skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Somebody is probably exploiting it and you just aren't aware

I tried finding an example, and asked last time this was on HN as well, and thus far I've not found a single example.

Absolute security isn't realistic; it's often a trade-off between convenience, cost, etc. I can probably break in to your house by throwing a brick through your window ... should we now all invest in more secure windows? Doesn't strike me as a good trade-off for most people.
If you are an accredited investor you could follow companies like Orthogonal - https://www.orthogonalthinker.com It doesn't seem like you can easily invest right now.
Many Software Engineers haven't internalized this concept of time value. A lawyer or a doctor would never do real work for free as part of an interview process but for some reason we don't see it that way when it's about writing code.
Depends what they get in return.
Admittedly, I haven't read the article yet, but can you explain why they are doing this now? All indicators seem to suggest the economy is strong, so why are they resorting to tactics we last heard about in 2008?
If the 2% mortality rate is correct, then the risk of dying to the virus is significantly higher than my risk of dying in traffic. It is bad if such a potent virus were to spread everywhere.

That said, I don't trust the numbers so at this point it's hard to say. My gut says there are way more infected people than reported, but deaths are probably less likely to be underreported at that scale. Which means mortality rate would actually be significantly lower than 2%. On flip side, the chance of getting infected would be much higher.
golang errors are very badly designed. If you want better designed errors-as-return values, check out Rust or Zig.
It's very different from the US, and that's probably the reason many of my comments were heavily downvoted in this thread.

In the EU, it's very hard to lose the job. It's even harder to lose healthcare benefits. Therefore, people have much less pressure and even somebody working at the Booking.com call center in Berlin can take half a year off to decide what he wants to do next.

However, "hundreds of workers" who "defy Amazon rules" to "protest company's climate failures" are not lowly paid warehouse employees. They are tech workers, who probably make 200-500k / year, and have plenty of options in their lives.

These protesters are far from becoming homeless overnight.
These are the ones self reporting and getting prompt care.
One thing those disasters have shown about nuclear is that a single accident -- even if there is little loss of life -- absolutely ruins the economics of nuclear power. Even an accident with no loss of life will cost an absolute fortune to clean up and decommission due to how hard it is just to handle and transport the material.

Prior to Fukushima nuclear power was fairly economical in Japan. Post-Fukushima and in retrospect it would have been cheaper to cover every roof in Japan with solar panels, build loads of offshore wind, and build massive energy storage facilities and pumped storage reservoirs.
What I learned as a developer from accidents in space
All those pages that you found of people having exactly that same combination of educational background can be simply explained. They are the default sample content of the Team page on certain Wordpress themes (Therefore also the WP in ‘Blockchain WP’). A quick Google search shows that for example the FinanceCo theme from Radius has the same exact Education listing.[0]

So the other profiles you found could just be sloppy webmasters who didn't remove the default Team pages of their Wordpress theme.

[0] https://www.radiustheme.com/demo/wordpress/themes/financeco/...
How is the legalization of a plant that explicitly cannot be used as a recreational drug related to the legalization of a mushroom which can be?
microsoft cannot get naming right. and it's not only the azure team, everything microsoft is weirdly named. a good example? the new console is called "xbox one x series". why microsoft.
To cut through all the econ BS, basically because they stopped doing it for a while and markets went down a lot, then short term (overnight) lending rates start to spike higher and they freaked out.
We use this at work. In short it's multi user paint, we largely use it as a tool to facilitate meetings.

They've (we've?) done well in driving adoption across the org - dedicated resources, no direct recharged costs attached to use, collateral shared.

Personally not a fan but it does have it's advantages over "standard" presentations.
If the iPad was a standalone business, and had no access to the Apple ecosystem or brand, do you think it would still generate ~$20B/year?

Obviously we can't know, but the point is success is relative.

Some people might expect better from Apple and so their standard for success is higher than $20B/year on one of their flagship products.
The God Box (2004)
How many gigawatt of nuclear power are built each year, and what's the trend curve on those numbers?

And what are the equivalent numbers on solar and wind?
> I wonder how long they will support 32x Windows 10?

I noted in another comment that they have a similar problem with people wanting VB6 open sourced, because so many businesses rely on VB6 apps - some written internally or exclusively for their business.

Windows 10 (from what I remember) almost didn't support VB6, but in the end they included the runtime DLL to allow for the apps to work. I wonder if this is a part of the 32x thing? Seems a likely possibility...

VB6 and the companies relying on it might be an albatross around Microsoft's neck; for how much longer, I'm not sure.
Thunderbird’s New Home
Facebook has a similar thing near my house but it doesn't say my name. I guess small victories.

I posted this on FB in case I can get any of my friends who work there to help :)
folks should try it for a couple months. Leave the Macbook or Win10 laptop at home, and force yourself to rewire your brain into the iPad affordances and apps

Stop using other devices and give yourself a few months to learn the basics? This is how I used to encourage people to try desktop Linux in 2001.
She said the R0 is 14? Seems very inconsistent with other sources(Chinese or otherwise[1]). We can take this video into consideration but there's no need to disregard other sources completely and only trust her.

1. example from another comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168981
The Federal Reserve, which is the central bank of the United States, is creating new money in order to purchase US government debt, which is essentially equivalent to the government printing new money in order to finance its own spending.

Looking at it another way, it’s no different than some guy printing counterfeit US dollars in his basement and using them to buy real assets. The outcome is the same in either case - the counterfeiter and the government both get to spend newly created money while simultaneously devaluing of the purchasing power of the dollar for everyone else.
Zoom-Zoom: We Are Watching You
Weird, that first screenshot [0] contains Audible's logo [1] which is an Amazon company (far right icon in the first row of icons).

It looks like they are repurposing Audible's logo to mean "Dynamic Command Execution" [2]

[0] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47648296/72893326-...

[1] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/audibleweb/arya/navig...

[2] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47648296/71859554-...
the data is divided up into torrents of a few GB to some dozens of GB. pick a few that you find numerologically interesting (i download ones with my birth year in their number) and back those up.
The Qt Company and a silly decision waiting to be reverted
Most Americans support right to have some personal info removed from searches
> So what can the researchers do to close the sale, if the actual science won't work?

Maybe the problem is that the science won't work and they're trying to spin it otherwise.
I'm sure you are expert in something and every time you see news articles in your field they seem silly. This is the case of the general discussion of 5G and spying.

By the emotional and scared tone I assume you don't know how mobile network works and what the core network means and are confused. As you can read from the article Britain has decided to exclude Huawei from the core.
I think this phenomenon shows the importance of communicating to the drivers that a green wave system is in effect.

You can't really fault people for driving myopically if they don't have high level information.
4-12 years, https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/anna-delvey-sorokin-sentenced...
They could omit those parts. Sure, it wouldn’t even build, but this wouldn’t be a “product” anyway.
Here in Iceland it grows in a few places in the wild around the capitol. There are usually group pickings after the first cold spell of autumn (september/october). Have gone a few times.
The US government's yearly deficit is over $1 trillion. 8.5% of the government's budget alone goes to interest on our debt (https://www.usaspending.gov/#/explorer/budget_function). To pay for the deficit, the treasury sells bonds (debt) which is immediately purchased by the Fed with newly printed money. Notice how equities are at all time highs - money is flowing to whatever it possibly can (stocks, housing, art, VC, anything) in order to chase yield. How people are saying inflation is low... I think they are measuring inflation wrong!
well, java isn't really complicated. it's just verbose. but my understanding is that d has many of the features of c and modern cpp. that alone makes it more complicated than java...
MIT media labs does exactly what other academic labs do, just more visibly.

ie. go down promising areas, end up with no significant inferences and a lot of utile effort, and in very rare cases, make breakthrough contributions.

The key difference being that the things Media labs work on is usually in areas with underdefined academic landscapes, which makes it hard to make any significant progress.

Media labs is not the frontier of academic research that some make it out to be. Rather, it is just like other insignificant academic labs, in that they mostly produce duds. Media labs is just higher risk and higher reward.

However, the amount of media hype they generate definitely belies the amount of significant progress it produces.
> Most money is dumb and flows in a herd-like manner into things that look superficially like things that have been successful in the past. This includes stock market money, government money, and yes even VC money. You often have to trick the world into funding genuinely interesting or productive work.

The last few decades of US economic policy has been based on the idea that private investment is more effective than taxing and redistributing money. But as it turns out, it's not just the government that's dumb -- all large investors behave in this dumb, herd-like way. And at least governments are more comfortable spending money without expecting a return.
So the app actually works in the background and is meant to serve web pages from your daily driver phone (ie. out of your pocket). This particular phone is plugged in just because it serves the example pages which get higher traffic and should have higher uptime.
>they're really selling the image of technological progress.

That's such a broad brushstroke.

Consider, for example, Echo Nest's research in machine listening in Barry Vercoe's Music, Mind and Machine group. This all made it into Spotify when they acquired Echo Nest. His work led and pushed other researchers in the field at ISMIR, etc. Hard to downplay the impact of Spotify on our culture. This is not "hokum."

And as I shoulder-surfed the whole thing, I can tell you it started out as a crazy dream. When Brian Whitman and Barry began it, CPU power was meager, GPUs were scarcely recognized as general computation aids. It was mostly about music similarity instead of social features. (I like to think I helped Brian think that way, egoist I am). Even storing 1,000,000 songs was once difficult. This was in the AJAX and perl days.

But like Brian's daydream, many other projects there are daydreams. That's the point of the ML, to try the daydreams other people won't. Not to disrespect others for taking on research more likely to result in tangible results. In fact, that's very sane! So if you want to critique the place according to some personally-applied standards, that's great, that's your opinion, next.
Hmm it's a bit more subtle than that. There are all kinds of ways to misrepresent progress, the simplest way is to pick bogus metrics. For example, all of machine-learning based dialog system work uses metrics that were designed for machine translation ( basically n-gram overlaps ), this is an example of a metric that you can improve on but is meaningless. So the resulting system is very much the dog-and-pony show variety. Or people who use simulations to train and test ML systems, and say the metrics get better but do not address the sim2real gap.

> I asked an Ivy League professor about hype and they said the exact opposite of your Ivy League professor

The context matters, I have heard the opposite response as well, from a professor I was working for, while he was doing just that: packaging narratives w/o regard to how well the methods actually work. The honest take came at a wine-and-cheese party from a professor I was not working for. There is a real conflict of interest here, and if people stand to gain by withholding information, they will do Just that.
Do you think using templates for certain kinds of emails would improve the quality of communication?

Like how there are issue templates on Github, say you defined a template which recruiters could use to approach you.
My favorite naming trouble with Azure DevOps is trying to troubleshoot a project-level issue in Repos or Boards for example and trying to filter out the mostly unrelated Azure DevOps Projects (the almost-but-not-quite CloudFormation-like tool) documentation.
Your last statement does not make sense.
This is a great idea - would love to have this info integrated into nuget.

Most likely people aren't going bother to run this on dependencies themselves (not to mention every version update), so having the info surfaced at the point of decision would be very useful and reach a ton more folks.
DigitalOcean – An Update about Intel’s Recent CVE Announcement
Ask HN: How can one survive in the current software engineering market?
There are layoffs happening constantly, and gone are the times when people would spend years in one company and only then transition.

My condolences to all the people getting laid off, hopefully you find a better opportunity. What I wanted to know is how can one survive in this current software engineering market? The few ways I see is to either - 1) acquire knowledge that very less people in the organization have. 2) create tremendous value that everyone thinks twice to fire you

Or is the game so screwed up that there is no chance of surviving and getting fired is inevitable and one has to just keep moving on from there?
i don’t agree with your assessment of the indicators.

We haven’t hit target inflation, because labor costs have been resisting upward pressure due to underemployment. The fed thinks it can paper over structural problems with cheap money, resulting in capital asset price inflation and increased wealth disparity...furthering barriers to real wage growth.
Ask a Baha’i that.
Any computer is only useful because of its software.
What do you do with the waste? Blow it into the sun?
I was 100% against nuclear because I fear the risks.
But I believe it is a tool we must use.

Most nuclear plants have been working 20-40 years. We need new designs for safer, cheaper plants, and a viable storage for nuclear waste.
> But I see so many artists... we talk to artists, we interview them. We did a video with a guy who won lots of Grammys, works for lots of people, and he’s like, “I assemble samples in the back of my car using my MacBook Pro. I love it. This is how music is made.”

> I’ve never won a Grammy for music, so I wouldn’t know about that quality.

I honestly have never cared for (bordering on hated) Neil Young's solo work, but this comment is utter gold. Music, and the way it's produced and consumed, has gotten lost somewhere along the way, and this is a scathing rebuke from someone who understands it on an intimate level. It's become a (usually throwaway) commodity rather than the artform it once was. The science has moved from how to make it sound better to how to make it sell better.
Wouldn't this analyzer upload entire source code to Microsoft as telemetry?

/s
That's like saying SQL is just syntactic sugar around loops for databases. Might be true but it misses the whole point of declarative programming.
We almost had Windows .NET Server. I don't know how the Windows Server 2003 name managed to win out, but the world was better for it.
Could you say a bit more (provide some links) explaining this active second-hand market? I love my SE!
It means that the US economy is in much worse shape than various indicators (successful stock market, low unemployment, high price of US government bonds) would indicate.

The government regularly spends more than it takes in from taxes by issuing bonds. People buy the bonds because the US government is considered quite safe. That in turn lets the government spend money, which ultimately makes its way into the economy as a whole. People use that money to hire workers, buy stocks, etc, making the economy look good.

But the Federal Reserve Bank has the ability to invent money for buying those bonds out of thin air. That means the bond prices stay high (and the interest rates low). That implies that the current strong economy is an illusion, and that's worrying.

The expected response of extra money being pushed into the economy without added value is inflation, and the inflation rate has crept up over 2%[1]. It's actually a little surprising that it has taken this long, since this is actually something they've been doing for over a decade. There is considerable debate about that, but it may be that the inflationary chickens are finally coming home to roost -- in which case things might get real bad real quick.

tl;dr: this indicates that the economy may not be as strong as we think, caused by economic manipulation by the Federal Reserve to make the economy seem stronger than it is.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm
And ten years later, with little done, this kind of a statement would look really bad in retrospect.

We need both fast actions and we also need actions that take ten years or even thirty. Everything helps.

I've been participating in climate discussions for multiple decades.

The less we do and the later we do, it's going to be worse. But it's still better than not doing anything.

Ie there's no point in time, after which it's not worth doing anything.
Maybe these journals should get together and duplicate the Scihub interface which pulls from whatever sources the user should have access to.

I have never used these services at a University. Do they even require a login? Or do you get automatic access just from using a terminal on campus?
Yeah the supposed genius of private markets has been massively oversold.

I really think the power of capitalism lies not in some magical ability of markets to make good decisions but in the freedom it affords to route around bad decisions and the bureaucracies and corporate institutions that make them.

In a vertically integrated Soviet-style economy a single bad bureaucracy results in the total failure of that industry. It's not really possible to sidestep it; there is no "permission free innovation." In a free market those big dumb slugs still exist but it's at least possible for some people to go around them.
They have the largest bookshop in the world: http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/worlds-largest-...
I would have settled for XP. I love that clunky old thing but Win7 is the cooler faster son that was "just right" with the most new features (That you actually want) before a lot of the legacy stuff rotted off in windows 8. (Still technically there but showers you with errors if you attempt to use)

Obviously this will never ever happen for corporate, licencing and government reasons but a man can dream...
Video: How Myst’s designers stuffed an entire universe onto a single CD-ROM
You don't need to, but doing so with a virtual on-screen keyboard is annoying and slow compared to using a separate laptop.
A broken clock is right twice a day. ZH has an overt political bias and is a perennial pessimist, but they do actually perform meaningful economic analysis.

Edit: Then again, their articles sometimes feature near complete fabrications, i.e., "Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari [...] said that it was time for the Fed to pick up where the USSR left off and start redistributing wealth", which is not even remotely close to what was actually said.
Thanks for pointing this out! I'm affiliated with the project and we've merged the fix.

This issue is that our example projects are bundled with the main project and they can fall out of sync from the latest stable release. We also version the examples and point to those in our docs but of course the `master` version is always what the users see first on GitHub. We should add a note on this in our main GitHub readme.

And I do feel your pain when it comes to (some) software geared towards other developers. I think UX (and especially UI) tend to take second place to just pure functionality. We try and put a lot of effort into the developer experience but of course we slip up every now and then :)

I hope you'll give it a second chance, now that it's been fixed.
> This isn’t for pilots to know where they are, it’s for air traffic control to know where planes are.

Yes, thank you for clarifying. I just explained that I am a pilot, so I did know that.

It was an analogy. Just like the way that pilots have multiple redundant "where are you tools", so too do I think traffic controllers will have multiple redundant "where is everyone" tools.

Because the industry, as a whole, is in favor of multiple redundant tools when it comes to safety.
This is what I don't understand. A global pandemic of epic proportions is about to occur and you're concerned about legality?

Ship them back on a one way trip.
Ah. Here we go. The tech vultures wanting to get their hands on everything and commercialize it.
I've driven from Alaska to Argentina[0] and right around Africa[1], and I've met a bunch of people that have explored a lot more of the planet than I have.

Without fail, every single person that has been to Iran rates it their number one country, and the one they most want to go back to. The people are so friendly, the culture so rich, the landscape and architecture so stunning.

I absolutely can not wait to go.

[0] theroadchoseme.com/expedition-overview

[1] theroadchoseme.com/africa-expedition-overview
Who are "the people who stand in the way of using normal political mechanisms to regulate carbon emissions"?
Bought my new property in 2016, it’s GCH. Only comes on in deep winter, and that’s with a thermostat at 21C 24/7
I think for a long time they simply had no idea what road they should walk down. So they tried a bunch of stuff, walked in circles and wasted money left and right. Now they settle down on what they always were and try to maintain the established userbase while not scaring them away with too much innovation, and instead delivering conservative improvments.

This came with a shutdown of freeusers heaven, and focusing more on the paying customers. Because of which many people seem to be cranky over evernote. Similar think seems to happen at the moment with dropbox too BTW.