skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to download all of the pdfs:

wget --no-parent --accept pdf http://worrydream.com/refs/
As painful as it is, I think these cultural lessons are necessary, for a few reasons.

The first is that people should not buy something just because someone made promises about it; that's how snake oil sales work. They promise the moon, take your money, and run. Instead people should think critically, ask questions, do research. That may mean becoming more technically literate, or not buying it if they can't understand it. (Is a "smart home" really smart just because "smart" is in the name? Or is "smart" just another "miracle cure-all" ?)

And that follows to the second reason: we shouldn't depend too much on technology that we don't understand or control. If your car breaks and you can fix it, you don't have a $20,000 paperweight. If your car breaks and only the manufacturer can fix it, and they go out of business/stop supporting it, yikes. Not to mention if you're in a bad situation where you need to get yourself back on the road in a hurry.

But really, all that applies to all parts of your life: being able to read a map, mail a letter, plant a garden, repair things in your home, cook a meal, etc. Basic knowledge that I'll bet is becoming rarer with each generation. We need to encourage people to deeply understand the world around them so they don't end up as helpless consumers expecting someone else to take care of them.
You can't sell experimental aircraft though, not commercially anyway. So you wouldn't see 737s being used for freight under this regime.
If they just drop the MAX branding, it'd immediately get lost amongst all the other 737 variants.
Although I believe this specific blog post is criticizing BNNs rather than defending them.
"Nullius in verba" - I'll believe it when I see it.

And not sure I see the point in patenting such a thing. If it's as good as you say, in less than six months a research group in some country where US patents aren't held in very high regard will have duplicated the work and either sell it as a service or publish it in the scientific literature. They might not even mention knowing about the patent at all! Things have been discovered by multiple people almost simultaneously so many times in the history of science that it's almost a natural law; it'd be impossible to prove foul play.
Try Practical Common Lisp or Land of Lisp instead. They are both much more accessible. Then read ACL.
I think this is the real issue for Boeing. The FAA will, eventually, certify the 737MAX, but it is not clear to me that European (or other) regulators will feel compelled to follow suit. If the 737MAX can only fly domestic flights, I'm not sure it is economically viable (literally not sure).
Agreed. AWS's cloud infrastructure is all about high availability and spreading computing/data resources across regions. The company's operations will be fine. Although, I'm sure the higher ups in Seattle have personally spent enormous resources to get their homes upgraded and have extensively prepared for something like this. The average person can stock up on non-perishable food and water, but besides that they don't have the resources to truly prepare for what is coming.
You only have to look at John Deere to see what manufacturers will do without sufficient regulation in favour of consumer rights.

https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-farmers-right-to-repa...
> I do plenty of presenting at work, where I share my screen and write code, Twitch-style, for an audience of coworkers. I do this in order to convey material to a captive audience, not as a baseline method of doing work. “Teaching” and “programming” are two non-overlapping activities for me, as the communications aspect tends to overtake most of my mental capacity, leaving only a precious few cycles for problem solving and creativity.

Maybe the problem is that you're approaching it as "teaching" instead of working in close collaboration with other engineers to achieve a better solution to a problem than what you could've come up with on your own? You might be a senior, but there's always something to learn in how someone else approaches or thinks about a problem, and you're depriving yourself of the chance of becoming a better programmer if you reject this outright.

Pair programming is not for everyone, nor everyplace or time. Like most programming techniques it has its pros and cons and should be considered before adoption in a team, or worse, being forced into adoption. But it certainly has tangible benefits in sharing knowledge within a team quickly and achieving optimal solutions in a more immediate way than, say, a code review would.
Beaker Browser the Filesystem Is the Network
The same motive it has always been: power, control, and dominion over man.
can we prettyplease stop posting paywalled stuff?
I'm literally repeating words and phrases from the talk.
Or someone who's spent time in Tokyo
Two words: regulatory capture. I very much doubt that the career engineers and administrators at the FAA chose to abdicate the responsibility, but there are all sorts of ways that politicians and their appointees at the top can bring this about without an explicit policy: reducing headcount and reassigning staff, rewriting the low-level rules and guidelines, burying the staff in paperwork and meetings... Boeing can also subvert the process by disputing every point, administrative burying, and by concealing things (such as the increase in MCAS' power to change the trim after the initial version was found to be ineffective.)
When a major regulator (probably not the FAA, maybe European) finally announces, "we are never certifying this plane model".
I like this idea. It could be called privacy first mesh architecture or something like that.
How much attention do you pay to this type of thing? I've never heard of it until now.

It's people like you who just downvote things without an actual good reason that make internet forms like this a shity place to be.
Non Paywall Version: http://archive.is/HB4g5
When purely looking at rtings' measurements of noise isolation[0] the qc35ii is better, especially in the lows bass and the highs. They provide an option to listen to the difference, but this only gives you a clue as the sound will be colored by your listening device.

[0]: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tools/compare/bose-quietco...
I'll never set foot on a MAX series out of principle. Not much else one can do as a consumer other than vote with one's wallet.
Show HN: EthVigil Tutorials – Learn and Build on Ethereum in real time
> My gut response would be yes

I'd guess no, since there doesn't seem to be another human culture / civilization that independently invented it.
> Saying that killing a process from command line in Linux is bad because MacOS has GUI for that?

He wasn't saying that `ps | grep | kill` is bad because MacOS has a GUI. He was saying that it is bad (it is, that's pretty undeniable), and that dogmatically following the "Unix philosophy" would lead you to conclude that it is great, even though there's an obviously better way to do it (through a nice GUI).

To put it another way, "do one thing and do it well" is fine, if all of your users are happy to write all the glue to stick tiny programs together, and the only glue you have is completely unstructured text streams. But most people are not willing to do that.

To take it to an obvious extreme: what is the Unix version of Excel? `set_cell A4 'hello' && recalculate_formula B5 && cat A1:D2 | pi_chart`??
I was surprised FEMA only estimates 13,000 deaths from this cataclysmic earthquake. I wonder how accurate that is.
would you be so kind as to explain more about what that means? particularly w/r/t this line in the abstract

the low standard electrode potentials of K/K+ electrodes
lead to high operation voltages competitive to those
observed in LIBs

I think what i'm hearing is that this is a tradeoff of density for power? (separate from the source materials concerns)
I recommend moving to Kagoshima - they have an activo volcano right over the bay (with fregvent ferry service, no less) that regurarly covers the 400k people city in ash.

A honest in your face continuous natural disaster, no behind the scenes shaddy stuff that might hut you one day out of the blue. ;-)
Is the posterior really an update of our prior? That doesn't make any sense to me. It's P(A|B). I can't then use it as P(A) in another inference based on different observations. What am I missing about your description of Bayesian inference?
I’ve never had a bad experience returning items here in the US, either.
Distributed Collaboration with git-ssb
Hi all, I helped build this and will be happy to answer any questions here.

TL;DR: Using Svelte and our Ethereum API gateway, I built an interactive tutorial to learn and code on blockchain in real time.

Long time HN lurker and an equally long YC reject :) finally breaking the shackles and shipping something on HN. A bit of a personal back story first.

After recovering from a critical health condition due to tampered blood tests and reporting, I started hacking on Ethereum to see if I could leverage the tech to solve this for others. When building a couple of prototypes and eventually my first side project (CryptoVigil) on Ethereum, I realized how painful it was to code on blockchain even for an experienced developer like me. Why wasn't there a Stripe or Twilio for blockchain that I could use to quickly prototype my app with just a few lines of code. With that vision, my co-founder @anomit and I have been working on this since 2 years.

Whether you are a student, a novice in the world of web development or a seasoned fullstack developer, our vision is to make blockchain development accessible to all. The tutorial framework itself will be open sourced once we collect feedback from the community and iron out a few kinks. Anyone can then contribute their lesson plans and spin off their own version if they wish so.

Would love to hear first impressions from fellow developers here. Feel free to break stuff on the interface too!

(It is a developer tool intended for desktop usage. Experience on a mobile browser will be sub-par.)

If you want to dig deeper, check out the docs of the core API. We dog-fooded it to build this very experience!

https://ethvigil.com/docs
Yes, given the fact the quality is much better in a print shop, and the fact that InkJets are awful at everything, including printing black, which lasers excel at, even the cheap ones. Ironically I print mostly text, so I have no reason to even own an InkJet printer.
This is a standard technique in numerical analysis for complex-differentiable functions, it's just not so common to have inputs be guaranteed to be holomorphic so people don't use it often, http://mpmath.org/doc/current/calculus/differentiation.html#... (https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/mpmath/blob/981102736a8...)
The old joke seems relevant here:

"I like escalators, because an escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

- Mitch Hedberg

As much as possible, smart tech should be operable mechanically. This seems fairly easy to do with electrical things like light switches.
Its definitely truer than I'd have believed until recently. I have a co-worker whose technical chops are, let's say, below average. He tends to get a bit mulish about things and when troubleshooting often focuses on the wrong area.

In the past I'd have wanted someone like him replaced with someone higher skilled. But in his case, he is often invaluable. He is great about being responsive to interior customer/stakeholders. He is gregarious and great at relationships. He is wonderful at vendor relations.

The team is just big enough that having someone with those skills is invaluable in a team filled with technically minded introverts with many likely mildly on the spectrum. We can afford to carry him on his technical demerits while he carries us in our weakest areas.
Go is a pretty generic game that leans heavily on basic mathematics and geometry (which are universal). You really think it could only be invented by humans? Why?
* I sell you... a bad experience.
Make it offline-first.

And allow a local connection to edit config files, letting users point it to an arbitrary IP.

That might solve it.
You have not defined middle class, so there is danger of operating with different standard. But people in Scandinavia do pretty well, overall.
Don't make the network a hard dependency. The device should work as fully as possible even if offline.
Am I completely out of the loop? Ink-jet printers were always an insane rip-of, and I got a laser printer once those became cheap enough a bit more than a decade ago. Can't do color, but it prints pretty fast and you don't get issues if the paper gets wet.
On Exploring Undetermined Relationships for Visual Relationship Detection
Likely none of them; the search space is simply way too big. Heck, we can't even answer most of these questions for Chess, and Chess is a comparatively much easier to compute game.
Sonos devices can play local music as long as you have a Wi-Fi LAN. They don't need an internet connection, except maybe for setup.
I think you’re right but this would require and thoughtful and functional Congress.
Superflux brings climate change home in a speculative Singaporean apartment
Bit Twiddling Tricks Will Make Your Coworkers Hate You
This is by no means a comprehensive list:

* no generics

* null pointers

* no compile time checked enums or sum types

* The golang time package is garbage

* golang interfaces are garbage, can't tag types with an interface without implementing a dummy method and hope that no other type implements it. Can't find what interfaces a type implements without an IDE

* profiling and debugging tools are nothing in front of JVM and .NET tools

* no const/immutablility

* no ternary operator, need to write 6 lines instead of a single line if it existed

* error handling is error prone and verbose

* no default method implementation in interfaces

* unit testing frameworks are sucky and rely on code gen, can't mock arbitrary types, but only by defining an interface

* that unnused variables and imports are compile time errors, makes it very annoying and time consuming to prototype or when debugging

* no private/public/etc modifier. if you want to change the visibility of a type, you need to rename it in all files it's listed in

* no incremental compilation (yes Java compiles faster in large projects where I only modify a handful of files, or even more)

* pervasive use of single letter identifiers in golang code bases

* pervasive use of int, which has a platform dependent size

* pervasive instantiation of structs by calling them structFoo { Field1: field1, Field2: field2, ... FieldN: fieldN }, which makes it easy to miss when a new field gets added. Rust and Zig solve this by making it required to specify all fields and values.

* defer works on the function scope, not the current scope

* defer doesn't handle functions that return errors, meaning many errors are missed

* no struct or file private, only package private

* the global scope is polluted with special functions like len, copy, delete, make, new, append, for no good reason

* golang imports don't support cyclic imports

* golang doesn't allow you to import a a specific function or struct from a package. You have you always qualify anything with the package name, which makes things verbose and awkward.
FYI, as of Q4 Tesla is now selling roughly the same number of Model 3 cars (worldwide) as the entire US commercial van market. The vans also have significantly lower ASP.

The US passenger car market is orders of magnitude larger than the commercial van market. 500k units vs 18 million units per year. $9 billion versus $650 billion in total annual sales.

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2019-us-commercial-van-sales-f...
Author here. Sorry that the typo and the render errors affected you so much. We don't see any rendering issues on our end, if you tell us what browser you are using maybe we can replicate and fix them.
Bit of a stretch but you can also use curl if you proxy it through my patchbay.pub[0] service:

curl https://patchbay.pub/abcd1234.html --data-binary @index.html

[0] https://patchbay.pub
Zooming in on Germany on the map on the main page, it doesn't show any machines (or pins on the map, rather)?
Ken Murphy was the FEMA director at the time. He said that if the Cascadia Fault quake hits "Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast." That's pretty much all you need to know. Insurance probably won't cover quake damage without prohibitive additional charges, so even if you get out you'll lose everything. I've not gone after some Bay Area opportunities I had because of this, and because my wife is terrified of the fires in California.

That said, if you still want to chance it I researched and it is possible to commute into Seattle from east of I5, just not fun.
> We need something to remind us that we should be civil and grateful for FOSS contributions.

Sort of ironic that the entire commotion started when the Actix maintainer dismissed a contributor's code as boring after they wrote a POC and a patch for a use-after-free bug.
You're not renting the printer, you actually buy it. The subscription rental service is for the cartridges, and you always have the option of buying regular non-rental cartridges instead of using the subscription.
Earthquakes aren't necessarily highly lethal events:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_Uni...

Countries that are more exposed to Tsunamis have it worse.
Kodex looks good. The App Store mentioned in-app purchases, but I couldn’t find any info.

I have been using Textastic for a long while with Working Copy. What are the advantages of Kodex over Textastic that you have seen?
The reason those are all "f"s is that they are all versions of the same thing: the function mapping features to outputs, or approximations of it. The capital "F"s refer to random variables/processes describing the same function (using capitals for RVs and lower-case for samples is standard practice in statistics).

By using this notation he is drawing careful distinctions between the various approximations he's using. I think it's pretty good writing.
> His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.

This doesn’t sound groundbreaking all and I’d be very surprised if FBI/NSA/DHS/Palantir didn’t already have a system like that. Maybe they were just reserved for higher-value targets. Of course, NSA isn’t gonna tell you what it has constructed until decades later, so claiming that this goes far beyond NSA capabilities is reckless at best and clueless at worst.
I feel like the Common Lisp and Erlang communities have produced writing about software that has really stood the test of time.

From the CL spec, to Norvig's "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp," to both of pg's CL books (this one and 'On Lisp') -- these all feel readable, even re-readable, and entertaining.

And of course the same can be said of the Erlang books -- I'll read anything I find by Joe Armstrong or Robert Virding.

In both cases, authors are able to joyously present the language's unique superpowers and ways of thinking (CL-style macros, OTP). But I think a crucial factor is that, since both languages are very practical -- in terms of their reason-to-exist, as well as what they provide 'out of the box' -- the writing tends to be imbued with the energy and possibility of actually building things.
You can't really prepare for everything. I would even doubt if most of the Amazon higher-ups are thinking much in this direction or are prepared in even the usual ways (2 weeks of food, a barrel of water, and extra batteries level).

We just aren't going to live forever. If its any consolation, you'll (not you in particular :D) probably die in a car accident or a cardiac arrest when you aren't even worried about it.
Worked nicely just breastfeeding during the nights/mornings for us and most people I know after 12 months, and earlier should not be much of a problem IMHO, it's something you should be able decide on your own. It's not something to demand from mothers, because the stigma of not breast feeding can be pretty hard for a new mother and it is completly unnecessary to put that psychological pressure on someone..
Pretty sure in the UK you're covered for 6 years if this happens. The retailer will have to refund the purchase if this happens.
> If you only have one eye's worth of content, you can't just make up the content for the second eye

Has this person heard of computer graphics?

Most of these movies contain a huge amount of imagery that is 'made up' in various ways, even before you start thinking about the 3D.
> It’s not hard to see why: “smart” has become code for “terrible”. A “smart speaker” is a speaker that eavesdrops on you and leaks all your conversations to distant subcontractors for giant tech companies. “Smart watches” spy on your movements and sell them to data-brokers for ad-targeting. “Smart TVs” watch you as you watch them and sell your viewing habits to brokers.

I guess that would make the Guardian a “smart website”.

> The problem is that the smart city, as presently conceived, is a largely privatised affair designed as a public-private partnership to extract as much value as possible from its residents

I looked quite hard for any evidence in the article that this was the case other than ‘I don’t know, it feels kind of icky’ but couldn’t find any.

> If you want to page a minibus – something like an Uber Pool, but run by the city, licensed, safe, paying a living wage and not mining your data – you can summon one, and yes, this exposes your identity so that the driver can find you.

Ah, and there’s the nub of it. It’s fine for a responsible (read public-sector) technocrat to mine and process your data, but it’s evil when a company does it.
Why Twitter May Be Ruinous for the Left
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 stood out (hah) as a good 3D movie to me, and I've seen some of the real 3D ones.
train stations offer the same service in europe, in my experience.

(it's not the same and not very reliable, but random places like museums and restaurants will keep your luggage if you just ask them nicely too :)
So I see this article extolling the virtues of being a nation of skyscrapers and flats.

Then I smack into a paywall.

Looking around at my nice, rural century home that has a monthly mortgage payment still far lower than the cheapest local rent...I’m not going to bother trying to find the article elsewhere. Living in a skyscraper is just not for me. Even the apartments I’ve lived in previously were comfortable ranch-style ones out in Nevada that weren’t very densely packed.

I have no need or desire to move to Manhattan or Silicon Valley for the time being let alone Cleveland or Pittsburgh. That shouldn’t be problematic yet the current crop of economy optimizers might not leave me that choice. We shall see in due time.
The Guy Who's Taking Away the Instagram Likes
It's probably similar to this one https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/34992/assignments/syllabu...
Why are there so many interviews per Scala developer? I love Scala but I have a hard time finding very many companies who actually use it (I'm in Austin, TX). It seems like its usage is dwarfed by folks using Ruby, Node.js, PHP, Python, C#, Java etc.
Did you try gitea?