skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find lookml extremely useful but if you have something built for event analytics I can’t wait to try it. Looking at the docs, it’s not clear to me how I get started though. Maybe an introductory tutorial on open source stack and freely available dataset would help a little with that. Just a suggestion.
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I.e. Broadcom stole Caltech patents and didn't pay royalties. Apple uses Broadcom chips (like many others). So they'll pay too.
DoD contractor suffers ransomware infection
Irish tech company Decawave acquired by Apple supplier Qorvo in $400m deal
As long as there are market regulations, and as long as people have some kind of morals the market will stay a long ways from being perfectly efficient. Any profit-making trade that you can't make because of legal or ethical reasons shows a crack in the efficient market. That may not be a bad thing, but it's so important that we recognize these imperfections and keep them patched so that they're not exploited.
> "On the other hand, it's far worse than "20G per satellite." Bandwidth is limited by available RF spectrum, and that's not magically gonna increase with satellite count."

That's not true. More satellites allows you to put them in lower orbits, increasing spatial multiplexing. Yes, even for the same spectrum.

This is not like mobile where the phones have fairly omnidirectional antenna (improving to a handful of elements under 5G). The user terminals will have dozens if not hundreds or thousands of phased array elements, allowing connections to multiple satellites simultaneously and very narrow beamwidths. The satellites also have phased arrays with lots of elements.

I agree that dense cities and optical fiber will still be able to beat out Starlink (and similar), but there is PLENTY of room for using the same amount of RF spectrum for vastly greater bandwidth using spatial multiplexing and phased arrays on both ends and multiple, cooperating satellites in view simultaneously.
Incorrect.

Can I still ride a Vespa down this stretch of Market Street to the office?

> "Confirmed by SFTMA: Vespas not permitted. No private motorcycles either."

https://www.kqed.org/news/11798594/market-street-is-now-car-...
The A-10s cannon is overrated. Everytime I see it used most of the rounds miss the target.

Targeting should be less dependent on the pilot IMO.
> The total cost of the F-35 program is expected to be $1.5 trillion over its 55-year lifespan

As of 2018, the estimated program cost was ~1.5T, or 1500 billion dollars.

"""The F-35 currently costs between $94 million (F-35A) and $122 million (F-35B) for low-rate initial production run 10, though sustainment cost projections are as big a concern as production costs for a program that is expected to cost $1.5 trillion over its 55-year lifespan."""

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/09/04/f-35-program-update...
What's the advantage of this over something like reddit, which has a programmerhumor sub?
Visual Studio Enterprise is my main dev environment (C#/C++) so I use Visual Studio with Python tools as my main Python environment as well. On Linux is use VSCode, which I like a lot too but I wish they weren't so different. The VS part of VSCode is really a misnomer.
I'm not a "Linux community member" but I have never understood why having a popular distro that included non-F/OSS libraries and tools in the distro to make the transition easier for people coming from macOS and Linux was such a bad thing or a reason to fight. If, instead of Ubuntu, something like Mint were the Linux distro option for Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc then new users could do "common user things" like watch Netflix, play a DVD, etc. Those of us a little more hard core already know how to get Fedora, Debian, or Slackware running (and drivers cajoled into working) on the hardware so why not aim for a larger audience? Making Mint a popular choice will be a benefit for Debian (and Ubuntu as long as LMDE isn't the flavor or Mint being offered and supported).
The Scientist Who Got Deep Brain Stimulation to Cure His Alcoholism
LabCorp security lapse exposed thousands of medical documents
The corresponding jepsen post: http://jepsen.io/analyses/etcd-3.4.3

I do no work at all in this area, but i love these reports. They're examples of well-written, clear, "engineer-mind" reports that we would all do well to emulate.
Joining Tailscale: Simplifying Networking, Authentication, and Authorization
Do people pay for their problems to be solved in such a way? As long as I can translate PoW into cash, it stops providing benefit as PoW.
Understanding Hybrid Concurrency Models
You need to remember that F-35 is a peace project. It is supposed to suck up money from the military industry that would otherwise be employed to do much more harm to the humans than F-35 would ever be able to.
It was beautiful on iPad. Maybe it is designed for mobile.
Let's not also forget that people are extremely adept at hypocrisy.

Such as valuing honesty but lying when it suits them.

And then there are degrees of ethics that would be obviated in special situations such as: When would you consider killing another person justifiable? (Vigilante problem)

Ethics are not absolute for most people. And many don't even know they are not. And the answers change based on emotional state.
Dell, HP Memory-Access Bugs Open Attacker Path to Kernel Privileges
Is there a benefit to doing this over something like Cloudron(1)?

I see this being for people that just want things to work without much of the effort to make it so. If that’s the case, a simple web UI that treats all the little solutions as “apps” in a way makes sense. Not plugging here, just curious to the practical everyday differences.

1. https://cloudron.io
There are many examples of effective governments, yet it still is considered an outstanding achievement.
Epidemiological characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Can someone explain to me how this problem is related to "areas made uninhabitable by climate change"?

I mean, is this a poverty issue, a race issue, a taxation / government issue, or a climate change issue? Or many or all of the above?
No -- Staten Island (and the VZ Bridge) exists. The government is too incompetent to toll the Holland and Lincoln tunnels accordingly.
I agree, but I'm wondering if there is anything inherent in its design that facilitates this. Or is it mostly attributable to the fact that it makes use of LLVM?
United Nations withheld news of systems hack in European offices
That sounds more like an ops problem than a business one. I’ve worked with a number of a non-technical roles that dabble in SQL, and it’s almost always they are querying a data warehousing solution (e.g Redshift, Pig, BigQuery) that doesn’t support indexes to begin with and most times just have to live with the performance.

It’s not their job to optimize the database, and it’s no different from seeing that a dev pushed a new feature that causes bad performance as well
It's incredible that Finland gives you a monthly grant to become an entrepreneur. Definitely wish something like that existed in the US, even if only possible at the state level.
The product I work on has the opposite problem -- our team speaks English and French (mostly US-based), but a minority of our users have either of those as a first language. Our product is in twelve languages, and most of our users seem to hate video subtitles, so everything has to be text. The product is too complex to do meaningful video without spoken or written language, which makes onboarding design incredibly tough.
Canada is currently going through a competition to replace its (non-Super) Hornet fighters:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

The two main candidates are the F-35 and the F-18 Super Hornet (the Saab Gripen is unlikely).

There was much drama with this because the previous government announced a sole source contract. Then there was confusions as to how much it was actually going to cost. The original plans got cancelled, and now we have an RFP.

Of course the F-35 is a so-called fifth generation fighter, and there's already sketches about six generation stuff:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth-generation_jet_fighter

Soemtimes I think Canada should skip the 5G, buy the Super Hornets (and perhaps some Growlers), and then leap frog to 6G.
State Unlocked: Interacting with State in Apache Flink
Too bad it's not homeless free.
Completely fine with going to a PAYG model for sent emails, it's a shame that inbound mail will no longer be supported at all on that plan though
Cryptocurrency investment
I invested 90% of my retirement payment in cryptocurrency investment and in binary options with the mindset of getting it multiplied and enjoying a better retirement life. It was sweet and smooth from the start, withdrawals were easy and consistent until it gets to a point I started to be denied withdrawals and that was how I lost all money, I couldn't get my investment amount back not talk of the bonuses. I contacted several lawyers but it was all waste of time and money, they couldn't render an inch of help. God so good to my old self and family, I later met with a certified binary options recovery expert that helped me recover my money from the brokers, it was worth it to pay him 20%. You can contact the expert on if you have found yourself in situation like this
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This qualifies for /r/assholedesign
Speeaking of System 76: is Pop_OS easier to use than Mint? Does it support things like watching Netflix and DVDs without needing to look for packages and apps to install?
The point is not to win the case. The point is to get the attention of someone in legal, who will take the request seriously.
Does anywhere in the US have time-of-day restrictions?

The main pedestrian streets in Copenhagen have signs indicating delivery vehicles are only accepted between 4-11am. Hopefully this links correctly [1].

(Since the US doesn't use the international road sign standards...) The blue square with people means pedestrian area. The circular red cross with a blue background is a restriction on stopping (or parking) vehicles between 11:00-04:00.

Scrolling along the pedestrian street, I see Google used a bicycle to take these StreetView photos :-)

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@55.6816155,12.5756814,3a,26.5y,...
I've crossed or gotten around Market to/from my work for the last 3 years. These articles are more hype than anything. Thoughts:

1. This has been slowly under way for years, and finally closing it cars really isn't a big deal. I would never have willing taken Market east of 10th for years, there's better and faster routes. (Mission, Folsom, etc)

2. You can still cross Market on car. You have too, going between the Financial district, SoMA, and then highways, 80, 280. So there's plenty of cars around.

3. Market is already clogged full of buses, trams, etc. It's not like it's turned into this walking boulevard heaven.

4. The article calling "one of the cities busiest...thoroughfares" seems pretty disingenuous. I admit I don't have the stats, but in the closed section it's slow, essentially 1 lane, ton of lights, etc. Yes there's a ton of buses, trams, etc but for cars...I can't see it. Is it really busier than Mission, Howard, Folsom, Harrison, Pine, Geary, Oak, Fell, Gough, Van Ness, etc? Ex: Franklin is 4 lanes of traffic going 1 way, with a timed green wave of lights.

5. West of 10th up to the Castro then Twin peaks, and when Market turns into Portola, now that's a busy road, and I use it a good bit.
High-definition solar telescope produces its first stunning images of the Sun
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I think 10000 was probably too generous, but 625 also seems a bit too little as well for hobbyists.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548487

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684163

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2907415

Smaller but interesting threads from 2010-12:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482002

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101451

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2910849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1547353

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1355309

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269090
Ironically so they could save money by not developing 3 different aircraft!
No Code Accelerator (Alpha)
Hi HN,

I'm excited to announce we're going to do an alpha run of our no-code accelerator. We're going to select 5 companies and help them:

- build their product
- launch their product
- raise money (or make money) depending on the goals.

What it entails:

- 8-week program
- Meet virtually every week
- We'll help you build your product
- We'll help you validate your idea
- We'll help you find funding if/when you're ready

We won't be charging for this in any way.

I'd strongly prefer the 5 people come from IH so if you know a lurker on here just "@" them and tell them to apply!

Requirements:

- some work you've done to validate the idea and the market
you work on sales and marketing as hard as we do on your product for the entire 8 weeks.

- I'd like to get this started in Feb, but I'm more focused on getting the right people together.

Why I'm doing this:

- I don't know where this will lead to. Perhaps raising a fund, perhaps not, but the best way to find out is to give it a try.

- I need NoCo.io to get beat up a little bit so that the product can evolve (or be killed)

Apply Here:

https://k8ty.typeform.com/to/QeJhfQ
Sorry my post appears like a low effort dismissal, and I did not want to single out your post specifically, but I think there should be a middle ground between this is the end or this is a non event.
A Harvard super chemist has been arrested over lying about secret China payments
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> we need physical protection installed everywhere so that cars cannot even enter bike lanes

This is very effective at saving lives, and more enforcement is no substitute.
The intersection of modern OTA updates and configuration management
It is indeed. Makes taking the risk of going from employee with lots of protections in Finland to freelance with no protection whatsoever much less dangerous financial wise.
Love that they think banning most vehicles from a main traffic artery is going to reduce congestion. Classic SF urban planning move.
Cloudron.io seems pretty nice, speaking as someone who uses/works on a different platform (Sandstorm.io). Cloudron is going to cost you money if you want the benefits of automatic updates and the like, which is a downside for some (I think paying for good products/services is worthwhile), but I absolutely think making management of a ton of apps simple like a phone is the key to self-hosted online services. One of the biggest features of a good self-hosting platform should be unified authentication and identity, so you aren't managing your account on a dozen different apps.

I've always been impressed by Cloudron's well-maintained app library and constant march of major feature improvements to the platform.
It's also cargo and the way the build system works.

Build scripts in Rust are written in Rust, not some ad-hoc declarative build language. This is a really good decision because you can do insane shit in your build scripts.

Also macros, you can generate say bindings relatively easily.

I've been doing some cross-platform GPU stuff lately and Rust makes so much of this a breeze.

I can't imagine combining C++ projects this easily.

I'm really bullish on wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs). It's the Rust implementation of the WebGPU standard. It goes beyond the web though, it's a really nice GPGPU API to work with and will be a popular API in the next decade.
On the other hand, most targets probably only require a single hit from that cannon.
> The performance concerns of event-based servers have been greatly alleviated by both hardware and software advancements.

Threads haven't exactly stood still in that time either, especially if you include green threads, fibers, coroutines, etc.

> If you're looking to squeeze 100,000 concurrent tasks from that $5 server, this paper is relevant to you.

It's relevant regardless, as part of a long-running back and forth between threads and events. For example, Eric Brewer was one of the co-authors of this paper, but also for the SEDA paper which was seminal in promoting event-based programming. I highly doubt that we've seen the last round of this, as technology on all sides continues to evolve, and context is a good thing to know. Those who do not learn the lessons of history...
> Basically a couple of brilliant engineers closed into a room with the sole task to built a stealth plane.

I think being able to focus was a big part of it. The F-35 (and F-32) is a 'kitchen sink' of a plane: multi-purpose sounds great in theory, but rarely works out in practice. Especially if you try shoehorning VTOL into the picture.

If they had tried focusing on the F-35A and C variants, perhaps things should be less complicated.
"Enter your postal code" generally works about as well though.
The Bradley fighting airplane.
> Making an interface for a few columns of a few hundred rows sounds like the classic NCIS hacker line "let me quickly code a GUI in Visual Basic to run that IP address check".

I can understand that, but keep in mind; I add a new line at the end of the spreadsheet for every new vocab word that is highlighted by the book.

I had to look over to make sure I got everything so the words need to be sorted. So I had to select everything in the menu -> two clicks, then click sort->another two clicks. For every few words...

It was much easier just to make a button into the spreadsheet that does this for me. One click.

It was also a perfect excuse to learn about macros. If you ask 'what's the point?' for every fun little technology you learn about-you will become depressed fast.
good news for people all over the world, i guess
Was an interesting read, thanks! Excited for the future where now I can become That Guy™!
Do you have a link to your resume? I'll see what I can do.
I'd say it has everything to do with the current state of affairs in SF. I don't think it's the post-apocalyptic hellhole that many make it out to be but property crime here is really out of hand.

Police don't take anything less than a stabbing serious (I had my motorcycle stolen and the police came by 6 hours after I called them and then jetted off to stabbing within 2 minutes of arriving). I called the police 6 times in the first few years I was here, every time they arrived at least an hour later and provided absolutely no help. Last time my motorcycle was stolen and I found the guy parting it out on Craigslist, they were of zero help. I just don't bother anymore.

One of my friends that lives on Capp street witnessed burglars in an obviously stolen car with stolen goods, divvying up those goods in the middle of the night, and then went into a neighboring house. My friend was on the phone with the police as it was happening and they recorded the whole ordeal on video. Police slowly cruised by an hour later and that was that.

I understand that jailing people won't magically fix all of our issues, but the approach we have been taking is obviously not working. We need to try something new. I personally like the idea of hiring more police and getting them to constantly patrol their beat so that they are in-tune with their community and the community feels the police presence. Because at the moment, parts of SF, especially the Mission, feel lawless as fuck.
For reference, as I wasn't aware myself, GHC stands for Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
The problem with modeling data isn't the lack of tools or the need to approach this problem differently. Plenty of solutions exist. People just don't care, and this is ok.

It used to be that you needed tools like Informatica and Kimball inspired datamarts, but databases are now bigger and faster. Whatever data modeling problems you may have, you can easily clean up in an ETL or a BI layer, with relatively little effort. This makes tools like Looker, dbt, and Holistics a luxury and not something you need to have. I wish the industry would put more effort into defining clean data models, but I think that ship has sailed. The prevailing trend seems to be to create Data Lakes, add a BI layer, then call it a day.

[edit] Also...some database points. The industry never shifted to using NoSQL to replace RDBMS systems. But event processing matured, NoSQL db's are ideal for storing unstructured data, so you see them in data engineering stacks. Greenplum is a free MPP database that has been around for nearly a decade. The point about Spanner SQL is interesting for the fact that Spanner evolved from NoSQL like methods to a SQL like dialect, but Spanner is a unique flower in the industry, due to being an HTAP db.
If I'm being honest, I haven't really mucked around pycharm. My primary hate really is using a chome/firefox/safari browser window for the notebook interactivity.

Personally, I use Atom with Hydrogen backend, but I develop the files in sch a way that they tend to end up as working for both interactivity and for scripts. So say my train_keras_script.py works both to train when it's deployed on our GPU server, and works as my primary debugging script.

I tend to throw most of my results into a .png output files and .csv's, the latter of which I use for R analysis scripts (and yes I know R Studio has markdown, but I'm just stubborn I suppose ).

In terms of IDE bells and whistles, I think #1 is certainly autocomplete. I will admit that I can be somewhat of a crummy speller. When first learning to program, it caused me a lot of headache trying to debug. Simple syntax checking and autocomplete of variables (especially long variable names that are meant to be descriptive) made me really embrace programming professionally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
IMO, for Canada's needs Super Hornets and a few growlers will be more than enough.
I believe the representation is no longer implementation defined, but signed overflow is still UB.
Yes, of course. But I'd be happier to be able to manage this in a combined GUI (like snowflake) as well.
In that regard I have been working on a light-weight, extensible vim distribution[0] that makes for a great python IDE.

[0] https://github.com/L0stLink/anvil
The products I work on, I know which customers are asking for which features. I also hear from the managers and BAs why features are requested. It's not a stretch to assume the developers in question knew what they were adding and who for. And at the very least they could intuit why.

What's really hard to imagine is developers implementing features without understanding what they're implementing.

Not saying they alone should be thrown under the bus, but shame on them!
Prescribing extended release opioids (which are known to be _highly_ addictive, even when used "appropriately") should never be the first choice for pain management. It should never have been presented as an equal option with non-pharmaceutical and non-opioid interventions.
Why We’re Investing in Neighbor
Make your product so good that it doesn’t need any annoying walkthroughs, tips or checklists.

How? User testing, full story, user interviews, detailed product metrics, continuous improvements and giving your designers a lot of power.
I think part of the problem is apathy to get involved. There's so much that can be done at the local level that can affect things. Our mayor holds an annual meeting with each of the four wards of the city. Just this week the mayor said that last year a total of 350 people attended those meetings. That's 350 out of 52,000. For a once a year meeting to learn about what the city is planning on doing and to give your feedback.