skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just burn all the things and start over

Wrap all of this with an "IN MY OPINION"...

That would make things worse because we'd make the same mistakes again. I've been on many start over projects (Xeon Phi, for example, threw out the P4 pipeline and went back to the Pentium U/V). It doesn't work. You know what the most robust project I've worked on? The instruction decoder on Intel CPUs. The validation tests go back to the late 1980's!

You make progress by building on top and fixing your mistakes because there literally IS NO OTHER WAY.

Go read about hemoglobin, its the one of the oldest genes in the genome, used by everything that uses blood to transport oxygen, and it is a GIGANTIC gene, full of redundancies. Essentially a billion years of evolution accreted one of the most robust and useful genes in our body, and there's nothing elegant about it.

I think that's where we are headed. Large systems that bulge with heft but contain so many redundant checking code that they become statistically more robust.
I would expect everything not patched today is unaffected for such a reason yes.
I don't think it is possible to separate out all the individual parts that go into making someone driven and successful, especially not with only anecdotal data
Waste of time, huh? You have differences in IQ between black, hispanic, white, and asian americans leading to very big differences on, say, standardized math and verbal tests. Now, the teachers are accused of racism, because their black students are scoring much lower than their asian students. Then they are judged unfairly and put into the impossible situation where they are expected to graduate students with no test score differences between races, because no one is willing to admit that there are IQ differences between races, which means a series of weird evasions where schools have to stop administering objective tests, or hide the results of the tests from the public, or go through ritual handwringing about "systemic racism", "unconscious racism", "undetectable racism", because these racial differences remain across time, cultures, and even nations, and seem stubbornly resistant to any intervention other than one involving no longer collecting the data, or no longer reporting the data.

Or, we can just accept that there are differences in IQ which should lead to differences in test scores and normalize correctly. That would be useful. It would not put teachers into impossible situations. We would not be tying teacher pay to impossible to achieve goals.

But no, we can't honestly approach this subject and must constantly contort everything because honest baselines and metrics would be a "waste of time" over the unrealistic and impossible to obtain outcomes.

Same with incarceration rates, and some other group differences. Oh, wouldn't you like to know which group differences are biological and which are due to the shared environment, so that we know which interventions have a chance of working and which don't? No, we can't know that, as obtaining this information would be a waste of time. Honesty would also stop enormous wastes of human capital being currently spent on simultaneously trying to cover up differences in outcomes as well as punishing people arbitrarily when they notice said differences.
It also has the effect of forcing accurate payment of taxes due to an an indisputable record being created of sales:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gsz7Gu6agA
As a R/E investor, one of the things I'm most cautious of is buying a building that might end up in rent control. It's the difference in making a good investment and losing a ton of money.

I like to consider myself a good person, but I have zero interest in renting housing to people at a loss.

I know people can use some help, but I'm not that rich and life is too short.
Yah bank transfers are a mess here, several dollars and minutes of work to do.

On the other hand, things like venmo and the cash app are ubiquitous. I just went to lunch with a friend, forgot cash, asked him his phone number and shot a venmo for half in 10 seconds.

So luckily we have some services that are filling the shortcoming of our banking industry..
My question is: what is your alternative to exceptions, and how would they would have made the error easier to spot? Its not obvious that the error would have been easier to spot if it had been written using Go's `!= nil` pattern or Rust's `?` pattern.

My experience is that while its true that its easy to have bugs in implicit exception handling logic, its just as easy, maybe easier, to have bugs in the explicit boilerplate its replacing.
We aren't using PHP for Wanderlog (which is built with Node.js), but did use it for many of our projects before 2015.

There really was (is?) no faster environment to get started with a single dynamic page that can submit a form and display data from a database. I don't have experience with the more recent frameworks, but I'm sure they're very mature now.
I never really thought about this before, but a thermodynamics breakthrough in power supply design, heat management, or power generation could qualify as a state secret.

We know that the NSA makes custom chips, and it's probably harder to know how many calculations per second that hardware can manage than predicting the capacity of COTS hardware based on how hot the building is and how hot the nearest powerplant is getting.

One of the things I loved about the history of the Blackbird is that it held the record for fastest plane, and when a new pretender to the throne arrived, on a couple different occasions they sent up another Blackbird pilot and retook the crown. When a private individual breaks a record, they tend to go as fast as they can. Bragging rights for an military airplane are "mine is faster than yours" not "mine is exactly this much faster than yours". Just keep that classified.
What I think by that is that the core is messages, karma system, creating public communities. The different features on top are stuff like voice messages, file sharing, making polls, creating private communities with encryption that are hugely scalable.

And yes, it's kind of a clash of reddit and Slack if you will.

Feel free to ask more questions :)
Congrats! Glad to hear! HN also helped get me my dream job -- this community is amazing!
https://outline.com/eK8gVY
I can point to specific examples of requiring candidates to be politically vetted before hiring: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/mathematician...

You don't have to block science, if you can block the scientist.

Also take into account this is an official, open requirement. For something like that to manifest, it has to be preceded by a lot of bias.
I was a manager/tech lead from 2015-2019, then went back to programming because it was such a pain dealing with underfunded teams.

Programming actually seems to pay better in third world countries, though, as there's a shortage for specific skill sets, as opposed to developers with 20 years experience who can put together a full stack PHP site or build telco systems, but haven't done Angular.
You're claiming that Watson's views of IQ, genetics, and race are scientific?
If the video doesn’t show anything new then how could releasing it be a “national security issue” as claimed ?
I wonder if as the platforms merge, if AWS will make Fargate into a Google Cloud Run competitor, or if that'd take away too much from Lambda
I believe that's called resume oriented development.
You mean cars that you can walk away from after an accident? New cars are much, much safer than older cars.
Would this NSA capability tell them how much compute capacity China has as result of being the world center of bitcoin mining? Would it tell them whether this capability could repurposed?

Also, can any actor be certain distributed compute capacity can't be harnessed in the fashion of concentrated capacity? How many GPUs does is take to make a Cray, etc?
Hey! I also made something similar to this (uses a password-derived key to create protected, self-contained HTML).

https://www.maxlaumeister.com/pagecrypt/

Mine was originally in-browser, but thanks to some contributors (Zoltán Gálli and Nial Francis) it has Python and PowerShell CLIs now.

I like your use of async to make sure the work stays off the main thread.
It sounds like you think the OP is making a moral argument against games, but I don't believe they are.

I have no moral issue with time spent on games. My son plays quite a lot and I think that's fine.

I have zero interest in them though. There are a lot of reasons for this, but they aren't moral reasons - just preferences. I'd note that this also reflect in my lack of interest in board/card games.

I know a lot of people like me, from all age groups - they'll watch video content but have no interest in playing games. I think that the article author misses that.
Even C can map the returns values -1 through -50 to symbolic constants, typically defined in preprocessor headers.
Hey! S/MIME is broken (see eFAIL) and I don’t believe there exist any mitigation’s to the attacks that have been published.

tl;dr: there exist ways to read your emails without knowing the private keys.
Different cards have different business models. For example, high end premium credit cards (think Amex Platinum, Chase Sapphire Reserve, Citi Prestige, etc.) tend to make most of their money from betting that cardholders won't make back more than they pay annually in annual fees (which is possible considering the annual fees on high end premium cards can easily exceed $500).
> Those things were monstrously durable.

Which is fine until you get in an accident. Then you’d be wishing you bought a newer, safer car....
Phoenix is not THAT hot most days of the summer -- and it's barely hot outside a few hours of the day outside of summer -- IFF you're in the shade.

Phoenix could've invested in trees and shade, and less in concrete to absorb the heat, and it could be much more bearable.
A racial label doesn't tell you much of anything about their underlying ancestry or genetics. Here in the US you can easily find people who identify as white or black who have a mix of European, African and Native American ancestry.

There are people looking for genes influencing intelligence, which is a more practical thing to look for.
What interest me at the moment are contemporary views of Otlet's philosophy of cataloguing and classification.

His Universal Decimal Classification still exists, and has a common lineage with Melvil Dewey's Decimal Classification.

Otlet's notion of comprehensive bibliographic metadata seems somewhat passe, with modern focus on full-text-search and reputational ranking.
His articles on the Federalist for anyone who's interested https://thefederalist.com/author/peterwood/

The paper, along with some really basic googling, raises a big red flag over NAS's impartiality. Namely that:

* NAS was founded by a conservative

* Its president is conservative

* Its funders are conservative

* Its board is full of conservatives

* It frequently uses conservative (arguably far-right) catchphrases like "defending western civilization"

* Often pushes conservative viewpoints such as climate scepticism

* Other conservative organisations call NAS conservative

Yet despite all that NAS, or at least Peter W Wood, consistently claim they are not a conservative organisation.

This is completely absurd. Definitely an advert and no sane person should trust anything that Wood is saying here.
How do you know pg didn't do that already?
664M worth BTC transferred between Binance and Unknown wallets
Well, more details about it are out. It looks like the library worked correctly, but in this case the devs forgot to check something (that the curve had the right params). No amount of writing it in a "theorem proving" language can save you if you don't have the actual specification for the problem itself right.
This was my first response, too. Just email yourself with subject "diary", then the next day, reply to that email, etc. You can even have multi-user versions by sending it to someone(s) else and everyone just replies all. If you self-host your email then it's fairly secure, and has all of the advantages but none of the disadvantages.
"Two and two may equal four" being a bunch of nonsensical racist slandering based on no evidence. Every result ever has pointed that all races and genders are equally "intelligent" and well-suited to the same tasks. And trust me, there's been no lack of racist scientists. It's just that bullshit doesn't stick.
I'm excited for it, but WebGPU is hardly close to ready yet. Right now they're still negotiating the shader language.

But if you want to learn some graphics programming on the web, I really recommend trying out regl. It's a great way to learn about graphics primitives without getting bogged down in the WebGL API directly.

https://github.com/regl-project/regl
There are 6 billion viewers still slowing joining Hollywood's streaming media, it's being tapped in the movie industry well, TV is the next stop. It'll take decades to get the full market. That's a lot of up coming growth.

Plus as billions start getting leisure time, both Video Gaming and Media will grow, not sure analysing the internal market makes a lot of sense.

"7 Reasons Why Video Gaming Will Take Over" has no real meaning without some sort timelines and estimates. In 100 years time we will all just jack into VR..... meh sure. The fact the author seems to not fully understand the current limitations of Video Games points me to they are jumping the gun.
California sues Vinod Khosla over beach access,reviving legal battle
Are there recordings or slides of the presentations at this conference? I think that would provide a better way to judge to what degree they're scientific or non-scientific, rather than all this theoretical back-and-forth debating on Twitter and HN. (I think you both have valid points, though.)
The underlying ideology of these people crying wolf is coming out.
The article title doesn't seem accurate? Although I'm sure they had a faster response time to help it doesn't sound like the person was saved as a result of the actions
What did he win?
I just got one of their retail credit cards and it is the only card I own at this point that doesn’t work with Apple Pay. Even my local credit union has figured this out. I can believe Citi has some bad tech debt.
This is from June 2018. Is this still true?
> I don't know about arrogant

Does Google or Amazon have enough compute power to compete with the NSA? My guess would be yes. They certainly have a good cover story if they were interested in using it for exploits. :-)
As someone who went the bootcamp route, got a job, and absolutely would love a structured CS education that would expand my skills and experience beyond my day to day coding I do now this is very tempting.

The site isn't very specific about location, are there location requirements?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#Victims_of_McCarth...
You can’t be stripped of a Nobel prize.
For me the lack of interactivity is the feature.
Paradox announced EU4 was coming to iOS and Android in 2013 but it seems nothing ever came of it:

https://www.digitalspy.com/videogames/a456278/europa-univers...

Somewhat bizarrely, a Nintendo DS port of EU2 was also in development at some point!:

https://imgur.com/a/O3Fu4
First glance makes me think you would need to attend either Carleton University or York University.
The idea of banking isn't particularly complicated. Basically, you take deposits, use those deposits to make loans, and keep some on hand for liquidity. If you're not getting enough deposits, raise rates. If you're not getting enough stable deposits, you sell products that reward long term deposits (CDs). If you have too many deposits relative to loan demand, you reduce interest rates on both deposits and loans. Rates fluctuate along with supply and demand.

This works quite well in the stock market, so why is banking so different?

My guess is that it's regulated like crazy, so maybe simplifying those regulations would be a good idea. I'm not very well informed on the particulars of those regulations, but I have looked into building something that involves financial data and it's far more complicated that it needs to be. I should be able to automate money transfers just as easily (if not more easily) as doing stock trades, yet the opposite is true. It's needlessly complicated and expensive to get anything done.
Because they are using the tech against enemies would be my best guess..??
How the U.S. military thinks about AI [audio]
Not even race, but just suggesting that evolutionary psychology is a valid scientific field can get you crucified in some circles. Somehow the human brain avoided all sexual selection forces, environmental pressures, and even difference between the sexes; but everything else in our bodies was at the complete mercy of these factors.
Or "I'm uncomfortable with a loud minority attempting to censor me by attacking my Maslow's hierarchy of needs."
They’re profit driven though so they have no ability to focus more than a fraction of their resources on a single problem. What makes governments powerful at solving problems is the ability to justify larger expenditures.

EDIT: to be clear when I say “no ability” I mean practically. Obviously they COULD put all employees on a single problem but they simply won’t.
I have always felt that housing in Singapore is sensible Altho I don’t think it would work here

99 year leaseholds until recently..now Singapore citizens can purchase these public Housing flats. Everyone is housed according to their means. 78.7% of the population is housed in public housing at various home plans and sizes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
That was my theory as well. Understandable.
Equifax to pay consumers $380.5M as part of final breach settlement
Actually, neither this one nor cidr.xyz is fully compliant with the RFCs. Although I don't recommend it for pretty obvious reasons (and most routers probably won't handle it correctly, either), at least in the pre-CIDR RFCs, there is no requirement that subnet bits be contiguous. (I'm actually not sure if the CIDR RFC's address this - I don't keep up with this stuff anymore, and more recent RFC's my finally have discouraged these literally mindfcking netmasks...)

As for IPv6, yuck - it's the most brain-dead nomenclature ever written - if we'd tried* to make IP addresses as impossible to use and communicate as possible, this is wheat we'd do.
Books are way less addictive across the board in my experience. You might find a handful of people consuming them to the point of harm, but when you add together all of the addictive activities on a phone/tablet there's no question IMO
In that case then both perspectives are equally true and false.
The stack-oriented approach can also be used within modern languages to realize the benefits of simplicity and code-reusablility. I created a python package for data analysis that treats a data frame like a stack of columns and lets you manipulate columns using postfix operators: https://github.com/punkbrwstr/pynto
Most of them rely on Javascript or some other "modern" browser feature.

Not very reliable when user disables it or uses client that does not support it.

HTTP headers are malleable yet I still see the big tech companies appearing to treat them as reliably identifying a program/device. A new user-agent string or set of HTTP headers is not necessarily a new program/device.
Yeah, they mention that you have to apply to (or currently attend) one of these two universities to apply to this program.
Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++
Letters are meaningless. BlackRock touts sustainability when just last month they decided to buy up a huge sum of Aramco
Revenue may be growing, but so are costs and competition.
Anything could have happened. (But I agree, the title is a bit of a stretch.)
BlackRock($7T Assets) CEO Larry Fink:Climate Crisis Will Reshape Finance
Congratulations, and have a wonderful time in Sao Paulo! You rock!
I wouldn’t say robust beyond dispute, but Brown disavowed their own professor’s research because it disagreed with the orthodoxy:

https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/31/explosive-ivy-league-st...
I don’t get the downvotes either. The US banking system objectively sucks. There is no excuse for system-wide ultra-low cost instant inter-bank transfers.

Why the hell are we writing checks in 2020?

The only thing that keeps it from happening is lack of political will.

And seriously, why the downvotes? Who is here actually defending the US banking system? Speak up!
That hard part would be preventing HN from doing people's job / homework here.
Not as good as the 3.5mm jack, which works in all ways.
What else should they use that average people would understand?
How much TV do you think is watched with others?
This is also a fun way to use an email-based coupon multiple times...I have yet to find an instance where this fails validation.
I have similar views regarding nation state sizes. secessions are extremely rare and all we're left with is legacy states as guiding examples. Apparently federalism and confederation within larger entities has long ago lost it's allure, especially in the US.

I'm convinced the "political divide" that the US has long featured, well before the internet and the 2016 election, was largely to due to its size and expansive heterogeneousness.

Meanwhile the liberals look with envy at the governments of smaller states like Scandinavia, Australia, Canada, and others, with by compartision - a far smaller representative governments and very often less direct gov economic intervention (they prefer to gloss over that part) parthttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/Index_of_Economic_Freedom.

The US used to value its state-driven system with priority, the judiciary branch still seems to which I why I adore them - but the same can't be found in confress and senare, and I think it's long due for them to remembrance state sovereignty.

Each state should be as originally designed - individual experimental grounds for which other states to learn. If California or Oregon wants to be a super-liberal mecca - let them be - with aggressive climate policy and what not. Then they provide the world with a functioning model which to copy assuming it works well for them. Same with Texas or New Hampshire...if they really want to adopt a more

I loathe this trend towards the federal government doing and enforcing everything. It defeats a fundamental founding principles of the founding fathers - liberty via strong state sovereignty.