skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I design industrial automation equipment and have much the same feelings about those devices. I've programmed robot cells, with redundant software and hardware safety systems. I've run through the checklists to make sure the operators are SIL-3 safe with a high-speed high-power robot running just inches away through a piece of 1/4" polycarbonate - there to keep the operators out, it won't keep the robot in. I know all the engineering that goes into those systems, and that's why I will never ride a Kuka-coaster (a chair bolted to a 6-axis robot).

Also, I'm quick to reach for a simple pneumatic cylinder to solve a problem. Perfectly capable of using new electric-servo-ballscrew-hotness to do a similar move, but the value provided by tried-and-tested systems is hard to overstate.
This needs to be highly illegal, globally, and enforced by the UN. Which implies that the UN needs to be made more powerful.
We know that, but also we ought to know that pushing through the hard problems by rolling out systems operating world-wide and interacting with real people is the only way forward toward improved safety, reduced mental slavery to the menial task of driving, and the time and relationship freedom that comes with it. So yep, I let my Tesla do lots of driving. And I do it knowing that the brake pedal and the steering wheel are both manual controls that I can use to override the car at any time, no matter what. That is why I feel so comfortable.

And you know what? It's wonderful. It really is. I am free to look around and see other people on the freeway. They look so bored. So tired. So used up. Meanwhile my wife and I, we turn on the careoke machine and sing our way to the destination. It is absolutely the way to go. You can take my Tesla and its AP functions out of my cold dead hands. Maybe that's how I go, and I'm alright with it.
Japanese official contracts coronavirus after surveying quarantined ship
A similar kind of a "delayed barter" economy did exist until recently in communist Bulgaria. Without any intervention from the government, people were exchanging items and doing mutual personal favours (sometimes against the law), all based on one's "social network".

Knowing the shopkeeper in the butchery meant that he could reserve the fresh meat for you once it gets delivered, while you, for example, as a car repair guy in a state enterprise would provide him with some parts for his Lada from any leftover quantities. It was a hidden parallel economy that was "boosting" the planned economy. No kind of accounting was taking place between the exchanging parties, people were doing it for their own interest in the long run.

These types of relations between people were (and still are) leading to many corrupt practices. A police officer or any kind of state representative would treat you differently if you were a part of their social circles. It's a toxic environment where you start putting greater value on connections rather than on actual work and self-development.
> You click the handset down, like you are hanging up the phone, but just very briefly.

This brings back memories, this is a trick people my age group mastered as teenagers in a 3rd world country. All calls were billed - including local ones, so parents would commonly get lockable cages that would cover the buttons/rotary dial to prevent unauthorised calls in their absence. The cages would leave the receiver accessible even when locked in order to be able to receive calls, so we would use the hook to do pulse tone dialing; dialing a number with many zeroes was always a challenge since it required 10 rapid taps as part of a longer sequence, but I built up muscle memory.

The practice was colloquially named 'tap-dialing' and it was handed down from generation to generation. Sadly it came to an end in the smartphone world.
Batteries are always based on chemistry. But since you said that portable device batteries today are little-changed from 40 years ago, I wanted to point out that the lithium ion battery is newer than that, and still improving.

That's why cordless saws and leaf blowers are practical now but weren't practical 40 years ago. Better batteries made them work. They didn't benefit from Moore's Law.
I really like Bandcamp as a “music publishing platform for independent artists”.

It lets people listen for free, makes it easy to collect payments.

I feel like they’ve taken the “slow but pure” approach to product development. Not growing super fast, or chasing revenue, but just making sure the core feature works for artists who are truly independent, and carefully expanding from there.
Menstrual blood is pretty gross though. It's not misogynistic to recognize that. Plenty of gender neutral bodily fluids are gross too. Another person's bodily fluids in general are gross.
Hey, I like this game ....

e. they know Huawei have backdoor(s) because their mole put them in, so the USA could use them. They've not succeeded in getting a backdoor in 5G infrastructure, so they're ready to burn the old backdoor, to discredit Huawei (and win big on the markets) and to get countries to take USA based products on which there are backdoors in!

What we can be pretty sure of, as Trump's involved in pressuring countries to stop using Huawei, it's corrupt and there's a private financial win for Trump if he succeeds.
Maybe try changing the paradigm completely with a tiling window manager.

Take a look at https://regolith-linux.org/

I tried i3wm, a tiling window manager a few years ago, and it just sort of clicked with me. Eventually I set up a laptop with it, and decided I like it better than Mac. Around that time, Regolith was announced, and I found it to be a great looking, and great set of defaults and starting point. Gnome is still available if you get lost or break something.

Incidentally, I eventually arrived to using PopOS, and then installing regolith from the package manager. Working well so far.
I didn't see that in the original article, but I do see it here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2020/02/11/tel...
Thanks! The hosting costs are a little higher than normal. We moved our servers recently and are paying double for some little ones. We are using a bare metal server for our main database and app. That works very well for us an it doesn't hit any limits.

We use a Dell R240 1x Intel Xeon E-2174G with 64 GB RAM and 2x480GB SSD in RAID 1. We didn't want to use Linode or Digitalocean because they are not based in Europe which has the best privacy laws in place.
Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity?
Ideally this topic won't devolve into an off-topic war.

I'm curious how other companies approach diversity.

Our company has been tracking diversity and reports on "# of non-male identifying employees" and "# of non-white employees".

A coworker just posted about a tool to remove biases from job postings (textio.com), which looks awesome.

The response from HR was "we're using that and our job postings are strongly feminine-leaning", which matches towards their stated goals.

I've access to a couple of the hiring pipelines, and from speaking with others, our current strategy is:

• Headhunt for employees matching the statistics we're looking to grow
• Bias our external communication towards those in align with the statistics we're looking to grow
• Bias our selection process towards those in align with the statistics we're looking to grow

Again, this isn't my job (I do mostly sysadmin-like stuff) and I don't have enough information to give opinions on any of this, but I'm curious if other companies have similar strategies or methods they follow in search of similar goals.
>CEO of Standard Library

ah, so you're the asshole who has made things impossible to search for based on intention. Thanks for that!
It's a sin for good reason, and the secular case against usury is just as strong. It's among the worst manifestations of rent-seeking, economically worthless behavior for anyone but the usurer.

This kind of lending is economic slavery. Why should a credit card company get a 15-30% return on their investment each year? How about 400%? You can use whatever clinical microeconomic language you want about risk and investment principles and rational actors and etc etc, but people now depend on credit for their basic needs. Then lenders can petition the government to garnish borrower's wages and gain eternal, guaranteed payment often on just interest. The borrower works and pays forever without even reducing the principal, and butts sit in offices redistributing wealth to themselves without adding any value to society.

It should be illegal to charge that kind of interest "investing" in the basic needs of people. The absurd prices of basic necessities in America now demand mortgages, car loans, student loans, medical debt, and credit card debt just to squeak by as a normal middle class person. Debt wasn't the solution to the price problem, but rather the cause.
The problem is of those institutions own making. Many Americans lost their lives hunting for Saddam’s WMDs - something that was fabricated by said institutions.

“Trust us” is no longer something we can blindly accept.
As far as I know Germany also did not exclude Huawei from 5G projects in general. Maybe they have a really good understanding where and where not working with Huawei poses a serious risk, maybe the provided evidence was not convincing, maybe they just don't care.
How does this relate to the other tcmalloc: https://gperftools.github.io/gperftools/tcmalloc.html ?
It's worth keeping in mind that, in the Extreme Imagination Conference 2019 keynote, Prof. Zeman described "about half" of over 2000 folks his team has studied as multimodal. So for roughly 50%, it's purely a matter of visual processing and doesn't apply to other senses (like your examples), while the other half include multiple (or all) senses.

That being said, I'm one of the folks who have to choose how to add spices when I cook based upon what I remember working together in the past. As I understand it, some (perhaps only a talented few and perhaps including some unimodal aphants) are able to use the same part of their brain that processes taste and smell to imagine the taste and smell of new combinations of flavors.

Another quirk: I don't think I get songs stuck in my head in the same way as others. I may have a particular verse or rhythm on my mind... but I'm pretty sure that I'm lucking out in this regard.

In all the cases mentioned, I'm reasonably capable of predicting or extrapolating outcomes based upon past experiences (I don't stick my hand on many hot stoves, for example). But my brain just doesn't seem to run through the process of recreating sensations to get there.
Barter existed, it was just mostly only used between people who didn't know or trust each other, eg traveling merchants. Graeber specifically addresses this in his book.
Why was Autopilot driving above the speed limit?

Or does Tesla allow you to set the speed?
Psql and Gnuplot
> tell them that the problem is their phone manufacturer

Despite this being true many will see is as an excuse, or worse just a plain lie, and leave you a 1* (or 0* if possible) review ranting about your attitude and bad coding. How dare you criticize their choice of device?!
> Does the number of followers you have change how you use the service?

Not the OP, but yes, of course. Most musicians want their music to connect to other people. If you had the opportunity to get on stage and play a show at a bar full of excited people or at one whose dancefloor contained only Roombas wandering aimlessly around, which one would you play at?
Nice. Like every other topic, there's more complexity if you keep looking harder.
Usury, if we define it as lending at an exorbitant interest, is not in fact tolerated. We have usury laws which criminalize interest above a certain rate. That's why these crooks are targeting Kenya. The article cites annualized rates as high as 180%, which would be criminal lending in my neck of the woods, that being Canada.

We do tolerate fairly high interest rates. A 25% rate on a credit card might be usury to you, but not doesn't meet the legal definition, if the usury law where you live happens to be set at 60%.
MindMed – Psychedelic Inspired Medicines
I am an expert in AI. Learned the symbolic kind before the AI winter, then worked on neural nets (stealthily) during the AI winter.

Automonous driving cannot yet handle all the edge cases, and when it fails people die. What's worse is when it fails it cannot explain why it failed, so we just throw more training data at it and hope for the best. That's not engineering; that's ML cargo cult voodoo.

Modern ML is great for finding family members in your photo collection, but nobody dies when it labels your dog your grandmother.

Tesla makes great cars but I never use their autopilot. They should focus on what they do best and give up this obsession with autonomous driving.
Ah, I read the wp article yesterday and just assumed it was the same article being discussed here.
Isn't it even disputed among experts whether Machiavelli's the Prince is satirical or not?

I can't possibly imagine how one can both treat a source as holding profound and transcendent views and be uninterested or unsure of what the author meant when writing it; at that point it seems that the literary work is merely an excuse for the reader to project their own ideas into an authorative source, and the work is only valued for its prestige.
By coincidence there are a couple of other Erlang autoformatters under development at the moment:

- rebar3_fmt: https://github.com/AdRoll/rebar3_format - offers lots of config options, as opposed to steamroller which has very few.

- erlfmt: don't think this has been released yet. It's designed to (probably) only change whitespace, as opposed to steamroller which makes minor code improvements.

An exciting time for Erlang developer tools!
Show HN: React-UFO – A simple React hook to help you with data fetching
If you abandon MacOS for photo management, what system will you go to that does not already support MacOS?

If you go to Windows and use Lightroom, why not stay on your mac?

If you go to Linux and use FSpot or Darktable, you can get them both on a Mac too.
What Is a Safe Note?
Go has GC, which has real costs always lied about because they are hard to tie to specific instruction sequences. So, Go will always be slower in certain key applications where latency matters, but in most other cases not so anybody notices.

Otherwise, there are too many differences in detail to generalize. Rust can take advantage of reduced aliasing that C++ can't, but the compiler doesn't because that code is still too buggy to turn on.

Last time I compared carefully, Rust and C++ built with Clang had identical performance, to well under 1%: much smaller than, e.g., the difference between Clang and Gcc.
> And one step beyond that, that it's a Merkel tree.

Not really, not every block chain is a Merkle tree. Since Git history is not linear, you can’t order the commits in any canonical way. You definitely can order them in some way (like "git log" does) and then construct a tree for that list of hashes, but this is not really useful computation. Git repo integrity is verified simply by HEAD commit hash because you normally clone the entire repository anyway.
This is excellent - it would be good if the charts were in the browser timezone (should be easy) and they seem to draw points into the future, I'm sure this could be disabled?
You need to use the "lexer trick". While lexing your input data, instead of ignoring whitespace or producing token WS or TAB or whatever, keep track of your indents and newlines. Then it's simple to decide if it's an indent (newline followed by at least 1 more space or tab than previous, add this to your indents stack) or dedent (newline followed by the previous indent (look at your indent stack)). Then produce INDENT and DEDENT seperate tokens. Once you have these tokens produced by tokenizer, it's easy to parse. Do the usual recursive descent. Source: I built my own python compiler (python->C++) as a university projects.
Makes you wonder if the point of technological progress is to actually make human existence safer and easier or if it's just to push up a stock price. I'm still hopeful it's the former.

We'll hear the same canned response about how many lives have been saved, but just veering off into a concrete wall spontaneously? That's completely fucked.

The fact that millions of these vehicles are deployed with this software running should concern every other driver on the roadway. Remember when Tesla said 1 million robotaxis by 2020? o_O
It is laughable that you don't think the goal wasn't already zero. It has been zero the whole time.

Real life and ideals are different thing. You can't promise that accidents will never happen. But you can promise that accidents will be substantially reduced.

In the US, about 35k people die per year from motor vehicle related deaths. If you get it down to 10k, then that would be a major success. Of course, you will still be fine tuning until you could get below 1000 and as close to 0 as possible.
Can I run this code outside of stdlib somehow or does it only work there?

Just have to plan around if stdlib went down or something.
What's the point of an open startup? Open source is actually beneficial to the user because they can look at the code, modify it and install the software themselves. It empowers the user.

Open Startups seem like a hipster thing to do in silicon valley with literally no benefit to the user, I don't care how much a company makes. I care about the product and their services. It feels more about marketing themselves as Open Startups than actually providing value of any kind. But yea, let me put some graphs (smoothed lines ofcourse) and put up a big banner that screams "OPEN STARTUP".

I am curious what counterpoints are? What do you guys like Open Startups? For centuries, companies have been closed (in terms of finances) and it has been working fine.
Is that proof "conflicted with NSA backdoor"
Other than HGST is owned by Western Digital, they also said:

There were no Western Digital branded drives in the data center in 2019, but as WDC rebrands the newer large-capacity HGST drives, we’ll adjust our numbers accordingly.
Facebook tried to ban gun sales 4 years ago. It’s still trying
Having done a significant amount of programming in both Python-like and statically typed languages, I think the idea that they offer similar productivity (i.e., time to correct, maintainable implementation) is simply false.

And in a number of cases I've turned an existing program in a language like C or Java into a faster program in Python. One of the benefits of a fluent language is that you can explore more of the possibility space and look for better solutions. That's difficult and costly in static languages.
Because the fact that China has not engaged in non-local applications of violence, they must be better than the US? That seems to be an amazingly narrow standard, because by that measure any country which carries out atrocities on its own population is 'better' than the US. I understand, even if I may not agree, some individual's dislike of American foreign policy, but to equate America's actions in the last 20 years at a global level with a nation-state which is (according to press reports) imprisoning and potentially torturing and killing those of its own population who meet certain ethnic and demographic criteria seems absent any amount of perspective.
The special BIS phone plans haven't been required since BBOS7 phones. BB10 phones were released in 2013, and then Android a couple of years later.
Getting this passed by both the EU and UK governments seems at least as unlikely as 'turn the north sea into gigantic lake' plan failing.
I think that the necessity of intervening drivers atm indicates that we aren't at that point yet, even if that point is far from perfection, and also that the reason any self-driving cars are on the road is because of the fairly loose but significant requirements from regulation. We might be at that point in otherwise very dangerous situations, like if I was very tired or drunk, but otherwise I don't know that I'd have so much faith in software engineers to completely control my car.
When was this? Just because in around Nov 2019 a GCHQ spokesman said Chinese backdoors went an issue with UK's dependency on Huawei for 5G (but other risks, network shutdown in times of conflict might be present).

Could you (or anyone) link a source where the NSA, or other USA agencies discuss this with technical detail?
Man, that site has come a LONG way in the past couple of years. I haven't seen it since probably 2015. Back then, the diagrams were super useful, and the content easily understandable. Now it looks like a Mechanics University!
Damn, those are some punctual aliens, never early or late.
Maybe he could stop and frisk them, there's definitely a demographic to target ;]
> Crypto doesn't discriminate on whether you have a warrant or not.

Actually, backdoors could be implemented to require a cryptographically signed warrant. Think e.g. lawful intercept on mobile network routers, US (or any other nation's) law could just add this as a requirement. You could even develop a complicated scheme to apply this to E2E crypto.

But of course skewing the RNG to be predictable, or implanting some hardware backdoor, is much easier and has the added bonus of being usable to spy not only on your own citizens, but also on other nations.
That's awesome. Did you just get a dedicated server from a provider (I'm assuming, since you're paying monthly?) or did you buy the server and colocate it?
The American government is not going to steal your company's secrets and give them to other companies, the Chinese government in fact does.
The stable branch hasn't seen any commits since 2017. The last head of the -next branch is from last summer, I think, and the last time I've seen a patch on the mailing list was about three weeks ago.
What are the top 3 reasons people buy this? You push the privacy angle pretty hard, but that doesn't seem like enough for people to whip out their card (even at the reasonable price).

My guess is a lot of people are just overwhelmed when they look at Google Analytics and end up going with you for simplicity.

Also, where is server side analytics on your roadmap?
This doesn't really solve the PR problem for Tesla, though. If people continue to treat their cars like they're fully self-driving (they will), accidents like this will continue to happen

What Tesla is doing is like selling a space heater that emits carbon monoxide and declaring it's for outdoor use only
Mitigations are attack surface, too
Who in particular?
These systems all favour one specific skill over any other: Lying.
as a US Resident, China has no authority to murder me or put me in a cage like the US Government does.

So if I had to choose I would prefer china over the NSA, Of course neither is the best option but .....

if I lived in China the inverse would be true
I work in sales recruiting (agency) with various tech companies in SF.

Compared to the people in this story, it's a totally different world, where candidates have a lot more power (partly evidenced by the fact that companies will pay for external recruiting help).

That said, I've run a few LinkedIn & Indeed job posts. It's frustrating when you see the same people apply for wildly different jobs over and over again. Whenever I hear about someone who's angry that they've applied to thousands of jobs but get no callbacks, I think about the candidates I see with no relevant experience, who've applied for a mid/sr level position only a week after they applied for a graduate level position. I get that candidates are frustrated, but as someone who's screening for people, it won't get you moved forward.
Does Kenya have a strong, nationally-ubiquitous system for individual credit ratings? If not, then the joke might end up being on the companies giving out cash and not on the people taking predatory loans.