skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noticed this on Reddit. Very little context in the above. Posting here in hopes that knowledgeable individuals can chime in with links and info.

PLEASE assume goodwill and cooperative intent for all parties. Goal is merely to help educate all as to parameters and guidelines for safe global work together.
The fact that no information sources can be trusted completely should be a call to humility both in individual decisions and public decision making.

On a side note, I wonder if Thomas Jefferson had so low an opinion of the press pre-1800 (before he was elected and when he was defending the right of the press to be critical of the Adams administration)
If the Falcon 9 landings feel mundane, I would recommend to follow Starship development. Starship SN6 might do a 150 meter hop later today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5l9ZxsG9M
It's sad how many passes people on this site give Apple because they like their design.
Changelog CI (Generates Changelog and commits to pull request)
I have created my first Open Source GitHub Action called Changelog CI.
This is a GitHub Action that generates changelog, prepends it to CHANGELOG.md file and commits it to a release pull request

What is Changelog CI?

Changelog CI is a GitHub Action that generates changelog, prepends it to CHANGELOG.md file and commits it to a release pull request

How Does It Works:

It uses a python script with GitHub API to get the last release. Then it checks all the pull request merged after the last release and writes it to CHANGELOG.md or user provided file. The pull request title must start with release <space> <version_number><space> *anything else for example: Release 0.1.1 releasing a new version The Changelog CI will see the pull request and submit a commit to the pull request with the changes written in the CHANGELOG.md file.
> [..] while the electrical energy input only increases linearly with time.

This is the fallacy. In an electric motor the power required to exert a force is proportional to the speed, so if you want to keep the acceleration constant you need to increase the electrical power (i.e. rate of energy use) linearly over time. Hence the total energy input increases with the square of the time, just like the kinetic energy imparted. If the system is 100% efficient then the total electrical energy used will be equal to the kinetic energy of the mass.
> Having individual heating and cooling units (per unit gas heaters!) is stupendously inefficient.

> Contrast this with a condo in Minneapolis that I own wherein heat and AC are central in the building and individual units can set their temperature to whatever they like - all run with tremendously higher efficiency.

This needs some real data.

There are a few central technologies that might be used. A condensing gas-fired boiler might exceed 95% efficiency if you imagine that losses in the hydronic pipes are minimal. An evaporative cooling tower has awkward-to-define efficiency because it consumes water, but I doubt it works very well in Miami. A giant air-source central heat pump might be reasonably efficient (COP around 4?).

But little modern heat pumps with variable-speed drives (often marketed as "inverters") can be very efficient indeed. Fujitsu will sell you a unit right here in the USA with SEER 29 or better, and the general trend is that the smaller units are more efficient than the larger units. (Yes, SEER uses ridiculous units.)

Additionally, in most markets, a reasonably efficient heat pump is both less expensive to operate than even a 100% efficient boiler and has lower greenhouse gas emissions.
I also have a short common word for my email address. I don't often get signups for it, but there's always one service with the same name that I get registration emails for.

On one occasion though, a user from Tumblr had set their account name to my email. I think I forgot about it for a year, until the system emailed me about account inactivity. Upon talking to their support team about the issue, they told me just to reset the password and deactivate the account. Feels weird closing an account that I don't own and the owner has no access to.
All three are protected by the government in various ways. Amazons entire business was largely built by the government neglecting to enforce sales tax. They had an 8.25% advantage, for many many years, over every brick and mortar competitor in my area.

Where monopolies (or more precisely, market dominance by a single player) exist, crony capitalism almost always exist.
Would this also apply to real porn actresses who happen to look like Emma Watson?
At home, with just a few devices, it's doable, but adding a ca on all the devices of a corporate network is a huge pain. On one hand, you have varying levels of control (from none to total) on the devices. On the other hand adding a ca is a bit of a pain, with the ca needed to be added in various ca collection s for different softwares (ex in linux, ca-certificates, java certificates, and to add them system wide for browsers, you need to recompile libnss).
yes, that's actually what prompted me to submit the article, to stimulate discussion around that very question.

i haven't looked into each case in enough depth to have formulated an opinion yet, so i'm hoping we hn'ers come to some conclusions on that question together. =)
I think today channels cost a few hundred nanoseconds. For most applications, this is 'close to no overhead'. If you are doing a really tight loop of course or have threads that bump into eachother a million times per second, you're going to want a different primitive.

But most programmers aren't going to see any overhead using channels instead of something else.
I don't much about USB, but I've owned and used the same USB hub as the author for 4 years without issue for switching between my MacBook Pro and gaming PC.
I was a bit surprised he bought two condensers instead of one large one.

I’m looking for a mini split currently and I found condensers with up to three separate coolant lines (although with the shape of my place. I might only be able to use 2 at once, and have to use a window unit on the other end).

Unit size (especially width) goes up much slower than BTUs, so the main value of two seems to be cooling your house in installments, which he isn’t doing.
I thought it was obvious...

vim is lighter than qt creator is lighter than node.js + vim
That's a difficult and slippery slope type problem. If the Europeans stop the US from acquiring companies there, the US ends up doing the same to European companies trying to acquire US assets.

We let Germany buy one of the most important companies on the planet in Monsanto. I consider Monsanto to be a national security level company, we should have never let it go. Seed & AG tech is critical for the coming century and Monsanto is one of the very few global giants.

For a long time we've been allowing European pharma giants to catch up in biotech by acquiring several of our important biotech companies, as with Genentech, Genzyme, Baxalta, MedImmune, Bioverativ and so on. We let Germany's Merck buy up Sigma-Aldrich. We let our medtech juggernaut, Medtronic, rebase to Ireland, no doubt taking important IP and jobs with it over time.

When I watch important US companies like Genzyme get consumed by a European company, I fully understand how the Europeans feel about ARM etc.
When I was 15, there was a bus bombing near my school.

A kid in my class was the grandson of a well known politician. A newspaper ran with a completely made up story about how it was his bus line, and how the grandfather had panicked. A few days later a fact checker called his mom. Not sure if they ran a retraction. It seemed incredibly disrespectful to those who were on the bus. Two died.

About a year after that, some kids that I knew were arrested for cannabis use. The story made the news. Some of it was true, but some was made up. The made up parts were embellishments, they made the story better. Age gaps were exaggerated, romantic narratives inserted...

I think most people who are in the vicinity of a news story irl have such experiences. Often the lies are minor, but just like with ordinary people who tell lies... the little lies make you disbelieve everything they say.

We kind of expect this from book authors and documentarians. Their job is to get a good narrative going. No one thinks "Tiger King" is an honest telling.

IMO the problem is expectations. "Restraining it (a newspaper) to true facts & sound principles only" is not just boring... it's unimportant. It's the narrative that makes it salient.

TJ should have understood this. He was a pamphleteer after all. The rights of man is pure fiction, to quote Yuval Noah Harari. If you dissect a person, you will find no rights inside.

Calling out intellectual dishonesty is a road to hypocrisy, usually. It's very common to have someone call it out and practice it simultaneously.
That's 0.01% of Microsoft
So why didn't anxiety, depression and PTSD abound in historical societies that were always at risk of some bad thing (usually famine but also sometimes invasion)?

Bad stuff has always happened and always will happen. Something about modern society makes us bad at dealing with it in a healthy way.

I don't doubt that there might be some mismatch between the environment our biology is optimized for and the one we live in now but it seems like these conditions weren't common, or if they were they weren't a problem, among our ancestors who lived under different circumstances.
This does not contain the article text. Just an image of bananas, some words about the supposed author, some tags, "leave a reply", and a bunch of useless "latest news".
Let's say bob wrote One class and Jane wrote another class and these classes are used in many places around the code base.

I'm the programmer that has to compose these classes... You're telling me that I have to change the implementation/interface of what they wrote? What about the dependencies?

This is what I mean by "Not reusable."

Additionally typical OOP involves mutating state. The purpose of the class is to hold methods that operate on internal state. Otherwise what you're writing is basically function calls under a namespace.

>Seem cleaner than including little addOne functions as global closures.

Again Put it under a namespace called Math; problem solved. The purpose of a namespace is to group functions together. The purpose of a class is to group methods together that operate on shared state.

If your methods don't involve a "this"

function addOne(){
this.value + 1;
}

then you're not really doing OOP. You're just repurposing the class as a namespace.
> such as not letting someone leave the premises while not paying them

Honestly I suspect this is mostly a logistics problem. The clock is in the break room the security check is at the door. A security check in the break room feels a little pointless. But in all fairness my store was rather small and we didn't really do security checks.
Civil cases still revolve around law violations- they just aren't brought by the government.

Edit: I was wrong :)
I personally believe he rides that line of charlatanism where he's not pursuing this theory in bad faith at all, but he of course recognizes that tromping around on the edge of a theoretical branch that most physicists don't think is worth exploring garners attention he wouldn't otherwise receive.

I strongly suspect that whether history remembers him as a charlatan will depend heavily on whether one of the supports of his branch proves false and it snaps off, or whether he's been right this whole time and we suddenly oops ourselves a propellantless drive that operates by coupling to the gravitational field and pushing distant objects around. ;)
on finding primary sources and analysing secondary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897577
you forgot the =~ s/violence/peaceful protests/

And yes DeMorgan's law here too.
Here's the full text of the letter between Jefferson and Norvell. Very interesting.

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letter...

I've often wondered if the protections afforded to the press in the first amendment of the US Constitution could have benefited from greater clarity. What I mean by this is that I sincerely doubt the authors intended to protect lies, deceit and libel. It would make no sense whatsoever to create a law that effectively says "You can lie cheat and steal all you want and this shall be protected by the highest law in the land".

Here's the text from the first amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Some might say: Well, libel is addressable through other legislation.

Well, yes and no. It just so happens I was involved in a libel case many decades ago. In this case a newsletter (this was before internet days) had given a competitor a monthly column to author. This competitor decided to dedicate one column to attack our company and print a bunch of outright lies about our products. Things like "they don't test", "they ship their customers untested products", etc. I mean, this guy knew nothing about us and yet he focused an entire page to defaming me and my company.

A meeting with my attorney resulted in letters to the publication's entire board as well as the author/competitor. The only way I can characterize the reaction from the other side was "they shit in their pants". I came to learn a libel lawsuit is a very serious and potentially financially crippling event for someone without the means. Large companies can manage them but individuals can lose their home, savings, job, etc.

I wasn't interested in destroying lives or taking their home and savings. They agreed to print a solid retraction, fire the competitor/author and hire someone without skin in the game to pen that column.

Here's the problem: Retractions don't work. We saw an immediate and lasting hit to product sales. It took about a year to recover from the hit piece. Reputation is something that is hard to regain, particularly when people enter a fearful mental state. In retrospect I should have been smarter and should have gone for a financial settlement of sorts to compensate for the damage they caused. Our competitor actually gained sales and status in the industry as a result of this hit piece.

My point is that lies are like climbing to the top of a hill with a feather pillow, ripping it open and letting the winds take the feathers in all directions. Fixing the damage caused by lies requires finding every single feather, which is impossible.

Sometimes I think we need to rethink this one aspect of the first amendment and either modify it or bolster it externally (through separate legislation) in order to prevent the kinds of lies and manipulation that have been a part of the press since, well, according to Jefferson, the very founding of this nation.
Only if you define "getting shot" as malpractice, which I'd consider a rather odd choice. Remember, we're talking about risk in the context of a malpractice insurance.
OpenDEX is a decentralised 3D layer exchange
Interstellar space is full of particles flying around. There's plenty of hydrogen in the galaxy. Between galaxies not so much but we're not talking inter-galactic space.
I am not sure I am reading this correctly?

>SoftBank got ARM at a special Brexit discount...

ARM was sold for $32B. It is easy to say they got a discount when even AMD is currently valued at $100B+ today. ( Yes.... the market is quite insane ) At the time many thought it was over priced, just like how WeWork was over priced.

ARM make less total revenue than Intel's Net Profits. And at the time, $32B was 100x + its Earning. And I would not be surprised it is still in the three digit times earning in 2020.

>So fast forward to 2020, SoftBank didn't get that 10x return

I am not sure if SB wanted 10x return. But surely no one sane was expecting it to be $320B.

You have RISC-V chipping away the bottom, low end embedded category, You have Qualcomm, ( or Had ) Huawei, Apple, Samsung representing ~80% of total Smartphone SoC Shipment. These four paid a one time license fees. I.e ARM could raise price for the next generation ARMv9, or current v8. But it wouldn't impact the big four. They could choose to stay with their current v8.

It was the same with Imagination Technologies. Yes I am bitter mostly because I think Apple lied. ( They are still using PowerVR technology. ) I guess we may never know the full story. And it was sold off to some Chinese Capital. But IMG was not without its faults. Buying MIPS? Seriously? Had they done it 5 years earlier it might have been a better move. But when they bought it most MIPS vendors ( Mostly in Networking ) already had plan to move platform to ARM counter part. IMG PowerVR was competing with ARM Mali which is much cheaper ( ARM's main focus is licensing their CPU iP ). I dont see IMG fighting for more IP licensing, it seems they were happy Apple is using their IP and wants to simply continue to do what is working. And they could have sold themselves to Apple. Probably for a better price than they did to Chinese VC.

I am not sure what is missing in the UK. But from a Strategic Perspective they are very often lacking vision and big picture. And that is especially true in Tech Industry.

Talents within the UK saw their leaders and management have absolutely dismal understanding and decide to go somewhere else, mainly US.
The State of Marketplace Startups 2020 [Overview]
Presumably the actors case can be considered satire, where that is harder to argue in the deepfake case if the deepfake is good enough.
This of course has echoes in the present. I think the public may not be better informed/closer to the truth than 20 years ago, but not much worse either. A lot of things probably just weren't widely reported or could stay under the radar before the internet and social media took over. Now when "undesirable news" inevitably gets out, it has to be countered with contradictory narratives and misinformation. It's gotten to the point that aligning yourself politically one way or the other implies you must adopt a volume of their favored fiction in addition to a shared interpretation of the real facts.
No, they actually serve the country and the government. This conspiracy theory has no basis. Ames was a double agent, not a great example.
Star Trek in particular did put energy into handwaving/explaining away how their ships avoid this issue:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Navigational_deflector

I always thought it was a nice touch and hopefully a teaching moment when they talk about it in the show.
Threema is a pay-to-play client on the App stores ($3 USD on Google Play, €4 on the Apple store), inhibiting it's adoption when the playing field is full of free clients. The inability to try-before-buy (regardless of technical merit) turns away casual users who might give it a shot "just because", myself included. (Theory: the world has been burnt a thousand times over by shitty ad-infested mobile apps and no longer trusts buying before trying. I sure don't.)
Yes, shift-super-space is I think the default key binding to switch the current window.
The sense I get is NASA is tossing money at it because if it doesn't work, it falsifies some hypotheses that have been sitting around at the edge of relativistic physics for awhile.

So win-win in the science space.
911 for Cybersecurity Threats? Improving Vulnerability Disclosure Together
Why is there so much porn in Czech Republic?
There are other kinds of quack science, but in this area, anything that seems to contradict the basic laws of motion and/or conservation of energy is recognizably quack science. Especially when doing so experimentally first (instead of first coming up with a theoretical/mathematical framework). Even especiallier when using electrical effects in Earth's magnetic field and measuring minute effects.
Why Tenet's muffled dialogue is a modern problem
Its not like it never happened that what looked like quack science turned out to be legit science. Revolutionary ideas almost by rule look like quack.

So if those scientist dudes have better PR skills or whatever is needed to attract funding then other scientist dudes, why is that a problem ?
I typically roll my own. Never had an issue. The flexibility is nice especially if you get into very granular feature flags.
In my experience, many software engineers and (I hate this word, but it fits here) technologists have the technical and cognitive skills to become executives but lack the social skills. Social skills are extremely important in that role. People are hard.

Also: Software engineers in the US are well-paid and, on the average, have pretty good work-life balance. That goes away when you become an exec.
Shrinking Your Code Review
Hooks is something I found no problem understanding. That's in total contrary to majority. This makes me wonder if I did really understand it.
I saw that recently they added this to eslint... you're using eslint or tslint?
So, I have to ask: If Elon Musk is working on propulsion tech to go to Mars, and Bob Lazar claims to have worked on reverse engineering propellentless tech and is one of the single digit number of living people to have encountered it directly, and NASA is slow rolling their own understanding of it, given the limited available expertise in this area how can Musk afford to not hire Lazar? From a due diligence perspective, Musk would need to know with a high degree of certainty that Lazar is full of crap.

While this might sound insane, from a portfolio perspective, if a VC firm is invested in SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, or anyone else in the space, it seems negligent to not have some exposure to a company with someone like Lazar involved in it, unless you really knew for sure, as he and people like him present an existential risk to rocket-based tech companies. That guy is the ultimate hedge.
Too many things in web-ville are becoming black boxes, or at least dark-grey boxes. ORM's, route mappers (with URL beautifiers), most "progressive" UI kits, etc.

This is usually "solved" by hiring technology-specific specialists to focus on each mystery meat layer. The result the same kind of application takes TWICE the resources that it did with simpler tools of the past. (I don't know if they were simpler, they just were a better fit for business CRUD itself, web is not, it originated for static documents.)

"The web" may have simplified deployment (installs & updates), but it complicated everything else. I don't even know that it's either/or, we just need better standards, such as a stateful cross-platform GUI markup language. Businesses don't really need or use mobile-centric UI's for their productivity-oriented applications. Progressive (mobile) UI's are a solution looking for a problem, in the business world.

Some architects say "choice is better", but that choice seems to be costing the business dearly. There may be bias in that complexity and confusion benefits technicians more than businesses. The "mono-culture" IDE's at least got shit done without an army to manage all these "organic" web layers.

We de-evolved. Ooga Booga.
there's very harsh punishments for physicians or say biomedical or military researchers or engineers who fail to do their due diligence yet we still have those.

I think it says enough about the industry that there's so many people who are dead afraid of rigorous quality standards.
RISC-V 10 Year Anniversary Interviews
I don't quite follow how the narrative makes it more important than the facts.

I guess we have define what ideas we expect the news to deliver.
Around 1994, when the choice of technological platform for someone's public internet presence was between FTP or Gopher or HTTP from a server on their own network, all pages were a curated publication. Corruption required a lot of time and technology.
"If You Don’t Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed" Mark Twain