skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen things that you wouldn't believe. "Business Objects" that do absolutely nothing but forward function calls to "Data Access Objects"

UserController -> UserBo -> UserBoImpl -> UserDao -> UserDaoImpl.

Needless to say the implementations have never been replaced with something else. The middle layer is completely useless. UserBo, UserBoImpl and UserDao should be tossed into the garbage. Every single time you wanted to add a new SQL query you had to edit 5 files... Code navigation features of your IDE become useless and you are better off with string based search.
Slack Sales Growth Holds Up Against Growing Microsoft Rivalry
I like it. What happens if ownership of an image is disputed, or it turns out the photog uploaded a photo that she had copied off the web?
According to Genius you sue google.
Your comment contains hypotheticals ("run random models and wait long enough you will always be able to find at least one model that predicted the current observations") that are NOT what the present study did.

As noted in TFA, they looked at 17 forecasts from 14 models and found that the temperature predictions of 10 of them were consistent with what has happened in the meantime. And if you adjust for forcing (CO2, methane) then the predictions improve further.
The only two relevant paragraphs in the article:

> In the years that followed, an increasing number of Lyme sufferers started using Lobel’s technique, with good outcomes. Not only did they say they felt better, they said that it saved their lives. Wanting to combine Lobel’s protocol with a more holistic approach, Dolan started a Facebook group of her own called “Healing Lyme With Bee Venom,” where more than 5,500 members post their questions and testimonials. “Year 1 was rough on my husband,” wrote the spouse of one Lyme sufferer who used the bee therapy. “Yesterday he walked seven miles hiking thru a state park.” “I was bedridden when I first started and I more or less lead a normal life now,” said another group member.

> It is possible—some would say probable—that these individuals are promoting a technique whose success is based more on psychology than pharmacology. There is little science to substantiate a cure by stinging. There have been two clinical studies investigating the link between bee venom and Lyme, and though they are compelling, they are confined to petri dishes. A 1997 study and a 2017 study showed the interaction of bee venom’s primary component, melittin, and the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi. Melittin, which is a helical peptide consisting of 26 amino acids, tends to bore a hole in the outer membrane of the larger, spiral-shaped Borrelia burgdorferi, releasing the inner contents of the bacteria just as a corkscrew would slice open a water balloon.
I actually don't see a problem with this. There would definitely be a need for products that facilitate police response. Now hopefully there are also products that have all the tech and also respect your data, however connecting to local law enforcement is at least very useful for businesses. They often need to monitor sidewalk activity and such, and even indoors businesses have no problem being transparent to law enforcement. Obviously if you want to monitor your baby don't buy this, or any third party cloud solution for that matter.
AWS Launches HTTP APIs for API Gateway
Lead by example and institute policies that strongly support taking aggressive action. This won't happen while Trump is in office, unfortunately.
What's it like being a voluntary shill? Nothing that person said implied theft, they talked about a bots and then mentioned fucking with the bot.
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11584/1/2008bams2370%252E1....
Life will undoubt survive our mistakes.

The question is whether we will. Civilization is a fragile thing.
We're just a small planet, the universe - even our galaxy - heck, even our very solar system! - will be just fine.
I suspect some readers didn't get your accurate but brief comment. I'll expand it :).

Regardless of technology, once the limits of friction are surpassed, there's no current technology to save you from your momentum. And furthermore, moving the max capable speed upward with technology just means that when something unforeseen or accidental occurs, it now has a multiplied effect.
The Future of Texting Is Way Too Easy to Hack
Another good example is the python stdlib package json: ujson and cjson are drop in replacements that use c bindings to achieve much better performance. However, json is still very useful if you only need to parse/dump a reasonably small amount of data and don't want your users to need to build the c bindings.
A confusation on Steam though. You don't own the game, you rent it.

"The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services"
Yes. And it's true, statistically. Most inventable things will be invented by someone else before you succeed at it. Statistically, no one wins the lottery, even though someone always does.
International Christian Concern (https://www.persecution.org/)

They provide aid to persecuted Christian minorities around the world. For example, they help rebuild villages, farms, etc. when they are raided and destroyed by radicals of other religions. They also help people (re)start their businesses after tragic life events (e.g. pastors’ wives widowed after extremist attacks).

They also work with politicians in the US to bring awareness to these issues and apply political pressure when and where possible.

Almost all the money goes toward their causes. Very little admin overhead.
>Where is the story here though?

The motive here is the "trust climate scientists now because they've been right about everything all along" narrative. There's no other reason for it.
Ta for the heads up. I'm always on the look out for stuff sigh Freshmeat.

ZM isn't perfect but it has been around for a very long time. Would you mind sharing your reasons for dumping ZM and why Shinobi cured them?

I'm diving in here: https://shinobi.video/docs/
What a mean-spirited article. How dare wealthy Potrero Hill residents act upset just because their Stranger Things backpack was stolen!

( nice username tho )
They compared both temperature over time and temperature vs forcing. The latter test factors out the "quantity of emissions" which as you say are much harder to predict (geopolitical), so just measures the quality of the climate modelling.
Mainstream does not imply respectable. Many "tabloid-esque" publications (e.g. buzz feed) are not reputable and publish low-quality, poorly-sourced, salacious stories. Sometimes, they publish something good; it's the broken clock being right.
yum -y install mc

:)
"Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. ... If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. ``A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,'' warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, ``because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.''" -- Newsweek, April 28, 1975

Check out the apocalyptic tone of the last paragraph: http://agem.com/GlobalCooling.htm

Not just Newsweek, but Time, the New York Times, and other outlets reported on it.

Elementary school children were taught it. I was one of them.

I read now that meteorologists (this is before "climatologist" was a real thing) were divided on whether there was cooling or warming. (But it seems that they were mostly in agreement that something catastrophic was going to happen!)

This global cooling episode does not teach us that there was a scientific consensus on cooling in the 70s, or that climate research since then is equally unfounded. However, it is a really interesting story.
> As to the idea that programmers who want nothing to do with I18N are the most common user or Unicode, that's rather insulting to the real users: the end users.

Oh for Pete's sake. Unicode / ASCII / ISO 8859-1 are encoding computers and thus programmers use to represent text. Users don't read Unicode, they read text. They never, ever have to deal with Unicode and most wouldn't know what it was if it leapt up and hit them in the faxe, so if Unicode justified adding features to accommodate these non-existent users, I guess that explains how we got into this mess.
FYI, I get an error when I click on "Outfit Ideas":

undefined method `split' for nil:NilClass
Neither have they improved in Australia. They have been largely stagnant for the past 5-10 years. Jobs have been evaporating in all sectors except for service sectors that, you guessed it, can't be automated. But most locals see those jobs as things you do in high-school/uni, or if you can't do anything else. Hence they are performed by very young people, or immigrants / those that have no choice. And so the vast majority of the workforce competes for the higher paying "white collar" jobs. This isn't so bad in IT right now, since there is still high demand. But I expect that to change soon as the barrier to entry is made increasingly lower.
Are you working on one? :)
I once thought I had chronic Lyme but eventually concluded it was overactive immune system related.

The value of intentional bee stings is still plausible here as there seems to value in giving the immune system 'something else to work on'.

One example is the intentional infection by intestinal tapeworm to alleviate allergies https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/23/parasit...

I thought it was interesting in the article that she was 'misdiagnosed as autoimmune arthritis'. I think it's reasonable that these autoimmune reactions could be triggered by Lyme or other factors. Curious that all the symptoms associated with Lyme are immune related (rashes, presence of antibody levels in the blood).

The clue that an overactive immune system was causing my issues came from 23andme genetic testing show many genes associated with immune disorders. Also I found that Poison Oak / Ivy would trigger many of the issues including full body reactions for months.
while I generally agree with your comment, I don't think it is necessary you'd actually have to know about China, you just need to know the general growth trends and if emissions seem to correlate with it, whether that meant cocentrated manufacturing in China or distributed around the world, or even concentrated somewhere else seems like a "detail"
AWS announces offline mobile DB that syncs to dynamodb
You don't think we will?

Perhaps not as many of us. But that's part of the problem isn't it? Too many humans, chopping down forests, over fishing, sucking melted dinosaurs out of the earth.
> even though they had no clue that China would become such a powerful force in terms of CO2 emissions

I think you're making the same mistake that you're attributing to the story. It really doesn't matter what China does per se. The global energy consumption, roughly, follows a log-linear trend. If the energy comes from fossil fuels, the CO2 emissions would also follow the same trend [1]. It doesn't matter whether it's China or someone else; the CO2 emission would go up if we don't innovate and rely on fossil fuels.

As an analogy, think about the Moore's law. Does it matter whether the chip is made by Intel or AMD?

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_co2_emissions...
It's utility is not to convince you earth is flat. If you made a list of the uses of that term here, what would you find?
The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia
Edit: Reply showed me I was wrong. Leaving the comment up so the chain makes sense.

They talked about fucking with a bot that caught them infringing copyright because they knew they'd be hard to hunt down. Copyright theft is (currently) theft.

Did you create this account just to leave that comment? Why? What did you think would happen as a result?
>Apple's announcement might have pushed it forward by a few years at most.

In the technology world, pushing an advance forward by a few years is shaking the industry.
Show HN: Snail Habitat with Photo Capture (2nd Grade Class Project)
I started coding Java in a text editor while Java was still in beta. There were good IDEs for C, Pascal, assembly, etc.

It was clear that a great Java IDE was possible, but it took a decade to get there.

Java IDEs compensate for the pain of Java being wordy. The debuggers work, even when you are debugging a process with both Jdb and gdb at the same time.
A step closer to the Sun’s secrets
That definition practically speaking though also has other implications. Primarily that the only medicine that even gets the opportunity to go through a clinical trial process. Some medicines are so abundant that it's hard to profit from discoveries about them.
I don't think there's any disputing the overall trendline, which far predates the Industrial Revolution. Yet that doesn't mean that human activity isn't also meaningfully impactful. Though it's hardly scientific, from a layperson's perspective, I find xkcd's climate history megacomic instructive: https://xkcd.com/1732/. That rapid-ish spike after 1900 is by no means a smoking gun, but it's a hint that there may be more going on than a ten-thousand-year gradual geological process (which I don't think any climate scientist disputes the presence of).

I know of at least a few cases, where skeptics have changed their minds due to new evidence (Richard Muller [0] comes to mind). I'm curious if there are any instances of reputable scientists with sufficient training in the relevant fields, who went from true believers to significant skepticism of anthropogenic influence.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of...
It looks pretty big and is next to a Fedex Ground hub. It's pretty definitely a major distribution hub for the whole area.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Amazon+Fulfillment+Center+...
Yeah, I've used the same with no issues - I don't think it has very good options for offsite backups [0] though if that link is any indication. "use rsync" is a great suggestion for this site, but not quite as great for the average users.

0: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/235404507-UniFi-Vide...
There really isn't any other option but to persuade enough people to be privacy conscious that we end up with public policy that enforces it.

Otherwise, it's gonna be like GMail -- sure, you can run your own mail server, but 80+% of humanity will decide that they can't or have better things to do, and Google will end up with all the email between you and them anyway.

You can make your own smart home camera, but 80+% of the world will install Ring or something similar, and that means you will be on their camera footage and therefore your comings and goings will be part of Amazon/SurveillanceCo (absent consistent deployment of effective countermeasures).
We now have the ability to screen for thousands of genetic diseases in newborns
Once you reach the limits of friction, and then some external factor surprises you (such as a little bump in the pavement which briefly lightens your car, resulting in newly greatly reduced friction), what will the great technology do to compensate? I can tell you - for a brief period, its compensation will have minimal benefit. But meanwhile, your momentum will happily carry you on in the direction you were traveling when you hit that bump.
The Liberty Reserve connection arouses suspicion, no?
Do you have data to support your claims?
A kind of random thought: why could that be that most things that prevent disease are of the sort that requires discipline and effort (exercise, bland-tasting food), while things that we naturally like (lots of fat, sugar, salt, alcohol, cigarettes and sitting on the couch) cause health problems? I mean, I'm not interested in some deep metaphysical moral lesson of how one must work for things that are desirable. I mean how does such a situation come about evolutionarily? It seems like we're attracted to things that harm us and that needs serious explanation.

One answer could be that we're just far removed from the environment that our desires were calbirated for, but it seems strange that it's just so consistent.

I don't remember reading about anything preventing cancer that people just naturally like to do/eat. Maybe it's also publication bias in the news and the "postman biting the dog" being more newsworthy than the "dog biting the postman" (Hungarian saying, not sure if it exists in English).
> (Strategy of the company AFAIK is to acquire lots of enterprise offerings, integrate the product with their current offering, fire everyone they can, and then sell the product with their current offering in hopes of getting bigger numbers to prop up stock price further)

That's profitable because enterprise sales are so glacial.

So, if you have the money, it's better to wait until somebody else finishes the slog and gets the contract, and then you can just buy that company to get the enterprise customer.
How do you keep a team informed?
I need a tool to document so many changes to our program, our data processes, and sysadmin work. I know there isn’t a candid answer. But what could I possibly use home grown that can keep track of changes to our program! Not like pull requests, but changes to our systems and program parameters. I have racked my brain on Teams, Atlassian, MkDocs, Read the docs....
These climate models can also correctly predict the climate on other planets. Planetary scientist use the same models, modified to it to match conditions in Mars, Venus and run them to get more coarse but essentially correct climate.
> Most servers run Linux, and most software on Linux is distributed as source.

Being distributed as source code does not mean the source code is not architecture-specific. A lot of software has SIMD-optimized code paths, and it's common for these SIMD code paths to target SSE2 as the least common denominator (since AMD included SSE2 as part of the baseline of its 64-bit evolution of Intel's 32-bit architecture, every 64-bit AMD or Intel CPU on the market will have at least SSE2), so they have to be ported to NEON. And that's before considering things like JIT or FFI code.
The risk is basically nothing. You get a notification saying "don't do that again". In my younger days I helped distribution with various scene groups to the tune of terabytes of files. I think I got a few notices that ended in the garbage. At the time I was getting cracked copies from employees of ILM and pixar
I don't remember how Lucid compares, but the SISAL heritage probably needs reviving too. (Dataflow work is happening again at Manchester -- one of the dataflow hardware and SISAL sites -- via OpenStream for parallel programming.)

Concerning POP, I think it lives to some extent in Poplog, though I don't know how alive that currently is.

Correction: I realize the article refers to POP-2, and POP-11 is in Poplog. I actually rescued an ancient POP-2 manual from the bin recently, but I don't know how POP-11 compares.
I've built a few companies. I think it's super valuable to have some on the team who doesn't give shit at all about the tech and only cares about a) is this the right problem and b) who cares (read: pays).

This person helps you focus, forces (if given authority) the tram to focus on "things that move the needle". Devs and designers simply lack that customer-development focus.

I think every team would benefit from a qualitative analysis role like this - regardless of title. I have one now. We argue every day, but the balance of perspective is key.
That's a determined mouse. Favorite quip in that article's comments:

"Probably not a teenage mouse." - ha!
I use an older Sharx camera (I hope the newer ones still have the same features).

It supports all the usual cloud and remote access junk, but fortunately none of it is necessary for operation.

It does motion detection internally and only records when something happens in the frame. Most importantly, it support ftp uploading these event recordings to a configurable server.

I put it on a physically separate network which has nearly nothing else and certainly no internet connectivity in any direction (I see the camera attempting to contact google DNS every now and then). I would never trust any of these cameras, regardless of manufacturer, with internet access no matter how limited.

The only other thing on that network is a box which exposes only ftp, so the camera uploads activity to it.

Optionally, from a physically separate network you can then pull the videos to some other host which has internet access and upload them elsewhere for remote safekeeping.

But yes, it is sad that one needs to know how to set this up just to preserve basic privacy.
We’ve been using that with our daughter. Lol
If you don't care about your transgressions, the public won't care either or you will weather the PR storm. They're been spot on about that.
China isn't doing dick diddly squat to reduce emissions and "go green". If they're not optimizing and complying, nothing the rest of us do will matter.
Devil's advocate: if you make a computerized system for generating a lot of similar atomic arrangements with random variations, then can't you call the process of placing the atoms "programming"?

The more I think about the distinction people are drawing, the fuzzier it gets in my mind.
Hub or in-wheel motors have significant engineering challenges from the increase unsprung weight inside the wheels.
> Trump has asked for additional funding for supplies including beds and toothbrushes. Trump as the head of the executive branch is in charge of ICE.

Was that before or after the public outcry over it? Also, there's the separation of parents and children which he definitely hasn't done anything about.

> This was started under Obama.

How is that a defense? It's still unethical.
What about the 50 year old models that predicted a looming global cooling? Why were they wrong?
Ask HN: How do you define a technological shift?
And what are the technological shift you can foresee in your field.
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Intel didn't care. They dabbled into it with XScale, at a time the best mobile ARM processors, then gave up and sold the whole thing. Shortsighted, should've kept at it.
Lisp as an Alternative to Java
This reminds me of the models I made a few years ago to predict where a Frisbee will land after you throw it. I made about 14 different models, some of them correctly predict where the Frisbee will land. That's right, I have a model that can tell you where the Frisbee you are about to throw will land, it correctly predicts Frisbee throws.

Here is how it works: You input all the factors of your Frisbee throw. Then you throw the Frisbee, and that's it! Well, I guess there is one more step, since all 14 models make wrong predictions about where the Frisbee will land. But you can just go back and adjust the models and input better data after you already know where the Frisbee actually ended up, and then some of them correctly predicted where it will land!

Don't down-vote me, this is definitely what the phrase 'correctly predicted' means, and I'm not being misleading at all.
Specifically, Chinese boys.

You have a point.

US statistics are 1.05 boys to each girl at birth. And that figure has been fairly stable for decades.

Which means that my point remains. Most couples are biased towards boys over girls.