skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Numberphile isn't that great if you're already interested in math. They talk a lot about math words, but they hardly ever do any math. 3Blue1Brown is where the good math is.
Dog People Live Longer. But Why?
Spice Is Nice (For Birds) (2017)
That's why we should sue people who are responsible, not the company.
If your are criminal, start a company, so they can not sue you, only the company. #protip
IME commuting by motorbike through London over the past 10 years, most side roads aren't viable rat runs owing to one way loops that feed you back out onto the road you're trying to avoid.

In north and east London, it's the canals and rivers that prevent a lot of rat-running. The Lee / Lea river and its reservoirs, all the way to the canals in Islington, down into Limehouse, cut out most alternative east-west routes - you need to cross those waterways by bridges, and only the bigger roads have bridges. And there are east-west canals too, that reduce the options north-south on the east side of the city.
Exactly. The deep state wanted Clinton, and they failed.
You think they have more influence over the American public than the parties the parent listed?
Colour 0.3.14 (https://github.com/colour-science/colour/releases/tag/v0.3.1...) has also been released over the weekend along with Colour - Datasets 0.1.0 (https://github.com/colour-science/colour-datasets/releases/t...), a new Python package dedicated to colour science datasets management.
Case Nightmare Blonde, Part 2
One thing that programmers and other technical people have in their favour when learning languages is the ability to defer deeper understanding of concepts. While taking in the overview of new languages we need to accept that we won't understand all the inner workings immediately. We do this everytime we learn new technologies on the job, developing deeper knowledge once we have some rough working knowledge. This can be really productive for languages since you can get a rough working knowledge going earlier and begin the positive feedback loop of listening, speaking and improving. I've seen a lot of really smart people struggle in languages classes because they want to fully grok a concept and really focus on it before moving on, which holds them back.
>> If the maintainer has been competent enough to use ...

> In security you are considered incompetent until proven otherwise.

And didn't my quote literally say "if the maintainer has been competent enough"?
But misinformation in advertisements is illegal in many countries and so is misrepresenting information as actual information rather than it being ads.
Indeed! Let's just repeat it until nobody can forget it ever again and also drop tax avoidance by these huge companies in the mix.

Maybe there is still hope for something we can call justice and probably the money they stole from exploiting the commons can be used for something more valuable than personal gains of some managers and stakeholders.
How is banksy going to protect their work if they cannot even prove they made it? I don't even believe all the 'banksy' originals over the years came from one person, it's more likely a group.

Honestly it's frustrating to watch an anonymous entity decorate the city while still expecting people not to use their work. The way banksy has established themself as a figure would indicate they want the art to be free and open for all to use. You cannot have your cake and eat it too, which is to say you cannot be anonymous and trademark your artwork.
indeed, one hour feels to short to actually get some good impressions.

at best it helps to see if this is something we could bond over. there is some value to that. having something non-work related that a team can bond over can help smooth over difficulties elsewhere.

as i wrote in another comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21364367 ) the game won't tell you how i will work, but, if we can have a good time over a board game then maybe you will realize that me being critical of your commits is not personal, and maybe you'll even work up the courage to ask me for advice instead of sulking and giving up, or starting an argument.
The university system will implode and there will be a lot of political turbulence when these institutionalized young adults struggle to adjust. Putting children for half the population into the education system with the expectation of higher wages through knowledge work when they came out the other side was delusional. Our middle class still believes in a kind of information perpetual motion machine.
I would suggest reading through this empirical analysis in its entirety

https://www.nap.edu/read/18613/chapter/7#132

Studies have shown that extremely harsh penalties have minimal deterrence effects compared to moderately harsh penalties. More specifically, they advocate for a response function with a gradually decreasing gradient. Unfortunately, they have no recommendations as to what makes for a "moderately harsh" penalty, and they even acknowledge that some studies have shown deterrence effects from policies such as California's 3-strikes law.
Lightweight AI Tracks Suspects Between Cameras
Ask HN: Low-level programming – why are there no new developments?
I understand that "If something isn't broke, don't fix it". Lately there have been so many advancement in hardware technology.

Yet from software prespective, I see tech is still relaying on C,C++ and the childres of it.

Why are there no new development, no new programming languages in this area?
I can agree with this.

Google was not innocent in the matter (there is clear public evidence internal Google data got into the hands of the NSA), but it appears that data was stolen due to poor security of Google's systems rather than handed over voluntarily. Google underestimated the abilities of their adversary. I don't believe any other company back then would have been resistant to the same attack.

There is sufficient evidence in the leaked snowden docs and public blog posts to figure out what the bug was and how it has been fixed.
There has been huge advances in this area recently. Real-time ray-tracing and lighting is Nvidia’s primary marketing push right now with their RTX cards. Unity/Unreal/Blender can all produce very high fidelity real time lighting while editing. It’s great technology.
Even when that benefit is at the direct expense of other users? Your device rooting example is different compared to online cheating in this respect and to me that's key.
The music industry saw revenue increases when iTunes was at its height.
This obviously sounds like something that could be possible, but equally possible is that there is no banksy and it is simply a marketing tactic, where banksy was originally one person that evolved into random artworks from many people.
Possibly, but there’s also an historic antipathy between the DOD and CIA: the CIA has worked closely with Amazon building their datacenters and the NSA (part of the DOD) has worked closely with Microsoft in the past, especially with the construction of their San Antonio data center. When the deal was finalized for building the San Antonio Azure datacenter the NSA quietly approached the contractor and said “we’ll have one of those too, right across the street from where you’re building one for Microsoft.”
> This seems very hard to believe - mainstream science struggles to predict accurately even 5 years out

In general, this might be true. Predicting the future is harder than it seems. But it depends completely on the type of system (chaotic or not), and how well we understand it. We can predict the position of the Earth thousands of years into the future.

Regarding climate models, you might be underestimating how good they were in the early 80's. Here are old models' projections compared with the actual temperature records up to 2017 [1]. I'm not an expert so I don't know if they excluded early bad models, but they included all the IPCC models.

The graph that AOC showed was pretty small and grainy. It's also compressed along the x-axis (140 years), and has a high aspect ratio. It's possible that she, or her aides, picked the best one for the presentation. But given the performance of the models at the time, it's not unreasonably good. It actually seems worse than the 1990 IPCC model, but that's just my opinion.

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...
In 1982 we had just emerged from the decade where the 1973 Yom Kippur War oil crisis and the 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock has us waiting in line for gasoline and filling only on odd/even days depending on whether we had odd or even license plates.

People were interested in producing more oil, not less. Even the Club of Rome could not get much traction with its "Limits to Growth" reports. It was also the middle of the Cold War and oil is a vital military supply - the Department of Defense is a huge consumer of refined oil products.
The emphasis was on "why Facebook", not "why Tor".
Unlike others here (based on the downvotes), I don't think your concerns are entirely unfounded. Google is a classic example of a company that scorches the earth with their freeware releases - remember Kiko?

But ultimately, whatever is best for the consumer needs to win out. If freeware knocks out commercial competitors then stagnates (like Internet Explorer), that's bad, and analogous to dumping which is not legal.

If it's just better product and continues to be, like Google Calendar, the world is simply better off.
Just 3 weeks ago someone uploaded a video of Neil Sloane talking about his encyclopedia. At his 80th birthday he is as vivid and enthusiastic as always.

https://vimeo.com/365825314
It's not petty. Hacks in multiplayer games ruin the game for everyone else, and the hack developer hopes that the hack will stay undetected forever. That's not proud. It's more like "I hope you can use this to be assholes and ruin the game for all other players as long as the game exists."

Also, this is just a game, but if it was ransomware and the dev said "hopefully this ransomware will be antivirus undetected for ever", you'd probably have a different opinion, no?
All of the mainstream digital music stores where you buy music have been DRM free for over a decade.
what if in 1982 there were a million such studies with predictions all over the place and that one just happens to match what really happened?

what if Exxon uses this as an explanation for why this result wasn’t taken into account? “It was not possible to predict which prediction would have turned out correct, you can’t fault us for that!”
That totally stops working when people start YouTube autoplay or similar ML-based picker. It makes discovery of niche artists practically zero-friction.
British Columbia Supreme Court rejects class action suit over foreign buyers tax
It also becomes very quickly zero sum.
> The point is that web pages don't inherently need to do "pretty much anything." The web could have been simple and browsers could be simple. Stakeholders decided that no, we want more and more and more and even more features.

I did kindof address that in my final sentence. But there is a fair amount of inherent complexity in what I would want from a replacement for the web.

The web interface for Github should still be possible. Doing that would require a graphical layout engine (eg something like css), some way to manage authentication, and some way of submitting user data from a form. None of those require a turing-complete language, so I would perhaps be in favor of not having a JS equivalent, which would dramatically simplify the task of a browser, but there is still a lot of complexity there.

> And when you say simple is not correct, it is often because someone wants something complicated instead of acknowledging that simple, in fact, does all they really need.

The easiest case to say the simple is not enough is with encryption. I am not aware of any simple encryption algorithm. If you want to achieve, communication that others cannot eavesdrop in, simple is not enough.

Numerical stability in all sorts of applications is important and it is hard to achieve. Projecting the real number line into finite bits is hard to do in a consistent way.

You didn't contest my simple vs fast claim, but a good example of that is pathfinding algorithms. Dijkstra's algorithm is simple (relatively), but for many video games, a more advanced algorithm like hierarchical A* search or jump point search is needed.
He takes questions from developers at 25:00.
I think he was talking about architecture, not software consulting. ;)
> I've got no problem with people writing hacks for games; with the shit that gets released these days I expect it would often be far more rewarding than playing the game itself.

Hacks in singleplayer games are fun. Hacks in multiplayer games are not. If someone thinks the game is shit and unrewarding, they should just not play it and not ruin it for everyone else.
I think it applies for anyone who has pets doesn't it?
>chatbot startup

Dead man walking.
> "sudo" is a way to run a command as a different user, which may or may not be root depending on policy.

Correct.

Letting a normal user run commands as root is the most common use-case for sudo, which is why it was mentioned as an example earlier.

The bug does not trigger in this common setup, only in a quite unusual one mentioned later. Perhaps that should have been said explicitly.
> Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.
There's lots of things about Graham's number, but because I love the style I thought I'd add in here Wait But Whys "from 1 to Graham's number":

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/from-1-to-1000000.html

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
I'm no authority on this stuff, but I don't think it has to be one single universal ISA for everything. In the same way I can compile my C program to run on x86 or arm, I can design it to interface with two different possible storage device architectures, if I want to.
I would argue that follow/fav will turn HN into a other kinds of social media?

You want to hear/read interesting topics, comments and voice your opinion. While reading the favorite person's comment is really good, I don't limiy myself to that.

I normally go to NEW tab rather than just home page and to ASK tab occasionnaly.

Follow/Fav might just ruin my homefeed making me bias.
A small but not insignificant number of employees move between the security services and Google each year.

In fact, the design of the NSA's interception nodes, rulesets and filtering systems resemble strongly many of Google's internal technologies (as evidenced by a leaked config file in the snowden documents)
You mentioned that there is no restriction on the location of the candidate. So, how does the ISA work when a candidate gets a job outside US?
This feature has been carried through to his work on JPEG XL, which is co-created with Google (using their Pik and Brunsli tech) and so fairly likely to get wide browser support.

In conjunction with HTTP2 to progressively load all visible images first, this is a killer feature for the web, simplifying thumbnails and responsive design while vastly speeding up page loads and improving caching.
WebObjects was very ahead of its time, but unfortunately crippled by its high price tag
Not sure what you mean by “put Amazon’s contract up for review” - the contract didn’t belong to Amazon, there have been multiple ethical issues with Amazon related to this contract, and there was an ongoing protest from Oracle.
What harm did that cause you (or anyone)?
Reading this, I found myself nodding along after I replaced:

- musician to developer

- online music to open source project

- performance to consulting/training/conferences

It’s funny thinking about all the similarities between the two.
Einstein developing general relativity exists in both the past and future light cone of Gödel being a child.

Happy? :)
Except the ML based picker soon learns that people like to hear music they've heard before too, so recommends popular tracks disproportionately often, amplifying the effect.
Related: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/09/applying-deep-learning-t...
Cat is not meant for printing files to the terminal
Apex Legends wants to do that at least. I think it's a pretty clever idea.

https://kotaku.com/apex-legends-will-make-cheaters-play-agai...
I don't know how/why it happened, but most users here are left-wing now. This means that, if you post a right-wing point of view, you are likely to attract lots of responses. Posts that attract lots of responses are always seen as flamebait, and flamebait is flagged. Many flags will get you labelled as a troll and banned.

Whether this is on purpose (a system used by the mods to keep the site left-wing) or not (just a consequence of the times we live in + a desire by the mods not to have flames all day) is another matter.
I didn’t know it concatenates file
Same here, I'm not deep into music, but I have it playing in the background all the time. And I hate ads.

So I have gone from buying 1 or less music CD per year to happily paying a monthly subscription for over 10 years.

And mostly for playing songs from the 90s and current charts. Without adds and offline on my mobile. It is the hassle-freeness I pay for.

Though the previously good suggestions and Discover Weekly has turned rubbish since my kids started to use my account on my ipad. Hurry up 2027 when my youngest turn 13 and they can all legally have their own Spotify acounts...
> But it's also designed to work like a pyramid scheme. Most of the Bitcoin that will ever exist is already in the hands of a small group of early adopters.

What if Bitcoin were superseded by a cryptocurrency with a linear emission (i.e. a constant block reward)? Would that no longer be a pyramid scheme?

> everyone who owns U.S. Dollars will become poorer.

You mean everyone who owns dollars but no bitcoin.
Yep, but it doesn't change the "base" point, which is, you cannot legally drive faster than 120/130/140 kmh (depending on the country) and certainly NOT 180 kmh in any European country BUT in Germany (and only on some - many - strerches of the Autobahn, in some other there is anyway a speed limit of 120/130/140 kmh):

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

http://www.autobahnatlas-online.de/Limitkarte.pdf

http://www.autobahnatlas-online.de/LegendeLimit.pdf
Ask HN:Are you building/running resources for developers or designers?
Hello everyone,

I am building a page with resources for Developers ( https://www.colorsandfonts.com/developer.html or https://www.colorsandfonts.com/designer.html ) and I was wondering if you want to be featured on it.

I need:
- Section. ( Code Editors, CSS Framework, Design Tools, etc,... )
- A working link.
- An image.
- Short description.
- The page you want to be featured in ( Designers or Developers ).

Thank you and have a great day!
There are new developments and languages, just look at Rust or Go. Some argue that Rust could replace C (I do too, but I’m knowledgeable enough to defend it)
Most Americans are unwilling to pay $10 a month to fight climate change, a survey found.

That's quite funny when you think about the costs we will incur if we don't get a handle on this. Most people really do think in the short term.
Fires and Blackouts Made in Sacramento
Also Lattice only does LUT4. (Their internal look up tables have 4 inputs)
The Artix-7 has LUT6.
From what i heard that means you need more than 1.6 times more LUT4 than LUT6. Not including the fact that Artix-7 includes other hardware features which are sometimes wired in to a desgin
Indeed. And if we assume he does not want money to be made from his works by him _or other people either_ then it is all pretty consistent.

Indeed it's a strange world if he, on principle, refuses to profit by his work but other people must be allowed to.
That statement also sums up NeXT in a nutshell.
It could be worse. I've seen 2D architectural drawings that could have been M.C. Escher works. You at least got a design that was physically possible in three dimensions.
> The judge is unlikely to be technical, and he must assume the experts at the patent office did their job.

If the executive branch always did its job correctly we'd hardly need courts.
That's curious, they do work fine on another machine running Xfce so apparently it's related to Gnome. Filed a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591783, thanks!
I wonder how much of that was people re-buying rather than ripping existing tapes and CDs though. The music industry also successfully persuaded people to buy again on new media remember.
Here? This site has a decisive leftist slant, with barely a few dissenting opinions that are always immediately downvoted into oblivion.

If you think this site has a Republican slant, your own political perspective must be very badly skewed.
Yea, and the rule of law means that if you do something that’s legal, you shouldn’t be punished for it.

Even if society later discovers that it made a mistake when making it legal.
Please don't. Or rather, please just give me enough cores at a reasonable price so I can disable inevitably leaky SMT.
Norah Jones had multiple popular tracks while Kelis just had her one hit single.

I made the mistake of buying Gwen Stefani’s solo album, which is literally one decent track, which was the single, and all the rest filler. That was the turning point for me and I expect many others have had similar experiences.
Hell, the IPCC did not accurately predict 2019 climate change back in 1998 when they had far better models with far more computing resources.
I answered a similar question in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369078

TLDR: That model was fairly in line with what the scientific community was saying at the time. That excuse might have carried some weight in the early 70s but it was marginalized by scientific consensus in the 80s.
> Is there a demand in FAANG for programmers but in Europe, and if so how much of a difference is it between US and Europe?

Google, Microsoft and Facebook have large offices in London. They also have offices in Zürich, where the pay is much better, though only Google has a large presence there.

All the FAANG companies will generally hire anyone who passes their interview process as long as the office has open positions (it usually does) but the US generally has much much higher demand than Europe. London is no comparison to the bay area. Not even really the Seattle area.

(Though I'm happy in Europe)

> What would you say is a single trait which differentiates candidates to FAANG? Specific college, programmer from a young age, already established experience or personality, etc.

The ability to, given a reasonable time, solve an enormously broad range of problems (which is what I see the interview process as testing for).

FAANG engineers usually aren't "frontend", "backend", "iOS" or "Android" engineers, they're just "engineers". It's usually expected that they can grab someone from anywhere in the company, put them anywhere else in the company and within ~6 months have them productively contributing code.

Of course there are exceptions to this, like research positions or design/UX engineers but generally that's the expectation.

> And finally, is it true that a lot of candidates are socially inept? I.e. lack interpersonal skills, verbal and non-verbal communication, if so, how big of a role does it play in an interview?

My biggest issue with interview candidates has been people who don't talk. The interview isn't as much about solving the problem as how you solve the problem. If you just hear the problem and start silently coding an answer on the board, that's nice but it won't get you a hire recommendation. I need to know what your thought process was, what other options you considered and why you settled on the implementation you chose. I also deliberately leave the problem somewhat ambiguous so that you have to ask questions.

Usually the people who don't talk aren't socially inept though, they're not comfortable with English.