skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The platforms have been muzzling speech for a long while and some through sneaky ways like making content hard to find or surface. So they can still restrict the spread of speech while claiming they do not interfere in the creation and publishing of it. So platforms will have to come clean on their algorithms and content discovery process as well.
Laws.
Or he's using better tools and languages. (ie, smalltalk vs javascript)
I'll go take a walk and sometimes have lunch with people, sometimes I get the same canned responses.
I have a hard time understanding who this helps. Clearly there are exceptions for family offices and the spousal exception is strangely broadened in a way that includes same sex, non married couples (and I believe that's a win) - though arguably is much broader. But, an exception for people that pass some relatively basic SEC certifications (who also don't meet some reasonable financial thresholds) or folks that are non-significant wage earners, that work for a VC and want to invest. It's really strange considering now, investment brokers / managers who don't make enough to participate under the old rules can participate AND convince their clients / the market to participate...that seems odd.

If there is a reasonable reason to create an income threshold, presumably to protect investors from risky investments who can't withstand the loss, then why create exceptions for people who don't meet the income / asset requirement?

If you believe that investment in startups should be regulated, to save us from ourselves, it's hard to imagine this helps the average potential investor.
Ilhan Omar's US foreign policy overhaul: Inside the seven bills
Hairy indeed.

I just spent 2 days programming a timezone selector in a React form that changes the displayed date/time as you switch timezones but the underlying UTC representation wouldn't change.

All this without loading 500k JS timezone libraries. I only used Intl API and tz.js [1].

The trick simply was to temporarily shift the date by the difference between the local time and the edited time zone. :)

[1] https://github.com/dynasty-com/tzjs
It would be great if it would be :) At this moment is just an art experiment
So are cities.

And?
I think the big platforms would love to be treated as platforms only. But the problem is that the platform owner is the best positioned to police the content. If they have to rely on the legal system to take things down, there is going to be a lot more nefarious activity that goes untouched. And I don't think the public or our politicians have the stomach for that.
It’s not that bad. A day or two initially, then an hour or two every six months, depending how much work you put into automating it. It’s definitely a good way to learn.

Write everything down! Every command you type. You don’t want to come back in sixth months time and have to relearn what you did the first time.

If you’re feeling ambitious you can script almost the entire deployment from provisioning a machine through to rsyncing the content. It’s pretty fun to run a bash script or two and see an entire server pop up.
Learning from Turing's Silver Hoard (2016)
I'd say there are 1000x programmers. Easy. [0]

If we change the question to are there 10x programmers within a team in some "average" company with CVs indicating roughly comparable experience, then ...

The answer is still yes, there are 10x programmers. I've witnessed it myself many times. Not so much because the highs are very high, but the lows are very low.

[0] Fabrice Bellard. John Carmack. Linus Torvalds.
This is a very... erm... "early PC era" way of thinking.

Back in the days, many moons ago, both displays and software typically had a fixed DPI (96 for Windows) and so a larger resolution was basically the same thing as a larger display. The two were interchangeable.

In the photography and print world (and everywhere else) the resolution is just the "level of detail" or "sharpness", completely independent of the size.

With Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and recent-ish OSX the display resolution is finally decoupled from the display size. This is especially true at nice even resolutions such as precisely double or triple the legacy 96 DPI (200% or 300% scaling).

I've been using 4K monitors for over a decade, basically since they've been available and it always cracks me up to see some people run them at "100%" scaling with miniscule text. That's not the point. The point is that at 200% scaling text looks razor sharp, but is exactly the same size as it would be at 1920x1080.. You can clearly distinguish fonts that look virtually identical at 1920x1080. It's amazing, you have to try it yourself.

Caveat: If you need (or nearly need) prescription glasses, 4K or higher resolutions may not make much of a difference for you. In this case, you're likely better off having a bigger screen and/or a very big screen further away from you.
LCD Compatible Light Gun
> in what circumstance

Precisely in the one that brought this into topic. It's nice to not have to be so careful with how the mouse moves. When it gets in the way, I can just flick it off, not worried about my stuff changing focus. It also greatly decreases the annoyance of accidentally touching a touchpad while typing.
I mean, one could argue that NPM ended up like that because of JS's terrible standard library that includes none of the basics people need all the time.

I really like working with TypeScript, but that is the pain point that always comes up.
Hardypress.com is an easy option.
macOS looks fine on a 32” 4K
Thanks for voicing your concern. I don't believe we need an acquisition. As mentioned, we plan on monetizing either through a premium tier with productivity tools built for power users or charging a very low amount from every user. We are confident in our ability to generate revenue without selling user data.
Apple Warns That Coronavirus Will Hurt Revenue
Server side stats instead of Google Analytics is big one, imo.
AWS's business isn't making simple things like this easy for solo practitioners who are never going to spend any money.

Their business is making big complicated things possible for companies that are going to spend a lot of money and don't care about a small amount of incidental complexity.
It can also be read as "avoid (rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it)"
> Are you unaware of the federal licenses required for these satellites to be deployed

Astronomers are in other countries besides the US... and these satellites are going to span the globe impacting everyone everywhere.
This! MacOS (mbp15r) with seemingly any non-Apple external monitor, text looks just awful regardless of font or resolution settings.
I was thinking macos always had subpixel rendering, but maybe it does not? I am not running mojave

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476873

Also, apple has a tendency to support fancy features ONLY on its own hardware. I know apple retina displays allowed display scaling, but non-apple displays only let you set the absolute display resolution.
The previous submission on "Machine learning prediction of the coronavirus outbreak" indicates to me that they do not understand what problems symbolic regression can be applied to. They are making predictions about the future based only on past measurements of one event. They also seem to be revising their numbers without noting the changes in the article.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://turingbotsoftware.com/...
1) Serve
2) Don't complain
3) Nobody owes you anything
n) Do the rest of the tech lead stuff
What to Know About Giving Yourself an Abortion
Touch screens in Subarus, BMWs, Lexus, and Fords (the ones I've personally tried) are laughably bad. Like 10 year old phones, of even older tables like the Nokia 770 tablet (2004 ish).

The Tesla was the first UI I tried that felt as good or better than this years phones. Nice large, clear, color display. Fast UI, pinch and zoom, etc. I do wish they spent a bit more on ram/SSD to keep a better local cache. Seems silly to zoom in, then zoom out and have to wait for the infill.
There was a Citations Needed podcast about pseudoscience in the criminal justice system:

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-94-the-goofy-pseu...

It's an interesting podcast, but their interviewee sucked and she didn't really cite any actual science; just hand waved away things.

I've found the studies they cite on fingerprints (your fingerprint could match up with 1 in ~300 people; they're not as unique as once though -- the study that's often cited is from the FBI) but I can't find anything on gun/bullet print identification.

Supposedly you can't match a bullet to a gun, especially with more modern firearms with precise milling. Yet all the sourced I've found should photos of bullets with distinct patterns that seem to match a particular firearm.
This might be a good moment to remind people that Assange has been the victim of a successful smear campaign since the moment a woman did NOT make a rape allegation against him in Sweden.
Nils Melzer, UN special rapporteur on torture, actually went over the original proceedings and gave a long format interview on the matter lately. He too took some convincing to even touch the case, that's how effective sexual violence as a smear tactic is.
Which is a damn shame, given that there's plenty of real sexual violence to go around, and which now once more gets harder to make visible.

Here's the interview:
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...

tl;dr:

Assange was right about everything that has been made falsifiable: secret indictment, spying on his lawyers, extradition to the US, no fair trial, the whole lot. He's showing every mental and physical sign of being tortured. He needs help, and he's being denied the very rights that western society purports to uphold.

EDIT: and that is leaving aside the whole dimension of Sweden, the UK, Equador, and of course the US making (even more of) a precedent out of him. What this means for the free press, and the relationship between freedom (of expression, of information, and in this case of truth, really) vs national "security" (in this case, the national security to not be held accountable for shooting down civilians) should send shivers down everyone's spines.

EDIT 2 To the people downvoting: care to express which part of the above exactly you disagree with? Do you think it's factually incorrect? How about correcting it then? Do you think it's inappropriate? Why so? Off topic?
By that reasoning, for all practical purposes, they don't really exist.
They were already rare to begin with but then they also move up the ranks quickly.

One could argue VPs and CEOs technically have people reporting to them, but managing people isn't really their job. They are mostly concerned with strategy.
Apple also enables fancy features and tweaks on it's own hardware.
In this case, if it were regulated and there was evidence they were doing that, a lawsuit could be brought against them.
I'm sure Norvig is very good, but I think the sudoku webpage is presenting a finished program in an idealised way, not recording the process he used to write it, false starts and all.

(It seems likely to me that there were some false starts, because eliminate() returns either `values` or False, when both of its callers would be just as happy if it returned True or False.)
Electron is not only about JavaScript. Fortunately now you can compile many "native" languages to wasm (i.e Go)
Only a few companies reported any material impact because of coronavirus. I recall SBUX, NKE, UA reporting decreased sales in the 1st quarter of 2020 during their Q4 2019 earnings calls.

AAPL is the first “big” company to report an impact. Check out /NQ and /ES in 16 minutes if you want to find out, I’d wager NQ will gap down .5% and ES will gap down .25% in the ETH session tonight. As to where they go from there, I’m betting on 3400 (with actual money)
Just use Netlify, it's free, you can hook it up to a GitHub repository and they'll handle your Let's Encrypt certs for you.
The issue is references, if you de-reference in the data function, you can now never change that reference because Vue's reactivity won't see the change.

let external = {foo: {bar: 'something'};
new Vue({
data: function() {
return {
ref: external.foo.bar
};
}
})
external.foo = {bar: 'something else'};
I don't think any individual knows anymore, it's just ML optimization for getting the most ads, presumably through engagement.
> after your decision has been proofen impaired once

Who decides that your decision has been proven impaired, and how?
Anyone familiar with music design languages—-how do this and others mentioned in comments (supercollider, puredata) compare with Ruby/midi based sonic-pi?
Retina displays, at least at their intended meaning depends on the distance the display is meant to be viewed. So a phone you might well read at 2 feet needs quite a bit more PPI than a car display.
On the contrary, Graph NN's I've found Graph NNs extraordinarily useful and very easy to train!

I'm not sure what kind of problems you are trying to use them for, but generally they are really useful for node classification or recommendation type tasks.

So for example in the knowledge graph context, you can do things like give it a tiger, jaguar and panther and it will find nodes like lions and leopards.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.00596.pdf is a survey paper which has a decent overview of the tasks they are useful for. http://research.baidu.com/Public/uploads/5c1c9a58317b3.pdf is using them for QA, but I'm not familiar enough with the dataset to evaluate it fairly.
If you're serving static content, installing Apache, nginx, or any other web server will do just fine. Make sure to set the document root to a directory you're fine being public.

If you're running something dynamic like WordPress, stay extremely on top of patches, unfortunately, and be super cautious about what plugins you use. (This is one of the better reasons to use a static website.)

If you want to run a Postgres for your dynamic website, configure it to listen only to localhost or only via UNIX sockets.

Make sure you keep your software up-to-date. unattended-upgrades is a great idea for OS-provided software.

Be careful about where you get software from. More than just "get it from somewhere trustworthy," the big concern here is to get it from someone who is applying software updates. For most OS-ish things, you want to get them from your distro; try to avoid downloading e.g. PHP from some random website, because you won't get automatic updates. For a few things - especially things like WordPress - I wouldn't trust the distro to keep up, largely because the common practice is to release security fixes by releasing new versions, and distros are going to want to backport the fixes, which is slower and not always guaranteed to work.

As another commenter mentioned, turn off remote password logins and set up SSH keys. (Most VPS providers will have some form of console / emergency access if you lose access to your SSH keys.)
It really isn't that surprising either. People want to write off the notion that some people are massively better than others at solving problems, but it's completely obvious that's the case. Of course there are insane outliers like Claude Shannon or John von Neumann, but those were real people that existed, and it stands to reason there are people at smaller multipliers who are still much better than average.
> If they have to rely on the legal system to take things down, there is going to be a lot more nefarious activity that goes untouched.

The DMCA does a reasonably good job of handling that exact problem for copyright infringing content, while still providing due process.

Edit: I have no idea why this is being downvoted, what I’ve said is completely true. If you’re mad about YouTube’s terrible policies, they’re not related to DMCA. They have their own completely seperate (and highly oppressive) system for handling infringement claims (in addition to their DMCA obligations).
The sonic booms are just... breathtaking. One of the coolest things I've ever witnessed. (Was there for the first night launch of the FH. Just amazing.)
They haven't beaten anyone by 6 years when you can't even use that feature.
Completely agree - this is the textbook definition of overfitting - and recommending it for novices is like statistical malpractice.

Why think it’s ok to dumb down data science so much? We don’t use “Be your own family’s surgeon” or “Represent your mom in court” apps! Expertise matters in ML/stats too...
That's honestly more impressive for creativity sake!

FizzBuzz is just an example of the general problem of "given a set of things, do something to a subset of those things" which comes up often in real world settings. If you knew enough to set up a loop and apply some conditional inside of it, then you passed better than some of the programmers I've worked with.
If it broke it would take me all of minutes to have it hosted elsewhere. There is essentially zero lock-in with the service, even if you're using some of more complicated build steps.
Standard range is $40k, AWD long range is $50k. Paint is $1000 extra for anything but black, $2000 for red. Where are you getting $64k?
For machines that don't need to mix scaling this is pretty much a solved problem - I've run Windows at 125%, Linux/Cinnamon at 150% and OS X at ~150% and they've all preformed just fine for coding tasks.

The only mess is if you have mixed displays - and even that is mostly still problem only on Linux.
I will not use chrome but I’d love to try your extension. Could you add a way to get a reminder from your team when Firefox or safari support is available?
>Even a budget Kia has better build quality than this.

Is this a recent thing or do you mean the $20k+ as budget in this context? The last budget (cheap manual) Kia I sat in felt like a tin can deathtrap.
That is a solution only valid for US and for the current legislation since it was introduced in 2006. It can be changed at any time.

For example other countries may use of laws (EU Arricle 13, for instance) to bend social media [1], and Facebook has accepted to have Marlène Schiappa’s (our Minister of Equality) agents in-house. Law is the embodiment of the current political power balance, not a fixed referential to stake culprits upon. And for the moment, social media are the power in the balance, so it’s hard to use the law against them.

[1] https://juliareda.eu/2019/12/french_uploadfilter_law/
Ask HN: Why won't you quit a job you hate?
For people who are bored at work, especially at big FAANG companies, why won't you make a switch?

Salary is a big factor for sure, but given an already good pay for technical talent why not to take a small pay cut and join a mission-driven startup, where you can be aligned in values and have an impact and growth?
HETZNER https://www.hetzner.com/
747s Carrying Americans Exposed to Coronavirus Used New Quarantine Box
I understand this point of view is contrary to popular opinion. The justification of microservices is to allow a team of let's say 10 developers to scale to 100. What you do is create 12 teams of 8. Each team owns their microservice with well defined APIs, and are allowed some flexibility on languages, tools, process, etc. Of course, it is a good idea to leverage common tools and such, but not obligatory.

Commonly we see a team of 20 maintaining 40 microservices, which becomes very difficult to manage and provides little gains. IMHO, this si the wrong approach. Microservices are tiny from the point of view of Netflix, or Amazon.
You can temporarily implement both interfaces where needed, create adaptors, or other patterns during the intermediate steps.
No, HP calculators were more efficient it would seem with their RPN.

"20 ENTER 8 ENTER - 7 ENTER +"

So you push 20 onto the stack and then 8 on the stack. Then you hit the minus key which returns 12 and puts that 12 on the stack, then you put 7 on the stack and click the plus key to give you 19.
I believe this proposal would more or less be the DEFAULT were it not for Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

Section 230 has had both good results (bloggers aren't going to get in trouble because someone posted something illegal in their comments) and bad results (twitter/youtube/paypal were all allowed to nuke Alex Jones from orbit simultaneously, removing his ability to distribute content, communicate with followers, and accept payments).

I don't like or agree with Alex Jones (he's a wacko, but people have made some funny videos out of his freakouts), but people have to remember: if it can happen to one person, the same could happen to anyone. People praised this "deplatforming" because they didn't like the target. But this is essentially praising these sites for crippling someone's career without any oversight.
I've been using MaxMsp for a few years now, and I've been writing software for much longer. When I'm using Max (for audio and midi), it does not strike me as a "visual programming language", nor do I feel like I'm writing software. It strikes me as a modular environment like Reaktor or VCV rack, but one step closer to the "metal".

And in that space, I think it works wonders. I initially got into Max because I had a lot of ideas for midi sequencing that I couldn't execute with more traditional tools. Initially I tried writing it by hand in C++ (which I did to an extent), but it became tiresome.

Max was a breath of fresh air. I was building sequencers, clock dividers, sequential switches, and all types of bespoke tools very quickly. A background in software definitely helped, but it was still a quick learn. Additionally, I can sync with DAW's, grab data off of IAC busses, and map controls to Midi controllers very easily. All things I'm happy to not concentrate on while being creative.

I don't have as much experience with the MSP (audio) side, but I have built some loopers and granular inspired patches.
Local governments aren't that much better, sadly.

https://www.jobapscloud.com/SF/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=PEX&R2=...

Senior ops gig, exempt from civil service rules which means essentially a three-year at-will gig. Below average pay, below average benefits.
Use google Cloud Run though I love Netifly.
author forgot to click the "purchase price" slider and instead rounded down the "price after potential fuel savings"
Although this is ultrasound it's still audible to me - I'd guesstimate it around 22-23 kHz. It's in that range where you almost feel it rather than hearing it, like the whine off some CRTs. I'm sure I'm a rare case, even most of the other people my age (early 20s) don't hear it unless they're right up against the speaker, but it sure is annoying for me.
Hey, that's really, really cool.

Temlib was mentioned in one of the comments here last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303446

I wonder if it's been used on a Pano Logic G2.
>It now boots SunOS 2.0, 3.2, and 3.5 cleanly. You can install from the distribution tapes. The SCSI emulation code is still shakey for tapes, however.

SCSI was always shakey for all devices. As soon as they make the SCSI emulation code shakey for disks as well as tapes, the emulation will be perfect!
> My non-technical employees and partners like Wordpress. We like the plugins that make web development easy and not arcane.

Use what works for your teams. Apparently, that's Wordpress and that's okay.

> We want the people who come to the site to get the static experience while the people who edit the site to get the Wordpress experience.

Stick a caching proxy or CDN in front of it, not just a Wordpress cache plugin. Something like CloudFlare would help you out.
One thing that these guides on using S3 never mention is to make sure to set alerts if the cost of the bucket grows too fast, i.e. your site gets popular.
Not OP, but here are the lines my i3 config:

bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec "xbacklight -dec 10"
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec "xbacklight -inc 10"
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html

If you wanted to read the referenced article. This was the first thing I thought of. I appreciate Fowler's writing style and his sourcing. He always links some interesting stuff.