skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem, as i see it, is not with data collection itself. because the larger public 1. does not care 2. does not seem concerned. 3. the collected data is deemed harmless to the user.

what worries me is the sampling itself. or how diverse the sample is. using VR users data to draw any conclusion is misrepresenting the larger population. now if we are all into VR or use it, this might be different...
Greta Thunberg Is the 'Time' Person of the Year for 2019
The funeral was paid separately on top of the money the pastor coerced them to give to the church.

There is no agreement involved when you're told your mother wouldn't be buried with what you perceive as dignity, and you're manipulated while in a state of shock and grief to think that the voluntary payment you're making is mandatory.
I had previous colleague from India, two years of experience and suddenly was a senior.

I thought it was more common over there... guess not so odd.
> Then you must be pretty rich.

Not at all!

If you own a house or rent a tiny apartment and live frugally you can do that with a middle-class income.
The biggest drawback for me (coming from someone who exclusively uses OsmAnd for nav) is the lack of geocoding. I can't just type in an address and get a reliable destination pin to navigate to, instead I have to paste the address into a website that will convert it to lat/long first and then use that to drop the pin. That's the main issue that prevents me from recommending OsmAnd to people like my wife who are happy using Google or Apple and unwilling to compromise for the sake of principle.
I wish HN would just ban links to paywalled sites altogether. I am so frustrated I no longer read NYT, WashPost, the frigg'n LA Times, even my local newspaper. The content web is seriously broken. Even Medium is paywalled now. I hope Wired stays open. Otherwise we will be down to BBC, NPR, and TV News sites, which are so plastered with ads you have to grit your teeth before clicking on a link.
NIO lays off 141 employees in Silicon Valley following Intel deal
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I don't think it works like that. The supposed copyright violation is ongoing.
It doesn’t sound out of the ordinary for any of the countries on the continent to my ears, different culture and all that.
That is not what undo is for. Undo is for data changes without physical side effects. You might just as well have asked to undo printing a page when the printed page is in the printer's output tray. People have enough common sense to understand that this is irreversible. This is less obvious for an action that only changes data that is displayed on a screen.
> all those options in a configuration panel

I think this is the classic example of "things programmers think users want but don't". There's a literal translation from if-statements -> command-line flags -> checkboxes/radiobuttons. It's easy to implement, and users don't want it, because users don't use applications by thinking about the if-statements used to implement them.

Half of these items should simply be fixed or implemented, and don't correspond to "options" at all.
I created something similar to what you described but using React - https://github.com/sheshbabu/starterkit

Real app built using this - https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics
A machine that customises cardboxes for parcels, saving excess cardboard [video]
Serious question - how do you expect news sites to deliver their content without you either paying them directly or them showing you ads?
Sounds like the writer has confused flanerie with badaud, quoting a quote from a Wikipedia: “The simple flâneur is always in full possession of his individuality, whereas the individuality of the badaud disappears. It is absorbed by the outside world…which intoxicates him to the point where he forgets himself. Under the influence of the spectacle which presents itself to him, the badaud becomes an impersonal creature; he is no longer a human being, he is part of the public, of the crowd."[Victor Fournel, Ce qu'on voit dans les rues de Paris, (Paris, 1867), p. 270. See Shaya 2004.]
Unity 2020.1 will have support for R.Featherstone articulations
You might want to check out intels historical roadmaps. They've been missing their own marks since about 2015 iirc.
This is categorically untrue. They are not a secret due to the approvals required at a local level and by the FCC.

Many carriers lease space on the same towers, or have agreements to lease space from others in certain markets. You almost never get the site placement you want: you are operating in a built environment and have to work within those constraints.

The problem is that knowing the co-ordinates of the tower does nothing to defend against Stingray-like devices: coordinates aren’t a means of authentication.
That seems a bit low. Here in SA most of our most sold bakkies can carry around 1 to 1.3 tons.
Last I heard these things were FCC licensed for "emergency use only". The issue is that the FCC can't override federal law and deliberate interference with radio communications is illegal under such law.
Spot on. A lot of people have unregistered jobs. This kind of laws encourage a hard split between clear and shadow economy.
Can these pieces not be used for direct fire in anti tank situations?
Correctness proofs of distributed systems with Isabelle/HOL
Meanwhile most of these are what you get in England
It took me an embarrassing amount of attempts before I finally noticed the "extra space" typo above.

Working Link: https://blog.datahut.co/how-to-select-a-web-scraping-service...
This is the reply I was honestly hoping to get.

I always felt like one of the UX blockers for key exchange was the assumption that people couldn't be expected to learn the basics, because it's too complicated.

And every attempt to ignore or hide it has just made the entire thing more complicated or confusing.

You can shoot yourself in the foot with a gun or crash your car into a wall, and yet most people manage not to do so on a daily basis.

Sometimes simplicity is a false virtue.
I tried it many years ago. They changed so much in the meantime. But back then, the product was pretty good.
> release annually

Stop what you are doing and read either (or both) The Phoenix Project or The DevOps Handbook.

TL;DR: smaller, more frequent deploys are safer, less likely to introduce bugs, provides faster feedback for better learning, and require built in automated testing, quality checks, and solid telemetry. It makes lives better for developers, qa, ops, product, the company, and customers. This is not "not move fast and break things."
I don't think wars drive any revolutionary development: the time constrains are too pressing. They rather drive revolutions in deployment. The big wars are so destructive precisely because they use weapons at qualitative different scales than previously experienced, not because weapons with completely new qualities have been invented.

The celebrated revolution of the atomic weapon is a good example: during the war it did not add any new capability; the US had already completely obliterated many Japanese cities with similar numbers of (civilian and military) causalities, indeed special provisions for sparing some from destruction to use the new weapon on had to be made. (And the war almost ended before they managed to drop it: the Soviets entering the conflict in August 1945 is just as plausible as the primary reason the Japanese capitulated)

It is only with the introduction of intercontinental nuclear ballistic missiles, that allows belligerents to hold entire cities at risk with little recourse for the defender to prevent it that an entirely new capability is created. This development happened after the war, when supposedly no "revolution" happens.

Also, we've had autonomous weapons for ages, they're called mines, and have been widely deployed in past conflicts. They do tend to kill a lot of people long past the conflict actually ended, so that's something the new autonomous weapons might actually avoid.
... Dinosaur eats man. Woman inherits cryptography.
As someone that has also worked for large enterprises as well as government, I’d say that using agile can be another way to micromanage, but it can also be used in a way that improves product quality and impact while helping developers.

Generally, I’ve found that the level to which agile approaches make life better depends on how much management is actually willing to let the team do its work and stay empowered. This can happen with trust and top cover in large enterprises, but it takes constant work at the PO / product manager level otherwise regression to the mean takes over. Also hard to avoid the inertia of making successful teams bigger rather than letting them continue small.

I wonder how the Amazons / Facebooks of the world avoid the trap, but then their enabling teams are likely a big percentage of their workforce because they understand how important software is to their business.
John Carmack steps down from being CTO, and a month later this happens.
Owning a house probably makes you pretty rich in the eyes of many people.
I start my car, put on the heater and airco. Start scratching my windows clean and by the time I'm done my car has warmed up enough for the windows not to fog up. :)
Maps.me is what finally has allowed me to mostly switch with offline maps, good routing, and support for all modes of transit I use consistently.

https://maps.me/
I wish they would made different algo for different "categories" of people, and you could just select from a dropdown list the one that works best for you. It would be win / win imo.
I dislike shit sandwiches but I think they generally do work, at least to remind people that you can't just shit on someone.
Cats tend to bring gifts too.

My grandmother used to receive that of dead moles, freshly caught mice and what have you, invariably placed dead center on her pillow. She wasn't a fan of that cat before, and she didn't like it much better after. No idea why.
I think lasers are going to be the biggest flop. There was big talk about them from the 90s till now.
However they only seem to be able to be used for disruption or counter measures. Not in an offensive capability. Unless you mount it on a battleship.

Railguns and new kinetic energy weapons seem to the natural trend following on the graph (in the article)

Rifle --> Railgun --> Energy Weapons?
"maximum kinetic energy that the system can potentially direct at the target in unit time and per unit mass of the overall system" is a great example of a metric that's simple to understand, relatively straightforward to calculate, and misleading enough to result in optimising for the wrong things.

I would argue that the peak of destructive technology was the ICBM. We're now at the point where we have "enough" destructive capability. At the height of the cold war the plan was to wipe out half the Russian population in an hour.

The problem of today's low-tech widespread conflicts is how to bring them to a peaceful resolution that stays resolved, so that the refugees can go home. Something like three million Syrians are refugees in Europe including Turkey, and this is destabilising local politics. Refugees from Guatemala and Honduras are causing a similar problem to the United States. The war started on 9/11; people born after then are now old enough to fight in it.

The guy with the chart of destructive energy has no solutions to that. Well, one solution, but you're not going to like it.
Sounds like machine learning in this case would lead to GIGO as essentially automated superstition. It would get what, use time, how much time is spent moving using it and maybe height data and try to map to products the advertisers want to sell?
Quantification seems to be the degradation of perception towards the proper understanding of human ability. It seems realistic to say that humans prefer simple matrices with which to view reality.

Consider when someone common argues politics, but their first inclination is to fall back to statistics. They have now canceled out the component sum of all other elements in the set of understanding, only to rely on numbers as the indicator of truth.

Boethius once wrote about the 10 properties of man, one being number, and the others being place, position, attributes...etc. Yet, most of these are rarely used when you really get down to it.

Ezra Pound once made a statement that poetry is language charged with meaning to the utmost.

And there really lies the connection I mean to give. Poetry is that which embraces Boethius' 10 properties including the numeric. Math in the most pure sense is focused only on quantity until it is applied to a context. (Physics, etc).

Language in itself is, discounting the vocal portions, a tool of symbolic manipulation. And from this one can generate a theory of linguistics, much like the Greeks, as that which binds symbols to images within a context, and the intended excitation of the senses.

Even math is explained and used as bound symbols within a context followed by a sort of kinesthetic sense.

Atop both of these, respectively, is grammar and the rules of mathematics.

Anyway, this is getting too long for a comment but this is my point.

- I think language and math are under a unified form of intelligence because the utilities used to perform them reach towards the same foundation.

- Poetry and writing is underappreciated not because it is technically inept, but for the reason that society has currently degraded it's understanding towards a single attribute (the numeric) and interprets anything that isn't a number as something which must originate from emotion.

- Emotion is hard to quantify so it is viewed as a isolated creative art that is not perceived as a criteria for what people mean when they think about intelligence.

- The author and the poet can and should be using their art with a technical foundation.

- Our current writers actually imply the state of society far greater than we think, which is ironic because they have the power to lead society.

- Intelligence tests as a metric imply an end result which is numeric. This is not a whole picture. Even if the number is representative of an abstract process used to indicate the success of solving a problem.

In other, other words, writing is viewed as a lesser art when it comes to quantifying intelligence because it is incompatible with such a motion in a world where the only viewpoint funnels into the numeric. It is also lesser because the quality of contemporary writing has a stark contrast to those works before us.
Why would Undo be any harder to add post-hoc than any other feature? Encapsulate each action, codify its opposite, and push it onto the undo stack.
True, but what is a sustainable level of tree harvesting to feed the world's energy needs?
As far as I'm aware most websites don't have (enforceable) eulas that state what parsers can and can't be used. If I want to read the binary stream from the wire that's my prerogative.

If you have a website that shows a blank page, to everyone that doesn't send a specific token to your webserver, and I discover that I can view said page by manipulating the dom with any old browsers console I am not violating your copyright. You willingly sent that information.

To bring this home, if I can read an article visually obscured by code that has otherwise been given to me in an unencrypted form I am not violating copyright. If a company has a problem with people seeing everything said company sends to them then they're woefully ignorant of how browsers work. The solution is to stop including the article. Rightfully, this kills seo rankings.
I’d like a higher clock frequency, as the software I use does not scale well across cores. Things have been stuck sub 4 GHz for many years.
This article is exclusive to their subscribers ($150/year), which is only available in US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Spain as per their website.

Is the full text of the article available for you? Because for me (and others) only a teaser segment is available.
It's the same story in many countries ... populist governments increase public deficit via corruption and salary increases in the public sectors in order to secure votes for the next election, then get loans to pay said debt and then everybody blames the evil banks, FMI, EU, they blame anybody else but themselves for supporting corruption and populism.
I think it's reasonable to ask with respect to HN policy. It's hard to have a meaningful discussion when only a small percentage of the people on HN can read the full article.

What percentage of HN visitors do you think can read the full text of this article? 1% seems like a high estimate.
Average developer salary in the Netherlands is 50k...
No, because the cell carriers have "tower in a box" kits that they make available to various people. These are real towers, but they move often. If you go to a large event (something like burning man, though I don't know if they do for that specific event) there is a good chance the carrier has scattered a few of these around the venue because the fixed location towers (often miles away) would be overwhelmed and nobody would be able to use their phones.
No, these articles are usually pretty long, so the point where it gets off is only at the beginning of the article.
If you live in eastern/southern Europe, it's very easy (and pretty normal) as a software engineer. I spend less than 20% of my salary, because the cost of living here in Prague is appropriate for people making $17k yearly (before tax), while I am making a typical SW engineer wage you'd find in an average town in the USA or western EU (~$90k yearly before tax).
Singapore had Lee Kuan Yew & his son Lee Hsen Loong - and it has a squeaky clean model of governance.
Nice. Reminds me of printing related software that'd optimise the use of film by sorting the postscript output of a renderer to make best use of the film.
Wikipedia has tons of transistor count and die size data for CPUs and GPUs. See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

When comparing across generations, you'll get the most accurate picture if you stick with the same kind of chip (eg. desktop-class GPUs) and same vendor so that they're more likely to count transistors the same way from one year to the next.
The Thermodynamics Behind the Mac Pro
Ask HN: Online Accounting Course
Hi guys

I want to start my first software company. Unfortunately I don't know anything about accounting. I want to acquire the most important skills to manage and analyze companies financially and to understand the most important concepts of the accounting language.

Can you recommend an online course?

I have found the following courses. Are these two courses sufficient to realise my plans?
Course1: https://sps.northwestern.edu/post-baccalaureate/fundamentals-accounting/index.php
Course2: https://sps.northwestern.edu/post-baccalaureate/advanced-accounting/index.php

Thanks very much!
Do you georeference them by grid coordinates and corners of the map or are doing something not so simple?
I’m not sure why this is downvoted. It’s not straight up complaining about pay walled articles.

Proposing a solution (ban then from HN) is worth considering. If most HNers can’t read enough of an article to discuss it with some degree of depth, what is the point of allowing them here?
No the parent, but... I think there's nothing wrong with paywalls. But this is not an ordinary one: I can't even pay, because their overpriced subscription is not available in my country.
Very recent relaunch. Their github repo if you want to contribute https://github.com/switch2osm/switch2osm.github.io
WalkMe's and Druva's humble beginning [0][1] remind me of two of my personal favourite $100M+ ARR companies, Madras-based start-ups that did not seek investments for a long-time: Zoho [2] and Freshworks [3]. The latter was co-founded by u/girishm after being inspired by a comment on news.yc [4].

Zoho, founded by u/sridharvembu, a competitor to GSuite and Salesforce [5], has a unique recruitment strategy: Educate and train small-town teenagers, who typically cannot afford higher education, at Zoho University, for whatever career it is they want to take up at the organization [6].

I sometimes wonder if u/girishm applied to YC and didn't make it?

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[0] https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/02/walkme-walks-you-through-w...

[1] https://www.druva.com/about/

[2] https://inc42.com/buzz/sridhar-vembu-shares-the-secret-sauce...

[3] https://inc42.com/buzz/freshworks-launches-freshworks-360-as...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340732

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5836569

[6] https://qz.com/india/1029316/zoho-corporation-is-building-a-...
"We’re sorry. Extra Crunch membership is currently only available for readers in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Spain".

Well, I'm not in any of these countries. I am in Switzerland. And for some stupid reason I can't read this.

The Internet was supposed to transcend the national boundaries, but they seem to persist. We need to either fix this Internet, or build the new better one.
Yes, but if that's happening you're losing. Or at least you've lost air superiority and your own armoured advance hs stalled or been destroyed somewhere up ahead.
You can probably rewrite the codebase to utilize n threads before anyone releases an 8, 12, 36ghz CPU.
Intel Hires Fab Veteran, Former GlobalFoundries CTO Dr. Gary Patton
Depends on whether there's market demand.

If there's something useful about having 32 32-core chiplets connected to an I/O hub talking to a bunch of PCIe5 lanes and a huge pile of DDR6 RAM, that could happen.

But getting all that compute logic coordinated in one place might not be that economically desirable compared to offloading to GPU-style specialized parallel processors, or building better coordination software to run distributed systems, or...
Correct me if I'm wrong, haven't written a lot of Prolog, but I think most optimisation-based problems are suitable for modelling using Prolog. Scheduling, time tabling, allocation problems such as knapsack problem or bin packing, etc.

Some of these problems can be quite tricky to write regular code for, but just stating the constraints and letting Prolog plan/solve it can be simpler.
I wouldn't mind paying if that meant i was free from all forms of tracking, selling my data, and ads.

Which isn't the case as folks paying for such services are the most valuable to advertisers.
Woah there pal, you're forgetting that they spun up their 22nm process again in 2018 [1]. Intel has a lot of fab headaches right now. A reminder that 22nm debuted in 2011, and 14nm was 2014.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13714/intel-adds-b365-chipset...
The State of Bitcoin and Crypto in African Countries
Has bug-correcting editing improved over the years? We use OSM quite a bit in the public sector because they aren’t snooping. Three years ago one of our internal routing systems broke because someone had reported the street leading up to our administration center as a one-way street in the wrong direction.

This meant our 7000 employees couldn’t get compensation for any work related driving, and we couldn’t submit the correct tax-records.

When I submitted my correct edit, I was banned because my account was new and I had submitted a evidence from our internal street planning system, where we mapped the direction of the street, which is proprietary to us. Heh, it took two weeks to get it fixed after that because every subsequent edit got denied. Which felt kind of silly, considering it was my department who decided the street should become a one way street in the first place. Really needed a “verified” account system.

Considering I haven’t needed to correct anything since is a testament to its quality though.
Or even connect the cars to the electric mains at their house and heat them electrically.

See "Driving in winter" [1]

[1] https://finland.fi/life-society/how-to-survive-winter-in-fin...
Maps.me looks better, faster but don't have as much features
At my parents house crows pickup wallnuts, then fly to some altitude and drop them on the concrete to break them and eat them. Only problem is the dog who waits for them to drop the walnuts and eat them himself.