skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like it comes from some specific experience you had... but it's pretty uncalled for to apply it so confidently to someone you don't know. Don't be mean, right?

Actually, another view is that there's nothing wrong with tinkering and DIY. Perl, JS, Redis all came from people hacking their own solutions (as far as I know).

Also, many big software orgs build extensive internal tools themselves.

Plus, making your own stuff is a lot of fun. You should try it sometime (if you haven't already) :)
Here's an announcement from KLM back in April (2020-04-30): https://news.klm.com/klm-introduces-cargo-in-cabin-carrying-...

Here's another piece with flexport: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/26/ryan-petersen-flexport/ (scroll down and you have an image of packages strapped in a commercial plane)
Not hiring temps off craigslist to do sensitive healthcare work seems like a pretty viable approach, too.
Ah, there are no ups of hope, not after a while. What you have, instead, is sickening suspicion that, as much as you might commit to it, no matter how radical the changes, and with no regard to the time you have spent doing whatever it is, it won't work. It becomes an unrewarding hobby: what will I try this time? It's lavender oil aromatherapy for your pancreatic cancer and sure you can try it but ... no ups, only periods of struggle and exhaustion alternating, coming in like the phases of the moon.
And to nuke the Van Allen belts -- that one actually went forward: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/07/01/128170775/a...
Hydroxychloroquine lowers Covid-19 death rate, Henry Ford Health study finds
America's Enduring Caste System
So the worst thing that might happen if people disagree with you is that you get downvotes? This doesn’t seem terrible to me.

If the mods banned you for saying those things, maybe I would agree with you, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

It sounds like you are looking for a forum without a voting mechanism.
The last of us part 3 will be next naugthy game?
Finalizing the Product: 9 Types of Plastic Welding to Distinguish From
Are you telling me that over-zealous leftist college kids aren't actually at the root of all the world's problems?
As Scott himself has explained, the bigger deal isn't whether or not it's easy to find out his last name if you know the blog. It is finding the blog from his last name. In other words, if his patients, who don't know the blog exists, find it simply by googling the name of their doctor.
Is there something like pi-hole, that could block this stuff by interfering with the internet connection?
Maybe, or if everyone has some transgressions, then yours don't matter as much anymore (see: Trump)
Easily the Vietnam War over the Iraq War. The 70s were a turning point for the USA and much had to do with the enormous arrogance and carelessness of the SEA offensives.
Clarifying things that people like you misinterpreted (or outright invented, like the "hundreds of dollars in support" claim or the claim that I had health insurance even though I specifically said I didn't) is backtracking? And fuck me for admitting a single word I mixed up, right?

I stand by my original comment. Just because some random jerks on Hacker News think I wasn't poor merely because I accepted what amounted to less than $50 of help doesn't mean I wasn't poor.
The analogy that Facebook or Twitter are public square is a stretch. You have to make a clear analogies in values and exclusivity, beyond "people are present there".
Yet it's perfectly normal to install business crapware in your PERSONAL BRAIN, 40 hours a week, 45 years of life, almost unquestioned.
People use both of them when they want to do something in privacy, instead of sharing it with the whole world.

If you invent a message app that tells everyone it posts every message to a publicly visible website, then I'd agree that people using it aren't expecting privacy. I don't see it catching on though.
Thank you for your personal opinion that tacitly rationalizes surveilling employees without their knowledge.
so you both think the problem with our economy is that poor people are just dumb? thats a pretty cool way to think about the world, must be nice to be so smart
I worked at a small company and got sick of the monitoring/time-wasting complaints from managers. Installed a squid proxy and published the daily reports on an internal intranet page that everyone in the company could view. There was an explicit "internet is for work use only" policy, so there was no expectation of privacy, and I gave everyone in the company a lot of notice that it was happening. Our #1 user was very into Days-of-our-lives forum sites, and the sales guys still went to porn sites, but at least I wasn't the internet police any more.
I am writing a file sharing and text messaging application that works with full file system explorer GUI in the browser. HTTP has proven insufficient to work within the applications security model so now I will need to investigate using WebRTC.

But before that I will be figuring out how to interact with a Windows like GUI in the browser via remote control to different machines without dependencies for test automation.
We should really stop even calling it a “lockdown.” What an exaggeration! Nobody’s locked into their homes. States issued these half-assed “Stay At Home orders” which were largely ignored. They might as well have been called Stay At Home suggestions. Around me, you couldn’t even tell there was a worldwide deadly pandemic: everyone is out horsing around and stores and restaurants are packed—no masks. The USA never had a lockdown which is why this is turning into a sustained disaster.
This is the equivalent of the teacher's pet pointing out a spelling mistake, without addressing the actual argument.

Her central thesis is not that the first amendment should prevent the issues she is addressing from happening. The debate around what the first amendment does and does not protect is usually a diversion people use to avoid discussing the power that private companies have over our ability to express ourselves, and over which information is widely distributed and which is not.
> If someone is telling you that you're terrible on a regular basis

The intensity on HN of

1. groupthink and incuriousness,

2. low-quality argumentation / intellectual laziness, and

3. the yawning gap between (1) and (2) on the one hand and, on the other, the site's high-minded discursive ideals (and, especially, performative appeals to the same)

never ceases to amaze me.
> It is pro in sense Rust developers spend inordinate time in blaming LLVM for slow compilation.

Some of it really is LLVM, witness the latest LLVM release where Rust lost 10% in compile time and changed absolutely nothing other than the LLVM version.

However, the Rust folks are also painfully aware of just how much slow compilation is the fault of the Rust side. The whole idea of moving to MIR is to enable optimizations to be done with more context so LLVM doesn't have quite so much code that it has to generate and then spend all its time trying to optimize away.

However, Rust is always going to be slower to compile than a language like Go where compilation speed was an actual primary goal.
I agree with this sentiment. A lot of this depends on purely the angle of how you view things.

One example: People claiming the borrow checker gets in their way in Rust because it’s so strict.

Guess what? If your code doesn’t compile due to the rigidness of the borrow checker, it’s incorrect I’m sorry to say. It’s either got a data race, use after free bug or some other invariant. You don’t want that behavior in your code at all.

I’m happy to offload the responsibility to the compiler to check for this.

You won’t get it until you’ve been bitten.
I believe the criticism you are attempting to make is that those are like apples and oranges. However, I completely disagree.
>loans that will be paid back.

hoo boy.
Apple has some 25% market share on mobile devices . Microsoft has 80% on desktop; they had some 98% in '90s.

That's the crucial difference. You can easily get native firefox on mobile if you want (even if it means giving up iOS). It was much more difficult for desktop users to give up Windows in 1998.
Woke Utopia
> suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a Chinese internment camp.

Is it possible to do a genetic analysis to find out the origin of the hair product?
The reduction of CAFE standards and other decisions not to reduce harmful emissions.
Interesting. This reminds me of Canada Post's address complete API. You can integrate it with your website or app to ensure the addresses the users enter are valid within Canada and entered correctly. The pricing is around 5–10¢ per search [0]. At that price point, it only makes sense to use it for e-commerce if you are going to deliver physical goods to the customer and want to minimize the number of returned "address not found" packages. But if the pricing were lower, e.g. close to Google Map's 0.3¢ per search [1], I imagine the list of potential uses would have increased substantially.

[0] https://www.canadapost.ca/pca/pricing/

[1] https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet
What if the virus really is a scam?

I mean, yes, it is killing some old people, but not all. And it is killing some younger people, but not all.

It’s mortality rate might be similar to the regular flu.

But the kicker, is that Spain just announced that they detected the virus in their frozen waste water from January 2019. This is almost a whole year before China even detected it in December 2019.

So it’s possible that this virus has been circulating around the world for a lot longer than we even realized. And if Spain’s announcement is legitimate, then, this means we have no clue where this virus could’ve originated.
> In the 1950s, scientists and engineers had yet to understand the long-term effects of radiation

Marie Curie died in 1934. And there was that little experiment in Japan in 1945 that was 13 years old by the time this Alaska thing was being discussed

And Operation Plowshare didn’t end until the 1970s.

I think everyone knew very well about radiation risks in the 1950s.
Yeah, I agree with you, I think.
It was an honest question, I’ve read a bunch about it now and have no idea why you would want to pay so much for this. Is it the typo handling? Is there really no straightforward free search tech out there?
You always had to do risk analysis when you made any statement in a group of people. Any group of people.

You're just realising that, though a much more extreme case than usual.
I love Bandcamp!
Suicide dropped substantially during lockdown, a lot of people realised that there's more to life than the daily grind.

I can say from my experience that the economy runs a lot smoother and recovers a lot quicker if people aren't terrified about a pandemic causing them long term health implications and killing their family.
Everything else I will RDP from my work PC to a personal machine

Even that would make me nervous, given keyloggers.

One benefit of working from home for the last few months is that there's no temptation to do anything non-work related on my company machine when my personal machines are right there.
“Mentor is necessary to be Successful”. Really?
In-app purchases of $500/sec for anti-lock brake engagement coming soon?

And $10k to wipe the last 8 hours of location data...
This reminds me of story about someone questioning "why ban nuclear weapons when we haven't shed the desire to kill?"

Similarly, "why blame social media when we haven't shed the desire to witch hunt?"

The red scare (and other witch hunts throughout history) worked pretty well without social media.

Hard to compare and say that this time is worse. The other witch hunts though history seem pretty bad too.
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I'm currently the back end lead for a tiny start up, and before that I worked for several years as a freelancer. I've built data pipelines and dashboards for researchers, brought apps to market, done feasibility studies for incorporating ML into a product, built an NSF-funded game. I'm comfortable working with incomplete specs and partially defined needs, and I like building good working relationships.

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Feel free to get in touch even if you don't have a particular job in mind, I like coffee chats.

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I dunno. There may have been some commenters with those views, but from what I saw it was a tiny minority. And most discussions never touched on those sorts of topics at all. Are you sure you weren’t reading a different blog?
Tell that to the Martian colonies. Maybe if you're considering feed the population of Earth it might seem silly, but for off-world populations that will be the only way to grow food.
Buying corporate debt at above market prices is a grant. Stopping your massive business from going under and being replaced by a more agile competitor is oligarchy.
World Fantasy Awards
>Everything else I will RDP from my work PC to a personal machine

How does this help? I guess it masks the web traffic, but you are still using a potentially compromised keyboard and screen.
I'm sorry, that company does what? It is absolutely insane that temps off Craigslist could be trusted with such sensitive information under any circumstances. That company is asking for a data breach and to be sued into oblivion.

The fundamental problem here is that that company is cutting corners to save money. Full stop.
POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
PC culture has always existed, in different forms.

You couldn't say that you were gay or even supported same sex marriage, without effective excommunication from society 50 years ago in US.
This seems actually, very reasonable. Add to it automated moderation (for catching spam or simple text padding), and it doesn't seem bad at all.

You could add simple features to enhance discussion such as an option to quote academic sources.
How can they be a neutral third party when they're paid by, and report to, the employers and not the employees? Their incentive would be to find problems, because that makes their service look worthwhile.
I see what you're saying, but that sort of comes down to opinion. If you ask these Twitter mobs, I'm sure they'd say that are only responding in kind. They'd say that the people they're attacking are already attacking them or attacking others.
>Legal Problem; the moment you log this crap as a company... It's discoverable

"Sure, here are the logs for the past 3 days, in accordance with our retention policy which is also 3 days"
Ask HN: Nerdiest Fireworks Video?
Happy 4th of July weekend!

COVID is causing widespread fireworks cancellations, so this is the year to look back at amazing displays.

For your consideration:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6gWYvm8tCW8

This display has a false finale around 8 minutes, a dramatic disaster at minute 19, and the cameras saturate during the finale, because fireworks should always beat cameras in a bare fisted match, even after a catastrophic launch failure.

Also, they have big slow gradient sweeps on a few of the big ball shells, which I hadn’t seen before.

Finally, we have the historic element: Back in the 90’s Columbus pioneered putting a MIDI endpoint in each shell to synchronize the fireworks with the music. I think they also were some of the first to get blue shells and the happy faces.

Surely, HN can do better.
This worked for me on Windows + Chrome :)

https://i.imgur.com/bJHlPb9.png

EDIT: though not on native HN, I think it might be a result of having HNES installed.
14 masts? That seems... excessive. Most I can find a reference of is 4, the "Treasure Ships".
"natively"
I personally don’t have any recommendations but I’ve found awesome stuff by following other users with similar tastes. I get an email letting me know when they bought something new, and presumably if they like it enough to pay for it and share my taste then it will probably be really good.
Ask HN: Too much code cleaning, not enough results (data science)
How important is it for data scientists to have clean, modular, reusable code? Here’s my problem: while working on a project, I’ll start off in Jupyter notebooks, toying around with the data, doing some EDA, etc. Eventually I’ll pull out some of that code into functions in a Python file, and call those functions from the Jupyter. Neat.

The problem is, as I get more and more functions, I want to organize them more, make them more generalizable and consistent, etc. I’ll also get carried away with organizing files and source control, cleaning up my notes, and making documentation to explain what models/data/source files/results exist, what they mean, etc.

And then I realize I’ve been spending less and less time getting results, and more on this “overhead”. I struggle to balance the desire the rush ahead and get results with the compulsion to make the code “beautiful” and to have the project in the cleanest possible state. I’ve seen plenty of other projects with terrible organization, no documentation, and confusing, poorly formatted code. But if I’m not producing value, my neatness doesn’t matter.

All in all, I’m feeling pretty unproductive because of these habits. Any advice?
Yeah, that's how New Zealand got rid of Covid completely, trust in the government and science. But, the government didn't abuse that trust by being very transparent about the response, science, and data modelling.
> You're assuming that veracity of stories about the grandiosity of Salomon's temple.

I was talking about the temple mount, which you can still visit today. Didn't realize it wasn't finished until 500 years later though, so not sure to what extent my argument still holds.
Yes. Two wings, one bird.
By antonov I’m certain they don’t mean the 124...
This looks quite good, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to support the `prefers-color-scheme` media query (yet).
I would’ve called it: Nearly headless quik
What do you mean makes no difference? Microsoft runs Yahoo/Bing Ad Network, an Adsense competitor, plus serves ads and telemetry all over.
> That sexual harassment lawsuit that just came up? You are legally required to now do data hold on all these keylogs and screenshots you took. Oh and now you have to explain to a jury how you don't fall into the common charge of "could have or should have known" that abuse was occuring. I mean, you had all these logs and you still let this go on!?

I can understand lawyers making that case, but do juries actually agree with that? Lots of organizations collect internal data en-mass but they're all siloed away and disconnected - so while the company-as-a-whole has all the data, no-one inside the company could combine them together (or more likely: no-one inside the company even considered that they could combine the data together).

Hypothetically, if a company was doing everything - including logging every keystroke, instant-message chat and recording every audio and video call - but just archived it without doing any information-extraction - or they tried but the signal-to-noise ratio was too low, would that convince a judge to instruct a jury to disregard that?

And isn't that why investigative agencies seemingly stopped asking ISPs and legislatures to record everyone's search-engine queries and DNS lookups - simply because the amount of actionable, useful data is impossible to find until some-bad-thing already happened?
My boss has us using a bossware SaaS app that tracks our work with exquisite detail. It's called GitHub. The tracking consists of our trail of commits to various repos. (Along with the resulting error logs and tickets.) He can see exactly what we're doing for the project and when. In fact he has a team that "peer reviews" the tracking data line by line and are not shy about pointing out deficiencies.

To track other things, like time on task or web surfing habits, would not even be redundant, just superfluous.
You really think TikTok is the first one doing this?
>A certain governor[1] of a southern state has escaped that fate though being of the correct political stripe I imagine put a big thumb on that scale.

Heck, we've already forgotten the certain prime minister of a Northern American country who escaped that fate, for similar reasons!
So you had screenshots and keystrokes? Our client has printed emails where her boss made unwelcome sexual advances. Did you design this data retention policy to hide systematic sexual harassment in your company?

Also anything less than 90days is likely to raise some eyebrows. Also your not the one pulling data in all cases. In some events the court will order your cooperation with a neutral third party for ediscovery. They will come in an perform data forensics on the assets in question.
Those are mechanisms that enable innovation, in and of themselves, they are a curiosity. This moves the needle zero when it comes to competing with AMD.

I believe Intel could do it, but they would have to figure out what they really want.
Reuters plans to put many articles behind a paywall
Incredible how shamelessly that comment suggests two wrongs might make a right.
Are any of these any good at JP/EN? Google translate is a big thorn in my privacy behind.
The article writer is a lawyer. She should know the meaning of the First Amendment and her readers ought to be able to expect her to know. Her misstatement is evidence that she is arguing in bad faith.

It's not only the people on the other side of her argument who use the debate around what the first amendment does and does not protect as a diversion.
Another thing is most of those countries the virus has stopped spreading or is slowing down in the US it is accelerating with the last 3 days each being record for new cases
Owning a database record some where on NASDAQ/NYSE saying you own 172b doesn't do anything either.

Money is useful only when spent on something productive.
Without their knowledge? The use of these tools should be outlined during employee onboarding or explained during implementation/roll out. There is no good reason for them to be a secret.

That said, my statement was about helping people protect themselves. These systems will be used, and for legitimate reasons in many cases. Why not protect yourself from allowing them to overreach into your personal life?
There are two really important caveats to this statement:

(1) Just because you pay for a service doesn’t mean the company isn’t also “double dipping” and collecting your data.

(2) There are plenty of free services — NextDNS, for example - for which you aren’t the product. And of course there’s FOSS, which are not services but come close.
A computer science fiction novel, Blue Screen
They don't need to auto-report because the system takes care of that: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CrashReporting https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/abrt/about.html and others.

Gimp: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828800

Emacs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1763503

Neovim https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1826357
Peter Gustafson wants to save the world.
In the year 2984, Peter is an average kid with a secret; he’s a well-behaved tenth-grader by day but cryptographic entrepreneur and hacker by night. When the electricity mysteriously goes out in his hometown, Peter takes it upon himself to investigate. The adventure leads the young hacker to a large transmitting station and into a battle of wits with the greatest AI ever created. The machine requires a human to help "throw the switch" and give it full control so engineered the power outage as a test to lure its latest recruit, Peter Gustafson.
The Impressive Engineering Behind the Cheapest Electric Car in the World
Sounds exactly like an Amazon warehouse or Uber. The gig economy is Manna.
If you're looking for a book describing the runtime and compiler, etc., maybe "CPython Internals"?