skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Of course "anecdotal experiences" are evidence.

You're right. It is evidence. This is an obvious fact that I mis-represented on accident. Let me rephrase for clarity:

"This persons anecdotal evidence is not good enough or unbiased enough to qualify as evidence to be used to arrive at a conclusion"

>I'm pretty sure airplanes and bridges aren't designed using 'waterfall'. I'm sure they're built, i.e. 'deployed', using a well-defined process.

Ok let me rephrase for more clarity in case people don't have the ability to know that by "designing" a bridge I can mean "build" and "deploy" as well.

"Airplanes and bridges are designed and built using waterfall."

>But, ideally, the well-defined process by which they're built should itself probably be designed or developed with 'short' iterations.

This was how the MAX part of the 737 MAX was designed. Using a short iteration on top of an existing design. It leads to shorter turn around and cheaper costs. With the small expense of 1 or 2 plane crashes.

If you can afford a plane crash go agile, if you want to build something correctly go waterfall.
You are making the alarmists' point, whether you like it or not. The argument is not _just_ "things are getting worse on average", although that's true. It's that the variability is increasing. A banner year for shad while five other species are on the brink of extinction is entirely consistent with this. (Same thing is currently happening with Maine lobster.) One year we'll get a dozen bad hurricanes in the Atlantic, then see nothing for three more. In Europe this year we had one of the coldest springs on record. Less than a month later we had a record-breaking heat wave. And then another.

It's all of a piece.

People seem pathologically unable to understand the concept of variance, which is really a shame, because it's the variance that's going to bite us in the end. It's far more worrisome than a simple downward trend. A few really, _really_ extreme climate events are going to cause destruction and suffering on a scale we have not experienced before. There will be hand wringing and cries of "nobody saw this coming" -- which is true, because long-tail events are by definition hard to predict.

Then maybe people will wake up. Though it will be far too late.
What's the quickest way to count the number of each character in a file?
Nobody has claimed yet having anything that is a scalable error-corrected quantum computer (or whoever has claimed it was never taken seriously). But we are working hard on getting there, and this 53-qubit "quantum computer" is indeed a machine that can compute things and it uses quantum effects (so it is a "quantum computer"). It is not a "general" or "error corrected" or "scalable" quantum computer. The comparison in sibling comments is very apt: this, and other research hardwares of today, relates to general "useful" quantum computers the way a bunch of vacuum tubes relate to the first classical CPU.
lmao they did this 2 decades ago: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0112176.pdf
Most development time is going to be spent on reading code that's already written, so yes, they do matter. With the speeds mentioned it's not going to be appreciable until you hit a massive scale, which, let's face it, most of us aren't working with.
Thousands of people own .su domains (I'm not one of them, FWIW). That's the reason for its actual existence at this point.
Nothing looks like a reasonable explanation when someone doesn't want to accept any alternative to what they are already determined to believe...

Even if the overwhelming majority of global climate experts say otherwise and who warn of the danger, he can always consider them misguided or in a big conspiracy to dupe us...
Well, you'd be surprised then. Cher Scarlett was turned down for a job this summer with 13 years experience due to not having a CS degree and I have been going through a ton of job ads the last few days so I can tell you lots of non-entry level roles still require a degree. https://twitter.com/codehitchhiker/status/114577619387617690...
The graph in the article itself also has the other engines. You don't have to follow any link.
Experience of the dozens of devs I know with no degree is that if you can manage to get 3 years of experience under your belt you're golden.

That's not to say there aren't doors that are closed to you, but by and large the industry just doesn't care.

The better you are, the truer this becomes. I know a highschool dropout I'd consider at least a 95th percentile developer, he turns down offers for work on a regular basis.
Experts warn world ‘grossly unprepared’ for future pandemics
Angular 1 or 2? Cause the latter seems to be 3 years old. Okay, facile argument, the others are 5-6 years old from a quick search.

> React makes a lot of changes [...] the constant iteration in response to changing expectations for web

maybe it's ironic we're having that discussion on HN, and i'm struggling to remember sites that have gotten better lately, not worse. then again, that's probably because of the bias to remember negative experiences
The standard approach, as was used in Iraq, is to dispense foil streamers or other conductive chaff over the substations. The US used airplanes, but these days drones could do the job. Or you could use a drone to tow a copper wire across one of the high-voltage distribution power lines. If done on enough lines at the same time the sudden decrease in load may cause the generators to overspeed.
He didn’t “tout” the protections, he eliminated them.
We need managers that mentor and train, instead of firing someone over silly things.
Repo companies have passively scanned & uploaded locations of 9B license plates
Where you'll usually find this:

- exporting data from server to client for initialization

- localization data

- environment variables (feature maps, configuration etc)

- preloading datasets for graphs/tables
Don't know. Seems like a lot of work to learn a language for a certain genre, but it's entirely possible. (I've been interested in learning Polish for this reason).
There are a couple of different facets to this that the article ignores. The energy consumed by computers can be offset by recovering waste heat to offset space or domestic hot water heating (which is the bulk of your energy consumption in colder climates). You can do this at a building scale, and even at an urban scale with the use of district energy systems.
"Implementation without understanding"?
Why is asymmetric speeds a problem? I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with having multiple types of service for different use cases. That is true with other utilities (electric, water, gas) and is part of general infrastructure planning in those areas.

Of course the actual pricing, availability, etc are also important but I don't think there needs to be a one-size-fits-all model for Internet bandwidth.
makes total sense for transferring state for a server side rendered app.
I started thinking about this after a BBC article last week. [1] The thought that cheese existed before drinking milk was mind-blowing. Lactose intolerance is normal, "However, many modern Europeans possess a genetic mutation which allows for the continued consumption of milk into adulthood." Growing up in Geneva, the cultural importance of local French and Swiss cheeses from the Alps and Jura is significant, and dates back to Roman times, according to Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia [2].

A lot was happening about 6000 years ago. Cuneiform script was invented about 3200 BC. Egyptian hieroglyphs are from 3400 BC. Noam Chomsky suggested a cosmic ray shower that suddenly delivered language to proto-humans. [3]

Suppose language came from one source (the monogenetic theory [4], compatible with the Tower of Babel), at the same time as recorded history began about 6000 years ago (4000 BC). As well as transmitting language from this single source, people would also trade goods and culture, such as cheese recipes. All words for cheese would therefore have a single origin, and people all around the world should have cheese.

But we know that this isn't the case. Cheese is very new in China, and lactose intolerance is common. Even the name, "起司 qǐ sī", is from English, unlike the French word "fromage".

What I'm suggesting is that because i) we know cheese existed before recorded history, and ii) we know that Chinese don't traditionally eat cheese, then iii) I doubt that there was worldwide trade that spread language, and therefore iv) the monogenetic theory of language wouldn't be true -> the Chinese language was developed independently of Mesopotamian/Phoenician/Latin.

Please tell me if you think this is a crazy hypothesis, or if this is something worth researching.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49650806

[2] https://peterburk.github.io/pliny/ChaptersHtml/11.%20Book%20...

[3] https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/11/man-or-mutant-is-huma...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenetic_theory_of_pidgins
I use Affinity Designer and Photo and they are very fast even at huge sizes (I do art). But they don't listen to user feedback or suggestions much if at all. AD/P can use OpenGL Vulcan or Metal (I use Metal) and it's amazingly fast for most operations. I also use Artrage 5 and it's abysmally slow probably not optimized for any platform either, probably not much different from Inkscape (though mostly bitmap drawing).
Generally, MSRP. It depends on the bookstore's agreement with the publisher. But, most are based on cover price.

So, if a store sells the book for $5. The author still gets $3.50

This generally doesn't apply if the publisher reduces the price for a 'sale period' though.
Ah, I have a friend in a downtown condo who uses their 1Gbps service and he hasn't had any issues with them. Sadly I'm in an older town house so my options are Bell or Rogers, neither of which can offer symmetric fiber as the cost to deploy wouldn't be worthwhile their time.(Oddly Bell installed fiber in the older building across the street from me into all the units.) Either way, I ended up going with Teksavvy. No marketing nonsense or calls to up sell anything and I get 300/20 for 62 a month without a contract.
I agree that it is not inherent to Agile. (I'm more suspicious of "scrum", but I'll believe you that it's not either).

Like I said, I've had GREAT experiences with agile practices, my _favorite_ workplaces have been using agile practices. Also terrible ones. Knowing that the terrible ones were "doing agile wrong" didn't make them less terrible.

I even said very explicitly "It turns into a process that is more like waterfall, but..." So I'm a bit perturbed by your response insisting that this is not inherent to agile. When I was pretty explicit in saying that too.

LOTS of companies _saying_ their doing agile result in misery, even worse than before they pretended to do agile. On the other hand, doing agile well can be wonderful. In order to figure out how to make more of the wonderful than the terrible, we have to get _beyond_ just pointing out that "the agile manifesto clearly states". Cause it's clearly stated that already, and it hasn't stopped the terrible.
If Mobile Safari and Chrome for Android supported extensions, it probably would already be ubiquitous.
"Why am I supposed to believe that?"

Because if someone gets in, they're going to refund you.
How Did Drones Take Out 5 Percent of the World's Oil Supply?
All the san serif ones.
Tragicaly, it's not a strawman, it's an enshrined project management method the DoD created from a misunderstanding of Royce, which escaped into the wild.

Now, most people who say they do Waterfall are quite mistaken. They don't, they do some sort of iterative method as you say. But they report as if they have distinct, linear phases with distinct linear steps, as if Waterfall were the reality and not an imagining. Which is itself problematic. This means that upper managemnet comes to believe that Waterfall works because they see it working, not realizing that the reports themselves are misleading.

Everytime one of the project managers tells me they're doing Waterfall I press until they admit it's "Modified Waterfall", by which they mean the V-model or Spiral or other models with explicit feedback loops/mechanisms. And it frustrates me to no end that they keep using the wrong terms rather than the precise ones, because now upper management has begun enshrining Waterfall again after two decades of improvements. Now we have to fight the same battles, to impress upon them that iterative methods are what we actually do, and that a strict linear flow is impossible.
>I imagine people are already doing it.

They did do it. The MAX part of the 737 MAX was basically an agile iteration on top of the existing design.

>But when developing a new bridge design, it seems extremely valuable to be able to iterate as quickly as possible.

Seems like a new and innovative way to design things. Bridge 2.0. Bridge MAX.
AQL is a vendor-specific multi model language that lately has picked up some ideas from openCypher, like pattern matching.

GQL is a project for creating an International Standard language in the process of being created by experts from many countries that represent the interests of multiple vendors.
AMD launches 64-core EPYC server processor for liquid cooled systems
$99 to post a job? I want a developer, but I won't pay that price ever unless I need dozens of developers and I'm posting on a big site with big audience.
53 bits is the significand in IEEE754 (Double precision FP).
None of the teaching methods for programming has worked for me if I were to look at it from a fresh perspective (I'm in computers but programming is not my day to day work). After learning the basics (easy/easy/lost) of pretty much several languages, I have ultimately realized that learning to program takes consistent discipline and daily practice.

However, it still takes a certain mindset (brain chemistry perhaps) which makes certain people leapfrog others. May be it has something to do with how a brain sees logic and numbers (I see logic and numbers but not necessarily in proficient manner).

My ultimate conclusion is that if programming doesn't come naturally to you, then you are looking at a whole lot of discipline and consistent practice. The chances of you giving up here is very high. But if programming comes naturally to you, then you can become a programmer irrespective of the kind of teaching pedagogy you follow.
In the beginning (8086/8088) because it was a shorter instruction encoding than the literal "move a zero into AX" instruction, so it created smaller code and saved a memory read (even if that read was a prefetch memory read).

Later Intel actually special cased it in the instruction decoding path for the later CPU's (starting somewhere around the PII/PIII era, but I don't remember the exact timeframe) so that it also does not consume an execution unit and it /effectively/ executes in zero cycles.
A Lego Wedding Arch
100% of the cases? That is absurd.
Could you give an example of his wildest exaggeration? I've seen zero evidence backed claims that he misled the public.
I've met people whose job is to put honeypots on hospital networks to detect ransomware installation attempts. They supposedly have a very short response time SLA, like "if there's bad network activity, we will call your administrator within 5 minutes." It's interesting that job exists, since the ransomware mostly uses old exploits that shoulda been patched anyway.
Either way it's really more data than object at that point so it's appropriate to store it as JSON. Normally I'd place such data in a different file, but I can imagine that that might not be best for webpages.
If you're interested in this stuff but don't want to spend the time setting everything up, you should check out Amazon DeepRacer[0]. They have a whole environment set up to do reinforcement learning (although right now it's only their tracks). You can get your feet wet with the free tier.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/
In the context of a city, self-rule means the place has a mayor and a city council. It can pass local ordinances, have a local sales tax, and provide services to the constituents.

Not all places start out with those things. The rules differ by state, but generally, you need a certain population, a percentage of whom must petition the higher authorities (which you mention), and then vote as a community to create the create the infrastructure and take care of themselves.

At that point, they lose a lot of the benefits provided by those higher levels, like the county and state service providers of fire, police, and garbage disposal for example.
Is the idea to fill the gap between s3 and Mongo (and having to host Mongo)?
It was challenging for my 2nd job, which was really my first job hunt with real interviews, working with recruiters, etc. Still I was rarely filtered purely due to lack of degree, it was more of a problem that I was severely underpaid (learned to try to avoid salary history questions the hard way) and partially because I was attempting to switch into a "new" industry that is hard to get into initially but relatively easy to continue to work in once you've had a job or two.
Well, for one 4k streaming will probably significantly increase desired download speeds.
I agree, the big difference between music streaming services and TV series or movies streaming services is that on every music streaming service you can find almost all the western mainstream songs by all the artists.

For TV series/movies it's very different, lots of shows, series and movies are exclusive to one streaming service and lots of shows, series and movies can't be found on any of them.

But still I don't think a majority of potential customers will be enough annoyed by the current content fragmentation to go back to piracy. Also because the piracy tools have become less and because it's still hard to find what you really want, even when using some simple as popcorn time. I just think customers will start to own more than just one subscription and will probably switch from time to time from one subscription to another to get access to the content that is exclusive to one of the streaming services that are available. The loser here is clearly the customer that will pay more for less, but it won't hurt enough to make piracy popular again.
Ask HN: Why is Meetup.com not blocking spam in Meetup Groups?
I am member of dozen meetups everyday I get about 10-30 spam messages that are posted to the various meetup groups. Social Media is full of complaints, but there is nothing happening. Since months Meetup didn't provide any statement or announced actions they are taking. Although, the messages are pretty much following the same pattern why isn't it possible to block such messages automatically with common spam filters?
Could a global license system be implemented to solve that problem?
I also live in Idaho, but the nasty effect of dams was characterized by Lonesome Larry, the only sockeye salmon to return to redfish lake in 1992.

Redfish lake was named for the teems of brightly colored red sockeye salmon that once populated it.

As of two years ago, the last time I was up there, it was still mostly devoid of salmon.

In effect dams and the subsequent fish farming efforts to save the salmon end up being a subsidy for the farmers.

In all fairness I would rather just give farmers a subsidy to transport their grain rather than to try to outsmart nature.

In the end we would ask ourselves if the economics of transporting grain from remote areas is worth it economically, and we can leave the environmental issue out of the equation.
You didn't fix anything. You mutilated/slaughtered the sentence.

News for you: Not all software has the tendency to become a giant mess.
"Gun Owner" is a way people self identify and cling to in a very irrational way. At least I assume that's what they are talking about.
It's possible to find ways to give some of the takings back to those who are less well off.
>It's not "easy" on mobile

Short videos maybe, but I don't think I know anybody, young or old, who cares of streaming full movies on mobile. Maybe some outliers who watch their series on their commute...

The vast majority watch movies when they are at home...
It’s so weird how people have flipped. Nowadays Walmart would be lauded for “choosing who to do business with” or whatever the appropriate phrasing is for companies not doing business with people we don’t like.
Shrink your browser window until you see this running at about 80x70 characters, then ask your second question again. Modern displays are a lot higher resolution than SVGA.
Good point! The plan needs refinement.

I guess they could break the job down: use one team of 4 drones to lift multiple 1 square yard tarps.

Let's see, 12 square miles is roughly 37 million square yards. Multiplying by four they would only need about 150 million drones. Quite affordable for today's well-funded terrorist with an Amazon Prime account (as long as they choose 3-5 business day shipping instead of overnight).
> A Commodore 64 or TI-994A could. Probably not at 60fps, but it could be done. It would definitely need to be done in assembly, or with a modern compilation tool, like cc65.

Well, I was programming on C64 way back, and am pretty much aware what the system can and can't do. Sprite crunchers, xor filled vector fillers, etc. are familiar to me.

Cc65 would only hurt the effort. You need a full spectrum of assembler tricks to get any kind of performance out of C64.

C64 (PAL) has just 19k clock cycles available per 50 Hz frame. Since fastest instructions are 2 cycles, that's at most 9.5k instructions. Realistically closer to 5-7k. No multiply (hello table lookups!), no divide and not even 16-bit add.

Or in other words, it takes maybe 10k+ cycles for C64 to just "memcpy" 1000 bytes of characters!

You could implement something like Asciicker in a limited demo... but it'd be more like a souped up video player. Which, sadly, is a rather common technique in recent C64 demos, but understandable due to the limitations.
> Until the users logs in, then you have another two tries. Until the users logs in, then you have another two tries. Well, and so on, ad infinitum.

I don't understand how this is exploitable unless an attacker knows when a user logs in. Otherwise, how do they know when they have two tries again?
Why do they suspect that?

Would a positive cash flow dispel any of that concern? If people are up in arms about what seems to be suspicion, why would anything on his tax return make any suspicion go away?
In medical imaging synthetic training data get called phantom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_human_phantom
Yes generally interested in six figure salaries with relatively low entry barrier.
Do you sneak in to theaters? Jump turnstiles? The semantics are irrelevant, it's stealing.
>From an information theory perspective, holding two states is the most efficient way of computing.

Assuming the cost of operations on each digit is a multiple of its number of states, the most efficient base for computing with arbitrary numbers is 3, which is the closest integer to the optimal base e:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer