skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of these comments are focusing on the media and the role they play but this is ignoring the attacks made directly against vulnerable groups here.

Imagine you are Latino and are watching the President at his rallies talk about you in ways that incite violence, if not outright calling for violence. Then a shooter targets people who look just like you. You feel hunted. Now throw in stories about people who are citizens being locked up and forced to prove they are citizens while languishing in jail.

Or, imagine you are trans and listen to what the P/VP say about you, you are also feeling hunted and hearing reports of all the attacks against trans people day after day. You feel hunted by your own gov and country.

I've got some friends in those groups and I don't think I realized how much stress this was causing them as someone who belongs to a group that is never targetted.

I think that is a huge part of the stress and terror here.
I've been playing a lot of TIS-100 lately, so this architecture sounds like a nightmare to develop on.
You realize that Joe Biden got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired by threatening to revoke $1 billion in funding, right?
Where can I find long-form investigative pieces?
Ask HN: What Makes Projects “Unfun”?
Hi everyone,

I'm surveying data in an effort to make an article I'm interested in writing. I'd like to know an answer to a simple question:

"What has made projects 'unfun' for you?"

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To jog your memory, here are so disparate subjects that have made projects unfun for me:

1. Interpersonal communication with coworkers/managers

2. ill-defined requirements (bad scope of work, nebulous requirements/needs)

3. Lack of recognition from leadership (no 'good job!' after doing a weekend of work)

4. 'bad' code with no budget to improve it, only budget for more features

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Please respond with as many stories as you'd like! It's most helpful if you do the Google survey below, but feel free to respond in comments too:

https://forms.gle/w8pGuSVZwmRk9rt2A

Thanks so much! I'm very excited to write on this topic and share it with others.
Plus, haven't governments massacred millions of people? If you're concerned to protect human rights from evil, look no further than the 20th centuries wars, pogroms, and political cleansings. How did all these governments fund all that evil: typically by abandoning sound money and massively inflating their currencies.
Their first targets would be things like power plants, tv stations, and central network nodes. Sowing chaos is useful, sorta, but that means things are still usable -- and the OpFor can potentially hit back. Better off just silencing the wires altogether; hit the power plants, tv and radio stations, major telephone & data centers, undersea cables, etc.

If I had $40B to budget on cyber warfare I'm finding out how to hack nuclear plants or cause hydroelectric dam overloads, not tinker with the Amazon accounts of the flyover states.
There is a lot of bad faith argument, which is exhausting.

It would be nicer to see more of the principle of charity; but at a certain level of feeling aggrieved I'm not sure it's a reasonable expectation.
Have you ever heard of Glasgow Coma Scale[1]?

Of course the question of consciousness is an heavily political issue, that doesn't make it a topic out of science.

First, generally speaking science is largely shaped through political decisions. Sure thought experiments and the kind of manual experiments that can be conducted by a solitary genius in its basement can lead to breakthrough, provided the said genius is indeed not limited by any external social pressure that prevent to freely dedicate its proper resources on its whims. But no single genius will make the Manhattan project or an LHC in its kitchen during its spare time.

Medicine is generally recognized as a science. Some areas of medicine do focus on the topic of consciousness. Medicine is also a sensitive political matter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Coma_Scale
I'm very confused. On one hand, the tweet claims to have a bootrom exploit. On the other hand, the fifth tweet in the chain talks about an iBoot vulnerability that got patched in ios12 beta[1].

Maybe the vulnerable codepath has some code sharing between iBoot and SecureROM?

[1]: https://twitter.com/axi0mX/status/1177544539046703104
External factors. Clojure didn't offer a great variety of jobs, especially remote. There was a decent number of jobs for onsite positions, but that's the trade I wasn't willing to make.

The language itself is great. The ecosystem is fine, you can find most libraries and if you can't you can at time use the JAVA versions. This was at times a pain because Java client libraries for certain services were out of date.

Solving real-life business problems was tricky but ultimately fun and satisfying. As the resulting code is usually very elegant and succinct.

I really loved the interactive programming aspect of it. It was really easy to go from a repl experiment to the actual implementation.
To me, "unconscious" encompasses all the processes in your brain that you are not aware of, which is most of them. You can become aware of the result of those processes as they emerge as a phenomenon of consciousness (such as becoming aware that you have made a decision, and possibly even being able to trace your own justification for the decision) but it is not really possible to account for everything.

Most of what we experience consciously is already heavily altered by processes that we have no control over. For example, the brain does a whole bunch of signal processing on the input of your eyes before you consciously see anything.
Efficiency does not mean you're going faster though. My point still stands.

Multi-core processors can invariably let us do more. I get it - valid point. But we're not doing more. We're just cruising along at the same speed I think.
Imagine how stressed Americans will be when they finally realize how dire the climate and ecological crises are due to our inaction.
Private variables could always be simulated with IIFEs. I'm pretty sure that's actually how TypeScript does it if you compile down low enough.
Russia starts rolling out DPI filtration tech that might finally block Telegram
Landfill or incineration.
They need to establish minimum upper body strength qualifications, since MAX pilots have to be able to manually trim the horizontal stabilizer using the wheel and cable mechanical controls.
His bombing campaign of terror was inexcusable and absolutely counterproductive to promoting his views but having read his collected writings he was surely ahead of his time as far as sussing out prevalent and significant ecological and social issues arising from our relationship to technology and the rest of the planet.
How will you prove that you'd written the prophesy before the thing happened, instead of just immediately before putting it in the shoebox?

Wouldn't it be easier to just write down things that happened already and pretend you predicted them?
This was a stimulating read and I'll be adding "High Output Management" to my reading list.

I've worked in organizations where the company strategy was poorly defined and this led to confusion and misalignment at the lower levels. I remember talking to some of my coworkers, wondering whether we had an issue with our executive team. It's interesting to think that it's not the role of the exec team to set strategy, and the issue may have been with the management layer below the exec team. Then again, maybe the problem was with the culture/value of diffuse ownership set by the exec team...
> My point is that either everything is or nothing is.

Come on, you can't seriously believe that either everything is metaphorical or nothing is. You have to be trolling me.

And these people aren't my friends.

For the record, "burn it to the ground" is a very common figure of speech on the left. For example, look at this editorial from only a month ago: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/24/austra... It's right in the subtitle!

Do you think this person wants to literally go get a torch and burn "the gender binary" to the ground? It doesn't even make sense. There's also no way you can interpret RMS as using a metaphor. He gave a defense of Minsky. How are metaphors even relevant? Are you trying to say he was joking?
imagine being the second to worst pilot, and not being hired at all.
Dunno the brits that live in Germany can just get a unlimited residency permit without any fuss.
Perhaps a portion of testing could be performed in the simulator using a random sample of line pilots?

The current advanced qualification program in use at the airlines kinda is set up to test operational policies. All pilots of a fleet (essentially a random sample of abilities) go into the sim once a year and perform a check on what’s considered a ‘normal’ flight in the sim where anomalies are presented without being pre-briefed and the crew must over come them just as if they were out flying the line. The data is aggregated and problematic trends are identified and corrected.

Translate the same to new aircraft certification. Get the airplane basically ready and train some pilots in the sim. Just regular line pilots who will be flying the aircraft for their airline. Then spend an appropriate amount of time giving them realistic scenarios (without pre-briefing the anomalies) that test the boundaries of the aircraft performance and see how the human/machine interaction occurs and if there are problems that need to be addressed. In the case of the MAX, MCAS was a new system so scenarios to test pilot interaction with it would’ve been a requirement and I’m sure these issues could’ve been identified.

This already happens to some degree when airlines take delivery of a new aircraft. They make proving runs to hammer out any small bugs and get good real world data on fuel usage, performance, etc. My proposal is simply to expand the scope of proving runs in the sim with a good dose of abnormal operations using normal every day line pilots.
It's not behavior that should be exhibited by a leader/evangelist for a cause.
No, no, no, no. Most decisions that impact your life in the US start at the city level. You CAN get involved and make a difference. It all starts there. Don't check out.
You are using phrases 'commit sexual assault' and 'guilty of sexual assault', which in my reading implicates legal level of analysis. Stallman does not use these phrases, and plain reading of his mail clearly expresses semantic argument.

Therefore, your original post could be read as misinterpretation of Stallman semantic argument as legal argument.

Also your original claim "While I believe that what he said[2] is so far beyond the pale of responsible discourse that removing him from his positions" would IMHO make more sense when your post is read as Stallman making (wrong) legal argument.

Everyone is entitled about per opinion on proper usage of language so it does not make sense why a semantic argument in general or this one in particular would be 'far beyond the pale', considering that his semantic argument makes (IMHO) perfect sense.
I don’t think they can avoid a usb device stack in bootrom. I haven’t read about this much yet, but without bootrom USB device mode support, the BL can’t be flashed on a bricked device. So, devices that are functional still, but somehow corrupted couldn’t be fixed in an Apple Store (or at home?). They’d likely be trash.

I’m sure they have multiple redundant BLs, so I don’t know how often this actually happens.

That USB code was surely the riskiest thing in the bootrom by far though. They will be re-evaluating if it is necessary in new chips.

They also probably provision the devices with USB in the factory. But if that’s all the usb was for, I would suspect it would be disabled as the last step.
Crisis is the perfect word.

Will read more about your offering compared to others. Sounds like your ahead of the curve so to say!
why Joe (by his own admission) extorted them into firing the prosecutor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trump-called-thi...

Please reconcile your post with WaPo story. Or something. I'd quote something from the article, but it's right there in the slug!

(Biden can just go away for all I care, I just wonder where you are getting your analysis from…)
Tips to improve programming skill and become a better developer
Huh, I was waiting Apple to approve my app about 7 weeks.. I really started to wonder whole app development in IOS platform.

Why in earth we need to pay 100 dollars to keep our Dev license and keep apps in store ?

Anyway, android app development has less sandbox feeling at the moment..
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As a lizard, I find that offensive! ;-)
Its snarky because there are large contributors to the tech sector whose profits simply funnel up to charitable organizations because they are owned by them.

The latest iteration of impact is born from ignorance of whats already out there and this is mutually exclusive of getting B Corp statutes passed and choosing to use them.

It is just Shariah compliant organizations rebranded for an islamaphobic audience (or maybe specifically “Shariah”-phobic). Kind of cute, I can understand how people are unaware of contexts outside of “theocratic human rights abuses”.

Constructive suggestions on B Corp? Its fine what they are trying to do, standardizing what impact even is and streamlining it with a single incorporation. I dont have any quantitative analysis of B Corp efficacy, does anyone?
Foundations on the other hand are forced to make charitable grants annually, and this is quantifiable. they simply own shares of C-Corps, therefore many C-Corp workers are doing impact work whether they made that conscious decision or not.
Didn’t see that one coming!
I like swear words. It's fun to tell online personnel your first high school is "Eat A Dick, Son".

High graduation rates at EADS HS, for the record.
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For some reason you can't put the health app on an iPad and that's my only iOS device.
"On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving power. Culture owes its peaks to politically weak ages.”

Anyone guess who?
I can confirm. I'm Chinese-American and I have to soothe my mother regularly, because she's worried about being deported (she's a Chinese immigant from China). I have to talk with my LGBTQ friends working in/for the government/government contracts and this reall stresses them out too.

I live in one of the states hugely impacted by the SALT cap. So my taxes have gone up, as well. It's a lot of little things.
Sure, database driven WP features, don't work - As they should.

You just need to select your plugins from a smaller set, and use external services like disqus for database based service.

And i think with time that thinking could lead to a set of plugins with good security through isolation.

As for hosting complexity - for many sites, this could be hidden from the developer and the client.

And regarding code complexity - how often are custom wordpress plugins or themes(without a site builder) required ? and how much developer time does it take ?
> It'll give them a big incentive to find ways to get the cost of certifications down.

That is exactly what went wrong in the 737 MAX process -- the goal was achived by using political pressure to weaken the oversight.

With proper oversight, type-certificate extension is a sound process. Without it, no form of certification is effective.
And the definition of what it means to be intolerant is shifting daily.
rlpyt: A Research Code Base for Deep Reinforcement Learning in PyTorch
This actually makes a lot more sense now. I was trying to figure out how this wins in comparison to a standard bar graph with markers. It says information density in the OP, but it never gives an example of how it consolidates information without obscuring it.
Thus far in my life I have always voted Democrat, and have not been a big fan of Trump at all. But the word "unhinged" is a perfect descriptor. The cycle of outrage and self-righteousness is counterproductive. Even worse is that we now have people defending outrage, saying that "civil discourse" has been used as a bludgeon in the past to silence minorities and other oppressed groups. I get it, it has the ring of logic to it. But what's happening on Twitter nowadays is not the same thing as the sit-in lunches or freedom riders in the 60s. Not at all.
Europeans overestimate the benevolence of their governing bodies. Things that limit freedoms of people are the same as things that empower government
I imagine they could use total flight hours and total 737 flight hours...or some other metric that roughly correlates to experience and skills.
What about below average pilots? If half of them are still going to crash, shouldn't the true idiots in the industry be the test dummies? No pun intended.
Elon is running 3 companies while Bezos runs only 1. So, Yes Elon has to work 3X Bezos.
> It's the Apocalypse about everything all the time.

I just catch-up on the news once a week to avoid thinking about it too much. Yeah, there's madness, but a lot of it is beyond my reach. So, it's not really helpful for me to hear about what's going on more than once a week.

> I always have this fantasy where I start my own TV news network and it's "just news".

PBS News Hour tends to do this pretty well. The experts they bring on usually do a good job of just discussing facts and describing common stances on all sides.

Part of your complaint has to do with the deregulation of the news industry, historically. In 1987, the FCC fairness doctrine was eliminated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

It's no mistake that it gave rise to a massive number of pundits under the guise of proper news outlets.
Anecdotally they've been the worst. Since you're adding a delivery middle man to the process instead of having a restaurant deliver straight to you, the food is usually later and colder. I think the only reason to use them is if you're craving something that is farther away or doesn't deliver, like fast food. But then you're paying a premium for colder/crappier food.
yeah but doesnt explain what it feels like to be conscious. And so on and so forth ad infinitum
Take a deep breath. Despite what you may see on TV, it’s not the end of the world.

“whether the US president is above the law or not”

Think of the situation as a poorly defined edge case. The Constitution does not say that laws don’t apply to the president. However, the president has constitutional duties and powers that the other branches have no power to interfere with. So, in some situations the net result may be that the president IS effectively above the law.

But don’t get too upset yet. The real check on power is the ballot box. Presidents only get 4 year terms. And in emergency situations Congress can impeach.

Let the system work itself out, and don’t become overly emotional. It’s not something important like baseball or whether your kid can read, it’s just politics.
I've never had one and I've never backed into anything without it.

I'm not really opposed to reversing cameras by themselves, but a) it takes up dashboard real estate for a feature I don't really use, and b) as soon as you put a screen on the dashboard, the company is going to want to put all sorts of annoying "features" into it.
Extending the Workers platform with our own serverless building blocks
This stood out to me reading the notes from Knuth's Mathematical Writing seminar, linked elsewhere on this comment page. An example from page 21:

> He recently spent four hours looking through the collected works of Lagrange trying to find the source of “Lagrange’s inequality,” but he was unsuccessful. Considering the benefit to future authors and readers, he’s not too unhappy with the new law.

The second sentence contrasts with the first, and with the rest of the paragraph, which I have omitted here. I had to read it twice to grasp its meaning. A "however" or a "nonetheless" is a nice hint to the lazy reader.
> I know as an individual it’s close to impossible to change anything due to how politics works

A society that fails to participate in their representative democracy is destined to lose it.

Voter apathy is one of the greatest existential threats to our society, hands down. Voting is one of the easiest, smallest commitments you can make as a citizen.

Activism certainly isn’t for everyone, and many aspects of the American political system are designed to systematically discourage voting and participation, but that’s not a valid reason not to exercise your basic voting rights. Nothing in our system of government is guaranteed.
It's at the cross section of modern technology & its impact on society. Seems right to me. Also, take a look at the community guidelines: They don't specify "tech news only", and in fact specify as on-topic "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". By that definition, pretty much anything that gets enough up-votes to rise to the community's attention is de-facto on topic.

Your comment, on the other hand, is decidedly against the community guidelines: "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."

guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem is that the way Gatsby uses React is different from the way most people use React. If you just use Prism the way you linked, you'll get an error about the DOM not being there (because with Gatsby, the code is running in Node). You need to use the `Prism.highlight()` API (which takes a string and returns a string) and AFAIK the only reasonable way to consume the output of that from React is through dangerouslySetInnerHtml.

I'd be happy if you could point me to a way to use Prism w/ Gatsby that isn't as hacky.

The React-on-server aspect actually has a somewhat profound impact on what you can do. For example, if you have a newsletter subscription component in some other project, there's an almost 100% chance that it won't work in Gatsby because it likely relies on some DOM-related API like onSubmit or onClick
PBS Frontline is a series of long-form investigative pieces.
Of course. That’s pretty common though, and you don’t hear about when that is successful. As an example, the 757 and 767 share a common type rating.
If it's ideally suited for everything then either it's a significant gain across the board and should be used in every situation ever, or it's got no particular advantage in any specific domain.
If Apple gave authorised owners a way to sign and boot their own code there wouldn't be as much of a necessity for people to go hunting for these exploits.
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> The observed flight characteristics of these craft are consistent with the flight characteristics required for interstellar travel. That is, if these observed accelerations were sustainable in space, then these craft could easily reach relativistic speeds within a matter of minutes to hours and cover interstellar distances in a matter of days to weeks, proper time.

The authors are not actually suggesting that the craft are flying faster than light speed, they are arrogantly defining the reference frame of a traveler aboard the ship as "proper time". It would still take over 4 years to get to Alpha Centauri from our perspective.
Really, they shouldn't be trying to test for an "average" pilot, they should be testing for a "bad" pilot - one who can only meet the minimum requirements for a pilot's license.
> Apple service is atrocious. Don't they make you book an appointment and turn up at their store just to get someone to look at it?

I had a macbook pro with a logic board that died. I phoned Apple, they couriered me a replacement device next day, and that courier picked up my old device. Literally couldn't ask for better service.
sorry, who are these people you've just graciously named??