skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is wondering who is running Elixir and Phoenix (Elixir's primary web framework) in production I started a podcast recently where I talked to some folks about this.

That's at: https://runninginproduction.com/tags/phoenix

Episodes range from using it in closed source private internal apps in the medical industry to open source apps dealing with billions of events per month on a single server.

Hopefully others will be willing to share more stories in the future. There's a few more episodes going up in the next couple of weeks for Phoenix specifically.
Every television in my house is a Samsung and all of my Android phones are too.
Interesting article, but I think the "information" metaphor sort of misses the point. DNA is not a store of information but rather the result of computation to solve a hard problem (survival/reproduction in a given environment). Think about it this way: it is really hard to crack a SHA256 hash -- but the information contained in the solution is very small. DNA is the same thing. Using information is not really the appropriate metaphor to describe DNA.
Geneticists and biologists have a concept called conservation [1] that sort of gets at this point. If we think of an environment as an encryption algorithm, then certain bits in the hashes ("genomes") that provide suitable solutions tend to be stable over time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserved_sequence
A positive cult is either a contradiction in terms, or a religion, depending on your perspective.

But I get what the quote is saying - to aim to inspire passion in others.
Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
I have a non-gaming software development job

* I work 40 hours per week

* I have over a month of vacation and sick time, not including holidays

* 1 month 100% paid family leave, with 13 weeks at 80% pay and an additional 13 at 50% pay, not including New York City paid family leave.

* Sick leave is rolled into paid time off or disability.

* At-will employment works both ways. If I get a better offer, I can leave.

Vacation, sick, and parental leave policies are not up to European standards yes, but it's a hell of a lot better than most people's 2 weeks of vacation.
Those side-by-side comparisons halfway down remind me of when you used to get ads demonstrating how much better DVDs were than VHS ... on the VHS tape you just rented.
The key engineers who left Ferrari in '61 became the key engineers that lifted Lamborghini into existence. They didn't start a union and stepped away from deaths of Ferrari drivers and verbal abuse to start something new with Lamborghini. Both companies survived and no unions were started.

https://www.gptoday.net/en/news/f1/207607/history-ferrari-an...

Disgruntled employees are the birth of something new, not a call to clamp down.

Who is calling for tech & gaming unionization because of the first 3rd party gaming company? It's not the majority of bad sentiment. It's not even news.
No joke. Good example how to not write marketing copy for a landing page. This is from the linked page:

- Behind the greatness of microLED display technology

- View the greatness

- Great black

- Great color

- Great refinement

- Build the greatness

- Great design

- Great modularity

- Great look

- Handle the greatness

- Great performance

- ... see the greatness of microLED display technology up close

Hint for people writing landing pages: try to not use the same word over and over again. Something like thesaurus.com can help you find alternatives, but make sure you understand the replacement word and that it sounds natural.
...is this real?
Anyone care to make an educated guess how much this thing costs? Is an 8'x10' display going to be six figures, or seven?
Finding unique items: hash vs. sort
Agreed. It's a great loss to the community that they have decided to step away from Stack Exchange: https://crypto.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1361/im-leav...
See this is where John Oliver (and before him, Jon Stewart) are really duplicitous. They talk about the news in a certain way that implies that they have done their research and are delivering useful information, but they crack wise as they are doing so, in such a way that obviously fits in with whatever narrative or reaction they're trying to sell. And then when they get called out for being dishonest or biased, they say, "wait a minute, I'm just a comedian!"
Right -- today you need to remember to charge your phone, you don't take it everywhere (and don't have signal everywhere, especially internationally), and you need to take it out of your pocket to use it, and type into it with your thumbs (though voice "assistants" are here, and some people get use out of them.)

The end-goal is being able to talk to anyone at any time, remember anything you've seen before, and know the answer to any question you can phrase that someone has already answered.

(Now, you might say that parts of it sound less than ideal, but I think we'll get there by gradient descent, though may be with some legal or counter-cultural hiccups.)
I'm curious if you can answer the question I posed on this thread a few sibblings up. Thanks.
Direct link to PDF Spec
https://image-us.samsung.com/SamsungUS/samsungbusiness/produ...
Samsung doesn't need any more references to fire in the public consciousness right now.
Yeah, this is an inherent problem with marketing nice screens through bad screens.
How does one write code for arduino?
I find the notification permission change (requiring it to be after a user gesture) really annoying. It doesn't do almost anything to combat permission spam (if you're visiting a clickbait site, you'll probably click or scroll at least once, especially on mobile where sites usually have a giant header so you need to scroll past the fold to even see that the article is clickbait), and just inconveniences developers who have to special-case Firefox's divergence from the spec when trying to legitimately use the gated features.
For people like me who only open the comment section; "the wall" is a new display technology by Samsung that apparently allows you to easily tile them together
Any idea on the estimated price per panel?
Any guesses as to consumer pricing on this?
This looks interesting! One question:

* I see the "-s" option allows you to specify the number of sequential requests.

* Can you specify the number concurrent requests: ie 10 requests/sec?
Cannot access spreadsheets now, but limiting free trials to one bank account would be the first thing that I would do. The second is to offer annual plan with a discount. The industry practice is to price annual as 10*monthly price (aka "2 months free"), and play with these numbers. That does introduce another parameter to the model though: the separate conversion rates to annual and monthly (or - how these 6% would be split).
The website shows two uses "for business" and "for luxury living". So it is intended for home!
in other words, the shortest string in alphabetical order
>> but it's not like you don't have options in this industry... Tech work isn't like coal mining where your health is legitimately at risk on a daily basis, and where the number of alternative options available to the average worker is low to non-existent

>> Anyone who works in tech on one of these salaries, and then turns around to complain about their collective rights...

I worked in the gaming industry and left. I’ve mentored several folks who made similar transitions. Consequently, I have perspective based on those experiences.

I think it’s a fundamental mistake to think that transitioning from the gaming industry into general tech is an easy transition. Most people in the gaming industry have a severe form of professional PTSD due to the expectations around death march development. They have strived for a career in gaming where employers see plenty of potential hires and can pay them less as a result. These people end up with limited financial cushions, burnout and depression. They end up believing their only options are to pick up and move to another gaming shop for shit money and the same working conditions. Stay in this “career” long enough, and you are almost guaranteed health complications related to obesity and drug abuse. Yeah, it ain’t glamorous to stay in gaming, but experience means they’ll be an easy hire at the next company and they’ll be able to continue covering the mortgage.

I am mostly anti-union, but I believe unions are actually necessary in the gaming industry. It is pretty shitty and deserves to feel the pain they’ve been inflicting in their developers, PMs, producers and testers.

The gaming industry should not be seen as a career destination if you aren’t in finance/marketing. It should be a stepping stone in a bigger career, but an extremely short one so devs can learn EVERYTHING THAT YOU SHOULD NOT DO IN PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, EMPLOYEE RELATIONS AND SELF-CARE.
Very interesting! Do you think the person quoted in the article knew they were being disingenuous?
> Were they forced to work? Yes and no. What happened if they decided not to work? Weeeeell... if they were rich, nothing. If they were poor, they would have died

Hasn't that always been true of society, across all government models (or lack thereof)? At best, you don't have the rich that don't need to work... but what are the situations where the vast majority don't need to work (as far back as hunting/gathering).
Why are they worried about the location of the control station?

This seems a lot like regulation for the sake of regulation. The pilots won't really have access to this information in flight if it's not broadcast on ADS-B so why even bother? This is an ADS-B problem not a drone one and this is coming from a pilot rather than a drone operator.

If they're really worried about frequency saturation just broadcast at low powers so aircraft are notified through the point to point system when they approach a drone.
A power draw of 130w per module(incl. cabinet) will give you a nice usage of 2kW in the standard configuration.
They should just call it "Wall" /seanparker
I have no hesitation in saying that you will never own, nor be in the market for this product.
Not only that but I preferred the "LED" examples in most the pictures, the right hand side just looked oversaturated.
I'm happy that you're so enthusiastic! Make sure to let me know what you think about it after having tried it out!
In some ways it's more akin to having a FAANG on your resume. Games are traditionally much more project-based than a service such as GMail and employers, colleagues will use it as a benchmark for hiring and networking.

I'm an example myself, as I started in the industry working on a strategy-genre game, and talking shop about the genre makes me more appealing to studios that serve that.
Anyone with experience with these types of panels know whether the proposed seamless edges are actually possible? I'm a bit skeptical that manufacturing tolerances are tight enough to create a seamless edge from independent panels but I don't know enough to call bs.
Samsung is one of the largest (the largest?) display manufacturers in the world that makes, among other things, displays for Apple.
Much of Ben's writing recently has been on the topic of regulation and anti-trust, specifically in relation to tech companies. If I had to summarize his thesis, I'd say it's something along the lines of: "Previous antitrust regulation prioritized price. Tech allows for better products by nature of aggregation and network effects, and to promote competition, we need a new prioritization in our regulation".

So, I see this article as being a part of that thread. The conclusion is that the Big Four are not going to get disrupted, which is bad, and drawing some conclusions we need a new framework of antitrust to allow for it. I might be putting words in his mouth, but I don't think it is really that much of a jump if you read his body of work, especially recently.
One of the reasons why I use Pandora Mail, honestly.
Vandalism? So illegal activities are now taxed instead of fined? Not that I find more logical that the council rents my car to those companies as an advertisement medium. But there's zero chance that report would be taken seriously.
... and for luxury living. Luxury car launches are covered on the hn frontpage as well, e.g. that weird car whose windows Elon broke... probably increasing its value in the process.
> If you correct misinformation and do your best to present an accurate representation of your understanding, you are educating.

That is, if you treat the other side as a person and not as an ignorant ape. Three are very well known renowned scientists in my country that despite being right on all fronts (in that specific case, vaccinations) they harm themselves spectacularly by being complete pricks and treating critics (no matter how feeble the arguments against vaccines are) as sub-humans.

I had the opportunity to participate in a course about scientific communication a couple of years ago. A key point that was told us then is that you have people on the other side, not blank slates needed to be written. In other words, when communicating science, the best you can do is to present all facts, correct misinformation and what not, but leave the final decision to who is listening. You give them all the elements for a proper judgment, but you leave the judgment to whoever you are speaking to.

Perhaps people won't be convinced. Perhaps they'll believe you only partially. But IME you get far more interest from them (I've participated in a "meet the scientist" event once, answering questions from the general public) like that.
The confusing thing is that the team behind SHAttered did choose a prefix - they just had to choose a common prefix rather than two different prefixes (choosing a common prefix simply changes the initial state used by SHA-1). So I'm hoping that my post clarifies this point a bit.

The SHAttered attack (classical collision) can be used in practice - for example, my project https://github.com/nneonneo/sha1collider exploits their collision to turn any two PDFs into documents with identical SHA-1 hashes.
I have not yet tested v72, I'm on v71. The Chrome dev tools Console feels (not measured) about 100x faster then the Console in Firefox. Even Chromium Console can be limiting though. Yeh, I probably should not use console.logs for debugging, but it's much faster forkflow then firing up the debugger. Even with the lag. With the Chromium Console the lag is not that bad, and it has a search function. Both console's have a bunch of cool features, like being able to inspect DOM nodes, explore objects, etc. Witch I think might be a reason for the lag. Most of the time I just want to search the logs to find out what happened. An idea is if you can just get the plain text from the console.logs somehow.
In chromium all console.logs get sent to stdout, so I can pipe the logs to a file, then use any editor to search it. But I prefer using the dev tools.

Maybe make a perf switch in the console, which dumps the text without formatting or other features. Something that can handle one million lines of logs and search in it. Being able to search the logs is critical. Filtering doesn't work as I need to see the surrounding logs, what happened after. I don't need to see all one million lines at the same time though, it can be buffered to only show 100 lines above it and 100 lines below it. Chromium has such an optimization. But search is a bit slow.
Please don't break the site guidelines by insinuating astroturfing or shillage and whatnot. It's nearly always just imagination, and it poisons discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> I would expect that any non personalized ads being served on videos marked as being for children will also probably be targeted at children.

In a weird coincidence my SO told me a few minutes ago about how Youtube is cruel right now by showing her DisneyWorld ads. It's clearly happening because she watched a bunch of "Into the unknown" video clip from Frozen 2 recently.

It made me question 2 things, do they already implemented theses changes, because to me, any content from Frozen 2 is targeting kids, but more importantly does the COPPA thing apply to ads.

If it does apply to ads, any Disney ads are clearly targeting children, so any decision to show theses based on tracking should point toward tracking that target children.
Given that it didn't work, there's no question that additional training will be required. The question is the nature of the training. If they fix MCAS, the training will be how to recognize and compensate for a failure. If they removed MCAS, it will be how to fly the plane with different characteristics. It's unclear to me how much difference there would be in FAA approval between the two.
What argument do you have? I feel free to identify with and as a worker.
So? It's a cool product, it's tech related and potentially useful to a decent amount of people.
On SHI, it's listed at $16,779.00 (per unit?)
https://www.shi.com/products/productdetail.aspx?SHISystemID=...
+1

Also, I have dreams of developing video games in my garage some day. I don't want to deal with the video games equivalent of a screen-actors guild telling me I can't give away my games for free or that I need to adhere to some outdated regulations regarding what friends I can ask to compose music for my game and how much I can pay them for it.
> Also worth noting that there's more to coders in games. What about the artists, producers, qa and other workers?

Thank you for pointing this out. Even within the dev-team side of game production (leaving out legal, marketing, sales, operations etc) the coders are typically 1/3 or less of the team size.
Programmers can pivot (with varying amounts of friction) in to other areas of tech. For the designers, testers, producers and artists there are fewer options to use their skills outside of games.
haha yeah, I was thinking that on the slidable images of 'conventional led' vs 'the wall'.

I'm on a conventional led, how can I actually see what the wall version is like?
More like bad bitrate/codec.
Bitcoin uses SHA-256, but I wouldn’t put it past some of the devs of some of the Altcoins and Shitcoins to use SHA-1 for either - or both of - their Proof-of-Work or Blockchain integrity hashing algorithms.

So if I understand today’s news correctly, you could use this to break blockchain integrity and offer-up alternative “valid” historical blocks (but not cheat at proof-of-work). You would still need to convince a quorum of network nodes to use your fake historical blocks - I imagine this might be doable on lesser-used coins that still have some trades - you could probably combine this with a few pump-and-dump trades too (without costing you anything as the coins you pump would be stolen).
> it's a bedrock principle of our constitutional framework that we know who is exercising political power, to avoid corruption and tyranny.

A statement so vague could justify anything.

> it's why we have 3 co-equal branches of government that must make their deliberations and decisions known to the public.

In fact, they aren't so required.

> and scale matters. PACs with millions of dollars can exercise political power in a way that regular individuals cannot. the public needs to know who is exercising power (that it's in the form of spending money is incidental).

You've ignored every point I've made and have repeated yourself.

> no one can (or should) protect you from all repercussions

An argument I did not make.

> and social pressure is better than (destabilizing) violence.

The former tends to cause the latter.

If you just want to speak without listening, you could write a blog.
Your repeating anti union propaganda here and M&P unions are not the same as American "trade" union's

What they do do is make it harder to get rid of experienced people and replace them with cheaper ones.
Method of calculating the scores of the DB-Engines Ranking

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition
Yes, I do. Corporations are associations of people who have the same right to a voice. Corporations are people, my friend.

Because the Constitution starts with "We, the incorporated legal entities", not "We, the people".

Except that people in a corporation are there to pay rent and NOT exercise political speech. In fact, the political views in corporation's ownership can and often are the complete opposite of the "associated" persons, or employees. So why would a corporation be able to voice its opinion on behalf of the people in the said corporation?

What was the last time you specified your party affiliation during a hiring process? You didn't, because it's illegal in the first place. I know for a fact, that a major investor in the company I work for does not share my political views.
It wasn't just that the handling was unlike a 737 NG, it was considered unacceptable in its own right:

https://leehamnews.com/2019/02/08/bjorns-corner-pitch-stabil...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...

Also, from the current article:
"The crashes were caused in part by new software on the Max, MCAS, which triggered erroneously and sent the planes into nose dives. Boeing has developed a fix for the software..." (my emphasis.) Boeing would not be doing that now, if the only purpose of MCAS was to avoid training, with everything being otherwise acceptable without it.
Can you shed any light on platforms that are the opposite of your experience with Arduino?

I've enjoyed doing a few small projects with PyCom [0] products and have found them good enough for what I was after, however I can stake no claim on it being any better and have always been curious.

[0] https://pycom.io/
Statism in all of its vestments (like militarism) is not about benefiting citizens (of the USA or anywhere else) but about benefiting groups of interests of powerful people that gravitate around the state apparatus. Democracy isn't liberty, and these so-called wars aren't wars but massacres sponsored by the state benefiting only a few companies sometimes referred to as "the military complex" in spite of the rest of society.

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/83
War as Spoliation https://mises.org/library/war-spoliation
All of your examples work in memory.
It is well known that end-points are the weak parts of any sort of privacy system involving cryptography. So not really all that interesting.

It was literally not GPG's fault or the fault of the standard.
I meant that using media to manipulate public opinion is nothing new, and it's happening at a scale that people are barely aware of, though the mechanisms have evolved...
Recently, I've had an ok offer from a startup (very interesting work, but mediocre salary) that I was seriously considering. Unlimited PTO was ultimately one of the major factors which made me decide against it. I asked them during the interview if it is really unlimited - for example, is it OK if I take 5 weeks of per year? The answer was no, it's more like 2 weeks - i.e. there's clearly a limit if you ask about it. The scumminess of the arrangement made me not want to work with them.
Basically alphabetical order, but if you don't say lexicographical, it doesn't sound as smart. (I am assuming it's a more comprehensive term, having to do with other characters, other than simple letters, so that if integers were used, it would appear as 1234, where saying "in alphabetical order"doesn't make sense. But yeah, I did a double take.
"20ms for playback of media is totally fine."

Not when you're wearing headphones and playing along with the music with your guitar. 20ms is more than enough to throw off even the most professional musician's timing. It's enough to throw off opera orchestral performance (and I've had it happen performing at Forrest Lawn Glen Avon near Walt Disney's tomb.)

This is why I'm still using wired headphones. Latency is unacceptable in my hobbies.