skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's a pretty cynical interpretation that confuses the practical and biological inevitability (herd immunity) with one of the many method(s) by which we get there (shielding vulnerable groups)

a great many things have gone wrong -- but I don't think the overarching UK strategy, or even the timing of executing it -- has necessarily been one, based on existing data
My very early stage startup, whiplash.gg (tune in today at 2pm PT to see us in action) uses Clojure on the backend.

Ladder Insurance is a full stack Clojure shop and Watchful has a bunch of Clojure in prod too.
Apps that convert designs to code.. Has anyone tried supernova studio?
Came across a macOS app called Supernova that allows users to "Convert designs into native mobile apps". What's the catch with apps like this? Is that saying that you can design an app and turn it into a fully functional iOS app without knowing a substantial amount of Swift? I think code gen would be helpful for a lot of the UI.
Has anyone tried supernova studio? (supernova.io)
It's something they're working on. You can already change most keyboard shortcuts, but there's a few corner cases that people have been asking for (shortcuts with arrow keys are a problem at the moment). The developers have been extremely responsive to feature requests on the Gearslutz forum though, I've seen some feature requests implemented in just a few days:

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/product-alerts-older-than-2-...
It's a microcontroller. It has maybe 512k of storage and 128k of memory. The Numpy package probably is ~100Mb

The controller is running CircuitPython which is a fork of MicroPython - a tiny re-implementation Python for microcontrollers.
Sorry for piggy-backing on this thread, but is there a simple tool which will let me do a screen capture and annotate it. Something like ScreenFlow on Mac. I use Peek for screen-capture currently.

I wanted to annotate some text and OpenShot doesn't really work well for that as I can't place the text freely and am limited to a few templates.
> Seems more efficient and cheaper

Option A: You drive to Walmart, pick up your shopping and three other people's, you drive home via three other homes.

Option B: A driver starts at Walmart, picks up four people's shopping including yours, delivers it all, and returns to Walmart.

Seems to me the number of person-hours and distance driven is identical in both cases?
> Local news is incredibly important.

Gary Webb at The Mercury News.
Presumably they own the rights on broadcast material, so they'd have to be directly involved in the podcast production. That given, it would probably be more straight forward to take the microphone feeds from their broadcast desk (via "aux-out" perhaps) and record only the spoken output separately.

Sox etc. could be used for silence detection, probably best done in post (scriptable), but could be piped through after experimenting with settings. Otherwise, even old desks can trigger when a mic channel fader is raised, so that too is a possibility for pausing the recording during music.
When Alexis Ohanian gave a talk at Google in 2013 I got to talk with him about he and Steve dropping Lisp for Python. He said the Lisp version just kept falling down.

In production using SBCL on a customer project we had good results hiring a SBCL maintainer/developer to work past a few issues. From personal experience, I can assure you that LispWorks and Franz both provide incredibly good support for their customers.

That said, if I had to develop Reddit right now, I would not use Common Lisp either.
Yes it would be very solipsistic if HN ignored the biggest event going on right Now.
I don't know, here are screen shots (I think) of both Amazon and Wal-Mart Distribution Centers: https://www.evernote.com/l/AUmo-KavWKxI35PFfZRw5wIlQOEf7aFO_...
I had too many headaches with Resolve 16.2 hanging on exports or UI stopping responding on Ubuntu 18.04, I hope it gets better. The camera stabilization filter is amazing.

Kdenlive does support MP4 as source assets, Resolve free only does ProRes MOVs and such. It's just an extra step with ffmpeg but still.
Yup, a failure to define an MVP. Not trusting the managers, not trusting the customer, designing a over-time, over-featured API.
FBI unlocks terrorist's iPhones and finds al Qaeda links – 'no thanks to Apple'
As long as you don't empty your browser cookies.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been using a break from school to take on a number of financial data projects, some of which I’ve posted on here. The latest is a dashboard that allows you to find shared ownership between any two S&P 500 companies, using data scraped from Yahoo Finance.

This project was inspired by “The Problem of 12”, the fact that most public companies are increasingly being controlled by a small group of institutional investors: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3247337

There is compelling evidence that this shared ownership can lead to anticompetitive outcomes, such as lower wages and higher prices: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2427345.

My goal is to highlight the extent to which ownership of many competing companies is being concentrated among a small number of institutions, and spark discussion about this problem.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements to the dashboard, or ideas for new projects for me to work on!
This is doubly true in the world of hardware integration, where you absolutely can not "rapidly iterate" on things past a certain point. If you're placing an order for 1,000,000 devices which need to pass CE and FCC certification you'd better be damn sure the thing is going to work.
I've worked at many different companies. The first were all waterfall (because XP hadn't been invented yet). My next scrum team sizes were 5 (scrum), 3 (no scrum), 2 (no scrum), 15 (waterfall), 4 (scrum), 4-10 over time (scrum), 5 (scrum), 6 (scrum), 9 (scrum).

I've never seen what you describe actually happen (although I know that this is the theory behind it).

TBH I haven't really noticed much difference in the accomplishments of scrum and non-scrum teams.
No I meant I didn't believe it was a scheme
Done. I've found are usually quite responsive to these if you make a good case.
I think the theory of scrum is great. When you think about it, Scrum does most of everything that we should be doing. Thinking about problems before tackle them. Talking everyday about the problems in case someone needs help. Course correcting when you need to.

The problem is management. Tools (burn down charts) now become executive metrics. Amount of code completed now becomes a review item for advancement. We've applied measures to things that are inappropriate for what they are used for, and because of this honest communication has been replaced with guarded statements to make sure that the team never stumbles with its work. No matter what process an organization uses in those places will fail, because management wants to hear things are running fine.
Funny! That’s been fixed now.
Ah, so it probably is just the Quest being their priority then. Have to say I'm happy with mine.
The Mach Loop – low-level training areas for fast jet aircraft
I'm betting that humanity will experiment with an opt-in hive mind once the brain devices are fast enough
Don't be afraid to admit ignorance.

"I don't know what that means." and "Can you explain that to me?" are two of the most wonderful phrases. I use them regularly and have been programming for over 30yrs. Every time I do, I learn something new.

My coworkers know that I'll speak up if I don't understand something, and when you're finally experienced, it helps the new kids to not feel like such imposters to see that an experienced coworker doesn't know all the things.
I track my position, mood and activities to optimise my life
Absolutely she should blow the whistle. Then the journalists should ask followup questions like "which specific changes were you ordered to make", so they can dig in and confirm whether those changes would be dishonest. A story with little context and no details is useless; the state will soon announce something along the lines of "nuh-uh she's a liar", and then how's anyone supposed to decide who's right except by applying preconceived biases?
that sounds so aggravating. i haven't used slack in years but it sounds like its functionality has taken nothing but steps backwards since then.

but i'm sure they've added cool new react emojis, so i guess they've been pretty busy with that.
I’m removed from it, but I’m told Walmart has massive loyalty with suppliers and product aggregators (not sure on the proper term). There are small-shop businesses with a contract responsible for supplying all of one product to Walmart, and that person is the sole supplier to Walmart, and the contract gets re-bid every few years. For example, there’s a “small business” who has a contract to supply all beef jerky to all Walmart’s in the USA. It’s one of Walmart’s keys to pushing prices down, using these middlemen to negotiate pricing on the hundreds of thousands of SKUs, in a game where shaving a few cents off a jar of pickles is the difference in winning or losing a $100mm pickle supply contract. As compared to Amazon, Walmart still has a quality threshold (it demands pickles that the market expects), Amazon doesn’t. The contractor will lose his contract if his suppliers slip on quality or fail to meet delivery requirements.
Personally I think the correct balance is this: you mess with your device = you void your warranty, but we don't issue take down requests for reverse engineered firmware, schematics, tools etc.

Just let the parallel hacker universe exist without C&Ding it into oblivion, but don't encourage it if you don't want to.

I'd be curious to hear counterpoints to this approach, the most obvious one I can think of is customers either pretending they didn't break their device by modding it when they in fact did or not even pretending and instead trying to cancel the company for having this policy because they feel entitled to support even if they venture on their own path and are warned beforehand it's a territory outside official support.

"True hackers" IMO would not try to do this, but I think there is a certain group of people who want to try these cool hacks, but don't want to suffer the consequences.
I try very hard not to be an asshole, but I see assholes somehow being respected for being assholes.

Is this similar to patio11 saying that charging more for a service makes it easier for people to value the service? Is this an innate property of the way some people think? Can we change our system of values to appreciate value based on non monetary terms, and leadership based on non degrading terms?

I don't have answers for these questions, but I think they're important...
Anyone know how I can upvote a comment a hundred times?
> non-artificial intelligences walking around out there

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean people? I don't think our 'inference engine' is much like Prolog, no.
It is a polished product, and it is a good move. I did try to use it briefly in a small sample, it was reasonably easy to use as well. However I didn't like Lua, would have preferred something more flexible/expressive like JS.

Lua has something of the schoolhouse feel about it, too prim and rigid like Pascal.

So I am presently thinking of moving on to Phaser.io.
I think the difference would be that you were probably going to come to the store anyway for whatever reason.

So option B is really, "A driver starts at Walmart, picks up three people's shopping, delivers it all, returns to Walmart. You also drive to Walmart, pick up your shopping, and drive home."
How the coronavirus lockdown will change our lives forever
Jet must have some awful marketing, the only two times I heard of them was when they were acquired by Walmart and now.
And it's also fair to ask whether we should be engaging into so much war that we need to force people to join the army.
I always wondered how it worked in functionnal organizations so perhaps You could tell me.

We were told the base principle was to have a stable team and a stable stack, and at some point we had reference tasks to calibrate our point system.

But then we had team shuffles about every 6 months ~ 1 year, so team velocity was a fantasy.

Then we changed core libraries, introduced services using new stacks, built new API, adapted to other teams’ new paradigms.

And all of these changes felt to be for the better to us. Everyone would have left if we kept everything inu place for the sake of point consistency.

Basically, how did you deal with change ?
At least Easyjet seats are not slabs of hard plastic. Bus seats are significantly more comfortable than Ryanair "seats".
Sort of a whirlwind tour of all the misconceptions the average dev might have about agile/scrum.

Yet again, here goes.

- The problem here is dogmatism, both yours and whoever is "doing scrum" to you. There is no Scotsman! He ran away. That is, it's only if you're insisting whether you're doing it right or wrong can you start to have the conversation about what is right or wrong. Your premise is invalid.

- Confusion over terms. These things are much better represented mentally by the image of a bookstore. You arrive at a bookstore and want to read up on some stuff related to teams and planning. Cool! There's a scrum section, just next to the agile section. Guess what? The books don't all agree with one another, and that's fine. It's a marketing term, a place to go for ideas.

It gets worse after that, with dysfunctions of estimating and so forth, but you start out with your head in the wrong place, whether you love X or hate X, it's not going to end well. Do stuff you like, make stuff people want, and get stuff done. If that's not working for you, here's some titles of sections in the bookstore where you might want to read some other stuff. There are other sections. If you find some sections that have cool stuff, let me know. I might could learn some neat stuff I might use one day.

That's it. It's nothing more complicated than that. You can go to those sections and learn a whole bunch of stuff about various problems you might have. Try some if you like. Or not. What you can't do is go to that section and pull some book out as if it were a recipe and then "implement" it on a team or organization. It doesn't work like that, and it's never going to work like that, whether your view is from the top or bottom of an org. You're doing it backwards. It hurts when you do that? Ok. So stop doing it that way.
> cmd #tag to tag a hard to remember command

Command tagging wasn't really explained in the deck. I had to read this archived web page for an explanation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191216131445/https://www.ostec...
Same thread at #1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23233795

Don't forget that when two threads talk about the same thing, you basically prevent one interesting article to show on the front page
I've noticed the same pattern. Presumably they would rather lose business in the short term (by scaring away time-sensitive shoppers) than risk damage to the brand by delivering late.
IANAL, but if that’s true now it’s because copyright law has changed. In the past that wasn’t the case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizer_clone
Graph with no sense of time or place shows Georgias bungled coronavirus reponse
I meant to use LaTeX beamer to build these slides but couldn't figure an easy way to make the "Anatomy" figures eg. on slides 8,14,15 etc.
Agree.. I ran a home-hosted web site with regular traffic on a Raspberry Pi 2B for a couple of years before upgrading it to a Pi 3. If you get power issues you can always switch to a battery power bank for a while (assuming your router doesn't go down at the same time).
> Mach Loop is among the few places in the world (Star Wars Canyon is another) where photographers can see combat aircraft flying below them.

Some amazing footage on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wzh7Hou30s
This isn't even the case though. I heard from many people and stayed with some people where you would get there and they would be like "yeah i dont have that anymore". couch surfing also became super obnoxious in some places. Like in Berlin I would host anybody, but in Tokyo basically nobody would host you unless you could demonstrate your awesomeness some how either by cooking a 10 course meal, being super model hot, etc.

I don't think you are wrong, sometimes it is obvious you are walking into a bad situation, but wtf is the point of couchsurfing if its not to save money? lol.

TBH I think the real problem with couchsurfing is that it was more of a passing fad, cultural phenomenon rather than something that will stay forever. My guess is someone will come up with a more clever solution and the generation that used couchsurfing will keep using it and a new generation of travelers will use the new thing.
Someone could hack themselves constantly and get paid to do it
Ooh! Very excited about this. Can't wait.
Show HN: Muil – Fast and simple email templates development using React
I tried to get hy but I just got confused.
Even if that were true - some evidence would be useful - you're still comparing a country which has handled Covid well with a country which is handling it very poorly, but is claiming to have handled it well as a poor substitute. While silencing critics.

The US is now approaching Soviet levels of media manipulation, with critical facts being covered up, science being ignored or rewritten, and critics being demoted or fired for purely ideological reasons - specifically for questioning the incoherent whims of the Supreme Leader.
This talk by John Carmack talks about lag and responsiveness in games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHLpKzUxjGk
But what is "first thing in the morning"? 8:00? 9:00? 10:00?

If different people start at different times (the norm in tech), then there's no such thing as "first thing in the morning". You must interrupt people, which means that you should make sure it's more beneficial than the cost of interrupted flow.
First, thanks for linking my Living Common Lisp book. Common Lisp is my preferred language, but only for projects where I need/want an environment that support rapid experimentation of new ideas. If I know how to implement something and I want to deploy at scale, then I might not choose Common Lisp.

I am a happy LispWorks customer but I also use SBCL (efficient code, easy to package standalone apps) and Clozure Common Lisp (fast compiler for development).
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Performance in Go? Far less than what you would get from Rust.
Our health benefits startup has been using Clojure in production for some time. Efforts are ongoing to migrate the last bits from other JVM languages to Clojure, but ClojureScript is already ubiquitous.
New BIAS attack works against Bluetooth on Apple, Samsung, and other devices
I think it's actually the complete opposite. The current biomimetism direction being privileged by the modern A.I. trends is most likely the correct way to achieve "True" A.I.

However, Inference-based A.I. is actually needed to properly tackle many of the business problems that are being thrown at ML systems today. Explainability and bias reduction can probably only be be taken so far with the current approaches, and I suspect that this "so far" is not far enough for many tasks. It's definitely the case from a practical standpoint today.

So inference-based A.I. is due for a comeback indeed, but I'd say AGI is looking like one of the main areas where the current techniques might work.
Sure, but I think this was largely around their own personal cellular phones. Is that necessary on an army base?
OnePlus 8 Pro’s color filter camera will be temp. disabled in a future update
Assholes shake up hive minds

Hive minds create cohesion and work better as teams..but they squash excellence.

Both are needed
I would go Godot for 2D and Unreal for 3D. My 2c as a game dev.
People aren't attracted to assholes, people are attracted to confidence and assertiveness. The problem is that while not all confident people are assholes, all assholes are confident.
REvil Ransomware found buyer for Trump data, now targeting Madonna
How does it compare with Janus? Janus seems well tested and it's available in Linux distributions.
Germany's highest court forbids surveillance of international Internet traffic
Functional programming in PHP: Why not?
Agreed. They were active in the F# community in NYC until the purchase.
Distributors?
has anyone used Kotlin for similar purposes?
What if the workplace is not the problem, but me instead? I don't want to quit, it could be worse somewhere else and for me it could be bad everywhere.
Sounds like an antitrust issue to me.
This is relatively common for big box stores, not just Walmart. Manufacturers might produce retailer specific SKUs to sell at different price points, cutting features or perhaps using lower quality parts.

For example, you might get a TV that shares the same model name, but has multiple SKUs, one of which has fewer HDMI ports or uses panels with a higher dead pixel tolerance.
A list of exaggerated psychological phenomena
I was convinced of the same some 30 years ago.

Also hard AI, nuclear fusion, safe fission, flying cars. Everything was supposed to happen in the next 20 years.
Nothing happened.
There was a minor hype cycle with SMT solvers in 2019.

For a while I was extremely fascinated by SAT as an encoding for hard problems that somehow had heuristic fast solvers; particularly by SATPLAN, the blocks world, etc.

But there's an useful contrast with Lisp, the other thing everyone within a radius of HN would like to emerge as winner. Lisp is essentially a syntax concept. It isn't particularly opinionated about problems -- on the opposite, it's indefinitely extensible to accomodate nearly everything. So we have Clojure and Hy (a Lisp that superficially imitates Clojure but compiles to the Python AST) and people doing scikit-learn ML on Lisp.

Logic programming, on the other hand, wants problems to be formulated on its terms. It needs the world itself to change to "win big". Of course logic programming problems aren't going to disappear, as sparse linear algebra programs won't. But this isn't a paradigm, it's an application.
Agreed 100%. But once you have people with the responsibility and authority and skill at determining based on actual users' workflows and feedback... in my opinion and experience, iterative design works -- even "rapidly iterating" ideally -- a lot lot better than assuming "functionality is relatively well known in advance", as the GP taneq suggested. Even experts at UX need iterative feedback to get it right, in fact an expert at UX is likely to know and tell you this, that's what their expertise tells them.

(And note even OP concludes by saying he does like "agile", just not "scrum" -- so taneq in arguing for avoiding rapid iteration for "functionality relatively well known in advance" is not necessarily making the same evaluation as OP either).

Part of what always happens in these discussions is we all come from our experience. I've seen it work, in such a way that convinces me it was because of it's iterative nature that it worked. taneq above, I would guess, has not.

As a field, we still haven't done great at working out a methodology to extract/abstract from these differing experiences to general consensus principles, when it comes to "how we write software". So we're all just arguing from our experiences, and such arguments show that experiences really differ. Not sure what to do with that. The arguments just go round and round. I don't think attempts to make this "empirical" and "data-driven" have proven satisfactory, they often seem to suffer from artificiality/lack of validity to me too.

(And as far as personal experience -- I think most of us who have been around 10+ years find that our opinions about 'the right way to do it' change over time, as our experiences show us different things; but that doesn't necessarily mean those who have been around longer are more likely to be right and should be defered to; clearly that defering to experience rarely happens anyway).