skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I'm a very grown adult, and I've never been on a vacation that cost $5k.

I've owned several cars, but the most expensive, shiny, sexy one cost $2.4k.

The idea of being a child having $10k spent on me just for summer fun is mind-blowing.

That feels luxurious to me.

I am under the impression that most parents who send their children to university in the US have to scrimp and save to pay for it. Like it's a really big deal. Sometimes only one child of two can go, because there isn't enough to pay for both. So it's not likely there's a lot of cash readily available for summer fun for each child in the years leading up to it.
I started a couple of green field projects in Python 3.3 and Python 3.4, and have to disagree. By that time most third party packages had moved to Python 3, and I had no trouble building large applications with it.
I worked many years ago for a company that sold typesetting systems using DG Novas and Eclipses (16 and 32-bit both). As I recall, the RDOS CLI and system call manual was a wire-bound paperback that would fit into a reasonably sized back pocket. The AOS/VS system call manual needed a fairly large three-ring binder, and the AOS/VS CLI and utility manual came as a small one.
that one copyright case everybody in AI is depending on to protect them is not likely to be as protective as they are assuming.
The most surefire way to acquire massive wealth in the 21st century is to get convince people to pay as much attention to your app's notifications as they would an incoming phone call.
Imagine when people who don't know any better start plugging this into facial-recognition cameras, and arrest based on the chaining of two flawed/imperfect algorithms. Not if, but when.
Negative externalities: What's the true price of beef and cheese?
According to Kyle's lawyer, that never happened. The gun never crossed a state line, not that it matters. The lawyer is a reputable source. See what happens when information is suppressed? You didn't know that fact.
I imagine AI could score very highly on the SAT.
The barrier to entry is far from zero. Understanding a platform enough to make code fixes takes a fair bit of study beyond the most trivial project.

For businesses and government, support is often mandatory, and at the least, it gives administrators "people to blame" when something goes wrong.

I feel open source with paid support is a very viable route for government, given it's general expectation of having paid support for the products it uses, but there's still an extreme minority of businesses successfully monetizing open source software.
For a punishment-based society, I'd redirect your view to America with its high incarceration and recidivist rates. The rhetoric of "war on X" and being "tough on Y" as well as the penchant for violence is quite unique to that country. Telling someone publicly to get their act in order for the betterment of society is not very "punishment-based".
"What is curious about Venus’ clouds – other than that they are unlike anything on Earth – is that in those clouds are mysterious dark patches, dubbed “unknown absorbers” by scientists as the tiny particles that make up the patches soak up most of the ultraviolet and some of the visible light from the sun and thus affect the planet’s albedo and energy budget.

The patches were first observed by ground-based telescopes more than a century ago. They ebb and flow over time, changing their distributions and contrasts.

“The particles that make up the dark splotches, have been suggested to be ferric chloride, allotropes of sulfur, disulfur dioxide and so on, but none of these, so far, are able to satisfactorily explain their formation and absorption properties,” explains Yeon Joo Lee, the senior author of the new report.

On the other hand, Limaye notes observations that the particles are about the same size and have the same light-absorbing properties as microorganisms found in Earth’s atmosphere, and scientists, beginning with the noted biophysicist Harold Morowitz and astronomer Carl Sagan, have long speculated about the possibility that the shadowy patches in the clouds of Venus are, in fact, microscopic life."
https://news.wisc.edu/mysterious-cloud-absorbers-seen-to-dri...
The 2-sigma challenge refers to Bloom's research finding that one on one tutoring using mastery learning lead to a 2 sigma improvement in student performance. The article is in part a discussion of whether this conclusion is justified. I love this quote from the article, perhaps because it suggests that things could get a lot better at our schools without miraculous or infeasibly expensive interventions by focusing on reliable smaller effects.

The 2-sigma challenge (or 1-sigma claim) is misleading out of context and potentially damaging to educational research both within and outside of the mastery learning tradition, as it may lead researchers to belittle true, replicable, and generalizable achievement effects in the more realistic range of 20-50% of an individual-level standard deviation. For example, an educational intervention that produced a reliable gain of .33 each year could, if applied to lower class schools, wipe out the typical achievement gap between lower and middle-class children in 3 years—no small accomplishment. Yet the claims for huge effects made by Bloom and others could lead researchers who find effect sizes of "only" .33 to question the value of their methods.
Seriously, the tweet calling out devs for trying out a chrome only feature is misplaced. Enterprise apps should be cross browser compatible, but many personal projects come out of wanting to play with a new API.
I'm aware - but Google Fi offers 4G roaming at no extra charge across a much wider range of countries (importantly for me, most of Europe).
That's actually a good (if slow) solution, given that payment processing is important enough to hit the filter (significant recourse or something).
Someone please make a front end to Reddit that removes all garbage.
Permissions for anything from local files access to network.
> Spanish officials have violated the most sacred rule of international relations by opening a British diplomatic bag at the border with Gibraltar.

Huh?

I stopped reading after the first sentence but did a quick search. The words "tamper" and "mail" don't appear in the article.
The interplay between iOS/macOS as “secure” operating systems and Wireguard implementations of “secure” networking on the aforementioned platforms really puts proof to the lie, as to what makes for better security outcomes and implementation stories and for whom.
If you ask printf to right justify a string, it'll do a strlen.
I believe there was a story some years ago about a sail boat in the pacific, about a day's sail from the Panama Canal that was broken up by a pod of killer whales.
But what makes a brand a bland is duality: claiming simultaneously to be unique in product, groundbreaking in purpose, and singular in delivery, while slavishly obeying an identikit formula of business model, look and feel, and tone of voice.

...

If there’s a sense that VC-backed blands target the woes of VC-bros, it’s because many do. As Chamath Palihapitiya noted:

“The VC community is an increasingly predictable and lookalike bunch that just seems to follow each other around from one trivial idea to another.”

This may explain the blands clustering around, for instance, hipster baby gear (Bloom, Lalo, Bumbleride), personalized supplements (Baze, Thyrve, Care/of), and valet parking (Oobeo, Luxe, SpotHero). And it certainly explains the blands that help other blands with funding (Expa), accounting (Bench), retail (Leap), returns (Loop), consumer insights (Perksy) and “high-volume hiring for the hourly workforce” (Fountain).

Fascinating article
Who are ARM's actual customers? Most people don't buy anything from ARM directly, they buy from a company that builds a product with an ARM product in it. I'm sure there are companies like that in the EU, but how many compared to the US and Asia? And would that matter in terms of market access to the EU?
No, you don't need to worry about it. Do ask about it in interviews, though. There are still Python 2.7 apps running in production, and there's a good chance that companies are looking upgrade their code to Python 3.

If you're interested, this document[1] is a good resource should you want to port from 2.7 to 3.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html
It's weird that they the start of this article seems to imply that AI has taken the joy out of chess. I guess I was only a kid for the Deep Blue vs. Kasparov days so maybe I don't know any different, but to me fundamentally chess is joyful because it's a sport. It's not about trying to be the best algorithm in the world, it's about trying to put out strong consistent performance on the spot in a game. Sure, your moves won't be as good as a computer's but that doesn't take the joy out of making them try to be as good as possible.
See I find this an example of a user being lazy, and I experience this frequently. They are not even bothering to read what the computer is saying, just giving up and knowing/assuming that you will figure it out. They don't value your time, and cannot be bothered to expend the slightest effort to solve their own problem.
Interesting.

> As far as scientists know, there are only two ways to produce it, either artificially in a lab, or by certain kinds of microbes that live in oxygen-free environments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphine

Philippe Gengembre (1764–1838), a student of Lavoisier, first obtained phosphine in 1783 by heating phosphorus in an aqueous solution of potash (potassium carbonate).[4][5]
The EU can walk and chew gum at the same time. They have buildings full of people to take care of this stuff.
You don't have to it's not like PSF made Python 2.7 stop working on January 1st 2020.
Wonder what Apple’s reaction will be. Their relationship with Nvidia has been bumpy to say the least. Any ARM licensee now has a competitor as a supplier. The smaller ones will have to swallow but the larger licensees? Do they have options on the table - other than trying to throw a wrench into nvidia’s presumed acquisition plans?
That doesn't really contradict me. You _can_ fix your python version. You can even continue using all the libraries you have installed with your python version. Of course you can't necessarily use newer versions of those libraries or possibly new that haven't been written yet, but of course you can keep using your python and whatever libraries you have installed for it.

But yes you can't expect new code to continue to support your fixed choices forever. Then again that's true of essentially every language out there so I don't really see what's special with python.
I wasn't the one doing Android advertising without understanding what was already possible before it came into the world.

Phones 12 years ago did exactly the same as today, only not for the generation that thinks iPhone created the smartphone. 2020 - 2008 => 12, just for info

Even app stores were already a thing, just controlled by mobile operators with margins up to 80%, which makes Apple's 30% that everyone complains a very generous value.
Yes. "from __future__ import ..." could have had "from __past__ import ..." or some other such 1-line mechanism to maintain compatibility. Before the switch to P3, I argued vehemently with (some of) The Powers that Be that doing this was unnecessary and would break the community. The argument was, "Don't worry, P3 is so much better, people will want to change over." Well, yeah, maybe. Personally, I ignored P3 until 3.6 arrived. THAT was enough of a jump to abandon P2.
An operating system containing only libre software, I assume. At least in my book, software must respect the freedoms of its users in order to be ethical. And their OS is indeed libre and respects its users.
No worries and I totally agree that t-test are surprisingly robust to some benign deviations from Gaussianity, a lot more than one would have thought. In my line of work I have had to watch out for fat tails (ridiculously common) and skew -- they can be potent t-test killers.

In the book Wilcox champions robust estimators and tests (a la Huber, Tukey) because efficiency of MLE is very brittle.
> Apparently, owning a car is the easiest way to commit social suicide in Vauban — That is the spirit unfortunately.

That's quite possibly the most American response you could provide. Though Germans value their cars (sometimes more than their wives), German society is quite focused on public transport and the availability thereof.

Furthermore, distancing ourselves from personal cars is among one of the best things we can do for the environment. We are experiencing the effects of car ownership right now with bad air / smog, traffic jams, noise and (very avoidable) accidents. Engines might have heralded a new age and while cars do represent transportational freedom, it's time we move away from them if we want to exist in a livable world.
They're doing CE batches which run about a month each but the underlying hardware is the same for all of them. Just follow their blog (https://www.pine64.org/blog/) and wait for the announcement for the next batch preorder.
In case anyone reading's unaware, when that happens (if it seems silly/obviously not an improvement) you can edit and resubmit exactly the same title as originally submitted, and it will then be accepted as-is.
Parity pills: CEOs should take automatic paycuts instead of laying off workers
I find that a colourful emoji like [hmm, HN can't display an emoji] feels very different from a text emoticon or tag.

It's such an illusion, too - the sender doesn't even see the same emoji character as I do because of different fonts and devices. Some emojis look sad or angry on some devices, and smiling on others. There's plenty of room for misinterpretation.

But it adds feeling anyway!
Besides the one odd travelogue "Shakespeare Never Did This" what other non-fiction Bukowski books are there? "Post Office" has semi-autobiographical elements but it's still very much fiction.
Anytime a program has a special case like that, it makes sense to craft an optimal data structure for it.

Also, consider that the terminating 0 byte isn't just one byte. There's also the alignment of what malloc returns, which may be 4 or 8 or even 16 bytes.
No, as blanket advice goes it really isn't a wise investment. It depends entirely on the degree. Many Gen-Ys learned this the hard way after internalizing the notion that taking on lifelong debt to get a degree meant buying a one-way ticket to easy street.

Doctor, accountant, lawyer, engineer? Sure. College is a good investment.

Most other degrees qualify one to be management at Pottery Barn. Hardly worth the five-figure entry fee.
I don't think human spaceflight will ever be a significant factor in our history. We evolved for this planet, and there is little reason to send humans through space when we can send robots. When we discover another earth-like planet, we will send robots there that can replicate human life, and the two civilizations will communicate with each other but it's unlikely any person will ever travel between the two. As to how robotic interstellar travel is fuelled, we'll probably use converted asteroids with thrusters built into them.
You're being overly generous. If some feature that usually works suddenly stops working and now there's some text on the screen instead, and you go all the way to ringing up a family member for help without even reading the text then I struggle to call that anything other than "stupid and lazy".
Thanks for the explanation.

>the off target effects are much more difficult to prevent

Why is that the case? And are there any promising theories for how we might overcome that problem?

CRISPR has already been approved for some forms of gene therapy. I assume that's because, for people with crippling diseases, the benefits clearly outweigh the risk. But going forward, as we address less crippling diseases, how do you grok the known benefit/unknown costs of using CRISPR for a cure? This will be an even bigger problem once CRISPR is used for more superficial or cosmetic things. We need to create a decision model and quantify the risks as much as possible.

I have a feeling that countries will "compete" on taking risks with CRISPR. For example, China might see CRISPR as a way to increase its dominance on the world stage. If there's a risky way for CRISPR to increase intelligence, they might take the risk, because China has more to gain than America.
The drop box pickup has poll watchers.

The serial numbers are also tied to my address and name so you'd have to both decode the system used for generating the numbers and know the number the state assigned to me.
Welcome to online directionality flipping – rtl.wtf
Agreed, except that there is no reason that it had to go from Earth to Venus. Venus may have been habitable until 750 MYA.
Anti-trust regulations are not meant to control "bad actors" but to reign in monopolies.
What if NVIDIA then turns around and offers to sell to TSMC and everybody is screwed?
> I compulsively read whatever you put in front of me

I'm going through a contract-heavy legal process right now, and it is amazing how strongly the agents/lawyers/etc. involved in the process clearly expect me to just sign without reading. Obviously they're not pressuring me not to read it, but the implied expectations of time/effort that it should take is much less than necessary.
> we might finally get some competition in the CPU space

You are talking about Desktop / Server CPUs I presume.
The problem is that this is detrimental to the competition in the mobile / phone CPU space as Nvidia is a direct (although not very big) competitor to Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, HiSilicon etc., but would now own the architecture everyone is using.
And why haven't we checked this before on Venus?
What about the code used in, for example, defence systems or intelligence agencies?
This is going to sound crazy but I've been in the water and looked a dolphin right in the eye from about a meter away.

I'm taking out in the middle of the ocean. I could definitely sense this from the animal.

So I definitely think they have emotions and much more intelligence than people give them credit for.
Let's see... producing 1 kg of sodium metal uses about 10 kWh of electrical energy. 1 TWh would produce 100,000 tonnes of sodium. A billion tonnes of sodium would involve 10,000 TWh. World primary energy consumption is below 20 TW, so you're proposing batteries capable of storing hundreds of hours of world energy demand. This is a gross overestimate -- batteries would be used diurnal leveling, with perhaps 12 hours of storage needed, and that just for the grid. Industrial power demand in a renewable world would likely be more dispatchable, and any demand for thermal energy would use bulk thermal storage, not chemical batteries.

If you meant sodium compounds, not sodium metal, note that annual world production of sodium chloride is about 200 million tonnes.

Oh, and about "millions of tons of aluminum and steel": 2019 world steel production was 1.89 BILLION tonnes. Aluminum production in 2018, 60 million tonnes. The world economy is very large. An energy infrastructure capable of powering that economy will also be large, be it renewable, nuclear, or unicorn power.
Don't remove posts.

Mark them as lies and don't let the writer modify or delete them.

Once people see they have been upvoting lies, some might reconsider next time.
Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data
Looking at New Zealand 35 million and 20 million years ago on that globe (search for one of our cities like Auckland or Christchurch) is really illuminating when compared to its current shape, most of the South Island is to the west of the North Island, as the plate boundary between the Indian and Pacific plate runs through the South Island, and the eastern side has been moving south-west for millennia to form the current shape of the land, and our Southern Alps.
Ma Bell being reassembled is orders of magnitude less problematic than it would have been in the 1980s. Back when you only had 1 choice for local phone (no cell phones) and long distance calls were a quarter a minute (or more). I haven't made a normal phone call in years and have decent cell options. If I wanted a local phone I could use VOIP or get a real line (via centurylink).
Chances are it you actually read though the terms and conditions before clicking the checkbox, your session will have timed out and you'll have to start over.
This is comical in an environment where pay raises don't even track (or barely track) inflation, and then only if you are in the "top 10% of achievers". All of a sudden HR departments are economists and experts in adjusted living costs. Executive staff, of course, is exempt.
See also the Dutch Ministry of Health has it's own GitHub account[1]

Their coronavirus tracking app is open source [2]

And their Minister for Health made the commit to send the app website live [3] (though he did push to master on a Friday. I guess you can do that if you're the Minister...)

[1] https://github.com/minvws

[2] https://github.com/minvws/nl-covid19-notification-app-ios

[3] https://github.com/minvws/nl-covid19-notification-app-websit...
I can't find anything on google about Intel boot guard meaning that plugging a cpu into a motherboard can bind that cpu to that motherboard such that putting it into another motherboard no longer works.
Street view is really helpful for any kind of local contract work. Like landscaping, home remodeling, holiday lighting, satellite TV installation, etc. Companies and individuals that do that kind of work use street view extensively.
Oof, see the disaster that is regulated cannabis software. $3M for stuff that was hacked the day after launch and still routinely fails two years later. And the government has simply changed the definition of success so it looks like it wasn't. All the while the agency is rebuilding the reports the taxpayers paid for, and we're supposed to be delivered 24 months ago with Excel - and training LEOs how to ignore and filter out garbage data from the system to do their job.
UK govt really must block this
In a sense, yes, but not a prohibitive one. Boats and fishing equipment are obviously tools that orcas are familiar with. They would basically see fishing equipment in particular as weapons already. These are things that orcas know they can't build. They're weird and scary in at least the sense that bats and aliens are weird to us. It's not a huge abstract leap from that to "let's not mess with these guys".

Think about how you feel approaching a very large animal, like a horse you don't know. You don't need to know how or even if it can hurt you, but it's worth being careful. If you know the animal has sharp points (like a large dog), even more so. I think sparrows avoid cars by similar logic.

I really think non-verbal, subconscious intelligence is capable of a lot more abstraction than people think. We need language to describe it, but not to do it. "Threat" is an abstraction that lots of simple animals handle just fine. It's not so much that we need to give animals more credit than that we give ourselves too much. Our actual motivations are usually much simpler than the stories we tell ourselves.
These kinds of stories seem insane to me. I currently have to do some data science-y stuff in the more generalist consulting dev role I have. I used to do a lot of SQL stuff years ago, but have forgotten most of the syntax beyond the basics. That being said, all it took is some minor googling and reading of a few blog posts to solve some middling hard problems for my client.

What kind of companies make people jump through these nerd hoops? Do they actually have real work that needs doing or is this all just posturing by interviewers?
It has string padding built in...
UIKit or WatchKit or AppKit depending on the platform
In the long run, I'm very much hoping that this makes governments and organizations accelerate the development of RISC-V.
New Shell Script Shortcut
This is everything that is wrong with America