skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because of the relatively easy access to guns in the US. Statistically you have a 0.00029% chance of being shot and killed by a police officer in a given year, and that rate falls to 0.00001% if you aren’t armed and it probably falls another two orders of magnitude if you obey the law. The likelihood that you will be killed in a car accident in the US in a given year is 0.01% or 1000-100000 times more likely than being shot/killed by police. Two things can be true: the American system is imperfect and the American system is still relatively safe.
As techlash heats up again, here's who's stoking the fire
Agreed, and you could say the same of mathematics. If we teach coding as we teach math, devoid of creativity and reduced to a set of rules, coding will be hated by most, just like math.
Yes. I've found a strange inconsistency with some of the people calling for the defunding of police - they were until very recently saying citizens didn't need guns because the police were always close by. Now they're saying the police are bad and we can take care of ourselves.
What is excellent about the Zoom user experience?

Versus, say, Google Hangouts Meet, Facebook, Skype, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.?
>those numbers come from one of the most "trusted" world authorities, the United Nations.

eh, not really
Can it output fields in an order other than their input order? That's the one thing I regularly wish cut could do. I would like the output of the second cut below to be "3,1", not "1,3".

$ echo "1,2,3,4,5" | cut -d , -f 1,3
1,3
$ echo "1,2,3,4,5" | cut -d , -f 3,1
1,3
Reading the linked article I'm very surprised that the author says they can't talk about what they read after reading it. I'm quite the opposite as I often talk about what I've read to my friends, even before finishing the book. Sure I might not remember things as well a year later, but then I can go back to the ToC or index and find the bit I've forgotten. Saying that books don't work in general doesn't ring true to me.
Yet the Rust community doesn't seem to think the same way as you.

I see the community quite happy with the corporate help it is receiving across the board.

Waiting to see you pushing a Rust fork, corporate free of any kind of contribution.
Author here!

I'm really excited to share my sideproject again. If you guys have any questions I'd be more then willing to answer them, whether it's technical or related to Godot. Let me know!

Also big thanks to you guys last week, a bunch of you guys signed up on the beta, thank you so much!
Why authoritarian measures instead of incentives?
Wow, you are really struggling with the whole "Assume good faith" thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Here's a helpful link. HN can be a great place full of interesting people, but you really do have to assume good faith.

Look, I came into this discussion trying to have an intelligent discussion about the possibile risks of 5G. When I opened the article I was somewhat positive about 5G, now I am somewhat negative. I am not some crackpot saying it will damn us to Hell eternally, I'm saying hey, we've messed around with novel parts of the EM spectrum before, why not at least evaluate the risks first? Never before in human history has anyone lived with a mmwave source, and now we are planning to roll them out at unprecedented speed to all the world's cities without a single longitudinal study on the risks.

I've been playing with different ways to represent things partly for fun, and partly as a filter for this discussion. Anyone who can't trivially figure out that 1 Hz ~= a wavelength of 299792 km does not have the knowledge necessary for this discussion.

Tens and hundreds of kHz RF has been created by humans. The first of studies have been coming out in the last decade about its effects. So far, it looks like living within 50m more than doubles your risk of Alzheimer's.

>> Can you please give a concrete citation for the power being "significantly higher than before"?

Sure. Both MTN and Huawei say that just with current systems we're looking at 200-300% of existing levels. And it's their job to make it sound -good-.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/5g-base-stations-use-a-l...
The entire argument seems to be around how painful and pointless it is to teach kids syntax. However most of the tools and courses I have seen that introduce programming to kids do away with syntax, by using visual programming and similar. Does the author think no improvement was done to programming tutorials in the last 40 years?
"At a global level, the architectures of the brain and the computer resemble each other, consisting of largely separate circuits for input, output, central processing, and memory."

This is fundamentally wrong, even at the 10 mile high summary level.

In our brain processing and memory are not in the least bit separate, and memory distinct from processing doesn't really exist.

If you really had to make a computer analogy of how the brain works, it's more like self-modifying code where the only memory of the data flowing through it is the changes to the code that were made as the result of that prior flow.
PHP devs make good money, maybe not what their peers in "good" languages make, but a good Senior PHP dev is making six figures in most markets these days.
The original use was as CPUs in their network devices, which meant they could sell more x86 cores as they didnt have to use some to support networking and remote storage. Probably made a lot of money selling the additional cores.
The text has the same number, but interprets it, ah, interestingly: "By 2100, that number will balloon to 11 billion, pushing society into a Soylent Green scenario."

This is a pretty ridiculous statement from the article, considering the history of population growth. Growing from 7.8B humans to 11B in 80 years is a significantly reduced growth rate compared to historical data. It's even reduced growth on an absolute scale. Starting from 1930, we went from 2B to 6B humans in 69 years[1]. We added tripled the world population in a few generations. I think we'll be able to handle to slow, steady population growth of the 21st century.

We have a lot of hard problems to solve in the 21st century, and population growth isn't even on the list.

Edit: I finished reading the article. I would not recommend that course of action. The so-called "running out of people" scenario is that the world has between 8 and 9 billion people in 2100. While that is a significant change to the model, calling it "running out of people" is clickbait garbage.

[1]: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
You can get an RSS feed of any sub, you can enjoy a small and specific topic without ever visiting the site itself.

Can I recommend r/abstractgames/ it's a very small community designing and playing games.
No idea how this is specific to PWAs. You will have the same problems building a native app or website.
In my country "middle class" means people that pay a lot of taxes and have little left for their own kids. When the government takes more than half of your income to give it to others and when the healthcare is free, but kind of missing, having your own kids is sometimes an economic challenge, especially when the fertility age is when people are also juniors and financially lacking; pushing childbirth to later in life is challenged by reduced female fertility rate over 30 years old.
Show HN: numpy re-implemented in Golang
I think there's a non-zero chance I know the exact company/codebase you're talking about as I was involved with the same start-up with the same concerns... South of England? NextJS, Apollo, Prisma, Postgres, Heroku stack?
I don't mean to be too cynical, but I would like to know HOW these 50 buzz-phrases changed the author's life.

Perhaps the key to change is actually this blog post. If it generates enough traffic.
This sounds like not teaching grammar because your child might not be as goos if a poet. Not every developer is solving interesting problems with creative out of the box thinking.. most just write boring code.
Amiga OS used this all over the place.
Ask HN: How can I organise my operating system to increase productivity?
I work in tech and I am struggling with my productivity.

I often find myself in deep rabbit holes of youtube and reddit.

I am not on social media and I have tried blocking websites.

But Have you guys done more than that?

Is there a way I can tell my Mac that I am only going to use X AND Y apps for this session.
I doubt those terms have any legal validity. Still, pointless. Any one paying for Oracle probably doesn't care about bugs since they have support contract /s.
The article is spot on. Teaching kids to code so they learn skills like problem solving and dealing with ambiguity is a good reason to teach them. Teaching them to code because tech jobs pay well today is a lot less likely to be useful in 20 years when they're entering a job market that's very different to what we have right now.
People carry guns either to impose their will on other people or to avoid having other people's will imposed on themselves. Neither of those motivations go away if the police stop carrying guns.
I was using python with SCons back when it came out, sí around 2000. I was also surprised at the statement that python wasn’t well known, but I agree that the Java web scene was much more mature. It was, however, very focused on configuration. There was nothing like LAMP getting people up and running in under a minute.

ASP was also a favorite of the early web.
I Work in an OTA, when this started i thinked am really fuck, just because: I live here (São Paulo state) the company dependents roughly of the people’s free going to any place, the first resolution of my bosses is stay home, perhaps because the hq is in Rio de Janeiro, the everyone in company started in home office, changes in whole organization to “new life”, after this initially impact the changes, i think what’s our sell, the travel or the dream ? People need assisting now around the world, and people wants the vacation for next year and for Christmas, and well all back to normality. We stays in our home at least this month maybe august. It is hard for the northern and center of Brazil because this states really need the travel now, we really work with tour supply chain to raise money for him to help the chain. But it’s not common in others ota
Oh, I first thought this was mimicking the pretty complete Go https://github.com/alicebob/miniredis, which goes to some effort to be a complete and faithful implementation of the Redis interface.

Still pretty cool, do you intend to develop this further?
I would, were I going to have kids.

"while these products may teach kids specific coding languages, they actually have very little to do with the work of creating software."

Yes, and learning to read has little to do with the dramatic structures of high literature, but without the one you're going to struggle to express the other.

This article comes across as attention-seeking contrarianism.
Regarding 8, cultivating talent vs. genius - I'd argue an increasing majority of what we call genius nets out when we control for the effect of crazy meeting survivor bias.

As someone familiar with all of the listed ideas, I get the sense these contrarian proverbs form a kind of modern hacker subculture tribal knowledge. What I've noticed is that none of the most (or least) successful people I know think this way, it's like a view from the outside or the middle.

Maybe the co-incidence of financial success and a mind full of gnomic aphorisms is no better than random too?
Give me boring proven technology. I find myself moving away from the latest thing. The lastest thing works great when it works, but when it does not work... Well, then you often have a huge black box of 100K+ lines of Javascript to debug.
The real URL, had to search to find it as there's no way to access it from the linked Pocket version

https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/against-teaching-ki...
Ideally an app targeting protesters wouldn't collect personal information to begin with.
Lancet Formally Retracts Fake Chloroquine Study Used by Media to Attack Trump
The most recent MVP I created: CakePHP, MySQL, jQuery (UI/UX called for minimal dynamic UI IMO), and bootstrap. Very boring full-scale MVP released in under three weeks. I designed as client-server in case the need arises to go SPA with React down the line or go with a mobile app option, but I doubt the need.

Non-tech co-founder was worried from what he read on PHP etc.... Non-tech co-founder is not worried today.
Ray Dalio: My Stream of Consciousness Thoughts About What’s Going On
oh! I thought Linux had some inherent / in-built architectural feature that made viruses impossible .
Nitpick: the JSFX audio effects you're referring to are scripted in EEL2. Reaper itself can be scripted with Python, Lua and EEL2 (see http://reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascript.php). It also has a C plugin API.
> I want to live in a world where this is actually viable everywhere, where we can trust our leaders to confer with experts and change their opinion if the situation changes.

I want to live in a world where everyone knows to verify things for themselves. Yes, I'd like leaders we can trust, but trust should never mean "don't check". (At the very least, have multiple other sources you trust to cross-check your sources of authority.)
Ask HN: Encrypted Group Audio Chat?
Signal doesn’t have group audio chat. Is Facetime Audio the best alternative? Any cross-platform options?
How do you keep up with all the random potentially useful info on the internet?
So many places to get yourself informed: Reddit, imageboards, discussion forums, news websites, YouTube and its comments section, Medium, and of course HN.
This might be considered as a cringe or stupid question, but there have been many useful things that I randomly learned about from the sources mentioned above.
Of course, we don't have the capacity to absorb too much info and to keep them in mind, but I think everybody tries his best to get as much useful info as possible.
So what are your comments or insights?
While I have no interest in breeding, if I did have kids I would let them choose their own interests rather than forcing mine onto them.
‘Corporate America Has Failed Black America’
Yes, Brazil is very far from being hard hit. We aren’t having colapse in our health system. This death count is mostly inevitable, by the nature of the disease. It is indeed much lower than predicted by March, where some were pointing numbers as high as 500k deaths by May.
Let me chime in my (personal) opinions, working at one of the fastest-growing startups at one point: Uber, and the details I gathered from the early times. While today, Uber is big on code quality, engineering best practices, reliability, and many others, as much as us engineers want to take credit for the success of the business via code quality: they are pretty unrelated.

Few people know that when Uber started and the first $1M was raised, the apps were built by contractors. The app was bad, the code terrible - but even with a bad app, customers used it over taxis, that didn't even have a bad app. The business took off, the next round of funding came, as did the first few full-time engineers.

The first thing that the full-timers did was throw away the mess of a code, and rewrite the app. However, moving fast was still more important than quality. Launching in a new city needed to be done in a few weeks - if the ops team could mobilize a whole city in this time, engineering was expected to move fast as well. So while generally, forward-looking decisions were made, still, many-many shortcuts were added, most notably "The Ping", which was the backend sending over all state data to the client in a massive JSON object, ever 10 seconds. This was to speed up development, not having to make backward-compatible state changes all the time. It's something I'd cringe over today, but it did help moving fast, at the expense of loose contracts and lots of bandwidth usage that could have been avoided.

As the business proved to be successful, in year 3 or 4, reliability and quality started to be more of a focus: things like tests, listing, architecture, rollout best practices, and so on. A big push happened when in year 4 or 5 (I can't remember exactly) a sloppy change almost took down all of Uber's core systems at rushour. But for the first few years, quality took a relatively back seat. Was it worth it? I'd definitely say so. As another commenter noted, the customers of a startup do not buy code quality: they buy something that meets their needs and is good enough.

When a startup becomes wildly successful, you'll have the funds to pay off tech debt. Until then just make sure it doesn't suffocate you - otherwise pile it on, and move fast.
I am a bit of a typesetting geek, but the lady who says Helvetica caused the Vietnam War really opened my eyes to damage caused by such a ubiquitous font. /s
I've never heard of violentmonkey, how does it compare to grease/tampermonkey?
I just was thinking about this the other day and I concluded that I will teach my kids TO THINK, but no display or programming language is required for that. You can teach the basics on paper or drawings, teaching a programming language syntax and features can come when they are interested in programming at all. Otherwise, they can apply thought processes in other areas of life.
If the police aren't threatening to shoot you then you don't need a gun to shoot back.
"No competitor comes close"

May I introduce you to https://meet.jit.si, which works flawlessly, is open-source, and supports e2e encryption.

I really don't understand why "use Jitsi" isn't the stock answer when people start complaining about Zoom, let alone on HN.
Presumably someone that really cares about privacy would use an Android :)
Cowgol
A bunch of Netflix documentaries are available on YouTube. Search for 'netflix feature' , 'netflix episode', or 'netflix full' to find most of them.
Someone who believes this has to necessarily be bearish on the continued march of technological progress, which is in opposition to the fairly well-regarded notion that human technological development has been consistent and continuous wrt population for the past ~6000 years.
Twenty year origin story of an open-source DAW
>It's an unusual form of ransomware because it's written in Java, deployed as a trojanised Java Runtime Environment and is compiled in a Java image file (Jimage) to hide the malicious intentions.

are there any options in browser settings / adblock extensions to block this thing ?
TL;DR

I re-implemented numpy partially for implementing ML algos. Here is the [code](https://github.com/praveenpenumaka/numpygo)
> Maybe criminals carry and use guns because they know the police have guns?

What? Of course criminals carry guns to threaten and harm other citizens, including other criminals. They aren’t principally concerned with defending themselves against the police.
In the beginning architecture tends to be a form of procrastination for many people. IMO, when you have clear goals for improvement you should aim for somewhat worse than acceptable quality. Not because that’s the most efficient option, but because it for forces you to be solving customer problems.

That itch to improve things is more focused when revising whatever is the worst parts of the entire project rather than various pieces being decent when there are some horrific bits of the code base. Because those horrific bits end up eventually infecting everything else.

This changes a project grows to the point some code is old enough you don’t remember all the details. At that point you need to use best practices simply to make reasonable progress.
I think OPs goal was to evoke reaction to his post On HN and looks like he was pretty successful at that.
EAP-SIM and Carrier WiFi is also not very difficult to disable. In any case, an IMSI leak is not as bad as an IMEI leak.
Tasteful ≠ trendy. By “good taste” I meant the ability to pick a technology you won’t regret later.
How do you use zoom in browser? To join a chat it tells you to download the software.
You can just go into some embedded domain. I work in automotive and in the current project, we have a budget of ~2MB RAM.

Also, you still worry about small amounts at Google scale:

> “It’s pretty slow,” Jeff said. He leaned forward, still relaxed. “So that one was a hundred twenty kilobytes,” Sanjay said, “and it was, like, eight seconds.” “A hundred twenty thousand stack calls,” Jeff said, “not kilobytes.” [...] In a sense, they had been occupied by minutiae. Their code, however, is executed at Google’s scale. The kilobits and microseconds they worry over are multiplied as much as a billionfold in data centers around the world. – https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

If you are in a startup where you rather worry about product-market fit, of course such minutiae is not relevant (yet).
People use "boring" in opposition to "hyped" or "trendy", which like you said totally misses the point. I jumped on react right away when it came out, but not because of it being trendy, but because like you said I could be productive with it right way, I knew it'd be around for 5+ years and that I could hire engineers.
It's mostly intended to make people feel smarter by reading fancy clickbait.
Remember: Luhmann's original Zettelkasten is pen and paper, see image link https://m.westfalen-blatt.de/var/storage/images/wb/startseit...

It's only the latest hype around digital Zettelkastens that tout the supposed benefits of mass-linking notes or generating fancy graphs (which I find to be a gimmick with little practical value).

Like any note taking system: Your potential output is what and how much you put into it. No note taking solution - digital or analog - magically produces results without countless hours of input.
This makes me wonder if there's some sort of Unicode equivalent for this?
Hey, don't count teachers out; they ruin innocent lives in their own special way.
awk -F, '{print $3","$1}'
> The newest Dell XPS 13" actually decreased the number of USB C ports from 3 to 2. So now you use one port for charging, and your laptop only has a single USB port.

Frankly, the consumer is the idiot for mindlessly buying and not complaining about reduced functionality. Same with the newer tablets not having headphone jacks.
And Amazon doesn’t make money off chips. It makes money selling services that run on chips. They both sell integrated products.

But, we also aren’t talking about all chips. Just server class chips. Energy cost is also a very real cost at the scale of the cloud vendors. If they can decrease the overall cost and the cost/per watt. It’s a win.
Here is my personal experience after applying this method for more than a year. The crucial idea of the zettelkasten method is to contextualize knowledge instead of categorizig it. So its processing information instead of just storing it. Hence retrieving knowledge is much easier because its much more connected in your brain. I experienced this as extremely powerful, my thoughts became much more internalized. Cross-linking becomes the standard, which is a main driver of creativity and idea shaping.
a) likely a symptom more than the cause

b) system sunset date is the tienbreaker, its hard to justify shit code for a space probe, and its hard to justify perfect code for an email collector

c) automated tests are a development tool, theyre not there to make sure your code works, theyre used to ensure your code is sufficiently decoupled, modular, maintainable, and easily scalable in the future. Theyre also frequently used to spike problems that are otherwise hard to solve.

The level of importance of tests you place on your situation is super dependent on your devs. Some types of project i wouldnt write tests for. Others i do. It depends on scope and experience.

d) yes, maybe
You can tidy your room and the mess (that they mistake for entropy) would be reduced.
The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that in an isolated system the entropy is always increasing (or at best constant), so the room analogy does not work.
And some, I don't.