skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A hedge fund pays off one of the BoE's providers and it's the BoE's fault because.. what?
CSV is far more complicated than just commas and newlines. There is string quotation and character escaping.
Fender guitars is betting on Machine Learning
Unexplained lights in sky could be alien structures or ‘communication lasers’
Because this is blackmarket stuff, although I imagine contingent of otherwise legal home vape assembly people could in their ignorance get their hands on some off a friend and have the same issue. The big deal here is that some states are completely losing their mind and trying to completely stop or over regulate vaping, no doubt resulting in many more deaths as a result of former smokers going back to smoking and now they have blood on their hands because of it because it's obviously happening only in people who use vaping to get a THC high, which is already illegal and regulated and they really didn't care.
Ah yes, with the speed of construction and scale of human exploitation, it makes sense.
Similar to places like Dubai.

IMO, what distinguishes Cancun from the others on the list is the "cheapness" of it's aesthetics and likely it's actual quality.
> There is a very strong infinite feedback mechanism between respected publishers and respected universities forcing us to flock to such publishers no matter the costs which are exorbitantly high for most of us. But we simply do not have a choice.

In that case it is the role of the United States Government to step in and break this monopolistic-feedback loop. A simple way would be to deny any federal-backed student loans to schools who do not openly publish and continue to incestuously be involved with ACM.

Withholding money is one of the most powerful ways to change behaviors.
St. Elmo's Fire was created and edited in 24 hours
yep - a deep 1st tone is getting picked up as a 3rd tone
In a way, hackable information is also public information
I'm so deeply ashamed of my country. We voted against even research on nuclear. With Nuclear and Water energy we were one of the greenest energy producers in the world.

Switzerland has such a long history with nuclear and its the exact thing Switzerland should be shining.
Just what the Navy needs, more hyper bureaucracy for some weak attempt at security.
The Dutch I've met pronounce it something like "UFF-sly-dike". Worth visiting if you're in the area.
Haha the bottom of the site says that too:
Unfortunately the system isn't very accurate at the moment, but you will quite likely be able to tell whether you are saying the right tone by looking at your vocal pitch contour and comparing it to that of the teacher.
Do they need those apps to carry out their duties? If not, that should remain on personal devices and left in a secure location while on duty. There have been too many incidents of apps like Strava publishing locations that it's just not worth missing something important.
Nowhere near as good or as seamless as Kotlin interop, Kotlin made interop a priority/first class feature.

When using a Java library in Clojure, many times its just better to just write some Java for your Clojure program specifically for the purpose of calling it from Clojure.
All the "apps" you mentioned should just be well designed web sites. No reason for an app.
Dreaming In Code by Scott Rosenberg has some relatable war stories.
Congress showers health care industry with multibillion-dollar victory
It would be nice to see object space / tangent space normal maps make an appearance. The article only talks about tangent space normal maps, which are actually more complicated than object space normal maps.
I wouldn't jump ship to a Go project, but I am currently in the situation you fled from. Even the core team who started the project doesn't have command of the language. I have some experience with rust and Haskell (hobby) and JVM experience with Java and clojure so I can get by but it is not pleasant.

I think the situation is similar to c++ where too many features have been added over time.

While with c++ there is a body of compiled recommendations on what not to use and how to write c++, for scala that doesn't really exist.
don't do it if people are trying to vape THC or just black market pods. Just get your own and do it legally or simply tell them nope and pass on the hit.
Because Reddit doesn’t follow Hacker News guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think this one is the biggest difference:

“Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.”
Hyper bureaucracy? It's a whitelist for trusted apps on a government device.
> The author, perhaps, has watched too many films with breezy montages that end with triumph.

In fairness, the author co-founded Stripe when he was 21. So, perhaps it's fair that his views are colored by the fact that at a very young age he built the highest valued company in the history of the world's most successful startup incubator, but saying "it doesn't happen that way, except in the wet dreams of project managers" is, well, I'll just say a bit funny given who the author is.
That's a complete myth, really. The Scala ecosystem has its fair share of problems, but Odersky and his lab's involvement and stewardship have never been one of them.
In Oracle I 'd just set up an External Table. Trivial to do.
A nation's immigration policy shouldn't force companies to structure their hiring pipeline in some specific way for the convenience of regulators.
oh no, he's picking on the Mexican cartel that is the primary source the majority of drugs in the USA. That's really hurtful to them I'm sure.
Not to be confused with Opleidingsinstituut Qwerty.

http://qwertyopleidingen.nl/
One off bans makes more sense, a whole unit set up to pre-approve millions of potential apps is crazy-town.

Then they use Google Chrome and hit a phishing-hole site and get their phone owned. But don't worry, they weren't allowed to install Netflix!

The problem here is open-source intelligence because TikTok is very popular among young members who spend all their free time in their bunk on their phone. Limiting the apps might help with that, but I'm highly skeptical. There's already plenty of restrictions on social media use for armed-forces members. I believe that path is the way to go - create restrictions on posting personal information.

Having some paper pusher unit pre-approving millions of potential apps sounds like a giant waste of time. It makes a lot more sense to react to bad stuff (like one-off reactions for a massively popular video sharing app with sketchy Chinese ownership) than pre-emptively ban everything, simply because it won't do much for security beyond what Apple and Google are already doing in the app store.
This is a work phone and people should have an extra cell phone for personal uses, and when they're at a government job with sensitive information they should be using their work phone. People who don't work with sensitive information or interesting responsibilities can use whatever phone they want if they don't mind totally forfeiting their privacy.

But eBay? Amazon? Walmart? Popular apps and games? Sure, get those whitelisted. Or are we thinking about maximizing the value proposition of a work phone at a government job?
Show HN: How can narratology and NLP benefit from topological data analysis?
Boeing does get to reuse theirs. SpaceX is ultimately planning to reuse them as well, but is planning a new capsule each flight for the initial contract while negotiating recertification requirements with NASA. (That's what they did for cargo dragon as well -- they're reusing those now, but it took a while.)
I guess that it is phrased that way in order to signal other non-government organizations that they should have a look and probably ban it as well.
So because it adds a layer of security rather than 100% watertight perfection, it is bad?
I am a soon to be computational narratology PhD student. I decided to take it upon myself to try to increase public awareness of narratology (Its a cool field, more people should know about it!)

As such, I decided to start a blog series about formally analyzing plot holes and showing how these plot holes become apparent in the topological features of an embedded narrative. This directly correlates with my PhD thesis (creating a DNN to automatically detect plot holes in narratives, and suggest ways to fix them) so I thought I'd be a prime candidate for writing a blog about it!

Rebuttals are more than welcome btw! I will happily write a follow up piece :)
Still not close to the same. I pollute a river and generations struggle. I distract you while you’re browsing online and the real impact rounds to zero.

Eventually you’ll die and no one will care about that time you got annoyed. But no one is ever going to swim in the Gowanus... at least not without billions of dollars being spent...
Good point, we'll get the Navy right on that.
You are right. I was ill-informed. This is for green cards.

My intent is opposite of nativist propaganda. I think the regulations are silly and companies are minimally complying with them.
Ask HN: Good course for tech stack evaluation?
I would like to take an online course to help me learn to evaluate a tech stack given a specific use case. I would like a broad overview of the main technologies that could be used for a modern general startup and know their strengths and weakness so that I can ask intelligent questions when evaluating the ability to complete a business plan. Any ideas for a course that would give me a good overview?
In a similar vein, "lumen" is a small lisp/scheme dialect that experiments in a similar direction. It replaces lisp's lists with lua/javascript's "arrays and dictionaries at the same time" objects. (Self-hosted, compiles to both javascript and lua.)

https://github.com/sctb/lumen
This is a somewhat misleading argument. The US did away with the draft so that most people have not had to make this choice. The troops that did go to the Middle East wars have suffered many casualties (6-7K dead, many more wounded, many US contractors dead/wounded, PTSD/suicides/mental health issues afterwards, etc.). [1] All those affected were volunteers.

It's also clear that there are times when virtually everyone in the US has agreed on the necessity of war, the 9/11 attacks being the latest case in point. Conversely, many wars that in retrospect might seem to have been widely supported were in fact quite controversial. The Civil War is a case in point. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualt...
[2] https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/draft-riot...
Effect of Teaching Bayesian Methods to Medical Students
Seems to be a thing that happens at big companies in general. I add —-no-ssl-verify to everything and it saves my ass every single year.
I guess I don't understand people using black market oil based anything since you obviously never know where it came from or it's the same stuff that the CDC says is destroying people's lungs. Just seems like survival of the fittest (in this case brain power) after you hear about all the people dropping like flies.
Doesn't work... it doesn't work
It only seems to check the frequency. The shape doesn't seem to matter, and i the shape would be correct, it classifies as incorrect
You seem to be suggesting that we can't account for the large amount of uncertainty inherent in complex systems. That the only thing that exists is "our best guess today". I think that's crazy. We absolutely can account for uncertainty. That's what "first, do no harm" is supposed to be about...
Source needed. I wasn't able to find anything on this by googling.
This seems like a solution looking for a problem but cool to see. A far more practical suggestion would be to just use typescript and incrementally rewrite.
Hallelujah. This is a passage about St. Petersburg, sometimes referred to (among other cities) as "The Venice of the North":

Starting with the construction of the Peter and Paul Fortress, Peter dragooned thousands of conscripts, convicts and prisoners of war to erect the city from scratch in a place where snow can fall as early as September and as late as May. Tree trunks had to be sunk into the swampy ground before it could support structures.

Living in ramshackle quarters and working with inadequate tools – often digging by hand and carrying the dirt in the front of their shirts – these involuntary labourers died in their thousands, carried off by disease or frequent flooding. As a result, St Petersburg became known as the “city built on bones”.
No-Code Platforms – The Next Big Thing in AI Strategy
10 years of the Dreamliner: Why pilots love the 787
I use hearing aids and always have trouble discerning tones, this is my only gripe with learning chinese and it is hindering me.

I have learned english and have got rid of my thick accent by imitating how other people speak, I should be able to do that with mandarin. I can just learn the pronunciation of the characters and adapt my accent as I speak. Why is there such a stress on memorising the tone for every character?

E.g. most people will remember which syllable to stress in a word after vocalising the word, but when learning mandaring people add the tone to their flashcards and are expected to have a more direct conneciton.
Without seeing your article and without at least providing some of the supporting reasons why the article arrives at this conclusion - your argument makes no headway into disproving I, Pencil.

The pencil today, as are many other products, is produced by the free market and many many entities along the way. Focusing on whether companies vertically integrate miss the bigger point that it is free markets and Capitalism which provide us with the world we have behind us in the Western world.
Dijkstra is easy to spell because it contains the three most popular FORTRAN integer loop indexes.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1147312/who-invented-i-j...

Speaking of control flow, Dijkstra worked closely with Bram Jan Loopstra:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Jan_Loopstra
No my internship was more of a learn or die type of thing. But the dev in charge of me, although he sucked at teaching me, was very tolerant of my mistakes, even grave ones. He gave me important tasks, and would shield me from the heat from management when I messed up. So I learned from copying his talented but cryptic work using trials and errors.

I kept at it because, although he kept being very rude (he was so with everybody), he made sure I was part of the team from day one. When we had lunch and I had no money, he always paid for me so I could eat with everybody at the restaurant. When we had extra pay for being on call during nights and week end, he included me in the rotation, despite perfectly knowing I would just wake him up to solve the problem as soon as the phone rang.

We are still friends to this day, and I came back working with him several times after my internship.

He is still an annoying SOB though.
Quick google search didn’t reveal anything, source?
>kudos to whoever realized that you could get the information faster over audio when the information was released at the same time across both channels.

According to the article, the audio feed was a backup, and a third party supplier misused it. It definitely wasn't someone "realizing" that there was a public audio feed with a lower delay.

>the Bank confirmed that a third party supplier “misused” an audio feed of certain of the Bank press conferences since earlier this year. The audio was installed to serve as a back-up in case the video failed.
Americans trust Google more than Apple to keep their data safe
> the bureaucratic overhead would be either really cumbersome or the value of <insert service> so small...

Oh, I see you are already familiar with how the U.S. government operates.
Everyone likes free stuff, and there's nothing wrong with this kind of list per se, but I do think there's a trap here lurking for some people. That is, it's easy to find a free resource appealing. You can grab dozens of free texts of material you'd like to understand!

_But_ because old texts are pretty cheaply available (because publishers love making new editions with trivial changes like tweaked exercises, and because math doesn't really go stale), almost always the cost of acquiring a non-free book can is waaay less than the time you'd spend to read it, do problems, and really understand the material. Caring too much about "free" is letting the tail wag the dog.
The DevOps Handbook and The Phoenix Project
Explain to me how it's useful for security? Because I can guarantee you it will be a giant time-and-money waster with plenty of arbitrary rules that do nothing for security.

There's millions of apps and tons come out every year. This nation-wide 'unit' will have to be constantly 'measuring them for security'. This isn't going to accomplish much of anything.

Either have a secure phone with pre-installed apps (ie, just a browser plus encrypted phone/messenger, military mapping tools, etc) and let them install nothing (which means they'll just use their private phone any way for the OPSEC fail stuff). Or let them do whatever and selectively ban the ones like TikTok which are massive surveillance potential just based on its popularity alone. These one-off or watching for bad-stuff and react approach makes far more sense to me.
>All these claims are publicly testable using web archives

I'm confused about how you think this would work.

1. Yelp doesn't report on its approval speed.

2. To get an accurate report on this, you would have to have several accounts posting positive and negative reviews on the same pages. Yelp doesn't allow this and would ban the accounts.

3. Yelp explicitly disallows scraping their site (i.e. having a bot archive the pages). Doing so would be thwarted by their anti-bot measures. It's also against their TOS.[0]

Do you have web archives that can be used to build these stats?

[0]: https://www.yelp-support.com/article/Can-I-copy-or-scrape-da...
And if said missiles is greater in cost (manufacture/maintenance/launch) than the satellites (manufacture/maintenance/launch)?

I'm thinking there are much more cost effective[0] ways to go about such possible ends any given space-faring nation may be seeking…

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_missile#Limits_...
Roblox Hack Week 2019 – Luaujit
Right, but what’s the competitive edge? Why would you want a company famous for having a black hole for a ticket system running a service you depend on? Honest question, not trying to knock apple, it just seems like a strange move, I don’t see them substantially improving on the problems with existing carriers from a customer perspective.
Do you have examples? I feel like things have gotten 10x more expensive and they're built with half the quality. In San Francisco we have a leaning skyscraper, the Bay Bridge which some people are still unsure is safe despite being several years late and costing 5x as much as predicted, and the Transit Center which was however many months/years late and is continuously shut down for safety reasons.

I realize San Francisco is a microcosm, but in my experience the focus has been on extracting money via corruption and building the bare minimum you can without getting sued.

You could argue the money is going towards greater safety for workers, but I see no plausible argument that it's resulting in higher quality work.
Although I don’t fully agree with that implication, the statistics in the article seem to support it: a very small number of people actually took such dramatic preventative steps over a 22 year period.
They clearly overreacted, probably because of bad medical advice. Science is self correcting is not an excuse to give overconfident bad advice.

The first info was that she had up to an 84% risk of getting breast cancer by age 70. How big where the error bars? Perhaps it was 84% ± 83% but it was presented as it was 84% ± 1%.

Why did they rush to get operated?

Why did the sister not wait 2 or 3 years to have another children? It's not a minor thing. She could freeze eggs just in case.

Why did she not wait 2 or 3 years so the toddler was older? Raising small children is very difficult if you can't pick them up.

Why not something less invasive like regular mamographies?

In these cases it is very important to get a second and third opinion before a major irreversible surgery.
UA parsing is considered bad design and trusting UA's is unwise. What exactly necessitates UA parsing to detect ipadOS, instead of other guaranteed detection mechanisms, like CSS feature queries and checking if methods are available in JS and others? Also keep in mind that even if you trust the UA string it is not representative for all users. Most (if not all) browsers allow users to toggle features, change flags and more. That includes Safari on all OS's.
Important read, IMHO. Reminds me of several related topics, including topic mapping, and literature-based discovery.
I'd bet the surgery was not recommended for some of them. BRCA isn't a death sentence just because you've tested positive (assuming you haven't presented with any symptoms). If you're in your 20s or 30s the "experts" usually tell you to stay proactive on monitoring/medical appointments (self breast exams, ultrasounds of ovaries/uterus, etc) until you're done having children. Once you're done with having children you should consider a double mastectomy and possible hysterectomy.

But we live in the age of Google. Our ability to search the Internet tends to result in patients making horrific decisions. My wife is a breast cancer surgeon and has a late 20s BRCA patient that presented with a significant breast mass six months ago. She refused any of the advised treatments because she was breast feeding at the time and stated to my wife, with a straight face, she would simply cut out sugar because she read that helps. Obviously my wife told her otherwise. Same lady came back in recently to finally seek treatment and she has a 30cm mass now. She's not even a candidate for surgery anymore because you wouldn't be able to close the wound post-op. But hey, imagine what it would have been like if she had kept eating sugar, right? Silly "experts".
My experience mirrors yours. A Ph.D is an arrangement where your advisor can keep asking for more work, beyond all reason. Unlike a (say) blacksmith apprenticeship, one cannot just leave with "six years of apprenticeship in X"... one instead must quit one's Ph.D.
As someone now working in a different industry, let me just say that there are very few professional tools of any kind which cost less than $100. I don’t see how a $90 tool, if it provides any value at all, can be considered overpriced. There are hammers that cost several times more than that.

Less than $7.50 per month and I think it would be hard to quantify the benefit.
There’s a much more practical problem with landlines going away - VoIP needs external power to work. With PG&E power outages, cell and VoIP service was largely gone. Having a copper line is a safety concern in such situations.
Deepcell[1] is a framework I worked on for a bit during my undergrad. It can do cell segmentation & tracking for different imaging types.

[1]: https://github.com/vanvalenlab/deepcell-tf/blob/master/READM...
use several of your libs in production code for this reason - simple, type safe stuff. perfect example of scala's flexibility. you can write simple/clean stuff in Scala it just takes discipline.

scala is a lot like perl, a powerful tool in the right hands, but gives you more rope to hang yourself if you dont know what youre doing
While I love Rust, I don't think this here is a good use case for it - TypeScript nowadays works really well with JSX and can be introduced incrementally.

Rust's guarantees work best in a highly concurrent setting - a web app isn't really one.

Rust shines not on the application level, but on the framework/library level, where things like memory usage and performance are critical.

A framework with virtual DOM written entirely in Rust would go a long way. Same with a template compiler.