skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you supposed know what chipsets are in your smart lightbulb?
An important thing note is that the weights that go into the rankings can be fully customized: https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-program...

The ranking shown on the linked article shows a weighting that's deemed to be relevant to IEEE Spectrum readers, which have a focus on Electrical Engineering.

Setting the weighting to be 100% Hacker News, Ladder Logic ends up in the middle and JavaScript is nearly at the bottom. Like most other Top X programming articles, this one should be treated as a bit of fun and shouldn't heavily inform your choice of language.
> The entire reading ecosystem at Amazon is stagnant

They are actively malignant at this point. They are breaking embargoes now[1], and clearly won't be satisfied until they kill traditional publishing.

I dropped Prime last year, and it was substantially easier than I thought it would be.

Since then, they've just kept doing disgusting, grotesque crap[2]. At this point, I won't buy anything from them. The whole site reminds me of that cleaning-product smell at Walmart - any time I'm exposed to it, I just want to leave.

That orangey-yellow color means a fight with an untrustworthy, grubby greedhead robot that consistently fucks up delivery and makes me deal with them some more. Who needs that?

[1] https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/amazon-breaks-embargo-on-m...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190807/20024842742/ring-...
This is heartwarming. The amazing thing about children is that they’re happy to just be there. If you go see a bunch of kids in a village in Bangladesh, they’re as happy as kids anywhere.
Oh you mean like that time when the Mongol conquered and ruled china for like, 100+ years, ushering in the largest case of minority rule the world had ever seen to that point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_dynasty
While they are trying to put a probe on the moon??

We sent actual people there 50 years ago! And they did not crash on the moon.

What do these people all have in common? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked...

They are all American.
Oh yes, been there, done that, created proglangs, and they certainly did not get anywhere. But I feel Crystal has already gained such momentum that it indeed will get somewhere, it’s beyond that phase "to begin with." After all, if any language can get anywhere, why not Crystal?
Susamam: Turkish artists sing about societal issues
Good. The „app“ for my mobile carrier is entirely a web view, to the point that I got a „please download our app“ banner within the app. Until recently it wasn’t even updated to support anything bigger than a 4.7“ iOS device. So the website pinned to the springboard provided a better experience than the app
Yeah, but the Boise sprawl neighborhoods detailed in the article are almost certainly 95+% white. It's not like there's no diversity in "the midwest", but the Idaho places being described (and lovingly photographed!) are awfully segregated.

Would you or your extended family really be comfortable packing up and moving into an environment where they're literally the only south asians in their neighborhood? If not, then that seems like an important fact to address in an article about large scale population motion.

It just creeps me out. The article is nominally about a fairly bland economic point, but the archetype they picked is a bunch of (seriously, really beautiful) photos of white families in de facto segregated neighborhoods!
Different sample sets and age distributions. I'd assume many Enterprise-y devs don't have a history on GitHub.
...which is why, as the parent states, they shouldn't be built in the habitats or flight paths of endangered species. Environmental impact studies are now a routine part of the wind farm development process, and have been for over a decade.
Interesting. At my university it was most certainly fail the course and possibly expulsion.
Not the person you're asking, but orthogonal to where I live, penny-pinching on open office floor plans ended my ability to do productive work in an office nearly a decade ago.

And no I'm not going to put on headphones. IMO my work environment should naturally be conducive to getting s* done. But that seems to have become crazy talk.
People thought a recession was imminent several years ago too, and the market is up like 50% since then.
Why Isn't the Intermediate Value Theorem Constructive?
Well, I rarely eat breakfast during the work week. Based on the quality and size of breakfasts at Nordic hotels, maybe people just aren't as hungry during lunch? Not sure if that's a hotel thing or an every household thing.
> "paper is missing a very important feature ... ads."

But we're working on that too, right?
That's sad to hear, I always love coming across the little free libraries. I would guess they were just bored and angry teens, likely not making any deeper statement but just expressing their anger and frustration and willingness to break the rules. Also, it's fun to watch things burn, and they come with built-in kindling. Hopefully some judge will make them rebuild what they burned, that would be fair and give them more appreciation for the work of others that they destroyed thoughtlessly.
Atlassian has a whole service that just hosts public status pages

https://www.statuspage.io/
Well, it's good if you live in a non-US-friendly country :)
I don't think its all that bad. My only gripe with Goodreads is the lack of a proper tagging system, something like NovelUpdates `Release Filtering` which uses tags and genres in addition to categories. My point is Goodreads is certainly good for getting a feel of the book with its blurb, but not so good for discovering new books via filtering.
Very much not the same thing. Your car can't interact with the cars of others without physical contact, and when it does interact, via a crash or otherwise, it would be very obvious to anyone. Even if you were constantly watching the traffic of your phone and other devices, you'll probably miss malicious packets that are sent among the thousands of packets each device sends per minute. It's also not as obvious to recognize what constitutes malicious behavior in your internet device compared to your car.

Also, the operation of the car is simple enough that you can take it to a mechanic for an inspection and they can reliably inspect everything that the car does. There are no hidden behaviors under complex conditions, like crashing into others when there is a full moon or the sky is cloudy. Your devices can do that. If you bring me your phone/laptop/etc and ask me if it's going to send malicious packets to someone somewhen, I can't reliably tell you that it won't. I'm not sure that even if you gathered all software and electronics engineers that supposedly were involved in the construction of your device, they'd be able to provide a reliable answer. I can tell you that it seems like it wouldn't based on initialization files and services, but I can't tell if the function is hidden somehow, like obfuscated in the machine code of the kernel or something. Finding that would require auditing all assembly code running on the machine, which would not be a task for mortals.
I was motivated to donate a small amount of BCH to WMF after reading this announcement.
Cannot confirm. Getting pretty good recommendations for Japanese crime novels, which is probably reasonably niche.
The ipfs.io is just a web-based way to access IPFS, called a gateway. There are a bunch of different gateways. In addition, you can run an IPFS node locally, and then as long as just one node holds the content you're looking for you are looking for you're good. There are also browser extensions to re-write gateway URIs to localhost URIs.
I'm liable if water/sewage breaks in my condo and there won't be any 'squeal'. Analogies work but are not equal. My point is that there should be liability for the malfunctioning internet equipment, definitely so for businesses.
It looks like a volumetric attack from this tweet. Wikipedia needs to use Verisign BGP mitigation. They create GRE tunnels to your routers and are capable of handling 2Tbps. During an attack, you make a BGP announcement and the traffic goes via Verisign scrubbing/tunnels. No application changes are required, no Matthew Prince selectively and benevolently enforcing CF neutrality. It's used by large banks.
May need to be more specific. Maybe in Europe it’s not like that? I had a ton of toy guns as a kid in Bangladesh. The kind of shit you can’t even get in America. Realistic pistols (with jagged metal edges) made in Pakistan. I had a realistic military uniform, with jagged metal buckles. (Kids’ costumes in America are plastic crap, I assume because metal and stitching is some sort of safety hazard).
What did he actually manage then? Taking the risks associated with joining such an operation just to fuck teen girls or anybody smells bullshit.
>The biggest drawback of vertical farming is the high cost of the electricity required to run the large number of LEDS...One way of saving electricity is to use LED s that generate only the colours that plants require, instead of the full spectrum of plain white light.

This is a big issue and I've been unable to get good data on it. Opponents of vertical farms say that the high electrical consumption doesn't justify the reduction in energy related to travel. Proponents say that it's possible to optimize LEDs and have continuous fake "seasons" which justify the cost of transportation & refrigeration for certain species of food.

Does anyone have any good references that go into the details and provides numbers? Most of the pro-vertical farming information I've found is from companies who are investing in it so they consider the energy numbers to be a trade secret. But there must be some research group or open source team willing to publish all their data so that people can draw their own independent conclusions.
Rising pork prices fuelling discontent in mainland China
KV-SSD replaces the filesystem with Abstract Device Interface(ADI), that sits between the KV API exposed to the applications directly and the KV device driver.
According my understanding, although some modern filesystems combines RAID and the file system, these are separate independent abstractions. However, it would be interesting to explore how RAID will work with KV-SSDs. You can take a look at a commercial implementation of Samsung's Mission Peak system to benchmark KV-SSDs (I am not sure whether the following one is an officially approved implementation or not) - https://www.broadberry.com/performance-storage-servers/cyber...
Exactly. I read the title as `A simple Unix-like operating system that runs on Doom`
This is the entire web hosting industry. The attack surface is massive and the industry has been so squeezed of costs that patching stuff will take a long time. This exploit will be alive for a long long time.
50 years ago we walked on the moon. This year we're not. _They_ went to the moon, built the interstate system, subway system, etc. _We_ are barely maintaining what we inherited.
I'm liable if my car spontaneously catches fire while parked. Car is just an analogy.
That... is not a counterpoint?
"Life is short. And life is long. But not in that order": https://youtu.be/SNgyEmYyQF4
The Crystal underbelly is here https://github.com/rishavs/noir

the api is consumed by a vanilla js spa.
I talk more about my VanillaJS spa's architecture here https://dev.to/rishavs/making-a-single-page-app-in-ye-good-o...
Looks cool, I always loved the hierchical nested node structures (like folders or e.g. trees) to organize my data.

Would you be willing to tell what your tech stack is like? And what are you using for Rich text editors?

Great work tho. Looks good.
I don't know if regular Walmart employees make minimum wage, but I'd rather be a cashier at Aldi in Germany than one at Aldi in Kentucky (sorry Kentucky, I'm just using you as an example from the linked article).
The Utah girl and the Tokyo boy seem like they'd make good playmates. All 'bout hittin' those balls.
If commerce infiltrate our private conversation, it turn from convenience to creepy. Every conversation will invoke a feeling that someone is trying to sell something for profit. This is one of the issues in modern commerce in China.

Err, WeChat doesn't have any advertising, notably unlike Google and Facebook.
The idea that none of these people were ever exposed to further evidence of what a piece of shit Epstein was is an utterly incredible notion. He would blurt out "what does that have to do with pussy?" in the middle of the discussion at the scientists' dinners he hosted. He showed a keen interest in eugenics. And more than a few of the MIT Media Lab went with him to the island which the locals had nicknamed "pedophile island."

There is no way that none of these people -- especially the ones with means, like Bill Gates or Reid Hoffman -- had any inkling of Epstein's real nature. They just calculated that his money outweighed the risk to themselves or their institution from taking it, not to mention the shame (if they indeed ever felt any whatsoever) of helping a convicted sex offender against children rehab his reputation.
Doesn’t WeChat is shopping and payment monopoly in China?

I heard you can’t even order ramen without using WeChat/WePay.
And there's a description in a book from one of Epstein's rape victims that sounds an awful lot like she was 'highly encouraged' to have sex with someone who sounds an awful lot like Pinker (the name is redacted but the text describes someone who matches his appearance and scientific positions to a T).

If it was indeed him, he visited Epstein's island and accepted a massage and sex from a girl ~40 years his junior when he knew the man who procured her had already been convicted of underage sex crimes....
I’m able to find these in stores from time to time.

http://www.caminodepaz.net/?page_id=88
I like Durso's "silo" model of politics and USA special interest groups halfway into the article:

"Americans 'silo' every issue, such as Afghanistan or Syria, as interested executive branch functionaries, Capitol Hill staff, journalists, think tanks, ethnic interest groups, campaign fundraisers, and politicians coalesce around it. A politician like Vladimir Putin thinks horizontally and will offer a concession on, say, Syria, in exchange for an American hands-off in Venezuela or Donbas. The losing silo will erupt that America is trading away the legitimate democratic aspirations of the unspellable or unpronounceables in a dirty deal. Someone will use the M-word – Munich – and it will be all downhill from there."

"You are conservative about what you know best, so policy practitioners will fight to protect their silo, especially if it might be traded away 'because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.' Trump is a threat to the silos as in his mind everything is related to everything else all the time and he doesn’t respect the silos – or their future earning potential."
Amazon has something somewhat related long ago called "Someone like you" that would show you books purchased by people who had similar previous reading purchases. It was odd to see someone had purchased the same combination of OpenGL books, cookbooks, and sociopolitical books as me. The recommendations that resulted were pretty good but I suspect privacy concerns ended it.
WeChat is a financial disaster for all we know.

1.4 billion people use it as their dominant payment method. Not mobile payment method, but payment method full stop. I think it's safe to say they're incredibly profitable.
ELI5:

Constructive math is a philosophy of math where you must construct a value to proof its existence. The Intermediate Value Theorem states that if f(a) < 0 and f(b) > 0, then there exists a number c in the interval (a, b) where f(c) = 0. For the IVT to be constructive, you must be able to find c. (Technically, the theorem is Bolzano's theorem, not the IVT.)

The question asks why the Intermediate Value Theorem isn't constructive. The question provides a "binary search" for c.

The answer states that the proof doesn't work because checking whether a real number is 0 is undecidable. A real number is represented by an infinite sequence, and you can't tell if the sequence converges to 0.
What we really want is a failsafe way of setting cookies: i.e. a way of setting cookies that won't work on browsers without SameSite support. Otherwise this solution will still leave a security hole for the many users not on (the latest version of) Chrome.

Ideally we could do this by intentionally making the SameSite cookie syntax non-backwards-compatible.
Or the regularly inaccurate station countdown clocks which took 11 years to roll out.
So happy to see that Python‘s popularity is still rising, and there seem to be no slow down of the momentum.

I got in touch with Python in the 90s but back then it did not convince me. Later in the 90s Perl was much more attraktive (because of Regexes and later because of CPAN).

In the early 2000s Python was a better alternative to Perl given all the basic data structures (Perl‘s nested lists were using pointers; how unintuitive for a high level language), Perl‘s module system wasn‘t intuitive amd beautiful either. Finally I could not write large systems in Perl because I of many reasons. So I tried Python, and it immediately replaced Perl for me.

Later Ruby seemed very attractive (for someone who was heavily influenced by Scheme and SICP). But Python seemed to have more momentum. So I played around with Ruby, but always stayed with Python for serious tasks.

Now, twenty years later I know there are many other programming languages who are more beautiful in my eyes (functional, for instance Elixir), but I absolutely love working with Python: its elegance, its ecosystem, community, resources. I can tackle all sorts of problems with it. And it seems it will be around in the next twenty years.
> While this is true, trying to figure out ahead of time if they’ll cost more than they contribute is the path to madness.

I'll point out that people rescued from the brink of death are usually grateful for it, whereas these poor individuals, as noted in the article, often take a swing at their rescuers. I think that pretty much answers the question of whether they cost more than they contribute.

> A person who eats poorly and doesn’t exercise can easily rack up millions of dollars in treatments for heart attacks and strokes. Yet they don’t seem to get anything like the same derision. Why?

What makes you think people don't? Have you never observed someone or even yourself doing something unhealthy and thought glumly "Yep, eating/drinking this is going to put him/her/me one step closer to death by a lifestyle disease. Foolish of him/her/me."
Not sure how they are going to solve the pixel density issue without going to interactive displays, which would be a mistake.

Malls trialed interactive maps sometime in the last decade and it was a worse experience. One print map can service a lot of people crowded around it. Make the interface interactive and suddenly it's only usable by one person at a time despite being just as large as the old print map.

The right solution, if you want interactivity, is perhaps a handful of interactive map kiosks that are much smaller and meant for one user at a time. You could fit at least 4 of them in the space of any existing giant print map.
To be clear, only a small percentage are showing critical damage (breathing trouble, death).

What percentage is not showing life-threatening issues yet, but are slowly building up accumulated damage?
Typical apartments in the US seem to be around 700-800 square feet, with one or two bedrooms, so not "tiny". These may or may not be located in walkable neighborhoods or with easy access to city center, it depends on the city. As an anecdote in Seattle, which is better at this than most cities, I have a one bedroom flat that is almost 1200 square feet and can walk to everything except the airport, for which there is public transit. Not unreasonably priced, though not inexpensive either. There are dozens of bars, restaurants, cafes, etc within a few blocks as well as several shops of all types.
This is a matter of public trust. As an American I might trust the EASA’s certification more than the FAA, and that’s a really bad spot for the FAA to be in. International drama about who accepts who is just a side effect of lack of trust in the FAA.
Just HTML. There is no versioning, it’s a “living standard.”
Medium is awful and should be boycotted.
My bouts of wanting to build a competitor usually arise when I'm trying to find something I'd assume would be a feature and isn't, and I'm having a hard time remembering everything, but:

1) I desperately want a feature that'll show me the books most-reviewed among my friends, or highest reviewed with >X # of reviews. You can see what individual friends have reviewed, but there is nothing I've found to aggregate.

2) More reading stats (right now it shows number of books, and total pages at the end of the year). I wanna see breakdowns of categories, authors, fiction/nonfiction.

3) I had an idea for per-book or per-series wikis that have spoiler-bracketed info. E.g., [spoiler b2p300 "King Soandso is murdered by Assassin Soandso"] would show in a book wiki if you are past book 2, page 300. I read a bit of fantasy and have a tendency to want to google 'who is x', but that is fraught with spoilers. This is a feature that could exist as its own site, but I think it'd be a good companion to a goodreads-esque site.

4) Book Discovery seems super weak on Goodreads and I feel I could build something significantly more useful.
So...

M.I.T. Media Lab, part of a college with young people, accepted money from a known sexual predator with vast wealth and power.

Anyone who concealed this should be put in prison.

EDIT: I should clarify as I don't think it's necessarily clear why I think so from my post. Say Epstein donates $50M or some other large figure regularly every n-years. Now suppose that one of the people at the school accuses him of rape. So...now he doesn't have to threaten anything, after all not giving money isn't the same thing as a bribe right? So that girl will be silenced by the school, which will threaten to expel her or worse. Accepting money from a known pedophile WHEN YOU WORK AT A SCHOOL WITH MINORS is tantamount to condoning sexual violence and anyone who does so is a rabid animal and should be put in prison forever and a day.

EDIT EDIT: So...I can't find statistics on the number of students, but I know that MIT has a reputation for sometimes having prodigies who are under 18 attend campus. Maybe Epstein picked MIT specifically because of that (as heart wrenching as that is) - every one of those kids probably needs to be checked that they didn't get taken advantage of during the time period when this occurred.
TRUE!
Route 53: What port do you use to connect to DNS?

But the rest, I’ve got nothing as far as making the naming conventions make sense.

But honestly it took me about a year to go from not knowing anything about AWS to being sable to hold my own from a development and networking/Devops standpoint with AWS. Almost everything mapped to concepts I had done before - even the IOT stuff from my time developing field service apps for old Windows CE ruggedized devices.

I could basically draw up an architectural diagram of how I would have implemented the same systems today if I had had AWS at my disposal.