skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is the same kind of thinking that has people questioning quarantine protocols (in general, not just this one).

There are competing protocols from different expert sources. Which to trust?

The ones that make a convincing case. See how that works?

Who to believe about Y2K? The engineers who make a convincing case.

(Y2K wasn't nothing, but a huge part of the investment in mitigation was a con. Cables certified where I worked. Every windows95 desktop. Do you believe those engineers who said that was necessary? What about the ones who said, "Yeah probably should check your billing system and interest rate calculations. Airplanes, not so much..." But they usually weren't selling using the fear-frenzy for leverage. Do you remember all that?
Seriously, 49.99 would still be a cheap price on that.
Wisp is neat, and was an inspiration for eslisp. Wisp introduces a lot of syntax, and abstractions to pretend it's on a lisp runtime, which make it harder to learn, and makes it less obvious what happened when stuff breaks. And you can't invoke the compiler inside macros. Those are the things I've tried to improve in eslisp.

Finding traction for a new language is difficult. It requires quite a large mass of work, documentation, and polish, before people view it as stable enough to invest their time in.

For now, I'm happy even if eslisp is viewed as a convoluted experiment. If it dies, perhaps like I found Wisp and had ideas, someone will find this and have ideas. Projects die, progress continues.
The Second Extended File System
You've Heard of Vantablack. Scientists Just Created Super White. It's Cool
So does everyone who got owned by a multinational megacorp. That's when all the human vision goes out the door. Because there's no mechanisms to keep it there, it will eventually wither.

We could have had so many nice things if it wasn't for those things.

It's almost as if there's somewhere a country which acts as a fertile breeding ground for these uncontrollable unregulated monstrosities, to grow really big, and at some point left roaming wild for other countries to deal with "yeah we don't do that here" (by which I mean stuff like false advertising and reasoning like "if it's legal and I make a profit then I get to do it").
You sure would! I’ve been earning 0.85x of the NY market and it’s comparable to senior roles in South East England, but if I moved abroad it’d be awesome. If I could get a Bay Area salary it’d be awesome here too!
It's more like selling an electric kettle without a charger. People are already expecting to pay for water to fill a kettle, just like they pay for electricity to fill the battery.

First time buyers of iPhones aren't unreasonable. Being unreasonable is saying a trillion dollar company is fine to charge more for less.
Apple’s iPhone 12 seems to have a secret reverse wireless charging feature
> Not all branches of pure mathematics are equally worthy of study.

Ok? What does this have to do with the point I was making?

My point was, pretty simply, that "usefulness" is not the only thing we consider when deciding whether something is worthy of study. (If it was we wouldn't have touched most of modern pure mathematics.) As a result, your notion that studying HoTT would be a waste of time because it's not "useful" is nonsense.

> How should one figure out how well-regarded a subfield of mathematics is if not by asking members of the mathematical community?

Oh come on, you really don't understand the point I'm making?

When talking about consensus it's not good enough to say "I've talked to a few people and they agree with me". Work on HoTT, measured by any kind of actual metric rather than "people I've spoken to (who I can't name by the way) say it's bad", is broadly well-regarded and seen as important. In terms of research funding, citation/publication metrics, or the opinion of most mathematicians.

> His comments support the point I intended them to support

No they do not. My objection is to you saying:

* That HoTT is a waste of time.

* That HoTT doesn't have much content.

* That HoTT is not broadly regarded by mathematicians as important or exciting.

Please do not move the goalposts.

> You made a remark about well-regarded mathematicians, and I gave you comments from a well-regarded mathematician.

What? I "made a remark" about well-regarded mathematicians? I said, specifically, "there are loads of well-regarded and prominent mathematicians who hold the opposite view to yours".

I also tried to stress that:

> if you're arguing about consensus you can't just point to one or two individuals

Please bear that in mind.
Sort of, now that Microsoft announced native GUI support coming to WSL2 next year!
Perhaps, something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Thanks for sharing that. I am most interested in working with folks where I can make a difference; not just be a coding cog.

I'm spoiled. In my open-source work, I've done some fairly significant (but still below-the-radar) stuff, and got used to basic, simple, respect; without people trying to wrestle me into some kind of subservient role. That's not to say that we didn't have disagreements. Quite the opposite, in fact. I've done Service for some of the most disagreeable people that you can imagine, and left them happy and enthused.

So I actually looked at a few startups. I have a fairly unique conflux of skills and experience that could make an enormous difference in small teams. What I found, is that they imagine themselves to be "mini-FAANGs," and treat their prospects pretty badly. I know that startups tend to have rather chaotic, personality-laced workplaces (see "working with difficult people," above), but if they can't keep that crap out of their triage interview, then the place, itself, must be a nightmare.

I'm working for free, for a friend. I stepped in, because I watched him being set up by contract houses that were obviously going to do very bad work, for lots of money (they barely hid it; I guess because he's non-technical, and doesn't know better). Since he's doing an NPO, and looking at grants for funding, he can't afford that kind of object lesson.

Instead, he's getting a platform that would make a lot of "big houses" green with envy. For free. This is something that I have a lot of prior art in. It's already pretty awesome, and I've only been working on it for a month.

There's a lot to be said (and gained) by simply treating people with basic respect, and motivating them. The workplace is not the military. If we treat our employees and co-workers badly, they won't stick around. If we treat them well, they could do some pretty amazing stuff.
It is true that the National-Socialism was more race based than class based but the Soviets had a significant racial element too, both with respect to the Jews and with respect to Roma and Slavic peoples.

Likewise, much of what you mentioned could also be said of the Soviets especially under Stalin. Labor rights were crushed in the interest of the state. Likewise with nominally state owned enterprises that were all but controlled by the political class who are now the barons of Russia. Sure you could argue that "it's not true socialism" but what is and why hasn't anyone been able to do it at any appreciable scale?
Sorry I just saw this! Yeah we agreed a minimum average over a sprit of 1 day a week, but more likely 2 a week - I’ll see how I get on, I don’t want to overdo it
Tarkov disagrees
Survival tips for when software testing accidents happen
Yikes! What if you die, but the fascist lives forever? That seems like the worst of both worlds.
I worked AppleCare tech support and there were people who would call in to talk to people or troll, perhaps they were ill, but they would call repeatedly and there problems were largely made up.

Eventually they become known and are handled separately because they would fake problems and drive people insane.

Some people should be banned from support.
The problem is that Google seems to be only one writing good software. If you have used Tizens of mobile vendors or customised Androids they tend to be crap. Google keeps software quality up, forces vendors to roll out patches.
Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims
I'm guess most of your revenue is coming from the prints/merchandise? Do they tend to make they're own or buy a premade one?
As someone who worked through Y2K, over 90% of the money spent accross society was straight-up con. It wasn't nothing, but what a massive sales beat-up it became.

Disagree, go nuts. Who do you trust? The engineer making the convincing case. "Trust engineers" not so much.
I think they meant language runtime/API (for network, graphics etc.) which is generally how developers see an operating system.
I think we called it a win on "The year of desktop linux" when it was clear that Linux was mainstream enough for Microsoft to tie it up with a bow and offer in their app store.

Jokes aside, we're at the point where everyone who wants linux on the desktop can get linux on the desktop without having to struggle. Big, known enterprise-friendly companies like Dell and Lenovo will sell you their flagship and business laptops and desktops running Ubuntu, and it's not uncommon for engineers at the 8000+ not-a-software-company I work at to casually have a Linux machine instead of a Mac or PC. It's not 2010, where you had to be willing to navigate UEFI and "will my broadcom wireless work?" to weed out the casuals from the true-believers.
Records-in-trash take considerable work to access, parse, transmit, and duplicate.

Digital data are immensely reproducible.

Motivated adversaries may be motivated. Ask Dan.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famou...
I believe the current plan is to drop them with a parachute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Centaur#SMART_reuse
So did the Soviets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions_in_the_Soviet_Uni...
Yes. And also possibly a rather serious breach of due diligence revelation requirements in the acquisition process, which might constitute either a serious fraud, or specific securities trading crimes that carry penalties of several years in prison.

Nearly 10 M€ worth of assets of CEO and his parents have been frozen as a precautionary measure.

(Finnish:)
https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/jattimainen-takavarikko-...
I wasn't able to fit the year into the original title, so that's probably the reason.
It is cheaper just to use AMP than hiring a senior web developer to fix a website stuffed with crap.
Anyone remember uTOK? http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html

You could annotate web pages and chat with other uTOK users who happened to visit that same web page. I found it a clever idea (IIRC it acted as a proxy server and added its HTML/JS on top of the pages). I wonder if there's a modern implmentation using browser extensions.

But anyway since this is 2020, imagine a news website's front page with this installed.
Swedish authorities, banks hit by security data leak in hacker attack
Fantastic answer. Thank you
That 1975 photo is in front of Taj Mahal, India.
Is "the harms are visibly outweighing the benefits" too difficult to fathom as a possibility?
Web browsers won't ever be complete. They will bloat until the standard is abandoned and something leaner replaces it, like everything else.
Project Treble also allows writing userspace drivers in Java.

Then besides JX, there was SquawkVM for SPOT, Solaris research for Java drivers, and embedded vendors like PTC and Aicas do support bare metal Java runtimes, which is basically an OS at that point.
I would sue the clinic into oblivion. The clinic is finished anyway, who would go there now?
I always prefer native to web and I love companies like Sketch and Panic who put native first. Take all my money!

Sketch is perfect for me as a solo developer, and I would rather not rely on anything that always requires an internet connection.

Thanks for sticking to native! Would be great if Sketch would return to the Mac App Store too.
> Are the doctors diligent about patching them?

Why should they be, if the system is airgapped?
IMO 2.4GHz is fine, even in the crowded high rise I live in. If I really need high speed for something I just use Ethernet.
Great article!

I have a different point of view.

There are two assumptions I disagree:

Assumption 1: No-code will not benefit from code learnings (or do some equivalent progress)

Probably, because the nature of domain (code vs GUI), the solutions may be different, but it's possible to attack the same problems.

many no-code tools have some type of versioning plus real time sync

many no-code tools have some type of abstraction level extensibility with plugins

...

Assumption 2: Software development is mainly solving complex problems

The other force no-code in the no-code side is, as software industry gets more mature, more patterns are discovered.

Just look how much boilerplate is in each company or unnecessary rework with bad abstractions.
Most of companies doing software today are just rearranging things on screen, or creating some simple pipelines.

Even though RAD, low-code, model driven, etc.. is not a new thing, time has a important role here:

Also as software is getting more popular in last decade, we saw a lot of space for "almost the same" solutions to coexist, allowing more of the production process to be "productized"

This can be different to silicon valley style startups, but most of the market is solving the same old problems everyday.

Full disclosure, I actually have a no-code/low-code startup (https://abstra.app) hence I'm very biased!
They suspended those plans.

> Through 2020, ULA has not announced firm plans to fund and build/test this engine-reuse concept, though they stated in late 2019 that they were "still planning to eventually reuse Vulcan’s first-stage engines."
> And even if we do, spreading the technology beyond the Arizona suburbs will require costly retrofits to add navigational hardware to existing roads.

No it won't? Why would it? Plenty of companies are testing in other areas, and I haven't heard any suggest that they need special hardware on the roads themselves.

Yes, the Phoenix suburbs are the easiest place to start, but that doesn't mean you need special infrastructure in other places. The tech will keep improving, and I predict that this author will turn out to be incredibly wrong.
sounds like the PCs were air gapped
Why wouldn’t there be variation depending on the genes and the phenotype of a population, which can be correlated with skin color? Talking about « races » on the other hand is not neutral.
All your argument is based in the idea of making live more difficult for consumers and easier to business. That seems the wrong way to tip the balance.

Are not going to be business better equipped to deal with unruly customers than mothers/grandfathers/teenagers having to spend time of their private lives navigating hostile interfaces designed to make them give up? Does not this incentivize bad businesses selling counterfeits/damaged goods with the hope that will not be returned?
No, because then there would be no need to point out how much she cares. She specifically said that to highlight how little she cares for it, but said the phrase incorrectly.
I would nominate "data apocalypse" based on the literal meaning of apocalypse (disclosure), but it seems others have already coined the phrase for various other events.
This is not about cultural but brand appropriation.
Yes, I think a lot of people here didn't read beyond the first third of the article, which is understandable because it tries to be very poetic and sci-fi and fails to actually make clear what it's talking about until more than halfway through.
Maybe, but wireless is new (my iPhone 7 doesn't have it), so it hasn't come up before now.

But, that just means I have to buy 2 new wall warts (need the high power one, IIRC), still need 1 new cable (unless it's included with he wireless pad), and 2 wireless pads.

And it's not an option in the car, because CarPlay requires a cable (in 90% of cars, AFAIK only BMW has implemented wireless CarPlay).
Lucky you, that had access to a graphical browser!

My first experience was sending an email with the url I wanted to access to a server that would send back the hypertext document a few minutes later.

Edit: Something like https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1996-02-20-3077566-story.h...
Well, the predictions 15 years ago that we’d have fleets of self driving cars on all our roads long before now didn’t age all that well either.

I remember a friend saying my kids would never need to learn how to drive. My eldest started her driving lessons last month.
For me it only takes 1 second. The wait time is configurable, by setting the iter-time: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/497746/how-to-chang...
Thanks!

Upgrading OS is the main source of frustration and time wasted in my pro-audio world. So I salute you - iOS10 survivor!

Note - listening to audio in cars, it's a compromise. It's never ideal, so I wouldn't sweat the quality - but you're right to question the reliability.

Use the good old, eco-friendly, headphone jack!

(All consumer wireless is ONLY instigated by Apple because it is cheaper for Apple, but consequently a poorer, less eco, experience for the world)
A new kind of monopoly: Amazon
> I do not see what moral claim we have, at all.

All art is based upon the past. Think of how many times the plays of Shakespeare have been remade and reinterpreted. His works represent a share heritage that generations of artists have freely borrowed from.

And Shakespeare did the same thing! Hamlet is based on a 13th century legend of Amleth. Should a high school production of Hamlet in 2022 be required to pay royalties to the 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus?

> Markets don't always work, but here's a place where they've worked exceptionally well.

I agree but I don't see why a reasonable fixed term, such as 25 years, wouldn't work as well and allow the cultural well to refill. Think of how liberating it would be to be able to, for example, freely sample music from 1993 or earlier. And every year we all get more!
It's interesting to read back over past discussion of this question.
Among the more interesting academics is Herbert Simon, and his 1977 essay "What Computers Mean for Man and Society" makes a strong case for the positive impacts of increased utilisation of computer technology. It also specifically discusses the privacy concerns, in one paragraph.

That, unfortunately for Simon's case, contains an egregious factual error, though one which may not have been known to Simon at the time:

The Nazis operated with horrifying effectiveness and thoroughness without the benefits of any kind of mechanized data processing.

Screenshot:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103059230160200494

Source:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a9e7/33e25ee8f67d5e670b3b7d...

Unfortunately, we're now very well aware that this was not the case. Not only did Nazi German prosecute the Holocaust with the extensive aid of mechanised data processing technologies, but they did so using American technology, provided and supported, with full knowledge, by IBM:

Edwin Black has documented this in his horrific book, IBM and the Holocaust (2012)

https://ibmandtheholocaust.com

https://www.worldcat.org/title/ibm-and-the-holocaust-the-str...

To paraphrase Lord Acton, it appears that data corrupts, and absolute data corrupts absolutely.
He's raised it to this year!

>“It’s almost getting to a point where I can go from my house to work with no interventions, despite going through construction and widely varying situations,” he said.

>“So this is why I’m very confident about full self-driving functionality being complete by the end of this year. It’s because I’m literally driving it.”

Though reading that it sounds more like the car can drive from A to B on it's own sometimes rather than with any reliability.
This same argument could be made about browsers depending on the value one places on specific advances.

The original author is arguing there will be a point where there’s simply nothing new to add to the browser because it will do everything the OS does. There are any number of ways to argue just not how it works.
This is good developments. Would love to see swift action in the case of data breaches elsewhere.
>I think most of us just wants it to be more reliable than a human driver that's not drunk or sleep deprived

That is a seriously low bar, and in no way do I think the majority of people feel that driving "better than a drunk" is good enough. In fact, I think it will be the opposite: people will want it to be almost flawless before it's accepted.
>>It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Just imagine working for a boss who had been climbing the company ladder 200 years. Or trying to buy a house in a market where people had been accumulating capital for centuries. And lest we think it's just the the economic system, look at the average age of politicians. Or science, the researchers who hold the most prestige are likely past the point of embracing new ideas. Any advantage which can be accumulated over time would be held almost exclusively by the oldest, and the world would stagnate.

Death is the natural law which requires every generation to pass the torch. Without it, there'd be no life for the young.
Super cool! I managed to select a game and get to the title screen, but then the controller stopped working? Well, it looks like the app was able to receive my button press to start the game, but no button presses on the gamepad did anything in the actual emulated state. Chrome on MacOS. None of the buttons work at all in Safari, of course.
I have the greatest startup idea ever: Selling petrol-driven generators with a web interface for charging electric cars. Premium tier will include automatic refuel ordering. Of course the generators will be completely useless when the web is down or our hosting company goes out of business.
Even in the less dense areas, the side of the road is filled with buried utility lines (it’s cheap).

I’m also curious what the tolerances of these magical “wires alongside the road” have.
These sorts of envy-dripping comments are appalling to read and really bring the tone of any discussion down a few notches.
Set up a CDN first, then move your origin server somewhere else.
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Are Astronaut-Style Face Shields the Future of PPE?
FYI They hit 300 bar for a 90 second run last week before it started to have issues. Getting there.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1318708955628118025
I wasn’t recommending something, I was describing it!

This was before the internet.

The very real threat were people trying to locate young victims taken into care etc.

The center, on their own initiate, mitigated this by physically locking the computers into safes.

They also used classic usernames and passwords, but I don’t think encrypted storage was a thing then.
How outdated/out of touch was that line about Women managing children in a covid world?

Just say "parents".
Open source framework to start programming drones within an hour
I can see it being possible to "average out" the mortality of self-driving cars when you consider how high road mortality is. But they won't be the same deaths, some would be things a human driver would avoid. We generally define the safety requirements of self-driving cars as being close to airliner reliability but also generally accept that roads, cars and drivers have much lower standards than that right now. So in this environment we can very soon be stuck in an uncanny valley where self-driving cars would already be a net positive in reducing road fatalities but at a level that is still generally considered unacceptable.
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