skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electron's strength is a low learning curve and easy cross-platform development (though more complex projects still get harder; it's just easier to get started). Qt isn't perfect, but it's probably still better than electron; it is also fairly good for cross-platform development, and though a little ungainly, fine as long as one works in C++.
To people who have done SuS before: are there any opportunities for in-person meetups?

I'd love to host something here in Phoenix if anybody is interested. I can provide the space for it too.
How Ford Is Exploring the Quantum World with Microsoft to Help Reduce Congestion
There was a long essay in the New York Review of Books way back in the mid ‘90’s that argued the point. SROs and casual labor are essential to combat homelessness.

We lost SROs but we also lost casual labor. Business are criticized for not providing full time positions with benefits. The idea that someone could walk in and get day work helps folks who really don’t want to or can’t work full time.
I think the importance of small Docker images is generally oversold. I regularly deploy multi-GB images on Google Cloud, and startup even on a fresh node only takes 60 seconds or so. If the node's already hot (i.e. has cached the image), starting a container takes no more than a few seconds.

I think what's more important is layering the Dockerfile in the right order. You should be putting most of your large, infrequently changing assets in the lowest layers. Then put smaller, more frequently changing assets in the top layer. If you have a 4GB image, but only change the top 10MB layer, then it only requires caching 10MB of new data when you update the container. But if you change a lower layer, then it requires re-building and re-caching everything above it.
the wework office in durham nc has contributed a lot of value to a lot of peoples' lives
Spoiler alert. Thanks for ruining the article.
The Basecamp Employee Handbook
A Trail of FBI Abuse
I don't think this idea is actually implementable in a large-scale, real-world setting. One person, one vote democracy is pretty understandable to an average Joe who doesn't even remember what "squared" means. I think that a normal person would have no idea how much to spend on a particular decision, as the formulas would seem like black magic to them. Normal voting is pretty intuitive, quadratic is not. This problem is not that noticable for HN people, as our average intelligence is probably way above the societys', but before deploying this on a large scale, it has to be considered. I don't think that internal workings of democracy should be something that an average school child can't easily grasp.
Is that any different than anything else? Compilers, asset pipelines, and build tools all work the same way: they make assumptions about how a system works and try to optimize on those assumptions. Test your app, run QA, etc. Most licenses make no promises that the software will work, so this tool doesn't seem any different.
I though people are paid for posting on medium?
"I make some furniture from home" is a completely different analogy from the one i just made. Either you didn't get it or that's willful contextomy.

Every company started by someone uses experience they've generated at a previous job. These contracts effectively make anyone starting a company a breach of contract. And just because it's in a contract, doesn't mean it can't be thrown out by a judge if the terms are too unreasonable. These terms are too unreasonable.

Also the concept of "intellectual property" is so misunderstood and abused by the legal system. Originally it was meant to prevent people from writing books that tail on the success of another person's work, like trying to get paid for harry potter fan fiction. It doesnt mean that after being a fiction writer for one publisher the publisher subsequently owns all fictional writing you do for the rest of your life. Prince should've had to change his name to Artist just so he could write music again. Maybe Nuvia's CEO needs to needs to change his name too just so he can continue making microchips.
Have you looked into Detroit's problems at all?

Even though a large fraction of the city is abandoned, getting the city government to approve things like experimental urban farm plots and green spaces made up of combined vacant lots is extremely difficult... because deep down the city doesn't want to give up the theoretical tax revenue they might be able to get if new houses were built there and the owners started paying.

People don't like change much.
This probably has more to do with user abuse than card quality. After all, it’s just a piece of plastic.

In the Netherlands all ATMs are chip only for all debit cards (which everyone uses) and this isn’t an issue at all, if you take reasonable care of your belongings.
This article claims it happens with lawyers too

Mr. Pottinger later said that the scenario would have involved him representing a victim, settling a case and then representing the victim’s alleged abuser. He said it was within legal boundaries. (He also said he had meant to type “No client lawsuit is actually involved.”)
Such legal arrangements are not unheard-of. Lawyers representing a former Fox News producer who had accused Bill O’Reilly of sexual harassment reached a settlement in which her lawyers agreed to work for Mr. O’Reilly after the dispute. But legal experts generally consider such setups to be unethical because they can create conflicts between the interests of the lawyers and their original clients.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/business/david-boies-pott...
This is an example of a weird phenomenon where the heterodox schools of economics argue against a position that hasn't been mainstream in years. In this case, years and years and years. Economics stopped requiring interpersonal comparisons of utility a hundred years ago.
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Why aren't you on firefox yet? Chrome has cornered the market and has no reason to be performant.
You are absolutely right. I completely agree. I didn’t expand as I was on my phone. But yes I totally agree with you.
Git v2.24.1 and Others
Tide turns for Polish émigrés, lured home by booming economy
Managing Kubernetes Infrastructure with .NET and Pulumi
I only have an 8 core iMac Pro worth 6k and to be frank, it crashes sometimes, it sometimes shows the beach ball and overall it's ok but I would have thought I'd get more for the price (compared to the MacBooks etc. I had over the last 15 years).
Not at all. Give me a way to remove all paywalled links from my Google search and I'll be quite happy, thanks.

Google used to penalize sites dramatically that provided different views to search engine versus user. However, that apparently impacted their ad revenues so it went away.
You can buy a used Leaf for under $15k. Not exactly luxury pricing.
Hey, @atombender.

Joe here from the Mapbox billing support team. Feel free to reach out to help@mapbox.com. We can dig into your implementation with you to see if there are ways to limit your API consumption (and reduce your overall bills).

Things like limiting panning/zooming can help limit the number of tiles your end users load. Fewer tiles -> cheaper invoices

https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/example/v1.0.0/maxbounds/

There are other options as well. That said, it's hard to know exactly without taking a look at your map specifically. Let us know!
Would you look at this website, would you just look at it
Also fbi: we wish to legally disallow effective encryption so we can monitor anyone we please.
Love the idea of programmers writing the Constitution.

"It works for 95% of the cases, should be fine!"
"Just write up a first working version and we'll iterate from there!"

The writers of the Constitution were experts in history, philiosophy, religion, political theory, war, and even they hesitated and put multiple safeguards in case they got things wrong.

What a laugh that the average computer science grad (or worse, just brogrammer) could even understand the range of considerations to be encoded into a country's operating principles...
This comment breaks not only the HN guidelines but also the Show HN-specific guidelines.

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Would you please review them and stick to the rules when posting here? We're trying to prevent the thread from becoming toxic.
Nonsense.. most of cases a bigger object is prevalent. Chair? No its a fricking bed.
Ultimately, if you really need something that supports 1.5TB of RAM or a 28 core Xeon, you're going to get in the same realm as Apple's pricing even if you build it yourself.

The $6k cost includes a ton of built-in cost for the fancy case, the server grade motherboard, and fancy power supply/cooling system.

As far as I'm aware, you're not even capable of building a Threadripper platform with that much RAM... because you're limited to 8 DIMM slots? There's a few things on the horizon that might address that (namely, 256GB DIMMs), but I'm not sure those are released yet... and I bet they cost a lot more than 128GB DIMMs.

Not saying it's not overpriced... but Dell et al. probably will gouge you just as much if you try to build a Xeon workstation.

Hopefully Threadripper drives down the Intel pricing even on the server side, cause as of right now it's just crazy.
> Airlines seem in a constant fight for passenger comfort to me!

Passenger comfort is what they like to talk about. That doesn't mean it's what they're really trying to optimize. They optimize for density too, but they're not about to advertise that. It's dangerous to mistake marketing for reality. So yeah, they'll add another cabin tier. Then they'll charge a fee for it and reduce the seat pitch elsewhere on their next order. It works really well when there are a few people who can pay for the upgrade out of their own pocket (most companies won't reimburse for it), but that's not really optimizing for comfort. And most people never get to use the lounges.

It's good to be one of those extra-revenue types, but when I take advantage of those things I'm keenly aware that I'm exercising a form of privilege. For most people, air travel isn't getting more enjoyable.
The LPs in VC firms are rarely "multi-billionaire" individuals. They're generally institutions like school endowments, or pension plans. These institutions absolutely do need a return on their money to support the needs of the organizations they support.
This is a very valid but downvoted comment, in the context of its parent comments.
Imagine spending all of that money, and at the end of the day you end up with a monitorless computer running macOS, the mind reels
But, come on, CA has 163,707 square miles, can we just carve out a couple of those, even if it's just 100 or 200 or so (with enough economies of scale to attract serious VC money), in an area that has no NIMBYs, for build whatever you want and let builders and innovators innovate. We can take what's working and slowly apply it other areas.

There are lots of sparsely populated areas in CA where developers can effectively build whatever they want.

But they're sparsely populated areas because they're undesirable for one or more reasons: too hot, or too dry, or too plain, or too far from the rest of civilization.

And no developer wants to be left holding the bag if the investment doesn't pan out...
In fact, what happened in San Bernardino County and in Clark County (around Las Vegas) are exactly the types of failures that real estate developers have nightmares over.
I think they do it through their secret/top secret clearances. You just don't get them and aren't eligible to work on a project. And they don't tell you why, of course.
Many cities in my state (MN) still have laws on the books that will fine lawn owners for failing to maintain a green, healthy appearance.

Never mind if it's in a desert or forest terrain... they only allow paved spaces, green grass and landscaping, or certified native prairie replantings, which cost a mint's worth of money to do.

Because "everyone loves green grass" no matter how much water it uses or how much fertilizer runoff it allows.
I agree; it seems possible that the tools currently used for image recognition are analogous to how humans quickly recognize objects, so we might not expect these tools to ever do a good job on images that humans also struggle with.

It would be nice at least if the computer tools could detect that they are confused, and I know there is some research in that direction.
This isn't questionable at all imo. College is supposed to teach you the core fundamentals, using which you should be able to learn all that other stuff.

Straight out of college, I was hired to write code in a language that didn't even exist when I started college. Why? Because those companies rely on students learning more than just "language A". They want quick-learning generalists who can pivot to any tech or language if there is a need. And I can safely say, I definitely learned all of that stuff in college, and I am very thankful for the very solid understanding of CS fundamentals that have carried me in the industry over the years.
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I've never heard of this problem ... does the US have different chips to us here in UK?
> Unions are a cartel of employees who use the threat of harm to limit the freedom of employers and individual workers from freely entering into mutually beneficial work arrangements.

Individual workers are in a weaker negotiating position than employers, so without a union it's highly likely that, on average, they are receiving lower compensation than they might absent that weaker bargaining position (the short-version explanation being that, in the typical case, it harms an employee more to miss an opportunity than for a company to pass on an employee, simply due to the nature of the two entities). I don't see why employees being in a weak bargaining position does not cause "harm" but their banding together to be in a stronger position does, nor why, given that position, they should be expected to voluntarily make worse deals than they could. Further, we collectively choose, via government, to permit such a thing as a corporation to exist in the first place, so in my view there's no natural or moral argument for the state of their being in a better negotiating position than labor, and even if we go on to arrange things such that they are made weaker than labor, somehow—not just equal or less-dominant—it's gonna take more than the simple fact of things being that way to convince me they're being harmed in some sense that should make me feel bad for them or that some moral wrong is being committed.

I don't think corporations, provided their privileges and their very existence by force of law, are being particularly harmed in some sense worthy of moral assignment by having to deal with strong collective bargaining entities for labor, nor that we can call gains in negotiations made by those labor entities unfair or immoral if they aim to gain the best deals they can without also having to label much of Capitalism as such (I might follow you down that road, actually, as I'm not sure it's wrong and it seems, at first glance, consistent, at least).
Climate change could make many US homes uninsurable
I wonder if the exact some models that failed this test would succeed if their training data included images of weird angles/unusual contexts?

My guess is every "hammer" image in the training data set was "conventional" -- a convenient angle and orientation. If half the images of "hammers" were instead "unconventional", would the model adapt to realize "my existing model of a hammer is incomplete; there must be a way to consolidate these two different images"?

Or does this require an internal 3d modeling, and better inputs wouldn't help; instead the model itself would need to be more advanced?
The most insightful thing the Kelly criterion says about founding a startup is "don't bet unless you have an edge".
Laptops tend to get toasty when running in spaces as confined as backpacks. I assume it might be to avoid overheating?
A while ago I played around, and create a small tool that can do that: https://github.com/elisescu/goscript

It's a single binary (as cross platform as golang gets), which records a terminal session into a single html file which you can open for playback in the browser.

Any feedback is very much welcome :)
Well I often have several manually started servers/processes running in both iTerm and Webstorm so these are (by far) the most painful to restart. But yeah, it sucks.
I played with Fractint around 1997 on my 286, and it already had L-systems. Is your memory of it older than that?
Apparently as of 2 years ago, 1 stick of 128GB RAM from Crucial could cost $4,000[1] if purchased on its own, so at 12 sticks of 128GB RAM maybe this is a relative bargain compared to building it yourself? Of course at the lower end, it's not really competitive at all.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/this-single-128gb-of-ddr4-ram-from-c...
For me that didn't work. The red badge on System Preferences disappeared, but it came back the next day. Doing a `defaults delete com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate LatestMajorOSSeenByUserBundleIdentifier` got rid of it permanently.
same - I've never had this issue or heard of any instance of it
> Plundervolt can't be exploited remotely, such as luring a user to a website and executing the attack via JavaScript.

It may be a nasty vulnerability, but it's no Spectre/Meltdown-level one that is worthy of the name.

> Intel has also released microcode (CPU firmware) and BIOS updates today that address the Plundervolt attack.

Hit 'Microcode Update' reboot, and it's fixed.

Move along now, nothing significant (or remotely exploitable) here.
did you ride in in at the tesla event?
Do you spell "someone" A-M-D?
As already stated conda and pip both enable you to create separate environments. A major advantage of using conda over pip is that conda has additional channels, such as bioconda and conda-forge, that enable software besides python or R to be installed. Through bioconda a user can install bioinformatics unix software with a single command. See https://conda-forge.org/ and https://bioconda.github.io/.

Also, you can use pip to install software if you have the anaconda distribution installed. As far as I know it does not work the other way around.
physical sensors malfunction all the time, and you have a fleet of several hundred aircraft.

You would be shocked to learn how many faults an aircraft can have at a given time and still be allowed to take off. That's what redundancy is for, if everything had to be all-systems-go every time then you couldn't run an aircraft for a week straight. It doesn't matter as long as you have a spare, and it'll get fixed the next time you're in for maintenance.

the issue with the 737 MAX is that there are only two sensors, and so far I don't see that being addressed. One sensor failing should not kill the aircraft, and it should not disable a control regime that is necessary for the aircraft to receive type certification.
Funny how the author fails to mention why most couples need a dual income these days.

(Hint: the massive transfer of wealth from millennials to baby-boomers facilitated by the exclusionary zoning laws that make it so difficult to build much-needed additional higher-density housing.)

She also fails to mention one of the great innovations that has emerged from the MIT Sloan School in recent years, namely the online "sugar-baby" business thanks to the entrepreneurial genius of award-winning double MIT alum Brandon Wade:

https://thetech.com/2011/09/06/normandin-v131-n34

Why have difficult conversations with a partner when you can just pay her an "allowance" instead!
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> Or will I have to put aside a few million to send my kids to college twenty years from now?

No, because that wouldn't make sense as an investment. Already it often doesn't make sense. Hence the student debt crisis.

Colleges will have to adapt and bring costs down as people increasingly opt for alternatives.
It is exactly as useful. Macroeconomics was completely tangled up until people understood that in a perfectly function economy there was be no business cycle, that even a serious shock would only temporarily slow down the economy. So the focus turned to understanding the market imperfections that make temporary dislocations have such long-term effects.
More media attention:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nnek/verizon-is-blockin...

https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/yahoo-groups-is-ending-...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/verizon-reported...

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/09/786469397/internet-historians...
I agree that this is a risk for basically any networked app, but can't we distinguish whether this is an active concern or a hypothetical one?

In order to actually provide your messages to Facebook, the app needs to either call home when you view the message or write the cleartext somewhere on-device to send home later. If you view the message and then the app calls out with data we can't inspect, or writes something locally that we can't inspect, it could potentially be exfiltrating the message you viewed. If not... am I missing an attack vector, or is that message safe?

(To be precise: this would only prove forward secrecy, meaning safety for that viewing of that message. If we can't see the app's code, it could have testbench cutouts like Volkswagen or WannaCry, or more likely could only trigger for certain users or in certain cases à la Greyball.)
Bait cars are a police-state tactic. Just normal, Peelian-principled policing for me, thanks. Hunting and tracking, not fishing and trapping.

Which is to say make better efforts to actually solve property crimes that occur naturally, rather than manufacturing crimes for the purpose of resolving them more easily.
tmux resurrect might be worth looking into https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect
Just because some companies choose to be nice does not mean that they don't still maintain an unequal amount of power.

Similarly, just because some jobs produce more value doesn't mean the companies arent otherwise misbehaving.
Stuart J Mackintosh on his first 100 days as president of TPF
Also I wonder if additional transparency could work as an opposing force to moneyed interests. We could petition the government to create a realtime spreadsheet of all donations and lobbying so we could query it and see the entire money chain at any time. That way even gaps in the chain would be suspicious and fraud would be more easily revealed by crowdsourcing.

Taken to the limit, we could even get an immediate summary of what percentage of our retail purchases go to which political issues and buy according to our ethical values. It would be a way to put democracy back in the hands of the middle class since our combined buying power is larger than the wealthy class (I assume, I actually don't know if this is true anymore).
If none of the more complicated strucures will provide the liability protection that you're going to need, there's also the possibility of doing business as a sole proprietor/DBA. You get no protections at all, but the reporting requirements are much reduced (in some cases, just filing a 1040).
> It's interesting that this list closely mirrors the precarious stages and situations in life that can often lead to homelessness.

When you realize that many of the items on this list also decrease tax revenue over single family housing and discriminate racially via income levels, it's not even surprising.

Essentially it's "Let's run the city like a corporation, maximize tax income and keep our neighbors safe from people who are non white, homeless, atheist, alcoholic, or otherwise scary to us. It'll be legal this way."
"There are no stupid questions, only stupid people."

Sorry -- couldn't resist ;-)