skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a common tactic, actually. The idea is that you create a credible threat by putting yourself in a situation that, if your adversary challenges you, you have no choice but to respond. Burn the bridge behind you, as it were.

The famous example is the US’ 10k troops in Berlin during the Cold War. If the USSR attacked, those troops were toast - and everyone knew it. But it meant that if the USSR took Berlin, it would be at the price of 10k American soldiers, and would inevitably lead to war. Even if that was the US’ calculation anyway, the Soviets wouldn’t know that for certain without the troops there.
Is IQ really legit? I heard form Nassim Nicholas Taleb that the math used by psychologist is weak.
Intercom's Pricing Out Small Businesses?
But again, some people want to be doing not leading! And not everyone wants or is suited to go to college!
Burn out cost me a job. I was just getting back of on track when they let me go. I'm in a new job and loving being productive again.
Show HN: Video Face Recognition Software
A software I developed to recognize faces on video files.

You feed it face images and it will scan through videos searching for them. When it recognizes a face, the information can be appended to the filename or exported to an external report file.
I think that function's been replaced by hypersonic weapons. The loitering is done via a drone and the engagement is rapid from somewhere far away.
For a fair comparison,

> if they don't comment on US affairs?

should be:

> If they ban their associates from commenting on US affairs
This is so laughable. Ok So what should be done with this building you know nothing about, in the neighborhood you know nothing about to make this "acceptable" for your personal utopia?

I wish people like you got your wish and had to live in a world of your own design (free of gentrifiers and capitalism and cafes) and suffer the consequences of the hellscape you'd create out of good intentions and ignorance.
It would! But if you have to put a human in the vehicle, children take up less space and can probably handle more G forces than an adult.
That is an incentive regardless of UT's policy. The top 10 are always fighting to be number 1 or 2 and weighted classes make all the difference.
> * hot reloading in your browser

We recently added this "feature" to our react-on-rails codebase, and the only thing I can ask is... why?

Hot reloading on Unreal Engine is a hot mess with all sorts of little caveats to think about. Meanwhile I can hit F5 and as long as my browser is configured right I can guarantee there's no old cruft to deal with. Why in the world would I want to add that kind of uncertainty in my work codebase??
> It also turns out that getting a shell correct is a lot more experimentation and a lot less following what the textbooks say. In practice, things like ‘stdout’ and ‘stderr’ are used in a variety of ways, as are the exit codes output by programs. Our initial designs started with a stricter view of these ideas, and softened over time as we saw that the real world is a much fuzzier place than we realized.

Good point. Exit codes can be difficult. A non-zero error value may not be an error; it could indicate a type of success or be a warning or a result of a calculation or any number of things depending on the application.
Honestly, we're so early we don't have a take out process yet. But we definitely want to support that when people ask, and it also means that since we don't have a process yet, the first few people get to tell us how they want things exported and we'll make it work :).
Could also be Telstra and Optus in Australia.
I agree with you.

Snowflake is better. Redshift has been really slow to execute. AWS is doing the world's worst job of articulating whatever vision they have for analytics. AWS's message is laser-focused on infrastructure folks and machine learning engineers (not analyst, data scientist, not absolutely anything else).

The higher you go up the stack, the slower and less meaningful, AWS's solutions feel. There is a fantastic job opportunity out there for someone to reconcile AWS's data analytics offerings. They have so much upside.

I'm still not betting on Snowflake winning a direct competition with their primary supplier. For the enterprise and the highly regulated: Redshift is good enough, already there, and they don't NEED the efficiencies that Snowflake makes available.
I disagree, but see where you are coming from. With your definition is it possible to advise or warn against something without committing (the sin of) gatekeeping?
I chatted with a friend who was in a Harvard class with one of the biology professors funded by Epstein. In like 2015 or so (before Epstein was a huge public deal) someone asked him about it and his response to the class was "What am I supposed to do - tell the sex offender to keep his money so he can spend it on more sex crimes?"

I think the issue is that there is always something in return. If you accepted money and it was truly anonymous and Epstein never talked to the professors or whatever than it would be hard to say its bad. But clearly people (good or bad - but always rich) are getting a lot of prestige, access, bragging rights, or whatever from these type of donations.
Certainly more common than Michelangelo-level artists! I think the OP's point was that you don't need to be the absolute best in your field, or even that close, to be rewarded handsomely.
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Yes, but students don't make that choice. Parents do.
Doesn't entirely answer your question but this was in the faqs:

Can the Goldback be counterfeited?

Not anytime soon. It took Valaurum over twenty years to develop the technology to create the Goldback and they have no competitors. Much of the technology is protected by trade secrets and patents.

There are several anti-counterfeiting features on the Goldback, first, the negative image on the back can be felt. Second, no other material will glisten like gold does and no one else can do the vacuum deposition process with gold. Third, many of the design features on the front are government level.

Additional security features may be introduced in the future. As it stands we are about 20 years ahead of the counterfeiters.

You can check your Goldback by looking at the serial # on the front and verifying it is the same # on the reverse.
There was another discussion a couple months ago [0] which linked to an MIT lecture on Youtube about the F-22 and its design. At 40 minutes in [1], he describes a scenario with an F-15 where the pilot could rip the wings off of the plane. He contrasts that the F-22's software was designed to make the most use of control surfaces and limiters to prevent that.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23588760

[1]: https://youtu.be/Evhrk5tY-Yo?t=2428
Ok, so maybe I'm being a bit flippant. It seems like he's done a bunch of pioneering work, but I ask to what end? I've worked on VR hardware development a couple times over the years. I'm still waiting for VR to actually be useful or fun beyond niche applications. It seems like one of those things that's always right around the corner, but it's always a tech push. Maybe I haven't seen the right demos or applications, but it still seems like VR is either useful in vertical markets (e.g. training), the arts, or an enthusiast toy. I work with a lot of very tech oriented people, and I only know one guy with a VR headset, and I'm not sure he even uses it that much. Looking at the PSVR sales, there were only 5 million units. I wonder how many of those are in a drawer somewhere? The Wii or even Guitar Hero guitars sold orders of magnitude more, and most of those end up as landfill.
Can we please change the title of this post? "And it's changing how we live" is not only click bait, it's not even in the original article.
The difference between the phone provider and Zoom/Hangouts/etc is that all you need to join a zoom call is install an app in about a minute, or follow a browser link and you're ready to go.

People want convenience. Tools are there to serve us for as little effort from our end as possible. Zoom does that. And even for audio calls, people will often prefer private gardens like WhatsApp, FaceTime, Skype or whatever to simply avoid the cost of a carrier call because you can't beat free and easy.
out of curiosity, how were you approached to tackle this problem for the gov't?

can you introduce me to someone? i'm working on this currently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9xFQFkvoLg&
Not remotely worried about it. I have had my personal domain for almost 20 years and renew it 10 years at a time.
Well, but then it's not the same api call and that's the point: that in the old mvc frameworks it was painful having to support controllers that both rendered html and json for doing both SSR and Ajax.

Around the time the first js FE frameworks came out, people finally became confident enough to have pure js clients and only json APIs.

And finally gatsby, next.js, etc. brought a new twist to the SSR and Ajax api combo.
This seems relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleroterion

The idea in the post looks very similar to an old Athenian system for elections. I think it'd be a great tool for fighting corruption and could produce good education opportunities with a lesser risk of institutional bias and other forms of problems related to human-based (s)election.
Making Stuff from Scratch in the Wild
I don't know about Jaron Lanier specifically (other than that he was once passing through a place where I was working, and greeted one of my colleagues warmly, so he seemed nice), but a few thoughts on the more general question...

Some of the computer-related visionaries of the last few decades earlier thought big, original things -- and we first heard of them because something they did was not only significant, but also conspicuous, and had their name on it -- then they went into relative obscurity, but continued to work quietly.

That's not the only scenario, but it's one of the best ones. Some of the least-appealing scenarios that come to mind, anecdotally, are delicate (e.g., human frailties; life happens), or things people otherwise don't like to talk about.

Regarding the "magazine visionaries", and people who wanted either to be those, or to be part of whatever movements/scenes they heard about, Patrick S. Farley's story is the best public explanation I know of. http://electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/
I've read a lot of comparisons between Asana and Jira, but I was curious if anyone can explain the difference between Asana and Basecamp? I don't have experience with either service.
TL;DR one storm at a time using commercially available truck mounted blowers and dirt moving equipment.
> It's an interesting way of doing admissions, albeit not perfect. One critique that I'm anticipating seeing is that this encourages going to a mediocre high school. Except...getting good students to go to mediocre high schools sounds like an excellent way to improve the average quality of schools. This goes into a whole discussion of whether we should concentrate gifted students or disperse them, but that's another topic.

In practice in Texas when I saw this the effect was very limited, because the best classes were largely full of the would-normally-be-in-other-schools magnet students, and didn't have a ton of uptake from the students in that school's regular geographic region. And then they gave bonus GPA points for taking those classes, so cracking the top 10% as a non-magnet-program student was harder still.

Having the classes available was certainly helpful for a small number of students who took them who may not have had access to them otherwise, and concentrating the magnet programs let the district offer more a few more advanced classes than they might have otherwise, but it also somewhat negated any opportunity-spreading effects of the 10% rule.
The EU spends little only relative to the US.

You could just as well double the EU's relative share by halving the US military budget. The US would still spend more than China, Russia, and a bunch of other countries combined. Surely that's more than enough.

It's just that US politicians always frame it as if the total spending had.to remain constant.
Marcel is another pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shell. It takes a different approach to shell/language unification, compared to nushell and other modern shells. Marcel exposes Python on the command line, e.g. to find files that changed in the last day:

ls -fr | select (f: now() - f.mtime < days(1))

ls pipes File objects to the select, and that's a Python function inside the parens.

Scripting is done in Python, using marcel's shell commands as functions, by importing the module marcel.api. So the examle above in Python would be:

from marcel.api import *

for file in (ls(file=True, recursive=True) |
select(lambda f: now() - f.mtime < days(1))):

print(file)

So it's the same shell command (ls ... | select ...), but expressed as Python functions, and the result is an iterator so that the command output can be used inside a for loop.

For more info: https://www.marceltheshell.org, https://github.com/geophile/marcel.
Is it just me or does the lack of line continuation (i.e.
\) really ruin all of the beauty the rest of this shell provides?
> That's not much of a value gain it would just push the industry further away from ARM

It's enough for a short term gains, which is enough for a nifty bonus to a CEO.
Speed hasn't really been an issue with any of the providers I've tried except Loggly which has a very slow UI if you run into big messages. Even with ingesting 200gb of logs a day at one job, per environment, Sumo wasn't slow that I recall.

Of course, we didn't try to negotiate, but it looks more expensive than Sumo. At one company we were spending around $600k a year on it, and it looks like you would cost closer to 1m.
Yes, I guess. I was installing an app called Rekordbox (its a library manager and a performance app for digital DJ hardware on the Pioneer DJ platform) and, sure enough, spotted a bunch of Unity DLLs being copied in the setup program.
I'm at a company that grew from 10 to 200 engineers. Basically the first 10 build the actual product, and the next 190 build one-off customizations for enterprise customers.
Re: the 'disturbing' Google chatter/endpoint, a 204 HTTP status reponse is also the expected code for a pre-flight OPTIONS request to support CORS.
An airvase, vs a road based, ad-hoc field, without even minimal infrastructure, and probably no defences too.

A weapon without munitions, is a useless weapon, even if it costs $300M a pop. A war is won by a soldier, and lost by a logistics officer.

The maximum what a few fit men can load very slowly, unassisted is 250kg, and usually only 100kg by a single man. Gravity fed refueling is also quite time consuming.
I'd like to take this opportunity to plug my npm package `fromable`(https://github.com/baron816/fromable) which makes it easy an efficient to transform iterables and output the result to any collection. It's kind of a `Array.from` meets transducers.
Ask HN: I love coding but hate software engineering. What's next?
I like computers. I love coding. But I hate working as a software engineer. I dislike having to deal with big codebases, legacy undocumented code, pricky code reviewers, slow bloated IDEs/frameworks and things like that. I've tried (for years) but now I must admit I'm done.

I want to shift my career into some area where my coding skills would be appreciated as a tool to enhance my work, but not as the goal of my everyday work.

What are my options? I've heard Economists and Biologists are using coding to crunch data, but that's it. Is there any other option?
> Second, no other material will glisten like gold

Isn’t there a famous phrase for this? All that glitters isn’t gold? What are the specific glistening properties that only gold has?
I literally want to install a single espresso machines and have some pour overs and french presses and set up tables and chairs. There is already a commercial grade dishwasher and fridge that the current tenant installed. I would have to install a grease trap to meet regulation which also is nonsensical given that I'm not cooking here but at least that is reasonably priced.

As far as I'm concerned none of this is "build out" more like furnishing.
I looked at the book, currently it is nowhere close to powershell.

As far as i can tell no way to define any function/commands(you have to write plugins in another language, make an executable??). It supports pipeline, has a large amounts of built-in operators/commands(probably enough to be usable as a shell) and built-in parsers for a few formats(how does one write support for another data format?). Maybe in future it will address these questions.
Minerva – A better way to share processes online – Product Hunt
Safe eval() Alternative in JavaScript
Reminds me of the old idea of putting US nuke launch codes inside a person who would be part of the president's entourage, so that if the president wanted to launch a nuclear attack he would have to start by literally murdering and cutting open a person he was close to. It was explicitly intended as a disincentive.

When the guy who proposed the idea, Roger Fisher, was asked who the hell would ever volunteer to be the nuclear pinata, he volunteered to do it himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fisher_(academic)#Preven...
The paint scheme they tested:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/41ca0d89-d383-425e...
Raspberry Pi listening posts ‘hear’ the Borneo rainforest
By the principle of Pyrrhonism, it's better to do as little as possible rather than try to accomplish a lot. Your brain could be damaged / controlled in a way that prevents you both from seeing the damage / control as well as other errors in your thinking. In a world with unbounded uncertainty on your own thoughts, it's best to do next to nothing.
I’ve heard of hypercards but had never actually seen one or interacted with one. Here’s the web version the beyond cyberpunk HyperCard for any others who are curious: http://www.streettech.com/bcp/
My point is you cannot export capitalism to a country that already has it, so it has to be something else.
Considering that a F-22's RCS is roughly the size of a marble, and it is expected to fight similarly stealthy aircraft I'd imagine that you're very much under estimating the ability of a modern jet to detect your swarm of tiny cubes. Next, how exactly do your cubes stay up in the air for long periods of time? You'd need a great deal of energy in order to fly at the altitudes which an F-22 would be flying at. And presumably to loiter up there for long periods of time. Suddenly your cheap tiny swarm is expensive, large, and unweildly.
The Internet’s Universal Process Sharing Platform Minerva Raises $1.1M Seed
> I mean bottom of the rung, E1. You can do 2 years of community college and enter a couple of ranks higher.

But...you can't. At least, not that would show up at Basic. The higher grade you get for sufficient vo/tech or collegiate study prior to enlistment is applied after graduating from Basic. AFAIK,that's true even for the programs where you enlist with guaranteed OCS after Basic, you still are an E-1 when you go to Basic though you are administratively promoted to E-5 at OCS.
Exactly!

I used to do .net for a living and it was like every single interface or library I wanted to use was off-limits because it was claimed by the engine. Want to serialize your objects? All you get is an undocumented, doesn't-even-work .to_json function cause we somehow broke all the other .net serializers. Have fun!
I think technically you have to ignore more than 99.99999% of the information that's out there.

Because I mean, realize how big Twitter is. Its much larger than the Twitter that you are generally aware of. The popular stuff for your language and interests is a tiny fraction of the total number of tweets.

Likewise, every subculture has thousands if not millions of web pages or whatever. Every city, state, country has their own news.

Depending on what you are interested in, there may be decades or even centuries of interesting things to study or play with just in that area. For example, if you are into C64, there are thousands and thousands of games, applications, demos, magazines, etc. You could literally spend 20 years exploring it if you were motivated. That is just one subculture.

If you are interested in world history then there could be thousands of years of documents and artifacts to study. Or maybe to understand some ancient literature you need to become fluent in written Latin. You could easily spend five years learning Latin to a high level.

I just feel that if you were to really give all of the interesting stuff that's out there a chance, it is many many lifetimes worth of information.

Which is to say that the number of potential distractions is actually effectively infinite.
Designer here, yeah the visual style is pretty rad but I wouldn’t use this in practise due to how busy it all is.
True although I'm fighting both.
It's all on the second floor up a single stair case.
Low-cost smartphones are stealing money from people around the world
I agree with you.. however in the global recalc they intentionally ignored the people who were taking the points seriously (for rewards and the like) and said "well they don't matter anyways". We can't reward them for taking it seriously, and excuse them when they claim the opposite.
This is a good discussion of burnout overall, but it's missing a key part:

Sometimes you're in a terrible environment and need to leave. The company you work for could be terrible, and no amount of emotional calisthenics will prepare you for trying to breathe on the surface of the moon.
It's not a different approach though. It works exactly the same way in powershell(just the host language is different).
Thank you. Will have it fixed.
> It seems clear to me that this guy was legitimately interested in supporting science, and was a sexual predator.

That’s not clear at all. In fact it’s a quite reasonable interpretation to think all his involvement in academics was a way to impart credibility to himself, credibility which was then exploited to forge relationships with powerful people who helped him get away with raping minors.
You can run the script multiple times and get a statistical representation of what the results should be. That's the point of science.

This reminds me of being in gradschool and the comp-sci people complaining that we don't get bit-wise equal floats when we solve DEs.

Having to re-implement a library from scratch for a project is much more valuable than running the same code in two places. The same way that getting the same results from two different machines is a lot more significant than getting the same result from two cloned machines.

In short: code does not need to be reproducible because scientists know how to average.
Sorry, someone else mentioned a virtual list component and I assumed it was you without looking at the username.

That's pretty impressive, I've run into perf issues with far fewer actual DOM nodes than that!
sure, and as someone who values inclusion all thing equal. I'm not interested in spending 70k+ to cater to either. It just doesn't make sense for this structure.
Epidemiological models of Covid-19 help us estimate the number of infections
You can only sell if someone's willing to buy
More accuracy rarely hurts (and only when the medium on which you're storing this data isn't dense enough to handle it).