skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PK1eDQyVg

The attention to detail in this video is amazing (e.g., MS-DOS window on Mac), and very funny.
something something impedance matching
Same here, I have an apt which is 30 min commute from downtown chicago and pay highly for it. But to me it's worth it over having a very long commute or finding a different job. Opportunities outside of the city are much more limited.
I've worked on server hardware with dozens of devices on a bus :-). Making sure addresses were programmable was a must indeed.
Yes, but it is (as of this moment) an experimental feature.
Add "?svg=1" to the end of the URL to enable this feature [0].

[0]: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/4
What does “execution dependent” mean? (2009)
It Isn’t a Game
It has consumed my existence trying to safely use and operate 2 MacBook MacBook Pros and iPhone 11ProMax in the last three months NOTHING will work to reset permission to delete hacker-modified folders. I am self-employed and work from home with extremely sensitive client data. I am completely fucked and I will never trust Apple now when I now I can’t even delete a folder from my hard drive.

I’m going now but but it almost everything except “fascinating” to those of us laid flat out by this absurdly incompetent work by some guys who just think they are the absolute coolest at Apple.

Know that.
Says google whose entire business is built on tracking users.
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FWIW, SARVAVID is mentioned in the "Related Work" but "it lacks generality".

And "Biopython" is misspelled as "BioPython." A common mistake.
brb starting my venture-backed FORTRAN coding school
No steering wheel.
> I printed out the source code for the network stack and sat > down with a red pen.

Does anyone still do this to get to know new code base?
I wouldn't say it was very ethical of Mozilla to force out Brendan Eich.
Its velocity and position on the road should be enough?
What happens? I'm not an immunologist, and "common sense" certainly doesn't seem like the way to think about the behavior of something as complex as the human immune system.
Dude, my alma mater is still TEACHING 3 or 4 semesters worth of fortran for numerical work.
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AT&T Monkeys with HBO’s Swing
I'm all for this and I love that there's a big push for thinking about ethics. What I want to know is how can people find ethical companies? Most advice ends up being "stay away from Amazon/Google/Palantir/Facebook/etc.", but how can people best find alternatives? One of the appeals of the big names is that you know they've got lots of interesting tech work and you know it'll be good for your career - the "brand" name cuts out on a lot of research you might otherwise have to do.
Agree, those are the longer term efficiencies when we have primarily / only autonomous vehicles on the road. At that point we can optimize from the system POV not just from the vehicle POV. But that's a ways off.
> Just because we're all living in the status quo doesn't mean we can't change because we're all hypocrites for living with the status quo. Aspire to something better. Even if you're currently benefitting from or struggling against the status quo.

I'm not convinced by this argument. The status quo may exist because there are fundamental issues with changing it. Those issues don't go away with wishful thinking. Attempting to change things while praiseworthy may end up do more harm than good. At the best, if it doesn't end up changing the status quo, you just wasted energy, and bothered other people. But much more likely seems to me that we are trading some pros/cons for others, it's not a strict improvement or even an overall improvement.

If one tries to analyze attempts at change that failed there are lots of common patterns. One of them is being ignorant of the fundamental reasons why the issue you are trying to change is the way it is. Being ignorant of the reason behind that makes it much more likely you will fail at your task.
Is pushing a particular ethical framework on young people ethical?
This is speculative

> and you may just be trading one poison for another one or a worse one.

What poison exactly? This almost is whataboutism.
Notably, elastic's Kubernetes operator which just went 1.0 defaults to requiring a username and password (and generates one if it isn't provided). It also doesn't seem to allow you to opt out of using TLS.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-ove...
America's hardest places to grow up
All these kind of comparisons are apples to oranges. If you ignore every advantage of one technology then the other will look good by comparison. The best comparison is actual industry performance in deploying new installed capacity.

Canada has some ridiculous geographic challenges to overcome. Transmission losses are far lower on grids in more densely populated areas. And HVDC/Ultra high voltage AC give more options. And anyway, what's wrong with wasting 25%? There are obviously some good reasons to do that.

Also, a relatively short interconnector can be useful. It can be used to satisfy demand in a neighbouring area. In turn that area can generate less or can export more to its neighbours. The power has a knock on effect across a much larger area. But the great thing is that they are not monolithic. It benefits everyone, and can be a modular element of a larger system. This even works out well for energy storage. A pumped hydro site in a mountainous area can benefit people across the other side of a country.
New York is a special case and you can't use it to make general statements about transportation at all. Due to its density, not owning a car is pretty common in NYC, but unheard of elsewhere in the US. The vast majority of the population lives in low or medium density places where mass public transportation is a huge waste of time and effort.
I was very impressed with "Camelot" (https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/). My impression was that it extracted maybe 80 or 90% of the text properly, far better than anything else I had tried.
"Two reasons why people do stuff - one that sounds good and the real reason." - JP Morgan
I've done it before, although not recently.
I understand the logic, but I can't help but feel that this type of assessment is really shortsighted.

Would Facebook have passed this "test"? There was Myspace and Friendster dominating. How about Instagram? Why would anyone want to share photos elsewhere when everyone posted their lives on Facebook?

We all know how those stories ended.

Your firm's method only addresses the current market in current conditions. Having the foresight to see the currently unseen before anyone else is what yields amazing results. And if this is the main reason for killing something like this off... let's just say I'm glad I don't have my funds there. :)
Thanks for the pointer. And praise. I have several bios out there, for different purposes. I should update that one .... and the web site. Been meaning to do that for a long time. sigh

I don't have the interest to evaluate Seq. I only did bioinformatics for a couple of years, and that was almost 20 years ago. I am incapable of giving it a serious look. My cursory look is that it's only really meant for DNA, and highly optimized for the specific k-mer benchmark compared.

My personal opinion is that developing a new programming language is a hard and almost thankless task. Yet they are also so very fun to do.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, a number of computational life sciences packages (eg, Sybyl Programming Language (SPL) from Tripos, X-PLOR, Scientific Vector Language (SVL) from CCG) developed their own domain specific languages. They were successful (IMO) more because of the tools available through them than the language themselves.

In the early 1990s I started work on VMD. We had a simple scripting language. As one did back then. I found that Tcl was similar, embeddable, more powerful, and cleaner than anything we did, so we switched to that.

As a result, we got a lot of things "for free", like easy access to third-party packages designed for Tcl, and the faster bytecode engine from Tcl 8.

I switched to using Python full-time in the late 1990s, and again saw just how much I got "for free" by using a language designed by people with software language design and implementation expertise, and with the vast set of support packages.

Seq also gets some things "for free" because it builds on LLVM.

But since it's completely independent of the CPython run-time and garbage collection model, it's impossible to build on any of the existing modules.
I use Firefox every day, I like Rust, and I like what Mozilla stands for. The hard thing is... I'm pretty sure a significant portion of their revenue comes from Google, which is ironic.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
(It did from 2004-2014, and then probably has from 2017-current)
Ironically, the archive link you provided also doesn't load for me.
No worries! It's something that makes Mozilla different from many other high-profile tech companies, where as you advance most of your comp increase comes from stock grants.
Is that relevant? Nobody can provide such a citation for Google Cloud Platform either; the discussion is entirely around reputation of the parent company, not what the company claims it does with cloud services.
Those articles describe PTFE as "stable and non-toxic at lower temperatures", starting to degrade into concerning and toxic byproducts at 500F/260C.

As a rule, I try not to let my rain jacket reach 260C, but your local weather may differ?
Where does your impression of been a jerk come from? You could not find it in your portfolio much less in this (humbly) post.

Now about the question, without talking about yourself, we see jerks been hired all the time, and not fired, because:

1. they are brilliant and the tradeoff is worth it
2. they are protected by someone

the first one is acceptable (as a boss and as a colleague) if it doesn't trespass some limits. The second is always awful.
Every day we drift further from God.

To my mindset, this brings us closer.

GOD = ASSEMBLER .AND. FORTRAN .GT. NODE.JS
Why are users entering brand names into google instead of going directly to the site? How can we change this behavior?
Curious that the reporter decided to not report on why they tried to stop the report from being published. Did the EPA have insufficient evidence? Did The White House believe this would cause unnecessary panic? Were there legitimate concerns not being addressed in the big picture? Is Orange Man Bad? Regardless of the reason, this information should be present in the article, otherwise it is left for reader to imply as to why, based on the bias or attitude of the article or their own interpretation therein. Even if the motivation of the EPA and the government is suspect, it should STILL be reported on, otherwise it's not reporting.
The people I have in mind have multiple cars, and (where I have in mind) there are no mountains.
Not to worry. All the fluoride they're intentionally doping the water supply with just fluoridates your insides to give you a forever body. Just kidding. It goes from the stomach into the bloodstream and straight up into your teeth to fortify them and give you forever teeth.
Margin calls are the primary difference. (InteractiveBrokers and Robinhood have pretty good margin rates: <=3.05% and ~5% respectively)
Being forced to sell at during a temporary low is the major threat, whereas most people who kept their house during 2008-2009 are doing fine today.
I'm of a grayer constitution... I'll take the best option I can, that still ensures I'm helping support myself/spouse/household. Any chance I get to make a less-ethically-compromised choice, I'll take... but if I have to scrape and fight and do nasty things to hold a basic core of existence together, I'll do it.
Is this essentially a superset of the techniques they use to identify gold bullion? I understood they have a map of trace elements by mine so that gold isn’t really fungible (if stolen or used for criminal activity, they can figure out where it came from and connect the dots).
>And yet even here, there is widespread surprise at the news that iCloud backups are not fully encrypted in such a way that keeps them private from Apple.

Anyone who thought Apple kept iCloud backups fully encrypted was being willfully ignorant. Apple has been fully open to the fact that they share iCloud backups with the FBI, this exact same situation happened in the San Bernardino case where Apple provided the backups but the FBI cried about how they wouldn’t unlock the phone.

The tinfoil hat advice has always been to turn off iCloud backups. I don’t buy that anyone privacy conscious should have missed the fact that even Snowden was saying “use an iPhone but turn off iCloud backups” for the last several years.

If you got caught by surprise, then you weren’t paying attention. Apple wasn’t keeping it a secret that they would share your backups with law enforcement. The only reason this is possible is because today they don’t require you to enter a password to restore your iPhone to a new phone. Even the way the technology works today implies that Apple can read your iCloud backups without you knowing.
One of the bad things about having an ultra-stable core of GNU utils as that they've largely ossified over time. Even truly useful improvements can often no longer get in.

It's a sharp and not-entirely-welcome change from the 80s and 90s.

Here's another that would be great but will never be added: I want bash's "wait" to take an integer argument, causing it to wait until only that number (at most) of background processes are still running. That would make it almost trivial to write small shell scripts that could easily utilize my available CPU cores.
Pokémon Clone Temtem Is So Successful Its Servers Are Crumbling Under Demand
I must be misunderstanding this because the way I read it it invalidates itself.

If we suppose that we cannot solve the problem with individual ethical choices, and taking part in political action is indeed an individual choice (let's assume ethical), then organized political action as an aggregate of individual ethical choices cannot solve the problem.

Separately from that, I'm skeptical that a majority-ruled political system that largely runs on "donations" from unethical companies will be moved by an ethical minority.
Was Paul Feyerabend Really Science's "Worst Enemy"? (2016)
I suspect it'd be more spindly than that if scaled up. I'd bet it'd scale more to the 2nd than the 3rd power, so more like $1750.
Interesting, because on the surface it's just another ticketing system. From the screenshot on techcrunch, it does look like it has a compelling UI, but I'd be hard pressed to think a better UI will be competitive against entrenched players. Obviously I'd be wrong since they seem to be getting significant traction.
What do you make of the articles claim that a world running on 100% nuclear energy would exhaust all known uranium deposits within 25 years? Were they just lying?
> If rank-and-file employees are expected to work for market rates, should executives be expected to work for market rates also?

This feels like a misleading question to ask. There are plenty of disputes about "market rates" for both groups, so the premise isn't one I'd agree to. Market rates are decided by these decisions, not the other way around.

If Mozilla was able to get adequate leadership at the rates that didnt grow faster than rank-and-file wages, that would have been a more ethical decision overall. If more companies did the same, market rates would reflect that. Unless you think there was no such leadership available at that rate, in which case we simply disagree.
Sometimes saying "Yes" or "No" is the difference between having a job the next day or being unemployed. It would be different if everyone was declining unethical development, but there is surely someone to replace you. 3 months without work can really crush people - especially those who have a family to support with no safety net.

This isn't always about role models and being upstanding citizens. A lot of us in this field are fortunate enough to be able to decline work based on ethical stances. Anyone can say no. Can they afford the consequences?
I can write Fortran in any language!
You can do it with one of the hosted services. I don't know which ones support it exactly, but GoatCounter does (although it's kind of an undocumented feature until I merge PR #122).
Lots of number crunching code relies on Fortran libraries even today.

Install numpy, it will pull in Fortran stuff.
Mozilla's revenue comes almost entirely from selling traffic to Google. If you think Google is unethical, the same can almost certainly be said for Mozilla. This is just Tethics a la Silicon Vally on HBO.
Defender is probably one of the hardest games ever made, if only because of the wacky controls (a 1D joystick that only moves your ship up and down, and a button for reversing your direction).
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/everyday-we-stray-further-fro...
Cool, thanks. Support is pretty great now if you stay within the basic plane and emoji.
South Korea had a very interesting experiment last year. They randomly selected about 500 people to decide what to do about nuclear power in South Korea. They were drafted to spend several months learning about the pros and cons of nuclear power and then voted on what the country should do. This is an extremely interesting model to me.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-South-Korean-president...
This kind of thing happens often in places where you need a US Clearance to be employed, and, you get judged at all ends of the spectrum. Too new, too old, too different. It made a bit of stink when I showed up to the work site in an avocado green former US Forest Service Chevy Tahoe I bought at government auction. Also, the Colonel's Secretary "inadvertently" got hit with a window tint violation ticket ("too dark") by Base Security on her brand new Kia sedan with factory tint.
Like most things it depends. Different payment-gateways support different levels of integration. The highest fidelity ones support itemization. The more information you provide typically reduces the fee that's applied.

For more information google "Level 2/3 Credit Card Transactions"
This is very true.

If you're a company in desperate need of a turn around, you're not going to have a lot of luck in finding a great CEO unless you offer a competitive compensation package and a guaranteed payout.

That's why you see failing companies' CEOs walk away with big packages. They won't get a good CEO unless they offer comp comparable to other companies they could work for.
This response is completely warranted when you don't lead by example. It's easy to rally the troops to charge the front lines while hiding in your castle.
Ask HN: What are (y)our ethical stances in software?
I believe in and support some fundamental things like open source, decentralization, creative commons, and net neutrality. Sometimes I feel like I fall into some kind of hacker news stereotype and other times I feel like I am an oddball idealist with nobody to relate to. So I would like to ask HN to share your foundational ethical stances of software issues. I'm curious to see how homogeneous we are or if there are distinct groups of thought among us? Do we have some shared vague sense of a "best practice"? Is there an area of study around this that already exists?
Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default search engine
It looks great, but is the rendering of the OSM data the main thing or am I overlooking a feature here?
Well...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2018/08/04/bbc-wouldnt-d...

https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/05/monty-python-actor-terry-gill...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5898519/BBC-boss-sa...
> "U.S. surveillance laws failed to counter terrorism"

> "The patchwork of U.S. surveillance laws has proven ineffective at countering terrorism"

Where is the proof? I can not find it in the article.
Scratch is designed to encourage children, not discourage them. Syntax errors are the bane of learning to program for the first time.

As sibling comment indicates, it's also good to be able to code on a tablet, but I didn't think that would be as convincing to parent who seems opposed to graphical interfaces in general.
When I asked my current employer re: the background check required at hire, they gave me a similar line about "financial distress as a key indicator of fraud... etc etc". Whether or not the fraud is actually happening, it's a hiring practice that I've been subject to. (Texas, U.S.)
> Burndown List
>> Banking, especially in Asia

My bank in China requires Windows + IE + a custom ActiveX control to use their Internet banking. As a result, I don't use it. One of my accounts can be used via their mobile app (if you read Chinese or have another phone to use camera translation). My business account cannot be, and I am therefore required to visit a branch along with my official chop (seal / stamp) whenever I want to make a transaction.

In every bank branch I've been to, the computers are using ancient versions of Windows and IE. That actually applies to the PSB (a branch of the police) too. I think it might be a while before they get off IE.
>. Because we need them and alternative browsers more than ever,

Unfortunately, Mozilla seems to be focused on everything except for making Firefox better than Chrome.
Someone needs to tell Microsoft.

The Microsoft License Advisor, which has the pricing info for Windows,

https://mla.microsoft.com/

on Firefox pops up a box which reads

"Internet Explorer Notification
NaN
and newer versions.
Download latest version of Internet Explorer"
The death of IE cannot happen soon enough. Our organization only supports IE11 now, but even that is still a terrible handbrake on our dev process. So many tickets get reopened because of issues found only in IE, and it limits both the features we add to our application and the general polish/look/feel we can achieve.
It's one way to avoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting
On, Off, Fucked
For the most part, what happens is nothing. PTFE is completely biologically inert, which is why it's commonly used in surgical implants and prosthetics. Only the finest particles (<100 nm) have been established to present a biological hazard, and these are very hard to come by.

Ingested PTFE passes right through the digestive system unaltered. You can scrape the non-stick coating off of all your pans and eat it, and there will no detectable fluorinated chemicals in your blood.

However, if you heat that nonstick pan above 600 deg F, the decomposition products can easily injure you, and sometimes worse. But even in this case, and main danger does not appear to be microfine PTFE particles, but rather chemical nasties like fluoroacetates.

There are many studies on this. One example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11042093 - "Pulmonary effects induced by ultrafine PTFE particles"
Ask HN: What's the easiest/cheapest way to get mockups converted to HTML/CSS/JS?
Specifically, I'm using Adobe XD, but the same question should apply for Sketch, etc. I know there is a plugin that can do it for XD--partially--but I'm wondering what alternative there is for someone who wants a good front-end codebase that's easy to build off of. Anyone used a service they liked, or some other approach?
Best way to identify small fund/asset/money management biz
For fintech research: what is the best way to identify smaller (<100M AUM) fund/asset/money managers who want to sell out?
There's no reason man pages can't be both.

Many man pages contain examples and common usages. See for example the rsync man page, with complete examples of how to backup common file systems.