skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of fear around programmers losing their jobs due to this or that innovation. With a 35+ year perspective a few things have remained consistent: software jobs are not decreasing, their pay is; new innovations will always command higher salaries for adoption.

Basically, as a programmer, you will always have a job with a salary above average (even thought they are decreasing), but to get the huge salaries you need to be on the cutting edge (or become a "Director of _____" which is where the lower-performing engineers with the best bragging skills end up).
Firstly, people choose to donate to museums over selling for a wide variety of reasons, ranging from philanthropic to less-than-philanthropic. I do not believe that selling donated items is a direct violation of the concept of donation, but reasonable people are allowed to disagree on this, I think.

I agree that the status quo is that donating to a museum is traditionally one-directional. I do not think it needs to be. Yes, people can sell things themselves, but it's often cheaper and easier to donate them to museums for a tax deduction, than it is to sell them at auction.

I totally agree that museums should be exercises in long-term thinking. One aspect of long-term thinking is fiscal responsibility. If museums are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, posting $100mm losses, they are not thinking long-term or being responsible stewards.

The world is not black and white, and I think it's silly that we should hold museums to black and white standards regarding their ability to borrow loans against some portion of their assets.
I've found it even of little use to bring up frameworks of other Western countries. I once got a lot of angry replies because I brought up the German approach of mostly just tackling hate speech and having independent non-profit fact-checking organisations label and correct posts, which is about as non-invasive as it gets while trying to deal with the problem, still got a ton of responses about censorship and free speech.

The US is basically free-speech fundamentalist. Expression trumps truth, with that view in mind you by definition can't deal with the problem.
Yes, but only in an educative and reductionist way, in order to help your brain being able to grasp an idea, by introducing a simplified model of it before jumping into the details...
It sounds to me like you found yourself a nice sinecure, a rare find in contemporary life! Take heart!

There's no reason you need to identify yourself or your work output with the company that employs you. A lot of people try, but it's not the only way, or the best way.

Meaningful work is a basic human need, but the market doesn't always provide it. If you can meet your basic material needs and then some by working one day a week, you are way ahead of most people.

Spend the rest of the time working on something that pleases you to work on that wouldn't please FAANGCorp. Work on something they would never let you do. You're free!
3.6 extra inches of clearance for the Crosstrek vs. the Impreza is a lot more than the 1 here though. I think that's part of the complaint.

The Crosstrek also gets a beefier rear diff, stiffer suspension, and larger brakes too.

They're the same platform, and share a lot of bodywork, but that's not uncommon among manufacturers now. The Golf and Atlas are both on VW's MQB platform now but that's about where the comparisons end.
Right, because doing something that ~everyone can do after some learning is such privilege
> Also seems like Gen X has pretty good musical knowledge overall! But probably due to being the 'right age' for having been able to listen to a lot of stuff.

I came to this same conclusion. Growing up, I heard a little '40s music from my grandparents and a lot of '50s, '60s and '70s from my parents. Hip-hop, new wave, alternative and grunge all came along during my lifetime.
It's not as if you can't do dialog without the UN.
Even if 50k of rewards were purchased per day, which I strongly doubt is the case, then Reddit is only doing 18M per year off the rewards. Not much compared to their 100M ad revenue, and very paltry relative to their $3B valuation.
As someone not at all involved in web development, if I wanted to learn CSS properly, with all the new flexbox/grid support instead of fighting with margins etc, what are some good recommendations? Like say I don't care about browsers older than a year ago and I only want to use the sane parts of CSS.
Pi-KVM can do all the same, and it also supports IPMI, VNC, and Mass Storage Device emulation. The only difficulty is that for the USB dongle to work, you need to add a couple of options to the config, because it's not yet supported out of the box. Everything else will work on its own.
I don't understand your point. I was commenting that the fact that funds are going to their competitors is an interesting incentive structure.
Depends on your device, but on a Fenix you can swap/configure watch faces directly on the device.
It's pretty clear to me that they don't think that. They are illustrating that "go out and vote if you want to make things better" is useless advice because the majority of voters believe that radical change is unnecessary or impossible.
Oops, I meant Jeffrey Epstein. I wrote "funny" because of the ties to that U.S. elite and because he actually dares to indirectly question them all the time (but not via the fabricated social justice angle, of course). Also, the entire Weinstein/Epstein drama is an instance of sexuality having become absurdly politicized to the degree that mainstream knowledge on it is outright false.
Big box stores are NOT going to cut with the precision and fiddly shaped pieces you need to make this worthwhile though. Even using a circular saw is going to result in something that looks, well, home made. Using hand tools for symetrical cuts would be a nightmare. You really need a table saw and if you want to do t-molding, a router. I've built a couple and and as I quickly found out on my first one, this is more a wood-working project than anything else. I used ikea cupboard doors as base material and the finish is excellent, but very hard to work with (chipping) and you need to plan your cuts to avoid exposed edges.

http://dochstader.com/arcade/
The feed brings visibility to offensive content, but ultimately someone has to create that content in the first place. Even if you kept the feed as-is, as long as you had bulletproof moderation that would nuke any offensive content (or other mechanisms that are effective at discouraging people from posting such content), there wouldn't be any bad content for the feed to recommend.
Okay, so you just straight up lie to your children about fairies.
Seems a little harsh! Prometheus is a big project thats been around a long time, and I'm not expert in it, but I don't think it's aspiring to do incident notification or APM, is it? I think it's just metrics. Maybe more constructive would be to provide some specific things that were unclear or confusing to you in the overview, and/or to suggest that they integrate with Prometheus for the things it's already excellent at and avoid reinventing them? Dunno, just my $0.02, but they're both go projects and it looks decent at a glance to me, probably just using material I think?

Anyway, I think open source stuff sometimes needs constructive criticism but should always be appreciated first as a contribution to the ecosystem even if you're not personally planning to use it.
Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9576864
Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC
the era of artificial / roboticized everything is gonna be "interesting".. we need to exist for others even if we have nothing to do (as obligations, survival or else).
Hence "Trivia".
I'm not sure what the issue is here - they wouldn't be deciding whether every post gets posted or not.
Presumably they would be using their 'intelligence gathering facilities' to identify users that are likely Russian funded or controlled which would get marked or taken down. In the same way that law enforcement agencies might search for accounts undertaking criminal activities.

If they start to get 'innocent' accounts taken down there will be a huge uproar in the press.
Intel has launched a couple of Xeon Gold CPUs (like a variant of the 6138P) with integrated FPGAs for specific markets. Nothing mass-market, though, and they don't seem to have caught on much.
Mostly due to the media being very divisive. People get dragged unknowningly (mostly) into these media/thought bubbles on IG and other platforms... of course things will get divisive.

And it's self-perpetuating, because the leaders of each thoughtbubble are getting paid/making income from posting the same bubble thoughts that their followers love.
Design verification is big business and your VP was exactly right, a factor of 100 to 1000 speed increase would allow for much more thorough testing and broader testing as well, for instance hooked up to other hardware with reasonable fidelity compared to the real thing. Still coarse but a lot better than nothing. Good call. It isn't rare at all to have a respin if you don't do design verification.

One of the nicer stories about the first ARM chip is that they built a software simulator to verify the design and as a result they found plenty of bugs in the hardware before committing to silicon. The first delivered chips worked right away.
This is the logical yet unfortunate conclusion to the 4 hour work week.
What I would like on twitter, and I would pay for it:

- Option to post 1 NSFW tweet, instead on that being per account

- My likes being private, and no one seeing them in their timelines

- not seeing anyone's likes in my timeline.

- not seeing any 'recommended' tweets on my timeline (tweets included because someone I follow, follow that account)
It absolutely is. There certainly isn't equal access to 'some learning'. Sure, resources may be online, but learning still takes time, energy, and a background of prior learning.
> "After a lot of back-and-forth technical discussions, the Tor Project's representative wrote, "I'm a bit lost with all this info in this ticket. I feel like lots of the discussion here is fruitful but they are more brainstormy and researchy and less fitting to a bug bounty ticket." They concluded with: "Is there a particular bug you want to submit for bug bounty?" In my opinion, describing a vulnerability and mitigation options is not "brainstormy and researchy". To me, it sounds like they were either not competent enough to fix the bug, or they were not interested. In any case, they were just wasting time."

This plus the other descriptions/responses from the project in his post makes me think the project has attracted a lot of people that aren't programmers or can't actually do the valuable work of fixing the thing (though I'd be interested in seeing the specific ticket).

I'd guess that projects like Tor that interest people outside of strict programmer types have this as a bigger issue.

The result is you end up with a lot of people filing tickets and writing emails, but very few actually doing work to fix things because they don't know how. The few that could figure it out, are probably over extended. Having non-programmers interested in helping isn't necessarily a bad thing since good support people help make it easier to fix issues, but it can become bad if support people bias to closing issues because they can't fix them and closing them becomes the goal.

Tor does have some obfuscation proxies (called pluggable transports) to try and disguise the traffic to make it harder to block (there were videos a few years ago when I looked into how Tor worked that talked about this, the traffic is disguised as VOIP among other things). I know China blocks Tor by blocking all the bridge nodes it can find (both public and private) and by using the tricks he describes to slow or stop identified traffic. I think the head of the project cares about these issues.

Not an easy problem to fix, they probably need more programmers. Maybe a direct focus on these issues would help, but it could be they're focused on problems of similar or worse severity (hard to know).
No More Nanometers, It’s Time for New Node Naming
As far as I know, the all US military branches are prohibited from attempting to recruit individuals younger than the age of 17. I do not have have any specific knowledge of what the specific law is, but I found the following from https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/503 after a quick search and it seems related to general idea of not collecting information about individuals younger than 17:

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10 U.S. Code § 503 - Enlistments: recruiting campaigns; compilation of directory information

(b) Compilation of Directory Information.—
(1) The Secretary of Defense may collect and compile directory information pertaining to each student who is 17 years of age or older or in the eleventh grade (or its equivalent) or higher and who is enrolled in a secondary school in the United States or its territories, possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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By default, Twitch allows individuals as young as 13 to use their site. Twitch also allows streamers who stream more mature content (language, games meant for individuals 18+) to warn viewers of this content (see https://imgur.com/a/Gv1Yfun for a screenshot of the warning). In fact, Twitch account managers will often reach out to streamers and ask them to enable this feature if their channel has been reported.

As of July 23, 2020 2:03 PM EDT, the US Navy Twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/americasnavy does not have this enabled.
My writing has been pretty decent since high school, but I did pick up some public speaking skills in college.

If you have great English/ Public speaking skills this isn't so important. But I know a lot of people have really mediocre communications skills.
> That's what Christian morality says.

No, it's a simple fact: each of the examples provided is a further end that relies on deception in order for lying to further it, not an alternative end which lying can serve independent of producing deception. Christian (and Christian-derived) morality assigns particular moral significance to that fact, which other cultures might well disagree with.
If you want to stand out from the crowd... Don`t stand in crowds... BLHO`s are nowhere to be found.... Because they have already left the building.

"Die looted" is not referencing the information quality/concentration, but BLHO types know better.
DeepSource Says Hackers Compromised Its GitHub Application
This is so great! Has anyone put out a good variable Serif font that is taking advantage of all the variables?
This is an interesting nuance, and you make a great point, but I actually just meant this as literally as possible and wasn't trying to get into the details of GPT-3 specifically - I just referenced it as an introduction to the topic.

That's actually kind of the point - I think AI writing code is something that will actually add value to the skills Software Engineers have (TLDR, much more than writing code), and the article is a discussion of why that is, not if technologies like this work but when.

If they can be made to work is also definitely an interesting discussion, though, and somewhat predicates the stuff I talk about in this article.
> Or you might imagine a chip that has an FPGA on the side (I expected Intel would ship this after acquiring Altera, but it never happened).

They did: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12773/intel-shows-xeon-scalab...

But I get the sense this part was aimed at a few very specific customers. It required some PCB-level power delivery changes, so you couldn't even drop it into a standard server motherboard.
Perhaps a fake USB device that issues power or sleep button requests could work. I had limited success with this on Linux using an HID keyboard emulator. However this won't work on a machine that's too far gone to respond to USB, and that's also an issue with the physical power button as well. Perhaps an AC latching relay would work to cut power.
What types of AWS data would be trawled? Are we talking about data inside S3 buckets, database schemas, particular architecure styles, the fact that a product is consuming {x, y, z} amounts of cloud resources, or simply "spending $m / year" in gross?
This sort of reminds me of Burning Man Project. There is money, full time staff and a lot of attention paid to the main product. But a lack of excellent results.

I generally chalk this up to leadership issues.
Infrastructure to Code: Terraformer
This is nuts. This guy doesn't owe the maximally extractive amount of his labor to the FAANGCorp. If they're happy with his work output, fine. He fulfilled his end of the bargain.

Totally deranged protestant work ethic run amok to think otherwise.

It's also extremely not this guy's fault other people have to work exploitative shit jobs during a pandemic, and his working harder (for FAANG!) isn't the thing that will fix it.
Show HN: Pyrustic – Software suite for developing your next Python desktop app
Another big advantage of FPGAs is low latency and the ability to hit precise timing deadlines. When working with radio hardware, you still need an FPGA for automatic gain control calculations and recording/playing out samples. Similarly, you need to do your CRC and other calculations in an FPGA if you need to immediately respond to incoming signals, such as the CTS->RTS->DATA->ACK exchange in 802.11.
Data preprocessing for deep learning: How to build an efficient data pipeline
Everything inreach is up except for billing, it's a separate system: https://status.inreach.garmin.com/
I’m sorry but to call these minor issues ‘zero day vulnerabilities’ is a bit rich.

I’ll wait and see if there are any real vulnerabilities in the queue.
This isn't feasible, not even remotely. I work from home, do I just stop doing my job? Because I cannot possibly work under such an assumption, at all. I can pretend to, but there is way enough that I must communicate that really should not become public. A lot of other people are in the same boat I guess, especially these days.

Also, not sending anything remotely personal through my phone would make it very, very hard to keep in touch with friends and family. I can't travel to see all of them all the time, and Covid makes meeting the local ones really difficult, too.

I don't think it's constructive to cast huge societal issues as individual failings, with remedies that are absurdly impractical. That only helps to perpetuate the problem.
Ask HN: What is the purpose of mobile applications?
Websites already provide a pretty good experience by advancements such as SPA, which is fast with smooth transitions between pages.

However, what problems do mobile apps solve? Why are they needed and are they needed really?

The only idea I came up with: speed. The apps are indeed faster and provide better user experience. However, the state of web development can provide almost the same experience.
But it misses the larger context which is that Swiss are proactive in trying to reduce crime through many approaches. They use many automated tools, hotspot mapping etc. The article even mentions they use something like 20 tools.

As a result of this larger effort, they have kept crime low and solve lots of serious crime.

The US has really moved to what I might call the critique approach in this area. No one is willing to propose actual solutions, but everyone likes to complain and critique. This creates somewhat of a do nothing or can't do effect in govt especially and I think also reduces attractiveness of professions like policing or working in govt (you can't ever actually do or even try things without folks eagerly slamming you).

Pretty pathetic - and doesn't bode well for our covid testing / tracing response either.
Just please go read the latest versions of the bill people

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/339...

A ton of companies stand to lose by this bill so it may be wise to adopt some skepticism towards all the doom and gloom.

This bill is ever evolving and they have been closing the gaps people were worried about re encryption(and now there are complaints about new issues). Are there holes that could be exploited, perhaps but a lot of them have been closed. I know it isn’t popular to say it but this isn’t turning out to be nearly as draconian as most people are making out to be.
need a culture that has integrity, transparency, and social responsibility.
Yes, unions and coordinated negotiation are the correct answer, but that's very difficult to pull off in companies this large with employees compensated so far above the cost of living.
I have quite a few gripes with this article, and overall question the validity of its assertions, but interesting nonetheless.
Show HN: React SpreadSheet – Google Sheets-like performance
Hi HN,

I am the developer behind SpreadSheet Grid. It's a React Library for users who want to develop an Excel-like DataGrid in their application.

The reality is it's very hard to get users off Microsoft Excel, and especially during these times, it's good to have an online Excel viewer and editor in your, private and secure.

Demo - https://rowsncolumns.app/demo

1. The library is built using React, and due to its declarative nature, it is very easy to customise and integrate it within your app

2. It is fast. Canvas is used for rendering.

3. Supports Autofilters, Frozen rows, columns, data validation, conditional formatting etc

4. Custom cell renderer

5. Formula support is coming soon with web worker support

6. Grouping Columns and Rows is coming soon

We support 2 licenses. Non-commercial use (FREE) and Commercial use (USD 199 with 1 year support)

Would love to answer any questions you have :)
Yeah it's worked out fine for me too, those awesome wall mounted panel saws are more accurate than any table saw- but our experiences are both imagined apparently ;)
Nubank already ships software, Cognitect is already a healthy consultancy, no particular reason to kill either one. Surely we can agree that banks also care about good UX? Nubank in particular is known for it.

(I appreciate that you may not have heard of Nubank but I don't think calling them "unknown" is fair. They have attracted a literal billion in funding in a little over a year. They have over 10 million users.)
Do they though? I thought investors heavily favor software because of infinite scaling.
Do you have a citation for that last claim?
> If you were to only see a hash of my username, you could track me, but you couldn't identify me with it.

Pseudonymous is the word for that sort of "tracking". Tracking just means being tracked, no matter if they use the real name or a hash of it or fingerprinting/metadata like IP + user agent string + installed fonts.
Pardon me for my indifference to an occupation & industry which has no net positive impact on society.

An occupation, which is incredibly shallow and requires no skill. Sounds worthless and replaceable to me.
If you're concerned about your downvotes perhaps you can give us your theory of how it works.
I feel like this survey would benefit from asking about relationship status, employment status, remote-working possibilities, etc.
Yup. I haven't done that type of work, but I feel like to make change at a large company you need to be okay with imperfection all around you first and then find one or two things that could actually make a huge impact. Trying to fix little things here and there is just an exercise in futility.
You can witness something similar in many rural areas, specifically where people are surviving off the land. Rarely does mother nature or anything else cooperate with plans or expectations. People just get used to it and develop a very workmanlike attitude.
When you're busy vesting your millions, all those silly people trying to warn you about what your company is building towards are just haters. Then once you're set, you can turn around and be so horrified and shocked, just shocked about what's happened. Thanks so much for your concern, guys.