skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that were the case then there is no truth in society and/or the facts are so hard to find that there effectively isn’t a democracy.

Now you're getting it!
Google taps satellites to offer clearer picture of wildfires
> Large aircraft are basically self-driving these days. Pilots can choose to do almost nothing at all from takoff to landing.

Sort of. The plane will continue to fly the pre-programmed route without pilot involvement, so the actual manipulation of the control surfaces is no longer their primary task. But there are systems to monitor, controllers to talk to, weather systems to navigate around, climbs/descents to find more favourable winds, fuel imbalances to correct, etc. And of course, baseball scores to pick up from ADF.

I'd liken it to how (most) software engineers are not writing in Assembly. Instead they're using higher-level languages and libraries to solve problems. Similarly a pilot is not hands-on flying for 7 hours over the Atlantic, but they're still operating the aircraft.
When I grew up it was over Dungeons and Dragons. Then it was video games. Now it’s these nebulous “screens” that are supposedly turning kids into... something? The constant is: When kids are interested in things that parents weren’t interested in when they were kids, pearl clutching ensues.
I buy cars so that I can leave my stuff in them instead of having to load and unload every day. That convenience is worth a lot. Whether the car drives itself or not is an entirely separate issue.
https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ had some fun little games written in flash.
You mean like google that was there before altavista? Or Facebook before MySpace?
FYI he said "conservation issues", not controversial. They're probably brittle and can't support their own weight safely.
"We were nerds in our element, busily answering the challenge to create new technology that would benefit the world."

I think this is the problem. "Nerds" (only to reuse the term Kleinrock chose) like to think that we are above politics, that all that matters is the purity of the science of whatever we're creating.

But "politics" is just another word for "the interaction of people at scale". We are people who are building technology for people. We cannot forget that, without all these people in the mix, there is no point.

I will reiterate that to make myself clear: science with no regard for people is useless. Masturbation at best.

I think this one failure of thinking is what is responsible for a lot of the ills in our industry today. We have companies that exploit workers because workers are only thinking of the tech. We have products and services that exploit users because the people in the act of building them are only thinking about the tech.

I'm working in a field that has a similar blindness right now. In VR and AR, we recognize that there is a huge potential for good from our tech. And it's amazing tech to be working on. But only a few people are talking seriously about the potential for abuse. Combine the dream of AR tech with deep fakes and you've got a huge propaganda tool of the like we've never seen before. Even simple issues of making sure our tech doesn't physically harm people gets sloughed off as "oh, we'll figure that out later."

NO! We need to figure these things out now, before we lose the keys to the castle to the MBAs of the world. Right now, the industry isn't taken very seriously, it's mostly viewed as just a toy, or as only a tool for industrial process training and automation. It's basically the Internet all over again. We have a professional responsibility to get this right.

I don't agree with Kleinrock's intimation that competition is a bad thing. I think he isn't thinking clearly on just how competitive the academic environment can be, how competition is a redundancy that ensures robustness and drives innovation forward. The Space Race didn't advance for academics playing nicely together, it advanced for US academics trying to best USSR academics, and vice versa.

Given that Facebook is one of the biggest players in the field right now, we may have already lost.

We should be treating the Facebooks of the world as our generation's USSR. We should be competing against them in the most vigorous way possible. And we should be doing that not just with tech, but with politics. Educating people on the dangers of misused technology. Pushing forward safety regulation--both physical and information safety--just like the FAA requires safe designs before allowing mass production of any aircraft.

We have to get this right.
As a consumer, I'm not really aware of them. I know what Uber Eats and Postmates are, but not GrubHub. I may have heard of GrubHub, but I don't have a reason to use it.
Years ago I wrote this tiny script:

<run-on-all.sh>

#!/bin/bash

clusterfile=$1
cmd="source /etc/profile; $2"
ssh='ssh -n -A -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o LogLevel=quiet'
#add "-o ConnectTimeout=x" for timing out the ssh connection after x seconds

#redircting stdin for ssh command to /dev/null (using switch "-n" for ssh) since otherwise ssh command breaks bash's "while" loop
#reference: http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/38060-ssh-break-while-loop.html

echo

while read line;
do
echo "@==============@ running on $line @==============@"
echo
echo
$ssh $line "$cmd"
echo
echo
done < $clusterfile

echo
echo
echo "==============> FINISHED RUNNING for $clusterfile <=============="

All one needs to do is call it like so:
./run-on-all.sh /path/to/cluster/file/list-of-servers-here.txt "sleep 60; reboot"
Sell something bigger than your otherwise boring product
He mentioned car, which is an awful comparison.
Cars should never have been invented and they are the worst thing that happened to humanity.
Just imagine how much money has been wasted into cars, and roads, when any other mean of transportation would have been more efficient.
Tmux with sync-panes is similar but, imho, more convenient.
Your DNS-project sounds exactly like mine! I parse a custom format of text-files, and update AWS DNS records via git-pushes:

https://dns-api.com/
My extended family over there knows perfectly well what happened, they just don’t like to talk about it. And my parents know exactly what happened because they were there, and nobody’s coming after them. So without further evidence it seems to be equivalent to certain very contentious political topics in the US, which people are aware of, but you certainly cannot bring up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21385857
"We're sorry your meal was not delivered. Seagulls have discovered our drones carry french fries and have been targeting our drones mid-air."

But in reality, is this the best tool for quick meal deliveries? Seems that weight will be an issue and I imagine obstacles will always been an issue (animals, powerlines, branches, malicious people wanting free food). I don't have a lot of faith in the drone-delivery game, at least for many years.
I really like the Djando CoC (in case someone needs a template): https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/
> I didn't get that impression at all when it happened...

What impression?

>> the pedestrian would not have survived with a human driver either.

Car meets pedestrian at speed causes death often. I don't think this is questionable.

>> They crossed the road in pitch black darkness.

The circumstances of the incident were well publicized by the media, and the video released shows this is obvious.

>> The only reason it was news was because it was a self driving car.

All the statistics around pedestrians being injured or killed ... how many of those stories result in reports across the country in most media outlets?

Which part requires citation for you?
I would like to agree with you, but I am not sure I understand how internet has been weaponized. Can you please elaborate on how the internet is/can harm?
The entire point of construction in space is to avoid launching from earth. It takes 36 times less energy to get a ton of material from moon surface, and can be done without rockets at all - a space elevator can be built on the moon with 'normal' materials.
You have to be a professional smoker to enjoy them for sure.
Packages that list libidn2 as a dependency include Plesk and systemd. P.S - The update also fixes CVE-2019-18224 which seems to be ... interesting. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18224
Exactly. In 2016 you could fill a book with each of the two candidate's lies. For 2020 the Democrats don't even have a candidate yet and they have all lied.

Honesty is a virtue for a reason: it is exceedingly rare and hard to find in a world that refuses to deal with truth.
Energy efficiency/consumption would be my first thought.
TFA goes into more detail than the title.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191029124730/https://avdi.code...
Sure if you are prototyping a cluster with various types of nodes.
Haha, obviously the largest CPU market is date centers which pretty much only care about performance/watt. The gaming market is really only useful for PR and launching new architectures.
I feel like the government should be offering some type of non predatory debt relief comparable to this. This service is only a detriment to the borrower due to the crazy high interest rates, but I think the government could break even with much more reasonable interest rates, consumers would be better off financially, and the predatory industries would disappear since they can't compete.
I think you're comparing different things here.

1. Comparing the chances of a homeless person in the modern world with a smartphone, to a homeless person in the modern world without a smartphone.

2. Comparing the chances of a homeless person in the modern world with a smartphone, to a homeless person in a hypothetical internetless world (where noone can have a smartphone).

The org you volunteered with dealt with comparison #1 above. We're discussing comparison #2.
The games were unplayable at the higher frequency, presumably because they made some sort of assumption about the relation between clock speed and play speed. Typically the computer was on "turbo" all the time.
It might be confirmation bias but some of the best leaders I've encountered were (ex-) craftsmen, engineers, creatives... and the greatest ones have a mindset of 'serving' their employees, firm and clients. They enable others.
I will grant you one Pedantry Credit to use, as it sounds familiar and I have no reason to not believe you. But in return I will point out that I doubt that’s where Starbuck was going with that. :-)

(And for the second time, auto-correct, the character’s name is STARBUCK, singular. FFS, Apple, Moby Dick is a default book included in the Books app, did no one there read it?)
I have 3 kids in middle and high school in West Windsor NJ. The school gives each student a chromebook or you can bring your own (I believe BYOD that is only allowed in high school).. everything is done through google classroom + printed handouts....
> We should pressure government officials and entities to more zealously monitor and adjudicate such internet abuses as cyberattacks, data breaches and piracy.

Yeah, that's gonna be a nope for me, dawg.
I believe there's some hope they may be able to see past this point using the new gravitational astronomy.
Regarding GDPR, this is true for the EU, but the article was published in the LA Times, though…

It would be nice, if those properties, which can be applied globally, were already integrated in the browser as a preferences setting (and enforced by law). Meaning, privacy concerns must become part of the protocol. (What about some kind of 451 response by the browser?)
Scientists Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans
T-Mobile Netherlands starts routing traffic through Germany to save costs
CGP Grey recently made a great video about this exact problem with social security numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus

They were started to keep of taxes and never meant to be used as IDs.
Godwin's Law is still alive and well, it seems.

While your choice of comparative examples is patently absurd, you're actually arguing for a principled approach to governance rather than an activist one. And on that we agree - I think decisions should be made based on principle rather than based on who yells the loudest.

As for Facebook "mediating our cultural superstructure", this is a completely untestable and probably ideological claim.
Elixir for all backend needs, javascript for all frontend needs.

Looking into bringing Nim into the fold when the need arises.
I think the issue is that the 50% screen time for teens is using apps that cause and reinforce anxiety and other diagnosable mental health issues.

The teens by virtue of their age probably aren’t working, so I don’t that screen tune can be attributed to work requirements.
Hi, if you could stop spreading the lie that there is some magical distinction between a 'publisher' and a 'platform' that somehow limits what a business is legally allowed to do, I would really appreciate it, and I know a lot of other folks would too! Thanks!

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190613/03172142391/once-...
I am leery of government-backed loans. Look what FHA did to the housing market and what student loans have done to the cost of college.
“Iterating for 20 years” is the most polite interpretation. They’ve been shoveling out re-skinned games with massive performance and AI regressions every few years.

The original tech was awesome. The people at the studio are awesome. The Sega > Creative assembly executive teams, not so much.
A call for Rust blogs about plans for 2020
But they didn’t directly make money from solving that problem.
It looks like the manager was right and Francis wasn’t “mature enough” for that promotion.

One thing companies overlook is employee loyalty. In hindsight, they should have gotten rid of Francis and kept Lee.

Now they lost 2 engineers and maybe even the manager.
If you force this website to run on a delay some bad guy will just hack together his own.

The cat is already out and information is contagious / wants to be free.
The turbo button made the machine slower for compatibility with older programs, as described in the parent post.
After a Terrible 2019, Blizzard Is Going All-In at BlizzCon
Where there are public spaces that aren't actively policed, with public outlets, that's where they hang out. I used to live in a neighborhood next to a public library with a sheltered area and an outlet, and every night there'd be a couple of homeless people camping out there. They plugged their devices, had a smoke, and had shelter for the night.

Thankfully, the neighborhood itself was tolerant enough to let them be -- I never saw them being kicked out, and why should they be? They're not making trouble, and life's hard enough if you don't have an address to your name. Give them the small, quiet dignity of a place to stay dry from the rain and browse reddit.
A /s is necessary when dealing with the latin alphabet hegemony ;-)
A Lineman Became a Doctor, but Dementia Made Him Retire. He’s Only 42
Well, to me, the issue of IPv6 adoption is that it is not a natural extension to IPv4, but two different protocols. It requires two settings efforts and additional efforts for interoperability with third parties still limited to IPv4.

I am sure there must be some tools to smooth the efforts, but it is not native in the protocols.
The adtech industry embraced flash in a big way, youtube was defaulting to the flash player until four years ago. Plus the dozens of flash ads and trackers that were (and still are) placed into many ad networks.

Now that the adtech firms switched to building the browser and the cluster of html5 technologies have matured it's easier to track people natively. That's really the only reason flash went away.
There's quite a few flash games/etc. that will be lost to the ages.

Quite interesting if you think about it! A bit of an antithesis to the idea that what's on the web is preserved forever.
>This came naturally and made a lot of sense — Since we enable developers to record and replay API tests in their QA environment, why not use this ability to create tests from real user behavior?

That's the thing about startups. Things that seems obvious now, might not seems that way few months ago.
Creative Thinking That Fueled WeChat’s Success
Mass transit doesn't really work in US suburbs because everything is just too spread out; it's not economical, nor logistically effective, to build subways to subdivisions.

But even in built-up cities, Americans cling to their cars just like they cling to guns and religion. Look at all the uproar in Manhattan, NYC, where they're taking away street parking and putting in protected cycling lanes. People are upset at this "attack" on cars, and somehow think they deserve free places to put their personal vehicles. If you look at another highly built-up city for comparison, Tokyo, they don't have this problem. There is NO street parking; it's all paid lots that cost a fortune. In fact, you're not even allowed to buy a car there unless you can prove you have a place to park it! So most people get around with subways, trains, walking, cycling, and taxis.

The bottom line is that it's cultural: Americans just don't like public transit and don't want to fund it with their tax dollars, but they do want to subsidize car driving with their tax dollars.
One of the first "commercial" games I worked on was a Flash (Flex) game that I licensed to a few of the big Flash games sites at the time. I haven't looked at that stuff in years and years... I wonder how feasible it would be to port those games to the modern web.
Creating a Multilingual Website with Drupal
We have built the Internet open, neutral and free for
all. Governments all over the world are now censoring and abusing it. Out solution? Let’s give even more power to governments!

What a politically motivated piece of writing.
I wasn't sure if there was some advance in voltammeter techniques, or if it just took forever to find a willing patient and convince ethics to green-light it.

DBS has been FDA-approved since the late 1990s (and even longer under IRB/IND stuff), so there have been lots of opportunities to stick probes in humans' heads.
Steve was right very briefly but in hindsight it's pretty irrational to expect a piece of software to not run on a powerful CPU without contrived restrictions like being "banned". We'd have the full Adobe Flash IDE on the iPad next year if Jobs had no grudge and we just waited for the software and hardware to improve. Photoshop's halfway there and SQL Server made it to Linux and Windows made it to ARM.
It's actually the other way around. You'd have to disable the Turbo to play the games. Because they where synchronized to the slower cpu clock frequency. For your spreadsheets you would use Turbo. Marketingwise it mirght make more sense to have a button to make your computer faster instead of one that makes it slower.
it was born of the cold war military-industrial complex to solve for distributed command and control in the event of nuclear war... it was us nerds that were mistaken when we thought it could be changed into anything different.
Vladimir Putin Wants Everyone to Love the Way He Watches Them
Lisp machines were contemporaneous

C was introduced in 1972. Lisp machines started in 1975, so can't have influenced C without some time travel.

> Wirth's Pascal based systems

Pascal predated C by only two years, so it's not clear how much it could have influenced C's design. (Side note: Wirth originally intended Pascal to be a pure teaching language, and was reportedly furious when a TA wrote the first compiler to make grading easier.) More importantly, Wirth's Modula machines could not have existed until at least 1979 when the language itself was introduced.

> Burroughs with its bound checks

That's a machine, not a language. What language(s) were its OS and compilers written in?

> Algol 68

Now we're getting somewhere. Yes, Algol 68 had existed for a whole four years. Was it suitable as a systems programming language? Not in its canonical form, but there were certainly members of its family (e.g. Wirth's PL/360 and ALGOL/W) that were worthy alternatives to C.

> its success was not inevitable

Never said so. I'm not even trying to claim that C was the best possible language at the time. The question is whether it was well designed for its time, with specific reference to the issue of memory management. I'd say it was, and leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what strategies those other alternatives - even if they were superior in some ways - used to deal with heap-allocated memory.
It’s not an argument, and it is valid. It’s just not the argument you’re trying to make.
Survivorship bias towards inventors who lived to write up their experiments? I wonder how many people were killed developing these who _didn't_.
What I find really interesting is that if this problem is so common, then won't the kids who don't spend so much time behind a screen be the odd ones out? I wonder what impact that is going to have on their life. Perhaps teens that spend all that time looking at screens will be better at looking at screens once they become adults?
Similar here, I always wonder how much I should be worried about the imbalance of time spent in the database rather than code. For me it always seems like that much time in the database suggests something is missing from the primary UI/App, however can be hard to identify what can be feasibly add into the app giving the same speed and flexibility as SSMS
Javascript at work, Clojure for my side projects
On AT computers you had to go to low frequency to play games built for XT's. For example M1 Abrams tank simulator was a slideshow on a XT at 4.77, slow but almost playable on 9.54, fine on a AT at 12 MHz and unplayable on a 386 at 40 MHz (it was like a movie played on 10x speed). On the 386 with turbo off (16 MHz) was playable.
Isn't there some way to preserve them, kind of like what people did with DOS boxes?
Why should society be bailing out the banks who loan money to folks who cannot afford it then turn around and bail out people who borrow money and cannot afford it ?

If you are broke file bankruptcy and reset your life. Quit trying to steal tax dollars
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I'm not entirely sure what FHA did to the housing market, but as for student loans, yes it wasn't a great outcome, but it is a substantially better outcome than everyone being in debt with high interest rates with predatory lenders.
Just because it's a low skillcap job does not mean they are being unproductive.
Techniques for training neural networks more efficiently
Send them an affiliate link with "Remember that app you said I should build?"
I think that would be a terrible idea. The gov't would want to make the debt non-dischargeable like they do with student loans. It would be devastating.

Maybe we could try to actually tackle things like medical costs so people aren't getting so deeply into debt to begin with.
The web was a much more interesting place when Flash was around. Browser games, in particular, have never really recovered.
Ideally, you'd mandate wireless usage at 60 GHz. 60 GHz is strongly attenuated by oxygen in the air[0]. In fact some military satellites use it for secure communication between satellites because it's strongly attenuated by the atmosphere[0]. And while you would think that a band that is the most attenuated by oxygen in the air would be the absolute worst for wireless communication, there's oddly a wifi standard that uses it[2] for communication at speeds up to 7 Gbit/s. While the speed is high the range is only up to 10 meters and it doesn't penetrate walls.
[0]https://cdn.everythingrf.com/live/atomspheric-absorption_636...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_band#Uses
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiGig
Available in homebrew as well!
The is more the fault of certain libraries playing non-Pythonic games with monkeypatches and magic code on import. Mercurial is not burdened by those troubles.

The writing was on the wall ten years ago. Failure to take action is not Python's fault.
67.3M in the United States Spoke a Foreign Language at Home in 2018