skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have experience as a programmer in both worlds, and there are certainly pros and cons with each culture.

In an Eastern-European "authoritarian" (Bulgarian) setting, you are given tasks with not much room for interpretation and are expected to deliver a tangible "no-bullshit" result within a reasonable time frame. Not much time is spent on meetings, you don't want to ask too many questions, praise is won by delivering a technically-efficient solution which doesn't question the business intents and preconceptions of management.

In a North-Western European setting, everything is questionable and debatable, sometimes at irritating levels. Fairly incompetent people are raising their voice on insignificant matters and the decision-making debate changes direction quite sporadically. By everyone focusing too much on the business side, what you get is a technically-mediocre product which solves many problems to many people, but doesn't have much value as an integral part.
Until the businesses don’t exist anymore because it’s not possible to insure at a price where people will still buy product.
There are 600 billionaires in the US. There are 40 million unemployed Americans. There are about 700k law enforcement officers in the entire country. The math is straightforward.
This seems like a political piece.

There is no mention of how the decline in worker share is due to a rise in real-eastate income share, not due to monopolies or corporations or capitalism or billionaires. "Due to" is maybe a strong way of putting it, but that's where the share from the decrease went.

For some reason everyone seems to accept the idea that just being there first and buying land first somehow entitles you to eternally increasing prices and rents for that land, even when you do literally nothing to improve it's value(hello, 'historic' parking lots in SF). With the trend towards big cities, this is starting to be an issue that was previously masked by just how big the us was and how much free land there was.
Good question. I assume this is a proper application of the "fair use" principle, since the use of the image and sources is of non-commercial, nonprofit nature and for educational purpose (preserving and studying the historical Smalltalk-80 implementation). And the copyright owner's ability to profit from his original work is not harmed. Otherwise I'm sure the copyright owner would complain.
Also, in case you need the law of cosines in your pocket. ;)
It's all up to financial incentives. I am not saying it is right. The whole system is not right.
Unfortunately the solutions for anything more than a single proton are non-linear. This means finding stable states for anything other than hydrogen is very hard computationally speaking. The problem can be compared to predicting weather patterns a month in advance.
Interesting read. I've wondered about their use of big touchscreen interfaces having heard a friend's experience with the similar setup in a Model 3.

On multiple occasions they've had to pull off the highway to turn their car off and on again to get the screen working. Not really an option on your way to space.
"If one section of the population is persecuted for hundreds of years, then one day the majority population says "OK, we're not going to persecute you any more!", are the two populations equal now?"

This argument just doesn't make sense in 2020. Minorities are not 'persecuted' in this country and in fact are given special treatment in every possible way, especially by progressive/liberal lawmakers and heads of institutions like universities.

Affirmative action is a good example of this. Where I went to college, we had affirmative action. Many African american students were pushed through, even though they didn't actually make the grade.

The dropout rate was 90% because they didn't have enough of the fundamentals like math, science, or literacy.

"Or does the minority population continue to suffer from the economic and political effects of their persecution?"

They may suffer economic effects, but it really has little to do with their 'persecution'.

It starts at home. Having multiple children in an unstable home to a single, young mother, not only makes the mother's life difficult, but the children. This is the norm for many inner city African communities, if you look at the statistics.

This is something that can't be legislated away. I've known many teachers that worked in poor African American communities and they all say the same thing: we can teach anything we want to the child, but as soon as they get home, the parents/families have a much bigger influence and students end up not finishing, dropping out, etc.

Just look at statistics on Asian minorities in the US. High education, high earning, and a very small percentage are on welfare.

The Chinese were brought to this country as slaves to work on our railroads and suffered racism as a result. A look at the history of our China towns can see this.

"Of course it's the latter. A cursory glance at any data on the position black people have in our economy and society would tell you that. Focusing on the definition of word "racism" is missing the forest for the trees."

You can't see the forest through the trees. Institutions instituting segregation will not lead to better race relations and will only continue to divide us.

I'm really done having this conversation with you, because It's not going anywhere.
Yes. I don't think it's a problem for them financially, it's just it's a a powerful symbol of the control that they have lost.

That's why they'll pull out all of the stops including heavy handed propaganda, agent provocateurs, sending in the army (if it gets much worse) and even (finally, with gritted teeth), appeasement.

Historically riots have often presaged regime change as it can uncover how dangerously exposed the elites are and how little support the elites have. Unlikely in this case, but it's still the same process that scares the bejesus out of most regimes.
I'm rich. Not filthy-stinking-rich but financially independent, own a house in Silicon Valley with no debt, and my sympathies are entirely with the protestors. Black people are still treated as second class citizens in the U.S. and that needs to change immediately if not sooner. Ever since George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, there has been a segment of the country who have interpreted that as heralding open season on niggers.

I'm pretty sure you'll find similar sentiments in this group:

https://patrioticmillionaires.org/

Yes, some rich people are racist assholes, but we're not all like that. Lumping us all together is the exact same sin as lumping all black people together because some looters are black.
Creating true accessibility is very difficult in my experience and involves a lot more than tag attributes. Screen readers like JAWS can be, again, very difficult to work with - so being as semantic as possible and maintaining "flattened" HTML are often necessary to get them to work properly for blind users.
Personally, as a confirmed weirdo, I think it's way easier, at least in America. A few obvious factors:

1. Urbanization. Small towns are suffocating. In cities, people are much less in each other's business. Urbanization has been on an upward march since the country's founding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...),_OWID.svg

2. Education. The more people know, the more than can accept. Education has been steadily on the rise for decades: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93442.pdf

3. Travel. The more you've seen that other places are different, the easier it is to accept difference at home. As recently as 1989, 3% of Americans had passports. Now it's 42%. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/01/11/the-sh...

4. The decline of patriarchy. For most of American history, women were pretty close to property of men. The main acceptable role was wife, with things like schoolteacher possibly being ok. Even in the 1970s, less than 10% of medicine and law degrees went to women. Only this century did it reach parity: https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/more-women...

5. The decline of racism. America's still hella racist, of course. But talk to racial minorities about exactly where they'd be ok setting the dial on the time machine.

6. The decline in policing of sex and gender. This is very recent, and still ongoing. People are getting to be who they are in ways that were pretty much universally condemned even a few decades ago.

7. The Internet. There are at least three big effects here. One is that people now have as much culture as they care to absorb. Global news? Indie films? Personal essays? We're awash in it. Another is the lack of gatekeepers. On Twitter, I am hearing voices that I didn't even know existed 25 years ago. And third, as others said, it is letting weirdos find their people.

If somebody gives me a time machine, I'm only setting that dial forward.
The big issue is supply and demand. With increasing automation and global supply chains, there is a huge amount of labor available relative to the need.

In the past, a union strike at a plant would see a generous long-term contract and benefits for the workers. Now, it is likely for the plant to be moved or workers replaced with automation.
I can't help but wonder if this means they will add "linux support" to their install.

People may have forgotten on the windows side they added software to the bios that would install itself even on a clean windows install

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Lenovo_Service_Engine

hmm, "Customer Feedback Program" or "Lenovo Accelerator" look similar.
Why's there still no open-source peer-to-peer standards-based encrypted chat and video meeting software? I mean, that works well and isn't shady.
5 years is considered long now? And no we weren't looking for an under-represented group at all. We just posted our job ads in the most obvious places when looking for a candidate. Personally I think we should be hiring on merit rather than any other factors.
> C macros as the templating engine for the HTML, and a JS->C library so his WebAssembly C can access the DOM. Hence, he wants to write his web apps in C lol!

Websites in C are alright, but this sounds like a crazy setup.

In my case, there is no C and the makefile does only "cat header.html $^ footer.html > $@"
Just because USB4 becomes a thing doesn't mean people will support it. 20Gbit/s and the DisplayPort Alt Mode means people definitely will choose to go with USB3 or USB2 USB Type-C.

Remember, all USB Type-A ports aren't USB3. Likewise, all USB Type-C ports won't become USB4.
Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, but Win10 Is Worse
I spoke with the creator of archive.is a while back, he uses the location from DNS to protect archive.is against some attacks, and the Cloudflare cache breaks things for him because they return the cached result instead of a live one.

It's an unfortunate situation, but it doesn't look like an easy solution exists on either side.
How you like my demo showing how to use CSS Modules by simply using HTML?
The same amount that is endangered for a parade, a presidential motorcade, or road construction.
Ask HN: How does your company handle the first deploy of a new service to prod?
Deploys should obviously be automated, and you can obviously test most of the facets of automated deploys in lower environments, but the first deploy is always tricky.
Responding broadly to this and other sibling comments about different representations for optimization...

This can be considered a generalized example of the bias-variance tradeoff. Imposing symmetry or a parametric form can be considered forms of regularization/bias that help converge to a well-formed solutions.
The screen compensates, and they train with vibrations in mind.
They have physical buttons Incase the touch functionality misbehaves.
If beepboopbeep is the entirety of the US media, then yes. Otherwise no, it’s just yet another comment by a single individual on the internet with no broader meaning, context or consequence.
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I completely agree. It seems great now, because the situation is dire, to get preprints instantly as they become available. But people don't seem to realize just how much crap gets into preprints and ultimately fails during peer review. There's so much garbage out there now, and it can and will (and probably already is) be used as just more political fodder.

I like reading preprints as much as the next geek, but I think we might ultimately be better served if the papers weren't released until after peer review.
Grew from 200m users in 2013 to 1.5 billion in 2018 so they needed more processing power as they add more features and users. In the process they were moving from SoftLayer (IBM, FreeBSD, Erlang R16) to Facebook's infrastructure (Open Compute, Linux, Erlang R21) after the 2014 acquisition. This required moving from large powerful dual socketed servers to tiny blades with a max of 32 gig of RAM. Facebook's approach is to pack a lot of servers into a tiny space. Had to move to Erlang R21 to get the networking performance and connection density on Linux that they had on FreeBSD. Now they have a combination of old and new machines in a single cluster and they went from just a few servers to 10,000 smaller Facebook servers.

[1] or a Summary at [2] in Useful Stuff.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/erland-scale-10000-nodes...

[2] http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/10/4/stuff-the-internet...
How about a battery electric cargo bicycle? Like a Tern GSD ($$$) or Radwagon ($)?

The tern gsd can carry 180 kg of cargo and has detachable batteries, so that at least gives you the option of bringing extra batteries for long range. Or haul people or wheat.
This was cool!

Thanks for sharing that with us.

I'd be interested in finding out how they iterate. I'm absolutely positive that they do.
The biggest take away is make sure your hardware supports the software you want before you make expensive purchases.
Indeed, the math is simple: 600 + 700k + 40M = 40,700,600 people who stand to lose if supply chains stop working and the recovery from the downturn is not swift. If you look at the history of insurrections, the poor tend to eat it just as much if not more than the rich. Examples: French revolution, Russian revolution, Chinese revolution...
Because you haven’t written it yet!
>. AI has been heavily hyped, but is having a lot of real world failures and is becoming associated with a bunch of fraud

AI, specifically deep learning is far more than self driving cars. The industry is in its infancy and we are building ML solutions for a multitude of industries. You don't hear about any of it because none of it is sexy (or even accessable) to the layman - but rest assured, the industry is growing exponentially (like the research) and we are finding much more in the way of success than the high profile failures of self driving.
Is there a statistical demonstration of the effectiveness of established journals? It seems like you would have to do some form of counterfactual study to prove/disprove this. As far as I know, the argument of the effectiveness of journals only stems from the survivorship bias (e.g. all things considered research until recently has been published by journals).
>SpaceX also made use of Chromium and JavaScript for Dragon 2 flight interface. I am not sure how that passed the certification. I assume it was allowed because for every mission-critical input on the display, there was a physical button underneath the display as well

I think that's all the validation we need for HTML/CSS/JS as the best tool for UI development nowadays. I wonder if there was actual shared code from the Dragon UI used in their online docking simulator. How neat.
>The narrative was never that the drug was good or bad.

Multiple prominent journalists came out saying this like: "if you take HCQ, you will die."

Thousands of headlines were written saying "Donald Trump pushing dangerous drug" etc.

The narrative from the left was that the drug was bad. The narrative from the right was that it is a miracle cure. NEITHER of them are correct yet.
Many states have their own inheritance taxes. For example Massachusetts taxes out of state property at an exorbitant (relative to typical tax rates on real property) rate. In practice it's basically a tax on untimely death or having a crap relationship with your heirs because anyone with a double digit number of brain cells and a functional relationship with their kids transfers the property to their heirs before death as a result.
My understanding is that Bijan was a flighty and somewhat anxious person (we shared mutual friends). I don't think that justifies unloading a magazine into him while he's in his car.

Which is why Fairfax appears to be pushing for indictments. Regardless of whether Bijan was guilty of anything, we'll never know because he was robbed of both his right to due process as well as his life.
It's used a lot in sports, where one team "poaches exciting talent" from another, etc. so I don't see a problem with it myself.
You have access to the full stack, whereas even on .NET and Java there is a certain separation between runtime and lets call it user space.

On a proper Smalltalk environment, beyond a set of pre-defined VM intrinsics you can access and change everything, GC, JIT compiler, compiler, how the debugger works, IDE like features, you name it. Then it is very uniform, everything is an object, even it isn't implemented as such, it is transparent for your as developer.

The only other kind of environments that went as far were the Interlisp-D and Lisp Machines, to some extent the surviving commercial Common Lisps.
and they also don't have anything to do during launch except maybe abort with the physical handle.
Also revealed preference of the angry mob!

I saw zero medium posts saying "hey, forget about RMS's posts, let's go get mad at the people who actually did this stuff". I'm sure they existed, but in general the mob wanted a 'creepy' scapegoat and they got one.
Swedish cities are far less dense than British ones.

Stockholm has an equivalent density to Bristol in the UK, which doesn't even break top 10 in terms of City size. (4,200~/km2 each).

London is 35%~ more dense in the urban area (5,666~/km2) and there's a large portion of the UK that is in between those cities regarding density.
These are mostly big chains, I think they'll be okay.
Impressive, especially considering some of the touch targets are pretty small.
After a breach, users rarely change their passwords, study finds
A guy I worked with had used python for years. He was amazed when he found out I only had a couple of months' with it.

I 1) have huge background experience that I can transfer from 2) put in a lot of work to learn the subject before I start working 3) can tackle hard problems 4) I like hard problems.

I'm not sure you're looking for the right thing, in business terms. (NB, am not a woman, and this isn't about python per se, just making a point).
The rich aren't needed for supply chains to work, and taking their wealth and redistributing it would likely make the recovery quicker. That was basically the entire goal of the New Deal.
shrug It made me completely lose interest in KSP2 almost instantly.
>So then we must ask, why do they want more?

How do you know they want more?

[edit] Or was this meant as a rhetorical? ie, "who would want more in this case?"
> I am smart. I know I'm smart, I am told that I am smart, I do smart things...

and I guess you are risk-averse and try to behave predictable the entire life to not loose that smartness badge in some crazy venture. Following the safest path won't let you step on the edge to reach something unknown.
Black Domers: Desegregating the University of Notre Dame Football Team
It is a hard problem to solve. People earn bread making and scaling this stuff.
Thanks a lot for this :)
>You only need one or 2-3 competiting Neuronal Networks for cancer detection and if you look how expensive it is to train that stuff, not many can actually do it anyway.

This is just wrong. You can train a cancer discriminator on a low end gpu on your desktop. The hard part is getting quality [often annotated] data - and thats why data brokers like Google are positioned to dominate.
Crowstrike CEO testified no concrete evidence Russia hacked the DNC servers
Isn't open source proof that you don't need buts in seats in the same office? If open source projects can do it, why can't most businesses? What's the limiting factor in business? Is it communication? Is it antiquated management practices?

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

— Melvin E. Conway
James Todaro is not an honest scientist. I couldn't find any A-grade sources on him, but here's an interesting Wired piece: https://www.wired.com/story/an-old-malaria-drug-may-fight-co...

If people don't know this story, Todaro and Rigano published what looked like an academic paper as a Google doc, with academic qualifications that verge on fraudulent, if not crossing the line. The original Google doc has been taken down for TOS violation, but it is still accessible on archive.org [1].

To be clear, I decry the fact that HCQ has become a political soccer match (with apparently bad behavior on both sides), where what we really need is something that at least approximates an impartial, objective search for truth.

The fact that people are getting their information from this guy (even though he's actually right about the Lancet study being flawed) is strong evidence that we're living in a dystopian information nightmare.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200315004631/https://docs.goog...
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> See, if you can skewer HCQ, that means you get to take a shot at a certain politician too.

For clarity, and I'm sure you agree: Trump's boosting of this drug as a "miracle" and "greatest breakthrough" was absolutely irresponsible even if the drug actually works, for the simple reason that we didn't know if it did (frankly we still don't), and that it is known to have significant risks (it still does, even usingly only baseline data and ignoring this study).

This was a bad study. It's possible that the editors at the Lancet hate Trump. But... you're simply reading too much here. Bad science gets published all the time. In particular, bad science gets published in circumstances like we have now where there is desperate need for "fast science".

Not everything has to be an "agenda" by global elites to damage your favorite politician.

But even granting your framing: why are you so concerned about the Lancet boosting bad data as an "agenda" but not with Trump doing exactly the same thing, with even less evidence? Why is it an "agenda" only when your enemies do it?
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Came here to ask the same thing.

Infuriating as hell that we are forced to pay for something that not only we don't wish to use or support, but it also inflates the Windows sales figures and percieved install base vs Linux installed base. Grr.
No, you don't understand this.

The Lancet is one of the most impactful journals in medicine, and has played an important role in shaping how medicine is practiced. It is rigorous in its process, but it's not foolproof. So yes, there are some bad studies that come through, but that is why healthcare professionals are TRAINED to interpret studies--we separate all the bullshit from the legitimately useful stuff.

You should see some of the crap that comes through in some of the lower-impact journals.

> The combination of preprint servers + twitter has proven far more effective in looking after humanity’s best interests.

This view is incredibly false and dangerous for so many reasons.
Has anyone recently used Pharo Smalltalk? How did its IDE functionality enhance your experience?

"Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback (think IDE and OS rolled into one)."

https://pharo.org/features
EAT-Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...