skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if instead of anti-gravity, we examine medical treatment for diseases correlated with ageing? We place huge amount of money into research and treatments for cancer and cardiovascular diseases - these feel like band aids, since the root cause is usually senescence. Are curing (To whatever degree you like) these more attainable goals than slowing/stopping aging? Probably. Maybe. I don't know, but I'm not convinced this isn't a case of treating the symptoms, when we could attack the disease.
How to Be Silicon Valley (2006)
Is there any evidence the Obama campaign did what Cambridge Analytica/Trump was being criticized for?

Which was harvest private data (including messages and news feed) from Facebook users and their friends via an app that was ostensibly non-political, and then in turn sell it to a super PAC that for microtargeting. I'll note that the super PAC involved was likely coordinating with a campaign in violation of FEC campaign finance laws.

The CA scandal resulted in a $5 billion fine to Facebook by the FTC.

I think it's disingenuous to say what the Obama campaign and Trump/Cambridge did were close to the same.
There is also the Super Dimensional Fortress[1] that's been around for over 40 years. The basic membership is free and even the top of the line MetaARPA[2] with access to the MetaArray[3] is ridiculously inexpensive...

[1] http://sdf.org/

[2] https://sdf.org/?join

[3] https://sdf.org/?tutorials/metaarray
Sure but by the same token, the point of discussing issues is that if you can do it passably, it can be a bit more convincing towards the audience than the usual soundbites and lazy negative claims about The Other Guy. But perhaps it's not exactly fair to expect that sort of semi-real discussion from either Biden or Trump.
Apparently; when ARM was first sold to Softbank, Softbank made several guarantees to the UK. Nvidia has made no agreement to continue those guarantees.

> At that time, Softbank announced it had agreed to legally binding commitments to increase investment, headcount and preserve its headquarters in the UK.

> It is not too late for the government to impose conditions, but conversations on whether to impose them or what they might be have not even started.
> the authors thesis

the author's thesis is that it doesn't matter. And software is written at a significant scale in React (arguably its own language).
I propose a corollary to the author's thesis: a languages popularity is a function of runtime advantages and time to implement an MVP for your domain. This corollary explains the scripting language conundrum: Python is popular because it's easy to implement an MVP in a number of different domains. Rails helped Ruby to achieve widespread use because it made it easy to implement an MVP for a web application. I think it's fair to say that to gain adoption, a language needs either a killer runtime or a killer app.
If pollution increases downhill, property prices increase uphill. Our economy is part of the problem.
Maybe I’m weird, but I love UIKit/Autolayout and can’t stand web, with a slight distaste for SwiftUI.

The idea of frame hierarchy is much more concrete in the autolayout world - which I guess helps the most.
The steering wheel looks awesome but for this price I’d expect the seat to move to simulate G-forces. And VR would be more realistic.
True, the one thing I keep trying to remind myself and other of is that we really don't appreciate the cosmic scale all that well.

There's a point where it's all just "big". A million and a billion seem equally big. Even though, as it has been said before, that the difference between 1 billion and 1 million is about 1 billion.

There are so many fundamentally difficult problems with deep space exploration, that it may never be logistically possible to over come them. And that's of the ones we know about.
FAANG could easily pay for this and it would be approved almost without push back, but will they? And like in Demolition Man, there is a Taco Bell at every stop. Only Taco Bell.
That’s a strange definition of consent.
I reported every single ad for Legos I saw for a week. I ended up with more ads for Lego scams, too.
> ITER, as of 2006, was supposed to be followed almost immediately by DEMO, a power plant capable of producing electricity in 2033.

This is not true. DEMO will not be able to breed Tritium.

Without tritium breeding, there will be no self-suffiency in term of fuel. You can't filter Tritium from sea water because it is not there - it is unstable. There is no fusion experiment which could achieve a Deuterium-Deuterium fusion within the next decades, the required densities are many orders of magnitudes away.

You can generate Deuterium by electrolysis and isotope separation of water, but to day, Tritium can only be produced in heavy-water generators. Which exist only a few in the world, and which are powered by uranium.

In theory, yes, it could be possible to breed tritium within a fusion reactor. But this is as theoretical as somebody in the 17th century saying that you could adapt a steam engine to flap wings and make it just a bit lighter to get a flying machine which could carry a few hundred people with near speed of sound across the Atlantic, at once.
There's also a wikipedia article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pistorius
> This is a myth. Modern "peer review" simply means checking to see if the claim is interesting and if the proper Word or LaTeX template was used.

I got peer review from two reviewers on a paper submitted to Frontiers last week--it consisted of much more than that. Sure, the reviewers couldn't replicate our exact work themselves, but the paper's methodology was also heavily considered, and both reviewers asked for modifications to be made on different parts of the paper.

It's an imperfect system, but it's not as if there's a rubber stamp floating around. The goals of the the peer review system vs. open source are fundamentally different, and the way the products for both are treated should reflect that.
I believe they are saying they didn't NOTICE the "developgameonline@gmail.com developer email and com.acazira.tforbusiness package"; if they had, that would have raised alarm bells. I don't think these are visible on the page without clicking. "the developer name 'Develop App'" is visible, although I don't know how many pay attention to it. They are retrospectively thinking they probably should have thought that wasn't right, and motivated them to look further.
Speaking of which, highly relevant: the EEOC just got defanged.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patriciagbarnes/2020/09/08/an-e...
Can you speculate on what the probe would do?
The _only_ factor to programming language popularity is how accessible it is.

Beauty and elegance don't matter. Performance doesn't matter. In fact, no measure of "fitness for purpose" matters.

If Malbolge was built into every operating system, Stack Overflow would plug the gaps, and major production systems would be built in it. People would give conference talks about "scaling Malbolge to millions of transactions per second". It would have a package manager, a deep learning framework, and several UI toolkits.

In some sense, this has already happened.
And how are they supposed to do that? If it's a fake login (aka phishing) page facebook wouldn't even know about it. The only effective way is dissuade consumers from entering their login credentials in-app, but even that's tricky because if it's a malicious app they could "fake" a web browser complete with a fake "address bar".
But it’s just a case of a word with two meanings that depends on context. That’s like the least weird thing that happens in English.

“You call returned soldiers vets, but they don’t work with animals.”
It looks like your bug tracker is a bunch of pointers into a mailing list. This means:

(a) you have no ability to edit entries (or do anything else that email is bad at),

(b) the mail interface is frankly hard to read, with everything in uniform monospace font and no formatting,

(c) I can't participate or reply on the web interface, I have to sign up for something completely different to participate.,

and (d) because of the way the site is laid out, I can't see how to get the code, etc. from the bug tracker. I would presumably go back to Google and search for org mode and then try to figure it out from there. But that's just a lot more steps to do what could be made easy.

Now, I'm not necessarily super crazy about Github and the like. But for these issues, in my opinion they do a pretty reasonable job.

I don't personally think that Github makes PR formatting any harder; I would expect any contributors to use a git command line to look at what they put in the commit message. But at any rate, that's some user education you'll have to do one way or the other. With the current approach, you've got a bunch of other barriers to entry that prevent you from seeing certain users in the first place.
Putting our core values to work: a letter to our community
I too have had trouble answering that question for the same reason, regardless of whether its biodiversity or ethnic diversity or diversity of thought.

I've spent a lot of time trying to formulate my reasoning and unfortunately, the easiest explanation is the most clinical and least likely to inspire: diversity is necessary (but not sufficient) for long term survival of any nontrivial system - be it a species, civilization, tribe, or business. Dynamic environments driven by random events and emergent phenomenon like weather/climate, food chains, and sentient beings are going to be chaotic and unstable in the short term. Diversity allows better suited individuals to exploit the current environment while preserving a diverse minority contingent that is far more likely to be able to adapt to the next change in the environment without a catastrophic collapse of the system. Without that minority group, the medium to long term probability of survival for the whole is zero and without the majority, the minority group wouldn't survive long enough to make it the next environmental shift.

It's as close as you can get to an abstract natural law of complex systems. It applies to a company's talent pools and its ability to survive pivots or changing market conditions, an ideology's ability to survive the realities of geopolitics, a religion's ability to survive schisms and protests, and much more.
I made my own ring tone the other day because I recorded something I wanted to use. It's possible. Monstrous pain, but possible. You have to convert it to AAC, then import it to iTunes then sync it over. It was about the same effort of getting a ringtone on my feature phone in the early/mid 2000s. That seems insane to me these days.
Looks very cool!

Seeing the limitation in how many of the UPS sockets can be used, I'd say it's a little bit of a shame not to have used high amperage IEC connectors - e.g. C19/C20 ones.

Most UPSes have options to work with these natively rather than having country-specific and often painfully shaped connectors (e.g. UK sockets are huge!)
Duh, of course they did.
Guessing it's this: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-type-checking-is-undecidabl...
Every job that you have gotten has needed ID for background checks. I've never been asked for ID, age, or gender during the interview process. Nor would I give that information freely.

I recently filled an online application that asked for SSN and I dropped it right there. You only need my SSN for employer taxes, no way is that part of any job interview.
My point is not an universal IR that can compile every C program ever written, rather an IR that is compliant wiht the abstract C machine as defined by ISO C, and that has been done multiple times.
Heh, right. Because there's no degree of difficulty that exists between simple and Neo from The Matrix.
Babashka is another Hy-like alternative, but based on Clojure, and recently discussed on HN:

https://github.com/borkdude/babashka

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353476

Aside: another nice tool I recently discovered for working with JSON and YML, doing conversion and diffs (especially helpful for generated files):

https://github.com/homeport/dyff
What IBM really cares about is limiting the older employees’ defined-benefit pension liabilities. That is why it was so important to IBM that these folks were made to no longer be IBM employees. Lower salary was icing on the cake.
VueJS in Doom Emacs, Working
> every watt of energy

Watt is a measure of power not energy. Did you mean Watt-hour? The specific heat of water is about 4.2 kJ/kg/K. One joule is one watt for one second, that is 1 J = 1 W.s. So one W for one hour (3600 seconds) is 3.6 kJ and is enough to raise the temperature of a kg of water by about 0.9 K

You need to brush up on dimensional analysis :-)
I don't even know why I need to upgrade OSX just to develop for SwiftUI and it only runs on newer OSX versions.
If you read to the end of the article it addresses the GM deal. GM will use its own battery tech. Nikola is basically just sales/marketing. The deal still makes absolutely no sense, but GM isn't dependent on Nikola having working tech or not.
I believe GP is referring to this post:

https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-type-checking-is-undecidabl...
Just in Safari, same on iOS & macOS.
I'd be a dinosaur there at 35 years old. That is one hip and happening company I tell you hwhat.
I think its cool if you have this high-level abstractions that help in productivity as long as you have a 'fallback mode' to a more powerful api.

This is even true for script languages for instance. This is what make Javascript or Python more powerful than the language let them be. Being able to 'fallback' to C if things are not working the way they should.

Having SwiftUI or React are ok, if you can call imperative UIKit api's or web DOM when you need it.

Im very skeptic that this model will be feasible for the more "hardcore" cases of applications. So its important to have a powerful way to control things in details.

In hindsight, the modularity and the power that the web UI api gives you today is something to admire.

Its hard to have other examples where the bazar model ended up with better tools than the cathedral model. Especially if the cathedral model had time to do it later with the technological advantage only experience gives you.
Great Britain is now much more desperate.
It needs to compete for market share and access to markets like a 3rd world country but without the associated cheap labour so high tech is one of the few anchors where Britain might have USP.
But as you say with ARM that ship has sailed with the previous sale to SoftBank.
The only chance to salvage some of the know how (not the IP) would be if these specialists could find similar jobs in Cambridge but there simply isn’t enough opportunities especially as the broader market is dire battered by brexit covid and general stagflation.
Not an enviable position- bit like Japan a few years back.
Eliminate Racism with Silence
God companies sure might require this :)
I don't know if I know any far-right people, but going through college I've lost count of the number of kids who'd casually joke about guillotines and mean it.
The beauty of the phrase is that it’s universal.
Yes, they trashed the adapters and auctioned the main item. The winning bid was well below retail pricing, but much higher than wholesale cost.
You're basically describing the erlang runtime, which is more popular than "totally niche" but not as explosively popular as, say JVM, .NET, JS, or even Dart. In fact despite being a practitioner of the erlang runtime, I would say that its lack of popularity is a point against the author.
Internet of Things: Information on Use by Federal Agencies [pdf]
Chemistry: Can we beat plants at photosynthesis?
Not quite true.

> In November 2012, TWC began naming winter storms ...

> The U.S. government-operated National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ... and ... the National Weather Service (NWS)—did not acknowledge TWC's winter storm names and asked its forecast offices to refrain from using the TWC names

> The National Weather Service has since stated that "no plans to consider naming winter storms" are in progress.[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_storm_naming_in_the_Uni...
Disclaimer: I graduated in CS from one of these "elite" colleges. I also took the JEE in 2013 when it underwent significant changes.

Back in 2011, the government decided to revamp the educational grading system by introducing "Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation" (CCE) for class X.
We were the first batch to go through it and every assignment/internal exam had some weightage in your final grade.
Fast forward to 2013, there was a repeated attempt to bring similar change to this system. The central government merged the AIEEE and the IIT-JEE into two sets of exams - the JEE Mains and the JEE advanced.
They also introduced weightage to your XII grade marks in the final rankings - meaning you had to do well in your boards in addition to the one-day exam.

Admittedly, this was less radical than year-round performance, but it was still significant enough to tell everyone - "Hey, you need to perform all across our evaluations, not just in one exam".
This meant that you could have gone through all the folks who took the CBSE XII exams in my class - and they would have been in the top 5% (maybe even top 1%).

Having said that, at the end of the day - apart from signalling, the main reasons to get into the IIT/NITs were infrastructure, the environment and the network.
The infrastructure was way better than a smaller, private university and your entire class is filled with the top people from your batch.

Even if we conceded that the curriculum and the faculty were not at par with the top universities in the world, the talent surely is.
The extra-curriculars and the competition within ensured that you constantly honed your skills to remain relevant - we took MIT OCW courses, participated in global hackathons etc.

TL;DR - High-school test scores were relevant when it mattered in college entrance exams. The moment the weightage was lost, the relevancy was lost.
The problem is, regardless of the incentives, they will be manipulated to target "undesirable" groups.

It's fine to tow this line of thinking, but give it 100 years or so to implement.
And when we make something much more efficient, we just end up making more of them.
I'm not surprised. A few years back IBM started a "back to the lab" initiative to dissuade workers from working remotely. Workers that were unable to commute to a physical office were forced to leave the company. My impression is that this disproportionately affected older workers. It seemed like soon after the dust had settled they no longer enforced the requirement. Note, this was after I left the company, so it's all second-hand knowledge.

I do also recall that they were sued for ageism years ago after a round of layoffs. Afterward they preemptively sent out a list of the ages and titles of all workers prior to layoffs in order to be more transparent. The funny thing is that it was possible in some cases to tell ahead of time who was being laid off based on the age and title. Not a good way to find out about being let go.
> Ask any successful person. Ask any experienced person. They’ll all tell you the same thing – It takes time to create something valuable. Something worth doing.

Over time I've ended up not really understanding this advice, but only because of something I accomplished in the past.

One day I just felt like writing something. I hadn't written since elementary school and had never published a piece of writing online before. But one day I just felt like writing something. The idea just would not leave my mind and I failed to get any sleep, instead spending all of my conscious time writing.

Within a week I was more or less finished. It was a short story numbering only a few dozen pages at most. But save for some minor editing it was complete.

And I decided that since I finished something, it was a success. And I also liked what I wrote, legitimately. I don't think it was that great in the context of people with experience, but it was mine, and that was enough for me to declare it a success. To me, I thought it was valuable. To me, I thought it was worth doing.

So if it's true that you must spend a lot of time to make something valuable, then in my view one of two things is true:

1. What I accomplished in only a week was not valuable to me or anyone else and was not worth doing, and I'm just deluding myself.

2. The advice was untrue and you can still create things of value without spending a lot of time - it just depends on what the scale is.

And if there is no way to create something valuable without spending a lot of time on it, then I don't understand why Ludum Dare and NaNoWriMo still exist, unless people believe the things they accomplish during those events are valueless, which doesn't sound right to me.

Since then I have never really felt like writing. I will either sit down and not think of anything for hours, or at most write whatever comes to my mind in a stream of consciousness and then proceed to not look at or edit it ever again. I think this is what people call being trapped by their past successes. I expect to be able to accomplish again what I actually did accomplish a single time in the past, which is not realistic. Not everything I do will turn out as well as that one time. But the fact remains that I called what I accomplished a success despite not spending much time on it at all, and on top of that it was the first thing I had seriously written in over a decade, and I seem to be unable to reconcile that with the practicalities of developing a skill properly.
Not sure, my point was that most companies are doing their best to avoid GPL based OSes, going forward.
Will check that out! Thanks!
That's just because introducing a new tax opens a new avenue for taxes to increase in the future. Even if it's not significant now, the infrastructure will be in place to increase taxes later (after all, the first income tax was a measly 3%). Whether it's reasonable to expect this tax to increase significantly is of course a different question entirely, but the visceral gut reaction to yet another tax is somewhat understandable imo.

Now don't get me wrong, I am in favor of carbon taxing as it's probably one of the best tools we have to fight climate change. But the only way something like this is going to see widespread approval is if all of the proceeds are guaranteed to be paid back to the people and not disappear into the ether of government bureaucracy.
GM only stood to benefit, with the exception of tarnishing their brand and trust even more.
They're not? People have asked these questions for decades, hence why they're exploring new options....
Well, using public WiFi is a good example of a situation where there is a reasonable expectation of tampering. Point is there's no easy win if you don't adequately understand your threat model.

If you then end up using the VPN even when you're not on an untrusted network then it's questionable.

The concern with VPNs isn't state level players either. Much more likely to have a rouge admin or hackers at a VPN provider than a big ISP. They get to see your clear text connections too.

Not even talking about minor concerns like the fact that some VPNs won't put you behind a NAT like most networks would. Had an http proxy running and was sending tons of spam traffic to Russian and Ukrainian (I hope that's all they were doing!) websites for weeks before I realized I had to lock down ingress traffic myself.
I’m no authority but the things that come to mind first are Java, C++, and .net because they are ubiquitous, “old”, well-supported, and it’s not overly difficult to find a job making brand new things with them.
Thank you for this post. I'm brand new to ios dev and I was contemplating Interface Builder vs SwiftUI, and hesitatingly went with Interface Builder. This article makes me feel a little better with the decision.
Apache UIMA & Hadoop played key roles in the analytic proficiency of IBM Watson.