skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a point. Eventually your own management gets to the point where a certain emotion doesn't get experienced at all.

Personal experience. I used to fly into a red hot rage on the road. Now someone cuts me off and I feel absolutely nothing at all about it. My management made my anger a choice.
This is right, they trade youth for cash, a few will make money the rest lose their twenties
I agree, and I’m absolutely in favor of good diversity programs. It just seems to me that the attitude of “don’t strive to be race blind, always keep yourself aware” consistently leads to bad programs. By far the most bigoted thing I’ve heard at work was in a diversity seminar, where the instructor (a white man) told me (a Hispanic man) that we must make sure to call on Latinas in meetings because they’re not comfortable speaking up for themselves.
Dunkin’ Donuts is the McDonald’s of coffee
That's cool but it doesn't seem to have any users. And only NYT as a source (for now). And even if it had users there's no way to align them with my interests (you might get a hoard of neo-nazis upvoting all the wrong stories). This could be solved by basing it off a specific subreddit, for example.

That said it's a cool RSS'y way of browsing NYT.
Not weird at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus

Mick West's full playlist with explanations:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-4ZqTjKmhn5Qr0tCHkCV...

An article mentioning Mick West:

https://petapixel.com/2020/04/28/that-navy-ufo-footage-has-a...

https://petapixel.com/2020/04/28/that-navy-ufo-footage-has-a...
Just know that whether you are consciously making mental notes on skin color or not, your unconscious mind definitely is taking notes and affecting your behaviour accordingly.

And this goes both ways. Racial bias exists in all human beings. It's just that when you are a member of the group that is overwhelmingly represented in all corners of power, that racial bias tends to help you while harming others.
>> Deep learning practitioners in industry practice a trade.

That's a different statement than the one in the previous comment that I quoted, that "deep learning is a trade". I disagree with that satement specifically. Deep learning is not a trade. It's a subject of research in the field of AI, which remains a scientific field, despite the shoddy science that is typical in it.

That there are people who apply (or try to) the results of deep learning research in the industry is another matter. People in the industry apply the results of computer science research. That doesn't make computer science research "a trade" in the sense that you say it.
Seems like domestic goods are often more expensive than imports from Europe. I rarely drink domestic wine because Italian wines are basically free. California olive oil is $20/l at least.
> Black people make up 13% of the US population, we are naturally in the minority. But in the tech workforce, we are missing. Among the top eight largest tech companies in the land, black people account for only 3.1% of the workforce.

I don't think it's fair to compare the ratio of black people in tech/at large tech companies to the population as a whole.

There are a lot of things keeping black people from being able to even consider a career in tech, particularly educational attainment. Sure, you can get a job in tech without a college degree, but black people are still much less likely to have access to a computer or a high speed internet connection, or have the free time to be able to tech themselves the necessary skills.

Let's also not forget that, horrifically, 1 in 3 black men in America have spent time in prison (many unjustly).

So I think before we go around and say X company is racist because at least 13% of their workforce isn't black, we need to contend with how awful outcomes for black people are in America and try instead to do what we can to ensure they have a truly equal opportunity to thrive.
It's an interesting article. I'm not sure I agree with it 100% - I would say a lot depends on the larger picture and incentives.

Right now, there is a huge incentives to create "narrow AIs" because they help improve productivity and get rid of tedious labor, from facial recognition to harvesting machines. So, none of those AIs has 'skin in the game' or as the paper calls is 'are in this world'.

However, if there were a concerted push to give AIs 'skin in the game' and try to solve more general problems (the poker AIs look interesting, for instance), the situation might be different.

I'm thinking along the lines of the essay "Golem XIV" or the TV show "person of interest". In these SciFi scenarios, governments give machines very high level objectives ("protect the country!") and skin in the game, which then ultimately leads to reaching "consciousness".

I don't see how with current economic incentives, such efforts would be fundable, the narrow AI field is sucking up all the talent and $$$. But if someone were to massively fund efforts like this, I wouldn't rule out progress in that direction. Spoken as someone with practically nil education in ML and AI :)
The situation we are living in at the moment is not a dichotomy.
Art and Tech in the Bay Area
I’m fairly sure this hypothesis predates Darwin.
OMG, how very beautiful ! Is it fully automatic? Will it persist?
"Step 1: Install NodeJS"

I think what got people excited about Xi with Ropes and CRDT and Rust was that it was going to be a modern codebase with performance. Now that Moore's Law is buried next to Denard scaling, we need less software written with time-to-MVP in mind and more software written with performance in mind. Software is used a lot more than it's created. If I looked at editors like emacs and vi/vim/neovim, and tried to calculate the person-decades spent making them vs. the person-millennia spent using it, it's quite clear that optimizing for the single-core performance we have today pays off tomorrow when singe-core performance is 10% faster.
This is very timely for me having just watched "Particle Fever" (2013) for the first time last night. I just want to reiterate the answer one of the theoretical physicists made when asked, what economic benefit the LHC will provide.
His answer was "No idea" and then went on to the say that when radio waves were discovered, they weren't called "radio waves" and no one knew if those would be of any benefit either. You do the research to extend your knowledge for that reason alone. In a similar vein I heard an anecdote once, supposedly a toast that used to be made by academics in Oxford or Cambridge. "To pure mathematics and may it never be of any use to anyone".
Later it turned out that without Number theory, practical secure communication over the internet would be impossible.
Mmm, time for some pie!
Thank you for that really helpful reply. I re-framed my thoughts based on it.
The heritage of RISC OS as an evolution of the BBC Micro MOS is really clear, at the lower levels. Not just the excellent BASIC, but the service calls, vector indirection, VDU system, command line interface and so on. Even the relocatable modules, one of the main unifying concepts in RISC OS, were sort of based on the sideways ROMs from the 8-bit machine. How different it would all have been had the ARX project been successful, although it was an incredibly 'optimistic' design from all I've ever heard about it.

RISC OS was a terrifically fun environment in which to learn programming. Of course it lacked lots of the fundamentals of 'proper' operating systems (memory protection, preemptive task switching, multiple users etc etc) but the compromises they made were cleverly chosen and lots of parts of the design were very elegant. The user interface was great and there was lots of other very sophisticated features that were ahead of their time, discussed elsewhere in these comments (outline fonts, vector graphics, fast native video compression/decompression, the list goes on). The operating system was very easy to extend, so it was easy and fun to write little utilities, and this led to a vibrant hobbyist/'freeware' scene as I suppose it was called in those days.

The fact that the OS was all implemented in assembler was reflected in the API, and (coupled with the inherent pleasure of working with the ARM instruction set of those days) led to the majority of third party apps being written in assembler too, often with bits of the very efficient built-in BASIC to bind it all together. This made the whole user experience very fast and slick.

The documentation was also superb, though expensive for a youngster! I can't bring myself to get rid of the Programmer's Reference Manuals as they're so good and were such a holy text back in the day.
I'd recommend adding a clear and permissive license to your templates, as well as a clear privacy policy when collecting emails.
If we find something, that's success, a reason to build another, larger collider. If we do not find something, we just didn't build big enough. The real challenge is to come up with a pro-collider argument that terminates. When do we stop?

Do we make one which girdles the world? Do we disassemble the planets and encircle the Solar System for the one after that? Why not the Milky Way? The Local Group?
There is no free market when you have enormous monopolies like VISA. Fee market is when you have VISA, MasterCard and like ten other companies and still can process transaction of nine other companies. Card processing is not a free market.
How the founder of Telegram stood up to the Kremlin
Sadly, I can say from experience that the unsustainable view is that we should err on the side of admitting people regardless of demonstrable skills or relevant background. They are of course still people - but people who may need something other than higher education, and again it is not on higher education to fix all the ills and injustices of society (it can of course help - but it can't solve upstream issues).

Re: the rest - read my upthread comments, suffice it to say I am supportive of broad opportunity and personally am a fan of MOOCs. But there's a difference between making material available and providing a supportive curated learning experience (which is what people expect when admitted into a university, and is essentially necessary for a research environment), and for the latter holding students accountable to standards really does matter.

It sounds like you have some interesting ideas that could be applied towards improving primary education (intermingling with MOOCs, etc.). That's great - as I said in my first response to you, advocate for those (I also agree that vocational education could help - that's part of what I was hinting at with "specialization" and "alternatives"). I particularly like your description about how it really did gate on the actual difficulty - that's pretty infrequent in these initiatives from what I've seen. That plus a robust test at the end could lead to a trustworthy credential used to apply to future opportunities.

Research institutions and competitive/graduate programs need to maintain quality in order to advance their field, and need to be selective to do so. The best fix for inequality is to fix it at the source, but to maintain an insistence of the actual value and integrity of the material. It hurts both individuals and the system to dilute and give people participation badges for passing through, and that is the approach I have more commonly seen when people push for "broad accessibility."
Visa is a private business, they have the right to do business wi... yadda yadda yadda.

But, in a world in which online payments are more important than ever, shouldn't the governments provide an alternative for businesses? Or at least have some kind of guarantee for business to be able to participate in online business?
Been meaning to respond to this...

Domain knowledge is exactly the part that needs to change. The current "publishing" domain experts are very likely long-term employees of the existing publishers and they "see" content in a textbook fashion. They probably know they have X words, Y images, and have to convey Z elements in each chapter. I doubt publishers ever reach out to actual domain experts.

In my vision, I would have had experienced interactive authors work with actual domain experts and educators to develop stories that included XYZ, but also the additional depth that a story can provide.

One of my education advisers was an established history teacher in Illinois and he basically said he stacked the textbooks at the front of the class and never used them. Every day he would tell a story and provide his own materials. He considered the textbooks a huge waste of time and provided very little in the way of usable knowledge.

I could pull together a half dozen interactive writers for under a million a year. Engaging with domain experts would be challenging, but not without funding to trade. Add education staff, programmers, testers, and a group of parents and students for outreach and you have a solid group to develop something profoundly different and likely significantly better than what the average 3rd through 8th grade student endures.

Textfyre was way ahead of its time. Many people told me that and I still don't know how to fund it. It would require someone or some entity that thought it was a valuable effort.

I'm on my third startup and I've often told people, if I ever hit it big with one of my ideas, I am likely to swing back to Textfyre and bootstrap it.
>but it’s important to note to anyone reading this that learning COBOL is not going to lead to riches: I know several COBOL coders and while they make a respectable amount, it’s nowhere near the amount they’d earn at a FANG company.

This goes along really great with the closing paragraph of the article:

>That’s the new generation of COBOL programmers that we need: people to do the tedious, unglamorous work of re-inventing, re-engineering, and automating government applications, business applications, and much more. Reimagining these processes is creative work, but it requires a different kind of creativity from implementing a new website.

Gee, why is it that people are trying to hard to get into FAANGs rather than learning COBOL.
In all my years of interviewing people I have only interviewed a black person twice. I hired one of them and the other turned me down. I’m sure I’ve screened out some in the phone conversation stage but it’s impossible to know for sure.

I sometimes wonder about this. I don’t think I’ve ever discounted someone based on their name or how they spoke, but it would also be difficult for me to determine that. I also don’t recall but a few black students in CS or SE during undergrad. Are black people extremely underrepresented in CS fields, in general?

It’s also impossible to not guess when you see a name or hear someone talk. If I saw a peculiar name or heard a peculiar accent I would be curious to hear their story. I can try to ignore that impulse but the fact of the matter is if I saw the name “Steven White” I would be surprised if a black man or woman walked in the room. It would be hard for me to hide that surprise from my face.
No freedom of speech on GitHub ...
For smokers, the easy way to stop smoking by Allen Carr. Read it, quit smoking two days later, and I have been enjoying fresh air, greater taste and an overall feeling of "hell yeah I did it" for almost a year now. My wife also quit one month later thanks to the book. First time an author actually delivers on its premise.
Nothing different than any long lived component in any infrastructure. There is no reason to look for reasons not to use a CA.
Ask HN: Is the sound in high speed camera videos real?
I keep wondering when watching YT videos of people doing high frame rate recordings whether the slowed down sound in some of them is real (the ones that have sound).

Take for example this one where they use a Phantom camera not a Cronos one.
https://youtu.be/Dy55X4QaAAU?t=395

On another channel (Beyond the press) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCveB47lgzZJ1WOf4XYVJNBw I have noticed that when they use different cameras, some footage does have slowed down sound.

Of course this could all be clever post production sound effects but I doubt that these channels can actually make it sound so convincing.

So my question is: Can the Phantom record sound in sync with the video and does it sound as amazing as the video looks?
For those of you who have done this for a while, with links and backlinks, don't you just end up with a big snarl? It seems that unless other controls are introduced, every arrow/edge just means "A reminds of B somehow", no matter how tangentially.
Show HN: Tafels.app – simple math training for kids
I never heard if them before but your rights depend on your ability to tolerate others' right. Today it's right wing conspiracy theories, tomorrow it's a left wing civil rights movement like BLM activism. Payment processors acting as henchmen for the ruling class to decide who should and should not be tolerated is as 1984 dystopian as it gets. I don't know about you but I never voted for visa to legislate, judge or enforce any laws. Rights mean nothing if arbitrary groups of people can collaboratr to prevent your free excercise of those rights. Visa itself has little to no rights, only privileges afforded to it by the public to operate a business.
It's not clock skew of the CPU/Python in any sense. My theory: Their script is run every 10seconds without taking into account the execution time of previous runs, and they noticed duplicates as the same message would be picked up on multiple executions of their polling script because of probably network delays on the REST API they're querying. So they used the lru_cache decorator to filter out duplicates according to the message content and the user that made it. Really bad design if you ask me, as it's essentially "throwing spaghetti" onto the wall instead of figuring out what's really going wrong. As other people have mentioned, they should instead be using a plain ID to filter out duplicates because it is the most unique identifier.
My guess is the accent was throwing people to the point it seemed like a "bait and switch".
Haha. Good luck. You have no idea how these platforms make money. Starbucks, Coca Cola don't spend much on these platforms anyways. They are just using this as an opportunity to gain brownie points without incurring much harm anyways. Performance advertisers are their bed and butter. For example, that app install ad or that ad from Direct to Consumer advertiser (for example Allbirds) are the ones who cherish FB. They must be really happy since their CAC just went down as brand advertisers are running away! THey will literally double down spending on FB/Twitter.
You've got it backward. It is a boon for small players and troubles for large companies.

Small players can easily get certificates manually or automate. The platforms/tools they use often give certificates out of the box (cloudflare, heroku, wordpress, etc...).

Large players can't manage certificates. Developers/sysadmins can't use let's encrypt because it's prohibited by higher up and blocked. Even if they could use it, it's not supported by their older tools and devices. The last large company I worked for had no automation around certificates and the department that handled certificate requests was sabotaging attempts to automate, possibly out of fear of losing their jobs.
In the socratic fashion, I would ask you: why are Chinese or Japanese people treated differently when they have very light skin, similar to white people?

The answer is that it's not just your skin color but many other features that lead people to assume many other things about you: culture, heritage, upbringing, physical and mental acumen, etc.

Historically, black people from Africa in America have been routinely oppressed and forced into the lower class, whereas Indian people have a much different history (that I cannot speak to, I don't know much about it). Therefore, they are treated much differently by our society.
Ask HN: What effect will the new US anti-encryption laws going to have on FLOSS?
I've seen many discussions around this topic end somewhere like "Well, I guess it's time to go fully open source." Is this going to actually accomplish anything? Even though the code is auditable, if the project is based in the US, won't they still have to comply?
iamadamdev has got no clue: 10 of his last commits are all copied from magnolia1234.
Some maintenance is done by other committers, but no real paywall fixes.
You can see attempts to formalize this "HATEOAS-less REST" in frameworks like the Richardson Maturity Model [1].

One less-discussed area where REST has taken hold is in indexing/SEO (i.e. the Semantic Web's success stories). JSON-LD and other RDF microformats/representations are pervasive, while crawlers are much closer to the platonic ideal of a generic client consuming the uniform interface than most web API clients.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.ht...
EDIT: apologies; I commented under the parent when I meant to do under this comment about the Goiânia accident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662601

My aunt still lives next door to the “Vigilância Sanitária” place where the material was quarantined.

At the time I was spending school holidays with my cousins and, after a day out, we came home to find the whole street blocked. Naturally we drove around the block and managed to get to their condo - a unit out of a set of three buildings.

We didn’t see any neighbours and it was only when we turned on the TV that we found out why. I guess the authorities forgot to block the entrance to the car park. So out we went again to get tested for radiation.

Going back to school in Rio was fun. My friends were giving me all sorts of ribbing and some kids refused to sit next to me for a while.
He said somewhere that he wants to portray the 'madness in the hearts of men' and I think that is a very good guiding principle to view his oeuvre from.
I try to be as generous and good faith as I can, but I'm not the best at it. I tend to point out talking points when I see them because I waste a lot of time arguing on the internet, and so I time and time again will watch a talking head say some red herring or strawman, watch it propagate through Twitter and Reddit, and eventually end up here almost completely unchanged.

It seems important to point these things out when I see them. I want to challenge why someone believes what they believe or is saying what they say. Is "black lives matter means white lives don't matter" what you really believe, or is it something you heard and sounded true to you and thus became embedded in your worldview before you had a chance to really consider the implications there?

Sometimes it feels like public figures, verified Twitter accounts, and massively upvoted comments on Reddit are putting weapons onto a rack in the colliseum of "internet debate," and half the time I'm just finding myself face to face with the exact same sword fifty other people have swung at me... So I just jab back with the exact same spear I've used fifty times before. At that point it doesn't even matter who's wielding the weapon, just that the weapons are endlessly crossing eachother.
You and I both know that most people in the West wouldn’t go near an Android device that didn’t have the Google Play Store. How many people do you expect to do like their own apps.
My single favorite scene from any Herzog related film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y

Herzog inquires and videos insane penguins in Antarctica as they march on towards their doom.
I could misremember but that's what I remembered seeing. They took on debt to expand but never reaped enough monopoly benefits to pay of the rolling short term debt they accrued.