skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it seems it is getting harder and harder to disrupt the Big Four

Microsoft, IBM, Oracle... What is the other one?

Or, right, wrong decade.

(My point is, it completely not obvious if it is getting harder to disrupt the incumbents.)
It really doesn't make a lot of sense to do AI at the edge (in terms of the various edge providers).

But then a lot of edge cases don't make a lot of sense. The best edge use cases are fan-in (aggregation and data reduction), fan-out (replication and amplification - broadcasting, conferencing, video streaming, etc.) and caching (which is just a variant of fan-out).

The rest of the cases are IMHO largely fictional - magical latency improvements talked about in the same context as applications that are grossly un-optimized in every way imaginable, AR/VR, etc. Especially the AR/VR thing.

Beyond that the only thing left is cost arbitrage - selling bandwidth (mostly) cheaper than AWS.

What's the use case for moving inference to the edge? Most of the inference will in fact be at the edge - in the device, which has plenty of capacity - but that's not the case you're describing.
We don't need no remote control
I would think that with the newer GCs (like Shenandoah) for Java, the GC pause thing might become a non-issue soon enough. Not sure that works for Clojure though.
I probably have a too much romantic memory of them :)

Anyway, it was easy to come back to a specific topic, so it was easier to find good ones.
You could bookmark them, see the number of views/replies or even find them in search engines.

Good content surfaced and survived better, so optimization is probably the wrong word.
Well for starters a lot of HN users actually use the products Apple launches.
Someone loves the word "Great" in their marketing department.
https://www.britannica.com/science/calendar/Time-determinati...

Looks like 28 years is how often the calendar repeats, using their count of leap years. The other two seem to be tax and census related?

What an odd way to run a calendar. Every 7,980 years the tax man and the census man will both arrive on the same Monday? Gosh I hope I still remember the next time that happens. No actually I don't. Being alive for 8000 years sounds like torture.
Hmm. Ok, but let’s not sell it as an egalitarian organization where we all have similar benefits from the get go.
We don't need no bright control
... And your kids at those 10/10 greatschools schools will be stressed like hell and end up with crazy self worth issues.
There is an easy solution but you are not going to like it... require real names. And verify them. And keep track of their reputations.

Edit: Proposed this as a solution for disinformation agents. Guess I picked the wrong sub-thread to place that. Sorry for the confusion.
I just need 1 domain to use in code namespaces and it doesn't really matter what it is.
I think the comparison screenshots are hilariously dumb given that most people are going to be viewing them on a normal lcd screen. How did they magically make my screen display previously impossible colors!
And some currencies are best held for the shortest time possible.
Or at least a nobel peace prize
The difference is that "opened fire" is a weasel word in this instance- it is misleading as it linguistically leaves open the interpretation that multiple people were injured or killed
The Efail attack was almost, if not entirely, a client issue where those clients were leaking information from html emails. There were no real weaknesses in the OpenPGP standard or the GnuPG implementation of that standard.

>... the GnuPG team's belief that they can't make breaking changes without synchronizing with the IETF OpenPGP working group ...

That does not actually sound like a bad thing to me.

The linked rant against OpenPGP/GnuPG takes the form of a semi-random list of minor issues/annoyances associated with the OpenPGP standard and the GnuPG implementation mixed together in no particular order. It ends with the completely absurd solution of just abandoning email all together. So you have to explain which parts of it support your contention.

The OpenPGP standard is in reality one of the better written and implemented standards in computing (which isn't saying much). There may in the future be something better but it is downright irresponsible to slag it without coming up with any sort of alternative. It is here and it works.
The splash of dust transitions used in the product video seem pathological to YouTube's MPEG compression. The compression renders the transitions a blurry mess—it's so messy as to be jarring. That's disappointing in a video that is attempting to sell the viewer on the clarity of a new display technology.
wow it has been ages since I last saw MDI based apps.
Hacker News (this page) actually does something very similar, but getElementById is more widely supported...

function $(id) {
return document.getElementById(id);
}
I ran into this problem the other week. I was trying to buy 5 pi zeros for a few projects I have in mind and a couple of backups to have lying around. Couldn't do it. Very frustrating.
In the next generation's version of "Woody Woodpecker" Coyote will use these instead of fake tunnels painted on the walls.
And time and time again, those "Modern" single page applications are utilizing javascript to provide a LOWER quality of product than the previous version. Atlassian spent the last year or so SPAing all of their apps, and every single update is less usable, slower, less discoverable, and uglier than the previous. I would literally be more productive by simply using a 5 year old version of their sites, and changing nothing else.
If I don't have a dating life, no SO, no BF/GF, my life still goes on. I can still eat a nice pizza, go to the movies, etc. I can do this for several weeks or months.

If I don't have a job I don't get pizza, or movies, and could possibly get evicted. Sure, there are emergency funds to weather downturns, and FIRE is an option for some, but most people MUST have some sort of job in order to, like, eat.
No dark LED in the clean room
This is cool. Add it to the ever growing list of impractical and expensive things that I want to own in spite of it. Historically speaking this sort of reminds me of the wall of sound:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound
Totally different and way more put together but the scale evokes a similar sensation.
Trivial sci-fi comment here - would love to see the 10,000 year endgame of this reseaech: near death, all your memories are encoded into a new genome, which becomes cloned into a new person that is you and also retains all of your life experiences. You die, and a new one of you regenerates, then picks up where you left off.
The only union I know much about is IBEW. My dad's family is huge, and everyone in it is an electrician basically.

The way it seems to work is that a contractor wants N number of electricians for a contract, so the first N electricians in the queue are laid off get dequeued and sent to work.

This is a really interesting system, and I think if there were subgroups of software engineers it would pretty much work fine. I think at the end of the day, SWEs tend to be picky about where they work, and employers tend to want SWEs with backgrounds that perfectly match their needs.

I dunno, I think if someone could figure out how to make a queueing system work, it could work for a lot of people and businesses.

It seems close to the agency model already. Only problem is, I don't see how you're going to get top engineers to join. Most of them are already making bananas money, and I don't see how highly compensated engineers would fit into this model at all.
Does this upset you?
A warranty is utterly worthless if there's no company to back it up. Would you trust a brand-new company to be around for 10 years if they offered a warranty that long?

For cars, at least, "discounted" repairs are pretty much impossible in the USA: manufacturers aren't allowed to own the service shops here, by law. The service has to be done by independent dealers. Of course, the manufacturer could heavily subsidize this service (by paying most of the cost directly to the dealer), but that's going to take away all their profits.
Is the difference that Apple product launches are (not exclusively) intended for consumers whereas the Wall is aimed almost exclusively at large business's lobbies?
I’d have hoped for HN there’d be an article focusing more on technology, and not just a marketing site. That said, does anyone know how this compares to LG’s OLED tech?
What's "wrong" about this? No one has provided any evidence of manipulation other than speculation. Maybe people are interested in Samsung's display technology?
Novels are literally made-up stories. If they actually happened, they wouldn't be novels, they would be memoirs or history or something.

We do disagree on whether the purpose of novels is to entertain or to deliver what you call TRUTH. Now, to be as generous as possible to your point, some writers can distill a lifetime of wisdom and experience into a work of literature in a way that expresses some meaningful sense or generality about the human condition. How do we tell those people apart from the ones who fall short of that? I don't think you can tell them apart by just reading their work. You'd need to have enough of a base of reference to understand whether the literature you're evaluating actually matches up to human nature. In other words, you have to already have some understanding of the human condition before you can accurately judge whether a work of literature actually contains the TRUTH about the human condition.

It's true that putting yourself in extreme situations will teach you a lot about the human condition. It's also true that you might die learning. It's especially true that most people who have actually been in those situations will almost universally agree that if you weren't there and you didn't experience it yourself, you will never actually know. You can tell because they write about it in their memoirs sometimes.

Between the base-of-reference problem and the nothing-perfectly-matches-up-to-the-real-thing problem, I just think it's bizarrely hyperbolic to write in all-capital-letters that novels are the only path to the TRUTH. That's an absurd and unrealistic expectation. Based on what you said, it would certainly imply that the best way to get even more TRUTH would be to have someone spend their life locked in a room doing nothing but reading fiction, and then whatever fiction they wrote based on that would really be the TRUTH. But that's not really how it works at all; most good novelists actually have some interesting real-life base of reference.
I'm super excited to sink my teeth into this. I usually have to use jq in intense bursts and no matter what i end up back in the manual because it just get's so damn confusing.

From a quick look on the repo, this seems so much simpler. Thanks!!!
Shenzhen’s economy under strain: blame the trade war?
Unfortunately userchrome.css breaks frequently with firefox updates and is a pain to maintain since it is outside of the extension ecosystem.

There used to be a great addon called ClassicThemeRestorer that got killed during firefox's terrible web extension debacle. It lives on in https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx but different parts break everytime the fickle designers at mozilla change their mind on what a tab should look like.
How do you compensate for the CO2 released? Do you contribute to some kind of CO2 removal project? Not being sarcastic or anything I just genuinely don't know how to compensate for CO2.
Investing in a better class of developers is not only more expensive, it's more difficult to find them, whereas javascript developers are a dime a dozen.
The Bureau of Labor statistics provides this information.

Plumber median pay is $54,000, while 10% make more than $94,000.

Psychiatrist median pay is $220,000, while 10% make beyond the wage cap for BLS data. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291066.htm
Insurers and financial institutions had to deal with quite a few of their Y2K problems well ahead of the year 2000. Figuring out rates and percentages on a 30 year loan would have you calculating dates after 2000 as far back as 1970, when Unix was still being created.

I wonder how many of these companies started seeing problems back in 2008?
How are you going to have your shows if we don’t eat your data!
The wording of the proposed rule is purposely worded for broadcasting information to the internet "when available." This applies only to drones with "standard" remote ID capability (as defined by the rules). This is because the standard capability also has a radio broadcast feature that functions without the internet.

Drones with "limited" remote ID capability would not be authorized to take off without internet (because they have no radio broadcast), and if they lose connectivity in flight they are supposed to land.
What's the bar for being hired as a FAANG engineering manager? Prev FAANG management experience? Prev FAANG IC role? Cursory LinkedIn searches show many FAANG engineering managers were promoted from within or came from a similar position at a similar company.

FWIW I've been both an IC before and have steadily moved to CTO at my current startup. I come from a non traditional background (non CS) but had several leadership roles there.
Demanding the Truth
They have scholarships for private k-12 too. I went to one 6-12 and my family was at no point ever more than lower-middle class. I got what amounted to a full ride almost my entire time there. And even as the family made more still didn't pay much.
I don't know how to provide evidence of manipulation as an outside observer. I was pointing out that it does seem strange. But maybe this is the course of HN nowadays.
Foucault would probably disagree for more reasons than that; specificity and certitude in regards to psychiatric illnesses or how they are described wasn't exactly something he jived with
Thanks, I think I'll continue to disable any outgoing communications, tape over the lights, and fly from concealed positions.

Just because a government agency that's bought and paid for by rich private pilots and airlines starts making new laws doesn't mean people are going to follow them. I've got just as much right to airspace as some asshole in a Cessna.
I noticed that some past postings did not include remote options for OneCodex, and I don't see anything on the Careers page. Is this offering only open to those in (or willing to relocate to) San Francisco?
The most important thing I've done for myself recently is to start breaking away from the social streams by doing my own aggregation with Fraidycat. Besides letting me assemble a lot of sources, it dampens the noise because it doesn't let a single feed drown out the rest: that Twitter account that can't stop shitposting every two seconds in between the real insights is thus tamed.

And so there's a distinct "lack of addictive qualities" when I open it, followed by some very rewarding content. It does take a little time to put together but it helps that we have social streams now to sample from, since so many of them ultimately link to a slower-moving source of real content like a personal blog.
How green is your electricity: electricityMap's timelapse of 2019
this right here: "Your conception of what women are looking for in a man might not hew as closely to reality as you think."
I have a vacuum gauge I used to tune the twin SU's on my 72 MGB. It combines art and science. Worked on my 440 sixpack as well.
And a lot of those product launches have Samsung displays in them .
I'm on a Samsung device right now you dullard.
Eventually the program counter will advance to the unsafe inline assembly. At this point there are no guarantees. There is no enforced ABI. The inline assembly can do anything. This is not a compile or link time problem. This is a runtime problem.
sounds like BigTobacco in the 70ies/80ies:

> Mr. Bosworth also waded into the debate over the health effects of social media, rejecting what he called “wildly offensive” comparisons of Facebook to addictive substances like nicotine. He instead compared Facebook to sugar, and said users were responsible for moderating their own intake.

“If I want to eat sugar and die an early death that is a valid position,” Mr. Bosworth wrote. “My grandfather took such a stance towards bacon and I admired him for it. And social media is likely much less fatal than bacon.”

f!ck them!
My two bosses keep asking me how the code I write for myself is so stable (it's Elm), and yet we're always fixing bullshit bugs in our company's codebases (they're JS and TS -- sorry guys, TS isn't good enough).

But when I try to sell them on the stuff I use personally, the response I get is "it will be too expensive if we have to hire someone for that," yet no thought to the cost-effectiveness of needing to calling a dev on a weekend with overtime pay to fix a null reference that snuck into the codebase during the week somewhere. Or months ago. I'd say another developer is more valuable than clinging to classes of bugs that don't need to exist any longer.

We do what we can but can only do so much to make and keep our code stable, we're a small company with a small dev team and one of the two managers like to meddle in the code. We get by well enough, but despite all the evidence directly in front of them, I am simply not allowed to take the leap into something that would be better in the long run. It just doesn't matter to them.

Another one I get is "that language is too weird," but I've taken to just directly telling them that isn't a criticism and that I need a better reason. Of course it just goes right back to the hiring excuse from above. We aren't hiring and have no plans to hire anytime soon. We're small enough to move quickly, there's no giant organization to migrate into new tooling, none of that, I'm just basically being told that I'm planning too far in advance.
By 15-DEC-9998 Earth Corp will long be run by extra-terrestial hedge funds which forced theirs slav^employee on our planet to use their homeplanet's 2710.7-days-per-year timesystem...
I haven't used jsonnet before but is it possible to read via stdin?
for eg to parse a json response from a rest endpoint in jq I would do something like:
$ curl "..." | jq .abc
I think it's interesting that when a pattern of vulnerabilities is discovered that exfiltrates the plaintext of PGP-encrypted emails, a pattern that simply cannot occur with modern secure messaging constructions, the immediate impulse of the PGP community is to say "it's not our fault, it's not OpenPGP's fault, it's not GnuPG's fault". Like, it happened, and it happened to multiple implementations, including the most important implementations, but it's nobody's fault; it was just sort of an act of God. Like I said, interesting. Not reassuring, but interesting.
Great to see Jeff Barr present on Hacker News reminding customers to rotate certs
Shameless plug to my list of interesting `jq` stuff: https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq

It even features a complete rewrite of the actual jq in Go.
(Not a biologist by any stretch, so the following is speculation)

As for reflexes, don't we kow how they work on an anatomical/neural level in a grown adult? From my high school biology lessions, I remember that for certain reflexes, there are nerves that directly connect "sensors" to motor neurons in the spinal cord, bypassing the brain altogether.

If you stick to the "genes as a program" metaphor, "encoding" this reflex in the genome would mean that the genome contains the correct triggers and "subroutines" (i.e. as cascades of gene expression) so that a particular group of cells will form that nerve and connect it to the correct other neurons.
>> Why should they get 40% margins? Form a union, demand more money.

Why should they pay you more? Form the next FB and pay your employees 3x what they currently pay.

Pretty ridiculous response, right?
Can you give a specific example of the danger here? I understand the principle behind the attack (kinda).

I just don't understand what danger being able to pad two documents to make them collide poses?

edit: My guess is that it can be abused to make something that I believe to be library X actually be library Y when I download it from the internet. Lets say I want to download something, and I check the signature provided. Assuming the attacker is able to send me the wrong library via a MITM attack, how can this prefix collision work? It seems that the original library AND the original signature on the library's website have not been altered, so their efforts to use this and make them match are impossible. And it seems like if they can alter the signature on the website and stuff, then all bets are off--why not just send the malicious library at that point?
"We are counted as sleep for the slaughter; for thy sake we are killed all the day long."
And a visit from the Vulcans.
I don't really think it is different.... sure, watch enthusiasts don't cheer for their favorite watch, but that is not how watch enthusiasts enjoy their hobby... cheering is how sports fans experience their hobby.
This site has a bay area bias.
You can disable them for all sites in prefs IIRC.
How much confidence do we have that the literal base pair encoding of DNA encodes the entirety (or even the majority) of the information needed to construct an individual, anyway? As the author mentions, you have things like histone dynamics as well as other potentially relevant variations in the many organelles that make up the cell. Eggs in particular are chock full of proteins that are directly passed down from the parent that could have important implications for gene expression frequency. These effects would either have to be self-propagating in some way via further protein synthesis or their effect would be primarily early-developmental, but they could still have large effects on grown individual.

As evidence for this we know there are all sorts of heritable epigenetic effects. It would also partially explain the partial failure of GWAS to pinpoint all an individual's features as was previously hoped before the human genome project completed.

It seems like there's a process called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer that might make possible to evaluate aspects of this, but it doesn't appear to have been performed sufficiently many times with different individuals to draw major conclusions.
Nushell 0.8.0
I don't entirely disagree with you and I'm not trying to score points by dunking on an unpopular boogieman. There are certainly poorly structured and operated companies, and acquisitions by companies that improve their management and capital structure are good. I just think that - in paricular, with the debt market we have right now, that leveraged buyout firms are on the net bad. I think it's maybe as much or more a consequence of poor yield options and gutted regulations, structured products are like buying sausage in the days of Upton Sinclair. There is too much capital out there, I hate to say. There is a lack of discrimination on the fixed income market that would have put brakes on lousy LBO operators, and there are enough of them because the funding is available. That is magnified by engineered bankruptcies and pension haircutting/offloading, which goes beyond the destructive business outcomes I see lately.
What's the bar for being hired as a FAANG engineering manager? Prev FAANG management experience? Prev FAANG IC role? Cursory LinkedIn searches show many FAANG engineering managers were promoted from within or came from a similar position at a similar company.
FWIW I've been both an IC before and have steadily moved to CTO at my current startup. I come from a non traditional background (non CS) but had several leadership roles there.

Thanks.