skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to say that there was nothing thought provoking or educational, just that YouTube wasn't showing it. It shows high view count, mindless, addictive videos. Even if you start with a good one.

The funny thing is, I had to choose my child's age range (or enter the birth year or something) when setting up the app. Then, when I went to whitelist channel by channel, it had a bunch of recommended channels full of good/decent content. That should have been the default whitelist out of the box.

It isn't just about "being a parent". My daughter is very smart for her age. My wife used to be a teacher, but since we had kids, she stays at home with them. She has taught my kids a lot. She has learned a good amount from content on YouTube, Netflix, and Disney. I think it's good that she can use an iPad better than my parents (even though she can't read). She also can solve puzzle games on her own. Of course we guide her and limit her usage. My point is that an app marketed to kids should not be full of garbage content.
Four minute summary of Yudkowsky's Inadequate Equilibria
Elon Musk busts out dazzlingly awkward dance moves at Tesla event
I don't see these articles contradicting on what he said.
The new IPFS Docs beta is live 🆕
The T495s should be the solution for this but annoyingly they don't offer the 1440p screen like they do on the T490s (that can even go to 32GB of RAM).

But the an AMD X1 would be awesome indeed. The better chassis and 4K screen would make it the ideal machine for me. I'd love it if they did that in the Gen 8 but I'm not holding my breath...
There's a phrase that macho men should start telling each other ASAP:

"Cry like a man!"

(This would mean to cry openly, deeply, and bravely, since a great many sorrows require good grieving and crying is a healthy outlet for grief. Crying is much less damaging to others and to oneself than other regrettably-common male outlets for grief, such as getting drunk and/or domestic violence.)

I hope one day crying by men becomes more acceptable to society. Life is often painful. Grieving is often necessary.
Even with a full password for confirmation, or without a CC, you can still see them click the link. The behavior is the same, and the reason that takes you to a purchase page is because someone is doing it.
Facebook will try to ban Deepfake videos
In other industries, perhaps, but it's standard in tech work to move jobs frequently. Every time I hire a new dev I slog through 200 - 300 resumes, the overwhelming majority of which have never held a job longer than 18 months.
Right, but that is ambiguous and potentially deceptive.

Note the first sentence you quoted, where they are trying to combine the deaths with the arrests, but don't actually do it.

On the Reddit thread Australians are talking about how this includes kids that were setting off unauthorized fireworks and people who were welding outside in fire control areas.
Comparing IPFS and Dat
Game-theoretically, you want a source of random numbers when you need to make a decision your adversary can't predict. Traditionally some cultures have (accidentally?) used bird augury for this, but obviously that won't do when you're up against Unlimited Computing Power, as birds are basically deterministic.
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For anyone who upvoted this and works for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Google:

How do you justify your role in this? As Sacha Baron Cohen said in his ADL speech, Facebook takes money from what most people consider to be repugnant sources (e.g. white supremacists). Part of that goes into your paycheck.

The unfortunate reality is that most evil is done by organizations composed of well-intentioned people who don't see themselves as doing any harm (or having control over the harm).
I have been wondering why we don't use the term "synthetic intelligence": https://enki.org/2019/08/18/artificial-intelligence-is-a-dum...
Why would a non-human intelligence necessarily have a drive to “shape their environment?” Maybe a non-human intelligence would discover the inevitable end of the habitable universe and opt to just do nothing?
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That statement is about the 180 people. But read it again and you'll see that 24 were arrested for starting brush fires specifically.

Here's another article from the Sydney Morning Herald.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/teenager-among-180-people-fa...
It got easier for me once I learned that "shambles" is a noun that is a synonym of "slaughterhouse". Once I learned that, I emphasized shambles slightly differently as I rolled the phrase off my tongue.

"SHA-1 is a slaughterhouse"

"SHA-1 is a shambles"
Stop with the strawman. A dryer, hotter climate will cause fires to get larger and do more damage. No one says that a hotter climate will cause the initial burn spontaneously.
And a policy like this is a valid form of unlimited PTO but I think you'll be hard-pressed to find many companies offering this particular flavor of it.
> Hotter and drier conditions also set the stage for human-ignited fires. "In the Western U.S., people are accidentally igniting fires all the time," Randerson said. "But when we have a period of extreme weather, high temperatures, low humidity, then it’s more likely that typical outdoor activity might lead to an accidental fire that quickly gets out of control and becomes a large wildfire."
> New South Wales police said that since the beginning of November, 24 people have been charged over allegedly deliberately lighting fires as officers continue to investigate the role that arson has played in the devastation.

> Police in the state have also taken legal action against a further 159 people. Among them are 53 people who allegedly failed to comply with a total fire ban and 47 people who allegedly discarded a lit cigarette or match on land.

So is the premise these people deliberately attempted to set wildfires ablaze or are they charging them with arson for ignoring a total fire ban?
Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
What makes that last line so powerful coming from Brooks’ pen is that he wrote it as he was having an affair with his research assistant, for whom he later divorced his wife of 28 years. That must’ve been so morally joyful!
If you are in position where you can take care of yourself, as well as others, then it doesn’t seem like spending money on those vices yourself is what’s ruining your life that much and keeping you down.

To truly help the person struggling to crawl out of that hole, you shouldn’t be enabling the behaviors that keep them there and (possibly) have put them there in the first place.

Take them out for lunch, buy them some food, have a conversation, help them figure out the resources available to them, etc. But straight up cash is not something i would be advocating for, unless it goes to a reputable charity/fund/etc (do your research on that one first, because there are quite a few “charities” that spend majority of the funds on administrative expenses and such, with only a small percentage going towards the actual cause) that can allocate that cash in a good way. Ffs, volunteer at a homeless shelter or a food bank.
The nice thing here is that they appear to be using automotive grade components (it says -40 to 85°C operating range). I've previously designed electronics for extreme temperatures (up to 150C in our case) and building hardware that works at those temperatures is very tricky. It's nice that you can buy something off the shelf like this, my life about 10 years ago would have been so much easier had this existed.
I might be wrong but I believe the problem with using these languages in industrial applications has to do with the back end running them as these os's are subject to system calls or interrupts that mess with critical timing situations.

I believe this is the reason 3D printers and other CNC machines still use a seperate dedicated controller such as original arduino rather than just using the GPIO on a newer arm board running a full stack.
Yeah, the sharing button thing is something I miss from the ordinary Firefox too. I usually share links with my friends through Whatsapp and its icon is hidden far to the right.
The EV (Extended Validation) certificate notification inn the address bar was removed in Firefox and Chrome:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/chrome-and-fi...
Many-worlds is still very much not the orthodox interpretation.
> currently owners pocket all of the value increase

Except for the property taxes and local sales taxes which pay for all these things supposedly contributing "unearned" value to the land... and which over time add up to more than the increase in land value.

> despite the vast majority of it being nothing to do with them

> to an organisation that represents that community as a whole

[citation needed x 2]

LVT eliminates the financial incentive to take personal or collective private action to improve the community as a whole. Rather than increasing the value of your property (and your neighbours') your only reward is to be saddled with additional taxes above and beyond the cost of the improvements. The LVT model essentially assumes that the only source of community-level improvements worthy of remuneration is the government. Which is obviously nonsense. If I contribute to the community at my own expense, the benefits accrue not to me but to the government—which may represent "us" in a vague, manipulative sense but certainly doesn't represent me—to be spent more often than not on things I explicitly do not want and which are contrary to my own interests. Governments love to act as though they enjoy an agent/principal relationship with their constituents but neglect the fact that an agent has a individual duty to each principal, not just the majority position. It's an inherent conflict of interest to serve multiple principals with conflicting goals.

Of course, property taxes have a similar issue, but at least they don't have an explicit goal of negating all profit to the property owner; you don't get the full benefit of contributed improvements but you do get the majority of it.
But the article says:

> Given this base date, the 100 nanosecond granularity implemented within OpenVMS and the 63-bit absolute time representation (the sign bit must be clear), ...

It's unfortunate that an article about time isn't itself dated or timestamped!

I found a google groups pseudo-newsgroup comp.os.vms discussion dated 2017 which shows that OpenVMS 8.3 still had 32-bit time_t: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/QCms9ZzR...

Pretty sure the posted article is wrong about 63-bit because at the intro it clearly says, "All Versions" yet here we see that as of 8.3 it was still 32-bit. OTOH, in that newsgroup article they show OpenVMS producing a time of year 2106, which is beyond the 32-bit range of the unix epoch. So I'm pretty confused.
I guess something that explains this is seeing this post at HN and close to it this one "How to be successful (at your career, Twitter edition)"
i'm at the same spot. I've found the team lead role in the consulting industry to be enjoyable. I mentor junior devs (whole career mentoring in addition to technical mentoring) and try to setup Sr. devs to do their best work. I still get to write code and scratch that itch too.

Consulting is nice because projects/customers come and go so every few months you're on to something different. Of course, consulting has down sides too but i seem to have a knack for it.
MySQL Is the DBMS of the Year 2019
Compensation is only one axis here. There's many of other things unions can do to improve the life of video game workers independent of seeking higher wages. Eg. compensation time, influence over production schedules, transparency, credits...
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I think the unspoken question is whether it is more prudent for a person of this age to pursue an individual contributor role or a role in the management track. Take this for what it's worth, but anecdotally I've heard a lot of programmers find that once they hit this age, opportunities as an individual contributor are more limited. So if the goal is to get a stable job at a large tech company, then the question is which track to pursue, and I think the decision process should go like this:

Really love coding, really hate management: Apply for IC.
Tolerate/enjoy management: Apply for management.
This is true about much of the US farming system. Government subsidies have completely broken the free market.
Everything that's old is new again.

Soon everyone will be so completely saturated with this type of news/entertainment, that I bet they'll crave things that are actually real.

I think on HN we tend to be ahead of the curve. Almost everyone on here has completely given up or is giving up on a lot of social media and news feeds.
"git branch -d" doesn't remove a branch if that means losing track of some local commits. "-D" doesn't check that. The "git branch" commands only operate on your local repo, they don't push any changes to remote repos and they don't pull commits from anywhere.
While a meaningful accomplishment, suggesting the algorithm is in a "shambles" seems hyperbolic to me. For one thing there's a non-trivial practical leap between formulating two colliding identities and forging an existing one, and for another this was only modestly better than a pure brute force attack. If anything I'm somewhat reassured by the idea that it still costs $40,000+ of GPU time to pull something like this off while doing the same with MD5 is feasible on a mobile phone.
Golang has simplicity going for it. It's an incredibly easy language to read and to keep in your head. Channels are nice too
Sure there are options, and technically savvy viewers can use them. On the other hand, how widely used and recognized is RSS after Google managed to embrace it, kill the competition and kill the then-dominant RSS reading platform?

"Have your viewers use RSS for notifications" is going to work as well as telling them to have all their viewers use Opera or IE.
I extracted my competitor's ad history and found my new tagline
They have Compute Modules for bulk use which are basically glorified Zeros anyway.
> in your 40s your big picture management skill would be more valuable than technical skill.

I don't like this assumption: Some of the older engineers & architects I know are incredibly more adept at developing than management, and speaking with a lot of them, most are pushed into management roles instead of desiring them.
well, if he's right then people might just reject the union. if his experience is biased and/or anecdotal, we'll find out the truth. either way, no point in trying to undermine or discredit grassroots unionization efforts.
"Deliberately lit blazes" definitely sounds intentional, but the rest of the details is so scant on details other than accidents that I have to presume stupidity over malice.
The big tech companies work together to suppress worker's wages. [1] Why is it so ridiculous for workers to work together to increase them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
That's what it sounds like sometimes. "Fires caused by climate change".
May be good intentions due too a little knowledge playout out bad.

For example, somebody knows about firebreaks, seen on TV how easy it looks, do a controlled burn of an area to create that firebreak and they thought - I can do that.

So without going thru court/statements of each case, hard to say for sure and certainly won't be the same brush for all, however the headline spins it. After all, some charges cover a multitude of sins and non-sins and have a stigma associated with them dependant upon the current social trends. So arson charges in the current climate(sic) of Australia would be less socialy popular than somebody charged with murder - least in some parts, that you can bet. Emotions are very high and always will be in any disaster of this scale.

But whatever their level of guilt (or not), that is 24 people who are going to feel pariah.
You haven't heard all of the news coverage which constantly cite the global climate crisis as a direct contributing factor? It's right in the linked article above:

Quote: There has been much debate about the links between climate change and the fires. Australian National University climate scientist Imran Ahmed told the BBC there was a direct link "because what climate change does is exacerbate the conditions in which the bushfires happen."
This is grey, but shouldn’t be. I assume people are downing it because it doesn’t give examples of the optimization opportunities it claims. So here are two that I think are likely most significant.

1. Rust’s aliasing semantics are more powerful than C’s unless you use the ‘restrict’ keyword everywhere, which most people don’t. It’s well recognized that FORTRAN continues to generally outperform C in many numeric applications because FORTRAN compilers are free to perform optimizations that C compilers cannot or don’t, due to the fact that multi-aliasing memory is undefined behavior in FORTRAN. The rust compiler currently doesn’t pass the relevant hints to the generated LLVM IR due to a long history of LLVM having bugs in ‘noalias’ handling, in large part due to the fact that those code paths are so rarely executed while compiling C code, itself due to the relatively low usage of the ‘restrict’ keyword.

2. Implicit arena allocations. The Rust compiler has access to information about possible aliasing and overlapping lifetimes that it can use to replace multiple allocations with similar lifetimes with offsets into a single allocation that is then all freed together. This is a complicated topic, but work is ongoing to make this a reality.
Personally, when a lay person asks what I do, I like telling people I work on "Artificial Intelligence software" because it's the most accurate term that doesn't (a) get an immediate request to implement their app idea for them and (b) require explaining what machine learning / deep learning is.

But beyond that I hate the term within the industry because I think artificial intelligence gets equated with a Jarvis-like general AI that will talk to you like a superhuman servant. I get the desire to better define the current state of the art. But for most people, I agree it's going to seem like pedantry.
This one is using desktop CPUs (nothing against them) and unfortunately not the newest Ryzen versions.
I think this is also part of the disinformation campaign. AU's current administration has a lot bet on proving some other root cause and the not caused by ruling coal lobby.
People have already done this and it is quite fast! https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/ek0614/current_node_im...

Flowee the Hub (Bitcoin Cash full node implementation) can sync the equivalent of 4GB blocks using just a cheap quad-core VPS.
If only American newspapers could get over their bothsideism, then they could report exclusively on the One True Side. Although that might be dangerous since journalists aren't experts in everything and so aren't qualified to choose sides (even if one side seems stupid to experts.)
Seems like Firefox should fall back to the OS language of a preferred language had not been set in the browser. I wonder how that happened.
I won’t comment on anything but the ageism. Most of the developers I work with are in there late 20s and early 30s. We’ve hired people in their 40s, 50s and 60s to join our team.

According to those I’ve spoken with there really isn’t a challenge to find work - regardless of age. The caveat being everyone I spoke with was current on the latest languages, research, etc.

If you stay current with the times you can find a job in most white collar fields without a problem. Basically your resume should reflect your time to obtain experience.

Final note - people typically hire others similar to them. As engineers age they are more likely willing to hire older engineers. I basically view this as a solution today because we have such a plethora of engineers being hired.
A little out of topic question, but I'm curious is it possible to program Raspberry Pi on low level without OS, just like Arduino and if not, why?
Having to think (as in spend any mental effort) about money at all, in the context of regular daily purchases?

I mean it's not anywhere near the level of worrying about where the next meal is coming from, but it is a reminder of one of the many stressors that the poor are constantly dealing with.

Budgeting is always stressful. Having to exert that effort every day on every purchase, instead of weekly/monthly (and only on larger purchases) is a lot of mental energy that could be spent in more productive ways.

That becomes easy to forget sometimes.

Edit: I didn't think this would be controversial... I'm honestly asking, why?
People light loose fires everywhere all the time. Overwhelmingly by negligence, sometimes on purpose, and then yes either from strategy or pathology.
Though you'd think the former group might want to pick a better time, unless truly sociopathic. Easier to blend in right now, otoh.
To be fair all attempts at optimization on a grand scale like that give a new meaning to calling "premature optimization the root of all evil" as it starts including things like Eugenics and Inquisitions. It inevitably ends in failure, tears, and travesties. Or more pedestrian Soviet style lack of market failures.

Local is "sexy" but it has had worse efficency instead of better like promised and is often premised upon overassumptions of the cost of transit and a denial of inconvenient fact of economies of scale because it doesn't fit their world view.

It appears that part of the reason it is popular is because people think they understand it and think the logistics would be easier. I would put it in the simple, easy, and wrong camp of ideas.
I've been having a lot of fun writing an API for a ublox GPS chip with Elixir. Glad to see continued development of this wonderful language.
Not just the headline, the entire article.

My reaction to the first sentence would be that there are vindictive arsonists out there who tried to set the bush on fire:

Police in Australia have arrested and charged two dozen people they say deliberately lit blazes during the wildfire season that has so far killed at least 18 people, destroyed thousands of homes and ravaged over 10 million acres of land

However if you read it slowly, it simply states that there were people who started fires (of unknown purpose) during a time (wildfire season) when lighting fires for any reason is banned.

The only mention of it being unknown why these started was this, buried about halfway down:

"people flouting total fire bans"

Shoddy journalism at best, clickbait fanning of flames (pun intended) at worst.
Climate contributing to the ease of ignition and overall severity of the fires and climate making people into arsonists are two wildly different claims.
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The name is overhyped and pretentious by itself, and history bears this out. Who cares if it's an AI fall or winter if it's an AI stupid, because of all the credulous students.

Edit: Russel and Norvig's book is good though http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
Yep, I'm afraid of that. I have no idea how they are mitigating this, and I doubt they'll ever disclose.
Cool project! Might have to try this when I get ready to tune my dual Weber DCOEs in a few months!
And yet here you are, self-posting to HN hoping to get to the frontpage.
As soon as I scrolled to the "Easing for box shadows" section where the examples were visible, my browser became laggy and dropped from 60Hz framerate to about 15Hz. Use these with caution, and test on a range of devices your visitors are using.
I think what that investor did is quite appalling. In turn going public with the incident resulted in more funding, which leaves me a bit conflicted. If your product or service is good enough to garner interest by a firm she could have said no to noodz vc and pitched somewhere else. If anything, I feel for not only the founder but the colleagues at the firm. Terrible stuff.