skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious where you're getting these wage stats from
I had a friend in college named jane smith, capitalized as so—that is, not capitalized. She always entered it this way and it always appeared to be correct until the next nightly database cleaning job ran and gave her initial capitals. Eventually the registrar told her that nothing could be done but that a note was made in her file to ensure her diploma was printed properly. Of course it wasn’t, but they did re-print it free of charge without complaint.

(Name changed to protect the innocent.)
Actually the server side detection in [0] isn't really affected by putting tee in the middle... and neither does -x, of course.

Good point about -x being fallible to an adversarial script, even a simple set +x would be enough!

Where's the link where this has been mentioned? I missed it.

0: https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
I'm curious to see how deep the media rabbit hole goes with this though given what we're learning about Hannity's involvement.
Are you too young to remember the IE monoculture? Otherwise I cannot fathom how you could be so petty and short sighted as to suggest that Firefox become a chromium browser. None of the bullshit you're talking about is more important than avoiding a browser monoculture. Not even close.
Citation needed on these numbers. They strain credulity.
Do not know this. But U.K. is a better country with relative autonomy. The refugee policy is just too extreme at that time. And fundamentally the social policy is different.

But back to today i think if you look at the poll, it is not the conservatives that win (39%) but the divide between labour and social democrats (splitting with a joint % of 45%+).
So now they spend that anyway, to be able to run MS kit, plus sending that much again to Microsoft.

Clearly not an economic argument. Politically, there is always lots more money available for a big change than to make the current system work.
You're right there's a difference and it wasn't a DSLR. The comment I responded to wasn't entirely clear that Kodak only blocked the development of a digital DSLR, if that's what was meant.

> when others tried to innovate and create a digital camera, Kodak sued them
Agreed, this article poses no challenging questions, and would be hard to differentiate from PR.
Two security researchers earned $60k for hacking an Amazon Echo
Apple credit cards allegedly giving men 10x the credit limit of women
Is recovery possible for a situation like that?
If you use node, then FeathersJS is good. https://feathersjs.com/
I suppose Joel does a better job explaining it than I do, so I'll just quote him verbatim.

"In other words, the more information about what code is doing is located right in front of your eyes, the better a job you’ll do at finding the mistakes. When you have code that says

dosomething();
cleanup();

"… your eyes tell you, what’s wrong with that? We always clean up! But the possibility that dosomething might throw an exception means that cleanupmight not get called. And that’s easily fixable, using finally or whatnot, but that’s not my point: my point is that the only way to know that cleanup is definitely called is to investigate the entire call tree of dosomething to see if there’s anything in there, anywhere, which can throw an exception, and that’s ok, and there are things like checked exceptions to make it less painful, but the real point is that exceptions eliminate collocation. You have to look somewhere else to answer a question of whether code is doing the right thing, so you’re not able to take advantage of your eye’s built-in ability to learn to see wrong code, because there’s nothing to see."

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
“CockroachDB is the only database in the world that enables you to attach ‘location’ to your data at the row level”

^ this statement is so false
> simplest

> most flexible

Pick one.
If you read further, there is an even more interesting bit -

> In 1998, an Alaska Airlines mechanic named John Liotine, who worked in the Alaska Airlines maintenance center in Oakland, California, told the Federal Aviation Administration that supervisors were approving records of maintenance that they were not allowed to approve or that indicated work had been completed when, in fact, it had not. Liotine began working with federal investigators by secretly audio recording his supervisors. On December 22, 1998, federal authorities raided an Alaska Airlines property and seized maintenance records. In August 1999 Alaska Airlines put Liotine on paid leave, and in 2000 Liotine filed a libel suit against the airline. The crash of AS261 became a part of the federal investigation against Alaska Airlines because in 1997, Liotine had recommended that the jackscrew and gimbal nut of the accident aircraft be replaced, but had been overruled by another supervisor.In December 2001 federal prosecutors stated that they were not going to file criminal charges against Alaska Airlines. Around that time Alaska Airlines agreed to settle the libel suit by paying about $500,000; as part of the settlement, Liotine resigned.

The deficiencies of the FAA regulator regime should be obvious from this case, but it seems that no-one was held accountable for Alaska Airline's lack of safety culture in its maintenance operation.
For those unaware, the Intel 1702A was the first commercial EPROM. It held 2 Kbit (256x8 bytes). To program it, one needed four different voltages (one of which was negative 48 volts), but curiously, no ground reference.
Right? Maybe that assumption is wrong, but you at least have to address it when criticizing if you want to change minds.
There were many more claims too, if Henry V had lived longer it might have happened then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_claims_to_the_French_t...
This raises some interesting points about social dynamics that emerge in creation-oriented engines like Minecraft/Roblox based on how their different business models work.

Roblox sounds like a place where a sort of creative hustle underlies the whole experience, where everyone's creative experience is about trying to figure out what they can get from others. It's full of in-app purchases, by way of people's creations.

Minecraft, meanwhile, sounds like a more open-ended collaborative experience where people create for the sake of creating, and the worst negative externality is some people do it to gain views on Youtube. There's no in-app purchases, just the upfront fee paid to Microsoft.

One thrust of the piece is that playing Roblox promotes "indoctrination into entrepreneurship for children", by way of many of the 'tycoon' style games.

Author also points out how accruing possessions is a large part of Roblox: "Compared with Minecraft, most Roblox games are highly individualistic and use private property as their main incentive rather than skill-building or a sense of common good."

Author then frames Roblox as operating a kind of multilevel marketing scheme, where everyone's hustling to make game modes to get game currency from others, and it all flows up to Roblox. It may not match an MLM perfectly, but it really made me think about how games are places where a lot of these really negative ideas from the offline world (like MLMs, gambling, etc) can appear in similar form in game worlds.

The author goes into a digression about streamers and creators showing off their work on Youtube, and that being something that sort of sullies the purity of these creative mediums. I don't see that as particularly unique to these games though, as that's part of the broader trend of 'life as performance' which exists everywhere in social media (see also Instagram, etc).

The last paragraph is great: "By enabling self-defined goals and DIY accumulation of skills and resources, Minecraft once seemed to promise fun without fixed form, without ownership, without competition and hierarchy. Roblox has no such pretense. Though its premise of blurring the line between player and creator may seem democratizing, it transforms conventional gameplay into entrepreneurial striving while indoctrinating young children into capitalist society’s hierarchical scoreboards, its fantasy of being the best by having the most."

Is this all just a reflection of adding in-app purchases with a % going to creators? Feels like it.
Bolivian President Evo Morales Resigns
I suppose you can still do many engineering jobs, but they will just be done poorly.

Unless you are running your own business, you always need to be able to take someone else's high-level understanding of a problem/feature/task and figure out how to implement it. That is true of more than just software development. And if you are running your own business, you need to be able to prioritize problems/features/tasks and figure out how to implement it.

I love solving algorithmic problems, but the vast majority of important (measured by willingness for people to pay you to solve them) problems in the world are not algorithmic. It's actually more important to be able to figure out how to make a service scale efficiently, or add an item to a menu to control overlay opacity, than it is to find the only non-duplicate item in a list in O(n) time and O(1) space.
But can waymo drive straight towards a concrete barrier on the highway?

https://youtu.be/fKyUqZDYwrU
How to Activate Moreblaze 650MB for N200 on 9MOBILE
There's weight restricted rugby?
VCVRack
Scrolling doesn’t elastically over scroll; it just hits a hard stop at the page boundaries
Wind and solar projects are not coming in at 3-4x their costs anywhere.

So the fact that they are simply simpler projects which rarely (never?) have massive overruns due to "bad project management" is a huge financial point in their favor that is rarely factored in.
How will a revolution against an authoritarian government be funded if the money system is surveilled and censored?
Middle managers don't typically keep their jobs for long once all their direct reports are gone.
I use fixed-size buffers as much as possible in C. It's only when I feel a need to conserve memory that I'll use dynamic allocation. For me, I think this pattern helps me avoid bugs by maintaining a healthy (i.e. very high) level of paranoia when dealing with buffers. My first thought when doing something involving a buffer is always "how much space have I allocated here?". With string buffers I'll never use the last byte of the buffer - that one is permanently set to zero and never read or written to. I'll commonly zero the whole buffer before writing to it also. That way any operation not doing proper null-termination will not matter.
S3 is block/object storage, not file or filesystem.
Kafka enables Real-Time stream processing
I think it's easy to see how the "choice" in this situation comes off as a request to "buy forgiveness" on behalf of the perpetrator. The harm that was done is not primarily financial, financial restitution would never "make it right" at an emotional level, and undermines the desire to quarantine individuals that have proven themselves to be a danger to others. The choice would be insulting to many people, and directly opposed to common ideals about justice.

In light of that, calling it "empowerment" comes off as a little tone-deaf, and I doubt the response would be any different if the judge had unilaterally chosen X years + Y dollars, but it later came to light that X+N years and 0 dollars had been an equally valid option.
There was a game or tech-demo called "upvoid miner" a few years ago. It had worldgeneration similar to minecraft and proper physics with rolling tree logs. It allowed arbitrarily shaped terrain and I think liquid physics were worked on. But sadly the studio had to shut down due to not getting enough sales.
I think you can still download it and test out the free tech demo though.
I'm stuck on the first one. The "obvious" thing to do didn't work :-). Now I have no idea how to decode it. I guess that is the point? - do you need to be from a security background and crack the code, might require some tools etc?
It's only going to get better. There's just so much code out there to learn from. PL grammar is a lot more machine-readable than natural language.

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/aroma-ml-for-code-recommendatio...

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/
Minecraft is the game that made me feel old - and that I was genuinely missing out on something.

I seemingly signed up my €15 in 2011 and had fun. Then forgot about it.

Then I remember when MS bought it for silly money. Full on WTF? headspin.

Then I visited my former-bridesmaid, who shared with me what she'd built on her ipad.
I'd no idea what she was talking about, quickly stopped randomly hitting stuff when her upset overcame her politeness and she told me to stop. She really cared about what she'd built.

I can still only wrap my head around it as "infinite lego with a community" - but that's pretty damn impressive.
I thought the film was good, but it simplified the story considerably. In particular, the dramatic bits about racism were a lot more nuanced in the book.

I recommend reading the book for the more accurate and complex reality these women faced regarding race and sexism.
> So now they spend that anyway, to be able to run MS kit, plus sending that much again to Microsoft

True, but also they save a boatload of money on training cost. 30k staff is nothing to laugh at...
Truckers earn a lot. Especially owner-operators. Much more than you might assume. If he had been a trucker for most of his life, I would assume he probably had enough savings for early retirement.
> U.K. is a better country

Not proveable, relevant or helpful
Interesting. Just too hard to debug for software side people like me. But very interesting.
Ask HN: Favourite books on anthropology you'd recommend?
Apple Heart Health Study Shows Watch Detects Atrial Fibrillation
I'm reading this post and really confused.if you have something, it might be easier to show it. It also seems like some of what you are selling is devoid of any understanding of the real world nuance and specificity that you encounter at scale.

Whatever you have built, clearly doesn't do all of these things today, if ever. What have you built or what are you building? How is it different, today, from whatever else is in the market.

I have a sushi restaurant. But, instead of us making sushi for you, we show you and your guests how to make it and by the end of the night, you're doing it like a pro and having a great experience, with wonderful food.

Then, we'll let you know if it's worth giving it a shot.
Indeed. When I saw the headline I thought it was about the Middle Ages. :)
Can anyone with comprehension of the project explain what this is about? A very confusing post and the comments don't illuminate it much.

It sounds as if OSM is, at its core, just a database with APIs (I do seem to vaguely recall there wasn't even an official web interface) and thus the decentralized gatekeeping is a point of contention.
As a one-off construction, it appears more likely to be a research project than surveillance.
Amounts of abandoned fishing gear litter the world's oceans
Vacuum has no substantial impact here. It only knocked about 10% off my places.sqlite and mass deletion remains pathologically slow.
On a binary classification task, it is a priori true that you would likely not learn if you were right 50% or 100% of the time. This is not a function of any particular learning algorithm.

If you got 100% right, you already know everything that was being tested.

If you got 50% right, you don't know if you are guessing or if you should be picking up on any features.

So you would expect that the rate would not be close. 50.1% would be similar to 50% for most intents and purposes. Similarly 99.99%.

So you might expect that the optimal learning rate would be close to 75%/25% in general. This would apply to humans too because it is a statement of the information you need to solve the problem, not a statement about the algo.

This paper finds it to be 85%/15% for a particular algorithm. Perhaps humans learn similarly, perhaps not. However, you might expect the optimal examples to be somewhere in the 65-85% range for any particular algorithm.
The article even says that they went to all of the experts, followed FDA requirements to the letter and that they had no way of knowing that it may cause a danger to infants. The development process was sound.

I fault them for not doing do oversight during manufacturing.
That brings to mind an interesting idea for an IDE: having one big virtual file that you edit, which gets split into multiple physical files on disk

If you're going to work with it as one big file, then what's the point of multiple physical files anyway? Just store it as one big file then.
Google Hangouts is awful on most devices, while webrtc demo apps work fine
For most concussion patients the symptoms gradually improve over years but they never quite make a complete recovery.
it has nothing to do with security. Nurses like fax machines because it gets them a break. I've seen them print e-refferals just to fax to each other.
The example you showed is previewing in the browser. The intention is to use this with @media print and just to get nicely flowed, filled, and typeset output when sending to a printer.

You would either use this for stuff that is only useful printed (e.g. a boarding pass could be HTML instead of PDF) or as secondary, print-specific styling for web content that is frequently printed to paper.
Thanks! I was not aware of the object size limitations nor of RHIOs

Are RHIOs using engineers/consultants to wrapped legacy systems then devise methods to make accessing that data easier -- how are RHIOs using FHIR and legacy system to construct the future of medical data interoperability?
Whoa, someone replying about E2 on my post feels like a Dice Man-style event!

I was the lead developer there for a few years, after Jay Bonci split.
1066?

Lucky for us that Britain and France didn't get along or the US War of Independence would not have succeeded.
> Then I remember when MS bought it for silly money. Full on WTF? headspin.

Considering Minecraft has over 176 million copies sold, not to mention the endless amount of merchandise and spin-offs I'm sure MS is getting royalties on, it looks like they got a bargain at $2.5B.
Wait...nuclear accidents (e.g.s Chernobyl and Fukushima) are less dangerous than wind and solar?

What sort of blatant BS is this.
It does when it arbitrarily reduces interoperability with current products. Even more so when it's done to "entice new product purchase".

Beside that, using your definition of "products getting worse" would make the whole concept of planned obsolesce almost a minuscule sliver of any issue with any product.
When I opened the site, my S8 reported that Firefox had been detected using the camera permissions. No idea why.
Musk doesn't like it:

>“Lidar is a fool’s errand,” Elon Musk said. “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed. Doomed! [They are] expensive sensors that are unnecessary. It’s like having a whole bunch of expensive appendices. Like, one appendix is bad, well now you have a whole bunch of them, it’s ridiculous, you’ll see.” https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/anyone-relying-on-lidar-is...
Bevy Post-Mortem: My Sharing Economy Startup Failure
I apologize. Years.
Interesting. Sounds a lot like Season 2 of The Wire.
Is there any kit to kickstart a trial project?
> You always have control over your own actions

By your logic the person who is offended has it entirely within their power not to be offended. Since in this scenario they are the one having the more extreme emotional reaction, perhaps it would be more reasonable to ask that they regulate their emotions to some degree, rather than criticize the way in which the person absorbing the brunt of their emotional onslaught does so.

> This isn't rocket science.

That's a bit condescending.

> The problem is that people tend to react defensively

I really don't think it is.
Is Sails even maintained anymore?

I remember using it around 3 years ago, it easy to start with, but as soon as your data structure becomes more complex and you need a bit more than plain CRUD, it becomes very messy.
Don’t forget the turnkey Siemens PET scanner complete with virus infested control PCs.
Too many of them here, this got no traction on 2 submissions
I followed the hyperlinks to some of the discussion. In my opinion, the author’s characterisation doesn’t match the tone of the iD developer.

The author might be right about the lack of community involvement, but imho he takes an overly negative an accusatory stance
What's the purpose of structured modelling of names? Why does it matter which parts are family vs given vs whatever else? Lots of the W3C International Examples they give use a `<text>` field. Why not just use that?

https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes-examples.html#2.24.1.13.1
>Kodak never released his work, never manufactured that camera

other than selling $20 million worth of 1991 Kodak DCS 100, and following it with many more advanced models ....
I experienced them early in my career working for a shipping company. They were quite willing to attack the while collar staff trying to get to work while they were on strike, despite not being the same job, not being on strike and our office was not even in the port, just nearby and despite being paid a LOT more than we were. The salaries were insane and the theft was something else. We shipped a lot of beer and if a fork lift was going to damage a pallet, it would just happen to be a beer pallet and just happen break a couple of bottles. The pallet would be considered destroy and they would never need to pay for beer while they had the job.
Samsung wants to patent something that existed years ago, developed by other companies. Here is one from more than 3 and a half years ago:

https://interestingengineering.com/flexenable-creates-a-4-7-...

And a video discussing a prototype and how they planned to update it:

https://youtu.be/A1azlGZiBvc

And here's another company from earlier this year doing the same thing, and happens to implement that planned upgrade:

https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/review/smart-watches/nubia-alp...

It's even got touch screen and a camera. Check out the video:

https://youtu.be/JbY8DM8c-h0

And if that isn't convincing enough, how about this one from 10 years ago (scroll down the page a bit for pics of it):

https://www.wired.com/2009/01/flexible-wrist/

It looks a whole lot like this one from Apple last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6FINL5iqfg

Samsung should probably be running into prior art issues on this one.
‘Go Back to California’: Wave of Newcomers Fuels Backlash in Boise
A's are in part due to attention to detail - reading the instructions very carefully, interpreting the questions just right, setting up problems as intended by the test writer,...
> So if you slay too many Gorgs soon there would be none left. Leave them alone and they'll eat all the Fraggles. Players would form culling expeditions every week. [...] I think the venerable Ultima Online had a few features like that, or was supposed to, not completely sure.

Ultima Online tried to have such an ecology, but the players didn't react to it as described despite the game designers giving players minimal rewards for killing herbivores so that they would focus on killing the carnivores. Instead the players indiscriminately killed both the carnivores and the herbivores, because the players were human. The ecology was removed.

https://youtu.be/KFNxJVTJleE
To me, the fatal flaw of HBP (or USA's competing HBI) is that they are akin to "cargo cult science", the idea that we can replicate the superficial structures to a significant enough degree that they system they impart will suddenly somehow become activated.

But just like the Melanesians with their coconut-shell headsets, there won't be anyone listening on the other end...