skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what your point is. I feel we may have a different idea of what very high level abstraction means in programming languages.

Just about everything in software engineering is a compromise of sorts. Not knowing Rust or C++, I doubt they're as high level as something like Haskell or domain specific languages like SQL. Are monads first class citizens on C++? Type classes? Generalized Algebraic Data types? Parametric polymorphism & pattern matching? And so on.

Would you really achieve the same amount of type level guarantees, equally concise control flow and concurrency on C++ with an equal amount of lines of code as would be possible on Haskell? If not, then there obviously is a productivity penalty. Just like on Haskell there is that performance penalty for not being able to drop down close to the metal.

From what I can tell, these languages are not aiming to be very high abstraction level languages but instead solid systems level languages with some convenient abstractions and design patterns baked in from higher level languages.

Sticking only to some zero-cost abstractions limits how high level abstractions it is possible to bring to the language. This in turn limits productivity.
> Not to mention they're just some random people, nation building or not. No rational reason to treat their work like some higher command centuries later.

We treat their work "like some higher command" because it literally is that. Their work (the Constitution) creates a framework that overrides anything enacted by contemporary legislatures. The reason that's so important is because we often (usually?) don't agree on what rules should be. America has large numbers of people who think guns should be banned completely, and also large numbers of people who think teachers should carry firearms. The Constitution is a meta-rule that mediates those disagreements. Of course, to the extent we don't like any particular meta-rule, we could amend it with a 2/3 vote. We don't do that because we don't agree on what the alternative meta-rule should be!

It's entirely rational for everyone to adhere to those meta-rules. Democrats in New York can't just decide to ignore the Second Amendment because once that's out the window, Republicans in Alabama have no reason to respect Roe v. Wade. Everyone tries to interpret the rules to sanction their specific approach, but declaring that we can just decide for ourselves what the rules will be, without reference to the meta-rules, would lead to total breakdown.
There is also a hilarious SQL on Rails video but I'm on my phone and don't have the link right now.
I absolutely do understand that. But there are economic principles at play here too. A $7,500 rebate is effectively a lower price without costing the manufacturer anything.

While it is true that the buy has to meet the $7,500 threshold for that to work (which is not insignificant) for much of the lifespan of rebate availability, the cars were averaging >60k. Hopefully most people buying cars in that price range have incomes that make $7,500 in tax rebates possible.

By the time that the prices had dropped to 50k, the rebates where closer to $3,700. How many were sold at each range and what percentage of the rebate was accessible? Hard to say... thus the range of possible subsidies.

Either way, though, this was effectively a big help to the business.
Doesn't that just punt the problem down to the next generation rather than impacting the preceding one?
_how do companies like Volvo/Geely plan to transition the existing dealership network, or will it result in mass layoffs?_

Good question, let's stock up on popcorn.

There are multiple forces acting on this, and they will interact in ways we may not anticipate. What we do know is that simply selling the cars does not pay the dealership's rent.

Maintenance is a big source of their revenue, and we anticipate that EVs are going to drive that revenue way down whether dealers are selling EVs or not.

How will Volvo's dealerships react to the XC40 P8 and any other EVs Volvo is going to sell? That's as much a threat to their existence as the Polestar vehicles they aren't allowed to sell.

I don't know, but I have a ringside seat and the first couple of rounds have been exciting.

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My personal thoughts in this area is that the really big thing we have to think about isn't the dealerships, or even the slow-to-react Big Three US carmakers.

The big thing we should keep an eye on may be the role of fossil fuel oiligarchies in politics all over the world. They are already heavily invested in so-called "conservative" politics, fighting any and every attempt to discuss or even research climate change.

These are people who will stop at nothing to maintain their wealth and power. They will topple democratically elected governments, undermine democracy wherever it is found, lie, cheat, steal, and bribe their way to supporting their supremacy as the rent-collectors for using stored energy.

I'm much more worried about oiligarchs interfering in the rise of EVs than I am about dealerships.

JM2C.
How Is IoT Technology Proving to Game-Changer for Energy and Utility Industry?
I like the legally correct phrasing the MS blog (https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/01/22/access-misconfigu...) said: "While the investigation found no malicious use".

If the DB server was configured so access was not logged, could you claim "We investigated, and we didn't see any evidence of access"?
a few weeks ago my blood needed a checkup.
They sent me the results by mail.
The results where on a non password protected but 'unguessable' url. And the page ofcourse contained google analytics, I'm in the EU, I wonder if this is legal
> No, they serve two different purposes.

I don't see why they could not serve both purposes.

Man pages should start with a tldr section followed by the full reference/spec.
Usually the highest paid executives (w/ cash) are the ones at low performing companies because executives don't want to work at low performing companies. From the outside it looks like they're being rewarded for the company performing poorly, but from the inside it's more like "this is what we have to do to keep everyone from jumping ship to Salesforce/Twilio/Tesla/sexier company."

But hey, someone with more knowledge of Mozilla than you or I should really be the ones defending this. Maybe some are reading this thread and don't mind chiming in?
I wouldn't care if this weren't a .io site. But now I am intrigued by how cool this looks.
VC versus Bootstrapping in Todays Startup Space
VC Versus Bootstrapping in todays Startup space?
> What I find annoying is the number of command line programs that don't even have man pages anymore. Or maybe that's just an artifact of installing them with brew?

A messed-up MANPATH environment variable can also cause man pages to not be found. In ‘man’ used on many flavors of Linux, MANPATH behaves differently from, say, PATH: an empty colon-delimited section means something like “use the system’s regular ‘man’ configuration for finding man pages”. Without that, it seems like a bad MANPATH setting will cause default mannpages not to be found.
It depends. We do commercial pdf and scanned information extraction as well as table detection for line items for invoices, receipts and remittance slips. We have been successfully using rule-based system for years but are mixing in deep learning now. I also know a about 5 other companies competing in the same field. So, I wouldn't say it is underdeveloped.
I drove my 500e next to the four-door 500 this morning, and was astounded. I don't see how that huge thing is in any way related to my tiny car!
Please stop with this kind of garbage content on HN.

If you want to read random people bitching on Twitter, just use Twitter.
You monster! /s
When buying smart devices for your home, just remember folks- the 's' in IoT stands for security.
Well, if someone doesn't bother to learn about history of computing...
The same thing that's been happening for thousands of years -- we adapt. We gather together and support each other.

Capitalism wasn't the dominant mode for most of human history, and Neoliberal capitalism especially so (coming to prominence in the US in the 70s).

There are other ways to organize work/workers, for example into workers co-ops which have been shown to be efficient even at scales of billions of dollars of annual revenue.
That is definitely not ‘the whole truth’!
I hope this doesn't start to become a trend here.
Thoughts on when a non-techinal founder should learn to code?
As a non-tech founder, I’m currently in a quandary as to whether to learn to code. I've got pen & paper wireframes mapping out the respective screens & user flow & intend to create a high fidelity interactive prototype using Axure with its conditional logic functionality. This will give me enough interactive functionality for people to play with it & understand the offering. It should provide initial feedback, to confirm value prop. and give me a base from which to iterate going forward. My thought is that position I then have grounds to either shop it out to a contractor to build a more robust MVP or 1st version or alternatively to encourage a tech co-founder to come on board & hire a few engineers to build it out. I know there are a number of factors to answering the question & my main consideration is time. Is it worth me spending 6 months or so learning to code, just to be able to hack together something half-assed when I can achieve value prop confirmation in a fraction of the time using the aforementioned method. I understand learning to code I become a more well-rounded founder + am better placed not to be BS'd regarding technical stuff or timescales. However I'm not looking to play the martyr & learn to code just to appease people. For clarity, I have a basic understanding of some technical lingo & concepts & different programming languages etc but still, I wonder if this could see me through. I started learning Java in order to build an MVP for android, but I stopped. However it did give some insight into the process. My app is a social platform of sorts, which although down the road map, will become more complex - at present has a relatively simple range of functions (I understand even with the relatively simple. I’d appreciate your views on the matter.
Maybe I'm too optimistic but I think the net risk is reduced with more readily access to updates. The terrorism line just really doesn't strike me as a likely threat. Regular bug fixes and improvements to daily use are likely to save far more lives.
Besides, there should be so many audit/checkpoints in front of the release chain, that scenario just seems implausible (but I do conceed that stuff can also fail or be bypassed- let's hope Tesla and other manufacturers have decent IS engineering)
As designed.
10% of their budget? I would reconsider donating, they don't need the money.
John Wick 1 Interactive Data
The us population is still increasing.
Looks vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. (https://fortran.io/static/model.html)
Air safety certification could be seen as a market, with the buyers being localities (towns, cities, city-states, counties, etc).

I don’t think the issue is so much “markets vs govt” as it is accountability vs impunity. The issue with single-payer, nationalized air protection is that there’s a single point of failure and there’s no reasonable means of individual dissent (pulling funding, voting with one’s feet, etc).

Of course this line of thinking leads to some very politically incorrect conclusions.
Two things are interesting about this to me:

First, the fact that bacteria can have memory!!

Second, the fact that this surprises me. Trivially, even for a single cell animal, it is not shocking that it might gain some survival advantage from having a memory of sorts, and that is really not a high bar to jump over in terms of required infrastructure. Almost any sort of very simple memory could be used advantageously.
Yes! I considered adding a bit about i2s, but since the article is already clocking at ~2500 words I thought I'd leave it to another time.

I2S is everywhere in audio.
Please enlighten me how it is less error prone than TPL and Dataflow.
Which sucks because everyone affected now has to operate under the assumption that some one else did access it.
The documentary is The Devil We Know. It is riveting and heartbreaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_We_Know
I love my Fiat 500e! I could fit two of them into most American parking spaces.
That's ~5x the size of the planned ISS set. So if you scale up the set, you would need ~125x as many pieces or ~$8750 for ~100k bricks.
> it falls back to MTProto over HTTP

Could you expand on their usage of TLS and HTTP? Surely they don't send anything in plain-text over HTTP?
"I think the real takeaway from your story is that you shouldn’t make friends with judgmental people, otherwise you will let them peer pressure you into acting against your best interests."

Socio-cultural pressure has brought us to this level of advancement civilization and morality wise.
This doesn't fall under the umbrella of "judgemental people" unless you mean to use such a wide brush to literally encompass everyone that's ever existed. "Peer pressure" is not always negative and in this case it most definitely wasn't. It was a corrective mechanism that worked very well for OP.
Whoa, there! Not so fast. In addition to things like home insurance, maintenance, etc, there's opportunity cost on the (I'm guessing?) 20% down payment. If GP had invested that 20% in a broad-market index fund over the past 7 years, I suspect it'd have grown a hell of a lot more than $100k.
I have a theory that we use most of our intelligence to rationalize behaviors that did not come about by reason. Over half of nazis were christians, for instance.
It is still heavily used for numerical code in various places, especially aerospace (to avoid reverifying code with new languages or just to ensure new work can be accurately compared with old work)

There's even a CUDA compiler.

As I understand it, lack of pointers makes it possible for fortran compilers to parallelize code quite well.
Corruption, regulatory capture, and worst of all... convenience.
Your definition of generating value is narrowly linked to interest-bearing or dividend issuing investments.

Even with that fictionally higher standard and procedurally generated definition of "investment", renting out a part of the house is generating value.
Baker stepped down as CEO in 2008, and over the period linked Baker rose back up to Executive Chair and now acting CEO. Kind of makes sense that she made more money.
Criticizing is fine, sure but calling them they ruined the web? A bit stretched?
I don't get why it ever needs to be on the internet even when it does have authentication. Surely the public/private subnet split is a common practice.
I think I2C and SPI have very different use cases. Over I2C, you can interact with 127 devices with just 2 pins. To do the same with SPI, you'd need 130 (4 + an additional CS for every device on the bus).

You may think of the extra pins as not a problem, but on every product I've worked on we've been pin-limited on the MCU.
We were paying customers for front for a few months in 2018. We quickly outgrew it because our daily email volume grew from a few hundred to a few thousand a day. Moved on to Freshdesk which isn't as pretty as Front, but worked better for higher volume of emails.
"his life story made me jealous"

Don't believe it. Like him being king of the village??? LOL
There's a nice list here: https://julialang.org/research/
No. Botnets are large and broadly distributed enough to render protection methods based only on the IP or IP block ineffective. They're commonly used for mailbombing attacks such as those described here: https://www.wired.com/story/how-journalists-fought-back-agai...

Do you think a botnet with 10k machines is going to be meaningfully inhibited by making each machine's cpu run calculations for a second or two for each submission?

I'm sure reCAPTCHA looks at the IP and IP block as one of the inputs to its ML algorithm, but as one or two of perhaps a dozen different features - including mouse movement and/or keyboard input, which is quite a bit harder to fake.
Present the threat. Present the solution. Rinse. Repeat.
Isn't it a bit too late (maybe 20 years too late) to work on new OO language? Not that I discourage you, but what areas of OO in languages not explored/expressed by now (say, by C#, Java, C++, younameit) ?
Reddit AMA with Developers from the Half-Life: Alyx Team
Twitter app not working on android
Based on your the silly name you used to describe the NYC team, I doubt you are serious. Anyway, you first need to pass the interview before you can really consider joining.
as long as there is openstreetmap data for it It should work for rural areas as well :)
Clickstream Funnel Analysis with Apache Druid
Executives (in general, not at Mozilla in particular) rig the market in their own favor. Everyone knows this. They're not fundamentally better or more competent 99% of the time, just members of a more exclusive club who can easily do deals outside the market.
If I bookmark and keyword it the first time I spend 15 minutes searching for it, I can save 15 minutes next time I need it.
Yeah, they’re like a kickstarter campaign, except if you don’t support it they send guys with guns to your house to threaten you and take your stuff.
Hilarious. I was thinking maybe go out and find an old, rusted-out, barely running AMC Eagle, but this is better.
See also the documentary The Devil We Know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_We_Know
Isn't the difference what we make out of submissions? Fake or not, neither does preclude having a serious discussion about a topic.

What stood out in the letter was people being under the general suspicion of fraud when there is the indication of financial problems. Is this really happening in the U.S.?
If that was an option, sure absolutely. I've never met a person who could actually afford a 20% downpayment recently (5% downpayments are common here in Michigan, for real humans buying houses in the past decade or so).

But yes, if you are wealthy enough to afford a 20% downpayment on a house, you are wealthy enough to potentially have opportunity costs from other investments at your disposal. Agreed.
It's more like he bought a cake but the brakes were faulty and it skidded off the road and killed an innocent trifle.
With the BYTE accessors and binary constants, I find bit and byte manipulation to be far easier in common-lisp than in C.

e.g. set the 3 bytes starting at bit 2 of x to the binary value 110:

(setf (ldb (byte 3 2) x) #b110)

or set the 3rd byte (8 bits starting at bit 24) of x to 0xab:

(setf (ldb (byte 8 24) x) #xab)

The first example compiles down to the following 2 instructions on sbcl/x64:

; A4: 4883E1C6 AND RCX, -58
; A8: 4883C930 OR RCX, 48

NOTE: The values are 1 bit shifted from what you might expect (binary 110 = 6; 6 << 2 == 24, not 48) because SBCL uses low-bit tagging to distinguish integers from pointers; working with arrays of unboxed machine-friendly sized integers (8,32,64) works as expected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_fume_fever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene#Safety
I always find it informative to check a company's fb ads to learn how they pitch themselves. Front has pretty neat ones: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...

I'd probably test big text on a static image that says, "Make your businesses email way better" or something like that to get business manager's attention quicker as people scroll fb.
Not sure if I agree with the 'Scalable' section of the article.

As an embedded Linux developer, I appreciate why a company might want to push updates autonomously to their product. But as a customer, I want to choose when/if my device gets updated. I don't want some company to break my device without me knowing about it.

Maybe the right answer is to give customers the opt-in ability to get automatic updates.
Most people don't know what UL is or that they even exist. Of the few who do, many probably believe it's some government mandated thing.

Regardless, just because UL seems to be doing a decent job (I'm not really qualified to comment on that, just going on an assumption here), there have been other industry groups that were supposed to do the same thing and were basically utter failures. For example, the EnergyStar organization giving certification for a gasoline powered alarm clock[0].

[0] https://gizmodo.com/a-fake-gas-powered-alarm-clock-once-got-...
Pledge and unveil aren't inherited. So you can use a helper process for opening files.
Ah, okay!

My question more on the lines of application level access control. As in how to ensure one user can only modify certain data in a table?

For example assuming a social networking site, if entire database is exposed one user could update the profile of other user knowing their user ID.

I think firebase used to have a concept of security rules for such things
In a word: devops.

Developers are not operators and operators are not developers. The whole idea that we can do away with this specialization and and relegate operations to the people that create software because it is now possible to script infrastructure and to install complex packages with a few mouseclicks does not make it true. Operations and the complexity that goes with it is a job in its own right, no competent operator would have left this situation as it came out of the box.
They were ingots found in shipwrecks and do not appear to have the characteristics of a metal reused.
Create more affordable housing and the ethics will take care of themselves. Salary is one of the most important factors in most job decisions, especially for folks that have dependents. And living expenses in a given region, which are most significantly influenced by real estate valuations, are a big determinant of salary requirements.

Fix the housing crisis in highly inflated markets by creating more supply (i.e. rescinding exclusionary zoning bylaws) and job candidates will be able to afford the more "ethical" choices.
Yes, put both things in the man page!

Looking at some examples of tldrs, it mostly boils down to the most common use cases as examples. So well written man pages already have an "examples" section, and that really helps!
You could, and it would be an interesting challenge to come up with the sorting which makes the data most compressible. (The question of how to sort data for optimum compressibility is something I've messed around with a bit: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs#sort---key-compression-... An interesting tool designed just for this is 'binsort': http://neoscientists.org/~tmueller/binsort/ )

But it would also be completely different from (and easier than) the existing benchmark of wikitext, which is what everyone uses and judges NN natural language modeling progress by, so there wouldn't be too much research interest in it, and it's not clear how useful it would be. After all, AIs don't get to reorganize the entire universe to make inputs come in the most convenient order for compression.
If people were purely economically rational actors, maybe. If they own a home they already have adequate transportation for themselves 99% of the time (only exceptions I am aware of are aging suburban populace who can no longer drive) and often don't want to pay for what they don't need or believe the expense will be greater than the gain. Maybe if traffic reaches a critical mass such that transit becomes the quicker option and roads aren't remotely viable.

Second there is an all too common ugly undercurrent of bigotry viewing it as bringing "undesirables" that they worry will lower it or negatively effect their lifestyle.
A Matter of Facts
/r/SubSimulatorGPT2 – Simulating Reddit Using AI
The thing is their executives are probably not worth their salaries. A lawyer that drove down Firefox market share, image, and the org is still highly depend on Google to survive. Despite all this marketing BS.