skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And or something to be stupid it has to be proven to be wrong - let's see how it will turn for uk in the next decades. And UK was never a good fit culturally with the rest of the union anyway.
Just curious: do you also avoid Subarus, Seats, BMWs, Audis and the other cars with adaptive cruise control? Or is it only Tesla drivers you consider this dangerous?
> We do have a philosophico-legal discussion to have there.

There is not that much to discuss. If you leave vested interests out, that is. Future generations will see copyright in same way we look at feudalism or slavery today. Assuming we avoid the future pointed by Idiocracy.
Does anyone else question the mythical man month? If I accept the basic assumption of the mythical man month then I also have to accept that NYC is a myth - there is no way that a city that size can possibly function. Lets start out with ten people in NYC and they add ten more people .... My own belief is the MMM is an apologists view of how we currently collaborate to develop software and products.
As a fellow xfce user, it's hard to get convinced by other alternatives because why they may have more polished on some things, the things they do worse will be really worse. You only need to fight one or two time with your wifi or Taskbar after an update to realize you just don't want to waste your time doing that.

With that said, for the part that work well Mate definitely feels like a cleaner nicer xfce.
Your link has a ">" at the end which makes it not work.
Yes, right, Turtleocracy is partly modeled on PARC, Bell Labs, etc. But I don't begin to know how to answer this question about "how much their working-like-this contributed to their success or lack thereof" -- are you an organizational sociologist? If you have some methodological ideas here, I'd love to hear them.

I'm not sure where people are getting the consultingware idea. We don't have any consulting relationships with businesses at all. Guess our copy is misleading somewhere?
This is great, I especially love the form factor. I did the same a few years ago but kept the original enclosure:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/

It was a very fun project and I learned a lot about electronics doing it!
Ask HN: What does brexit mean for EU developers looking to find work in the UK?
Nvidia’s GeForce Now Is Losing All Activision Blizzard Games
That's what caused the first "AI Winter": Rules-based "AI" engines became what we call "Business Rules". AI didn't go away - it just stopped being an over-valued set of if-then logic and slots (value-driven triggers) with a cool set of GUI tools to build rule networks.

Source: Used to work for an 80s-era "AI Company"
Gnome 3 is perfectly usable IMO, I use it every day.

The initial release was pretty bad, but it's gotten much better over the years.
Ask HN: Wunderlist shutting down, any worthy competitors?
For a while the Wunderlist team had been proposing to users to move to Microsoft To-Do. They just announced this morning that Wunderlist will no longer be syncing from May 6th, 2020.

Are there any notable to-do applications, which are that simple and just work?
I'm not convinced we should entirely blame Tesla, given that humans have been crashing into the same barrier:

> In the three years before the Tesla crash, the device was struck at least five times, including one crash that resulted in fatalities. A car struck it again on May 20, 2018, about two months after the Tesla crash, the NTSB said.

The article also says the engineer had complained about his Tesla veering towards this particular barrier. I don't understand why he still relied on the autopilot while driving past it.
I've pondered DHT nodes for a basis privacy protecting network of peers. There's a fair bit of traffic for tracking peers. Each peer could use their peerID as a public key. A bit of padding on the normal traffic (mostly get, put, ping, and findpeer) could hide messaging.

Likely not a good fit for TCP streams (like tor), but could easily hide enough bandwidth for instant messaging (like signal) or email, er email like service. Could hide store/forwarding, include onion routing (bouncing through a few nodes), and be quite resistant to traffic analysis.

If each node send X packets of Y bytes to Z nodes per minute then it would be quite hard indeed to tell who you were talking to.

Maybe give peers a few choices in high bandwidth, medium bandwidth, and low bandwidth configurations. All would just vary in the number of nodes they track.
It's just a bit of fun. It's more ornamental than anything. It's just nice that it also works as a phone although I rarely ever actually use the landline.
Speaking only from personal experience on personal projects, I have screwed myself up far more often by not writing comments, or deleting comments prematurely in order to "clean up" the codebase, than I have by writing too many comments.

I disagree that code should never have comments. There's no such thing as perfectly self-documenting code of more than trivial complexity, the intended means of documentation for code is comments. That's what they're there for, they're a tool, use them.

Beyond that, it's entirely a matter of style and personal preference.
> Almost all commercial banks offer SCT.

Of course they do. That's the normal, slow money transfer, aka "SEPA Credit Transfer". I suppose you mean SCT Inst?

Even of the bigger retail banks, Consors and ING do not offer SCT Inst.

> And most of them for free while most co-op/sparkassen charge a fee (some of them even for receiving an instant payment which is rediculous).

While it is included at Deutsche Bank proper, both Norisbank and Postbank charge between 0.50 and 1.00 EUR for outgoing SCT Inst, Commerzbank proper charges 1.50 EUR unless you are in one of their premium plans while comdirect (though technically not yet fully part of Commerzbank) is free, Hypovereinsbank is free for all non-business accounts except the cheapest ones, where it's 0.50 EUR.

So ... erm, no, not even close to "most of them for free"?

Also, on the other hand, there are co-op banks that offer free accounts with free SCT Inst nationally.

But who is charging for receiving SCT Inst payments? I hadn't heard of that before, that's indeed beyond ridiculous!

> Sparkassen failed at numerous attempts to come up with an online payment system that gets any traction and it took considerably longer for them to adopt apple pay.

And yet, they (all) implement SCT Inst!?
The free world needs to realise that no matter what systems of enormous value to the world we build, others will attempt to usurp that power for their own needs.

It happens with all technology. The reason is, all technology can be weaponised.

Some simple facts .. The institutions covered by Crypto AG's technology products, were attempting to maintain their own secrecy. They were, thus, usurped by their own technology - and the CIA merely exploited this fact.

This case with the CIA directly addresses the lynchpin in the military-industrial-surveillance states' armour - the ability to keep secrets.

From a certain perspective, one might say that .. the Vaticans .. inability to keep secrets is a blessing and a curse. This is also true of many of the other clients. Would that we had access to all the things the CIA knows, as a world people, mmm..

These groups weaponised their own technology, against themselves, by using it to keep secrets. It also happens to be the spooks' biggest weakness too: the light of truth melts any and all justification for these peoples existence, and it whither them.

Let us try a thought experiment: If the Vatican applied its vast resources to providing a "Peoples Internet" a la Starlink, instead of using its billions to hide heinous secrets, would the technology of communication have been so easily weaponised?

All secrets are weapons, because you cannot have a secret without technology - and all technology can be weaponised.

So this is a foot-bullet on the part of Crypto AG, the Vatican et al., and a big win for the CIA - because it means these institutions will now be making more commitment, alas not less - to the keeping of secrets.
As a driver of many decades, and having survived quite a few of my own stupid mistakes, I think this is also bias. As long as I had some direct input into the situation, I saw such near-misses as the inherent risks of driving: I should have had the wheels geometry checked, I should have replaced the lightbulb, I shouldn't have driven on old tires, I should have checked the mirror, I shouldn't have overtaken there - and I continue to use cars, despite dozens, perhaps hundreds of near-misses, or even minor accidents: "yeah, we almost died today - but didn't, that's just a fact of driving, not a suicide attempt".

Whereas once you feel that all agency is stripped from you, it's all someone else's fault, especially if the mistakes feel alien (as in "no human would err in this specific manner").
I'm not sure where people are getting the consultingware idea. We don't have any consulting relationships with businesses at all. Guess our copy is misleading somewhere?
I see no reason make this negative link. The BMBF is a research agency which gives out grants for research through public calls (somewhat similar to the NSF in the US).

There are no strings attached, besides providing reports on scientific contributions achieved throughout the project.

It's not like the BND will come knocking on your door saying make algorithm X weak or you will not receive funding (or worse).
Lacks mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(genus)
the jumping spider which hunts!
Depends on the use case. It's a balance between less memory and cache use (32b) and having more registers + new specialised instructions (64b). Each app will use those differently. Ideally, we'd revive x32 which is a combination of short pointers on the new architecture, but that never really got popular.
Actually one of the biggest obstacles to Level 5 is expectation of Zero Deaths for Level 5 autonomous operations. The standard should be fewer deaths than human-operated (or even auto assisted ) cars.

When you have thousands of machines traveling in close proximity at speeds exceeding 50mph there will be deaths, this is unavoidable. We need to reduce those as much as possible but to demand ZERO before the technology can be used is just unrealistic

That said, Just because some people are working towards Level 5, does not mean all of the other things you are asking for are not also being worked on, it is not a zero sum game. There are enough people that we can have teams working on both.

This complaint is repeated for everything, "Well if people were not working on X drug that I don't care about they could cure cancer"

We can have a better braking system, better frames, etc AND still try to achieve level 5 autonomous driving. It is not an either-or proposition
I like to think it's a tradeoff; limit the language and standard library and you limit the amount of things you have to consider. That is, 99% of applications probably won't need a BTree.

(anecdotal: in Java I've never needed anything else than a HashMap or an ArrayList)
in order to one up this very cool project one would have to:
- create a cellphone in a Telephone magneto style from before there were rotaries
- train a machine learning algorythm to emulate the behavior of a Switchboard operator so you can have the truely "authentic" old school behavior
Open Source and centralized are orthogonal to each other. Signal is both, just to name an example.

An open push framework only makes sense (for battery optimization at least) if it's centralized, and all applications make use of it.
A big plus for me was the option of using it without mapping the user account to a phone number, something that e.g. Signal doesn't allow.
Sad story, and condolences to the man's family, but if I'd previously complained about such an issue before, I'd have been damned sure to be careful at that place again and/or would have lost any trust in the system until another iteration proves me otherwise. Yes, hindsight is 100% and we all make mistakes, but still.
Not sure where you are or why you experience this - I've made £300+ payments on my phone for sure (car service) and I think I might have done one close to £1000 at one point.
> There is no real self-driving on the road

Emphasis on real. There is definitely something that most people would refer to as "self driving" in cars on the road.

I'm not saying what is there is specifically good at what it does - I'm saying someone put it into use regardless of how fit for purpose it is.

> but this future is probably not as close as Tesla PR makes us think

Unless you're suggesting the PR team decided to make shit like "Summon" available to the public, then it's not just "PR spin".
This would contravene the training-wheels nature of Go.

Also, Perl-style (ir-)regular expressions, despite their popularity, are not a worthwhile abstraction IMO and thus should not be enshrined in the standard library of programming languages, even if you want them in your library eco-system for end-user facing API compatibility.
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Yup this works, I use Frixion pens and have done this. On the other hand, if you take your notebook out in freezing temps your erased writing might reappear!
Last night Time Machine returned error 45 for me backing up to NAS. Google sent me down the rabbit hole - a bunch of people are having the same issue with Catalina. Here's the kicker, time machine isn't officially supported on NAS - although Apple support will help apparently. I ended up having to delete the backup and restart; I wasn't bothered because I have a second backup on a local USB drive. Having said this, I do think I need to switch to Carbon Copy Cloner (but I've been saying this for years now)...
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Most performance optimizations take more time to implement than the actual goals. Hobby projects focus on fun proof of concepts, performance optimizations are ot very attractive (unless optimization itself is the goal).
Thanks for posting it here. :)
The population is higher, and the pound is worth less.
Not really about critics, but murder of Epstein pretty much shows corruption of the US establishment.

I'm pretty sure there more deaths like this but I don't collect this data and US is the country with most efficient propaganda and brainwashing. It's extremely effective at hiding unpleasant facts and dissemination of fake news.
Web devs: don't think this applies to you.

If you're pushing up 0 lines of code on a day where you had no meetings or interruptions, and you aren't working on something truly novel and near-impossible, you took the day off on the company dime. And everybody you worked with noticed, and if you do it regularly - they are just waiting for everybody to reach their breaking point with you so they can push to get rid of you. Sure, you'll find a new job and do it again, but you'll still not have anybody's respect.
> The non-exception version manages to avoid the conditional branch by using a conditional move, which would avoid a pipeline stall on a branch mis-prediction.

branches are usually superior to conditional moves for predictable conditions as they break dependency chains. In case the exceptional code path is taken, the cost of the misprediciton is dwarfed by the cost of unwinding the stack.

This is interesting actually, the fact that the compiler uses a conditional move in the error checking case could mean that the compiler has no useful branch probability model for that branch in the error checking case, but even when using __builtin_expect, the compiler still prefers the conditional move.
It's ugly either way but for clarity you can move the error checks into the transformation leaving the call point clean.

i.e transform1 returns (result, error) and transform2 accepts (result, error) and short-circuits if err is not nil.

It allows the expressive and succinct description of a transformation list but with a bunch of messiness hidden.
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I have heard it from the crypto cognoscenti circles I know, that this is the calm before the storm and that there will be many, many more leaks to come during the actual trial period.

The idea is to point out to the world that Julian isn't the only leaker.

This terrifies the spook establishment, and they are therefore preparing for their own campaign of controlled releases, designed to dull the general publics' appetite for the subject.

I mean, this is all conjecture and hearsay, but it sure is an interesting time to be watching the show. I do believe we are seeing a cyberwar, like legitimately, underneath all the battle reports ..
> You can never repliacte a census using random surveys. It's the holy Grail of data.

True. As a matter of fact it's good to use the census as a sort of periodic anchoring point for your surveys (which can happen more often).

To completely give up on the closest thing to ground truth that can be had is foolish.
It's not a Mac-centric solution but, all of my computers' crucial folders are sycned to each other via syncthing.

Desktop computers also back them up to another disk via backintime (an advanced backup tool built on rdiff).

This gives me realtime replication and two co-located backups. It's fire & forget kind of setup.
My wife is Chinese and I know from her and her family exactly what it was like for them. When my father in law talks about the hardships inflicted on their family he tears up. You clearly have absolutely no idea what it's actually like.

Equating arbitrary detention, re-education camps and political executions to being boycotted by some TV stations is a shameful farce.

Yes in the west things can go badly wrong, innocent people can get chewed up and hurt much more than a trivial example like the Dixie Chicks. Good grief, that's the best you could come up with? But the Chinese system is based on knowingly trashing people's lives systematically on a massive scale.
I hope people aren't commonly doing what this poor guy did, turning autopilot on and taking their hands off the wheel at 71mph. At this speed, the stopping distance is greater than the max effective distance of some of the forward looking cameras, and a collision means almost certain death. I'm surprised people will trust any autopilot system at a potentially fatal speed.
Do we have some form of map between emotions and soma ? I read a few things about hormone cascade and neurological noise when traumatized. But that's not very precise.
Coherent spin control of s-, p-, d- and f-electrons in a silicon quantum dot
> follow the normal startup problem search path.

What would that be?
Please do. The one package I've used was missing features like "commit all files" last time I used it a year ago. https://github.com/src-d/go-git
That book is amazing. It inspired me to look for more resources on computer architecture and Verilog, and after a while I had a very simple but functional CPU in Verilog that can compute prime numbers [https://github.com/f00zz/rei].
You hold your mobile phone up to your rotary phone in order to play the tones? Why not just use the mobile phone to make the call?
they wasted precious time

wile they spent time rewriting the same shit

people came with swift, go and rust

c#, just like java, both old people who refuse to get rid of their JIT bullshit, RIP to both of them
Ask HN: What services do startups use if they can't afford Salesforce?
Salesforce costs thousands of dollars per module but gives a good industry standard level flows of sales and it's quite customizable.

I'm curious what startups are using if they can't yet afford Salesforce?
Time Machine works fine here on 10.15.2, I am serving it from a Time Capsule. I replaced the Time Capsule harddrive with a 8TB version.
Even wireless backups work like a charm. I do not use the wireless network from the Time Capsule, but a Linksys Velop network.

It was impossible for me host the backups reliably from a Linux computer though.
> No. Poverty is a lack of education and, more importantly, mentorship.

This is beyond insulting, at least in the way it is worded. Your example of the single mom who squanders charity money on expensive toys sounds exactly like right-wing propaganda, even if I am absolutely certain it does happen.

The reality is that the vast majority of poor people just don't have the money to squander. Sure, some of them may squander the money even if they had them, but the reality is that only a minuscule percentage do. Financial education would help these people, and can't hurt. But minimum income of some kind (I'm not necessarily convinced UBI is a good idea) will help all poor people.

A much more common story of poverty is families who can't afford to get their children through school, who live paycheck to paycheck and get forced into predatory lending when they hit financial difficulties (e.g. plumbing problems).
Quote: "5. A snow-white owl to bring you your posts (just kidding)."

Here is the non-kidding no. 5 item: a rubber-duck (who knows, knows)
> it has to be proven to be wrong

Disagree: a belief can be true and stupid at the same time, for example any national lottery winner who bought the ticket because they thought it would be a good investment.

(I don’t expect success, but that’s both a separate argument and an entirely pointless argument given the events are now water under the bridge).
Count me guilty then, because I am also hoping to one day take a nap while the car drives me around. Until then, I found the next best thing is booking an Uber. They'll even use venture capital to subsidize my ride :)

But wait, isn't that exactly why they are now in such a rush and cannot accept anything less than full autonomy?

From what I heard, Uber has been burning billions of VC money to capture market share. And their model just won't work financially if they need to pay drivers a living wage. So they attempted trickery to pay them less as "independent" contractors, but now that governments are stepping in to prevent that, there is only one option left:

Uber needs self-driving cars or else they'll go bankrupt.

At least, that's my theory.
Zoom is a great example of a startup that made it in a field that seemed saturated, essentially because they offered a great product

https://www.jotform.com/blog/dont-disrupt-an-industry/
To quote them : Transparency breeds trust. We’re in the business of asking customers to trust us with their data. It seems reasonable to demonstrate why we’re worthy of your trust.
I don't think I make a wild statement by saying that most android users don't share the same definition of "easy".
Police concluded that given the same conditions, Herzberg would have been visible to 85% of motorists at a distance of 143 feet (44 m), 5.7 seconds before the car struck Herzberg.

A vehicle traveling 43 mph (69 km/h) can generally stop within 89 feet (27 m) once the brakes are applied.

The police explanation of Herzberg's path meant she had already crossed two lanes of traffic before she was struck by the autonomous vehicle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg

I was also misled by the poorly exposed "official" video. Given the numbers above there was time for a human driver to see her and even come to a complete stop. Further since she was moving from one side of the road to the other and only entered directly into the vehicle's path in the last 1.3 seconds (image in "Software issues" section of wikipedia article) it is likely that all that would have been needed to avoid the collision would have been a minor slow down and she would have completed her crossing safely.
Beware of the No True Scotsman fallacy. A human who drove into a wall could not possibly have been a Safe, Competent Driver, could they? A True Safe, Competent Driver would never drive into a wall.

Unless you're serious about bringing the bar way up for getting a driver's license, I think it's fair to compare self-driving technology with real humans, including the unsafe and incompetent. In most of the world, even those caught red-handed driving drunk are eventually allowed to drive again.