skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two words: edge compute. The major ISPs are in the process of rolling this out in trials, with nationwide rollouts likely to start in 2021. The general idea is that you build some amount of CPU / GPU capacity in the boxes on the poles outside your house. Initial versions likely won't be able to support the full Stadia 4k experience, but it'll be enough to play games like Fortnite or Minecraft.

Considering those last-mile edge devices often cost in the tens of thousands of dollars and use a lot of power, including a few hundred ARM cores isn't a huge cost increase for the benefit it provides.
What is bro humor? Just see random memes on initial google search.
Clearly the OP doesn't have a teenage daughter. If he did, he'd realize that you have to have an iphone in order to be accepted into the communication clique caused by iMessages / AirDrop.
It is available for virtualization - on Mac hardware.
Parsing unknown JSON data in TypeScript
How so? It's a nice single column of test on my mobile.
The did a great parody of many startup pitches that I've heard over the years. Hopefully they can save it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4
Here's the full report: https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2020-lifestyle-burnout-60...

Strangely, this "report" is a set of slides. It would have been useful if there was more information about how the Medscape authors conducted this study. On slide 28, it says the sampling size was "15,181 physicians across 29+ specialties met the screening criteria and completed the survey". What was the screening criteria and how many physicians did Medscape initially reach out?

I wish the WSJ asked these types of questions.
> So why do professional programmers still exist? Because most people don't want to do even that level of software development. Either they find it beneath them, find it boring, get frustrated when they want to do something that stretches the tool's capabilities, don't want to be responsible for fixing bugs and maintenance, etc. etc. etc.

I'm not so sure about this. Hypercard was extremely popular among non-programmers in its heyday. It is not their fault that Apple, who had no idea what to really do with the software, let it die on the vine.

Computer companies have inclucated a computing culture that places a sharp perceptual divide between users and programmers, leaving little room for anything in between. My belief is that this has happened for wider structural/economic reasons (contemporary emphasis on consumerism, short term thinking, etc) rather than any general distaste for "real computing" among regular people.

If we do not provide regular people with "Hypercard-like things" and instead give them shrinkwrapped solutions, we will of course have the perception that they have no interest in what we call -- for lack of a better term -- end user programming.
> I think the definition of malware is blurring though. On some websites when I view the list of advertisers & third parties listed in consent dialogs, it's literally hundreds of them. There's no way to tell how many of those are equally motivated to protect user data and be on best behaviour.

I worked on a side project a few years ago for price checking stuff. When I was working on the toys r us integration I noticed their site loaded insanely slow. So I dug deep and the site had dozens of hits to random urls. After doing a bit of spelunking - whois lookups, etc - the webpage was having my browser contact pretty much every major (or subsidiary of) tech company you could think of: oracle, ibm, cisco, facebook, etc. etc. etc.

It made me realize how utterly insane the web has gotten.
What you describe is basically a radioisotope thermal generator, like those used by space probes. In such a device, you use natural decay heat of unstable radioisotopes.

In a nucler reactor, things are a bit different. You start with uranium that is only slightly rsdioactive and does not produce any usable quantities of heat. You place in ib the corrrct geometry and start a controlled nuclear chain reaction. You jave neurons split uranium, which produces heat and more neutrons.

Controlling this reaction so that it actually runs runs, but not so much as to melt your reactor is what, as far as I understand it, makes nuclear reactor design hard.
Lot's of games openly tout cross-platform compatibility - the answer to your question is "Yes".
> I can guess that this is written by people who never have enjoyed a good experience playing video game

You'd be wrong - I grew up playing them, and specifically gravitated toward RPGs, the closest genre of video games to storytelling.

> and then produce a theory that video game are just a bad medium.

I didn't say they are a "bad medium". I said the medium has chosen a trade-off in it's interaction model that makes it more challenging to tell stories as coherent and powerful as found in traditional narrative media, and furthermore that there is limited demand for that sort of narrative in games in the first place.
I personally would feel quite ashamed to have the latest IPhone, I'd feel that I'd fallen prey to apple's marketing. I live pretty well with a 5 year old SE. For the same reason I refuse to wear visibly branded clothes and am not ashamed to buy some used items. Living frugally by choice gets you back some freedoms.
As someone that's gotten their degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering I can whole-heartedly agree that this extends to even most engineering degrees; it's why we have EIT & PE grades, and the PE needs to sign off on anything that the company could get sued over.

The PE is essentially the safety valve that has both the education (usually also needs a minimum of a Masters Degree) and the experience (at least 5 years in industry) to say "this design isn't hot garbage." And even with that safety valve in place we get unmitigated disasters like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge or the Challenger explosion - which coincidentally are case studies in almost every engineering ethics class and at least one of our design classes at the undergraduate level. And that's just covering the big disasters, there's hundreds of thousands of projects out there that are also held together with duct-tape and bailing twine that passed a PE's stamp of approval.

Working for the DoD I saw all sorts of hacks from the engineering department to get custom hardware working to replace 60 year old CoTs products that have been out of production for 30 years but are necessary for things like missile and torpedo guidance.
Ha, the presumption of being able to spend money better than others. Maybe they can; but these folks did it like you indirectly point out.
I'm an attorney, not a doctor, but from my perspective, rising malpractice rates are connected to burnout because they indicate a working environment that feels hostile. Doctors generally become doctors because they want to help people, and they do all of their work in good faith, and it creates a lot of anxiety to constantly worry about being sued, and it creates even more when your take home pay is materially impacted by malpractice insurance. For competent doctors, this may be misplaced anxiety, but it exists nonetheless. This anxiety might cause the doctors to seek a work set up that limits their personal liability to relieve their own anxiety, but it creates other anxieties, like those that come with working for a giant company and lead to burnout.

Lawyers, it may surprise some people to hear, also enter the legal profession wanting to help people, and the same mechanisms are at work. I may want to be a solo-practitioner for the flexibility and the ability to charge lower rates to help a broader part of the community, but feel pressured into joining a much larger firm just to protect myself from some crazy, one-off, life-destroying legal event.

Like I said, it may be an irrational fear, but that, combined with a giant amount of student loan debt and an already rather stressful profession is a recipe for burnout.
> if you get to pick the committee you can get them to report whatever you want

That's sometimes true, but I'd need more than that to suspect it in this case. The committee was chaired by a senior, tenured life fellow, and perhaps I'm biased as it's my alma mater, but Cambridge tends to be pretty insulated from cultural whims.

As the other reply pointed out it's not really reasonable to expect someone to become proficient in a body of scientific work in order to make an opinion, moreoever the great majority of his research gate articles require the text to be requested.

Unless something further comes to light I'm not yet persuaded that this is a miscarriage of justice or scientific suppression.
In which way is this a violation? It is not illegal for companies to process the data which you have signed away with a contract. It is allowed if [1]

>they have a contract with you – for example, a contract to supply goods or services (i.e. when you buy something online), or an employee contract

You just have the right to request that your data is deleted but as long as you don't do that, why should your data not be processed?

Additionally, it is allowed to process private data without a contract if it is necessary. Then, an excessive use of private data is illegal.

But most services will have a contract and thus it is legal.

Minor detail: services cannot be restricted if you don't agree to share your private data. But that doesn't touch sharing the data that was signed away with a contract.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/internet-tel...
In terms of long term A/B testing, companies really need to start understanding how harmful and confusing it can get for their user base. As much as I absolutely hate Facebook, I still have to use it for certain groups. Within the 4 people in my immediate family that use the app, we all had vastly different interfaces for the longest time and could never help each other navigate and find some specific option or feature.
> We used to share cool things via word of mouth on IRC or AIM or ICQ. Now people just share memes on facebook.

I still share cool stuff with groups of friends via hangouts, irc and iMessage. I find a lot of cool stuff right here on HN too.

As for memes, yeah, I can’t argue that mass appeal jokes bubble up to the top.
The devices they currently market are low risk (across US, Canada, EU, etc) so there is minimum regulatory burden.
The "working on it" note regarding a Pulse Oximeter mentions a clinical trial, which I infer to mean that they're considering regulatory requirements for higher-risk or more complex devices.
It's a wide column of text on a larger screen - usually text is centred in the middle.
'You have not worked on bad enough code base.'

You know, it is a bit pretentious to read a few sentences that someone wrote and then conclude a lot about what they know or do not know.

And I actually do know what ravioli code is. I think ravioli code is mostly a good thing. Also the people on the c2.com page are not uniformly negative about it. Not all code should be ravioli code but in a project with complex requirements there should be quite a bit of ravioli code. It is true that ravioli code is not easy to understand if you are a newcomer to a project but really if the context is 'a project with complex requirements' why would anyone think that it is easy to get into, no matter how it is written?

Another thing is that ravioli code absolutely needs automated tests.

'This style maximizes maintainability by old hands at the expense of comprehensibility by newcomers.' Maintainability is exactly what I want maximized. It sounds a bit bad if there are no developers that are there for a long time. But in that case you are cooked anyway, I would say.
Yes, that makes more sense. ta
That isn't a problem, though. You're not entitled to dictate terms to the vendor here in any sense other than "I'll buy that" or "I won't buy that."

Computer developers don't get to choose which computer their customers have, either.

Seriously, I have no idea why people get so salty about this.
It's not the kind of evidence I prefer, but people who concentrate on ad hominem attacks do effectively provide evidence in favor of their targets' position.
True, but if your host has a GUI interface, writing to stdout will not work.
If I could upvote this x100, I would.
There's some commentary here and with the focus on this article being an old empty temple. Are there a lot of these abandoned temples around? Are these fraternities in decline or something? What was the height of their popularity?
> to an HDD all sectors are the same.

Also I believe some humans, and (filesystems?) intentionally stored certain data towards the inside/outside of the HDD because the simple cylinder geometry allowed faster reads in those regions. However, I'm not seeing conclusive proof that modern HDDs show performance variation with respect to radius.
Zero Trust Leadership
What’s the Price of Getting Your Data? More Data
Well the typeface is maybe a little odd, it is perfectly readable to me.
That poor car... It was almost a character of the series and it was always getting the worst end of things. I would drive a beetle if I didn't know it would kill me in an accident. One almost killed my dad.
I think three things keep HN great.

One is the moderation team. I don’t always agree with their decisions, but they are definitely on top of things and do what they think is best for the content.

Two is the comment sort algorithm. It’s far superior to Reddit, which I think is far superior to any other platform. On HN, if you make a comment on a post that’s a few hours old, your comment will still be seen. It will be at the top for at least a few minutes. On reddit it’ll just be buried.

And third, the lack of profit motive. Every decision they make is in the name of improved content. They have no concern for driving traffic.
I don’t feel like investigating that, nor do I have the hardware, but I think spending ¾ of time in reference count updates is really high.

https://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/pact18.pdf has 42% on average, and halves that using their modification.
Good to know, time to archive with youtube-dl and make a torrent out of it, and/or publish them on a PeerTube instance.
I don't understand why publishers moved everything wholesale onto Facebook without doing some research

Why not put up a few videos and compare ad revenue? When it didn't add up they could just move back...
> If not, it seems like we should operate on our best hypothesis with evidence for it, not speculate about unknown unknowns.

Nope! We shouldn't. Speculation is precisely what we should do! That's what a critical review of research involves. We should take this as excellent motivation for further research. It could be true, but we haven't done nearly enough work to conclude as much. I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm saying it's uncertain, and it's strictly unscientific to proceed by assuming something uncertain is the truth just because it's intuitively compelling. Intuitively compelling narratives are very dangerous in science, because they make you believe you have a shortcut to the truth and they're vindicated right up until they aren't. It's not a good habit.

Happiness is incredibly complicated. Contradicting evidence and results abound across studies of life satisfaction. Measuring the impact and success of advertising itself is highly complex; the researchers have shown this correlation under their current methodology. What are we to conclude if someone uses a different methodology to study the same topic, equally as valid, and comes away with a different conclusion? That's very possible, and we can't dismiss it. The researchers themselves hedge their claims and don't come out and say they've found causation.

I don't really have a dog in the race with advertising. But I really despise this kind of reporting by HBR, because the result is threads like this one where people walk away with unproven "truths" that become part of the popular zeitgeist because they just seem to vindicate obvious beliefs. Today it's advertising, tomorrow it'll be something else. Given the replication crisis we're undergoing, we shouldn't take anything away from studies like this except that further research is required.
another this time showing SSL https://twitter.com/saleemrash1d/status/1217495681230954506

edit: in reply >

Firefox is safe: NSS doesn't accept the certificate.

Chrome is fooled by the certificate, but it throws NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED. will need to investigate.
On a meta-level, I have to say I am a bit mystified as to why use of the phrase "toxic masculinity" is tolerated on HN. It is not a generally recognized medical phenomenon nor recognized by the general public as an issue outside of a small group. Moreover, were a poster to attach "toxic" to any other gender, race, or creed, they would be justly pilloried by HN readers and the moderators would quickly take action.

@dang/@sctb, "toxic masculinity" is also one of those politically and socially charged phrases that tend to "generate more heat than light", as I believe one of you once said. I will echo a recent post by tptacek that dang responded to; it wastes the time of commenters and I ask you to reconsider permitting its use on HN.
Started, but never finished. :(

@nmaro has some pretty good stuff.

The cartoon explainers gives an overview.

But you'd probably want to do RGA algorithm or one of the newer ones.

Martin Kleppmann has a pretty good talk with bunch of paper references:

https://youtu.be/yCcWpzY8dIA
Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults
One iteration of grinding the drive to fine powder/melting it down should be enough. Anything else might be insufficient.
And China has backdoors in their stuff. We shouldn't be using it.
From the article:

" >These positions—which, in addition to a deep passive squat with the feet flat on the floor, include sitting cross legged and kneeling on one’s knees and heels—are not just good for us, but “deeply embedded into the way our bodies are built.<”

But several of my friends suffered heart attacks (embolism) after long periods of kneeling to worship and/or to garden.

I conjecture that, contrary to the article, kneeling on one's knees is not only not "good for us" but bad, as it may inhibit blood flow in the legs, promoting the formation of clots which are later released upon standing and moving around.
Some of both: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-n....

But, from what I understand, the number of residencies is the big choke point.
Why is that scene so pointlessly edgy? Is the whole show like that?
As a counterpoint, the Quake -> Quake 2 -> Quake 3 original open source releases are remarkably clean. Quake 2 in particular is very minimalist and the game was developed in something like 10 months.

Granted, it's not really fair to compare anyone to the id software team of the time. But the requirements of the Quake series, basically a BSP renderer that is easy to modify and extend, probably forces it to be extensible and clean.
I found these helpful. The first one has a link to a video which is pretty ELI5

https://flashdba.com/2015/01/09/understanding-flash-floating...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7JLXs5es7I
So your position is that without advertising, large companies would have no means to crush their competition?

1. They'd simply undercut their prices, as they do now.

2. Advertising can level the playing field when the smaller competitor understands the game they're playing. There are countless examples of now-major brands that started out as the underdog but put out really creative work. Truly creative work can radically outperform your average ad campaign, but they're risky. Which is why the major brands play it safe and can't produce the outstanding work.

As for the whole privacy/targeting thing, I'm not defending that one. I 100% agree that it's gone way too bloody far. I was perfectly happy with ads that were targeted based purely on the content being presented rather than the creepy profiles that a lot of media companies keep on all of us.
That's ridiculous. If someone commits fraud and you believe them that is their fault, not yours for being a victim.
Sorry. What do you mean with points? On my old car the distributor also had a vacuum line that would adjust ignition depending on revs.
I was trying to point out the nebulousness of the term "genuine need". The fact that fancy schools and trendy stuff exist must be providing some utility. Of course, some more than others.

For example, "fancy" (I assume you are referring to selective schools) provide the utility of providing an easy way to discriminate between those who have the traits to get into those schools vs those who don't. Seeing as how they have vastly higher levels of economic success, I can only conclude it's definitely providing utility that someone wants (or "needs").

Similarly with fancy cars or whatnot, it can serve as a proxy to quickly ascertain someone's socioeconomic status. Obviously, a copy of one's credit report and statement of accounts serves a better purpose, but it's not the recommended method for various reasons.
Google tried this with the original variant of Chronicle and failed.

Threat analysis does not play well with common types of AI/ML applications because the problem space changes so frequently with the design of avoiding predictability. You can gain "awareness" of events using AI/ML (e.g., this road suddenly has tanks moving across it), but it's tough to call that a "threat" (maybe other intel told the analyst those tanks were supposed to be there). Compound that problem to "the world" or even "an entire country" and you run out of compute real quick.

Most solutions err on the side of just popping up alerts but don't identify "threats" until an analyst looks at them.
And it works! I learned a lot about preventing magic with this here: https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html

For me - and I mostly do frontend apps now - I always advise to go for state pattern instead of complex if/thens. Thanks to the aforementioned article.
Not to be rude, but your account is just from last year? If you're like me you've been lurking for longer than the account shows, but if not, HN has been pretty solid. I think it's gone -slightly- downhill, but that could just be my mind changing with age. The moderation here seems really fair, and the community as a whole is still really solid. I wouldn't worry about it.
This looks really cool. Love to see z3 being used for tools.
I'm not sure about 'modern software techniques' but to me, you seem to be describing Minecraft. :D
We need doctors. This is a serious problem.

I wonder how this compares to countries with nationalized healthcare.
I'm not sure I agree. I like to move all setup code to helper methods so that my tests are just a few lines

// Given <setup>

// When <thing happens>

// Expect <thing> to be <such>

This allows the reader to easily see which workflows are actually tested. If the reader is interested in implementations the utility code is one click away and usually only needs to be looked at once to be completely understood. The test bodies themselves however have many flavors for many work-flows so getting rid of the repetition is critical to highlight the specific nature of individual tests.
K Buzz talks about love for his craft, attributes and more
Generally I agree. It is important to know though, that there's a thin line between high end and luxury-brand where you pay a lot of money for the latter.
The military is building long-range facial recognition that works in the dark
I wouldn't mind an automated governor that picks up speed limits from RFIDs in the road. If it could make residential roads safe for kids again it would be worth it 10x over. Although automated fines for passing the speed limit is kinda stupid when you can just limit the car in the first place.
There are so many ways to make money without going near Facebook that this is a terrible excuse. If you have good content that brings in viewers there will be a way to monetize. Nobody is driving good content off the internet, collegehumor simply didn't keep up with what people wanted.