skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Rise and Fall of a Fracking Boom Town
But what's the alternative to looking at examples of success? Looking at examples of failure? Working from a-priori theories? Both seem worse.
Just a random opinion:

You don't need math at all to make a computer program. All you need is a computer with some kind of language that is easy to run installed and a tutorial for hello world for it.

But what about programming a program that does some math calculations? Seem like it would be good to know those math calculations that you need to implement...

Or lets take accounting software for example? You need basic math most of the time but it turns out it is quite valuable to know about accounting. Yes, you can write an accounting software without knowing any accounting and just depend on what product manager tells you. But it is much easier to understand what he is saying if you know a lot about accounting... It is also much easier and faster to make decisions without going to product for each tiny detail.

You can expand this to the problem of building teams. You can read few tutorials on agile development and what not, however knowing psychology and having enough empathy to understand people you work with in depth will bring much better results then any so called management book that is taken literally.

And so it goes... The more you know about how world works the better decisions you can make that eventually might lead you to better solutions to the problem at hand.

This is a general thing in life in my experience, but also one that seems to be looked over quite often... The more you know about problem domain the better you will be at problem solving inside that domain. Coding that solution into a computer program at that point is just a matter of knowing how to use that tool (which is a specific problem domain in of it self.)
Facebook because of its hypocrisy and censorship but all the contacts are there and some even insist on it.
I hate Facebook so much. The rose colored glasses or gtfo policy.

I also hate Steam for this reason where you can't voice your opinion or you'll get banned. I've reached a 1 year ban now just for speaking my mind. Valve and its double standards or rather anti consumer mods have absolute power and Valve won't do anything about it, even if the mod banned someone by mistake.

And finally my bank. They decided to up the price from 3€/month to 8€ in 18 months. Without any additional benefits to me. That and since PSD2 I can't check my account anymore via FinTS 3.0 api without providing a OTP for each single action.

And now really finally the state mafia and their corrupt regime, esp the EU that sits on top of it stealing our money and creating insider laws and regulations.

Oh yeah Google Adsense... don't get me started
How could it be competitive with GPUs in terms of price-per-unit-performance? Seems like GPUs are expensive only because you can't rent a small portion of a GPU? But shouldn't that be possible with GPU virtualisation?

Or is it the case that if you virtualised a GPU up into tiny pieces, the memory-to-flops ratio would be way off what's needed for inference? Or the virtualisation overhead would be too big?

Those are all genuine questions, just to be clear - this is not my area of expertise.
Thanks for the recommendations
NIST finally jumped on the “long passwords are stupid and password rotations are for suckers” bandwagon about 3 years ago.

Problem is PCI, HIPAA and others haven’t changed their rules to accommodate. However, auditors aren’t stupid. I’ve told mine, “here, look at the new NIST standard” and they say “okay, yea MFA is better”. As long as you can point to their technology standards agency (NIST, FIPS, DISA, etc) you should be good to go.
When the options are either wake up in a shitty world and have no money or wake up in a shitty world and have a lot of money I don’t know why people choose the former. Maybe some sort of “survivors guilt”.
Either that, or they understood exactly what they were doing and simply needed to shut down 911 services for a while - perhaps so they could commit some sort of crime without the authorities being able to be summoned or coordinate.
> That's because there are over 700 of them:

And... what's wrong with that specifically please? Tonnes of companies have hundreds and even thousands of patents. The original claim that innovation is being blocked needs a clear example to support it.

> No volume price breaks, no prototype-quantity orders (at any price), no partnering with other manufacturers, no shared development projects

None of this sounds like blocking innovation. Sounds more like a difference in perception about costs. It would be like me expecting to get preferential treatment from one of the LCD vendors to develop something.

> but you're not supposed to be able to sit on a patent hoard this large while behaving this badly

I see a lot of superlatives but googling doesn't give me any hint of what you're referring to as their bad behaviour.
It goes encrypted, but hardly anyone checks TLS certificates on SMTP connections. That means you're not safe against any ISP on the route who could simply proxy with a self signed cert...

Thats barely better than unencrypted.
To be fair, exponential growth can have a rather large time-constant and it still is exponential. Most valuation/inflation/stock market/house market plots that span more than a decade or two are indeed logarithmic plots because much of these curves indeed follow exponentials.
Then, Arnold also says that mechanics is geometry in phase space (which subsumes physics in mathematics, like in the later “mathematical universe hypothesis” metaphysicians).
You are missing a key component of terrorism which is that the political violence is illegal/not lawful.

Political violence which is in line with societal norms is not terrorism. The value judgement isn't implied, it's the main the feature of the word.
New Gingerbread Monolith Spotted in San Francisco
“ The shift away from animal-based protein is mainly being driven by health concerns, experts say. Obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease increased in Brazil in recent years as people adopted more sedentary lifestyles and junk food became increasingly cheap and accessible.

Rising deforestation, much of which is driven by the meat industry, and an increasingly visible animal rights movement, are secondary factors pushing Brazilians to reduce or phase out animal products from their diets.”
Well to really see the issue I think you need a contrast: Why do eels make an enormously long journey, when other species don't? Why can we do it closer to home and they not?
There’s a difference between applied physics and theoretic physics as well.

Every discipline has its ivory tower and “plebeian” branches.

No need to give physics a free pass :)
The data scientists don't know they need it yet just like the JavaScript devs didn't think they n needed it.

I've already started seeing organic adoption of assertions.
That’s not really the case. Version X+2 is not automatically better than Version X+1.

It may have fixed known vulnerabilities a,b, and c but introduced vulnerabilities d, e, f, and g. How would anyone know?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_differential - and it indeed requires separate motors for each driven wheel.
“...despite listening...”

Yes, there’s a protocol behind that port. Just like there’s one behind port 22, 80, 443... you can’t just dump http to 443 and get a useable document in return.
In the UK at least Domino's pizzas are basically exactly as good as they need to be.

The garlic-hollandaise thing they come with is disgusting but the actual pizza itself is usually pretty good, if unhealthy. I enjoy making my own pizzas from scratch so I rarely order but the quality is impressive for the volume they have.

The delivery times don't seem to be particularly different from Uber eats or similar.
> There is no point in even trying to improve the technology right now because the patent holder would just take it anyway

I don't follow your thesis. Are you claiming there's someone out there who is being blocked by the eink manufacturer with a threat of a patent?
Yes, it is possible to strip out subsystems from the linux kernel, but there are limits. For example: https://weeraman.com/building-a-tiny-linux-kernel-8c07579ae7...

They achieved a compressed linux kernel size of just 749 kB which additionally requires at least 12 MB of RAM to boot. This is very impressive, but there a constrained systems with 1 MB or less of memory.
No need to highlight this here. 99% of HN readers know 3b1b
There is a difference between FIPS validated and FIPS compliant. I may be mistaken, but from looking on CVMP, it does not appear that Bcrypt itself is FIPS validated algorithm.

Edit: List of approved security functions for FIPS 140-2 can be found here: https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/publications/fips/140/2/fin...
PURPOSEFULLY interfered with someone else's product by making it slower. Like Pepsi finding a way to dilute Coke's concentration in each bottle.
Tiny X existed and Basic Linux ran in those specs:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/
GoDaddy phishes employees with fake bonus email
I can only speculate, but it was during the course of a reference check for someone connected to this circle. So, likely this was done to look into me, demonstrate power over me, and let me know they are "watching".
What a strange thing to pardon...

https://archive.is/uAjk3

After the convictions, the Heenes moved to north-central Florida, where they have home-schooled their three sons. Mr. Heene said their children were doing “exceptionally well.”
Mr. Heene said that the pardon would allow him to get a general contractor’s license in Florida, and that he planned to apply to appear on the entrepreneurial reality show “Shark Tank.”
UPS is similar. The process to make a claim for a lost, late, or damaged package is tedious and manual. I imagine that's not a mistake.
The big dams on the upper Columbia do not have fish ladders. Although Grand Coulee did have one during construction. I've been looking for data on survival rates for upstream fish... but a brief search hasn't turned up the data I was looking for.
Darcs supports “replace” semantics where you can rename a variable say across the whole project with just as you suggest, a single meaningful commit.
For me as a consumer, it feels like it would be far less effort to just reboot the device and get on with my life.
It's not just an implementation detail! The whole idea is to locally run / manage / extend a system for personal data. I don't want to put PHP at the heart of my private infrastructure. Any such system needs to resonate with the tools and technologies I use and/or want to embrace.
It's not quite the same though, there's a light framework involved for defining how the html is inserted, it's over websockets, new request types, etc.

But point taken, I recall using similar techniques a long time ago. I think the pendulum is swinging because front-end development has gone down such a rabbit hole with state management that people are wondering if they can remove all the overhead of redux, translating JSON, client side routing, etc. In most cases, they probably can I reckon.
Scientific hypothesis need to be verifiable and falsifiable. Most hypothesis that follow them are sciences. Mathematics is one of them and so are many others.
NPM Package to present local build logs in nicer UI with analytics
Hi,
I am working on a side project and want to understand if my project is going to be useful or not?
Will you use a package that will ship your local build and running logs to the cloud, and will display them in a nice UI, so that you will have a track of how often you run build, how much time it takes, which tests failed etc.
In case of an error, you will be able to share them with your teammates in a single click.
Do you think such a package will be useful?
Thanks
The tactic is fine, but it’s probably because that it was tied to money, bonuses, and the holidays that came across as tone deaf.
They focused on pizza quality, did an ad campaign, got some positive press about pizza reformulation.
Zoom Shared US User Data with Beijing
> We could have had large form, glossy brochure quality displays with video refresh rates by now

Based on what principle? It strikes me as most of the comments here lack a basic understanding of the physics behind electrophoresis. It is an inherently slow process.

> ...or more than 16 levels (4-bit) of grayscale, something that a hobbyist has already shown is possible:

a simple google search showed me that you're quite badly mistaken. 5-bit grayscale or 32 levels is widely used. Just google nxp 6sololite 5-bit eink and you'll find "Up to 5-bit pixel grayscale representation" and has been for 5 or 6 years.
Moderna has received many grants from the government even before their Covid play.
I do like the author's point about understanding vs knowledge. Often I see the industry and their evangelists recycling old ideas as the new shiny thing with t-shirts and conferences, and it can feel daunting to keep up.
TL;DR:

Former Zoom executive Jin Xinjiang worked with Chinese authorities to provide data on users outside of China.

It allegedly told Zoom that if it wanted to get back into the Chinese market, it had to monitor user communications, censor unacceptable topics, give data on around 1 million people in the United States, and hand over special access to Zoom's systems.

Zoom got back into China's market in November of last year.
If you enjoy this, don't miss the video lecture on World War 2-era mechanical fire control computers by the U.S. Navy. I learned you can do a lot of computations with gears and shafts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug
Amongst young CS students (active online at least) I assume a large proportion consume at least a little bit of stuff like manga and anime.
Or Nethack. I played even under a PSP, playable with keybindings and a lot of patience.
Bureaucrats track compliance. People who know security and bureaucracy (ideally) design the standards. Engineers are still responsible for building secure systems that happen to also check all the compliance boxes.

Compliance is mostly intended to prevent really hideous errors from falling through the cracks. Nobody believes that you can't build a compliant, insecure system, or that you can't build a secure, non-compliant system.
you know, as they say, "(...) consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds (...)"
As a non-CS engineer who writes software for a living, I can definitely say that there are times that I wish I had formal training in algorithms, parallel data structures, compilers, operating systems and hardware. There are many times that I need to rewrite my code because of non-adequate design. Other times I reach corner cases that take me too long to debug, only to realize much later that there was a lower-level explanation for the unexpected behavior.
The Venn diagram on anti-government militias and 5G conspiracy theorists is pretty close to a circle
https://www.openwater.cc/technology
In general anything Mary Lou Jepsen touches will be on my to watch list.

Dynamicland

Graph processing hardware accelerators

Content addressable web
How much math you need for programming does not have a single right answer. Often you can get away with very little math, but if you know math, you may be able to see patterns in the domain you are working in that allows you to come up with a much better and more elegant solution than you would otherwise. Or you can attack problems that the people around you consider too hard or go beyond the standard library used in your domain.

Then, if you don't know the math that applies, you may never even see the opportunity, and be convinced that math does not applies to what you do, and that you never needed it in the first place.

And often, it makes you the most natural person to work on the most interesting and challenging problems.
In a well-functioning system, the auditors ensure the agreed security policy is implemented; they shouldn't have any power over what the policy says.

As such, the author cannot (should not be able to!) change the policy by appealing to the auditors.

Explaining why you are non-compliant to the auditors is a wasted effort: you are talking to the wrong people.
Does Boeing's MCAS not meet your definition of 'software'?
bcrypt(plaintext) != bcrypt(plaintext)

The output of the function includes a random salt.

The verify function looks like

verify(plaintext, hash)

This is why the bcrypt cyphertext needs to be stored
Is it, though?

Because unless the data is controlled for factors that influence outcomes independent of school or degree program, what you actually have is data on the degree programs that attract the people that will be successful.

That's nearly 100% what the outcome data on pre-college schools in the US tells you, so I'd be surprised if the college degree data did not have significantly the same problem.
> without consulting the respective owners of that information?

What bit of GDPR do you think requires this?
The article doesn’t mention why this waterway is necessary. Can someone local or with expertise weigh in with why this waterway is so important?

Something else that is not mentioned in corruption. Surely anything which would so endanger the public would come under massive public scrutiny, yet this seems to be moving forward with little, local outcry.
Show HN: Umbrella – an open source digital and physical security handbook
The actual problem is not easyJet, though. They are complaint to the letter of the law. The problem is the law which is written in a way that allows easyJet to make the claims process as painful as possible.
I have gone through this with a lot of stuff, most notoriously when dealing with landlords. On its face the law seems consumer friendly, but only when you try to use it, do you realize that you need to spend months/years wrestling with the company to get your measly few hundred euros back, and you might even need to engage a lawyer.

I guess although engaging the lawyer seems optional at first glance, it is really the only way to get anything done.
"In a dim, candlelit studio, led by the most magnetic instructors, you'll surrender to the beat of the music and get lost in the energy of every other rider in the room as we push towards the finish line, together"

It's deeply sad that people look for meaning in exercise studios.
In English, science (other colloquially, as in "the science of fashionology") means something specific -- a discipline whose core technique of knowledge discovery is the Scientific Method. That is, in English, math is not a science.

Given this: in what universe is Computer Science a science? The Scientific Method is used here and there, of course, but it's hardly the core technique.
That sounds like a good blog post!
Any solution that is applied to massively produced product (a car) will get massive funding, research grants and it will only improve over time. This way it can be distributed to other areas quicker and at lower cost.
So yes, implementing hydrogen in cars is a massive success to other industries.
So you scraped both sites. Cool. But how are they all SaaS?

Seems like they could be other services but not necessarily Software as a Service???
Eh -- for some software packages, maybe. I probably trust that new versions of the JDK are generally better, and probably have fewer security issues, or at least fewer known security issues, but I definitely don't trust every new version of every software library or package. New security bugs are introduced all the time, and if a new version represents a major refactor or a change of maintainer, it also represents a major unknown.
Why Zoom isn't blocked is a mystery to me.

If it was up to me, it would be blacklisted in app stores, antiviruses (incl. windows' own), malicious website lists and data protection regulations.

Instead, individuals, companies and government offices are literally using it.
Initially built to help keep activists, journalists and NGO workers safe but relevant to a lot of people. Available in multiple languages and as a native iOS and Android App. More info: https://secfirst.org
Shane also happens to be the engineer behind the youtube channel "Stuff Made Here"
2012: “static types restrict my beautiful code”

2019: “static types are amazing!”

I’m still salty about this shift. No one really goes back and admits, “maybe we were all wrong.”

IMO, the best explanation is the high influx of new, young devs results in ideological conformity in lieu of developed aesthetics. This also explains the unnatural amount of sway by so-called “thought leaders.”
Peter Thiel met with White nationalists? Time to start buying Palantir stocks!
Lol “OpenOffice can’t print on Tuesdays” https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
Likely yes, but curious.
> But what's the alternative to looking at examples of success?

Controlled experiments and/or causal analysis.
Also, a massive marketing campaign around their "new and improved" pizza.
Most of my career has been as a "software engineer" in aerospace. We absolutely do build things to requirements, and verify those requirements are met, with copious amounts of formal process.

This same style of development could be applied to any software development venture, but it's usually not, because most software doesn't benefit from it enough to warrant the extra time and expense.
As it stands, I don't see how hydrogen proponents in either vehicles or energy distribution can recoup the head start of pure electric. The best electrolysis + fuel cell cycles commercially available are maybe 35-40% efficient (electric-electric). Maybe someday, 20 years from now, some quantum catalyst gizmo will push that to 90%. For vehicles you then need another step of compression to force the hydrogen inside a very high pressure tank - by the laws of thermodynamics this can only cost you energy regardless of any technological advancement.

Meanwhile, electric batteries today are over 90% eficient on the whole charge-delivery cycle, the industry is rapidly gaining momentum, charge networks are built, the cost of components only goes down. Compared to hydrogen, battery electrics are today where internal combustion cars were compared with electrics 100 years ago: the market has spoken and the massive economies of scale of the winner will relegate the competitor to very specialized niches.

And once you lose the hydrogen vehicles, the whole distribution network becomes a very dubious business proposition. Why build H2 pipes that need expensive and inefficient electric conversion endpoints, when you can rely on and extend the existing electric distribution networks? Indeed, you can store hydrogen, but what advantage do you have by storing it closer to the consumption point, instead of a grid connected hydrogen battery that generates, stores and consumes hydrogen as requested by the smart grid? In that scenario, hydrogen becomes just one of multiple competing energy storage technologies, together with pumped storage, grid connected batteries etc., all together helping to regulate intermittent renewables.
No. That's something productive. If your domain were just advertising that you'll sell it for $xxx and doing nothing else, that's what is at issue here.
It’s a collection point of domestic VOIP for the FAIRVIEW program.
Another great older film is "Similarities of Wave Behavior" [1] from Bell Labs. It was aimed at college students, and covers in a very clear way these topics: reflection of waves from free and clamped ends, superposition, standing waves and resonance, energy loss by impedance mismatching, and reduction of energy loss by quarter-wave and tapered-section transformers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k
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