skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the sales lifecycle in healthcare is a tough nut to crack, most healthcare orgs arent reviewing software every year, they are signing multi year contracts and allergic to change(for a number of systemic reasons). Plus the conglomeration of syndicates has made fewer clients to sell to, at least on the higher end). There are companies making fortunes in the space for sure, but I think many just sell to mckesson after reaching a decent size.

It is 100% a field that needs disrupting... someone will figure it out and become very wealthy.
AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
This is basically useless without a place where you can use it to generate new random bodies of text on the fly. It's easy to cherry pick 10 good samples out of hundreds with the intention of attempting to fool people - maybe not so much if they're generated on the fly.
Ask HN: How do I get a girlfriend?
Trying to meet people online is a bust. Trying to meet people in real life is a bust. Self-improvement is a bust. What's left?

I used to have a decent dating life a few years ago, but then everything dried up. I'm in a better position with my career and sociability now than I was then. I don't understand what changed.
And, as usual, the actual service has a green checkmark even though the top of the page acknowledges problems.
I don't know LabVIEW, but I can see how a naive or even a somewhat informed attempt at something like that could lead to, ahem, suboptimal results.

I guess you could, in principle, replace text-based code with visual diagrams, but the essential requirement for logical rigor would remain. That's just part of the essential complexity in software.

Replacing code with visual diagrams might make things easier for some people since understanding strict logical rigor and the ability to write code aren't the same thing, but in the end I don't think the difficult part of programming is actually learning to write code.

I'm also not sure at all that you'd get very good productivity setting all those details right in the diagram through a GUI unless the interface were really well designed, with a liberal employment of keyboard shortcuts. GUIs are faster than CLIs at many things, but I'm not sure setting programming-level details is one of those. You'd probably need to employ keyboard shortcuts or something similar quite liberally, and learning those well wouldn't be too far from learning to write the code.
Yeah, but this is astrophotography _and_ it's from Nasa, so it's what it would look like with ultra-long exposure, lots of photoshop, and false color. If we extrapolate the naked eye view, it'd be a grayish smudge at best.
Isn't quadratic voting both simpler and less prone to tactical voting?
that is the next logical step in this fake news dystopia isnt it. Seems like someone could relatively easily set up a pipeline to generate text, turn text into Trump's voice, then apply to Deepfake video, churn out millions of videos... profit. kill democracy. etc.
I wonder how the Saudi and the other Arab investors in the Vision Fund must really be happy.
>An example might be in store retail analytics- a set up with a bunch of cameras that can detect what people are touching or otherwise interested in.

Because the one thing desperately needed in this world is even more surveillance?
You don't have to learn VBA to do this, you can just include windows.h in C and call the SendKeys function.
Checks still have lower transaction fees for large amounts than most electronic forms do payment (cost: a postage stamp).

I was looking for electronic ways to send a substantial wad of money domestically once and almost all electronic transfer providers wanted a percentage.

Would be interested to know if there are any online services that can match the transaction fee of a check.
You would think this, but it's preeeetty amazing how much of the Linux world works on an ARM-based Raspberry Pi. It's mostly a matter of finding the source and doing a proper cross-compile, but it's kinda incredible how much work the community has put into making the little board usable. The later models and their substantial bump in available RAM have made desktop computing plausible: I can run Blender to produce a 3D model, switch to Utilimaker Cura to slice it, then run Pronsole and send the .gcode out to the printer, all on the same device! It's not particularly fast, but it's usable at least, and the driver support an OpenGL in particular have come a long, long way.

If a $35 (okay, $55 for the ones with 4 GB RAM) computer running an older down-clocked ARM can do this? I have little doubt that a POWER architecture could theoretically do it just as well, if not better since it should presumably be a much faster chip. I think it's mostly going to come down to support from both the vendor and the community, but I wouldn't write it off entirely.
Some people don't know this, but Sundar Pichai is ex-McKinsey. Could be one of those "not good enough to make partner".
Try to find some analog device with 2\^53 signal to noise ratio, look how much it costs.

Then remember that this is only the ration on our most used digital numbers because it's easy and cheap. Applications that require precision normally go with a 2^113 ratio.
Would it not be better to categorize directly on the physical beneficial traits such as muscle/bone per weight? That way we can take out genetics from sport altogether.
In retrospect, it's amazing how older games like Age of Empires work so well and (almost) bug free from the get go. In the software development environment for late 90s the amount of work to making sure that it works (without crashing!) is amazing.

With extreme logging now our team still throws a bunch of internal errors today, granted our team is much smaller but still, those older games are amazing.
I run a VR startup so I'm biased, but: AR and VR. Different side of the same coin. But first (next 5-10 years) VR will be more mainstream, because it's easier to solve from a technological point of view.
I began working in RPA this year and I completely agree. Tremendous potential but also a lot of buzzword-driven hype in the space. I think the main players need to work harder on bringing world-class engineering and best-practices to the community, since the vast majority of developers that are getting into this are not really advancing the field and instead slapping crap together until their 'bot' works. Why are most automation projects relegated to bare-bones budgets and short timeframes? Potential clients i have engaged have a very short-sighted view of automation possibilities in their businesses, and aren't open to the possibilities beyond what they think should be done by a bot instead of their employees.
Currently automating a lot of on-boarding process at work. It's been eye opening. What it's really shown me is how very little expertise we have around all of these solutions, SaaS products, etc... that the company uses. From Tableau to Salesforce to our accounting software, it's a mess. It's put myself and my team into a unique position to gain a lot of mind share, especially when it comes to cleaning a lot of the inefficiencies up. That said, I don't think we're making anyone redundant, or cutting anyone out of the equation in a negative way -- none of the people who are currently tasked with a lot of this work were ever supposed to be doing it, trained on it, etc...
https://angel.co/company/optimal-labs/jobs

This is a better link.
Kimsufi doesn't sell virtual cores, it sells CPUs and not only CPUs but specific CPUs specified upfront.

"8 CPU" as advertised by the VPS host could mean literally anything.
> IRV may not be perfect, but it is heaps better than the current system.

This is probably not true. If you look at Voter Satisfaction Efficiency [1] if people are voting tactically then IRV actually does worse than the current system.

Approval voting is much more robust, and does very well even when people vote tactically.

[1] http://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/
Good changes, although I find it amusing/discouraging that the "high complexity" graphics use case is a word processor.
Alberta is ~12% of Canada's population, and has so far had an incredibly disproportionate impact on pulling national politics in its direction.

No national economic decision seems to be made, without figuring out what kind of compensation Alberta needs to receive, to bring it onboard.

BC, on the other hand, is the truly federally-ignored province. It's often not clear if it is considered to have any purpose, other then being a stopping point on the way to China.

The secession of BC would probably be in its provincial interests. The secession of Alberta into a land-locked petro-state would be an unmitigated disaster.
1.5km vs 550km is not necessarily mutually exclusive when using phased array antenna: the beam may be 1.5km wide, but it may be steered across a 550km area. Ergo sat could service both Austria and Turkey, without blurring - it knows which country it's "pointing" at during any millisecond, so could service each without legal conflicts.
If you want to use it for machine learning or VR/AR then it should ideally have a separate GPU board.
Also nice to have: upgradable RAM, upgradable solid state drive bay.
Same here. At the time the status check on AWS was not reporting any issues and there was nothing written about it online. As a result I assumed it was an issue with my account.

I only confirmed it was on their end when I noticed the favicon on the AWS console wasn't loading.
Chris Farley as Matt Foley on Halloween:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LyqPdZjQTY
I think the ending of this sketch is a kind of masterpiece.
Ages ago Glyph (he of Twisted Python fame) said we would get to the point where we can e.g. use the Indiana Jones movies to build a computer model of Indiana Jones and make more movies...
In NYC, this is a democrat protection scheme.
In a few elections, one republican runs against a field of democrats. There's some concern that the Republican might win against a splintered field of Democrats -- can't recall it ever happening, but the Republicans, who are a small minority, are forever hopeful.

This will ensure that none get elected.
People are getting down-voted for asking what year it is, but I’m going to “what year is this?”

I’m not discounting the effort that goes into place here — at least I’m trying not to — but like, why would anyone look at PowerPC for portables in 2019 when the whole reason Apple shifted to Intel 14 years ago was thermals? Wouldn’t ARM be better?

I’m sure I’m missing something but I just don’t understand this on any level except for some obsession with “openness” at the expense of actually doing anything.
Ah! I tried clicking every except on the path itself!
Is a job as Implementation Specialist a good entry to the software/dev market?
I am quite far into an interview procedure with a SaaS company. They are looking for an Implementation specialist, mainly fetching data in CSV, XML and JSON format and then convert that into a responsive front end UI with some corresponding server side actions.

The salary is roughly equal to a junior front end dev position. I understand that front end juniors are expected to become mediors after a while.

I wonder if the job at this SaaS has the same growth potential or if it's a dead end with the risk of near future redundancy.

This would be a career direction change for me, I currently work in the PSP/payments sector and I see the writing on the wall, many jobs in my field will become redundant sooner or later.

I know that some HR staff, hiring managers, start up owners and partners are reading this board, however I would value everyone's opinion and input.
Serendipity in Venture Capital Is BS
https://github.blog/2015-06-02-deploying-branches-to-github-...
Wow, the VPS are hosted on "Server Grade Hardware", that's some great marketing.
Maybe, I"m just trying to come up with some read that's more charitable than "they're all too stupid to know they don't have anything intelligent to say"...which is basically what OP was saying.
It's also kind of useless if you don't compare it to other subjects: maybe Trump is easier to imitate than, say, Obama.
Big brands see potential in generative AI beyond deepfakes
As someone said in the replies to this, Evangelion is, in a way, to giant-robot anime what Watchmen is to superhero comics.
This nicely recapitulates phylogeny: in the origin of Babylonian timekeeping (we all now use a system based on that), hours were not of a fixed length; there were twelve of them between dawn and dusk and twelve more between dusk and dawn.

Minutes (as can be see from their clearly Latin name, "tiny") and the second division of them (seconds) are brand new and AFAIK have always been of fixed length, a consequence of mechanical timekeeping.
> Lifetimes aren't a worse version of GC, just like static typing isn't a worse version of dynamic typing. They're different trade-offs.

This is a completely bogus comparison.

First, static typing is mostly about finding bugs. GC-induced overhead is not a _bug_.

Second, it is theoretically impossible to create an algorithm that checks almost any interesting property of a program in a Turing-complete language in finite time, that doesn't reject valid programs. In most (non-academic) programming languages with static typing compiler checks assumptions about the _data_, and doesn't wade in control flow at all. Data is more or less "static" by itself (types of variables remain the same in most algorithms, with exceptions covered by ADTs), that's why static typing is practically useful.

Lifetime control is a problem on a whole different level. Roughly speaking, lifetime of an object _easily_ depends on whether or not some part of the program terminates, so, from the get-go, your static checker has to solve halting problem, which it can't.

I went through several Rust projects to see how they deal with this. And there are two solutions: 1) sprinkling code with unsafe's 2) resorting to reference counting. GC is safer than both alternatives, and its amortized cost may be less than same for ARC.

Absolute majority of the code written doesn't have hard real-time requirements, and should just rely GC as a safer and more convenient option.
Ok, fair enough, but read the larger context though. The people who had equestrian professions didn’t die. And there weren’t a mass of people displaced as refugees as the car became popular.

It just created different jobs. Things that weren’t possible or didn’t exist before cars.

It’s the same thing with “automation”. People like to pretend that one day soon everything will just be straight up replaced with robots overnight and we just won’t know what to do with ourselves. Not only isn’t that the case, it ignores the history of disruptive technology for the last 10,000 years.

The root of the argument is made much better with overpopulation. But developed countries can’t be made to subsidize that - make the argument automation and maybe you can convince some people to believe in socialism.
https://www.parabel.com/
Florida based startup using water lentils to create a future plant-protein platform. Crop doubles in size every 24-36 hours allowing farms to harvest every day. 10x yield compared to soy or pea proteins.
Absolutely! Feel free to reach out - you can get to my email address at folkhack.com
WeWork, Rejected by Wall Street, Accepts Lifeline from SoftBank
We have a buzzword BINGO!
How does Firefox Lockwise compare to 1Password and how does the ad/tracking protection compare to using Chrome with uBlock Origin?

I do like how Firefox you can set to never auto play audio or video but the chrome flag does not seem to prevent that. Haven't really given Firefox a chance in easier and am pretty married to Chrome (especially with switching profiles between work, personal that works very well).
Thanks for the Linkerd shoutout! For those who aren't familiar with the project, Linkerd will give you per-service metrics (success rates, RPS, latency distributions), mutual TLS, load balancing, and a bunch of other cool stuff, on almost any Kubernetes app, right out of the box. No config necessary.
I hear Linux developers complain constantly about how not-POSIX the Windows API is, so I would say it is decidedly not-POSIX.

Haiku, well, let's hear it from one of the developers:

> Haiku is a POSIX system, yes. Why is that an issue?

> -waddlesplash [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441874
It reminds of the article that was posted yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21315942) that said the biggest disruptors are the technologies that start out looking like toys. An HN commentor mentioned (which I now can't find) that what differentiates actual toys from big technologies that start out looking like toys is the fact that the fad never passes despite looking like a toy. Crypto has seemed like a toy with no practical applications since it's inception but for some reason it's still around. I wonder if that points to eventual significant growth for the field.
Many stars will get ejected into intergalactic space as well. Hopefully they are not the unlucky ones.
Learn how to code a well designed preloader
oh you eat so you should never criticize the food.
>One thing I've never been able to figure out is that given Crispr, why it wouldn't be possible to engineer an organism that can suck much more CO2 out of the air than any existing tree / algae could.

Jurassic Park Effect.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should. CRISPR is pretty unknown and releasing man-made organism we don't know every little thing about could topple the ecosystem incredibly quickly. Not to mention how incredibly divisive it would be to do so.
Finally acknowledging the issue.
IonQ Secures $55M in Funding
"Just got back into power" after telling people to vote strategically to ensure the Conservatives (which only have support of 1/3 of the electorate) wouldn't get into power.

Basically this was Trudeau scrapping electoral reform, thus making it possible for Conservatives to have a majority again. Then asking real progressives to vote Trudeau, because otherwise they may split the "left" vote. And it worked for Trudeau, but damn it's cynical.
As I understand it, GP is essentially saying this: there are two main uses for oil - fuel (burning) and plastics. The former emits carbon to the atmosphere, the latter doesn't. To achieve full success emissions-wise, we need to kill off the first use. Second use is fine from emissions standpoint - but keeping it implies extraction needs to happen.

To me, GP is quite precise and also correct. I don't understand why you try to cast them as a climate change denier.
People are no longer satisfied by simple comedy, they don't get their kicks as easily due to faster paced life, they need more, dirty jokes etc
Fonts aren't just images. Characters have certain visual features we rely on to differentiate them from each other. When characters are scaled in size, the scaling is usually not done in a uniform manner - instead, the less significant features are scaled differently than the more visually significant features so as to minimize the loss of legibility.

In this context, "mechanical compression" means that the fonts were stretched and/or squashed as if they were mere images - without concern to whether the typographic features would be preserved.
If there are descendants of humans in a billion years, their capabilities might only be limited by the laws of physics - and I would not even be surprised if this time is off by quite a few orders or magnitude (up to like ... six? Edit: that would mean as early as 1000 years from now. It's a bold guess, I know).
Wheelchair users - black cabs (technically) take wheelchairs easilly.
> The APT28 cyber-espionage group (also tracked as Sednit, Fancy Bear, Strontium, and Sofacy), for instance, used a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) rootkit dubbed LoJax as part of its 2018 operations.

So if you build a huge complex thing when a small simple one would do and then completely ignore security it will be hacked? Who could have known?

I don't think any tpm and dtrm magic can fix the issue as long as uefi is there with its huge attack surface
Ask HN: What are some good examples of true Single Page Applications?
I'm currently playing around with Clojure/Script and am trying to build a simple SPA. I think I finally get the high level concept of it, but then I realized I don't really know any website that feels like a true single page application... It would be really helpful to see what good examples of SPAs are out there, if any. Also any recommendations for other resources about the topic of building/designing single page applications would be greatly appreciated.
I'm concerned as you are. I've come to believe that IRV in a world of Cambridge Analytica spinoffs could be even more dangerous than FPTP. Not only would strategic voting be possible (using algorithms to target swing-voters), it'd be almost impossible to detect, and nearly impossible to do general audience journalism about.

Intuitively, I'd expect ordinal methods to be much harder to game, but I'm not even convinced this is the case. I've done some research trying to dig into this question, but a lot of the distributed-systems-game-theory-economic-math is hard for me to understand, and isn't focused on the messy problem of consensus between humans as much as it is on the problem of consensus between computer-like agents.

In a world of Cambridge Analytica spinoffs, I believe this is an extremely important issue, and that FairVote's take is outdated.
Then it's a good thing there are a lot of filings to the DOJ from Google competitors (in various niche markets) that say Google has been trying to strongarm them out of the market.

Have we forgotten how Google killed Skyhook?

https://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-l...

The only reason Google wasn't broken apart in 2012 when the last FTC antitrust case happened, is because Eric Schmidt was best buddies with Obama (who then got Schmidt a job at the Pentagon - while still working at Google - and Schmidt then got Google the Project Maven contract with the Pentagon, and so on, and so forth, if you want to go down that rabbit hole).
You are very optimistic if you are talking about "cities" in that timeframe.
I suspect that because of the nature of his speech (repetitive, shallow, hyperbolic) he is easier to simulate than someone who communicates in other ways. I would love to see the same system used to simulate some of the people you mentioned (and others).

When it's trivial to build fake people with distinctive styles, though, bots will probably be even more effective. I think that may be a bigger risk than deepfakes.
Mmmh, I don't know about this stunts arguments. Cartoons have had success with physical comedy for decades. Yet, everybody knew that no real coyote flew off a cliff...

I think that slapstick is simply overdone. We've seen so much of it that it's just not funny anymore...
Too bad that will be offset by desertification and other negative changes elsewhere in the world.
Same here, I was running around like a headless chicken and wondering what I was doing wrong when elasticbeanstalk just wouldn't deploy anything. The fact that we doubt ourselves rather than thinking aws is down is a good damn indicator how reliable they are, luckily it happened during daytime (EST anyways)
Literally all of those are workers, while some would like to live a life of independent developers. I dont understand why some of you defend making “free” software which mainly benefits large corporations, while you work 9 to 5 jobs.

It is near impossible to make money off of oss as an indie. Working for someone else that makes billions off it and pays you near nothing, doesnt count.
trees have been optimizing that problem for a long time already, and then if you don't bury the tree and prevent decomposition, you don't really solve anything but create a short term buffer.