skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22515015, in particular the "Reflections on Trusting Trust". You can bootstrap your target language from almost nothing by incrementally compiling more complex compilers, and all the intermediary complexity is stored in the compiler, not in the source code of the language you're trying to bootstrap. Notably, life did proceed like this - incrementally, from the first replicator.

(Another way to look at it: a piece of code, be it DNA or a program written in a programming language, is just a bunch of symbols. You can't divine what these symbols mean from looking at the piece of code alone; you have to understand the mechanics of your compiler and your runtime. And these can evolve separately to the code you're looking at.)
> - Changes in air pressure often hurt my ears, and it sometimes (when I have a bit of a cold) takes a few days to disappear completely.

You're not supposed to fly when you have a cold. Any existing swelling in the sinuses or ears can result in long-lasting injury. Usually that means ruptured ear drums, but the sinuses can be affected.

Pilots with a cold certainly cancel their flights.

I once told a friend with a cold to cancel his flight and take a 24-hour bus ride. He laughed it off and flew anyway. When I saw him a week later, he was still in pain.
The flying taxi market is ready for takeoff
This is where the problem lies. Sure, liquid assets are as good as cash... until they aren’t. If everyone tries to convert assets to cash simultaneously, then cash gets scarce really quick and the difference between the two becomes clear.

This is completely relevant to the Minsky moment, because it is the illusion of wealth created by inflated asset values that leads people to take excess risks.
I'm an environmental engineer with some experience in drinking water treatment.

I doubt it's in the drinking water. One of the oldest drinking water treatment methods would remove the virus: slow-sand filtration. Most places in China would at least use this, and South Korea is likely using more advanced technology.
Not sure OP is the same as the GitHub developer, but I want to applaud whoever took the time to write out this idea in a professional yet understandable manner. I had fun reading the paper.

Unfortunately this idea is (mostly) dead in the water if it sticks with its current implementation. The reason is that both Android and iOS now engage in MAC address randomization specifically to prevent being tracked by their unique IDs. This "feature" was previously commercialized by stores and private surveillance to track people moving around in a city or indoor building.

Fixing this is not impossible. Instead of Bluetooth tracking, the app could simply just record your location every poll update and save it locally. There is no invasion of privacy if the location file is never uploaded to the cloud. When someone tests positive, they could just have their location file uploaded (anonymously) and every device could cross check its location history with the infected person's.

Technology is likely not the barrier here. Notifying and training medical personnel to effectively use the app is, and getting the general public to "buy in" will cost an absolute fortune (in advertising dollars) for little to no return. This is one of those network paradox problems where you need lots of people for the network to be useful, but the network has to be useful to attract lots of people. How do you solve that?
Dr. John von Neumann at the dedication of the NORD (1954)
The implementation of libuv under nodejs (and the state of the art python async/await) actually uses a total of three threads. It's a complicated model and it's not even strictly correct to call it an "event loop." I don't completely understand it and very few people do.

From a high level you can think of it as a single thread that can only context switch during an IO call. Otherwise the function has to run and block all the way to termination. <---- This is what rachel is complaining about.
The HN headline seems to have been modified, away from the actual headline: "The Miracle of Moving a Piano in New York City".

If I wrote an article with the headline "The Miracle of building a chair in Hawaii", and then described the normal process of building a chair which is location agnostic, wouldn't you bewildered as to why I included "Hawaii" in the headline?

I understand that they are based in NYC, I just don't understand why that's relevant enough to be in the headline. "The miracle of moving a piano" would've done just fine.
Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy
Crime or antisocial behavior can be treated as an isolated situation, but if it is profitable and leads to more of the same, it becomes a cancer.

Why would anyone want any organization to exist that on balance harms society? Profitability is one constraint that promotes welfare, but it's far from the only one.
It's a good rant, but it's still a rant. Don't make it to something it's not, plenty of rants get harsher critiques and or don't receive that much up-votes.
For my Honda, I purchased a 5 dollar keyfob on Ebay and programmed it myself... no hacking required (the instructions are available online).
I think this is great, actually. I wouldn't have created a TikTok account if not for their anonymous email relay feature.
The scratches on my iPhone disagree
On the Origin of Everything [March 23, 2012]
Lol... sure.....

I worked for Spotify, and apple did all kind of hoopla to delay/deny the iOS updates....

My favorite one: If you did tap at one of the support/help tabs, it would open a webpage, which contained the support text, and the app got rejected, because after about THREE links, that would lead to the homepage, and there was a premium offer, and you can't have it.....

They kept denying updates for reasons like that....

"Coincidentally" they released their streaming service that month....

That's extremely anti-competitive..... and it wasn't done for the benefit of the user, but for the benefit of Apple only. When a user buys a phone, they have a reasonable expectations that other apps would work, and you will not be forced to use apple only services (directly or indirectly).

I.e. they are false advertising their phones.....
> The issue with Scrum is everything revolving around 2 week sprints. That doesn’t allow for much in terms of variability, longer term scheduling, or planning dependencies across multiple teams.

That assertion is clearly false. Just because a Sprint is x weeks that does not mean that planning needs to focus exclusively on what you can do in x weeks. The x weeks is only relevant to establish a target for deliverables, but naturally those deliverables can and more often than not are indeed aligned with multi-sprint goals.

Heck, even in the Agile buzzword universe there is the concept of epics and spikes.

Agile does not mean the development process needs to be a 2 week circus where planners have the memory of a goldfish. It's a framework to get all stakeholders on the same page and establish operations to accommodate changes.
Just not so close to the beach that it will get flooded when the glaciers melt.
I entered the job market from the military around that time. The only employers calling me back were government contractors (despite having really great scores on Brainbench and other technical evaluation platforms). Opportunity seemed to be a regional problem. Southern California (San Diego and
Orange Counties) were stagnant. Other areas (Bay, NYC, Boston, Seattle) seemed less effected.
Uh, it's also the length of the sunspot cycle.
DNA isn’t data, or even code. DNA is a machine that builds things.
Correct; the idea is to take Identity + Tweak, so the Relu should hit the 'tweak.'
Wow, I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels this way. The sheer amount of “everyone is stupid except for people like me” is astounding. I’d love to see an article on the same topic breaking down what is wrong (by showing the code) and then explaining the “right” way to do it, with code.
A few things to consider:

- What is the chance that we develop an effective vaccine in say 6 months? In 18 months? (I'd love to see this question tackled by the Good Judgement project [1])

- Singapore appears to be doing a good job of controlling the spread of the virus. Perhaps they will soon require all travellers to provide documentation of a negative covid19 test result before entry to Singapore?

- How many fewer flu deaths will result from changes to travel and hygiene?

[1] https://goodjudgment.com/
Not free. Huge privacy concern imo (who pays for it? who uses it? no visible way to pay with cryptocurrency)
Back in the day (the 80's) we already had memes, but they looked like other things.

The movie Robocop came out in 1987 but the gag about "I'd Buy That For a Dollar" was indicative that meme culture was enough of a thing to be worthy of satire.

Back when SNL was in its 80's prime it seemed like every skit turned into a meme. For example the Jon Lovitz "pathological liar" skit was pretty big for a while.

It's unfortunate the NBC keeps such a tight grip on all the SNL content. Lot's of 80's cultural history is locked up like that.
> 1. Wouldn't this affect any language/framework that uses a cooperative concurrency model, including node.js and ASP.NET or even Python's async/await based frameworks? How is this problem specific to Python/Gunicorn/Gevent?

I think she's against anything that has that problem. Not every green thread implementation has that problem. For example Go doesn't have that problem. Because there were 4 CPU threads (I think) and only 2 things needing to be done, with Go's M:N scheduling those 2 things would be sure to both be running.
Luckily the law sees it differently than this or we would be drowning in monopolies.
I have run Python in its traditional synchronous form, using gevent, and with the more recent async/await syntax. I don’t hold this opinion strongly, but do lean towards async/await syntax for the sake of explicit is better than implicit [1]. Node.js which was asynchronous from the start also separates async from sync explicitly with, for example, distinct fs.readFile() and fs.readFileSync() functions [2].

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ "PEP 20"

[2]: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v12.x/docs/api/fs.html#fs_fs_... "Node.js File System"

(Edit: Commenting only on clarity of syntax. Those performance metrics are interesting and I’ve admittedly never hit a scale where the difference has a practical impact.)
I'd be interesting to get the sentiment on Torvold's history of blog posts that make hacker news. Willing to bet my paycheck that his sarcastic and ranty tone was loved.
They are not....

They could have said, if your app has social network log in, must support a more anonymous way as well.... and not must support Apple's login service..... which might/might not be good for users....
> Do you want to be surrounded by crazy people when you go out? No, well we should pay taxes to have cheap health etc.

This argument doesn't stand up to close inspection at all. Why am I going to be better off being forced to pay for someone else's healthcare when I already had that choice to do that and chose not to? Speaking as an Australian; I do pay my taxes, we do have cheap healthcare and I'm still walking by homeless people every day.

I'm not against a government safety net to make sure everyone has access to somewhere to sleep that is out of the weather & 3 square meals a day but healthcare is a bottomless pit. There is no limit of any sort on how much we can spend on healthcare. The line has to be drawn somewhere, it has to be arbitrary because there is no other way of making the system work.

It is all very well to say that you can spend more of my money on things you think are good ideas; but why am I so incapable of spending money on things I think are good ideas? The major thing stopping me from spending money on roads, education, sewerage, etc, etc is that the government is taking all the money I'd use for that and giving it to old people who haven't saved and needy cases that I frequently disagree are needy. The amount of money in my taxes that goes towards infrastructure is tiny in proportion.
...and there are 3500 recorded deaths so far from COVID-19, so we've very likely already exceeded this estimate as of March 7, 2020.
May I ask what you did previously in your career, was it related, sys admin or similar, or did you move to devops more recently?

I'm getting close to 50 and I have to admit, I'm wondering what employment looks like after 50 for people in our industry.
It's the same thing. She and many other people don't know it but she's complaining about the same model that was introduced and popularized by NodeJS.

Current python "green threads" use the keywords async/await as an api. Underneath this api, the state of the art implementations use libuv (wrapped in a python library called uvloop) the exact SAME C++ library that powers nodejs.
Government-sanctioned monopoly residue, as far as I can tell. AFAIK everyone has to lease circuits from Telekom; not entirely dissimilar from the US.
It's even worse than that. If it is believed that the plane is only suitable for American pilots, it should not even be sold outside of the USA...
> Because of the GIL, you can't make predictions at the same time you're processing network IO

Why not? If the model is a Python wrapper around some C/C++ library, then GIL can be released and this is actually a recommended approach used by almost any CPU-intensive python libraries - https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init.html#releasing-the-gil-... You can have parallel computations inside your wrapped C extension, while Python interpreter is processing IO.
dang, can we get a ruling? These headlines might not violate the letter of the "If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective" guideline, but they do violate the spirit.

"Hackers Can Clone Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys" gets the same point across without the sensationalism.

I'm bringing it up because I've seen many of these "millions of [thing that exists in the millions]" headlines recently, and I think it's more than just Baader-Meinhoff at work.
> Why would people working from home not stick?

The assumption behind it sticking seems to be that WFH is so obviously better if you just try it you'll be convinced. While I think there's some truth to that (=people objecting to it without actual experience), many companies are going to jump into large-scale WFH badly prepared now, so it could pan out either way. Turning a company remote is a culture shift.
Having worked for many years in a linguistics research lab where we spent a lot of money paying people to edit and align subtitles and audio transcripts, and having largely written what was at the time the most sophisticated subtitle-and-transcript editing tool available, I can confirm: counting characters and mapping them linearly to timespan, even after isolating vocals, does indeed go very poorly. And much worse when there's singing involved.
Which is why there is a definition of reasonable costs, and that's what you get reimbursed.

And if that is a million dollars, in that case: Should someone be able to cause a million dollars' worth of damage with a frivolous lawsuit without being liable for it?

Patent trolls are one of the things that would work significantly less well in a loser-pays scenario.

Or to turn your example around: If the car hasn't killed me and I just want my money back, should I be forced to just eat the loss because even if I win, the legal costs will be higher?
Watch 6 decade-long disinformation operations unfold in 6 minutes
(2) is not related to ad networks at all. Mozilla does not facilitate this point in any way.
Physicists Think We Might Have a New, Dark Matter Candidate
"It beggars belief that a free market would decide that there are nearly no risks in the future. Risks are the highest they've been in the last 30 years."

Why? If you put your retirement savings in VT, do you think there is a risk of losing your money, outside the end of the world or a temporary decline when you happen to want to withdraw?

I don't think it is fruitful to argue this is true or not, I'm just presenting this as something plausible I think many if not most investors believe these days, explicitly or implicitly.

But if you really have no chance of losing your money in the stock market as a whole, why should it give you extra returns over bonds? Maybe it doesn't?
Someone somewhere is working on an ICO based on this.
How would the dealer be able to trick you into buying key insurance if they didn't threaten to charge you hundreds of dollars though?
> Python async and nodejs do not need concurrency primitives like locks. You cannot have a deadlock happen under this model period.

This is dangerously wrong and I would suggest that you reconsider the steps that got you to this understanding because something really important has been lost. It is absolutely critical to understand that deadlocks are not why you have locks. Correctness during concurrent operation is why you have locks. Deadlocks are a failure state when you do not have correctness during concurrent operation. So are things like double-increment and double-create.

Parallelism does not imply deadlocking, concurrency implies deadlocking, and both NodeJS and Python are concurrent runtime environments. And I can guarantee you that, with a little skull sweat, you can write a deadlock in NodeJS or Python. It is very easy. If you need some help, here's a trivial example (and ordinarily I wouldn't use a link shortener here but this one is hefty, it just goes to the Typescript playground): https://bit.ly/2Tvjyze

Also, as a concrete, real-world, yes-it-happens-here example of where locking is important, consider that I've recently built a dependency injection framework in NodeJS--tried to use others' first, but my situation isn't covered by existing ones--and had to resort to a mutex to avoid double creation of objects within a single lifecycle. Creation of objects within this lifecycle happens asynchronously--it has to, as the act of creating the objects might itself rely on asynchronous operations. So, if I were to have a diamond-dependency (A deps B and C, B and C dep D), I will non-deterministically, and based on the creation time of B and C, create either one or two instances of D. I rely upon a mutex, keyed upon the dependency being created, to ensure that this does not happen.

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I would also submit that perhaps you should adopt a principle of charity and think real hard about whether your priors are correct before you start talking about what she "fails" to see. Rachel is one of those people who has Been Around and while I also have Been Around, I understand that Rachel has Been Around More and I probably should be listening more than I should be smarming at her.

Just a thought.
Wow. You really had to go there with the sexism, didn’t you?
It would be lovely if the Readme said what JWT was...
Maybe this is really done out of concern for the user but it's awfully convenient how many of Apple's "privacy" moves also bind their users more tightly into their ecosystem.
Israel did join the war, it just didn't advertise it. You can read plenty of accounts on it. Boots on the ground, mostly Scad launcher hunters.
Interesting. So do you have to put your fob in a bowl so it won't be moving to prevent it from being relay attacked, or some such?
" the power of being a tech company that spends on media versus a media company that spends on tech "

Amen!.
With loser pays, bringing a suit is risky (with the risk depending on the risk of losing the suit).

With the US system, there is no way to get justice in many cases, even when you're obviously right, because the (non-recoverable) legal costs exceed the amount by which you have been wronged (and the opponent knows that).
Why was it easier to integrate with those other services from Python than from Java? Only because you already picked Python for those, right?

(I agree with you about time to market being the important thing. I don't think Python is winning that game any more though: its dependency management and deployment has fallen behind the rest of the industry, and newer languages have largely caught up with its conciseness without having to make the same compromises)
I'm guessing "JSON Web Token"
So you want Git for data
> Since this is Python we don't have the luxury of using threads to perform CPU-bound work (because of the Global Interpreter Lock).

You can have it with threads if the CPU-bound work is done inside a C extension - https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init.html#releasing-the-gil-...
Criticism is a staple of any human discussion/forum. It's not even feedback, it's just complaining about TFA. Sometimes the top comment on HN is someone complaining about the font-color of the blog post. Let's not lose our minds here.

Seems weird to get worked up over spotting a complaint on HN just because a woman wrote TFA. And btw, most complaints on HN are leveled at men simply because men populate this forum and tech more than women. Does that mean this forum hate men? Why is it assumed men can handle it but women can't?

I have to wonder how many women are turned off by the idea that they need to be babied like this and can't take generic online criticism. Or the suggestion that criticism was only leveled at them because they are women. It sure reeks, to me.
Growing Neural Cellular Automata – Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis
The threat of regulatory capture is present with every regulatory solution.
> If I had both money and power, I would wave my magic wand and bring back walkable neighborhoods full of Missing Middle Housing (and SROs) that even ordinary joes can afford and I would move this country to single payer healthcare. And then I would go on vacation for the rest of my life, having done enough to feel satisfied with my life.

Sounds like you have a plan, here they're building a huge amount of apartments, and its keeping rents low. The other long term item I'd suggest is education, if a chunk of the population is uneducated then they're easily exploitable. The thing with education when you have a large population of working poor is that its a low priority for them. You can make education as free as you want, but when people are working 20 hours a day to live then it doesn't matter.

imho its a systems problem, with the underlying issue being the lower stratum of society aren't getting enough money - even if they work, its ridiculous. Its not socialism to pay people enough to live when they work, if people only have to work one job, then they can focus on things like night school if they want, looking after they're kids so they can go to school.

Again with my telescopic view from across the pond it does seem engineered to keep a class of uneducated god fearing slaves.
I'm currently about to change jobs. The company I'm leaving is a small AI company with much of its business coming in the form of speculative investments/proof-of-concept contracts from large corporations with research budgets.

I'm mainly leaving because the new opportunity is more exciting. But between the economic downturn and the "AI autumn", I'm definitely feeling like I made the right decision.

The new company is small but solid, unbeholden to investors, and it provides a very tangibly valuable service to an industry which itself provides a very tangibly valuable product that basically everyone needs. So it feels like a good place to be when the storm hits.
Examining the source, it looks like alignment is done via an HTML form data submission to 'https://api.audioai.online/split-align'. Manually visiting that website, however, is not very informative... the entire text of http://audioai.online is

Audio AI API
Split voice from audio
Sync voice to text
contact
Why did you write out the entire word why instead of 'y'?
Why is this unfortunate?

If good execs prefer equity, they’ll go to where the equity is. And because they’re good, their companies will perform better, which creates a virtuous cycle.