skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! Co-inventor of the product (and author of the link) here.

The reason that the button isn't on the lid is because that makes the lid uglier and, more importantly, undermines the philosophy behind the UI - which is to keep the device as absolutely simple as possible. The idea came from my partner (Zach Dunham) and was inspired partly by Radiolab's 2008 episode, "Choice" - it's a bit of a deep cut but I recommend listening to it and thinking a little bit about how choice functions in the FM radio world (which is, obviously, competing with Spotify & podcasts) today.

Also note that we developed the product in ~2013, when everyone in the hardware scene in NYC was all into IoT and making everything bluetooth. I think there was part of us that believed that IoT (and connecting everything to the internet) was misguided and that having a long term relationship with a local news/radio source (which for me is Hot 97, but for most of our customers is their local NPR affiliate) is actually really cool/powerful/valuable.

Lastly, you should note that a lot of our business now comes from selling The Public Radio to radio stations (again, mostly NPR affiliates) to give out as fund drive gifts. For obvious reasons, having a single-channel radio is attractive to both the station managers and their donating listeners.
Just in case, Aaron Hsu made a bunch of talks about APL

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aaron+hsu

It's a bit caustic to the mainstream (beauty, terseness over ease and variable names) but I personally find it tickles all my boxes.
Cool, a modern day Core War!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
Exactly - we never wanted to compete with the rest of the home audio industry!
I'm slightly surprised at the necessity of detailing the importance of exact white spacing of the company name. I would expect the talented employees to know perfectly how to spell the name of their detail-oriented employer.
But this advice only really applies to projects where you create every service and layer. If you want to incorporate a 3rd party service, or want to allow your service to be used by others, you need some sort of common format. JSON isn't the most efficient, but it gets a lot of exposure from being a first class citizen of the web. Msgpack is good if you want efficiency. But you need something if you want your program to communicate with others.
Uranium is an alpha decay emitter. While it won't make you (literally) glow in the dark, inhaling uranium dust is pretty toxic radiologically and can cause significant damage internally. In addition, it isn't great for you chemically.

When it decays, it also releases radon, which causes additional problems.

Are there worse things? Sure. Is it safe to be around Uranium dust? No.

https://web.evs.anl.gov/uranium/guide/ucompound/health/index...
As someone presently doing a PhD in machine learning and neuroscience, which includes submitting to AI conferences...

Frankly, I think this is a bubble, and don't expect to ever make anything like that much money, in academia or industry. Yes, deep learning has a lot of successes and industrial applications, but deep learning wizards are not nearly so impossible to replace or replicate. As the field settles more towards engineering than wizardry, and as expectations are recalibrated towards the realistic, it's going to stop raining cash.
> (I think they said he was an CIA operative?)

Not operative, no.

The NYT revealed (/outed) they are a CIA officer who was detailed to the white house, and further noted that they were a trained analyst (not a field agent) familiar with the european field of US foreign policy.
Why I Hold on to My iPhone SE and Don’t Care About iPhone 11
Misleading article and headline; a few celebrity researchers in high-up positions make this much. You can probably find some chemists who make $1M too if they have made it to executive positions.

Most AI researchers in industry make a lot of money, $200k+, but that is not so outrageous in the context of big tech companies.

And in fact the vast majority of AI researchers are making $20k-$30k a year, because they are graduate students.
He’s not the only person making ground breaking research in neural networks.

You can walk into NIPS and find a handful of other researchers that perform at or better in this space.
> always start in one place and explore others ... German engineering culture

It's said that Germany has almost 50% of the world's 'hidden champion' companies (revenue less than 5 Billion Euros, unknown to the public, market leader in a niche domain globally (among the biggest three) or leader at the home continent). People coming from the outside might overlook these companies. More than 1300 hidden champions are distributed all over Germany, often in rural areas and acting globally (examples: Herrenknecht for tunnel boring machines or Lürssen for superyachts). Germany in general is a very decentralized country with lots of successful small and midsized cities (Examples for large companies: VW headquarter is in Wolfsburg, Audi in Ingolstadt, Adidas in Herzogenaurach, SAP in Walldorf).

https://hbr.org/2017/05/why-germany-still-has-so-many-middle...
Yeah that’s pretty insulting, honestly. Black or Sholes were making >10m as thought leaders in banks. It’s surprising to me that finance is so passe as a career despite the fact, as Matt Levine said, “they are run as employee run co-ops.” In otherwords, big big money. Entry level analysts at my old firm were making over 250k total comp.
Javascript proprietary? Are you, people, all <redacted-expletive> here?
I don’t see how it’s that different from launchy.

Hit a key combination, GUI launches, you type.
-1000 points for failing to disclose responsibly
I think “the war” refers to World War II (curious name for it!) and this person still has a point, unless you went to med school before 1990. The wiki[0] says that the effect was discovered in 1989, and lots of the referenced literature is from 2002/2003.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit–drug_interactions
I take atorvastatin for high cholesterol; it says don't eat grapefruit on the side of my medication bottle. I never really thought about why, but this gives me more reasons to avoid it. Although now I have a huge craving for grapefruit juice, of course.
Show HN: Data structures and patterns for coding interviews
> He is extremely risk-averse, even with all of his money.

Perhaps he's extremely risk-averse _because_ he has all this money. Making more money would not have much impact on his life, while losing it would make a significant difference.
Context is always important. At the end of the day it is about what value you bring to the table. If the work fits your experience and capabilities well, charging anything between $150 and $250+ per hour on a long term contract isn't out of the question, I've done it many time, with multi-year engagements. The best deal I did was some 25 years ago was substantially above that range.

Of course, part of it is being a good negotiator --and I am not the best by far.

Again, it is all about what one side needs vs. what the other side can deliver. You then add a context that includes such things as urgency, uniqueness of the problem to be solved, supply of practitioners with the required expertise as well as other dynamics (does the company need to meet a milestone ASAP?) and you have the makings of doing very well if you are in the right place, at the right time and with adequate negotiating skill.

Of course, if close such deals you have to be able to deliver the goods or you better start thinking about an alternative career.
Corporate press releases get voted up to #2 on HN these days? Unfortunate.
I hope that telecommuting will prevent this. The same amount of money can net you a much higher standard of living in a rural area with less crime and pollution and an all around better place to raise children.

Having half the world converge on urban centers scrambling to pay exorbitant rent and taxes for the privilege of 100sq feet of personal space while sharing an apartment with five strangers is misguided at best and dystopian at worst.
I think you’ve sort of articulated the problem yourself. Cars are inherently incredibly dangerous, and also ubiquitous.

Therefore, even a subtle change to how cars work has the potential to cause literal carnage. And this isn’t a subtle change.
Quoting John Gruber:

"Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services. The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources. By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true."
I'm surprised some houses still use this. As it's impossible to leave the building without a key in case of a fire.

I suspect it may even be illegal today.
Paper Airplane Flies Forever over Pizza
Every script I write is for a generic. I have never met a drug rep.

For many ailments there are five or six different drugs suited for the job. Goodrx helps me pick the most affordable.
$500 for hobbyist edition. Ouch!
Building a Zero Curve with Forward Rate Agreements Using Pandas
Kind of strange to write an article about a particular design feature and not say what the point of it was?!
Death from below in the world's most bombed country
A lock-only-with-key door would be seriously slow. It couldnt work in high-traffic area, the sorts of places we now use keyless entry.
I have thought about this idea of a personal "knowledge base". There are so many important bits of knowledge that are scattered among things like Evernote (and its like), browser bookmarks, emails, blog posts, articles from newspapers, periodicals, etc. I don't know of any solution to this "knowledge hurricane", as least not yet.
Bloomberg lost a shitload of credibility with the implants story. I'd definitely believe Alex Stamos over Bloomberg.
Yeah, Josh's method of tuning The Public Radio is super cool. We never actually implemented it in production, but our manufacturing line is in some ways even cooler (it's fully just-in-time) and is remarkably advanced for a FM radio in a mason jar :) I wrote it up in a separate blog post here: http://pencerw.com/feed/2018/2/8/the-public-radios-assembly-...
Cool README.
This point of view contributes just as much to the corruption of politics as people who may actually be acting it out, because it implicitly asserts that there are no values in play beyond power.

There may be no way of knowing for sure if anyone involved genuinely holds principles above power. But there are absolutely issues of principle in play, and in a well-functioning representative society, everyone has the privilege of lining up behind principles to give them currency.

Personally, I'm behind the idea that our head of state should be determining benefits offered to foreign nations by recognizable general national interest, not by personal interest, or partisan interest, certainly including tying foreign participation in investigation theater to aid.

Hell, I'm behind the idea that our head of state should have a coherent concept of what the national interest is.

But then again, that'd require voters who have some idea of this. And citizens who have a vision of society that's more than a struggle for status and privilege for those who achieve it.
Given Satya's background, it seems fairly clear what the board were looking for when they chose their new CEO, and he's delivering exactly what we might have expected.

To be fair to him, from a business perspective, look at Microsoft's share price since. As long as the cloud hype continues and no-one is looking too closely at where Microsoft's money is (and in some cases now isn't) coming from, the stock is likely to keep going up and he probably has free reign to do almost anything he wants. What is anyone going to do about it?

I'm still a little surprised that none of the other IT giants appears to have identified the Windows 7 EoL next year as a rare opportunity to grab a significant chunk of the desktop market and been building a credible competitor. Even with the current trend for shifting things online, local computing isn't going anywhere any time soon, not least because many people and businesses want a level of security, privacy, longevity and reliability that online services simply don't offer. We've seen many times that a new, significantly different platform with enough "killer apps" to gain a foothold can then grow and do well, from mobile devices to games consoles and of course the whole world of cloud computing and SaaS, all of which have disrupted traditional desktop/laptop/server markets significantly while creative very lucrative new industries in themselves. I was wondering a few years ago as the intended strategy for Windows 10 was becoming clear whether an Apple or a Red Hat or even a traditional heavyweight like IBM might have stepped in. I guess no-one thought the cost/risk was attractive enough.
The idea the law was changed recently has been debunked, by a few analysts online. It looks like an online form may have changed, but not the law itself.
"Youtube uses proprietary Javascript [code], which RMS never supported ..."
I have never done that in the past and entertaining the idea of resurrecting older macs I have and install a Linux distro on them.

I was concerned that I might run into driver issues and such and thought to see what others have experienced in this as I have seen mixed things doing a basic Google search.
But then you don't have medium's discoverability.
Not really. When you can open it from the inside without using a key, you can then also leave it open without that key being inserted into the door, if necessary by propping up something to the door to prevent it from closing itself (from what I understand, you could even use the door’s bolt for that; if you close the bolt while the door is open, you can remove your key, and the door can’t be closed without a key)

I doubt that’s theoretical. Kids playing in the garden and on the street could easily use that ploy.
Classic ASP was terrible; if you're thinking ASP.NET then that did not exist at the time.
I'm in no way affiliated to either site but this surely looks like an identical copy of EventGeek.com, showing similar text and images.
Thirty years ago, I lived in Germany as a military wife for nearly four years. Pretty much everywhere I needed to go and interact, everyone spoke fluent English and businesses near the American military post had signs in English and catered to the Americans.

I showed up knowing some German because my mother is German. My fluency only improved marginally in the time I was there because most Germans I met spoke English and were thrilled to have the opportunity to practice their English with a native speaker, so I was actively denied opportunities to improve my German because they would promptly begin speaking English to me.

When we did day trips to do touristy stuff, it was helpful that I knew more German than most Americans there. I carried a German-English dictionary with me and looked up words I saw on signs. (You can now do that much easier on a smartphone.)

It may actually be nigh impossible to learn German, even if you want to. I wanted to, so badly. Almost no one would speak it with me.

I am still not fluent in German and it would be too hard to get there via intentional self study to be worth the effort to me. It should have been vastly easier to learn through immersion while living there, but almost no one would speak German with me in Germany.

It quite aggravated me. In my youth, I wanted to be a translator and I wanted to learn seven languages fluently. I know a smattering of German, French, Greek, Spanish and Russian (and took French and classical Greek in college). I'm not fluent in any of them.

I've turned my attention to learning languages like HTML and CSS. I'm not fluent in them either, but they are infinitely more useful to me in day-to-day life.
That's fair, but if I were to guess I'd say only 5% of our customers are even aware that the radio is re-tunable. It's not a secret by any means, but we don't really promote it and even if you did once know about it you could easily forget that it's an option at all.
It’s a Sunday. Weekend HN is a free-for-all. I kind of like it this way.
I’m happy for you that you found your purpose in life in caring for someone. Imagine the world where everyone is cared for so that there is no need for your care. What would you do?
AssetBlock X Algorand in a Bid to Launch a $60M Real Estate Investment Platform
Also Fresca is packed with grapefruit juice.
I built, and run, Trolley [1], a simple payments tool that lets you take payments from any website (or just a link).

It's Clojure in the back end, on Postegres, on Heroku.
Everything in the product front-end is ClojureScript, with reagent, hosted in S3 behind CloudFront.

All deployments through CircleCI, GitHub for VCS. Emacs for development, on a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu :)

Marketing website is a static site, built with Middleman; again, CloudFront + S3.

1. https://trolley.link
For some, yes.
Which get you into defining consciousness too.

Sticky wicket.
If you remove the word "encrypted" from this sentence in the Bloomberg article:

Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Then the article matches Stamos's account entirely.

With the word "encrypted," the article makes no sense – it would take legislation to force US companies to build backdoors to encryption, not an international accord.

I agree the HN headline could be better (my fault!) - but my money is on another Bloomberg security reporting error. Hope they actually issue a correction this time...
Have met Henrik a couple times -- super fascinating, very down to earth guy.

Interesting to get a peek at what goes on behind the curtain.
When aircraft pull too much angle of attack, the wing abruptly suffers a loss of lift anywhere the maximum lift coefficient has been exceeded. If your entire wing loses lift all at once this can be very dangerous. As a result, most wings are designed with what's called Washout, wherein the angle of incidence at the root is greater than at the tip. This causes the wing root to stall before the tip, which allows a pilot to maintain control as the onset of stall appears.

Using a forward-swept wing causes the spanwise (along the wing's length) flow to be net inward, rather than outward which is the case in a conventional aircraft. With the right mix of composite materials to control aeroelastic twist this causes a similar effect to washout wherein the wing root will stall before the tips, but greatly reduces wingtip vortices and thus reduces total aerodynamic drag. As someone else pointed out, you also get an induced drag benefit because both the canards and main wings are producing upward moments, so the total magnitude of lift force required for a given weight is less.

The "so what?" of all that is it lets you build a smaller, faster, more agile aircraft at the cost of significantly increased aerodynamic and control complexity.
How to use dark mode in iPhone
Please add option for state also
Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment (2013)
Last Words Won't Be Profound, Witty, or Even Coherent
Not in my experience. All the mathematics departments with which I've been associated have had logicians.

Perhaps philosophy departments also have logicians, and perhaps they take different approaches, but certainly "Logic" is considered a sub-discipline of mathematics.
>his work did not get a lot of practical support

In 1990 Stallman received a MacArthur grant, which comes with $500,000. During the late 1990s, many of the founding fathers of free software were granted stock during IPOs. Here for example is documentation that Eric Raymond got stock that ended up being worth $36 million (for a couple of years until the bust in 2001): https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/12/10/ipo_makes_va_linux_...

Now Eric Raymond got that stock for accepting a position on the Dot Com's board of directors, and I can well imagine Stallman refusing all such directorships on principle, but OTOH I would be surprised if none of the founders of successful Dot Coms during that period donated generously to Stallman directly or via the FSF.

In general, almost everybody with as much fame and public reputation for moral rectitude ("prestige"?) as Stallman has for as long as Stallman has had it is worth at least a million or 2 dollars (unless they're, you know, chronically mentally ill or some such). Fame and prestige for example get you much higher speaking fees, and public speaking has long been Stallman's favorite thing to do.
Not everyone can see.
Just gotta know which companies to talk to at the fair. For example, line for Google at my school was always long, but very quick, because they simply took the resumes, had a 1min long convo that didnt really matter (as i was even told by people working the booth there), and that’s it. For others, it actually did matter. So you just gotta figure out which ones actually care about the career fair and which ones do not.

While i find the generalization of “big corps waste your time at career fairs, small companies actually do care” to be a good general heuristic for starting out, this is not universally true. Off the top of my head, i remember Palantir and Bloomberg specifically caring a lot about the career fair, with the former especially known for giving quick on-the-spot interviews at the career fair (note: i ended up working for neither of them, but i went through the full interview loops with both, and both can be absolutely attributed to my conversations with them at the fair).

It is difficult to know any of that the first time you attend a career fair, but by the time your last career fair rolls out, you should already have a good idea which companies are worth talking to at the fair and which ones are not (thru your own previous experiences, friends, etc).
For the devices that run off of low voltage DC today, lots of other commenters make good points about needing to regulate the voltage anyway, and I'm inclined to agree. Those devices generally use very little power anyway, so it probably isn't worth running a second set of wires because copper is expensive.

On the other hand, the biggest power users in a house (heater, air conditioner, dryer, stove, refrigerator) seem like they are a different story. In a future home with solar power and a high voltage DC battery pack, I think there is opportunity to make appliances that operate from the raw battery voltage, which is in the 300-500v DC range. That way, there isn't any conversion required at all, and those applications should be able to handle slight variations in voltage as the battery discharges.
I think this article just reeks of jealousy. What is wrong with paying people doing top research a top salary? Their skills are extremely rare. And I bet executives get way more anyway.
Why are the two separate? Of course you include cost when evaluating with option is superior.
Wow, that's it? I mean that's a lot (objectively compared to most people's compensation), but I think my skip manager makes that much...
Faith that pre-programmed cars are going to outperform humans is equivalent to predicting general AI.