skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really do not like having to make calls about fraud for months because some countries military decided to attack electronic property holding a ton of sensitive, very hard to change information. Biggest cyber theft of PII information in US history.

I think it is best for the population on the other side to feel that as well which is why I prefer an electronic counter attack. We need deterrence. If China was to "jab", let them use other means of interaction that doesn't make us want to attack them physically. The more people who are affected financially by this, the more the call for a physical deterrence whether we agree with people's feelings or not.
Fair. I should have been more specific "your case is that you think people will spend significantly more money for Macs because they look nicer".
I would say the internal combustion engine has not meaningfully cut people's day to day travel. Where prevalent, many just live further away and travel a long time still. I understand that long distance travel has been revolutionized by engines (steam and internal combustion), but I'm not certain about day to day travel. Many people near me are in a car for multiple hours per day. I would love to see a study on average 'commute' times in the 17-1800s.
He probably thinks wow why is it that nobody ever considers that this problem would go away if we just came up with a better system for identity, such as how PGP works.
I dearly agree with you. But, given an options between two I'll chose CSS:APP. Reason being it being more close to software.

I'll like to say that I had the same observation as you when went through both. I almost felt like I wrote the comment.
> Their worry is that foreign countries will eventually retaliate by charging people who are involved in US government programs to hack those foreign countries.

Good. If you get caught committing a crime you should be charged with it.

> Another worry is that indicting people might give away information information about your sources and methods.

Also good. US intelligence should not be holding back 0days.
The idea of Open Source software
Five Great Libraries to Manage Big Data with Python
Kinda both. Increased presence of amyloid (a type of protein) plaques are common in patients with Alzheimer's disease, so it was hypothesized that these plaques contribute to alzheimers. The drugs mentioned specifically targeted these plaques (via monoclonal antibodies). These drugs didn't slow the progression of alzheimers in the patient population that was certain to get it. The drugs could have failed for two reasons I think: 1) the antibodies from the drugs were unable to break up the plaques (in which case the drug is the issue) or 2) the amyloid plaques themselves are actually being broken up by the drug...but the plaques may not really be a cause of alzheimers (in which case the hypothesis is the issue).
I disagree that Windows is the only platform for gamers. Obviously wine isn’t perfect yet, and getting banned from online games can certainly be a problem, but it’s gotten to the point I can say that Linux is viable alternative. The compromises you have to make are incredibly reasonable compared to what they used to be.
There are LED bulbs this doesn't apply to. The flicker is so intense, damaging, and nauseating that people have tried to make standards to help get rid of it:

https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1789-2015.html
Couple comments on the Debugger situation:

1. Debugger.jl is A LOT smoother if you run it in compiled mode, which is a checkbox in the Juno interface. I've found that stepping to next line is instant in compiled mode, but takes forever without it.

2. Infiltrator.jl is great at what it's designed for, which is to dump you in a REPL deep within a call stack and let you see what's going on. But, Debugger in compiled mode also does this well.
The metric system is pretty good
I've seen the problems that can occur from using e.g. LAB for everything. It solves some problems but creates some new ones; it's not a panacea.
I'll suggest the thermostat (and throw in the rest of control theory).
They probably do not buy these individually, but in larger shipments which are not subject to the mixup: big crates containing boxes of boxes.
I hope those residents of Vermont win the good fight to keep Comcast out.
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related: Epistemic Injustice in Mathematics (2018)

Rittberg, Colin Jakob and Tanswell, Fenner Stanley and Van Bendegem, Jean Paul.

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/15133/
As that last-linked blog post makes clear, I don’t find that evidence compelling, and most certainly not compelling enough to approve the drug as it stands. But with the way the FDA is behaving these days, God only knows what’s going to happen. People are investing on just that basis, although rarely stated in quite those words. But if you can look at the ruins of all the attempts to show efficacy with anti-amyloid antibody therapies and decide that the Biogen/Eisai data represent a real ray of hope, you have a sunnier disposition than I do.

I share the cynicism! Early drugs targeted amyloid plaques because it seemed like a good idea. But after so many failures, I can't think of any reason so much time and money is spent on a failed hypothesis other than hoping for a false positive. Because a false positive, even with very modest results, would result in a ridiculously profitable drug given the complete lack of Alzheimer's treatments we currently have.
Yup, and the infectious theory is the one that's gradually getting more and more mainstream traction (the premise being that beta amyloid has a tactical immune function in the brain but trades short-term success against pathogens at the expense of long term longevity in people who can't clear the plaques out effectively with restful sleep).

Good Google scholar queries include 'hsv apoe4' as well as 'gingivitis alzheimers', without quotes, and among others. I can dig up my past comments that went into depth on all the different studies here, but a lot of doctors have yet to be swayed on the new theory.

Edit: found a good reference page with all the different trials going on around different theories for Alzheimer's, including the infectious theory.

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/adrc/patients-and-families/clin... has all the current trials

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03282916 is the valacyclovir trial trying to replicate the 2018 results out of Taiwan.

A different angle is the recently discussed correlation between lithium intake and Alzheimer's, and that's also being explored: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02129348
https://github.com/react-spring/zustand
So, you've got two users, "lennart" and "lennart.homedir"...

I guess it would only be a problem when migrating, systemd is presumably happy to have lennart's home dir in lennart.homedir, and lennart.homedir's homedir in lennart.homedir.homedir...

Ed: actually km more concerned with how this (doesn't) work with Pam, getent etc. If ldap, yellow pages or /etc/paaswd specify a home-dir that's not at /home/<username>... Should the system still look at <whatever path>.homedir? But only for interactive logins? Will a daemon running as the user have a different home dir? Will cron? At? The system processing dot.foward/sieve filters?
Ask HN: Which kitchen utensil gets used most at your office?
I constantly find myself needing to refill my office drawer with forks, yet the spoons and knives always seem to be filled. Does anyone else encounter the same thing at their office's?
So what am I missing using a pot on the stove?
Flat head screws and pan head screws have similar cross-over in that both are screws. To someone who thinks assembling IKEA cabinets counts as woodworking, the term screw is enough. To someone involved in actual manufacturing, the more specialized terminology remains important. Specialists will always have reason to use more precise language than generalists.
I've worked at places that have really great culture. And places that just wasted everyone's time like we all have.

The key for me was seeing people consistently let go for breaking "core values". Or having it be a basis for someone's promotion. Obviously that is never going to work well in a University context where tenure is a thing.

If your company is doing that... AND you actually agree and like the Core Values they are promoting, I'm kind of into these workshops and the extra work that goes into maintaining a strong and specific work culture.
The greatest invention/discovery of modern times is electricity. It is the second fire and much much more..
Fun fact -- 15,000+ aluminum cans are manufactured every second. Every. Second.

Really hope Bill keeps putting out videos, but I understand how life gets and it's not his full time job.
Unlike many other isotopes, if you can concentrate plutonium you can reduce its half life dramatically while increasing radioactivity.
Deep linking isn't "linking" between websites or SPAs, which is why you are having a hard time understanding it.

Deep linking refers to linking between a website, into a specific location of a native mobile application, or linking between two mobile applications.

It requires more than a static http link between sites
google.com is ad supported. I pay a ton of money for Windows.
Condoms
No, if you do a side-by-side comparison, China may do a good job of defending their region, but they would be completely unable to project their power or enter a different theater of war without leaving themselves defenseless. It's no contest at the moment. Besides the fact that due to its unfortunate foreign policy, the US also gets a LOT of practice waging war, where as the modern Chinese military has almost zero real-life war experience.
I’ve got an even simpler one: the standardized shipping pallet.
It is usually best to leave architecture design to architects however dev can architect a system if they have the necessary experience/skill.

It depends on the Dev, the size of the company, other resources. If a company can expand resources and have a dedicated team for architecture and design, then it makes the most sense that they can gain the greatest efficiency in the system by also having dev that is dedicated to the task of development.
I read “modern” as “post-world-war-II” and suggest:

Drywall.
TCL came out of nowhere to capture the US TV market. Up next: cheap phones
agreed. This is not news or even recent. Stop posting stuff like this
Ours may be more sophisticated in various ways, but sanitation systems were invented long ago. https://www.harappa.com/lothal/14.html
> the millions of questions on SO giving solutions to every problem you can run into

I definitely know what you mean. I too have the experience of typing in basically natural language queries into Google and have stack overflow turn it into copy-paste-able code for me.

But what's also true is that in 20 years the problems being solved will likely be bigger, and more complicated, and in many cases we'll be solving them on platforms that require good abstractions over multiple cores. So none of that is really in Python's wheelhouse. (Complexity is an issue because abstrations in Python almost always come at a cost.)
Generally via wrapping (Composition).

```
struct Foo <: AbstractFoo
...
end

struct SpecialFoo{T<:AbstractFoo} <: AbstractFoo
backing::T
end
```

and then delegating calls to the wrapped object
> it sometimes lacks the latest bells and whistles but it’s always been reliable and generally cares about your safety.

Automotive engineer for 20 years. How people still think Toyota today is Toyota of the 1990s, I have no idea. Pro Tip... Every car mfg uses the exact same suppliers. The seats in the Toyota Corrola are made by Johnson Controls, same as any GM. Hyundai builds the frame for Jeep Wrangler and other body on frame trucks. The new Tacoma has a foot and a half of fascia between the grill and bumper because the supplier for the cooling package, bumper, frame, and class-A sheetmetal couldn't agree on things. The electronics in the Fiat 500, are mostly the same as what's in a $400,000 Ferrari. McClaren doesn't spend 1/100th the money that Ford does on power management for a single vehicle, so you need to plug in your super car with a trickle charger when it's not being driven. .... Long story short, almost all vehicles have the same poor reliability right now. This current crop of vehicles 2018+ are easily the least reliable vehicles ever built, mfg doesn't matter.
Level up your NPM library game
Really good read, thanks. Tl;dr, Taleb et al think extraordinary measures to reduce transportation flow can be very effective and that policy makers shouldn’t shy away from employing them when facing a viral outbreak of unknown tenacity.
Shhgit
Research data to put self-driving cars to ultimate test: Canadian winter
RetroArch with runahead decimates real NES hooked up to a CRT TV [video]
All true. Yet, systemd itself can be quite mystifying when one is trying to determine why things aren't happening in the expected way.
Well they could've said Calcium, but that sounds mundane
I'm curious, if you think that this big problem has a simple solution, why do you think that the solution has not been widely adopted?
How to Write Data-Driven UI Components
> And iOS which couldn't at the time either.

Could it not?

Other phones could, and that seemed to be the expectation of two not-especially-technical friends/colleagues of mine at the time, and the answer being "No, you have to go to this special tool and cut out the first minute, then export in this format" led to both saying "what a pile of crap then, I should have got something else"

Maybe they had come from android...
This kind of stuff isn't new and has been going on for years.

When I got a new laptop in 2017 I had a look at Windows 10 to see what it's like before I replaced it with Linux, and I got similar messages. I wrote a thing about it which has some screenshots: https://www.arp242.net/browsers-conflict-interest.html
I feel like a lot of frustration towards technical debt is rooted in projection. The code confuses you, and you feel dumb, but instead of accepting your feelings you blame the guy who wrote it and assume they're dumb.

However, often people have good reasons for why they write the code they write. For instance, maybe there are so many quirks and edge cases there's no way to write clean code without creating a massive body of abstractions that would just making development speed slower.

I'm all about clean code but as a senior developer I increasingly realize that naturally, everything is a tradeoff. While you should be biased towards neatness, sometimes writing pristine code just isn't worth the time or cost of maintaining all those abstractions.
> Think about the most complex frontends you’ve used. Frontends that made you wonder — “how did they create this”? What makes these frontends complex?
State management. The frontend “knows” a lot of things, and these things interact with each other in non-trivial ways. So in my view, state management is the core problem when developing a UI. To build a non-trivial React application, you need to consider state management, in my view. For example, say your app has a dark mode. All your rendered components must know what theme is on, so they can render the UI in the right color.

This makes me wonder “how did we allow this to happen”? The beginning of this article alone reflects the whole tragedy of modern programming. When I was a child we would just use common controls and the operating system would paint them whatever way configured in the control panel. Now we have to solve a complex state management problem just to implement a dark mode. Application programming was supposed to become simpler and easier, not this...
American newscasters and classic film stars sported an accent half in between the U.S.- UK accents, also called as Transatlantic accent.

Look back at old films even as late the end of 60s and you wil hear it.
If Iran made such an accusation against 4 NSA employees, that were actually innocent, do you think that those 4 people would ever be handcuffed, and put on a flight to Iran?

Of course not, that would be idiotic, and horrible for morale. You don't give your own people up, regardless of whether or not they are innocent or guilty.

As such, this is a spherical cow thought experiment. To address it - it's quite likely that the sources would not be revealed in an open trial, due to the catch-all of national security. For a helping of double irony, the sources are likely the product of... Espionage (Digital or otherwise).
Not to mention how just plain ugly LibreOffice’s page renderer is. The kerning and spacing and shapes just seem so off all the time.
What to Do When You Hit a Brick Wall in Life
Not much; you just have to be a bit more careful to manage the heat and time appropriately.
Believe me, young teenagers find these meetings just as abhorrent
It might have something to do with

>A select group of faculty and staff, those identified as opinion leaders, are being offered all-expenses paid trips to the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando “to gain first-hand insight into Disney’s approach to culture.”
The main problem I see here is not with the culture training or Disney consultants. It’s the lack of leadership. The president of the university should inspire cultural change in his own institution, in cooperation with faculty and staff. That’s part of his job. The irony is that there are probably multiple professors at GWU who teach about organic change. They would have offered their consulting services for free.
Java's code verbose-ness is not entirely due to static typing though. IMHO, it is ecosystem, people, SO-copy-culture
Feels kind of asymptotic to me: they got most of the basics right 100 years ago, but things like derailleurs are a pretty big improvement in terms of allowing an ordinary person to ride over varied terrain. Quick release skewers (grazie a Tullio Campagnolo), lighter materials, clipless pedals (for racers)... have all been incremental improvements. More recently, tubeless tires on mountain bikes are a big improvement in my enjoyment of riding off road.
Simplicity is only somewhat related to invention.

The compound bow was not invented until 1966, but any technically-inclined person from the early-modern era would immediately understand how it works from a picture.
PCSX ReARMed now has dynarec support across multiple platforms
Location: EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Rust, C, PostgreSQL, web development, distributed systems, Apache Kafka, streaming, audio development

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: netfunk81@protonmail.com

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Hi HN,

I'm a seasoned developer with previous as co-founder/CTO of a funded startup (8 years) in the web/audio space.

Currently I work as tech lead for a product team in a mid-sized EU startup (2 years). I'm a productive, polyglot programmer with plenty of direct experience in backend web dev, mobile and desktop development and real-time audio/streaming tech. I'm also comfortable tackling the non-technical challenges faced by startups - product mindset, process, project management, engineering management, etc...

I'm interested in hearing about opportunities where my skills, experience and mindset may be a good fit. Must be remote-friendly, but I can travel within Europe for interviews and meetings.

Example roles that I'd consider:

- Backend/full-stack web development (f/t or contract)

- Audio/video/streaming dev roles

- TL/EM position

- Technical co-founder opportunities, salaried

---

Throwaway account, full CV available on request.

Thanks!
Not to mention the American Military which commisioned the technology/service for their own use in the first place.
Rice cookers came out in the 1950s, instant pot was 2009
First water of course, and then paper to dry it. If any residue is found, repeat the process.
I switched over to running desktop linux a couple months ago because I was so fed up with these things, but the truth is... it's just pretty bad. Like if I let my laptop go to sleep my touchpad will never work again. I had to do a bunch of weird kernel hacks to keep my wifi working when the device goes to sleep, and even then it's a hack (I had to enable the airplane mode button, and then make sure to hit it twice any time I open the screen. Come on!). And the lock screen breaks if I'm plugged into a monitor, it shows this weird low resolution version and a high resolution one on top of it. Everything is just incredibly sloppy and either outright broken, or kind of broken. This is Kubuntu btw! I tried Fedora and it crashed every two minutes if I booted X windows so, that didn't work out. Also the main thing with Fedora was it couldn't recognize my sound card, which is like the main intel thing built into every laptop. Maybe it's a winmodem thing again or something, but overall it just does not work at all.

So the reason people are still using Microsoft: You HAVE to unless you explicitly buy hardware for Linux. It's just unusable otherwise and the trajectory is getting WORSE, not better.
Trump administration to propose big jump in funding for AI, Quantum R&D: Sources
Cable TV was first created to deliver broadcast TV. Where do you think all of the content came from? Second run syndication of broadcast TV supported by advertising and premium channels that you paid extra for. It wasn’t until maybe 15 years ago that cable channels started producing their own non reality content.
I would call that spade a spade and say Cretinisation but hey, I’m technically a boomer, so who knows...
Preparing for the end of the world, on a budget
We Owe the World Secure Software
> I'll assume this is a joke.

It's not.

> I'm not sure who said this.

I'm not sure what "solved" means if you still have to keep worrying about the negative externality.

> we're all in agreement that the government plays a key role in addressing negative externalities.

I don't think our agreement is as broad as you seem to think it is.
Interesting idea. Will have a think how to envision it.
I've always found Julia a little lacking for bioinformatics, but I'm not doing ML. I have very high hopes for Nim, which I think has better performance potential than Julia across domains and can produce binaries.
This sounds like something I would very much be interested in, but I can't get the site to load. I get an ERR_CONNECTION_RESET in Brave/Win10, and the following provisional headers on the initial response:

Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

Subsequent requests return the same response, expect the `Sec-Fetch-User` header is omitted.

This happens regardless of whether I'm using HTTP or HTTPS.

ETA: Weird. The site also fails to load for me with Safari/iPadOS, but loaded in Edge/Win10.
I'd love an example of the subtle influence.
In any case, the influence of lisp on julia is pretty obvious if you're familiar with lisp, I believe.
Well. That explains a lot.
That's interesting. I wonder why? I would figure the security problems, lack of a lot of extras, and probable slowness because of increased OS complexity (to the point it was supported) would make it less useful than many of the simple half-dumb phones out there.

The security problems would trump most other considerations for my for a modern era smartphone of that vintage.
How modern do you think they are?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649591/
A basic rice cooker is a very simple device.
I would say the Telegraph.

In the book [CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Softwar](https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...), Charles Petzold talks about how it's foundational to the eventual invention of the computer.

Back then, it also meant coast to coast communications were almost instantaneous. And soon after, transatlantic cable-enabled telegraph boosted commerce between America and Europe.