skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Number of his supporters arguing that objectively there's no such thing as a good president :-p

That’s probably a bad metric because his supporters love him.

It’s the swing voters making those kinds of comments because they want to vote for him but he’s done some dodgy things.
Covered by ScienceDaily in April:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200420145029.h...

What I didn't find covered is how hard is to maintain the "sensing" state of the sensor for more than a single measurement. If I understood correctly, actual antibodies have to be put on the graphene. The described process for that is far from trivial, in the paper:

"The fabricated graphene-based device was soaked in 2 mM PBASE (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA) in methanol for 1 h at room temperature and then rinsed several times with PBS and DI water. Finally, the functionalized device was exposed to 250 μg/mL SARS-CoV-2 spike antibody for 4 h."
>>that everyone in the world desires to be rich and famous

Keep the fame, I just want the freedom that money buys. I was never famous; but I have been asked for autographs and been stared at by total strangers with hero worship in their eyes--it is bizarre, and it made me feel extremely uncomfortable. I can't imagine anyone wanting that.
It's because the whole graph is a single canvas element, there's no selectable/searchable text.
Off-topic:

For all who complain about the paywall: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

Yes you are right, and no, it's not nice to the author / medium / whatever.
Images. Yes! They say adding an image helps with memory. Ironically, I don't recall where I read that. But most importantly, I do remember that I did.
Swollen batteries were a result of design/manufacturing defects. It was certainly a common issue 5-10 years ago but should hopefully be a thing of the past by now.

Modern batteries should never swell, but will still wear out over time. Smarter battery management should be able to extend their lifespan.
> average S&P 500 company now lives fewer than 20 years

No, the average age of an S&P 500 company is now less than 20 years. Which is heavily influenced by the rise of technology and the many S&P 500 companies that were created in the last ~20 years. It does not mean that companies are dying faster, just that S&P 500 is filled with young companies.
Dentists, nurses, physiotherapists and physicians are all degree level medical specialties. Engineering is split. What’s the argument against doing it for medicine other than tradition?
High IQ is correlated with higher income but not higher wealth

Wealth and income is not the same thing, a smart person might for example not invest as much in order to dedicate to his hobby more time, etc. Not everybody pursuits wealth, but everybody needs a good solid monetary base. That's why if you are smart you should have that base covered, and that shows in the studies that present correlation between income and IQ.

Just remember the difference between income and wealth.
Also note that Amazon are awaiting clearance of $500m funding for Deliveroo (UK food delivery).

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-provisionally-clears-...

Just how many acquisitions and fundings have they provided this year?
No, they’ll email you if you go over the free limit.
The number of deaths per capita is higher than England, Belgium, and Italy however the total number is lower (they have a smaller population). They also have a low population density, a lot of single households, and as a population have less issues with diabetes, obesity, and chronic heart conditions compared to other countries.

It is not black and white :)
Exactly. People on here seem to forget that almost every single rich person that can be named had hereditary money.

Jeff Bezos now has more money than can be made if an American family earned 63k for 2 million years. He also had parents that gave him a so-called "three hundred thousand dollar investment" (more money than most people see in a lifetime even while working hard for their family, dedicating most of their life to work and barely managing to enjoy life), while ignoring or dodging every single tax he can get away with.

It's weird how most people are fine with that, because they seem to see themselves as temporarily embarrassed billionaires, or because they aren't able to understand the sheer amount of money.
Read this before owning an electric car
Respectfully, to a top brass executive at Facebook: I respect the hard work and innovation that has gone into building Facebook. It's allowed billions of people to connect worldwide in ways that were never possible before. It is truly a billion dollar platform.

The problem is that your entire executive leadership believes it is a five hundred billion dollar platform. They have to, because the investors demand it.

This is the source of all your failings.
> Cults and conspiracies flourished long before FB's existence, as they will after.

Similarly, rats and mold flourished long before we started keeping open trash bags in the kitchen.

It's pretty clear that FB is an incredibly fertile breeding ground for such ideas, and that is on them. Not on the ideas.
> If I could spend some time with a world-renowned expert in anything I don't want them to waste time teaching me the basics. I can get that anywhere. I want to know the thing that elevates them above everyone else.

In my experience, the thing that usually elevates experts above everyone else is their mastery of the basics. You can’t really let your creativity have free reign until the basics are so ingrained that they always go right, and usually intermediate practitioners’ failures can be traced to technical rather than conceptual issues.
I'm not seeing an actual statistics course in there. Also GOFAI techniques seem to be only briefly mentioned in an "Introduction to AI" course, which just doesn't cut it in my view - you'd need something like an Operations Research class to really explore that stuff in more detail. Some of the more focused CS content could be cut to make room for this; OS's and DB's has been mentioned already, but maybe one could also remove the Compilers course.
Hi there! It looks like you're shadowbanned, although I don't see the reason why. I vouched for this comment so people can see it, as it doesn't seem to be inherently harmful or against the guidelines. You should probably message Dang.
Artographers Have Secretly Been Hiding Illustrations Inside Switzerland’s Maps
That was one of the more butt hurt of all possible interpretations of what I said. And without knowing anything at all about you, and only judging from your comment, my guess is that hit a bit of a nerve. Why is that?

And I didn’t mean to say that playing with three year old kids in the garden is the only thing that is worth pursuing. It was just an example close to my hearth right now in my life in my circumstances and in my part of the world. Of course there are many other worthy pursuits. My point was only that trying to get a bigger pile of money than other people I don’t consider one of them.
How does it compare to Meteor?
Well, there is a lot of graduates from those universities to begin with, so it's only logical that there is a certain amount of useless graduates that end up unemployed. The same logic applies to the rest of humanity.

The real question is whether those graduates are more likely to be useless and unemployed than people who did not graduate from the same universities.
An idea for the meantime: OP could paper trade for early users. Prove the concept, improve the UX, and be ready to partner or have investment to manage the brokerage licensing etc.
What country are you in? Afaik in the UK you shouldnt have issues. When I was a head of dev I personally NEVER discriminated based on age (or other reasons such as race, gender, region, etc for that matter), and neither have others i know nor have i heard people raising this issue.
The trajectory of the upcoming Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch
Is this actually true, except from a normative perspective?

Onne would definitely expect the highly gifted to think/act differently socially as well as in several other areas, but is it actually correct to say they have less "developed skills", except possibly in the sense that they probably has had less reason to, and fever opportunities to develop these skills with their peers?
Not 70% caused by memory corruption bugs, I guess said clients are not a security target.
Another anecdote: when my dad was laid off at 65 he managed to get multiple offers without too much effort here in Sweden.
It's getting downvoted because it's not a good argument. Accusing the people you disagree with of coming to their conclusions through motivated reasonsing neither actually addresses the logical arguments people are making, or gives the people you're disagreeing with any intellectual credit. It also throws up some horrendous strawmen - you have to be rich to take care of your family?

Want to have an open conversation with someone you disagree with? I have a good tip, don't open the conversation by accusing them of being incompetent and not in control of their own lives.
My experience is that once I hit a certain age, and salary, almost nobody wanted to hire me full time but lots of people wanted to hire me to consult. General rule: Make sure you take at least 2 times as much per hour when you consult.
I will check it thanks! Although the authentication seems too manual. That part I prefer firebase.
Your friend circle must be pretty non-diverse then.
Is that an option these days? When was the last time that existed?

2010?
very sorry for your loss. f cancer. I hope you figure your way around toward framing improving yourself as a way to say F You back to life, instead of letting it bring out the worst of you.
“Folders” is a language where programs are encoded as hierarchies of folders
> Why shouldn't they charge for a great product ?

They should charge from the beginning.

> When Google charges it's a problem

Where is that ? It's a problem when it's abrupt.
Lazy layman's guess, posted to provoke more knowledgeable answers: expensive combined with very low durability. I just can't imagine semiconductor surface doped with complex proteins to last very long when exposed to arbitrary samples.

If I'd wanted to have this sensor in a near-future hard sci-fi I'd world-build it the sensor to last a day at most to keep it convincing. Comes in a cartridge of 16, each day the machine unseals a new sensor then you need to pop in a new disk.
No, when they tout the product as free or cheap, and then only later up the pricing by 10x, once people have built their business around the older pricing model. That's a problem.
Those EU-funded projects are really not the place to be for developers. I've been in a few of them and I always ended up doing paperwork and sitting in useless meetings. Before COVID-19 one would choose to work on such projects because of travel opportunities. Why now?
Fair enough, but C is the snowflake here, in other languages conditional compilation is part of the language.

Actually even in ISO C, the pre-processor is not required to be separated from the language, it is just kept that way in most compilers due to how C was originally implemented.
You may be interested in a long series of YouTube videos put out by Chicago Reader called Key Ingredient. In each video a different pro cook from Chicago makes a dish with a different key ingredient chosen for them by the previous episode's cook.

Each video is short, maybe 5min, but is pretty dense with info about coming up with a dish. And you get to see little snippets of pro cooks putting stuff together in quiet hours outside of service, how they move and what they do without time pressures, experimenting with execution. Even better: most of the cooks are not yet famous.

Michael Carlsen's episode is one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/3hTW9jfoCBU
s/computer science/Mathematics/
s/Artificial Intelligence/Computer Science/

New fields start somewhere.
Hospital technicians ignore copyright law to fight Covid-19
Yeah the underlying causality between intelligence and wealth/success is always strange for me. Researchers, artists, philosophers... There are a lot of smart people actively choosing to pursue interests that are not valued by the market/don't bring shareholder value. Is this a cultural thing? It's a bit caricatural but where I live I find it's the opposite, "real" smart people should not pursue such lowly material and gross goals as money, being rich is kind of suspicious. But maybe there are nuances in the different kind of smartness that are talked that I miss.
Not OP but I always found it odd that danish companies don’t post salaries in job ads. Just an observation vs the UK where it is common practice. Wondering if it’s one of the reasons, along with tax, salaries are so much lower in that country. Either way very kind of you to help OP, I highly recommend denmark as a country and culture.
The proposed curriculum looks very similar to a computer science curriculum w/ an AI minor/specialization. I'm curious why a student would opt for a specialized AI curriculum rather than a broader CS one? Wouldn't the CS provide more options down the road?
Yes. Many surgeons also want to get all the sweet prestige and feel like demigods among the mortals and don't all necessarily get an intrinsic excitement from sawing those bones.

It's fine to want money. Who are we to judge someone who sets the goal of getting a good job, looks into upcoming fields that pay well and then applies to a university to spend years studying it. It's perfectly fine and rational. In free tuition countries this may be someone from a lower economic class, crawling out of their situation.

It's legit and okay not to be a wunderkind from age 2 who built computers with his dad from the get go in order to be eligible to study CS or AI.
Of course once they are in, they have to go along with the program.

But I get annoyed with this gatekeeping attitude that only us nerds are worthy to learn AI. If you are smarter and put more effort in, you don't have to become bitter, there is nothing to fear, you will be able to demonstrate your expertise and will still get good jobs, even if there is a bigger supply of the those who are only in it for the money.
Maybe they didn't attract top talent and had to branch to other schools.
No. No correlation.
No surprise that this doesn’t include any consideration for the profound moral, ethical, or social implications of AI and AI solutions.

Nothing about bias in models. Nothing about communication. Nothing about privacy. Nothing about security. Nothing about resiliency. Nothing about the responsibility of the individual practitioner. Nothing about the economic or ecological impact of the work.

Every undergraduate degree should include both general, and subject specific courses on ethics, morals, social, economic and ecological impacts.
Just like Apple and Google, the love childs from communities like HN.
I think Trump is a good example of how luck and skill interact. He absolutely has a talent for selling his ideas to a big chunk of people. I don't think he would have actually become president though, if it weren't for a number of things out of his control: if Putin hadn't been trying to stir up discord, if there'd been a compelling Republican alternative, if James Comey hadn't made that last-minute announcement reminding everyone of the emails again.
> Improves performance on certain Mac models when enabling hardware acceleration in GPU-intensive apps such as those used for video conferencing
The auth system we are building is targeting Postgres' Row Level Security which should cover these sort of problems. (more in my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320443)

You'll also be able to add rate-limiting and various other plugins (IP bans, blacklisting) to your API as well. We still have a lot to build - we didn't actually post this so it's a bit early but I guess you can't choose your timing
> /* Don't change these flag values! */

Rant:

It always annoys me when I see comments like this in the source. If it is important enough to implore people not to change something then it is surely important enough to explain why.

When I saw comments like this during code reviews I always asked the author to add a comment that briefly explained the reason for the values being the way they are.

Of course this was rather rare because most developers don't write many comments in the first place.
It is a shame there is not an option to force IPv4 or IPv6. It defaults to IPv6 which is good, except that because my ISP does not offer IPv6 I am forced to use a tunnel, and that tunnel gives a misleading result compared to my ISP.
You could think of it as, "Trump is good enough at the game to get elected president."

You could also think of it as, "Those with enough money and power to influence who gets elected president are good enough at the game to get Trump elected president."
Yep, if it was Apple or Google it would have been written in another tone most likely.
Keep covering for china. The militia will not take mercy on you.
These two things are more important than most people are prepared to admit. Very few people ever do the "rags to riches" thing. The few that do are probably good looking. Some people are just born with the ability to be far more successful than others.
We have a hexapod (18 Dynapixels) at work ... apart from giving demos to visitors it's not used at all. Gait patterns and (inverse) kinematics are a solved problem ... dynamic gaits are becoming more mainstream now, but those require motors that are reasonably backdrivable. Maybe the Dynapixels can be configured to do that, but I think the high gear ratio will prevent that.
Yes, maybe my approach and perspective are skewed by traditional thinking. Unfortunately, I'm still failing to see a need for AI split in CS. An AI student might not need to learn basics of programming languages, operating systems, OOP, DB management, and many other core topics for CS but what else remains to be honest? If we were to simply convert elective AI courses to "must", then are we going to offer classic CS courses as "elective"?
H-1B Court Decision Impacts Tech Subcontractors
Which standing desk do you have?
Lasting company culture that's not just a doc
How do you create a company culture document that has a lasting positive impact? A culture document that truly aligns your team and not just another document? Here is one way to do it! Excerpt from our latest Level-up Engineering podcast interview.

#1 Take notes of your current values ️
Take note of things that are meaningful to your culture and set your organisation apart.

#2 Involve key people 🧑 🧑
Involve key leaders in your company, engineers. They have a valuable perspective, seeing your culture.

#3 Get an outside opinion
Do you work with someone on a contract basis? Involve this person! She probably understands your culture, but not with your company every single day. This gives her an outside perspective.

This helps a lot since when you're inside your problems, sometimes you can't see the solution.

#4 Define it
Do some soul-searching, and define the aspects of your existing culture. Put it into words, and write it down.

#5 Communicate it ️
The next step is to roll it out, and make everyone aware of it. We started out with one-on-one trainings, and I held some sessions for small groups myself.

#6 Lead by example
The most important thing is to lead by example.
For instance, if you have a “Don't be late” rule, the CEO and the management have to arrive a minute early to every meeting. Only then can you expect the developers to follow this as well.

#7 Hold people accountable
In a performance review, we look at our objective key results for the company and for the individual. We look at performance, and how the employee is doing as far as our culture document goes. We expect our people to uphold the values of the company.

Hungry for more? Read or listen to the full post here: https://codingsans.com/blog/culture-document
You may also be interested to see these BeebFax that Pitfall Jones generated using my font:

1981: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1981/page_100.htm

1982: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1982/page_100.htm

1983: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1983/page_100.htm

1984: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1984/page_100.htm

It was also used for these pages that I know of:

https://www.mortimerbrewing.co.uk/

http://www.aqarius.net/

https://teletext.markgaze.dev/100

https://www.rivalsfootball.net/manchestercity/ (switch theme to TELETEXT)
Chaotic??? You haven't traveled much I guess.
Just chiming in... Auth, free hosting and SSL is what drove me to Firebase in the first place. DB is the last thing.

Just thought you should know, when I read "Firebase alternative", I got excited about something else.
I don't think that's the case - when I was looking into it prior to posting the above Ask HN, I saw a video (a bit marketing-y, but interesting) for a company that was deploying pH sensing ones in their packaged product dotted around in the sea (harbour or fishery or something) in buoys for some reason or other. It didn't seem like it was a consumable that would need continually replacing, more like a 'deploy and forget' humidity or temperature sensor (as in thermistor, I don't know if you can also get temp FETs).
I thought there was a correlation between intelligence and income?
I concur. It really depends on the reward function you chaise.

Let's say you are a genius OCD person being elated by seeing the numbers on your bank accounts go up and nothing much else. You live 60-90 years and at the end you have some big number there. In this case you were successful.

Let's say you are a more typical person, you'll probably have a larger set of reward functions and they may even change over time. Having money on the account to be able to cover costs and do some vanity spending is definitely rewarding to a point - until it becomes hollow. But then there are all those other reward functions, like maintaining a family, seeing your kids grow up, see the world, play games, learn new things and maybe build or invent a thing or two. Maybe just shine as a social focal point or any number of other things. Maybe just watching turtles in various environments.

The only thing that we can't extend as a reward function is acquiring more time, like money on the bank account. So balancing the reward functions for a reasonable contentedness with life is generally what we strive to do, even if we don't spell it out that way.

We start young and see all the possibilities and the scarceness of time is not a pressing matter - reward functions are more about enjoying life. Then with a family you see time passing, become more aware of it. You learn from the things you messed up and know that some things can't be fixed and your reward function will become more about stability and preservation.

And then you die.
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Intelligence is hugely important for any kind of outlier success. It's no coincidence that Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Jim Simons are undeniably brilliant.

The claim that charisma, street smarts, or connections are more important than intelligence is absurd. There are so many fields in which those things just don't matter. If you're not charismatic don't pursue a career in a field that requires charisma. Simple.

It's easy to think that intelligence isn't a strong predictor for success because there are many intelligent people who don't accomplish much. But there are many more charismatic and well-connected people who don't accomplish much! But we don't culturally expect charismatic people to automatically become successful, like we do for smart kids. That's where the real difference is.
We'll definitely post in Whos Hiring around September. I'll keep a look-out for your handle here and around github
Was that confirmed to be true? I saw it pop up on Facebook, but it just said “What Google might look like in the future if we allow this to pass” (or something like that)