skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding Open Viszla kind of died when Bushing died. I think he was the brain behind it. But some people involved in Open Viszla were involved here as well. Marcan was involved in the hw side form what I know.
Softwsre Engineers rarely get to make those decisions about privacy or AI ethics. From the engineer standing point of view, there is of little possibility of the engineer knowing exactly how his code will be used. There should be an oath for people making this decision but not so much for people doing this. The reason why doctors swears in is because they are to make those calls that could easily decides a person's life or death
Everything I've heard/read on the vaccine topic has pegged my personal wishful thinking meter. We don't currently have a vaccine for any virus similar to SARS-CoV-2. The nearest thing is the annual flu vaccine, and while they are sometimes as much as 60% effective they're normally more like 40% effective. (Some people say that SARS-CoV-2 won't mutate as much as influenza, but the only reason to believe it won't mutate enough to matter [given that the D614 -> G614 spike protein mutation basically took over the world in a couple of months, and that's something we already know about] is more wishful thinking.) A vaccine anywhere near as ineffective as the flu vaccine needs to see universal treatment to even move the needle on "herd immunity". In the current climate in USA (and maybe some other nations, I don't know?) there's no way we'll get even 70% treatment.

Also, it's August already. Although some other nations have fast reliable testing for anyone who needs it, USA CDC is still struggling to field a convenient test. How are these people going to crank out hundreds of millions of vaccine doses by November? That isn't totally Trump's fault, but he has certainly been among the public figures giving us the vaccine song-and-dance. He may need to somehow trick Biden into saying something like "I believe in the new vaccine that the wonderful scientists have given us" right before everyone realizes what a fairy tale it has been. We'll still see high-six-figures of Americans dead by election time. Any political machine that actually wanted to win could make a powerful argument out of all those dead people...
> I show up with a problem ("hey, this thing keeps getting corrupted because X and Y") and suddenly it's because I'm "from" G or FB or something and I "want unreasonable things" from their stuff. So, my request is invalid, thank you drive though.

No, the answer is they're trying to deliver impact for the customer and Rachel is instead asking them to invest time in a solution that doesn't bring them any closer to that. I'd imagine most of them would be fine with fixing the root cause, but for some fucking reason everyone from Google or FB feels the need to reinvent every wheel in order to peacock and show that their IQ is the highest.

With that said, at my "normal people" non-bourgeoisie company the 3P libraries are all converted to the internal build system. If there was a fuckup of this magnitude, someone would just create a branch and bump the version number with the fix. Problem solved.
As we have SCPI and the like already available over ethernet, I'd have a hard time with throwing an intentional radiator inside my measurement gear. I have enough noise sources to deal with.
> This is blatantly false.

No, it's a blatant historical fact, known to absolutely everybody with even the remotest interest and knowledge of this subject.

Edit: mindlessly downvoting posts about well-known established facts is pretty fucking stupid, as well as bizarre.
Sounds like a blogger.com ...

Sorry for the question. I mean,

- the web has become easier to publish compare to past. (creating your own website)
- in sheer number, the personal blogs of developers', programmers' blogs are greater and it is much easier to follow their RSS.
- I really would love to read an Architect's personal blog or an local barista's personal one and could not find on the web? (do we lack a directory or rss?)
- It's not seems to be likely that only tech-savvy people write blogs and other occupations don't. Other engineers or accountants may want to share their stories (right now mainly through short posts on twitter, fb ...)
- I could easily follow my university's retired reactor, professors and read their posts on facebook. But there are full of distractions (never-ending feeds of dopamine slot machines) and I mean why don't many people publish on the web?
- I could easily browse my fav programmers' website and read, take note in peace without distractions and follow their RSS. But it's a lot harder to find an architect's weblog (there are but fewer than programming blogs).
You're right, that in some dialects it is different. But to most English dialects, "can't" and "cunt" have completely different vowels, and the length isn't distinguished. "Lose" and "loose" are also distinguished by the voicing, "lose" ends with /z/ and "loose" ends with /s/. Maybe not all dialects.
Here is the article mentioned in the blog post (Open Access):

[ Codata in Action ]
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-17184-1_...
Bernard Bailyn, Eminent Historian of Early America, Dies at 97
Countries with nukes and 2M+ man armies? Besides, too much is at stake by our corporate overlords to put military action or sanctions on the table. Sadly, Hong Kongers need to steel themselves for some tough struggle sessions.
I have never been asked for ID outside of opening an account and it was not scanned in at any point.
A True Story (2nd century sci-fi novel)
I share your sentiment on this. Among all the big tech, Apple is the only one which has a significant foothold in China and can possibly have an impact. But they have failed to live upto the ideals they speak about when it comes to earning easy money. BLM is easy to speak about and acts as good marketing for them.

At least at one point Google stood up for its ideals and quit Search in PRC, which I highly respect. With the criticism Google gets(some rightly so) and the stuff Apple gets away with, I wonder if they look to Apple and see the easy money they left on the table.
Monetary policy to "get inflation under control" is the same thing as "squashing the ability of workers to demand more money." Higher interest rates slow investment, employment drops, workers lose bargaining power. That was the point!

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/reviews/other-peoples-blood...
Can you point to the part of the book where it is stated that only few physicist (not including Feynman) knew this? I remember it very differently. From my memory:

- lock picking was for fun and didnt gain info
- some warehouse workers didnt know about critical mass of uranium and stored the stuff to closely together
Indeed it is the same with Chartered Accountants. Management can make whatever decisions they think they can make, but an accountant won't inact things that are unethical at the risk of their charter and professional standing.
Exposing Huawei's Nanniwan Project, to Evade American Technology
Huawei has nowhere to go with the continued US crackdown, and is blocked from hardware to software, so what's next? Huawei can only rely on themselves.
There’s nothing less scientific than defining some phenomenon as some authority’s whimsical arbitration. It’s a deeply mistaken view that all economic analysis is incontrovertibly decided by some coterie, and that somehow that is the unspoken agreement.

When there is exogenous disruption, the Fed is responsible and capable of preventing a then endogenous recession. For instance, this is the first time the money stock has been raised proportionally to the extent as the money velocity has dropped—-a correct measure as described by the monetarists.
Rankine cycle natural gas plants are less efficient than Bryton cycle plants.

Converted plans will always loose out to gas turbine plants.
Well the [1] "@angular/cli" package is one example of code generation I don't like. For example you can create a new page with:

ng generate route 'about-page'

This creates a folder called "about-page" with a blank component. Then it modify's the app.routing module. Then it adds the component declaration to the app.module.

The reason it's terrible is that it makes various assumptions about the naming of your files and project structure, which inevitably break things if they're don't match.

A good example of a better abstraction (a.k.a function call) is the [2] "nuxt" package. In this framework you don't need to generate a route, you just add a file to the '/pages' directory and the framework maps it to a route for you. It's a pleasant and simpler experience.

[1] https://cli.angular.io/

[2] https://nuxtjs.org/
I'm not sure how we would implement any more effective monitoring of natural gas leakage. We have gas detectors all over the facility and personnel walk around with gas detectors on their coveralls. Flowmeters are generally not accurate to <1%.

I would expect the only credible thing we can do is design it out, e.g. by running seal vents to flare rather than safe location, improving reliability, flareless operation etc.

I imagine the majority of "leakage" must be unburnt hydrocarbon in flare and GT exhausts.

But when you say "straightforward extant solutions" what are you referring to? In the industry, nobody particularly assesses "leakage" or really designs for minimising leakage per se.
A simple example on implementing progress bar in Golang
Are you sure you haven’t previously searched for window gates? Searching for things is so second nature by now that half the time we don’t even know we’re doing it.

Also, WhatsApp is definitely e2e encrypted. I worked there and saw the implementation (and the difficulties it causes for things like blocking spam/nasties) myself.
Isn't Apple moving to India?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/03/six-apple-product...

I suspect that Apple is moving away from China, but the reality is that doing so takes time.
Setting-Up Codespaces for .NET Core App Development
Self promoting blog spam.
While 3D printing allows for interesting experiments, such designs form only a preliminary part of the whole product process.

For example, reliability, flexing of blades, etc require scale models with similar materials. Blade dynamics, forces on blades, bearing design and sizing, etc, cannot be scaled up across materials.

However, an awesome project and an excellent educational tool.

In the future, 3D printing labs across the world, will hopefully provide a fertile ground for a new generation of multi-disciplinary engineers and I wish the lines between mechanical, electrical and other areas of engineering blur enough to make a new generation of technology.
Then you may be interested to know that 80+% of the outfits I saw would fit right in at a high school as of 2 years ago. About 50% of that 80%, or 40% overall, would be whenever students were dressing up for some reason, whether on a game/concert day, or if they just felt like it.

Edit: Formatting, because I can't do things right the first time.
What would happen if the US redeployed troops to Taiwan, and announced it was recognising it as an independent state?

Beijing would be forced into a very difficult position - attack US forces in Taiwan, leading to massive military escalation, or lose face by allowing the US and Taiwan to call Beijing’s bluff
As a Chinese, I think it is reasonable to arrest a leader who violated the national security law.

Think of a US media tycoon who went to China to meet with the Secretary of State, used the media to incite riots in his country, appeared on the streets of protest, and publicly called on China to intervene in the United States. What are the consequences of this?

Please read more media from a different standpoint and think about this event in another way.
Ask HN: How to insulate an iPad in warm environments?
Hi,

I have to perform a live stream with an iPad(latest models) in a very warm environment (temperature is 120F/48C). Duration of the live stream would be around 2 hours. According to Apple, recommended temperature range for iPads is between 32F-95F/0C-35C.

Has anyone tried to do some custom thermal insulation for iPads or other similar devices? I'm also thinking the color is important; so gold or silver would probably perform better than space gray. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
Then again, what woman section misses is the comfortable practical stuff.
This has come up before here and on Twitter and nobody has ever known, but I intend to keep asking: does anyone know where this Bell Labs facility was in Oakland, CA? The only mention of it anywhere on the web lead back to this page. I can find no other contemporaneous documentation of it, and I even searched the Oakland Public Library periodicals archive.
Which demonstrates the irrelevancy of a hippocratic oath for engineers. Because the complexity of the system is such that no single engineer understands it all, and thus no single engineer is (or feels) responsible.

Blaming it on management is also irrelevant, since management merely takes the advice of engineers, and do financial/business trade offs to maximize profit. If the engineers cannot tell that MCAS system could fail this way (due to the complexity), management will not question it.
The first thing that should be cut are special tax agreements with large businesses, not supportive programs.
Sharing an internet connection isn’t enough for ads tracking, otherwise everyone behind the same NAT would get the same ads.
instant payments were just introduced in Germany, it is weird if you get the money the same day someone wire transfered it to your account. Wire transfers are very common in Germany, checks are almost gone. But these instant transfers are really new. Before those transfers were cleared once a day, I think.
Where do you live now?

I think that war is much more likely than a peaceful transition to a China-centric world.

I also don't think that war will be a "hot" conflict. China's economy would collapse if the developed world abandoned it.

What will continue is the "cold wars" being waged right now through the internet. Russia, China, and Iran are all actively trying to destabilize the US. All have had some success, with Russia seemingly having the most success (although the relevant intelligence briefings are still classified for now).

There's no reason for countries successfully waging digital wars (with no casualties or loss of business) to suddenly start firing missiles in a world of mutually-assured destruction.
> Since software engineers are necessary and sufficient to produce software, they should always be held responsible, and any oath should fall on engineers.

That's not true in any way. Lots of software is written by people who don't even have a degree, others by some who have a computer science degree, but not an engineering one, etc.

The other issue is that software is rarely unethical. The unethical bit often comes from the way it is used.

And I'd have to agree with OP. In an idealist world you could assume software engineers would all be ready to quit their job at any sight of unethical affair, even say, launching something to production with a known vulnerability, or without anything but the most rigorous security review process having passed. But in practice, you're not going to achieve this result, unless you put a framework to incentivize software engineers towards being ethical. If you allowed them to sue their employer, and made it that they more often win the lawsuit, for asking them to build something unethical, or insisting that they do so even after the SE said it was unethical, or to retaliate in any way to an SE refusing to build something on ground of ethics, then you'd maybe start to see results. Otherwise, won't happen, and you've only created a scape goat to make it even easier for companies to push for unethical software, since they can now just blame SE they coerce into building it anyways.
It’s all over for Hong Kong as it has been in the past - a bridge between east and west - a NYC of Asia.

I lived there for 4 years just after the GFC as the transition was slowly continuing to stronger Chinese rule.

My view is nothing new. My gut feeling take away was that China will want to run HK into the ground - as a middle finger to the west - and have the only strong pillars on the region to be Shanghai and Beijing.
Possibly this: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/08/ai_in_brief/

“ Yet punters noticed their Google Homes had been recording random sounds, without any wake word uttered, when they started receiving notifications on their phone that showed the device had heard things like a smoke alarm beeping, or glass breaking in their homes – all without giving their approval.

Google said the feature had been accidentally turned on during a recent software update, and it has now been switched off, Protocol reported. It may be that this feature is or was intended to be used for home security at some point: imagine the assistant waking up whenever it hears a break in, for instance.”
That's a false statement. There is general understanding one will only be questioned if the misinformation has caused a significant financial or social impact.
She's alleged to have been an officer in a company that disobeyed American prohibitions on trade with Iran.

Calling it "bank fraud" is just a way of avoiding the question of what she did that was wrong. Who's arresting Anish Kapoor and his co-conspirators for committing fraud against Stuart Semple?
> just say I am her (clearly feminine name) and the conversation carries on as if nothing is surprising/suspicious.

A friend that works on a call center for a US bank told me they are not able to ask about the caller's gender, like when the perceived voice/gender and name don't match. They may report the call to the fraud department if the conversation is suspicious though.
I have no connection with this website. Thought it useful, so shared.
Radical transparency enforced by rules would also come a long way. The electorate would be outraged if they knew about the extent of lobbying to their representatives. It would allow them to put public pressure where it is due.
I enjoyed these photos. I often wish I had been born earlier so I could've been around for this part of the history of computing.
See Homage to Catalonia for fashion change to lower-class wear and back, changing with the fortunes of the republic.

Rule of thumb: the waitstaff in restaurants wear what the patrons had been dining in, before the last fashion shift. In the Coming Age of Formal Sweatpants, I'm guessing the front of the house will adopt button-downs and khakis.

(Browsing old pictures makes it clear the Iron Curtain was pervious to even minor changes in fashion. There may have been ideological opposition among the elites on both sides, but not only did We look, from the oh-so-distant viewpoint of the twenty-first century, silly in our wide lapels or legwarmers, They did too.)
moreso because they sense the us govt stopping them. not because they have moral qualms
Unless you just really love writing that could very easily just be a second job.
I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment.

The problem with whataboutism is that even if you can establish equivalence (you haven't) it doesn't refute the underlying statement.

Furthermore, in this case it may assume that I have some desire to defend the US's former middle eastern policy. It is not impossible to dislike both in varying degrees.

Although it is illogical, it is an effective way to derail the discussion. I admit that much.
I was just looking at getting a NG generator installed for my parents on the east coast, after watching these recent storms come through. I'd dawdled on this for years, because it was just infrequent enough.

Anyway, I also looked at battery backup systems (Tesla, Enphase, etc). Unfortunately, it seems they haven't reached cost competitiveness with the plain old gas generator yet. Not a lot of power density (time), and too expensive for the benefit in noise/fumes/etc. $15000 for 2-3 days worth of backup, compared to $5000 for installing a Kohler run of the mill NG unit, etc.

I was disappointed -- was hoping that batteries were further along than they are. Anyway, I'm sure there's going to be a run on getting these installed for the next few months, so clearly there's plenty of time to think it over.
Actually carrots are good for your vision, but not your night vision.
I'm definitely not a China apologist. This story would be a comedy if it were not a tragedy.
I have a feeling that your stats and experience is heavily affected by selection bias.
In addition to the sibling comment: as already mentioned, the machinery to handle ACH (or any bank transactions, really) is very complex:

- the formats (there are more than one for interbank communications) are never properly followed by any bank, and many add their own undocumented proprietary extensions to them

- they are usually processed in batches, and the entirety of bank systems are built assuming that everything is processed in batches at specific times of day

- entries in batches may and will arrive out-of-order. For example, a request to cancel a transaction may and at one point will arrive before the request to authorize a transaction.

- a lot of other systems are built into the entire transaction process and assuming everything is processed in batches: fraud detection, dunning chains [1], account cancellations, reminders, fees etc. etc.

- There are systems where bank holidays are built into the system. If bank holiday is on a Friday, and you request/send payment, it will not be processed by the bank on the other side until Monday evening and the transaction will not be completed until Tuesday morning.

And that's just scraping the top of the iceberg. You can't just magically replace this. But you can try to build on top/work around that.

Source: worked at Klarna [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_(process)

[2] https://www.klarna.com/
That is most probably Apple doing diversification to avoid SPoF and taking advantages of tax breaks. They will never stand up for these things because they don't just manufacture, they sell a lot of devices there.