skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know one current student of Lambda. I kind of disagree with much of what is said in the article. The student and family are very grateful for the opportunity. My only concern is that, in their website they could be more specific as to the fact that you need to already have some of the skills. There’s just not enough time for beginners. To their credit, they give plenty of opportunities and alternatives for the ones that get behind. It just going to take more time than anticipated.
As a web developer and content publisher, i don't see much value for AMP pages, Why would someone put additional effort to create an AMP version of the same content, most of the web pages are very well compatible mobile device, developers are already spending time to make those pages responsive, and most importantly when we have already schema.org tags why do we need again and additional AMP version ? That’s too much, not much worthy, so i think AMP will be dead soon
Note that all U.S. nuclear weapons have PAL systems that cryptographically secure the nuke. These ensure that a.) the nuke can't be armed unless the President authorizes it b.) the nuke can't be armed unless at least two members of the chain of command responsible for the nuke authorize it and c.) the nuke can't be armed unless delivered in the manner expected. For example, a gravity bomb like the B-61 would have to be dropped from the height that nuclear weapons are expected to be dropped from.

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

The worst that a hostile power could do with these nukes is to dismantle them, keep the plans to accelerate their own nuclear program, and store the raw nuclear materials. This is nothing to scoff at, but the threat model of "terrorist group steals nukes and blows up an American city" isn't actually realistic.

Incidentally, this is why the Ukraine is not a major nuclear power. When the Soviet Union broke up a significant number of their nuclear weapons were physically located in the Ukraine, but the PAL codes were all generated in Moscow, and so the Ukrainians had a bunch of useless U-235 & explosives. They eventually destroyed the nukes because they were of no use.
I think the reasons legacy vendors are not embracing electric cars are because

(1) their expertise is in gas and diesel powertrains, and all that stuff about emissions, transmissions etc is not needed.

(2) their dealers make a lot of their revenue from service, and evs don't have much service, and with Tesla they don't even have those irritating dealers

(3) the second order effect that lack of battery supply, makes it hard to make many of them and they are going to be more expensive if they don't have a massive supply.
> Pedestrians have the right of way, though; they don't need to cooperate.

I'd change "don't need to" with "shouldn't have to".

There are a lot of dead pedestrians who didn't look before crossing a street because they knew they had the right of way.

It's just another form of "trust but verify". I know when I'm crossing a busy intersection, even if the cross-traffic has a red light and I have a walk sign, I'm closely watching the on-coming cars to make sure none of them are running the red light. I'm extra vigilant for the people making a right turn on red.
Keyboard Stalin once said -> "The loss of one click is tragic, but the loss of thousands is statistic."
This is good evidence that the membership checks provide value to customers by keeping the riffraff away.

It's terrible evidence that the membership requirement provides any such value. Those checks are independent of the requirement -- as you acknowledge, the guards at the door are not even empowered to turn you away if you want to go in. (That said, I'll repeat that at my Costco, there is no check at the door.)

In a better world, Costco could admit that the "membership checks" are actually there to keep the tone of the store at a certain level, not to check membership. It'd be more convenient for everyone, and also more honest.
I was at UCB from 1980-4 and this lines up with what I knew at the time. RMS was a frequent visitor to the group I was in, and I was a user of Gosling's Emacs and switched to the RMS version very early on.
My favorite variation was David Hilbert asking in a talk what "Hilbert Spaces" were.

In his defense, they were named after him by someone else. But it was still a funny irony.
Yes, yes, I know. But so many drugs requiring a prescription in the US is a market distortion similar to the high cost of bringing drugs to market. It reduces the availability of life saving medicines to people while attempting to minimize other dangers that are likely overstated. Frankly it seems like something doctors lobbied for to ensure a steady stream of office visits.
Regarding the ACA, as I understand it, there's the 80/20 rule that states insurers must spend 80% of what they make from premiums on providing & improving healthcare. [1]

The problem with that is there's no cap on what premiums should be. So if you charge 10K in premiums, and keep 2K, there's nothing in the ACA that is preventing you from raising your rates to 15K to keep 3K.

Please correct me if I misunderstand how this works.

[1] https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
No mention of Piczo? This site was pretty popular and functioned like MySPACE with WYSIWYG controls.
All of your kids will come out thinking that jerky, coffee and beer are a great diet.
DBeaver has something even better, albeit sometimes annoying: you can define a connection as "Production" (highlighted red) and "Test" (green). On Production systems, DBeaver will ask you for confirmation for every write statement.
LOL thanks, nice blip of traffic there pushing my little VM to its limits.
(aside: I'm always curious to hear what was going on with UNIX at Berkeley at that time. I sat in Evans hall in the early 2000s and would randomly find hardware that was from CSRG in the drop ceilings).
This version is flatly contradicted both by the Gosling interview linked and the Stallman speech linked above; Stallman says his friend (Fen Labalme) had contributed to Gosling's version, but not that he (Stallman) had, when Stallman decided to base GNU Emacs on Gosling's implementation. I suspect that the XEmacs docs just got confused about the history, and Stallman didn't want to hear anything about XEmacs/Lucid Emacs, much less read over their documentation to correct minor historical errors.
The point is not whether we can afford to power the machine. The point is that the power discrepancy suggests that the methods we're using are radically different than the methods the human brain employs (evidenced by their dramatically different efficiencies). Predicting radical advancement given past performance is a leap of faith.

> Why would we even want cars to calculate the way humans do?

The fact of the matter is that humans are orders of magnitude better at object recognition than computers. You may believe that will change in the near future, but that's not yet been demonstrated.
I think there was a song about that.
Then I’d say to them, what is wrong with publishing your own list of books to read? Others might get something from it. Or your list of book recommendations?
If you have the opportunity to socialize with your coworkers, especially if alcohol is involved, be more careful than you would with friends.

Avoid obscene language or crude humor. Most people tend to smile and laugh even when they feel uncomfortable.
For software developed by / for government this is already the case in some countries..
So very java of him
Yeah maybe chemical batteries are nearing their limit in terms of technology, at least, the classical concept of the battery; Or maybe we'll discover some new element or something. Who knows;
Don't learn emacs, because vi is better ;-)
as far as i understood (though i have to admit i didn't understand much) you can use different schedulers.

i haven't had a closer look at rust in general, async and tokio, but i suspect you can use the different schedulers in the same codebase. can someone comment on this?

if that was the case one might use a different runtime for more uniform workloads to maximize throughput, while using tokio for general purpose async work.
Noise patterns rendered as plain HTML text
It only works if you've got a specific, somewhat unlikely configuration. You need to have ALL in the user specifier, but not root (or else it's not a vuln, just a bug). So

> username ALL=(ALL, !root) ALL

would be vulnerable; this is trying to let username run commands as any other user _except_ root, but using this vuln the user can get around it.

You can duplicate it by running (as a user with sudo ALL privileges) `sudo -u#-1 id`; it'll show 0, for root.
Reminds me of a study that suggested that a bit of malnutrition during puberty, like during the great depression, improved longevity.
Pre-rendering the landing page can help too.
This is absolutely nonsense. My colleagues account was suspended for using PayPal and not Google wallet, one startup was suspended because their dev had multi sign-in, my account was suspended because of "app likeness" or whatever bullshit, people were suspended for reselling pixel, wrong credit card info, pseudo names on Google plus, dmca violation, copy right violation on YouTube, competitors hitting report, false copy right and the list goes on.
Simply assuming that the proper allocation of resources is easy in this or any other industry is wishful thinking. If drugs have any substitutes the demand side already goes from easy to hard.
When drug treatments can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars we have more demand for medical treatments than we have supply. Even the concept of providing drugs "at cost" is complicated because costs vary not only with the price of inputs but with amount supplied.

On the supply side the inputs for the pharmaceutical industry aren't infinite.

Whether it's chemists, chemicals, warehouse space, machinery, or time all of these things are rivalrous. When you put a chemist on one project you take them away from another. If you put a chemical in one drug you take it away from another. If you make a factory produce one drug it stops producing another.

In order to solve the problem of maximizing the benefit of the resources being used we can use a market that uses prices and profits to coordinate itself, or we can have a group of really smart people trying to reason out what is needed where. Markets are historically good at solving this type of problem, bureaucrats are historically bad at it.
America’s Great Shale Oil Boom May Be Slowing
Neural models to realize decision trees
From the article:

> Perhaps the most obvious solution is to require the user to grant permission to the website requesting access to the sensor

Which makes sense... a light sensor is really a 1 pixel camera.
What's the rejection rate of your poor ideas?
No Absolute Time
The USA wasn't holding talks to draw the Ukraine closer into its sphere of influence. The UK was involved, and I agree - as a part of the EU it deserves a dollop of blame for the resulting mess.

And what a mess.
I think part of the skepticism isnt coming from automation itself, but that automation has caused essential yet extremely complex systems to become tightly coupled. A classic example of how this can be problematic is the 2010 flash crash. In these kinds of systems it can be very difficult to know that non-equilibrium behavior of the system is sane. When people are an active part of the decision making process they can put the breaks on clearly nonsensical behavior, but with increasing automation a crisis could be created out of random fluctuations and become a major problem before anyone realizes what is happening.
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> Similarly, I feel so happy when I could build things, make progress or make things better. As it’s not a VC-backed startup, exponential growth is not mandatory for me. What I want to do is to make my product better instead of just making it bigger.

Great post! I can relate with growing my own paid side project (https://www.checkbot.io, a Chrome extension for SEO). There's a big initial buzz with making the first sales as you never know how it's going to be received when you first make it public. After you get used to the sales getting more steady and predictable though, I don't find the marketing and sales side that interesting - I'm more motivated by the feeling I get from making something that people find useful and easy to use.

Having a project that I can manage myself is also much more appealing than the stress of e.g. having to get funding and hire people as well. I enjoy posts about apps/startups that aim for and are satisfied with modest profits instead growing huge. I can never relate to stories about mega rich people trying to get even richer.
This is also not really not something that solves the same problem as karibiner at all, afaict. This is just binding shell commands to hotkey sequences.

For bspwm, where all it’s functionality is exposed to shell commands it can very narrowly achieve something similar, but again, Karibiner’s scope of operation is all apps system-wide.

What people are wishing for when they wish for “a karibiner equivalent” isn’t a hotkey mapping app per se — there’s obviously dozens and dozens of half-baked versions of those. What people are actually wanting is a system for setting globally-consistent keybindings such that they can set it once and universally every app respects it. That would require either a system wide protocol for agreeing on keybindings no matter what wheel-reinventing UI/desktop toolkit an app was built in, or an Uber-keybindings app that knew how to write defaults to the 20 different preference files that control this stuff for different toolkits.
That only started to be true in 1988, when the US adopted the Berne Convention with its copyright law. In 1981 or 1983, anything without an explicit copyright declaration was considered public domain.
Ask HN: What are some interesting things you've done with 'Inspect Element'?
Yeah I don't think that line of reasoning follows. More scrutiny, is more scrutiny. Especially when you're talking about financial transactions. If I'm looking for A and notice that thing B is illegal I'm not going to not investigate it simply because it wasn't my mandate. That's literally how the US Government eventually got Al Capone. Every agency in the country looking at him and he goes away for Tax Evasion.

It also should be obvious but something like Libra could easily affect other lines of business for a company and so those other things that don't necessarily deal directly with Libra would require monitoring as well. It's not a threat, it's just a fact of what (imo very warranted) enhanced regulatory attention risks.
Damn, that’s one useless website. Dozens of seconds pass and it still bounces about like a camel on crack.

With all these KPIs people like optimising for, can’t a low rage quit rate be one too?
I think your link is more of a flagrant example of sample bias than anything else. I like Visual studio code; but I'd be really curious what the real numbers are! My guess is that Visual Studio actually wins.
Back in high school when myself and fellow cross-country running buddies were full of piss and vinegar, we decided one morning to jump in a high school friend's pond (with permission of course). The trick was that the water was just cold enough to have really thin veneer of ice on top. Down to our shorts, and in we go. TFA says "your body goes into shock". I guess that's the best, albeit inadequate, way to describe it. It was like my heart stopped, and whatever makes my lungs work didn't work anymore. Gave it a second, and things kicked back in...sort of. I simply cannot imagine expending anymore effort than simple survival, let alone actually swim somewhere. I mean, how you gonna swim when you can't fucking move? After a minute, we got out and our friend had towels waiting.

Lessons learned:
1. That goes on my list of things "no matter how good it sounds, no matter how much peer pressure, do not EVER do that again."

2. You fall off the Titanic into the North Atlantic, you ain't gonna last long no matter what the movies tell you. Based on my one, brief experience, I wonder if I wouldn't just quickly give up and get it over with. At least death stands a chance of not being indescribably cold.

3. The guy in TFA is 100% USDA Certified Bad Ass in my book. I've been in water only slightly warmer. I literally cannot imagine attempting such a thing. It's like pulling half your spark plugs, watering down the gas, then saying, "now, go drive across town. If you break down, elephant seals will eat you."
I hope Competition (as a verb) will do what it does best - make the product offering better and cheaper.

Next step for electric cars would be to address issues for non-home-owners (like me) and consequently can't find a convenient way to charge up an electric car. Hot swappable batteries come to mind.
I think it's totally fair to want to take a sampling of a lot of great authors to try out their work and then maybe follow up on more of their stuff if you find it compelling. True, they might not have the same level of appreciation for the book as if they'd been more familiar with all of their work, but if you try and tell people "you're not going to 'get it' without reading the 17 novels and 8 novellas he wrote before this", then if you're right you're going to just turn people off from trying.

Maybe this is the "plebian" opinion, but I see nothing wrong with wanting a taste of Dahl, Feynman, Homer, and Tolstoy rather than devoting your life to just one. He's reading for pleasure, not writing a dissertation.
Are any of these projects open source, and if so can you point me toward some of them?
Subscription model fits better. There are ongoing costs to maintaining the service indefinitely.

One off cost only really makes sense when you can sell a piece of software as being done essentially and move onto the next piece of software to charge a one off cost for. Having a one off cost to find ongoing costs probably isn’t going to end well as soon as a product is no longer growing.
People with a lot to loose if SpaceX and Tesla are long-term successful are opening up with both barrels. Elon tacks close to the wind with what he does - probably to avoid situations like the above. Hence the hope/despair cycles.
Apple's solution is the problem I spoke about.

Putting blinders on a horse allows the horse to behave for the driver. I want the horse to behave like a horse.
Those benefits have to come from somewhere. As do the social security and unemployment contributions.
I certainly wouldn't say no to stupid money
Either Gosling is being taken out of context or he's willingly obscuring the issue and occluding important information. Gosling did not invent Emacs and he has no claims to it like it's implied by this interview. Gosling Emacs was a different concept, much inferior to the original idea. Which is a good reason for why it's now in the trash bin of history.

Guy Steele, David Moon, Dan Weinreb (RIP) and (later) Stallman were the originators and major forces and that's where credit should be given for Emacs-the-Lisp-virtual-machine that has stood the test of time.

Origins of Emacs from Guy Steele himself:
https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1633

Gosling is not even mentioned, once.
Jaiku was my favourite social network. Google bought them and predictably shut it down. I meet some great people on there, we all moved to twitter but it just wasn’t the same
I think in practice people would close a website that was flashing the screen at them in black and white. Maybe you can make it work with a more subtle change but I bet your signal to noise ratio would be abysmal.

Totally impractical but a neat idea anyway!
Python 3.8 is released!
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Hey man, I'm one of the developers for VoxSnap and wanted to debug the issue you had. We didn't program anything that would affect the browser history state so I'm a little confused about the issue you saw. Could you let me know what browser you're using and the problem you experienced? Thx, robd003
What a blast from the past. I am actually Canadian but have been living in the Bay Area for over 10 years so I've already forgotten that you can collect Air Miles through Safeway (which was why I clicked on this article in the first place thinking of the .ca)

I don't think Air Miles are completely useless. I do remember redeeming air miles at least once in the past for a one-way trip somewhere...
That's a tough questions.

When you put it like that, no, obviously not, or at least not always.

On the other hand, a lot of academia is predicated on the idea that the quality and impact of research and by extension, the researcher, is immediately apparent, so we're "correctly" selecting and rewarding the best people. Stuff like this suggests that we're not, and the moves towards relentless up-or-out pipelines (with fixed times at each stage) might be counterproductive.
I'm pretty bearish on Tesla, but even if were to fail nothing would take away from their improbable rise.

Anyone that fails to be impressed by at least some aspects of Tesla is not objective and can be safely ignored.
Historicaly, this is not the first time we see that trend. I do have the theory that some technologies inherently lead to larger enterprises, while others lead to small ones. Think about steam vs. electrical motors for a quick image.

The internet seems to be of the first kind, but since it has a large social component, I wouldn't make any large bet on this property holding forever.

There is also an unrelated effect that the same technology tends to enable larger and larger enterprises when it matures. But this one seems to be much smaller, and not really relevant right now.
The issue of tax evasion is really seperate to the fact that the changes in the law have killed the business model for the contractors. Being a payrolled employee in this case is worse for everybody involved, the employees most of all.
That hints at something. Now that you summarize it, it is very similar to my experience in a completely different field. The higher the rate of automation the higher the level of control. If things are done mostly manually it tends to be an uncontrolled mess with inefficient processes in place that create the illusion of control.
It wouldn't sound that crazy if Nobel Commitee members watched more musicals :)
For those with lower income, even $6k can be too much of a risk. An ISA, in theory, mitigates some of the short term risk.
His character is fairly common amongst the blue collar, oil worker type in northern BC/Alberta.

I've met a number of people with similar character, down to the accent and jargon.

While no group is perfect, I do appreciate the characteristic straightforwardness. You usually know exactly where you stand with somebody like this.
Surprised it's such a small tree, more like a Bonzai tree. Though as mentioned in the article, "Big trees cannot get this old".

"The world’s oldest tree, Old Tjikko, is a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce tree that was discovered in 2004 by Professor Leif Kullman, and to this day remains the world’s oldest tree."
This might be due to smaller adult height/mass, which is in turn associated with longevity.
Sigh. Many years ago, I wrote tens of thousands of lines of code in Emacs, wasted many hours in elisp macros, etc.

Nowadays Notepad++ is OK by me.
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He may be right. The law about copyright notices changed on 1978 Jan 1 [1], so if Wirth's compiler predated the change to US law...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976
this is perhaps a more useful link, assuming it will load for you:

https://www.karma.fm/p/SZ1CD/karma-capital-architecture
Thanks for this! This is a super small nights/weekends experiment with a dozen or so active users; I probably should have prepared for a spike, huh? I'll leave a top-level comment to summarize the thinking before I jump back over to keeping it alive . Thank you again.