skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we learn from our mistakes in science, for the most part?

That is, the thresholds to claim things are much higher (despite what dailymail-equivalents succeed in advertising on social networks), and the methodologies are able to be scrutinized almost in real time by the entire world (let's give a shout out to sci-hub there..)

What I'm saying, is that yes there will have been mistakes made because science mostly makes mistakes (especially in the short term), but that the threshold to invalidate something that gets anchored nowadays is much higher than "not long ago" (on the order of a few human generations at most).

"Race scientists who would think scientifically" back then are probably now diluted into "[other science] scientist who are aware of differences regarding their research", as evidenced by the two links I gave in the previous post. Whether it is AI researchers having to think a bit harder about how their training sets incorporate no black people, or anesthesiologists having to accommodate for a redhead's genetically higher tolerance to what they're being put under. Also, AFAIK, "race science" is a term that seems to have been coopted in the last few decades - the closest thing I could think of that was practiced might have been a biased anthropology, but otherwise it is scientific racism that was pervasive throughout the research of other fields, and not a field in and of itself. That's already a pretty major difference with gender studies, and therefore why I added the edit in my previous post.

Gender studies as a field will produce research that makes valid claims with repeatability will survive, and research with biased claims or no repeatability. Time will kill the bad ideas without necessarily killing the field - or is physics worthless because we once attached meaning to Heliocentrism or considered that there was an aether for the transmission of light, or even simply because QM and relativity don't blend well ?

Interestingly enough with your parallel, the foundations of scientific racism were intertwined with people perceiving race as a social construct over a biologically immutable one (Henri de Boulainvilliers). I suspect research of the nature to make a discernible definition emerge along those lines[0] will contribute to the evolution of the perception of the field and ultimately help the more useful research survive debates in the long run.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29460079/
Android has encrypted storage by default since a few years ago. Of course, by default it uses a default key. But, the point is, enabling "encryption" just means changing that key, not reencrypting the entire device.
Telegram? 5% of the world uses Telegram. And I bet the 50+ age demographic is heavily underrepresented in that subset. Significant sample bias shows up in US polling using mediums that are exponentially more widespread.

Nonetheless, I don't doubt the validity of these particular results, because I think we have enough corroborating evidence. We don't have to justify the rigorousness of a Telegram poll to come to that same conclusion.
It's undeniable that there's a learning curve to GraphQL - but at the end of the day, it's just adding another investment that developers may choose to make their lives easier in the long run.

As in industry, we're okay with a frontend JS framework - React (or vue or angular) being part of the baseline set of investments you make when building a website. It's just considered the cost of doing business. (But that wasn't always the case! I for one don't miss using jQuery...)

I imagine GraphQL will get to a similar place - where the investment is more well understood and accepted.

(Of course common sense still applies - if a website is simple enough that it doesn't need a frontend js framework then don't use one - same goes for graphql, don't use it if you really don't need it)
Yeah - come to downtown SF and see. :)
> This doesn't give you plausible deniability if law enforcement gets their hands on your unlocked phone, as they can see that the file size of the encrypted message logs doesn't match the visible content.

Hmmm. What about from the get-go saying that the app allocates 100Mbytes of space and fills it randomly at regular time until some encrypted content is generated. That'd put a 100Mbytes log/message limit to conversations but that'd be by design and nobody could be sure those bytes are random or genuine messages.

> If the phone is jailbroken and the key for the message logs is leaked, it doesn't help at all.

Why would the key get leaked if it's never stored ?
Yeah, because tech billionaires are always the solution.
Are you Jeremy Howard? If so, thanks a lot for your courses and framework, it’s really great!
How would you float something in a hydrogen atmosphere?
There's nothing dishonest about a waitlist for a product that no one can use yet. As long as you don't lie about other things -- like saying "x,000 users!" -- then you're fine.
Plenty of n log n operations are in constant space. Average Quicksort performance being perhaps the classic example. But most often you see these kinds of improvements by simply removing steps. Net result is less code, less memory use age, less of everything.
Yeah, probably, but that still doesn't make it right.
Given the replies I think it would be wise to instead perhaps use a different term to distinguish it from the sort of area bill hicks was known to loathe. A term i used to see used back in the day was 'shameless self promotion'.

Personally, 'despise' is perfectly descriptive. Fortunately I've always done dev-related stuff as a tinkerer's hobby, unfortunately my discomfort at shameless self-promotion will likely mean I won't be quitting my day job anytime soon.
I despised it because I sucked at it but as a SAAS founder, I realize that without good marketing, business will die. So I stopped hating it and am in a mission to take it head on which means learn, learn, learn.

Ok, no one wants pushy newsletters, influences and all that crap. But if done right, they also work to an extent. However, the most critical aspects of marketing are things like copywriting, landing pages (in SAAS world), good organic content that is researched and is specifically for your target audience (good SEO) etc.

If you are a founder, you cannot leave it all to pros especially early on. You need to learn some basics and go from there. I was on the hunt for that special digital marketing massiah for my company for a while when I finally realized that I need to learn more first before I go find that magical person.
Interesting. So, should a new API standard emerge, it sounds like we can still expect MDN to reflect that in its docs as it has in the past?
The constitution [0] reads "The name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland", and that act can't override it. I suppose it's splitting hairs to distinguish between the "name of the State" and the "description of the State" and either can reasonably be seen as what the country calls itself.

[0] http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/cons/en/html
Will be far cheaper to launch many observation satellites in future too
I see what you’re doing there. I also see why you think it’s a good idea. "How the community" uses redux is badly. I guess congrats for reinforcing that at scale. Gives me some more hours to bill when I run across the next ratsnest.
I have been running open source AMD drivers on my desktop since I got it (early 2018, Vega 64 GPU). They work well, and after so many years, it felt like a revelation to have problem-free high-performance 3D acceleration after a fresh installation of a default Linux kernel. The only place where AMD is still wonky is when you want to do GPGPU, but that is mostly down to AMDs byzantine and schizophrenic software strategy (just try to pin down which parts of ROCm you need, or what they do). You don't have to worry about that for graphics, though, as the amdgpu driver is in the kernel, and the default Mesa OpenGL works perfectly with it.
WWII was different though because America joined the war after the Pearl Harbor attack, which was a direct offense by the axis powers. In my opinion America should actually have joined the war effort when Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany because Poland was (iirc) an ally to America. The situation is different with Hong Kong because China already controls Hong Kong. The conflict happening there is more of a civil war.
Emscripten 2.0 released (Aug 17, 2020)
Ktcpdump: A simple wrapper script to run tcpdump nicely on Kubernetes
> I think they are not in touch with the needs of people.

Sadly, this has been true of Signal for a long time. Signal marches only to its own beat, and is quite slow to address real needs of most people.
http://archive.is/IgV7x
To be more specific, this will be the Version 4 of the course with a major upgrade to the `fastai` library (v2). There's an excellent talk by Jeremy (the creator behind the course) at Stanford that goes into the various layers that `fastai` library brings on top of `pytorch`:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TfI88uQNj8
(Please seek to around 30mins for the technical part)
It goes farther back. You could buy PowerVR discrete GPUs for desktops far back as 1996, IIRC.
You're right, there's not really a point in std::move-ing something returned by value because the something is already a rvalue.
according to Karl Popper, yes. I prefer John Von Neumann's take on it... "“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. ... The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work - that is correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area."

these days, we adopt models. discard them if they fail and start all over again. seems to be a better and more elegant way.
Mandatory helmets while walking would extend thousands of lives, but it's not very effective against road kills and it doesn't change the fact that cycling and walking fatalities overwhelmingly involve cars or bigger vehicles.

Countries with biking cultures don't use helmets, because it's safe. Safer than countries with helmets. They just don't let cars ride fast near them.
Radars on the F-15 can determine the type of turbine on an aircraft...
Neither AMD nor Nvidia are using deferred rendering.
Hot water freezes faster than cold water (sometimes).
> In the very early days of LinkedIn, our team included a bunch of people who had families. Thus, we decided to have a “have dinner with your kids” culture. Team members were expected to go home and have dinner with their family so they could see their kids every day. Then, after dinner, everyone was expected to get back online and work together for the rest of the evening.

That did not go where I was thinking it would go...
GUIDs are globally unique, but substrings of GUIDs aren’t (2008)
The thing that attracted me to SplitGraph from the very start is that they are proposing to make the PostgreSQL wire protocol and SQL dialect a general interface to remote data. The interface is not only well known but backed by permissively licensed, open source libraries. Plus there are hundreds of tools that already connect to PostgreSQL.

This idea makes such sense it's a little surprising nobody did it before.
I may be in the minority, but there's no way I'm using this if it's cloud-based and requires access to my full inbox.

When your main inbox is also your second factor of authentication for many services, your backup to your work accounts, and a repository of lots of financial and medical information, it's too scary to share with a cloud service. You could have 100% great intentions and still get hacked.
True! I use this concept a lot when arguing with people about minimum wage! I think those single Mom's should be happy to have a job, not complaining they can't pay rent! Like they can just learn to code if they don't want to make min wage
The magnitude of Amazon's losses are incomparable. Palantir losing half a billion in one year is significant. Amazon's loses were <$10 million in the mid 90's. [0]

The article's title gets straight to the point. "Why Amazon’s History Of IPO-Era Losses Means Little For Today’s Unprofitable Unicorns".

[0]: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/why-amazons-history-of-ipo-...
> leaders who espouse one set of values but reward another in practice are necessarily going to promote a layer of jerks

I had to read this comment a few times, because I think it's truly a wonderful insight.

This is true for many things. We should be careful as leaders to espouse and reward the same practices. We should be careful as the led to see what people actually reward and ignore what they espouse.
thanks for noticing. RiP +Fravia.
Proof? The ICO they did isn’t enough? They act as a business, Durov keeps control, it did not create a foundation or a non-profit. What extra proof do you need?
> Telegram cooperates with data requests from law enforcements.

It is not that black and white:

AFAIK and IIRC it is more like this:

- yes: Telegram gives data about members of public groups/channels

- no: Telegram does not give out information from closed groups / personal chats, and they go to great lengths to prevent that information from becoming available. We might be sceptical all we want about the custom crypto, but I've seen no credible source that I can think of that have backs you statement except the limited example I gave above.

Happy to learn more though.
This looks cool. I'm curious how it compares to frameworks like Dask and Ray.
I may have missed this in the article but I don't think the S&M expense of $450M per year was broken out by Government vs. Commercial segments. That would be more relevant to the discussion to estimate the expense allocation between direct sales forces for gov & enterprise, pure media/advertising spend, and lobbying.
It’s discoveries like this that cement my belief that we fundamentally don’t know the actual effects when we decide that we’re being “safe enough” for the planet.
I wrote a post very much on this subject:

https://wearenotsaved.com/2020/03/27/the-fragility-of-effici...
They should say “Efficiency” is dangerous. Actual efficiency is not bad at all. Say focusing on one task till is done is sometimes the most efficient way to do a task.
That clears my confusion. So, basically if as a developer I end up setting CI/CD pipelines for my product. I am doing dev and devops job.
> It may be valuable as a public good, but what's the ROI for Mozilla?

Isn't it the whooooole point of Mozilla that it creates public good for the internet?
Thank you. You certainly can test it, thanks for joining the list. Your situation is exactly the kind of thing we'd love to solve. We had a similar experience communicating with accountants. Plum Mail is not a shared inbox as such but it is a shared platform so the features you probably need to make life easier talking to multiple people are then possible.
If that became a big business model, then we might start getting meta-criminals:

1. They infect a major institution with ransomware.

2. They demand, and successfully receive, a major ransom.

3. They DON'T immediately release the key, despite the ransom being paid. Instead, they issue an open demand for ransoms to be paid to a random Bitcoin address from other major ransomware groups.

4. The meta-ransomers only release the key to the original victim if they receive sufficient ransoms from other ransomers.

The meta-criminals would essentially be ransoming the credibility of ransomers. If the ransomers don't pay up, then the meta-ransomers will chip away at their credibility.
Palantir's "forward deployed engineers" are generally not developers. They're more like post-sales support and data engineers, embedding with clients to deploy and configure products. They might write plugins and extensions, but a relatively small fraction of their time is spent coding.

The software engineer role at Palantir is called "software engineer."[1]

https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/1619afea-6923-4047-a913-c9293...
>The culprits still have the data

It'd be too hard/expensive to exfiltrate the data once it gets large enough, without much added benefit. They just encrypt it in-place.
Show HN: Textla (Text your Tesla)
Taxes and paperwork in France (and Europe) really doesn't sound that bad to me. What does sound very different are the labor laws.

You can't just fire someone because its illegal to do so. You can't just hire a bunch of people quickly because people dont switch jobs as often. The team can't work 80 hrs a week because that isn't allowed either.
Why are the people is downvoting me? Did Durov create a non-profit or a foundation lately?

Telegram it’s currently a business and Durov keeps the control...
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I totally disagree with making MDN a paid site ... Are developers supposed to pay to develop? ridiculous .... MDN should be kept open to contributions and donations but putting up a paywall only makes things worse for all of science in general.
Born and bred Wuppertaler here!
The so called "Schwebebahn" is not only a tourist attraction but really a ubiquitous means of transport - my mother used it for commuting on a daily basis.

However, from what I heard they introduced some new trains which have severe issues (heavy attrition, scratching noises etc) so that currently, the Schwebebahn is actually "closed" for a whole year! (Having never experienced this in my 19 years living there, I assume it's a very rare and unfortunate situation)
People forget that military tech changes slowly. B2 was 1980s, M1 1970s, Su-27 is early 1990's. Perhaps the newest aircraft would be the J-20.
Naver Cloud Platform
Does not work for my address in Germany.
Actually it's the exact opposite. Bug bounty programs have constantly proven to be among the most effective ways of increasing a company's security, no matter how "pitiful" the payouts are. The overwhelming majority of people, when they find an exploit, are going to to do the right thing and report it, not sell it to the highest bidder. Increasing the bounties isn't really going to help, considering there's always going to be a hacker group or government entity willing to pay more.

Of course the programs aren't going to be a replacement for real product security teams, but they were never meant to be.
Handmade HDMI capture card for Raspberry Pi and software
Operation Sunrise: How Some Nazis Tried to Surrender Before the War Was Over
Group chats can easily be obtained as long as you have someone inside in the group.

People who join later only see messages from a while before they joined though so that helps a bit but only a bit.
Ultima IV, The Computer Game That Led to Enlightenment
Separately, why there isn't a tool used by the mortgage broker to facilitate this, I have no idea. It's a nightmare of documents and tasks that makes the whole process 8 times as long.
Big Tech's QAnon problem is just beginning
I've been running a rx480 for quite a while and the amdgpu drivers in the kernel are completely without problems (I've recently started gaming a bit again and fallout 4 runs on highest settings under proton without issues) . At some time I tried the pro drivers and performance actually degraded. I can second what somebody else posted, that doing gpugpu is a bit of a pain because it's difficult to figure out what to install. On the other hand Intel isn't really better there.
That is a wholly different use case though. And I'd rather take AMDs difficulties in that regard over nVidia who are actively fighting it.

Don't give money to someone that shits on you.
> Facebook can't read your WhatsApp messages

Facebook does get your WhatsApp communication metadata, and has been for years now. As the three letter agencies showed, metadata is actually quite valuable in many respects without needing to trawl through massive amounts of content.
Depending on what is in the body of the function, I usually prefer to see an output iterator taken as a function parameter, instead of functions returning whole collections. In the article's style the caller is forced to deal with std::array even if that's not suitable at the call site. With an output iterator and a template function the caller gets to pick whatever suits the purpose best. Not having to think about how the output was allocated and deleted is just a bonus of this style.
> I can understand moving to web extensions, but why has nobody made a programmable way to move the toolbar around?

That should of course be tab bar. :-/
My favourite rss reader NewsBlur (no affil, just very happy user) allows subscribing to YouTube channels just by entering its URL - no need to digging for RSS feed :)
One place where brown dwarf (BD) and exoplanet science overlap is atmospheric characterization by spectral methods. If you get reasonably well-resolved spectra from the BD, you can invert to obtain information about its atmosphere's composition and density/temperature profile.

The BD is going to be more emissive than an exoplanet (and a BD has no light contamination from a nearby host star) so the BD is not an exact analog, but BDs provide a workshop for development of inversion approaches.

[e.g.: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6512.pdf]
Personally, I enjoy using React Context for some stage, and let data handling/caching be handled by React Query and it works lovely. So much simpler than Redux
What was the magazine? Did you ever put any of it online?
For context for talking off the cuff, I’m not certain that this equates to a raw quality, having used Symfony professionally for a few years I found there where a lot of limitations, particularly around the dependency injection and event dispatch system, that required a lot of work to keep performant because of the inherited limitations of PHP as well as what I feel were not the best design decisions around this idea, but I’m glad so many others have had great success here
Thanks for sharing. I watched the MoMA original and thought that there is no way that system survived shortages of two world wars. And, what a testament to the turn of the century industrialization in Germany to be able to produce such a system.
i mulled over this for a minute because i can't really find fault with your comment, but at the same time i look at the state of things and it seems far from ideal, or even acceptable.

my guess is there's a factor that affects the system you described: centralization. it's something i think about alot when i sort of try to look back and remember how i stayed on top of so much content back in the pre-web-2.0 times. i remember something like you describe - lotta reading copy, sure, and landing pages definitely, but the huge difference in my mind is how 'influencers' were more of a complex ecosystem of people who just sort of passed interesting links to other people. i dunno.
I see it as someone clout-chasing for their framework. A framework that promotes questionable practices. Framework developers and working engineers have diverging interests.

The problem with his style is that he parades himself as an expert but he's emphatically not an expert. He's a guy with an agenda to push his open source framework. I understand where the bias toward politeness comes from, but that makes groups like HN susceptible to this kind of pretense to authority. He's actively making working developers' lives worse by promoting this stuff and it's frustrating.

Perhaps I shouldn't give a shit.
I’d be curious whether they could make the Wikipedia model work, especially with corporate donations. I’d personally pay just as I do for Read The Docs but it takes a bunch of people to match a single company’s small change funding.
We're just in the process of switching to GraphQL for data fetching, pretty shocked people would even consider trying to hack client-side state management into it.

Redux still fills that role very well.
Abelity to build Clojure and detmoic.
Sounds like we've found our dark matter.
A quick search on network speed turns up several ‘breakthroughs’. How do these researchers track each other’s work so they are not reinventing the wheel. Also how are these tracked and commercialized ?