, angry, etc.
My setup is a work in progress, see the sibling thread. My 2015 2-core MacBook is probably not faster than a t2.medium, so you should be able to hit the same sort of 0.05x ballpark numbers easily with the same sort of setup.

Is there a SIMD.js / WASM equivalent optimized convolution / GEMM? That's pretty much all we'd need to port this to web... well, that and maybe a language model that isn't 1GB. The wav2letter acoustic model I'm using is based on the librispeech conv_glu, which is almost entirely served by conv1d layers.

I've honestly already been considering a demo for my main project (which is mixed english / command decoding) that runs entirely in a web page, if you have engineering time to throw at your christmas wish, we should talk :P
What if I was anti-abortion or pro-trump in a progressive tech company? Would my co-workers feel more comfortable destroying my life then?
When making this comparison, it's worth noting that Jeffries is showing his work process. Norvig is showing a cleaned up version of his final result after throwing away some earlier attempts. (Source: I spoke with Peter about Sudoku solvers shortly after he'd published.)
aren't hospitals infamous for their broken processes? It doesn't seem to me like forcing doctors to work 24 hour shifts improves their judgement while on the job, or improves overall health outcomes, anyway.
Of course, Φ is irrational and the occurrence of golden ratio conjugate is almost certainly just a coincidence…
Fortunately, Porsche is still a 'rare' car. They didn't even hit 60k in the U.S. last year. Yes, Porsche is a good brand, but that didn't stop them from going nearly bankrupt in the 90s. Mercedes has been diluting its brand since the mid 90s through introducing cheap and wide range of models, but it still maintains a good level of prestige. Does it have the same level of prestige as it did in the 70s and 80s? Of course not. But most people don't even remember it. I think Porsche will be fine if they can maintain their product quality.
The 4.87" x 2.31" x 0.30" envelope arose with the 5, a year before the 5S.