skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developed perhaps, but then they sold it to old paranoid people. I understand every interior minister that tries to try to amp up surveillance beyond any reasonable level, but we have increase any form of security since a few decades throughout the western world. And most of it because of irrational fears, because life didn't get exactly more dangerous, just complete madness instead.

> once these old people are gone things will get better. They won't.

No, we would have new old people.
In my company, if you transfer to another team, you're a traitor. Your current mgr can block your transfer, so it's suicide to try to switch teams.
While the premise is similar, this is much different from the decades old brownout attacks. The researchers are causing the undervolt with software, not by manipulating the supply lines to the chip.
‘World’s first’ electric commercial seaplane takes off [video]
When I was a dev lead I came up with the concept called a "learning spike," where a developer would pick a focused topic to dive into for a set period of time[1] and then do a short[2] presentation of learnings to the entire team. This would be backed by an official story in Jira or whatnot. The goal would be for the developer to choose something that sparked their interest (within the loose boundaries that it be at least marginally related to the team's work.)

I figured this would be great in a number of ways -- developer deepens their knowledge of some topic, possibly even has fun, practices their communication skills by sharing with others, and the entire team learns something. Although the idea was technically backed by management, it didn't really catch on. I think the problem was that the short term opportunity costs were too high when everything was on fire (which was often).

[1] 2-3 days max, probably.

[2] "Short" is the key word here.
I can confirm I have 2 PR's open for westes/flex - It looked to be that it was being maintained. I sent these PR's 2 years ago.
HTTPS 404s
Rust certainly does not use header files.
Why doesn't deep-brain stimulation work for everyone?
The problem is lots of bits are hard to parallelise. Also, rust already does quite a bit in parallel, it can usually fill my 6 CPUs when building multiple crates.
We Could Be Approaching Peak Beef
i wonder why they call for Unicode usage when the extended ascii 219 - 223 could do the same

e: lol why downvoting the inquisitive reader? this community sheeesh. hacker news seems a misnomer more than anything.
> Exactly. I somehow doubt Dorsey doesn't know about ActivityPub - why not just endorse it publicly if he genuinely cared about decentralization?

Dorsey follows the Mastodon twitter account - he knows about it.
Revealing someone's first name constitutes doxxing?
From what I recall, Apple really doesn’t like signing competing forks of the same software. It’s next to impossible to get e.g. your own fork of Firefox into the App Store. They see it as a phishing attempt on the “real” app, I think.
And in 2009 the winner was Moot from 4chan with the order spelling out "Marble Cakes also the game".

https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/time-magazine-throws-up-it...
You're arguing that cleaning staff are so wholly incompetent that they can't follow basic rules like "don't touch the monitors"? That's obviously not reality. Even at my small software company, the cleaning staff don't touch any of the electronics. If a computer is shelling out $5k/display they're going to cover this with the cleaning staff.
I only used linked in as a resume i could refer people to and occasionally for networking with other professionals. what linkedin actually became is a way to get tons of unsolicited offers from headhunters and the resume component lost significant value because of that. I deleted my profile but there's no undoing it because of thoroughly it got crawled. I regret using it.

whatever new system comes it better have stronger privacy controls and more free form resumes.
That seems like a bug. Please file it.
The economy is becoming increasingly automated and dominated by a handful of large, hugely successful companies that can keep printing out the same widget or service over and over , generating reliable, recurring revenue streams. There is no need for research when your competitors are tiny and or non-existent, with no hope of closing the gap.
Sure, Mastodon doesn't implement the full ActivityPub spec [0]. They're still very much behind the effort though, it seems [1] (or at least they were in 2018).

I'm not a Mastodon developer, nor have I developed with it, but surely there are learnings there that could potentially be contributed back to the W3C to make ActivityPub better (including making it more rigorously spec'd).

The people at the W3C are not gods - they're human beings just like the rest of us. Why not get involved in the conversation there?

The only genuine reason I can think of to split away from the ActivityPub effort to build a completely different protocol would be if the W3C's working group on ActivityPub is filled with such toxic politics that it's impossible to make any progress on making the spec better. (That's been the only reason I could see in the past when I've been part of protocol standardization efforts).

Without evidence of that, however, I'd say that it's far better for the community to get involved in making the existing spec better. Robust debate (supported by evidence, such as that which Mastodon's built up) is incredibly valuable to the community as a whole.

Also, it's incredibly valuable from a political decentralization perspective to have as neutral a party as possible facilitating the standardization efforts, to minimize the risk of Big Tech shaping standards in ways that would suit them financially (and potentially against the interests of the average internet user).

[0] - https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/

[1] - https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the...
In a twisted way, the headline is also performing a public service.

I can tell you that if I bought one of these monitors, I wouldn't have read the manual, and I would have thought of the free cloth as one of those "nice little touches" that always comes with buying an Apple product.

If I was buying the monitor after seeing the headline, I would probably try to find a safe dust cover to put over the monitor when not in use to help prevent avoidable mishaps from someone being a little too enthusiastic about cleaning my work area.
So, StackOverflow and Github?
You don't need the GuitarPro software, you need GuitarPro-format files.

GuitarPro is a pretty common format for machine-readable sheet music. Most "tab editor" programs can open and save to the GuitarPro file format. TuxGuitar is one example of a tab editor that is both good and free and does this well.

But you don't need to do that either. There are tens of thousands of GuitarPro format files readily available on the Internet. Ultimate-Guitar is one major source but there are lots of others.

EDIT: Name a band or a song and I'll import one for you. (Just don't go out of your way to "stump" me with an obscure choice).
Theres also Scott I think with a username that starts with s and then a combination of b,c and t or something that I never manage to get right :-)

Easiest way may be to shoot them a mail, see the footer for address.
They are teaching them about blockchain applications specifically. This isn't about market fit.

They appear to be attacking the VERY widespread problem of people applying a blockchain solution where it doesn't necessarily add value. What does a blockchain solution buy you? What doesn't it do for you? Do you really understand what it does and does not do?

Given a student's proposed application, you could critique it based on whether the properties of a blockchain solution provide something unique that couldn't be provided easily with other approaches.
I think a powerful, centralized, and stable (across transitions of power, especially) state is likely a necessary pre-requisite to focused economic development across larger kingdoms. Otherwise there's too much temptation to treat parts of "your" territory as potentially part of a future rebel state you (or one of your children) will have to fight for control of the crown, because there's a really good chance that will in fact happen at some point in the not-so-distant future. Might be better to undermine the development of some of them, even. Not a great environment for cohesive, grand, long-term economic planning. Gotta quash the infighting, gotta get the inheritance laws sorted out so the crown's territory's not being carved up all the time among kids who'll often end up going to war with one another. Then the serious economic development can start.

I think that's one of the key differences between how a monarch of France and a monarch of Spain, say, would have approached economic development, around the time Spain was starting to get serious about the whole nation-state thing. I think there may actually have been different incentives and motivations driving less-effective patterns of economic development in less-centralized or less-internally-secure states, caused, more or less, by differences in effective state power.

I'm not sure how politically stable and internally secure Eastern states were then, but my guess would be less so than what Spain was beginning to achieve.
> It makes sense business-wise and it's a win-win for humanity.

Does it make sense business-wise? What business will want to be on a system that has no moderation? It's just asking for your brand to be accidentally or intentionally associated with undesirable things.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
As someone whose family member recently just received a test showing elevated PSA levels (Prostate Cancer indicator); this article is a very real blessing.

# Baseline issues with prostate cancer that suck.

1. Don't treat a benign version and possibly live with trouble urinating and follow on problems from that.

2. Don't treat a malignant version and die

3. Treat it and potentially be impotent

4. Treat it and end up with bowel dysfunction

5. Treat it and rehab through surgical scars looking like an upside down T from following from belly-button to waistline or a U shape around the rectum.

6. Of course there is some tail risk of much much worse situations; and while it's worth remembering, it's not worth enumerating.

# TULSA method

So while this method is not different - it includes things that suck... if you read further upstream of the newatlas article to RSNA primary source [1] you will find that not only do they insert a spinning ultrasound device up the urethra - but it also includes a simultaneous insertion of an endorectal cooling device(ECD)[2]. Given all that: the parts that suck about this method pale in comparison to the traditional list of 6 above.

# Conclusion

There is much to be squeamish about with this method, as with any prostate remediation methodology; but if applied under careful care of patient and doctor - this looks like a very promising prostate treatment. And as a family friend once put it to me: "Welcome to the world of cancers; where pretty much everything sucks."

[1]: https://press.rsna.org/timssnet/media/pressreleases/14_pr_ta...

[2]: https://press.rsna.org/pressrelease/2019_resources/2129/fig_...

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Since people have different needs and tastes, there is no single type of syntax mechanism agreed upon.

Lisp generally favors flexibility, easy code generation/transformation, code as simple data structures, extensibility... that's attractive and useful for some.
It saves people from having to guess which subculture you come from, just so they can understand what a certain picture means for you. Emoji are very irritating for this reason: They are focused on the writer, and not the audience.
It's RSS. Twitter invented RSS.
Not every professional is a developer
Free speech includes things people may not want to hear, plus the definition of hate speech is a constantly moving target.
But what's wrong with perpetual dividends? I think the relationship between investors and dividend-paying companies is a lot healthier than non-dividend-paying companies.

If buy 1 share of DividendCorp I can rationalize it as a stream of future dividends generated by the company's profits. I want the company to succeed in the short term and the long term.

If I buy 1 share of OtherCorp which pays no dividends I am purely speculating on the price. I don't even have to care what the company does I could just be one of those "technical analysis" people riding chart waves. I just need to pass the bag to someone else at a gain.
Didn't student loans appear exactly because of american populism of "making college affordable"?
You should have said you already did and would like to start today.
If I buy a $5k monitor I'm going to read the manual. Not doing so would be negligent.
I'm glad they're planning on using ocaps. Not so optimistic that twitter understands ocaps though. They should hire Mark S. Miller to consult for them or something.
Not really. Dividends are payments, whereas buybacks are assets changing hands. There's a difference from both a finance and accounting side.

Simple example: Dividends can be made ad nauseum; Buybacks can only be made as long as there are outstanding shares.
And with Kubernetes you can use Ephemeral Containers for that.
It's stupid to be 100% against censorship. Some things should be censored. Like child abuse imagery, for example.

The questions are where do you draw the line, and who gets to decide where the line is drawn?
> (My Ph.D. advisor, perhaps the greatest and most passionate educator I have ever known, received the excellence in teaching award and was then promptly denied tenure.)

Wow. How to make your university Hell on Earth reduced to a single, easily actionable sentence.

I realise that is the norm. Still, a sad comment on what academia has become. As a parent paying tuition bills it particularly rankles.
Side note: Why couldn't Tesla license her truck design instead of the Cybertruck. Sigh.
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are interfering with astronomy again
The thinking that there is only one correct way is very damaging. In reality there are almost several ways to do something. And each of these ways can be successful if done well or be a disaster if done wrong. So instead of constantly adjusting to reality (which is what Agile should be) we spend a lot of time on ideological discussions and less time on action.
America’s Dark History of Killing Its Own Troops with Cluster Munitions
One of the challenges with that is that, to the degree I "like" either Facebook or LinkedIn, I actually like the fact that one is mostly a personal social network and the other is pretty much just a Rolodex for professional contacts. I'm probably not alone in trying to keep the two spheres largely separate (though I don't on Twitter).
And if you try to study some of those broader topics, you're a sucker - don't study philosophy when an extra accounting or STEM course would be a "better" use of your time. So you super specialize and then after 4 years of college and 5 years in industry you're burnt out you have few other skills, so the only option is to get back onto the education treadmill to bet on another highly specific vocation where you once again start your career as a junior.
Show HN: Our Instagram Color Palette Generator Is a Trend Now
I always approach these statements with skepticism.

Okay, let’s say that there’s no money for the big pharma, what about governments with socialized health care? What about rich people and their loved ones who suffer from cancer?

The “not much money in this” aspect seems believable only when the condition is a rare one but cancer is a huge unsolved issue for everyone, including rich people and politicians. How can they not pursue cancer treatment option that’s not profitable enough for commercial players?
It does appear that one of Apple's strategies to maintain a high margins is to soak those who are willing and able to pay a premium. I just read an article in gizmodo where the author was complaining that Apple was charging $100 per wheel on a mobile stand instead of static feet. I'm guessing Apple will continue to charge ridiculous margins until it isn't profitable.
I don’t agree with this assessment at all.

First, the analysis is woefully limited to specialized aspects pertaining to only the tech industry. A lot of the disruptive forces linked in the article are highly ill specific to very limited situations.

Second, the analysis doesn’t explain why it’s bad that LinkedIn appeals to businesses and recruiters. Why is that a problem? It appeals so well to them that basically all companies are on LinkedIn in some way, and that means that young people coming into the marketplace will go there to find work. They don’t have to enjoy it or even log in that often to justify keeping an active account.

Personally, I know at least a few people who do not have a Facebook account at all, but they do have a LinkedIn, because that’s where the jobs are.

Finally, making the assumption that LinkedIn itself won’t change over time is completely shortsighted. It’s owned by one of the better managed companies out there (Microsoft) with tons of resources to make changes.

Accusing LinkedIn of being a relic of the past is like accusing Azure DevOps of being exactly the same as the old TeamForge Services - a woefully outdated view that only someone with zero recent exposure would take.

It doesn’t matter that the LinkedIn feed is a stupid waste of time, the jobs platform and InMail are the bread and butter of the platform and the reason why anyone’s there in the first place.

And by the way, if you’re looking for a job, give the Premium free trial a chance. The extra pieces of data you get on each listing can be really useful (although potentially not $40 a month useful), and there isn’t really another job website that can give them to you.
It only takes one.

Anecdote: Our state capitol dome was being renovated. Involved slowly sanding off 150 years of accumulated lead paint with respirators. Tedious, hot, cramped work.

They were told under no circumstances to use a torch (the usual way of removing layers of heavy paint) to melt the accumulation off. Because of very dry wood etc, it was a fire hazard.

During lunch break, one new guy thought that was silly, got a torch, went back up to try it and prove to everybody it was really the best way.

Of course, the wood heated up, the shredded-cellulite insulation inside the wall caught fire.

We lost the entire capitol dome to the resulting conflagration. (The well-meaning worker survived).

So, even intelligent creative people (especially so maybe) can do dumb things. Because they think they know better.
Unbound was prototyped in Java, they moved to C for speed [0].

Genuine question: Which languages would you rather DNS servers/resolvers be written in?

Consequently, if you do not mind, which DNS server and resolver do you use?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbound_(DNS_server)#History
I know the usual reasoning. It's often very specific topics like a certain kitchen item or even joke discussions about cars. These things pop up with 100% accuracy and with mentioning them in a single discussion. it happens so often that it's become an inside joke.

They are listening, all the time.
My short final check is mixture, prop, gear down and locked, cleared to land. I have kind of a rhyme about it that helps. I will sometimes ask even if they cleared to land a while ago in case they forgot and put someone in front of you which has happened.
Learning about various options strategies was really interesting to me. From just the basic building blocks of call and put options you can construct fairly complex strategies with varying risk profiles.
> The PR gave some very small (< 1%) speed-ups on the standard benchmarks but sped up a microbenchmark that exhibited the problem by over 1000x, and made it practical for procedural benchmarks to use tokens.

Does this imply that existing benchmarks weren’t catching the problem here because they were avoiding making use of a feature because it was too slow? That seems like a strange way to write a benchmark, especially if tokens were actually in common use in the compiler itself.
Not every developer is a professional either. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to fragment this space.
I could see justification for clawback on any stock awarded or exercised for the executives responsible for 737 Max problems, but I don’t see any evidence that the 737 Max is unredeemable.
I like to think they might've been like Ghost Stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Stories_(Japanese_TV_ser...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0w6EffYfY
It seems that 29 centers in the US do this type of FUS treatment commercially as listed on the FUSF website.

Any focused ultrasound tech has potential to gain wide acceptance but it is mostly the imaging component (MRI guided in most cases) that hold it back due to costs and availability.
I'm utterly dumbfounded at someone who manages people, stating this. I budgeted for training on a per employee basis when I created my yearly budgets.
Yeah no i see what you're goin for. Maybe comparing public roads to air travel would be a better analogy? Idk im just being a nudge.
When shares of stock owned by an equity mutual fund are bought back by the company, the fund uses that money to buy shares of other companies. The money does not disappear or immediately go to consumption. Buybacks allow money to be transferred from companies with poor growth prospects to companies with better growth prospects.
Check out my comment re: learning spikes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21763789

Having an actual story to back the learning process might help making employees feel more comfortable with it.
From my viewpoint the problem with ActivityPub and Mastodon is that they copied twitters flaws: public by default.

There's a reason why people stick with Facebook, go to WhatsApp, Telegram and what not: most of us don't want to communicate publicly all the time.
I'm surprised why people here hate on LinkedIn so much. I'm able to find and contact professionals working on very niche fields (the ones with little online presence) and follow their latest work. This is access I've previously never had.

I'm not a developer so I don't get a lot of recruiter spam, but the ones that do contact me usually have very relevant openings for my experience.
I prefer "Oh By"[1] codes which are actually ascii and easier to remember, pass around, and chalk up on walls/trails/streets/signs ...

[1] 0x.co
Are you referring to changing the rules so that Puerto rico can declare bankruptcy?

>In June 2016, President Obama signed the law that allowed Puerto Rico to declare bankruptcy: The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act
Amazon has done 0 buybacks in the past 30 quarters [0] and is one of the best-performing components of the S&P 500 index. I'm not convinced that all corporate executives are right to assume that the best use of capital is to simply repurchase stock. Look what it's done for Amazon: it's delivered great economic value.

[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-doesnt-buy-back-any...
Is there a mature DNS implementation in Rust? If not, do Go implementations meet all the performance requirements?
I see, I'm looking at the Rustc parallel meeting videos right now, I just wish there was a more organized blog for that team, or at least it would be easier to find the meeting notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh20eXfMOSk&t=8s

I found the meeting notes:

https://hackmd.io/_1S8_ChMSa2N8mRw6EsGPA
It seems like the AMP delay is there to punish people who block that JavaScript loading from Google's servers. I can't think of another reason why there would be an 8-second delay for any user of a technology that (dubiously) is supposed to be about speed.