skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also recommend Matt Levine, he's just great. Here's a blog post I wrote a couple of months ago to talk about him:

https://blog.plover.com/ref/money-stuff.html

I said "Almost every issue teaches me something interesting I didn't know, and almost every issue makes me laugh" and I showed four examples. If you're looking for a quick intro to what he's like, maybe check it out.

He's still on paternity leave but I hope he'll return soon.
> Not so sure where Nvidia is heading for this since Not everyone will have a CUDA GPU.

Maybe it will be exclusive to Android devices.

Or maybe it will work on any device (consuming CPU or GPU depending on the hardware) but only on Nvidia's communication app.
We are happy to release new transcription software for journalists. The interview transcription service supports 30+ languages and powered by domain-optimized speech recognition models. Domain-optimized models were trained on domain-specific language data to better understand domain-specific terminology. The speech recognition accuracy for different domains up to 96% depending on audio quality.
I mean, you're just repeating a sibling comment, but if development has been this way for a long time, it's on the folks who are suggesting the new way to get out there and prove that it's a viable model for software development. It appears that most real-world, actually used software works like this.

I am all about improving the world, don't get me wrong, but saying "hey this software works just like all the other software" isn't really the insult that you seem to think that it is.
Simple Multi-Step User Onboarding (Written in React)
Interesting, I just interviewed with them last year and ended up not moving forward because they wanted me to move to Washington.

Same with Google, except they wanted me to move to New York.

I was pretty surprised at both company's unwillingness to be flexible on that point.
Thank you very much for doing this. I have permanent residency, and children younger than 21 who live abroad. If I were to apply for permanent residency for them, would they be able to visit the US as tourists while the process is ongoing, or come to study to an American university with a student visa?
The primary driver seems to be a psychological need to feel unique, unlike "the sheep" out there https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/why-the-pandemic-is-tu...
> in fact the West is the single sustained success story out of many civilizations with periods of scientific flourishing

I find this statement problematic. The West is leading the current period of scientific revolution, as the Muslims, the ancient Chinese and Indians did during their periods of scientific achievement.
I've been struggling with this for a long while, so much I'd think to go to study group about the subject or go into sociology.

A place can rot to quite a surprising amount yet people in it won't be able to react.
> does not outweigh the catastrophic failure modes

Here's the opposite catastrophic failure mode which the enlightened free speech defenders fail to notice (or do notice but don't care because they're not the affected parties - or at least doesn't think it affects them or are simply accomplices)

Truckloads and truckloads of unchecked fabricated BS drowning the discourse. Mob censorship.
They're removing bots. I for one appreciate the lowered noise floor. If a platform (Facebook) is claiming that it's for people, then we should know when a post is from a person or a bot.
It's my second go at getting a TN visa (for Computer Systems Analyst designation) and you don't necessarily need a CS degree, but if you don't have one, you will need at least a two year diploma and three years of experience in the field.

My current TN visa application was held up by USCIS questioning my experience in the field, and the validity of the visa for my new role. (Despite having cleared both last year. Figures.)

I wrote about my first experience [0], if you're curious!

[0] https://jonlim.ca/blog/getting-computer-systems-analyst-tn-b...
There is a separate, higher IRS max for employee+employer contribution (this is why many jobs can offer 401k matching), and that number is somewhere around $55k these days. But there is a loophole—when you are your own employer, i.e. self employed, you can contribute that full amount to your own 401k.
That is sometimes the case, but you also don't have to work a job to be covered under employer-sponsored health insurance -- you could simply be related to someone with a job.
> Social media is the new tabloid salacious media

We’re living through a modern rehash of yellow journalism [1]. Both were spurned by free societies adapting to new communication technologies.
Right I should have specified I was talking about the Aeron.

The Embody is interesting. Up front I’m much more willing to trust a brand like Herman Miller to produce a chair that’s actually functional and ergonomic so that’s a plus. The interesting thing to me is really that they have a regular version and a gamer version and they appear to be really be the same with some minor tweaks (added foam in the seat and different material to help with cooling) and then a bit more flamboyant styling. I will say they actually did a good job with the styling. The original design is pretty subdued and the blue while somewhat aggressive isn’t too over the top and is only really noticeable from the back. I guess then my take is it seems like a reprint with a “For Gamers” sticker slapped on it to try and break into the gamer market. Personally I’d probably buy the plain black one if I was going to buy one but I’d be interested to see a side-by-side comparison from someone to see if those minor tweaks are actually worth it.
National identity. Colonialism tended to produce totally novel countries, and often who was put in charge was largely random.

It’s not just a colonialism thing either; in Europe wars often resulted in territorial change; the territory was then the cause of the next war.
There’s a lot of drama associated with this stuff. 100% of nothing is less than 70% of something.

When I was in college I interned at a company that negotiated retail placements for stuff like software. The 30% slice is a much better model than the terms our customers were stuck with.

In some cases, software people lose more in the channel for commercial software as well — companies like SHI skim the cream for doing almost nothing. I can say as someone running a big enterprise org that there is no chance in hell that I’m wasting time negotiating terms with little companies, but Apple’s App Store model makes it possible to buy stuff.
> It's also sedition to attempt a violent overthrow of a state government or the federal government.

Sedition can also be speech that incites a revolt, and it carries a punishment of up to 20 years in the US.
It's amazing to see them sharing the stage and talking about their first achievement with such dignity and depth.

It's even more mind-blowing when you realize that Shelley went ahead and started Ensemble Studios[1] that created the Age of Empires franchise which is still alive today[2]. And Civilization is today still under development and even more successful than ever before.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Studios

2. https://www.ageofempires.com/games/age-of-empires-iv/

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Timezone differences remain a problem.
Again, I am only speaking of logic bugs here. You cannot introduce memory safety bugs without unsafe code.

> I don't think I'm ever going to convinced that the error handling wasn't a huge and unfixable mistake.

That's fine. No language can satisfy everyone.
> Are you denying the existence of rampant age discrimination in tech

My interpretation was that ptero meant "I don't see my peers working 80 hours a week, with the aim of getting rich and retiring early"
Datacenter Vulnerability
Datacenter is cleary a single point of failure. It easy to not notice someone pop in into the datactre if noone knows who they are, or is it really the case? Like for example some contract worker, let's say a 'cleaner' who was not vetted. Enters the datacenter with a laptop in a washing bucket. And you can imagine what kind of damage can be done.
Now this a clear vulnerability of a datacenter, So let's take into account that it is the single oint of failure. And Probably there will be another social engineering hacks in the future does to the fact that datacenters are that vulnerable. To t avoid this level of vulnerability which further consider embracing the distributed systems design of the internet.
> The potential good that could come from this does not outweigh the catastrophic failure modes of this approach.

Such as?
There are a number of other stories which address this as well.

Sometimes without the trope you mention (L. Sprague de Kamp's The Gnarly Man[0])

And sometimes with a variation on it (Heinlein's Methuselah's Children[1]), which he follows up with some of the same characters, but not invoking the trope (Time Enough for Love[2]).

There are many others of course, those are just the ones that came off the top of my head.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnarly_Man

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love
Hope they don't see this.
You're substituting reality for your ideal. Sure, I believe we should have public schooling teach more raw critical thinking, rhetoric and civics. But you're not going to get the existing billion people in the online world, many of whom are some combination of hotheaded or ignorant of the wicked ways of misinformation, to suddenly "improve their informational diet".

The people who are most likely to take that advice are the ones least in need of it.

I am glad Facebook and Twitter are taking what must be very careful, researched actions against clear evidence of powerful forces using social media as a tool against reality.
> with a standard that is rarely matched by third party libraries

I mean, you can go both ways with this. Standard libraries are significantly more difficult to work on than third party libraries, and I've seen a lot of code in standard libraries that is objectively worse than ecosystem equivalents because of it.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The catastrophic failure mode of doing nothing is that democracies vote to stop being democratic, and do so with deafening applause. It has happened before.

Let them fight disinformation; also require them to be open about how they are doing it so they can’t become a disinformation provider of their own — there are already enough people, left and right, who think FB et al are censoring their ‘truths’ for nefarious reasons.
> In India Astrology is now being treated as a Science and the Modi government is considering allowing alternate medicine (Ayurveda / Homeopathy / Unani) "doctors" to prescribe allopathic medicines.

I have had Astrologers visit my house when Modi was no where around in the national political scene. And exploring alternative medicine is hardly specific to Modi government. Even WHO is doing it:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/24/health/traditional-chines...

Though I agree that pseudo-science like Homeopathy should not be promoted in any way and ancient medical knowledge like Ayurveda should be strictly regulated and rigorously tested.
They might fade when we boomers do, but they also could stay in that sweet spot of people who have disposable income and are apt to spend it— a sweet spot advertisers love. They could end up targeting 40-65 year olds perpetually.
it's an interesting choice. i would have thought that fortifying http client libraries for major languages would be more important, but maybe they've already been hardened and interactive use of curl is a vector.

makes me wonder about other interactive tooling. would be interesting if there were malicious binaries that were benign at runtime but triggered bugs in debuggers and profilers.
Craft Commerce if you wanted to stay on PHP? Woocommerce and Magento both run into terrible performance issues at any sort of scale.
"Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias"

I'm not sanguine. Be honest, which would you bet on happening in the majority of cases?

I wonder sometimes if it's almost part of some fundamental psychology?
Actually I misread this. VMWare is specifically saying that they've run ESXi-Arm on windmills. So it's exactly the same thing: They seem to be thinking about going embedded, and RPi turns out to be a good board for a lot of industrial use cases.
Because C is stuck in the dark ages.

Textual preprocessors are evil.
The House Report on Big Tech and Competition
It isn't much to ask at all, but what you describe makes little sense.

1) What's the issue with "showman pop and some water droplets"? What's the difference between producing 1 mL or 1 gallon of water in terms of _verification_?

2) You can verify it in various ways, including obtaining back oxygen and hydrogen from water. You can measure the weight of the water you've used (and derive the number of molecules), and the weight of the gases you obtain (and again check that it matches what you've provided).

3) Sure, your sensors (eyes, ears, etc.) are not accurate/fast enough to literally see two H2 molecules and one O2 molecule creating two H2O. If you feel that this in itself is enough to impede verification then we have an issue. You can always go back to a point where your eyes are enough to validate an hypothesis and build from there, so everything holds. But you seem to be asking that for _every_ scientific proof in our modern world, which is just mischievous.
Wow I had no idea this was happening. I wonder if taxing the hell out of these trucks would tip the scales toward moving the logistics closer to the destination market, which I presume is the bay area and peripherals.
if I am reading this correctly, and this is likely a simplification,

-you build an RFID tag and embed it in a product

-the tag is unreadable until a certain condition is met

-once the condition is met, the tag becomes readable

-a reader device (cell phone?) notices the new tag

-using [some code] the readability of the tag is used to execute an action such as reordering a product
Ha, the same group that is responsible for accept cookie popups?
> It's "classist" to kill stormtroopers since they're probably just "low-middle income people making ends meet?"

https://www.theonion.com/death-star-to-open-day-care-center-... gives a very different way to think of the destruction of the Death Star. :)
In SeaweedFS both metadata and data are portable.

You can move metadata to any faster scalable data store. And/or move the data to any cheaper/faster/larger storage, in cloud or in your garage.
In the EU consumer protection law mandate this. You have to be able to cancel in all the same ways that you can sign up. The most common way to pay subscriptions is with SEPA direct debit, and banks have to let you revoke those authorizations even retro-actively for 90 days.
Could you elaborate? In both Ireland's and Korea's cases, despite their relatively small size, both nations have notable scientific output. What's different about them?
[Not OP; NAL] - As long as the primary purpose for renouncing your citizenship was not to avoid taxation, there is no direct consequence for immigration purposes. You can visit as a nonimmigrant according to the same visa requirements and procedures as someone else from your own country.

If you want to become a citizen again, you will first have to find a way to get an immigrant visa or come on a dual-intent route like H1-B. Then live here for five years and apply to naturalize same as anyone else. The good news is even if you moved to a country like China or India with extra wait times for visas, it won't affect you since you were not born there.

There are a few statues that disqualify renouncees from certain benefits such as owning a gun, IDK if you can ever get those back.
Sid links to it on Twitter.
I find that product descriptions can be hard to parse when they fail to describe the problem they solve, and instead focus only on describing aspects of their solution.
The App Store also shows the list of IAPs for an app so you can distinguish between the add-on and garbage style before installing.
I agree, but it really depends on the context and if it is really properly designed (which takes a lot of effort).

Personally I don't mind waiting a couple of seconds for Gmail to load, but I hate to load that much for Twitter which is also an SPA. Not sure what the psychology is there.
If someone earned a master's degree in the US in a specific topic, topic A, but has a foreign bachelor's degree in a different topic, topic B, and has a job in topic A, will the State Department disqualify them from getting an H1B visa because of the bachelor's degree topic?
Agreed. Unless they're dismantling themselves I really don't trust this effort.
It's great to see Microsoft jumping on board. I think the reason that Microsoft was hesitant to do this initially was because they have enjoyed high productivity increases over the past few years (especially on the software development side thanks to awesome tools like TypeScript) and so they didn't want to risk losing that momentum. Thankfully it appears that Microsoft employees have been able to adapt to remote work and were able to maintain similar productivity levels.

I think it speaks to the high quality of project managers who work at Microsoft. Project managers are the foundation of any solid tech business.
Evolution may of course be ongoing but not speciation in the sense of splitting into different species as we are now constantly mixing.

Speciation processes may return once we start colonising other planets as it is highly possible that physical contacts between populations will stop.
I have a PhD from Cambridge, a degree in CS, etc. I have a great biotech startup idea and some funding secured in the EU.

However, I would prefer to execute it in the US as I prefer how the startup ecosystem looks over there. Is it worth the trouble / doable in terms of immigration laws to move there and bring my cofounder and some employees?
Sounds like a generic search subsequent to arrest.

Well within the law and normal.
totally agree, I think 'IOT' had become somethign like 'blockchain' where it was used to describe many things because it was hip.

As an analogy, this idea starts to look like the growth of internet retail post pets.com -> the nonsense is stripped away and the core idea becomes the revolution through simplification
At Barnes & Noble it was tucked away near the D&D books. Impossible to find without floor staff help.
In the Netherlands it's the law that you're always allowed to reduce your hours, while keeping the same (hourly) salary and benefits. If your employer disagrees the burden of proof is on THEM to proof that your job would not be doable part-time.

This (and to be honest also fiscal policy) has resulted in the largest part-time workforce in the world. In Dutch e-mail it's very common to find the days people work in the signature at the bottom.

Even though it's not mandatory most people will start by taking Wednesday and/or Friday off. So over time the work culture here became to plan meetings on Mo-Tue-Thu, along with drinks on Thursdays in stead of Fridays. As someone who works 40h still this is such a net-positive for me as well, I love that people don't really plan meetings on Wednesday and Fridays and you can just work.

73% of all women work part-time, as do 23% of the men. Only half of all working Dutch people work fulltime.

Part-time is anything between 12h and 32h a week.

I hope this would become the norm everywhere as it truly frees up everyone to suit their needs.
they...are grad students who get a stipend from the university to TA classes and measure their success by number and quality of papers published?
> Facebook and Twitter are taking what must be very careful, researched action

Sorry but are we talking about the same companies? What track record do they have that helps you to believe this?
How to Fix a Conference? Rehearse Your Speakers – Yesthatblog.com
I'd bet there are easily 10s of thousands of "critical" scripts that rely on curl.
This could be such a boon for Redmond. The area is way too expensive and the traffic is horrific, and this is mostly due to Microsoft workers needing to be in the office. We finally quit our jobs and left, but this could certainly help for the future!
Indeed, in the case of LTE comms and mobile chips the difference in power usage is greater than six orders of magnitude.
Ask HN: Why is Covid-19 causing shark fatalities in Australia?
Use of beaches is down, shark deaths are at a record high

https://taronga.org.au/conservation-and-science/australian-shark-attack-file
http://www.sharkattackdata.com/gsaf/place/australia

(2020) 7
(2019) 0
(2018) 1
(2017) 1
(2016) 2
(2015) 2
(2014) 5
(2013) 2
(2012) 2
(2011) 4
(2010) 1
(2009) 0
(2008) 2
(2007) 0
(2006) 1
What problem does Apple have with PWAs (apart from monetary ones ofcourse), how are they justifying not implementing features in browser for a good PWA?
I see a "[1]", but I don't see anything referencing it, did you mean to add a link?

If anyone else is unfamiliar with the term, I found a wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
There appear to be two unrelated (and I can't tell if useless?) components to this.

1. Mechanical actuation generates transmission power. Ok, how is this better than RF induction given that you need to build an antenna into your object anyway?

2. Mechanical actuation changes transmission by tiny (fragile?) gears. This appears to be measuring the wrong thing in their demonstrative example. You don't care about how many times a detergent bottle cap has been twisted. You care about how much detergent is left in the bottle.

All of their examples involve either no sensing or secondary sensing that would be best decoupled from mechanical actuation. A slider could be a super simple variable capacitor. A button requires no signal modification. Leak sensors are typically constructed by simply opening/closing a circuit by direct contact with the liquid. Fluid level sensing is only slightly more involved than leak sensing, and is best done directly, not based on estimated usage.

> Gollakota suggested that e-commerce websites would like to know how a user might be interacting with the objects they sell

Oh, great!

> (after the user has given consent of course)

Of course.
It does when the server has to communicate with distant services/databases.

Also an SPA doesn't alleviate network latency either between the browser and the API.
In general they would probably look like garbage in any email client that provides a secure place to look at HTML emails. It isn't just text mode clients that have that issue.
A lot of palladium and platinum is completely consumed in catalytic converters in IC exhausts - scattered as dust. As IC declines, this will be freed. road-dust in places might be worth gathering??
In addition, the membranes will be in large facilities and are not consumed, although they need to be melted and made anew as sites get poisoned.
I see batteries as the winners, with hydrogen as a niche - that said, even a niche is large on the global scale and once optimised, will be part of the overall process whereby we get rid of all IC engines
Deadly serious.

If writers actually follow these guidelines, god help us. Imagination will be curtailed and suffer, and we the readers will suffer as a result.

This misguided attempt to "wokify" storytelling is reminiscent of the attempts by INGSOC in 1984 to eliminate the expression of the shades of meaning inherent in ambiguity and nuance from Oldspeak (Standard English). In order to reduce the language's function of communication, Newspeak uses concepts of simple construction: pleasure vs. pain, happiness vs. sadness. Goodthink vs. crimethink linguistically reinforces the State's totalitarian dominance of the people of Oceania.

I hope nobody follows those guidelines. I pitty the fool who does.
It’s ironic that those IP ranges are now recorded and distributed in code.