skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why it's cut like that it's because it's a Behind The Scenes from the shooting of BBC's Earth. Normally you'd watch it after watching a specific episode (or even later) and you're not interested in particular content of the shot, but about the making of the shot. Hence the interview, rapid cuts and so on. If you see the full BBC Earth, the scene is a lot better and makes more sense.
In many cases protecting people equitably makes more sense. For example, some countries assess fines based on one’s income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine

Classic quote: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
It's a nice list of really useful services.

However, it should also be pointed out that it's also a deploy-your-own-unpaid-system-administrator-job. A lot of the value in SaaS products is the service provided of someone else maintaining it. The maintenance and security patching for running all this stuff, especially on the open Internet, that would quickly become a part time job.

So, I'd say that for most people with a limited time budget, it's worth the cost to simply find a high quality, paid SaaS provider for many of these services.

An example on from list: deploying your own email server and depending on it for your important communications is something that almost nobody should attempt on their own. Instead, most people should look to migrate from free providers that could do things like close your account/delete your data at any time, to paid ones that treat you like a paying customer.
In the US this would be warrant a negligence tort lawsuit against the bank
And... another author that doesn't get it or looks for a controversial, clickbaity title.

The correct way to state it would be to say: "We are seing things that are currently 46B light years away but since they are so far away we see them as they were 13.8B years ago when they were much closer than they are now."

I see absolutely nothing difficult about that statement unless you really need to create some piece of content and you figured out you will make something difficult so that you can then make it a little bit easier and be a hero.
how many were memory safety as a root cause?
Unfortunately they have stonewalled enforcement of that Act.
Agree wholeheartedly. That's exactly the approach I take, but the problem of course is that 1) it's difficult to do successfully, and 2) students "freak out" because the exams become unpredictable and they end up getting more stressed out that they need to about succeeding at the exam. Of course, my regular high-performing students do well regardless, but I haven't found a way to convince them that they have the skills already to do well on the exam. Instead, they pull all-nighters and ultimately damage their results on exam day when, if I had given it as a surprise exam, they would have been just fine. So on some level, it's a need to teach self-confidence, self-diagnostics, and introspection. This (again) is a TON of work, since it's necessarily person-dependent, so only professors who have the time and energy can actually attempt to do it. The others will just say "screw it" and give an exam of sentences copy/pasted from the textbook, but with keywords, blanked out. Yet another extreme are the professors who endlessly allow exam re-submissions, so students just brute-force hack their way to a passing grade.

I want the obvious response to the above to be "okay, just raise the bar for teaching professors" but, unfortunately, those decisions are usually made by people who are completely ignorant to the process, and who rely on broken systems of teaching evaluation. Those who would be good at making those decisions are busy doing the teaching, and doing it well. Also, I don't personally think we want a system that so micro-manages our professors' pedagogical styles. I get fairly positive student feedback, but so do the professors who offer endless exam re-submissions and whose students have basically zero material retention after they pass the class. The optimal (but impossible, partially due to sheer laziness) way would be for students to self-select themselves into classes with professors that they believe will ultimately teach them more and better material, without having the extra pressure of the effect on their GPA.

(edited with some last-minute thoughts).
Amazon retail is still a low margin, low profit business and is not a good example.

AWS on the other hand is printing money.

Google hasn’t had a non advertising based hit besides maybe Android since it’s inception and even that has only made $23 billion a year in profit from its inception until the Oracle trial where the number was revealed.
> The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more than an “accessory.” It’s a new platform, new OS variant, etc. It’s dominating smart watches.

The Apple Watch is literally designed to be an accessory to the iPhone - you can't use most of its features without an iPhone. I wanted one for my Android phone but tough shit for me.

If you like it as a product that's fine, but it is absolutely an accessory to an iPhone because you can barely use it without one.
Language Model for Inline Classes in Java
Yep, I mean as a non-american I could also point out at how weird it looks something like super PACs exist, as it seems from the outside just a legal way to bribe elected gov officials, same thing goes with how Healthcare works over there, or that some states in america are de facto high earning first choice to move their dirty money from abroad and keep it safe and secret, not even in switzerland now, only in america lol
Not to mention the CVE explicitly states that Devuan and the BSDs as well as a number of other non-systemd distros are affected. Looking closer the submitter here is the author of the post, the website it was submitted to is blocked from being submitted to /r/Linux for blogspam and the "Gangnam Style" links on the page appear to go to some shifty video site. The submitter and author is clearly just writing B.S. to drum up backlinks for some black hat SEO.
You're disgusting. Stealing is stealing.
Whether shell is memory-safe is completely irrelevant as the language has more significant safety issues with regards to quoting, eval and such.

And second reason why it is irrelevant is that the traditional bunch-of-shell-scripts init system does not process any kind of untrusted input.
Spot on. If you're interested in this sort of stuff, I'd recommend the book Seeing Like A State. The author basically walks through most of history as viewed through the lens of authorities trying to measure things (usually to extract taxes or exercise control). But basically traces everything from the layout of cities to how we name ourselves down to authority trying to standardize things so they can measure them.
Entirely informal, but I went through reports of 100 years of killer whale/human interactions in the news in British Columbia/Canada (home of 3 different varieties of killer whales) - and there's three cases of humans attacked, and all cases were provoked.
> The fact that different professions earn different amounts of money is, in fact, an indicator that the higher paying professions have a shortage of people able to perform the work.

While prospective purchasers tend to describe a situation in which market clearing price is above the price they are willing to pay as a shortage, it's not. A shortage is when nonprice rationing results in unmet demand willing to pay above the actual trading price.

There's also a planning concept of a shortage in the form of supply inadequate to meet some threshold deemed essential, e.g., by society or authorities (which tends to result in economic shortage as price controls or nonprice rationing are imposed). Market price differences alone don't establish the existence of either type of shortage.
A “visionary” without any operations expertise is useless. Cook has as much to do with the rise of Apple as Jobs. Jobs wouldn’t have had the supply chain experience to manufacturer 100 million iPods at his height or all the products that it ships now.
If anyone reads this for medical advice (and I really hope they wouldn't be taking advice directly from HN without any filtering), you don't combine them in equal proportions.
I don't think he's saying he literally thinks slower than 80 WPM. I interpret this to mean the rate at which he writes his thoughts down matches the amount of time it takes him to think of what he wants to write next or how he wants to phrase the next sentence. When I am writing research papers there are long pauses between sentences as I think of what I want to say next or how I want to phrase the sentence. That doesn't mean there are long pauses between sentences in my thoughts throughout the day.
You are correct to have doubts. Applications of ML in finance particularly trading has been very unsuccessful so far.
Verbal conversation gains the context of audible emphasis on the difference. Rhetorically, you are able to say "Waymo has revenue of 5 million dollars, while Google has 160 BILLION dollars." (imagine the all caps being dramatically stated, possibly a la Dr Evil in Austin Powers).

In writing you can't do that as easily or effectively, so I think keeping the abbreviated units the same is effective writing.

In fact stating income in thousand millions is exactly how financial statements are formatted. In alphabet's 10k (at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204419...) there is a table showing that the google segment had $136,224M in revenue, while "all other bets" had a total revenue of $595M. I suspect that the SEC would have some stern words for alphabet if they expressed on measure in billions and one in millions...
Interesting ratio of 1:3.3141210374639769452449567723343 not exactly Pi.

But then that expansion ratio may of been different over time, but it is a bit like sampling the second hand on a clock in a photo and working out the entire motion and workings of the clock - at least on the scale of the data/measurements we have and the age of the universe. Currently we are still not 100% sure when midnight was, but as always moving in the right direction.
Let’s be honest. Both are nothing more than niche.
Hey Joel - check out the MagicShifter - it does everything you want to do, plus more .. like MIDI! Paint your own POV pics!

http://magicshifter.net/

sources: https://github.com/magicshifter/MS3000

You can solder a long strip of LED's (we had up to 500) and address the whole thing over a handy Wifi interface .. the MS3000 provides its own web-based programming/config interface too.

We added an Arpeggiator, and MIDI too (rtpMIDI as well as hard MIDI), because why not, and this means you can sync the LED strip to your drum machine with ease, Joel .. ;)

(EDIT: douchebaggery--)
Those under-10% Java market-share languages would make up about half of .NET's. Everything looks small in comparison when you're as incredibly successful as Java (some of those languages you find so insignificant are about as big as Go, much bigger than Rust, and probably 10x as big as Elixir or Haskell). I just find it funny to argue that second-tier products (in terms of popularity) know about "value" more than leading ones. And none of that changes Java's focus and strategy as a polyglot runtime. Java is already on its way to be the best Python runtime, and it's getting competitive with the very top JS runtimes out there.

You can argue over language preference, as some programmers do, all you like. I have very different preferences from yours, and many other programmers have preferences different from the both of us and that's OK. You say you prefer programming Java in Kotlin rather than the Java language? That's pefectly fine and part of Java's strategy for the past 20 years. The Java language is intentionally conservative because it seems many more people like conservative, slow-changing languages, but the Java platform will make sure that it runs Clojure, Kotlin, JS, Python and Java language programs as well as anything.
Theranos issue was not lack of product. Their problem was massive fraud going effectively demanded from top levels.

Framing it as lack of product is unfair to all startups who lacked good product, hacked buzz, got investment, got notable people and then did not committed fraud.

Plus it suggests that Theranos fraud is result of not having product. The same people would be engaging in unethical conduct with product too.
RSS has not “withered”. True very few people use it, but every site still supports rss where it makes sense.
People who played for both manchester united and manchester city
Feedly.
Which may see a lot of competition from trustless systems which break these networks.
> There seemed to be no time given to "how to make a great product", likely because this is something that can't be taught

It can be taught, but the general principles are weak (it’s basically “how to be an effective futurist”), with most of the useful knowledge being domain-specific.

And the thing with the specific domains is, either they’re not understood yet—in which case everyone is flailing around—or they are well-understood—in which case the market has already consolidated around the companies who can best operationalize the set of techniques required to create great products for that market, and the best you’ll hope to do is to get bought out by one of them, not to compete or replace them.

Because, in the end, having a great product is a multiplier, but so is execution; and execution provides compound interest on its gains, such that corporations inevitably execute exponentially better as they age.

In other words, the only time where you can set out to win a market, and actually have a hope of doing so, is precisely when we don’t yet know how to operationalize the production of great products for that domain.
killer moves... wait
Uff. It is not even a contest: Orcas have the second biggest brains (after Sperm Whales) with a weight of 6-7 kg. White Sharks have a brain of 35 grams. 200 times less!

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-very-primitive-brain-like-in...

I thought air (23%) also has more oxygen than water (1%), so Orcas have a big advantage in endurance here, but googling it water is much more dense than air and has more oxygen counted as mass. My guess is, that oxygen is more accessible with breathing air in lungs than with having gills?
Every year around this time Bloomberg, Economist and the like publishes PR stunt articles to lure highly skilled developers to Wall Street. I can tell you from my experience that ML is not replacing high paying jobs in trading AT ALL!!! Not even close.
It seems questionable to me that the article doesn't discuss differences in performance or other drawbacks of non-lead bullets.

I'm not an expert, but a quick Google search suggests that they may be more expensive, less easy to find, and more likely to pass through targets. I found at least one article that claimed they may have greater stopping power since they do not break up in the target as easily. However, I have heard anecdotes about steel shot having less stopping power than lead.
The article doesn’t make much sense to me because it doesn’t define criticality, quiescence or chaos.
inoreader is another alternative in addition to the ones already mentioned.
Robots in space could wipe out...
I personally prefer to avoid saying "currently" for far away objects, because I don't understand it. Only what's in our light cone.
> The real world is very much about optimizing for and beating tests.

thank you.

it's awesome for someone like PG to bring the subject upfront. but what you are saying resonates with me.

genuine interest is missing in our field, and to some extent many others. "beating tests", as PG puts it, is at all time high. i am at a point where i don't know who or what is right.

the numbers are telling an important story! those who learned to hack the tests or the system are popular online or offline. and they are "succeeding" in life. they seem to have outnumbered those who put genuine interest first.

for instance, as many of my peers, i wanna learn machine learning and AI. but it is hard for me to find materials that resonate with me. materials that teach from first principles like those that got me hooked back in the days. they are lacking because we are so good at shortcuts and hacking. maybe we don't know how to do it anymore?

but who am i to blame anyone? there are so many, many, ways to hack and beat the tests and the system. and seemingly you can get ahead of many others in life by doing so. #AceYourFirstInterviewAfterBootcamp #TensorflowPyTorch #BeSureToLikeBelow #ThanksToMyPatreons #SubForChatAndEmojis #InstagramFacebookDown

i am very thankful for PG for starting the discussion. and for this comment.
Lots of blog posts since their launch. 7 pretty in-depth blog posts in 7 days since Dec 1st.
I'm not in CA, my condolences to anybody who is - it's a notoriously business hostile state. I pay myself about $14K/mo pretax (modulo B&O which is paid on revenues) - enough to comfortably sustain a family of 3 in my area. This is obviously lower than market rate for what _I_ do, but not out of the line for software engineering in general. I also don't do any distributions. I expect that at some point I'll only be working _very_ part-time on whatever it is my clients want me to do, and spend the rest of the time on my own stuff, and this is where most of the tax savings will come from: you pay less tax overall if the salary you pay yourself yearly is less.
If you're one of those persons, where would you look for a job?
In my experience the difference for hotels isn't too much - $20 - $30 / night, so that shouldn't be a problem.

For flights, you have a couple options. Either make the client buy your tickets, or tell them about your policy of purchasing refundable tickets. Alternatively, you could just eat the change fee (but that has its own set of issues - if you use the ticket personally, you need to pay income tax on the cost of the ticket; if you use it for a different client meeting, billing THAT could be tricky) or you could just write it off as a loss.
Equity is, in effect, code for treating some people different than other people due to immutable facts about reality. That's wrong. Equality is right. Enforcing equity is illegitimate use of the government and is an out right attack on everyone's personal liberties. I don't care if someone is rich, poor, white, brown, gay, straight, etc. The government treating someone differently (in anyway) due to who they are is wrong. End of story.
> you just have to discover how the system really operates.

One might say that, by analogy, this is like saying you cheated on a test by studying. “Learning how the system really operates” isn’t hacking; it’s the thing you’re formally setting out to do as a business!
> “It isn’t that we changed our policies and are saying we are going to approve drugs faster,” said Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who joined the agency under President Ronald Reagan. “The difference now is we are going to see more of those because of the science. If there are people out there with no options and they have terrible diseases, we are going to get those drugs to them as fast as feasible.”

> But even as drugmakers, investors and patients cheer on the agency’s pace, patient-safety advocates argue that speed comes at a price. Studies show medicines approved on a faster time line are more likely to have safety problems emerge after they become broadly available, while other treatments offer fewer benefits than anticipated.

Not sure I understand the concern:

- "studies show medicines approved on a faster time line ...": which study(ies)? And that was the case for previous track records, which says nothing if the FDA is making the same mistakes that they may have done 20 years ago.

- "more likely to have more safety concerns once they are broadly available while other treatments offer fewer benefits than anticipated", wait, do such studies actually have drugs that are virtually identical in all properties and where the only factor that changed is the approval timing? Because if that's not the case, you are just comparing drugs with different profiles, different indications, and different targets, which is pretty much apples and oranges. Good luck making conclusions based on that.

I am not aware of the FDA or any other regulatory body at this time starting to remove regulatory requirements to speed up approvals. The typical things we see nowadays is an exception for "orphan indications" where there is no good treatment available and people are dying without anything to try. It seems fair that they take in account patients' needs when it comes to expediting the last bureaucratic mile to ensure new drugs can save more patients. At the end of the day, patients are also free to refuse newer drugs (and doctors usually tell them when a drug has just been approved and when there is lack of much safety experience beyond clinical trials) so I don't see how you can frame this whole story in a negative light.
Weird that this is downvoted. It's a perfectly plausible point, clearly stated.
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> I'm waiting for the entrepreneur who will say he doesn't care how much money he makes or how many customers he has, only that it's worthwhile and needed doing.

This is literally all of open source software. The problem here is that you're waiting for an entrepreneur to say this, which is the wrong kind of person to expect this from.
There are some add-ons that purport to do that, but not enough data is stored to make it easy.

For example, the third top website in my browsing history was a site I visited for one hour. It has an interactive map, and adds a history entry for the current coordinate (with apparently no denouncing if you drag and pan).

You could possibly mitigate a little with time between new pages, but that fails with more than one tab and for the last website someone visits in a session.

I think you need to collect more data as you browse for this to work.
I actually had to drop out of Spanish courses in university as they were going to crush my GPA if I didn’t drop them. I was learning a ton and enjoying them, but for my targeted profession my resume would be tossed if my GPA didn’t meet an arbitrary cutoff.
I was successful in doing this.

But I started out by finding software engineers that were interested in security and were willing to learn and turned them into higher-paid security folks.
Doesn't matter - they work anyway. Nobody in accounts payable is going to get into the details of whether things are enforceable or not. They'll just pay your invoice instead.
A new modern bash-compatible shell called Oil gained JSON support
I think the worst thing school teaches you -- especially STEM -- is that 99%+ questions have a certain right answer.

IRL most interesting and important questions are not anywhere close to that.
The bad kind keeps a legacy API that allows batch scripts from 1985 to work.

In every modern OS, the system packages—and most installable first-party packages in a package ecosystem—are there to make the (legacy) software you might install “just work”, not to provide the best experience for users using those packages directly.

Users, for their own needs, are expected to install their own tools and runtimes, or to consume collections of them through “toolchain environments” provided by software like IDEs.
I recently listened to the audiobook "Beyond Words" by Carl Safina, I believe on the recommendation of an HN comment.

If you're interested in the intelligence, empathy, and minds of animals, I can heartily recommend this book. The last third or so of the book covered Orcas (and some whales and dolphins) and it was pretty amazing.
I particularly liked that he covered some of the stories that are not quite scientific in nature, while calling them out as such. The book will definitely leave you with the lingering feeling that minds and awareness are not quite as simple and clear cut as we might believe them to be.