skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, the visualization is so helpful. Even better I think would be if the point field was counter rotating and scrolling such that the windmill was constantly falling forwards and backwards either side of being vertical, keeping the two sets of points bisected and on either side of the screen.
This has been done before multiple times and the resulting technical work significantly improved GNU (ECGS and EGLIBC come to mind). Also, historically, GNU maintainers aren't obligated to give total deference to RMS (the glibc steering committee comes to mind). So while "RMS is the king" might be true on paper, it's been neither true nor helpful to GNU in practice, and insisting on it simply hurts projects that are less well-staffed to fight political fights or organize forks. It doesn't help the free software movement at all.
> Providing concrete advice is impossible to "scale" (e.g. books, podcasts, video, etc) as it requires context.

Wouldn't that make it easier to scale, since there's more context you can provide?
> Per the Constitution, the individual 50 states are fully sovereign.

As far as I can find, the constitution does not use the word "sovereign." Can you point me to which clause you're referring to? It's also worth noting that whatever the constitution says, the states are de facto less independent than many envisioned at the turn of the 19th century.
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This is pretty much a requirement for any serious company, but it still doesn't solve the problem completely as lots of builds depend on public docker hub containers. When the docker hub outage happened earlier this week our production systems were fine, but our dev processes slowed down quite a bit until it was resolved.

Unfortunately though docker hub really is a dumpster fire of a service, otherwise I'd have no problem just using their private repo features. However there are so many problems with that site that it's easier just to jump to AWS ECR or Github's new service.
Long Island City Will Soon Be Home to New York’s Biggest Battery
Large as in 1 out of 1.000

The point is that to be mainstream it's enough to be used by one major app store

How many apps care about FPGA or what compilers do, given that they don't even know what the underlying OS does or when and why memory is allocated?

I work in finance, even there performances are for niche projects, the bulk of the job is replacing excel macros with something slightly less 90s style.
If you can have better solution to the problem at hand with the library, you will solve it faster. Turnaround time for library is much less than for a compiler.

So if language provides a way to solve something with a library instead of compiler, it provides a way for faster path to solution.
Pinch (Plasma Physics)
Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press
Your experience is interesting: entrepreneurs take a lot of responsibility with lots of uncertainty - feeding lots of raw material directly into the anxiety disorder. How and where did you learn your techniques for managing your anxiety? How long did it take before you were able to see positive changes? Any diet and/or daily routine changes?

Wouldn’t it be less stressful to get a job?
Probably not networking or trying out different activities in university. Basically just took on the classes and got my degree, and that was that.

Unfortunately, I realised afterwards that who you know is a lot more important than what you know, as well as that university is one of the best times to both meet interesting new people and get involved in new hobbies. Not knowing anyone afterwards probably made it much more difficult to get my first job afterwards, as well as to find startup cofounders and what not.

Also regret shutting down my first major internet community/forum site, since it was pretty damn popular at the time (about 300,000 posts/a few thousand users), and when merged with my later ones, could have become the base for a much larger community.

Also regret not jumping on a few internet bandwagons/gold rush scenarios too. Seeing how successful some channels became on YouTube/Twitch/whatever kinda makes me wish I'd made the investment and gone all in on one of these platforms back when they were starting out. Writing doesn't exactly pay anymore, and those who made the transition to video earlier have sometimes built entire careers out of it.
TurboTax is getting worse and worse every year.

One example where it worked well before and became a complicated mess now: for some deductions you need answer a lot of questions just for it to tell you that you are not eligible because of your income. Why not to check this in the very beginning?
For sure. If I didn’t totally agree with you I’d never read anything on HN. Entertainment indeed!
Mark is a good person. I think this can be resolved.
I'm not sure whether you are American, but it appears that Americans are much more sensitive to sex-related topics than Europeans (particularly in regard to teenagers).
CIA agents are trained to be perfectly just like "one of us" leading apparently normal lives.

There are most likely CIA agents among us here on Hacker News... functioning as technology executives, sales people, engineers, developers, etc
> It sounds like you have short-term rental properties, aka unregulated hotels, or more accurately regulation-skirting residential businesses.

There are regions where is is a regulated, perfectly-acceptable activity, and has been for longer than the founders of AirBnB have been alive.
While I 100% agree with you, as a Java dev who is very interested in optimization (particularly register coloring) at a certain point I think you have to realize that any "compiler type" optimizations you do (Ooh, I'll optimize my variable declaration order to not spill to memory!) is just ignored and re optimized by most compilers worth their weight in salt. Therefore, it's totally counter productive. All the time spent worrying about GC lag is, IMO, wasted compared to other more productive things. I haven't programmed anything mechanical in over 6 years. Basically, for your average developer, while I highly recommend learning the whole stack, I don't believe the notion that understanding the whole stack will actually lead to tangible improvements for programmers. They'd be better served focusing purely on theory (and by theory I mean algorithms).

As a side note: I hate hardware, but I love graph algorithms, which is why I love register coloring so much :)
I was reading some data off of the network and storing it in a byte array. Then it was being loaded into some SIMD registers (ARM NEON) to do mathy stuff. Ended up in type punning hell when the code ran fine on some machines but not others. IIRC it worked on machines running Linux but not on bare metal.
My point was that is will assist the hearing, not the deaf. So yes, this seems like it's not useful at all to the deaf community.
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Scientists discover skin keeps time independent of the brain
Many regular contributors to GNU projects didn't like RMS's involvement in the first place. He makes no technical contribtions, and he tends to post politically divisive flamebait-ey topics to the email lists. He'll also undercut his appointed maintainers by posting his own musings about decisions that have already been settled by the maintainers. More than once, he's used an effective "veto" power to force sub-optimal architectural choices in an effort to make sure GNU projects can't easily interoperate with non-GPL software. Refusing to expose gcc functionality through a library interface is the best-known example (which directly led many developers, researchers, and organizations to adopt clang and LLVM), but there are others, including a veto of Emacs features that would make it easier to talk to clang to power IDE-like features.

Most regular contributors found this behavior frustrating, and would discuss it privately, although rarely if ever discuss it on-list. These are people who are absolutely committed to free software, they were just sick of dealing with RMS. Wingo's stated attitude seems pretty typical: RMS was damage that needed to be routed around.

After developing this reputation, it's not shocking that most maintainers and contributors accepted his resignation from the FSF with a shrug. They were sick of dealing with him anyway - they're not going to protest to try to get him back.
Yup, and I guarantee you foreign states send nosey-nellies to all these venues to do nothing but snoop on this stuff.
Except Founding Farmers.
IMHO, I disagree. The problem is taking an entire article not filtering the emotions out of it, tallying emotional hits and drives a score. If the article has a high degree of emotional identifiers its most likely an opinion piece not an entirely factual news article. Then articles from the same agency that has low repeatedly scores (or writers) would be flagged.

Use media bias checker, pick the far left and far right news/blog agencies, train them on picking out emotions arguments first, then statements of facts.

We train AI with xrays at work. Humans identify the issues on scans, then the software learns from humans identification on the xrays. After training, it can start to recognize what humans are identifying. Text has meaning, so you have to defuzz the text into something simpler.
100%. They would be impressed you were able to recreate a great work on your own, and it might end with an assistantship in a studio somewhere on campus.
Every point in this article can also be used to talk about technical debt.
> The problems start because 99% people aren't educated on the true value of their kidney.

And which problems are those? There are no significant issues that arise from having one fewer kidney.

> They are not in an adequate position to judge the value of an essential organ and the ramifications for missing it for the rest of their life. Because they are not doctors and not experts.

Sure, but that problem exists in tons of market interactions that we solve in various ways. Information disclosure and education, certification programs, etc..This is a very, very easy solve.
To the second question, when you work in the industry you realize the answer is often the programmer.

Edit: There were a lot of questions in that comment.
> how a model feels for a user in the real world is something you can't really get by just testing against switchboard

Fair but statistical systems are also extremely susceptible to placebo. I would be curious what a test set shows.
I would call their work art. You don't call it art? Now you are being just like me.

Exactly my point about Picasso, his early work was awesome. What everyone likes from his is terrible.
Only crashes, as far as I know.

I met a bug from 2010 in Openresty where if you set ngx.header["Cache-Control"] = nil then sometime later maybe nginx will segfault.

nginx uses a pointer to char and length for strings, like any sane C program. For headers that are always present on the response, setting the header value to nil from Lua is implemented as setting it to {NULL, 0} (which is different from the empty string, as far as the lua side is concerned). Sometime later, nginx will call strlcasestrn passing this header value to check whether it contains "private". This involves adding the length of the string to the start pointer to calculate the upper bound. So that's NULL + 0, which is whatever the compiler feels like it is at the time.
TFA is a superficial look at the very highest level hand-wavey numbers.

What I think you would find if you peel the onion is that the green economy is driven by the extraordinary value that “green” technologies actually present for those that invest in them, net any offered subsidies of course.

The way to grow the “green” economy is to continue to foster ways for green tech to provide massive economic value to its adopters.

For example, net metering provides a tremendous incentive to install solar that otherwise wouldn’t exist because the batteries are currently too expensive to use all your own generation.

As battery prices have plummeted, the time will come when removing net metering is the best way to incentivize the next wave of green investment, and replacing it with demand pricing of distributed supply.

Personally I think investing trillions of dollars before the tech is ready to provide a solid return on investment would be a huge mistake. If the ROI is there then the government can spend $1 today to save $2 over the next 10 years, and since it prints money and inflation / discount rate is super low, it can do that all day long.

Versus spending $1 to replace infrastructure with something that performs worse, meaning $1 today costs you even more money tomorrow, which is the equivalent of burning money for jobs programs.
I like their meta, and semantics layers.

In the past I've built a scheme similar to their semantics layer, where a bunch of additional metadata is associated with schema metadata via PostgreSQL's COMMENT statement (which lets you associate a free-form text comment with all sorts of schema elements). In that scheme we had JSON COMMENTs and a set of views that ultimately generates a nice JSON representation of a database's schema, including the JSON COMMENTs in the right places, and _that_ gave us UI control that we could then use to generate Admin-on-REST UIs from. And PostgREST can be used to get an HTTP JSON API for free.

For event pub/sub, I've written an used an alternative (all-PlPgSQL-coded) view materialization system that supports live-updating of materialized views as well as recording deltas, which then can be combined with NOTIFYs. Unlike Aquameta, the fact that NOTIFY requires no authorization, and its payload is free-form text, I feel queasy about sending out too much information in NOTIFYs -- instead I use them to drive queries for new deltas as recorded by the delta recorder mentioned earlier in this paragraph. The component that LISTENs for NOTIFYs then writes deltas to a file which is served with a special HTTP server that supports hanging GETs of files -- "tailfhttpd" -- and any HTTP client can then be used to tail these files.

Anyways, the Aquameta scheme is pretty good.

EDIT: I've been tempted to write an authorization-for-NOTIFY patch to PG... I really don't like the idea that if I give someone direct access to the DB they can NOTIFY anything they like on any channel.
To do this meaningfully on any dataset that changes (finance, health, etc) will cost too much to store on blockchain. It’s expensive enough trying to store it on s3 or even glacier. If the chain stores everything forever it will get too expensive too fast.

I think a more realistic (but way less money for speculators) is to store PKI on a blockchain, then encrypt any blob anywhere and sign. Send that signature to the smart contract and have them pull blob from non-blockchain store.

If it’s something that the owner has agency issues with (eg, calculating fico score) then register the hashes of the data with a blockchain.

No need to store the data on the chain unless you’re worried about it disappearing.
> while peptides usually are too short to have a defined fold.

That's not strictly true. My PhD project has looked at an entire class of peptides that are known to fold in to alpha-helices when bound to a cell membrane e.g. https://www.rcsb.org/structure/2k9b.

There are many others that are known to fold into beta-sheets too.
Ok here's a talk about making Haskell games that took place last week: https://keera.co.uk/blog/2019/09/16/maintainable-mobile-hask...
I don't deny that making games in Haskell is niche, but it's certainly possible. Frag was just an example I remembered (ten years is recent for an old git like me).
I mentioned a lower value to indicate it definitely wasn't worth it.
What is heading? Can out phone identify the orientation too? What if there are two "famous" buildings beside each other? How can you differentiate without actually identifying the image?
I didn’t know about this when I was a student but my college had a similar programme. I don’t think the artists were so well known. As I recall, the bigger issue was that if you had picture rails then you needed to acquire picture hooks and if you didn’t have picture rails then there wasn’t really a good way to hang paintings

I don’t think there were deposits but we maybe had to write down what we had borrowed.
YT Trying to Force Me to Social Engineer You
Don't forget XEmacs!
If they have offices and employees in Hamburg, they're probably boned then.

> They operate a service targeted at German users

Thats been proven irrelevant in most courts. You have to have a legal nexus for the law to apply, and simply offering something that $COUNTRY wants doesn't matter.
Oh I see, sorry!

I thought you were saying 'look at all these comments of dang's, calling out other people, but not a single one of them is subtantive itself'.
> Yes, literally why OHS exists and should continue to exist.

I'm not familiar with any agency by the name of OHS. Do you mean OSHA? Because they don't regulate employees, they regulate employers.

> Who is going to need that sum, but also afford all the post-op medical care and time off? In case of complication, who is responsible? Something tells me if you're needing that sum, you're not going to have the medical coverage required to take care of yourself. Iran seems to have a higher level of general healthcare coverage than America [1].

First of all, 'time off' isn't a thing for many people. Many people are unemployed, so time off costs them nothing. Secondly, obviously the person purchasing the kidney would cover all aspects of care related to the operation.
You just have to read the websites, like https://12bytes.org/articles/exposed/npr-national-public-rad... or https://www.mrc.org/bozells-column/npr-admits-liberal-bias

The criticism looks like most criticism of news media: braindead reporters, selective coverage, etc., pointing to some bias, but not really enough overall to be conclusive. And associated with the same sort of people that would sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.

IDK, my experience is that news reports are OK for getting introduced to a topic but all the detailed/useful information is in blogs and databases these days.
"if it makes you feel something, it's art" is not correct at all.

This is what I'm trying to state. Art is craftmanship then to you, since you can't understand that art requires skill or talent.
I read the memoir of a CIA case officer ("See No Evil" by Bob Baer) while at that same university. It was surreal to think the place he trained was where I would end up if I turned right instead of left when getting off the highway.
Gotta love the internet, filled with wonders like this... ;)
> invited her to a pub called the Fuggle & Firkin

Fuggle is a classic English aroma hop, released in 1875 by Mr Richard Fuggle. [1]

Firkin is an English brewery cask unit, specifically one fourth of a barrel or half a kilderkin. [2]

There used to be a chain of Firkin pubs in the UK, all of which featured Firkin in the name, e.g. Fettler and Firkin, Goose and Firkin, etc. [3]

[1] https://www.britishhops.org.uk/varieties/fuggle/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_brewery_cask_units#Fir...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firkin_Brewery
Indeed the main problem, counter to queuing theory, is that the individuals are not pushed anymore from behind, hence they take their time, slowly without feeling any pressure.
Yes, but per the article itself it only explains 18% of cost. And overhead is never going to be zero, so you can maybe, what cut that in half? At best? That's not even close to explaining the discrepancy between US per capita spending and other countries.
Adidas: We Over-Invested in Digital Advertising
Unlikely, clothing shapes don't tend to be biomarkers.
Hacker News and a few Subreddits of whichever hobby I'm interested in at the moment. I do miss the old days of forums, though. HN and Reddit both don't seem to give me the same feeling for some reason I haven't figured out yet.
Sort of. I think it falls apart quickly.

If I draw a picture of you, is it your data or mine?

If you walk through my house and I store the pattern you leave in my WiFi signal, is it your data or mine.

I think we’d have to narrowly define what belongs to an individual and it would be too narrow to address the problem.

Also data as property would get signed away for nothing like how arbitration clauses are in practically every contract with no added benefit to the signer.
Facial recognition countermeasures can be considered in some ways obsolete in an era of stance and gait recognition.
Storage has other problems; A painting stored away in a climate controlled vault where no one can look at it is just a dusty canvas rectangle.

A painting requires a viewer for it to become art.
I'm pretty sure it wouldn't happen with the term Dark Hypothesis, or Dark Inconsistency. Or something cooler than those :^) . I think the words 'matter' and 'energy' are the confusion because they are already overloaded with meaning, even if not properly understood by the public, they still have some sort of idea of what those are.

It might be interesting if we had a standard, and publicly known, word or phrase used when talking about scientific results that find an inconsistency between reality and theory (not just slang). Like, "today physicists discovered a Theory Bug when applying Einstein's general relativity to galaxies" or some such. Something cooler than that though.
Most YC founders were rejected multiple times before they got in. In my batch around 50% of the founders were previously rejected, which I believe is standard for most batches.
Wendell Potter was a national media figure during the hub-bub about the Micheal Moore film Sicko about ten years ago.
> Why does functional programming need to be taught in schools but all the other various programming topics did not?

Because I think it is harder for people who have programmed with other paradigms - following an inverse law, most things should get easier to learn with experience, not harder. It's foreign, it's weird, it's back to front. It doesn't have an immediately obvious benefit to what people are used to, and the benefits it has come at scale and up against the wall of complexity (in my opinion). It's hard to adopt upfront. At the small scale it's often painful to use. The syntax is weird. It's aggressively polymorphic, reasoning in abstractions rather than concretions. I could go on (and yet I still adore it).

The only reason FP has been successful as it is, is because its evangelists are incredibly vocal, to the point of being fucking annoying sometimes. It's had to be forced down people's throats at times, and frankly, there's no better place to force a paradigm down someone's throats than at a university, where non-compliance comes at academic penalty, and when the mind is most impressionable.
Nitpick: 1889 can't be the very first hiking trail, because two years earlier a polish artist and hiker named Walery Eljasz marked a trail from Zakopane to Morskie Oko using Mercury Sulfide (red).

I believe there could have been similar attempts earlier elsewhere as well.
Government is forcing people to pay their taxes, so Government needs to provide a free and easy way for people to pay their taxes.