skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>why would anyone build a production system around this platform? Why would anyone use this platform?

Because companies often have a portfolio of software apps that only run on Windows os. No Linux (or even macOS) options. Yes, if a company can do _all_ its business processes only with a web brower, then it can conceivably have all employees use Linux desktop with Firefox.

But many companies have critical apps like business analytics, CAD modeling, warehouse inventory management, legacy apps, etc that have no Linux options. These companies had Windows XP, then upgraded to Windows 7, then upgraded to Windows 10 -- so they could maintain Microsoft's continued support. Even for home use, my friend who sews has an embroidery machine and that software only runs on Windows. She can't run the embroidery software in a VM inside of Linux because the USB security dongle doesn't work through the vm's USB emulator. She's "stuck" on Windows too.

A new YC startup with no historical baggage of legacy apps can "choose their destiny" by being a 100% Linux/Apple shop but mature Fortune 1000 companies will be running a flavor of Windows for decades to come because it's too expensive to switch off of it.
Beyond fashion and aesthetics (which are totally valid, and what this article is mostly about), the past ten years of touch UI design have been a process of slowly eliminating the extremely obvious cues that were necessary for a population of user who had no idea how to relate to a touch screen. UI designers have been able to pack more functionality into UIs as they no longer have to beat people over the head with the idea that you can touch the controls.
This was announced at Prismas annual conference: https://www.prisma.io/day/ The conference is live for the next 3 hours, and you can join the dedicated Slack to ask questions for the live Q&A: https://slack.prisma.io
> The alternative is that Quora simply decides not to hire in Europe

Well then, so much for competition for best talent and all that jazz. I'm sure Quora's competitors will be happy to pick up the slack.

> Trust me, there is demand for programming jobs that work night-owl hours.

That is not the point. There is demand for night-time-guard jobs too. That doesn't mean it's a particularly appealing job, or that night-time guards are the best guards, or that regular guards won't be pissed off when you tell them from now on it's night-time shifts only, or that society as a whole is happy to have all these night-time guards around.
Dev environment matters less than you think
Was it one of those old core duo Macbooks with the first intel onboard graphics? Those graphics were shit, Apple discarded them quickly and changed to Nvidia GF9400/9600, those Nvidia machines were officially supported from 2008 - 2015.
Apple has like 5 producs.That's it. Microsoft probably has more. However,for MS user it's a console, a PC,or laptop,while for Apple fans it's The Apple. Hence the difference in brick and mortar stores.
The follow up article addresses this concern. Similar results

https://dragan.rocks/articles/20/Clojure-Numpy-Cupy-CPU-GPU-...
what tools do you use to set all that up? I'm bootstrapping my own startup and most of my brain is occupied for a few critical areas and would love to be able to better ration my "coding mental energy"
No worries, and thanks!
A police officer is murdered every week on average. I imagine the numbers for those shot at is much higher, since most gunshot wounds don't result in death and most shots probably don't result in hits.
M. Lionet has resurfaced in recent years and is busy working on a new BASIC. Given that he wrote both STOS and AMOS back in the day I'm looking forward to seeing how the new project turns out.

https://www.aoz.studio/the-aoz-story
That's valid. I guess I haven't seen ads in a long time thanks to ublock, but makes sense for the general reader for sure.
In some of the companies I've worked for in the past, there's this weird misconception that if you don't look stressed, then you're not taking things seriously. "I don't think you are treating this issue with the sense of urgency it requires." I never understood this.
It obviously was still lying, even if you are successful. How is there any question? You either lie and are unsuccessful, lie and are successful, or lie in a legally material way and are sued or fined, and are either successful or unsuccessful. All outcomes still started with a lie.
We finally got a product team to move off of Windows because of stuff like this. We had a ton of performance problems that ended up being Windows Update churning the CPU and RAM (on Windows Server, on a VPC), and it took us 3 months to figure out how to turn it off in the latest releases. It could easily come back on again in a future update.
> Really? What about all the dependencies from those dependencies?...

Yep, all the way to the end.

I got the idea from a book called "Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success" by James R. Persse. It's two books interleaved really, one is just a standard pitch for Agile methods (IMO), but the other is a presentation of the process that large film studios use to make movies. The movie industry is ~100 years old and mostly very good at bringing in projects on time and under budget.

Somewhere in there he talks about how they'll track their dependencies in a kind of "portfolio", I forget the details, but it translates in IT to a "dependency portfolio" and you would (if you're large enough) have an actual "Deps Dept." and a Deps Manager whose sole job is tracking dependencies and their updates and patches, etc.

> working on an app that has 82 npm dependencies

Ach! Well, see, there's your problem right there. :-)

Seriously though, one of the benefits of a dependency portfolio is to help you know when your system has gotten out of hand. The problems are still there even if you don't look at them, eh?

> It's absolutely ridiculous to investigate all of them... but it's also necessary if you want to be sure...

Ya feel. ;-)
I can't find anything about the 43% number. It seems way too high. Most of the research on atomspheric oxygen's contribution to fire seems to focus on the 15 to 30% range, as 30% seems to be the upper limit where fires are too common and spread too much.

"Belcher’s team’s work indicates that while there is not a firm upper limit to the fire window, 30 percent is a practical limit. Burn prevalence increases only slightly between 23 and 30 percent oxygen, and fuel moisture plays an important role too. It would only be possible to have periods with atmospheric oxygen concentrations approaching 30 percent (and preserve terrestrial vegetation) if Earth were much wetter than today." [1]

[1]https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/flammable-planet-fire-...

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012516/
Maybe not backed by evidence, but definitely a reasonable extrapolation. Basic logic and social analysis will inform you that the role a police officer has attracts two mentalities: those who very strongly want to uphold law and help people, and those that enjoy abusing power and controlling people. Obviously these lie along a spectrum, and there is some overlap.

Anecdotally, I know many of the bullies from my high school ended up being police. They enjoyed the power and feeling of beating and subjugating their classmates, and they found a job that pays well and gives them fulfillment.

Let me posit this: if you were that type of individual, what better job is there to have than being a cop? Also, if you had that job, would you incriminate yourself after abusing your power, or would you lie, knowing that police protect their own and are often given the benefit of the doubt?

I think it's extremely naive to assume that the situation isn't exactly as I described above. The real question is what is the ratio of abusers and bullies to helpers and law upholders.
https://ibb.co/kQrkbJV

(will autodelete in 30 mins) there's nothing very private but...
> Not sure why you think an ad wouldn’t work here.

"no competitors are bidding for that keyword"

That itself is enough to make Verizon's ads unprofitable.

If you think that competitors would bid for the keyword without Verizon's presence, you'll have to explain why because with Verizon's presence, if nobody clicks on it, the cost is zero. There appears to be a gentleman's agreement between the consumer communication companies not to bid on each other's name, and if that's the case, bidding on your own name is flushing money down the toilet.

I've seen the food delivery case, where Blue Apron bids on "Hello Fresh" and offers a better coupon than for people searching for "Blue Apron." That isn't happening here.
>> Most of the progress has been the result of people trying to model what's
going on in our heads: convnets modeling our vision system, rnns modeling
feedback loops, reinforcement learning modeling sparse reward signals,
attention based models modeling, well, attention.

The problem with all those advances is that they all happened more than 20
years ago. My comment discusses the state of machine learning research right
now, which is that there are very few new ideas and the majority of the field
doesn't have a clear direction.

Note also that the advances you describe were not "guided by theory". They
were inspired by ideas about how the mind works. But, finding ideas to try
is not the scientific process I describe above. And just because you're
inspired by an idea doesn't mean your work is in any way a proof or disproof
of that idea. For example, CNNs were not created in an effort to demonsrate
the accuracy of a certain model of the visual cortex. In fact, Yan LeCun is on
record saying that deep learning is nothing like the brain:

Yann LeCun: My least favorite description [of deep learning] is, “It works
just like the brain.” I don’t like people saying this because, while Deep
Learning gets an inspiration from biology, it’s very, very far from what the
brain actually does.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/artificial-intelligence/...

>> Using your analogy, GPT-3 is more like if you devised an algorithm which
produces n + k of pi digits after processing n pi digits - without knowing
anything about how to compute pi, or what pi is.

That's not a good example. GPT-3 can't actually do this. In fact, no
technology we know of can do this for a k sufficiently large and with accuracy
better than chance. Personally I find GPT-3's text generation very
underwhelming and not anywhere near the magickal guessing machine your example
seems to describe.
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You don't need ElasticSearch, use ts_query
VR System Hacks Your Nose to Turn Smells into Temperatures
I would think this is true in quite a lot of countries. At least, in the UK you can start invoicing people without filling in any forms, you get free healthcare, and taxes are reasonable.
I think I fall with the HN majority in my privacy views. Yesterday however I talked to someone who said that they prefer someone is always watching, so that they can feel safer.

Interestingly they also said they don't want to know the specifics of anyone watching.

I wonder if laws like this, that in actuality seem fairly toothless, will result in more of that. "Safety, and ignorance of where/who the watchers are."
Everyone will walk around with hoods and glasses to cover their distinguishing characteristics (eye-nose-mouth measurements, ears, etc.).
> The other side of the spectrum is that Linux is easier to use and more accessible then ever.

Unfortunately that isn't saying much, and as a long time user of Linux Desktops I can assure you that things are at least as complicated as they always were, they're just more usable now as long as you don't try to do something uncommon. And worse yet: to attain this goal distros have been becoming even more like appliances than computers! Consider why there are so many distros in the first place: it's really hard to take a standard base and convert it to your needs.
Reducing search indexing latency to one second
Your app looks awesome. I've been thinking about a way of putting all my recipies in one place for a while, well, this looks like the kind of place I've been looking for.
Yup, this is a very sensible guy. Another important point from the OP:

> His school is not part of efforts to “decolonise” the African academy. Any student of politics must read Rousseau and Madison, he argues. The aim is to add to the sum of human knowledge, not subtract from it.

Efforts to "decolonise" academia, particularly in the humanities and social sciences where the "decolonisation" meme is most relevant, have backfired horribly. And here we have a sensible scholar from Africa telling it like it is and not mincing his words.
Has anyone done any deep analysis of this kind of thing.

Of those assaults, what impact did the police officer's gun have on the situation?

You can imagine an example where the gun is an asset - for example if the officer encounters an ongoing potentially deadly assault and then can shoot the perpetrator.

But I feel like more often the gun is a liability, an unarmed person is held at gunpoint and becomes violent - the police officer is left with the option of shooting the person or letting them get away. If they were using a batton/cs spray/taser (options available to regular British police) they then have many more options available to them.
I think the fundamental premise on which your arguments are based is flawed.

We are talking about H1Bs and yes, those jobs belong to Americans first. Once again, the stated goal of the program is The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.

You can make a Nation vs World argument on immigration and jobs, an argument on if a company from a nation owes the people of that nation some allegiance, but this is about H1B specifically and it is being abused. So, according to the legislation that enables the H1B program those jobs are American first.

ps. i am a 3x entrepreneur, who used to believe in your ideas just as strongly, but my startup experience has changed my views on this subject.

So you can profit now from it.
"VR can't convey suffering."

Bullshit. What we have now is a crude, rudimentary version of virtual reality with a laughable level of engaging immersion and even with that there is already a ton of content where you can walk through refugee camps and see it as if you were there to the point that it will pull your heartstrings. Wait until the visual technology is indistinguishable from the real world and haptics are added so you can feel even the wind blowing by you. While it isn't the same as physically being there, it can most definitely evoke strong physical emotions and the animus to change.
I went into the Astroneer doc without knowing much about the same or the circumstances of how the game was completed. It hit me really hard...
> Software as a service is good for my tax declaration

Could you elaborate on that? When buying a permanent license you should be able to deduct the full sum as a cost of doing business, it shouldn't matter if it's Saas or not.
Congregating near Apple stores helped too. If the Apple stores were too busy I’d swing by the MS store. They actually had good product and presented them well.

I also liked that their staff seemed more like regular kids rather than “cool” kids, but maybe it’s a misreading.
It is not just shootings, violence comes in many forms.
A separate search and URL field would be nice, it’s just not the same thing. Issues with autocomplete and with copy and paste abound.
Do you think the news is designed to provide an accurate representation of reality? I don't necessarily disagree with you, but pointing to the news isn't exactly convincing.
This was great, thanks for sharing!!
HP 8082A Pulse Generator Repair Pt 2: Designing a Replacement ECL Inverter Gate
> If you've avoided sandboxing issues with currently-shipping software

I have a set of tools I use, and once I granted them access I was done. I haven't seen a permission box in months. It did highlight what the tools wanted to access which is a good thing. See all the shadiness coming to light with the new clipboard highlight feature in iOS14.

> Then there are sandboxing issues that ended or hobbled previously-shipping software.

Unfortunately this is the cost of progress, particularly around security. And, while some tools can't work, many are that the developer does not want to make them work.
The argument is that many corporate apps upload things without the user's consent or prior knowledge (revealed here by iOS 14 [1]).

Your post was in my eyes saying this issue was up to individual users to tackle. I disagree with that. I think it is instead the governments' role to regulate and reel in predatory and parasitic corporations.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/06/25/tiktok-sto...
Interesting that Steve Jobs had pretty much the opposite approach to group collaboration and pressure, yet got good results from them as well. At the expense of an often very miserable working environment.
Aside from snarking at UX/UI designers and what is perceived as artistic pretension, there are some interesting thoughts and direction for this new style.

Assuming that AR is something that is coming to our UIs, head up displays in vehicles, AR via cameras in our phones, potentially moving to eye level, this new design language, with the concept of icons and affordances using lighting, might be an interesting approach.

When you're overlaying reality with digital additions, having them lit appropriately, taking into account the ambient lighting (not just the levels, but the directions) and using that to place the elements makes them much easier to understand.
That's pretty much what I assumed from what I know of VMWare. It's going to be a big issue for future Macs, there are entire segments of developers who may have to abandon Macs if we can't run VMs of x86 operating systems.
>I know that I wouldn't work for them from Europe if those were the conditions.

There is no system that would satisfy everyone. You wouldn't work for them but pretty sure many other people wouldn't find it a burden.

In this modern day the concept of working only during the daylight is slowly disappear. In most big city, night time can still pretty lively.
> In fact, ansible one-ups this because you can specify raw commands if python is not installed remotely

GP's description of fabric is slightly wrong - it's not python over ssh, it's ssh in python. You only need python locally, fabric runs shell commands remotely.
Myocarditis in a 16-year-old boy positive for SARS-CoV-2
Yes, it's like rating a hedge fund's performance -- doesn't matter how much its portfolio grew by but how much MORE it grew relative to the growth rate of the market. If solar is not outpacing the growth of coal, oil, and gas, then it's not helping.
But a watchmaker is also unlikely equally unlikely to have the skills and equipment to fabricate the individual pieces of a watch. We are asking what the repairability is like when all the pieces of the phone (that would be available in the factory at final assembly) are available to the servicer.
Thank you so much. Really appreciated your feedback. I will definitely look into them.

Could you please elaborate more on "providing scope in black box"?
The default should be opting out of these things. I paid hundreds of dollars for the operating system and word processing suite, why do they need to extract more money, and why do i have to opt out of a huge company creeping on me.
The author, Walter Murch, knows a thing or two about good storytelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murch
It depends on the component you need to service. For a battery it's usually quite easy, but that really depends.

OPs point is that in many cases, products are being intentionally designed to be difficult to service. It's one thing to introduce a complex component that's not reasonably serviceable and make it modular to replace, it's an entirely different story when you make that modular piece difficult to replace when it doesn't need to be.

This is what a lot of product vendors are doing, intentionally designing products to force vendor servicing. It's not a new trick, some auto manufacturers used to and still do it for certain cases.

Due to the complexity of the situation, there's usually ambiguity that the product needed to be designed that way to meet some specification/constraint. What usually happens is that a specification/feature/constraint that forces such designs is often sought after or identified, then the design follows suit.

These are the types of shenanigans you have accountants and financing involved in the design process of anything. They want to maximize ROI and know engineers are good at optimization problems, so ultimately, we end up with products designed to be more business friendly and less consumer friendly. I know for a fact it happens because I've been in this scenario countless times during product or service development, then someone chimes in, "is there a way we can... so we can get more money."
> you cannot just let the situation unfurl without official intervention

I don't think anyone is arguing for wildlife control to completely stop. But people seem genuinely scared of these M44 ("cyanide bombs") devices that seemingly is placed both on public and private properties without any notifications to people around. The article uses the example of a family who had one of those devices planted near their house, eventually killing their dog and poisoning their kid.

Seems absolutely bananas that someone can plant devices like that without any notifications, and sleep well at night. What a absolute clusterfuck of a blunder.
Is there any way to know if macOS is doing something like this natively already? I ask because my late 2019 16 in. MPB has ridiculously amazing speakers for its size and format. I’ve always wondered if it was more than just the hardware.
If you get it hot enough, nitrogen can be oxidized. There is plenty of fuel in that sense.
Meh, plenty of companies open European subsidiaries every day. Google, Twitter and Facebook are massive in Ireland.
For a layman: what does this do? How is this useful for me?
I suppose like it or not, this is the real answer to the question.

I do wonder why companies continue to write new software for the Windows platform. I guess more and more is moving to the web, but it seems like I still see relatively new programs that are Windows-only.
I think they have avoided any handouts to accelerate(Or at least not delay) a sale. Now that there is new ownership I expect they will come to the table.
A 7 year old iMac keeps running Windows 10 fine.
How does Prisma compare to Objection?
==I wonder if our embrace of tech as being "neutral" is correct sometimes.==

It feels more and more like the “neutral” part is a shield we’ve created to exempt ourselves from responsibility.
Indeed. RiscOS embraced the file/folder metaphor in a way that modern UIs could really stand to learn from.
His plane-disinfecting invention didn’t take off – until Covid-19 hit
I was thinking the opposite: the US military has "up or out", where one has to advance to stay in, tending to weed out bad apples in the officer corps. As far as I am aware, police have nothing similar (and furthermore, don't rotate). So my assessment is that it's much easier to get along to go along in US police forces than in their military.
You have to depreciate permanent licenses as if they're any other durable good. With SAAS you can just write the whole thing off as a service. They get you to the same place, but SAAS does it with significantly less fuss.
Camden City PD was disbanded to reduce the costs of salaries and benefits with new union contracts. The CNN article doesn't even contain the word 'union'.
The US Armed Forces' record on prosecuting sexual assault is abysmal. You have travesties like this:

https://www.stripes.com/news/emails-show-general-warned-agai...