skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the aerator and toy are analogous to software bugs, but the wheel bearing is a wear item. Even the best-engineered hardware has parts that wear out. That kind of planned maintenance has no equivalent in software.
My first impression is that Kotlin is being mostly being used by the android community.

Is anyone using Kotlin to write services, what are your experiences with that ?
Wireless charging does not work with the majority of devices produced worldwide. It might work with 'flagship' devices and maybe with some devices in the tier under it but it doesn't with the rest.
growth tends to do that.
I was excited then for a second but I don’t think this means what I think it does. Does this mean it’s possible to disable the auto play on trailers for something unrelated when you finish a series?

I literally finished Bojack Horseman after years of watching 30 minutes ago. End it’s left hanging there in a poignant moment but I have to jump up to stop the trailer for god knows what, and the a minute later I have to do it again after the credits have finished. Years of investment in a show, but I’m not allowed 10 seconds to stop and digest it. (PS amazing series)
Ask HN: TypeORM vs. Mongoose
Hi,

Currently we are deciding which ORM to use TypeORM or Mongoose. The underlying database will be Mongo.

Any suggestions?

If you need clarifications, such as type of use, load etc , holler
I am similarly excited and hopeful, but you are somewhat misrepresenting how amazing current telescopes are. ML and other tricks are not enough to turn a bunch of cheap telescopes into a Hubble.
I've had 2 remote jobs in the past, i got them both the same way, joined a new company, worked really hard for a year or a year and half, proved myself to be invaluable and basically asked for it. I had an easier time at a startup company i worked at because it is pretty hard to hire good people who are willing to work for belowish market wages and are dependable.
Ok, this was funny.
You might have been riding much less but they are booking more rides (20% more than last year). So it's not that bad.
Only pc I trust is my Ben Eater 8 bit CPU. Gotta turn that into a router now :)
> The root problem is always time and money.

I agree with you. However, if you're not some high level manager who controls this, what's the next best thing you can do?

I think most problems are less technical and are more about people and processes. You can still argue you don't have enough influence there, and that's completely possible and realistic. But that should be where we direct attention.

Yes, some technical advances in better tools and languages that provide stricter proofs and so on are needed and will help. But ultimately it's still the people that need to learn, use, and enforce the processes.
If you go for countries with lower wages (just as Boeing did for engineers), you definitely can hire doctors and architects for $9/hour or even less; as $9/h is more than the average doctor or architect gets paid there, you could definitely pick some who are quite decent.

E.g. just to use a random example, Russian statistics show that the average pay of an architect is something like $800/month in many regions - in some more, in some less, but definitely well withing $9/hour; and for doctors in regions outside Moscow it's something roughly similar; Moscow seems to get something like 2200$/month in the average statistics so that's more than $9/hour if they're working sane hours.
.NET support for Jupyter notebooks with C# & F# (Preview 2)
Definitely a quittable offence
Good point. However, the primary value of peer review is to reject bad papers. Does science benefit when authors can shuffle a rejected paper to another journal and tweak the results to hide the initial criticism? To me, the real value of reviews is making sure that bad studies never see the light of day (under the current system).

Personally, I am interested in seeing a model where all papers are submitted to a public archive and reviewed publicly (and optionally anonymously). The high profile journals would shift to providing value-added curation, formatting, and commentary.
Excellent. Now I need European regulators to allow for me to see innovation in luxury consumer products.

They couldn’t find something useful to do with their time?
I believe most if not all shows/movies on Netflix are acquired through a general use license for a period of time rather than a “royalty scheme” based on number of views. So while they definitely want to promote original content as in the long run it saves them money (in license acquisition costs) the per stream cost is relatively homogenous.
I'd love to see the tracking for the rate that people turn it off.
You're missing the forest for the trees - perhaps literally.

Trees are a perfect example. Fractal in form, down to a certain level; but also an example of something that builds over time like a cellular automaton and is being influenced by the environment. Compromises are made, the perfect form is impossible to achieve, but the gestalt is still there.

The fact that the most realistic simulated / computer-generated trees we can render are made primarily of simple fractals is a great indicator.

We see the same thing in terms of self-similarity in mountain ranges, lightning, rivers, lungs, and now clouds and water. At this point if you want to deny it, all I can surmise is that you either never go outside, or simply don't know what to look for.
Unless you're trying to be a police officer in the USA, then an IQ too high is absolutely a real thing.
This seems like a lot of weird ideas unconnected from actual practice.

For example who throws away their old charger when they get a new device? Why would anyone do that when you can have more than one charger in convenient places, have one for travel etc?

Is there any research behind any of this?
IANAN, but living abroad when I was about 25 really improved my humility. I'm used to being quick-witted, knowledgable, and generally good with people. When I got to a place where English is not the default language, I was essentially an idiot---I was confused a lot, unable to make jokes, and little kids laughed at my attempts to, say, order a gyro.

It all clicked when I was lamenting it to my girlfriend, who said (with real affection), "well, how much of what you say is actually valuable?" Right then I realized how much of my time I spent trying to convince people how quick-witted, knowledgable, and easy with people I am.

Now I talk less, let jokes (even good jokes!) go unsaid, and am better with people.
Sometimes I need to use my phone while it's charging.
Perhaps an acceptable trade off for the substantial reduction in e-waste. You can always generate more clean power.
A rocket launch is a very violent thing to experience. If you're months away from being dead, there's a good chance the G forces during launch would be too much for your body to deal with.
You can have a known risk/failure mode, and risk manage it.

It's another matter entirely to pass on the flawed device to a third party with no preparations and warning. Then people die.
It's challenging to give specific advice on this while respecting privacy. On a site like Reddit with PM you might be able to discern that someone has an issue, is located close to you, you know a therapist, and then create a throwaway account to PM them.

These challenges are deeply personal, so finding the right person is challenging. There are lot of therapists with different qualifications and experience. People seem to study psychology, do whatever qualifications they need, and start as a therapist, but the experience part is a challenge.

I don't think this challenge is much different from finding mentors. In fact, it's probably better because it's a discrete financial transaction and the conversations are protected. Finding mentors during your career, if you don't have them directly in your workplace, can be really problematic. You have few protections, and little ability to build up trust, until you've invested time building up trust.

When it comes to men (probably the majority) on HN there are also a number of specific issues which affect take up of therapy. That's after the cost issues which affect everyone. If someone is in some countries they may have little, or no availability of certain kinds of therapy.
It's not free even if you put in just your time. In a startup, everything competes for your time. You could spend it on your product or other growth channels.
There is an option for "off" or "on (when the credits start)" but not "when the music finishes" or "when the video finishes".
Thanks for the comment. This defense works: but you have to remember to lock your phone when you put it down.
Or they hand you a pen with disappearing ink. You'd have to use your own pen to prevent that. But how can it be trusted by the government that your pen hasn't been replaced?
So how long before the first space stowaway? Maybe when launches become 100x or 1000x more common, one firm will have lax enough security that some teenager can sneak aboard in a homemade spaceship or spacesuit.
I went to school with those loser gangster children. I tutored a lot of them. I'm still friends with a few of them through social media. While I was being insecure about my grades, physical size (I was a pipsqueak), and typical teenage angst. Some of those loser gangsters had real insecurities about society. Being treated poorly by a family, school, and country that did not want them there.
This Vice article is confusing because of the interchanging use of Charging device and Charging cable. So what is it, the cable or the wall wart that has to be standardized?
While I agree in part I think the truth is it's more nuanced. Almost uniformly cancer causes stress, saddness and emotional volatility that would not be there otherwise. I have seen it can increase other quality of life factors. Deciding to live in the moment, increase family bonds. Spend more time doing travel and experiences with loved ones. That combined with hope and knowledge of better outcomes I think means that we should consider this with a bit more nuance.
> They obviously determined that thumbs up/down either generated better training data or more training data.

I'm guessing that the definition of "better" changed at some point, perhaps when they went from 1-5 stars to +-1 thumbs.

In Netflix's early years, I was confident that their classifier's goal was to predict my future rating for a given video. I.e., it was part of a larger system designed around my viewing pleasure.

Around the time they switched to thumbs, I started suspecting the classifier was being used to manipulate me towards optimizing Netflix's profitability, instead of my viewing pleasure.
better for Netflix or better for us?
In the mean time, you could learn your chops by volunteering to work on one of the Amateur Radio satellites.
Or call for a fake SWAT raid to the same house, so that the owner is either being shot or imprisoned. If that can really be triggered from distance without breaking in, it would make it the perfect revenge weapon.
Getting 5 seconds when the credits start to stop it from auto-playing the next episode bothers me sooo much more than the previews (also not a fan of those, but mute is good enough for that).
MX 518 Retrospect
Some laptop models (particularly the more "fruity" ones) get awfully close to that Tjunction number. Close enough that there's most likely a decent case that the hardware is taking quite a bit of actual wear and tear from those temperatures.
Spend the six months after WWDC-announced deprecation porting your use cases and reporting bugs and evaluating whether it’ll be easy or hard to flip the switch if you need to.

Each WWDC thereafter, either test your deprecated code for surprise breakage on the new betas (this happens), or remove your deprecated code if the betas remove support for it.

If you aren’t committed to reviewing, testing, and updating your codebase annually (or shutting down products that are no longer a good fit, like iDefrag) then you should probably not develop for Apple platforms.

If you’re concerned that there’s not enough revenue to support this every year, then you should reevaluate your position on subscription revenue models or accept that you’ll operate at a loss re: keeping your platform up-to-date.
Building WebGPU with Rust [pdf]
Excerpt:

University of Queensland experiment

"The best known version[1] of the experiment was started in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, to demonstrate to students that some substances which appear solid are actually highly viscous fluids."

Perhaps conversely, perhaps all solid materials are really just liquid... just locked in place by a local stasis field of some sort... call that stasis field time, gravity, magnetism, the electrostatic, or strong or weak nuclear forces... Perhaps the stasis field and the distance of its effect, is also relative to scale... and perhaps all fields are just variations of interia, relative to scale and material...
A good roleplaying game might be have a similar effect in a more comfortable setting (for some).
Imagine a world where e.g. a moderately well-funded university science department can launch instruments into space. It sounds absolutely fucking amazing. Near-Earth space is going to fill up regardless, and I'd like to live in a world where big corporations and governments aren't the only entities that can afford to put stuff up there.

Meanwhile, our space exploration program basically exists as an excuse to rob the American taxpayer to fund massive, obsolete rockets and get politicians re-elected. That's not to say that the instruments themselves aren't examples of the finest technology ever created by the human species, but their way of doing business needs an overhaul. They need some competition, and SpaceX and other new space companies are bringing it.
The only other company I know attempting to revolutionize email is Superhuman [0]. It will be interesting to compare these services. One thing I can say is that Basecamp will certainly be competitive if they can offer their service for less than $30 per month, which is how much Superhuman charges currently [1].

[0] - https://superhuman.com/
[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/27/my-six-months-with-30-mont...
Qi generates excess heat which degrades the batteries glued in to smart phones, thereby increasing e-waste.
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Yeah, I think virtually everyone still interested in the Spectrum in 2017 onwards knows about that.

The thing is, it's an at-least-partially closed design, the only way to get it to subscribe to the kickstarter, and it doesn't comply with the modern enhanced-Spectrum-graphics standard ULA Plus, because some of the team had an argument with some of the ULA Plus team.

The Chloe has been around for longer, it's 100% FOSS, and it runs on the €35 ZX UNO FPGA board.

They're both interesting but IMHO the Chloe is more interesting.

BTW, I have no connection with anyone involved in either bar talking to them on Twitter & FB. E&OE, as they say.
I believe this is only talking about the piece that connects the charging cable to the electrical system. Apple already ships a charger that has a female USB-C on one side and male electrical plug on the other which will satisfy this proposal. You would then still use a USB-C to lightning cable to charge the phone but you could reuse the the charger itself between android and apple.
Experiences with QuickCheck: Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane (2016)[pdf]
Rational was an adjective. If you think that "rationality" is some objective feature that humanity can separate from emotions, you are deluded.
The “payload “ of this article might be the line that attributes the so called crash to a trade war that damaged free trade. Some partisans consider free trade to be sacred, others, evil.

Disclosure: I lean more towards “free trade is evil”, at least if you are labor, rather than capital. Michael Bloomberg might see it differently.

Edit: and I didn’t go into the article looking for a fight - I wanted to see news affecting an industry I work in, and the trade line jumped out. It’s probably even true, but it’s not hard to to imagine ulterior motives for mentioning it.
That's the trick: it seems that way, but really it's a trap/defense against change. Narcissists are very, very good at seeming to others like they want to fix something about themselves, all the while digging themselves in deeper because deep down they don't really think something is wrong.

He says "I tend to judge situations only from my perspective" -- and then proceeds to write this very public post completely from only his own perspective. In another context we could call that lack of insight but for the narcissist it's a feature, not a bug.
thanks but sadly not, its from a structural analysis program called PERFORM-3D.

I've contacted the developer but they will not release the format of the files to me.
Provably correct software (and memory and type safe languages!) are both important aspects. But they can still cause you to die in a software bug. The third and most important aspect is that the code must be viewable by any third party or individual. Open source here would be ideal, but at a bare minimum, we should be allowed to see the code that our lives depend on.
Thats kind of my point though isn't it? If it was something any normal person would be willing to do, then we wouldn't see that many Syrians stay inside of Syria. I would expect there is a top controlling percentage that would want to stay because their interests are protected, but outside of that, why aren't they just leaving?

Because it's hard to do it, legally or illegally. Only people that are driven and open to accepting the high risk of relocating are willing to do so. Therefore, it at least says something about the people immigrating to the US; They are driven individuals who are willing to take chances for success. Thus better numbers in terms of upward mobility.
Not saying it's entirely unrelevant, but when looking at energy consumption by production and by usage of smartphones, the usage basically consumes no energy at all (https://imgur.com/VHpJ5et).

That is probably because batteries can hold a very limited amount of energy and therefore mobile software is developed to use very little electricity.

But on the other hand, less energy efficient chargers wont help this. I just mean it's not the big problem about our smartphones energy consumption.
As Coronavirus Spreads, China’s Military Is Largely MIA
It's "Adjusted EBITDA" which being a non-GAAP measure in this case excludes Corporate G&A and Platform R&D. This line item was -644 million.
Not all software has the same level of criticalness. The difference between a bug in an airplane vs one in a game or entertainment software is gigantic. Sometimes it really is more important to get the software out quicker vs it being bug free. Plus, formally provable software exists and is used in some mission critical applications including some Airbus software. It's just that it takes a lot longer to develop. These problems are more a business and process issue, as in Boeing prioritizing speed over quality.
Their reputation for security flaws like this and helping suppress human rights by selling hardware to the Chinese government?
Yeah, this. I don't mind autoplay, but end credits (and the accompanying music) are an integral part of a show for me. The Witcher, which is Netflix's own show, had amazing original songs in end credits which were all skipped by default.
Technical leads generally are not managers. There's a lot of confusion here as to the division between providing technical direction and managing people. Your task as a tech lead isn't to manage people. If that's being what you're being sold then get a written description of the job requirements.
Casper, the Mattress Startup, Goes Through with Lackluster IPO
I'm not sure why all companies would be on the same cycle of upgrading. You would assume they would all be offset and it wouldn't make a difference in sales.
Brussels Effect
I'm guessing that you think there's an agenda behind my question. Just to clarify, I really am just trying to understand the current lay of the land regarding Rust.
> That being said, releases like this are pretty frustrating because they seem to reflect a focusing on tiny bits of sugar (can we even call them that?) instead of features that have a much more positive influence experience. Besides "better error messages" how do any of these things improve the development experience?

This article is about changes to the language. The bulk of the effort in this release went into improving the _compiler_: better error messages, faster compile times, smaller code size, and fixing bugs.
Introducing Token-Hunter
SwiftSyntax: Parse, inspect, generate, and transform Swift source code
Did that in Mali. It did give me perspective after 2 years, but it didn't fix my narcissism. Just made me more tolerant to incomfort, and made me enjoy civilization more.
That's great for you. What about those who aren't willing to accept that tradeoff? It seems there's literally no action we can take besides voicing our concerns on fora like this.

I'm deeply concerned about the ramifications of Starlink and the precedents it sets for further sky pollution. For all of mankind's history we've been able to look to the skies for guidance, inspiration, knowledge and truth. Space objects have guided our understanding of the universe and our place within it. It's absolutely criminal that in a span of a few years this might be obstructed by the goals of one or several corporations, under the veil of improving global internet connectivity. It's doubtful whether accomplishing that goal will bring world prosperity or simply make SpaceX and Musk the biggest beneficiaries.

Whether this benefit will fuel further space exploration and the commercialization of space travel is also irrelevant at this point in time. There's no practical reason for humanity to reach Mars in the immediate future as Musk has proposed. We have far bigger problems on Earth today that won't get solved by simply throwing technology at it, yet solving them would bring more benefits to humanity than having internet access in remote parts of the world. Practical problems like famine, clean water supplies, diseases, pollution, climate change, political corruption and wars seem much more important than being able to access Facebook from a mountain in Siberia.

While there's no reason we couldn't work on all of those concurrently, and global internet access would certainly help in that process, there's been no global discussion on whether a system of satellites this disruptive is what the entire world actually wants. Governments will certainly benefit from improved surveillance capabilities and we'll have more trillion dollar corporations and billionaires, but these aren't global goals.

Apologies for the rantiness of this, I'm not sure I can put my feeling of dread properly into words. And don't get me started on Neuralink, another rushed Musk venture we need to address as a species and civilization...
> Does anyone actually have faith in their hw+sw security these days?

Not much.

We actually know how to deal with most of the things you mentioned. There are simple CPU cores that don't have speculative execution problems. It is possible to achieve memory safety. Formally proven OS kernels exist. Physical security is largely understood and can be made very difficult to compromise.

Why don't we have all this as routine? Because security theater is cheaper than actual security. The value of 'cheaper' here is very broad and includes avoiding all of the costs that emerge with robust security including opportunity costs.