skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> #1 and #2 are difficult to solve, given the near-exponential growth of funding for academic research.

Could you show any data that supports the claim about nearly exponential growth of funding for academic research?

AFAIK the funding, especially considering growing number of people in the field, gets rather worse than better.
Yeah I got click bombed I think after purchasing some sites on flippa. Maybe someone else wanted them more. out thousands of bucks plus a lifetime adsense ban.
I do this using AIMP2 (AIMP3 has a worse pitch shifter/tempo adjuster) along with the vocal remover (as most guitar parts you want to know are off to one side or another so they come through) for learning guitar parts.
plus the balance in ad sense which was not too much $100 or so.
Introduction to Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
Almost, but not exactly. For example, you still can't have multiple symbols in the same scope that vary only by case. Which, personally, I'm okay with.
Yes, this is one of the critical features that is holding up my purchase of a new vehicle. I am holding onto a 12-year-old Volvo wagon because I'm not sufficiently impressed by any of the current offerings. The RAV4 Hybrid gets great mileage but has not-great LKAS and the CVT is very loud; the CRV isn't a hybrid (coming to the US next spring) and the LKAS seems OK but not amazing; and the Subaru Outback is a great vehicle with good pricing, but it's not hybrid either and the EyeSight system hasn't been updated since 2017.

If Toyota were committed to OTA updates, I'd probably have bought a RAV4 by now. But if they're going to keep the driver assist technology static in the hopes of getting you to upgrade sooner, I'm not going to buy until the tech is up to snuff. It's also pretty lousy that all of these companies brag about how all of their driver-assist safety tech is included in the base model — but they force you to upgrade if you want blindspot warnings. For me, that's a much more critical and commonly-used feature than automatic braking, for example.

As for the car bloggers, Tom Voelk sometimes touches on it, and I try to encourage this by commenting about it or asking about it in the comments.
> No better than the tobacco companies that came decades before.

I can’t believe people are this gullible. They are the tobacco companies. Juul is owned by Phillip Morris and all of that nicotine liquid comes from the same tobacco.
Also, it's not like it's totally either/or. You should be able to own your music and movies, but also be able to pay for a service that manages it - removing the logistics burden, while still ensuring the goods you bought will not disappear when the service goes down.
Ok, we can do that.
Intuit lobbies to keep tax filing over complicated. Look at other countries’ systems for examples of how it could be 100x simpler. Same thing for healthcare.

One has to wonder whether the only thing preventing our government from succeeding at providing simple and effective services for everyone is interference from radical capitalists.
"According to a 2007 study of Department of Energy data by Power in the Public Interest, retail electricity prices rose much more from 1999 to 2007 in states that adopted deregulation than in those that did not.[23]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
Totally, off topic, but it's funny to think about what kind of the feature would be if we put "un-" on each syscall:

unseek

unselect

unpipe

unsync

etc.
Commands aren’t overloaded. hg checkout only does one thing.

Because git checkout does a whole lot of things, it takes lots and lots of text to describe what those things are.

hg help co | wc -l
$ 42

git help checkout | wc -l
$ 520
I can only speak to my opinion on this matter, but I hate the idea of using 'manufactured'--for lack of a better term--fanart and memes as mediums of advertising. Just looking at the meme, I immediately think "someone loved this game so much they took the time to create something about it". The thought of a company 'manufacturing' memes to try and advertise for something just seems like it's taking such a cool form of expression and commodifying it.

As an example, Wendy's Twitter account has become pretty popular for all their pop culture references and crazy projects like a Dating Simulator and a Tabletop RPG--but at the end of the day, they're advertisements. Personally, it's hard to recognize the time and effort that went into these projects because they were only made to sell fast food; Wendy's isn't releasing these projects because they think they're cool, but because they have a bottom line they want to bring up.

I use an ad-blocker. I haven't seen a television ad in forever. However, I'm sure that this isn't the first time that memes and social media have been used as advertising. It's antithetical to what I've said previously, but I guess the most effective uses of memes as advertising are so good that you can't tell they're ads. Ultimately, if it's funny and not forced, then it's going to spread. And weirdly, I'm okay with it.

I just can't bring myself away from the comparison to how stuff becomes unpopular as soon as your parents start doing it. Facebook became ~uncool~ when our parents started using it, and I don't want to see memes become less of a cultural touchstone because of corporations starting to abuse them.
Not a bot, but... you could have TripIt update your Google calendar. Then link Slack to the calendar. It will update your status when in a meeting. Not sure about other statuses.
Literally the first sentence of the Reuters article says what it is. It's not as if this is hard to answer.

The principle that it's good for readers to work a little is bedrock on HN. We want users who figure things out for themselves. That spurs the intellectual curiosity HN exists for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Another precedent for case weirdness :-)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7375537/why-is-common-li...
I wonder if 64 (well, 48) bits of address space is enough to glom together every process on a normal Linux boot without collisions…
"a PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_REALCREDS check" and "same UID" are roughly synonyms. ("Roughly" because the actual check also permits privileged processes and denies some special cases such as processes that have done a setuid. REALCREDS, if I remember right, is in contrast to the check done on certain files in /proc.)

It's the same check as ptrace itself, so the intuition is "can I strace or gdb this process."
> Apparently Apple phones will silently phone home an SMS as an iMessage heartbeat

I recently traveled abroad and bought a local SIM card, and when I first activated it I got a dialog asking if I approved of it sending the iMessage activation SMS. It wasn't silent.

I don't know how new this behavior is
Damnit I have wanted to make exactly this, you beat me to it. Nice job. :)
France does everything right (but it also does everything wrong.)
I have a different take. Being open source doesn't matter at all in cases like these, because if half of your NPM dependencies suddenly break on you, you aren't going to even look at them. Nobody has time for that crap. You'll just swear out loud, and pin your dependencies to older versions.
Author here. I'm planning a follow up post on company and team culture that enables remote work. It's a big enough topic to be tackled on its own.

I'm still talking to people with different experiences to me, to understand their perspective on what makes it successful. Thanks for your insight here, I agree with what you're saying.
Siddharth Breja if you are reading this, I want to say thank you for standing up for what is right. I know it wasn't easy.
Wouldn't that cost something like $1 trillion to do for the entire state?

Math: 155147 miles * $750/foot

And an article https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2019/10/11/... confirming it's pretty much out of reach. $15,000 per household estimate (and 1,000 years!!).
Google is blocked in China, so I suspect that there are very few data points for Trends to draw on, as filtering the data to China, the graph seems raggedy, something like 4 searches/week. It also shows the spike in Haskell only occurred this week and says it is partial/incomplete data. So overall, probably just a data processing/extrapolation bug.

That's not to say that Haskell isn't used in China; there is a visualization group in Didi (Chinese Uber) that uses it, Haskell/FP user groups, university classes, etc. But there's no obvious reason that Haskell would have massively shot up in the past 3 days.
SVN’s main commands mean the same thing in Mercurial with the added bonus of being a DVCS.
At that scale, you're looking at something in the vicinity of a Kardashev Type-I civilization.
Since you mentioned specific impulse a couple times this may help casual browsers:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse

> A propulsion system with a higher specific impulse uses the mass of the propellant more efficiently. In the case of a rocket or other vehicle governed by the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, less propellant needed for a given delta-v.[1][3] In rockets, this means the vehicle the engine is attached to can more efficiently gain altitude and velocity. This effectiveness is less important in jet aircraft that are lifted by aerodynamic forces, use outside air for combustion, and carry payloads that are much heavier than the propellant.
Whistleblowers and the Hypocrisy of the Ruling Class
NOTE: Those that will roast me for not spending yet enough time trying to get other libraries to work outside of Vue, feel free to offer me your production budget to spend on that.

Cost to start. The first time I tried Vue (after trying a bunch of other libraries) I had something working in minutes. React required I learn many other things before even getting a "hello world" to function. Straight html/js connection. JSX is a nightmare.

Integration with existing systems. I work with hundreds of thousands of lines of code in a very messy old system. I was able to gut pieces of jQuery and nearly drop in replace with Vue.

Template focused development. I don't care how super duper awesome the "render" function is. I don't care how fast or performant. I am need to build a tool that I use for a couple of years and then throw away. (long story short, having a build pipeline is a detriment in many apps that I work on because their lifespan is so short)

I may be an amateur, but that is where Vue is genius. I don't have time to learn 20 new entire systems, 10 new build platforms, Node.js (and all that entails) just to get a reactive app to replace some super old jQuery junk.

I am now more capable than before, but after managing so much code for so many years, I want things _less_ complicated, not more. Nearly 100% of the code I wrote 20 years ago is gone now, replaced, rebuilt and redesigned. All the Vue I will build today will be gone in a few years, that is almost a certainty. So I have no budget for messing around.

The list can go on, but I am sure I will get harrassed with this about how React can run live and doesn't need compilation, ha. I tried it, what a mess it was. Learning the quirks of JS is bad enough, learning the quirks of doing 'JS exactly like React/Vue' wants you to? Ugh, that just sucks so bad I want to pull my hair out. The less a library I have to deal with the better. The more pure and simple code is the better. /rant.
There’s always a whole lot of idealism when people call for regulations as a panacea.

Then you end up with companies like Boeing who are the only players in the country and no one even tries to compete given the massive overhead and then people get surprised the one company who gets 99% of the oversight ends up having a say in the oversight.

This type of thing needs constant vigilance and churn to avoid capture. But at the end of the day it’s just going to come with the whole arrangement every once in a while.

Of course we could come up with ways to have this type of oversight which the market can’t practically account for financially or organizationally but again that’s wishful thinking as almost every situation like this has resulted in some level of capture.

Pretty much the only option is hoping they actually attempt to fix processes when it goes wrong, at least for the next while. But more often than not rules get rushed in during the panics which merely reinforces the company’s monopoly by adding even more special rules only a billion dollar entrenched company with the decades of other specialized processes they themselves helped establish through lobbying.

No one wants to remove regulations for the sake of competition but I think we need to be more realistic about the monsters we’re creating in exchange for worse monsters.

Instead of being surprised every time the fragility of the whole system gets exposed at least once a decade. While perpetually hoping and expecting for better oversight for the next time it.
And most importantly, it is not free in the sense that insurance fraud is not a victimless crime.

Any money shunted away from the state is money that the state will have to raise additionaly.
Bay Area told to brace for near-freezing temperatures
Whitequark is a Wizard. They should team up with Sammy.
Quantum Computing Is Coming
Emacs somewhat famously uses "unexec" in its build process, you build a skeletal Emacs in C (mostly the Emacs Lisp implementation), run it, load and compile and process a bunch of Lisp that implements the editor itself, and dump the resulting process memory back out to disk. The result of this eldritch process is the final emacs binary. When you exec emacs, you get an environment that consists of the editor code ready to go.
If it occurs naturally, it's because it's constantly being replenished by something higher up in the decay chain (apparently, this happens to be Polonium 214 and Thallium 210: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Decay_ch...).
The article seems to stick to what it can state on the basis of fact, making it clear which claims came from whom. Your comment, on the other hand, begins with “interesting coincidence” and ends in an accusatory rhetorical question. Who is using FUD here?
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect comes up so many times on HN that I'm surprised you don't already know the answer. Third-hand stories about what some executive said, from a news source famous for aggressive editorializing for clicks?

I have no bone in this fight, but I wouldn't get my blood pressure up over a story like this.
The risk of going to jail was never in those arguments so I’m not sure how that’s useful.

This is a new conversation about adding risks never seen in the history of business outside of explicit fraud and criminal behaviour.
Because many people don't use chrome.
It would be great if it could help to find the next game, something like the most popular games or the trending games etc
I use https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.html
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Checked. I liked the design. It's simple and only focus on the content that you need. :) No distractions.
Two options:

A) You can play a game at your actual skill level, which requires your team to communicate effectively and play together. This requires someone to take the lead and coordinate the other players. That just doesn't happen in drop in games. It is incredibly not-fun and frustrating to be playing decently yourself, but be anchored by incompetent team members. You get guys who want to play their own way, or just aren't interested in "taking orders". Plenty of arrogant dudes that won't listen to someone that is a lower rank.

B) Play at a level where you can essentially carry your entire team to victory because your skill level is so much higher than the enemy. You get to fuck up a bunch of newbs and win the game, while your team mates are drooling at spawn.

B is definitely more fun. Especially when the people smurfing can get their fix of A in an organised match with an organised team, outside of match making.
More court documents can be found here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395340/facebook-inc-v...
Why do we need to look at Portugal? Net Neutrality was only in effect from 2015-2017. We have decades of experience in the US without net neutrality, and it has been fine for small publishers. Do you really think the beancounters care about Mommy Bloggers, or Bob's Keto Korner? If anything, they are looking at big dogs with lots of cash that use lots of bandwidth like Netflix and upstart startups like Disney.
Wouldn't it be enough if there was an obvious event for actual text input? WPF for example has that and it's the obvious and IME-friendly choice, since of course not every keystroke results in a character (dead keys exist too, after all).
I see a lot of criticism here saying things like "DNNs have nothing to to with brains, they weren't designed to work like brains, and any resemblance is surely just an artifact of training them to do brain-like things."

The fact is, there have been neuroscientists working with neural network models with greater and lesser complexity than DNNs for decades. They've been utilized to great profit outside of neuroscience lately, but that doesn't make them not an abstraction of some aspects of cortical computation.

We don't quite understand how brains could perform or approximate backprop yet, but it's the only training algorithm that has been remotely successful at training networks deep enough to do human-like visual recognition. So many people take that as a big clue as to what we should be looking for in the brain to explain its great performance and ability to learn, rather than a reason to disqualify DNNs entirely.

There's plenty of modeling work going on with more traditional biophysical models, such as those that include spiking, interneuron compartments, attractor dynamics, etc. This is just an attempt to also come at the problem from the other direction, starting from something that we know works well (for vision) and trying to figure out how to ground it in biophysical reality.
My problem isn't with an alternate platform to Steam as I have bought things from both Gog and the Humble Store. My issue is with Epic exclusively and it is exclusivity.

To be specific I have issues with Epic offering exclusivity deals, especially to games that are KickStarter and had promised to release the product on other platforms. That's it. If games were only available on Epic because Epic offered a better cut I wouldn't take an issue with it.

You might say that in those cases the developers/publishers are more at fault than Epic is, which is fair. However it is kind of like sleeping with someone who is in a monogamous relationship vs. cheating. Sure it isn't as bad as cheating yourself, but I still view it as bad thing to do morally speaking.
An educational graphic where some aspects are carefully accurate, and others utterly bogus, used by students unable to tell which are which, is going to prolifically foster misconceptions... when used in isolation. So, why do that?

Software limitations, or visualization clarity, or pedagogical focus, or budget, may require a misleadingly empty cell. But why then use it in isolation?

Why not start by showing a realistically crowded and packed representation? Briefly, like 2 seconds. Static. Drawn with crayons. By a 5 year old. Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine. A problem with these recurring... I'll call them "excuses", is that they depend on a silent addendum. That something has been prioritized over reducing misconceptions, over slapping on secondary misconception-antidote representations. Sometimes it's "that wouldn't be pretty" (almost a quote), or sometimes it's couldn't be bothered, or just don't care. Sigh.

For conveying the random violence of nanoscale, I like simulation of virus icosahedral capsid assembly. The panels are tethered together, so they can't wander off. They just keep variously smashing into each other. Disassembling, misassembling, and finally, sometimes, succeeding. The panel size/speed, and collision and attachment rates, make realism watchable. Maybe with some skipping ahead.

Apropos 'not naturally perceptible' scale... I've a hobby project around teaching scale down to atoms for early primary. It's funny or sad or something, that it's not that hard to give at least some children, a firmer grasp of the size of cells, than that of at least some first-tier medical-school graduate students. It's a very low bar.

There's a lot of "We tried teaching <some topic> really really badly, and wow, surprisingly, that didn't work out. So we drew the obvious conclusion: students aren't developmentally ready to understand so complex thing".

But as you say, XR is a source of hope. And personalized instruction. And when MIT did a VR cell biology app, pulling in and interviewing researchers for domain knowledge, they reported a reoccurring challenge was... getting the enthusiastic researchers to leave and end the interviews. So there's seems hope for gathering the needed expertise as well.
When people ask "how would you write an operating system without C?", Oberon is what I point them to. It's a very different style than Unix, in that the Oberon language is a relatively integrated part of the operating system, rather than communication being through a machine-level ABI. There were some spiritual predecessors where the compiler itself was part of the OS, and there was no other way to communicate with it than through the language semantics. I'm not completely sure whether Oberon works like that, but some Concurrent Pascal systems did. It's a very different view of what an "operating system" means.

Anyway, Oberon is a memory-safe and garbage-collected language without the pointer trickery that makes C so dangerous. So how does Oberon implement the necessary low-level parts? Fortunately, some version of the source is easily browsable online: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html

Here is for example Kernel.Mod: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Kerne...

Low-level operations are done with magical functions that simply perform an operation on a memory address identified with an integer, e.g. `SYSTEM.PUT(q0+8, q1)`. These are then presumably handled directly by the compiler (the System.Mod file does not define any PUT function). This is syntactically more awkward than the equivalent in C (`q0[2] = q1`, assuming this is an `int` pointer), but perhaps things that are unchecked and potentially dangerous should be syntactically awkward. It's not like a lot of code will be written using these facilities.
The disadvantages of setting revenue goals – Fast Company
The pinephone has a planed release price at 150. The dev-version currently available goes for the same amount.
I think this IS probably too aggressive and this move probably would not change anything but make such organization just more hostile towards Facebook and their products.
I don’t see them as such a big deal, they are somewhat monitored (might be imperfect) aside from the fact that every intelligence corps (including US) is also attacking civilians, tourists and more - even if not with “bad purpose”, sometimes it might even save lives (if they prevent a terrorist attack or so, using that technology).
So why not let other countries have this ability? Obviously if you give someone a weapon it might turn against you but how can you be so sure it won’t help defend the lives of their citizens?
Everyone is using this “weapon” the same way, the only question is on what side you’re on.
In my opinion, this is not a very destructive weapon that actually risks people’s lives so it’s fair to share, it will also get there one way or another.
Aren't both Israel and Saudi Arabia are allies of the US?