skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it still matter that much once we have a series of effective vaccines ?

It seems the crux of the argument is to better react in the short term, but it looks to my untrained eyes that we already passed that level of investigation if we have effective means to prevent infection.

I also guess we’d still need to explore all other tracks anyway (we can’t just focus on lab spills for instance, if that was the root cause, and stop to care about the bat/human interface, nor should it be assumed that any other path will be less important in the future)
Fair is fair. If a self-driving car is a safer driver than John Doe, but we don’t allow that self-driving car on the road, perhaps we should revoke John Doe’s drivers’ license as well.
It becomes political.
HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash
Zinc–air batteries: are they ready for prime time?
The ole sitting in the bed of a pickup truck technique, in other words.
I mean, we were able to prove that the Uber car killed someone through reckless engineering because of its black box. It was obvious that the car saw the person and then deliberately ignored them, and the stock autonomous breaking system has been disabled.
Loads fine for me!
The title reads somewhat as if Ticketmaster is soliciting black hat hackers to hack a competitor. That's not the case. This is a fine; the hacking had already occurred.
The car analogy isn't a great one here either because there are seatbelt laws, light/lamp laws, etc that do carry serious penalties (such as fines and even jail time). Nobody will necessarily repossess your car, sure, if you fail to fix a broken headlight or seat-belt, but you can still be fined or jailed for it. (Though even repossession can happen as those fines/jail time can in turn cause repossession of your car as a secondary effect, depending on your loans/liens/bonds and the state in which you live.)
HN is a breath of fresh air when you take a break now and then. If we could get rid of the upvoting system and have a save article button. I would be 100% satisfied.

The whole like-upvote/dislike-downvote needs to come to an end. It's bias, unfair and shite; take reddit for example. Unless you challenge the user with a reason to why they are downvoting, it simply doesn't work.
INTEL is dying a slow death. Andy Grove tosses and turns in his grave . . . .
Did you ever think of making a Dick Cheney Dildo™ to complement the set? :)
At this rate, global warming might solve the snow problem faster than self-driving cars do.
I doubt it's what's being done in this case but an interesting take on this topic is "rollback netcode" which AFAIK was originally used for playing emulated arcade games over the internet.

The idea is that the host guesses what the other player's inputs are on a certain frame, and when the actual input then arrives the host emulator will roll back its state to that frame and then re-emulate the frames after it, if it guessed wrong. If it guessed right the game continues as usual.

It's a good fit for emulation since "rolling back" in an emulator is usually easier than rolling back the state in a game that wasn't built with this type of netcode in mind, but it has also become a popular type of netcode for modern fighting games.

If you're interested in reading more about it:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcode#Rollback

https://github.com/pond3r/ggpo
The hierarchical org structure in software companies is so broken. It has all the problems of a monolithic/centralized design and very few benefits. It's copied from people that were copying military organization which makes no sense at all.

The alternatives are many but pioneering new org structures is scary to most people. The cargo culting is extreme in this case.

Some company that is The Next Google might have a new org structure as its defining characteristic and core advantage.
Freedom for Azat Miftakhov
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Trevor Bedford may be interested - he had a good thread all the way back in February https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1230634136102064128

If someone organizes something credible I'd also be in for 10k.

However, I suspect root claim wouldn't go through with it but would just update their model to incorporate more information. They hint at that possibility on their site.
Hah, thanks.

> Did you ever consider looking for official / commercial backing for Cap N Proto?

Well, I don't think Cap'n Proto is marketable (for any kind of profit) on its own. It's one of those things that has to be free and open source to get any adoption. So a corporate backer would need to get some indirect benefit from its development and adoption. Also, at this point my goal in building and maintaining Cap'n Proto is primarily to benefit my other projects that use it -- if other people benefit too, great, but wide adoption of Cap'n Proto is not an intrinsic goal of mine.

Right now, Cap'n Proto development is de facto backed by Cloudflare, as we are using it heavily in Cloudflare Workers and that is driving all the recent work on the C++ implementation. Currently, this use is internal-only and so we have little reason to build out support for multiple languages. But, as the Workers platform grows the ability to support increasingly complex apps and distributed systems (especially with Durable Objects), limiting applications to communicating with HTTP only is getting awkward. One idea that has been tossed around is to expose Cap'n Proto directly to apps. It makes a lot of sense: it would be very easy for us to support since we already use it under the hood, and zero-copy communications make a ton of sense especially for worker-to-worker comms happening within a single process. If we decided to do this, Cloudflare would become the commercial backer. But, there's also a strong argument to support gRPC directly in Workers, given the existing ecosystem. Would we want to support both? Maybe, maybe not. There's a lot of trade-offs still to think about here, and my goal would be to make the best possible product decision for Cloudflare Workers -- not necessarily for Cap'n Proto.
Difference in experience and age are not really relevant as the skills required to be a good Manager have little overlap with the skills required to be a good engineer.

You can be a terrible soccer player but end up being an awesome coach and vice versa.
Paypal. We were not doing gambling. Just charging $1 per person per pool for the service: registering the bets in time, give them points when they win, rankings, etc. We did not see any of the money of their possible side-bets.
Why can't the portfolio page inject banner ads via HTTPS?
The Herd of Independent Minds (1948)
Someone did this again in 2012, making 3D models based upon each of the Republican candidate polling numbers: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-butt-plugs-are-gallup-dat...
The CCP have done more than that, they’ve actually punished countries that have requested a fair and transparent investigation into the origin. Consider all of the cover up at the start of the pandemic, the data, the doctors, the journalism... and you see their strategy is not a good response at all. Despite their external insistence that it came from elsewhere (which is of course a possibility).
The events caught on camera were not fraud. They were an irregularity, but it appears they were already investigated and the relevant ballots were correctly counted. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/fact...

Every time we criticize Georgia, we should remember that the President's party is the one in charge of elections there, and the one in charge of auditing and assuring security of those elections. There is every incentive for the state election commission to cry foul if there was foul to cry; the fact they have not is extremely telling, and one really has to widen the conspiracy net to come up with an explanation that puts the state election commission of Georgia in on a conspiracy to defraud the electoral process.

> there is not institutional effort to investigate the irregularities

I don't know what you would consider "institutional effort," but there are absolutely processes for investigating irregularities and multiple investigations are currently in progress. Georgia just concluded one such audit today. https://www.ajc.com/politics/no-fraud-georgia-audit-confirms... - they don't get reported on in detail because, to be honest, the details are boring and therefore don't make for very good news; they have about as much fun as a tax audit with even fewer exciting variables. and to really get a big picture of what's going on, one has to track the news from multiple states, since every state manages its own balloting system.

A full and exhaustive audit takes time. The President commissioned such an audit at the federal level for the 2016 election, and it resolved in 2018, finding an absolute handful of actionable cases. I would expect the audits that are going on now to continue, as multiple parties are interested in pursuing them. But they take time; the one for 2016 took two years.
> This is the kind of stuff people post who get their information about China exclusively from American think tanks. I've worked in China and been in the country multiple times over the last few years.

I'm Chinese. I still have family there.

> In Mao's times you had to carry the little red book in your pocket, were put into a factory or lined up against the wall.

This is funny because Xi is emulating Mao. Instead of a red book, Xi has a yellow book.

> Today foreigners can go to the country, start a business and you can work where you want. Over the last five years in particular the situation for businesses has gotten better because the courts actually have started to function and address stuff like IP claims. Still slow for foreign business in particular, but if you think modern China, one of the world's most integrated economies, is comparable to the Mao era I truly don't know what to tell you.

If you know enough about history, the credit for opening up China to the West goes to Deng Xiaoping and not Xi. Also you're talking past tense. In the present, foreigners are being squeezed out.

> China is also, ironically enough, probably one of the most fiscally decentralized economies on the planet. If you look at the degree of economic autonomy regions have, you won't find it really anywhere else.

I'm not sure what you're reading, but a good percentage of companies are either state sponsored or state owned. Still, you weren't completely off. Continued decentralization of the economy was the trend before Xi, but Xi is reversing it now. I'm speaking of the near future and not the past.

What you've written was largely true a few years ago but not so much now or the near future.
We have reached peak GOS (Grandma Operating System). Most recent example is TLS 1.0 sites. Warn but Allow things to keep working.
If protobuf works for Google then it essentially works for 99.999% of every other company on the globe.

I can't agree with this mindset.

Another commenter here pointed out the Google implementation is 20x slower than others, and 1.6MB for this kind of task feels bloaty. Just because it meets Google's needs doesn't mean it's universally adequate.
thinking you're in charge or leading someone when you're a manager is a bad mentality. you should look at yourself like an offensive coordinator on an NFL football team, and maybe not even the head offensive coordinator. You're a role player. you have a role to fill, and it's not leadership. Maybe you _will_ be a leader from this role, but it's not what it calls for.
I and a few classmates in business school built a service to print people's top 5 instagram pics (top = #comments + #likes) every month and mail it to them as a nice physical keepsake. I was really flabbergasted that we couldn't get even 10 customers, we spend nearly $1,000 on ads before calling it quits (if we had had 10 customers we may have kept iterating but the setback was big enough to decide to just stop, and it only took a few weeks to build). Part of what was happening at the same time was the move towards stories, videos, and posts with multiples images, so it would have become way more complex than initially planned anyway and none of us were engineers.
The year before that I "invented" a mouthwash that was all powder based so you could travel with it despite travel liquid restrictions, the kickstarter campaign raised a decent amount but about a 1/3 shy of what it would have cost to place the minimum order with the packaging company (the power would be in tea bags), so I also nixed that but that was a fun side project
Not gp, but to me it seems common and smart to put an expiration date on all financial offers.

That's the simplest explanation at least. This rootclaim.com process is new to me, there could certainly be other explanations.

Kudos to purplecats for making that offer as well, assuming this whole thing is on the up and up.

edit: below was my post when it was first upvoted, prior to edit.

> Not gp, but to me it seems smart and common to put an expiration date on financial offers.

> Kudos to purplecats for making that offer as well.
Couples who meet via dating apps keener to settle down, study suggests
I think there could be a middle ground with an excel like tool with some kind of typing. For example I often get confused about what currencies particular cells are, and mixing this up causes a lot of pain. Not sure why the hard coded number can’t just have a “$” and every time it gets multiplied by EUR/USD changes to a euro, and is displayed as such. This little thing would save me so much time.
JavaScript array functions cheat sheet part 3
Anyone writing code is not leading. That largely goes for Staff Engineers and up, not just managers.

Architecture review, product strategy, ensuring knowledge transfer and robustness to turnover, developing hiring plans, and ensuring your people are set up for success and are set up for career growth - that is leading.

Leading by implementing is a nasty anti-pattern, like a player-coach. It just means you’re doing a poor job of both by not focusing.
Completely true. Defold is not FOSS. And we do not claim that it is.

We initially said that Defold was open source when we actually should have said source available. And we got an unbelievable amount of flak for it! I even received a very disturbing message sent to my private email from a FOSS "champion". And the president of the OSI got in touch as well.

More here: https://defold.com/2020/05/20/Some-thoughts-on-the-open-sour...
Sorry, but your narrative is incorrect.

These protests were targeted by outside agitators determined to delegitimize these protests, and as a bonus, fuck shit up: https://www.startribune.com/police-umbrella-man-was-a-white-...

You now label that group as a "terrorist group" and conveniently ignore that there might be some significance to their grievances, because terrorist.

Do you really think that Black people that protest against police misconduct are terrorists? Like every single one of them? That the police are above reproach and that those uppity folk are just making up stories?
You can't stop batshit crazy. There's no vaccine for it. So to go full head in the sand on a topic because of the crazies is detrimental to intelligent debate in general.
Arm's own naming nomenclature. It's a trademark thing.
Well, I started to read the article, thinking that it might refer to sending, you know, telemetry. The hackernews link was titled like this:

>Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry

so I thought I had a shot of reading something relevant to me. So I opened up the article:

>Protobuf needs no introduction, but this post argues that you shouldn’t use it for telemetry. The basic premise of this post is that a good telemetry library needs to be lightweight to avoid perturbing the application; inefficient diagnostic tools are self-defeating. Unlike other formats, nested Protobuf messages cannot be written contiguously into a stream without significant buffering. The post doesn’t argue to never use Protobuf, but that the trade-off made by the wire-format itself, as opposed to any existing implementation, is unlikely to work for lightweight message senders.

My field is related to robotics, where we actually send, you know, telemetry. Like, over a radio. What I'm complaining about is that this is arguably the "main" usage of this word, but people in the web space assume that like protobuf, the concept of telemetry needs no introduction: it means sending back statistics, metrics and logs about your web services. When he says "a good telemetry library" needs to be lightweight, there's zero preamble here to get me oriented.

You saying "did you even read the post" is exactly missing the point. Yes, I read through the post, and through context clues, discerned that this post isn't relevant to my interests. I just notice that people writing about cloud service technology never feel compelled to warn you that's what they're going to be talking about. They make grand proclamations, and you have to play detective to find out whether their claims apply to you. "Microservices are the future!" "Okay, does he mean like... for all of software? Or for SaaS companies?"

Imagine if the world was a different place, and the average programmer worked at a robotics company instead of a web tech company. And then you saw an article titled "gRPC is dead - DDS is the future". And then it jumped in and started talking about all these throughput metrics, and it took you 6 paragraphs to figure out that the reason they're done with gRPC is that they're shipping around 4K images at 60fps to dozens of microservices that all run on the same computer. And you'd go oh, well that's... irrelevant. That's how it feels, all the time.
Do you have any tips for people coming from Ruby land on how to model things with a more functional approach? For example I've been watching some of 'On Writing Software Well' series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7zUOtlpUPw by DHH and found it really useful for OOP land.

Also any idea on how StimulusReflex / new Hotwire compares to Phoenix LiveView if you have had a chance to look at it yet?
The problem is, what if the higher level systems are responding, but are confused by the data they see? We'd have to have redundant decision-making like in the space industry - two of each computer and sensor that have to agree on the result, otherwise safety systems stop the vehicle.
Lots of engineers just want to be engineers, and have no desire to be involved in tedium of management.

Perhaps that's why these seniors are being managed by someone with less experience?

Guess it depends on the team concerned.
Toys R Us aren't exactly blameless. They were pissing away tens of millions before the buyout for their Times square megastore.
How does this make the likelihood 50-50? Not knowing the probability of something doesn't make it 50-50.
The Alex Jones quote is "I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin frogs gay".

Where'd you get your quote? or did you make it up?
beauracracy/politics shield?
Belief in the posterior update is still completely circumstantial. It's not direct evidence, nor an explained cause other than proximity. I'd argue they miscalcualted the probability change with respect to this piece of information.
> remove every copy of a file

I vaguely recall that this (or something similar) was one of the worries about Palladium/NGSCB back in the day.
I think if it's a natural virus from wet markets there's another strong argument against animal agriculture.
Why not call your app "Hexadoku - Hexdecimal Sudoku"?. There is no reason not do do the app just because someone grabbed the name.
The number of tested extensions supported in Firefox for Android is growing and in the meantime you can install any extension from addons.mozilla.org in Firefox Nightly for Android:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
> I do! I bought it after all.

Did you? Maybe you should re-read that 400 page EULA you browsed past.

When you buy software you are agreeing that you don't own that software. You are instead buying a license to use that software.

> If the software does something I did not agree to at time of purchase, I'm going to hold the seller accountable.

When you buy software, you fundamentally agree that it is suitable for no particular purpose. Since much of the software you "buy" isn't even something you've paid for, the vendor can shut off that hose whenever they want.

> If the gardener you're paying suddenly went and threw a painting in the trash because he considered it ugly you'd have a problem with them too.

I'm sure your agreement with your gardener looks quite different from the EULA you agree to when you use software.
So drunk self and sober self form a quorum by referee? That's going to be exploitable and slow.
I have a question to the folks who are interested in quantum computation: do you feel getting benefits if you can have direct access to a physical quantum computer? In other words, what hands-on experience you hope to obtain, but cannot make it using a quantum simulator or cloud based quantum programming environment?
You can get in touch with Defold users here: https://forum.defold.com/
Wow, I can’t believe there’s such a harsh and early tax, I must surely be missing something? Why would anyone care about doing a good job?
In Sweden you get to keep at least 450 of those 600.
Star Trek tng was shot on 16:9 film, transferred to 4:3 video to be cut and turned into a final 4:3 video. When they did the blu ray remaster, they had to match and rescan every shot from the source film, re-edit each episode and recreate the special effects (when not produced on film).
There was the thought to maybe scan the material in 16:9, but the scenes and crew only considered the 4:3 frame - in 16:9 there would often be crew or mics in the frame or even perhaps sets missing. So they kept the show in 4:3.

Apparently for later trek shows (ds9, voy) the film crews were more careful to respect the 16:9 frame, but those shows aren’t as popular and may never get the expensive blu ray makeover.
Many crappy products I've bought literally have a business card inside the package where they offer you a $5 giftcard for leaving them a 5 star review. You have to send them a screenshot of the 5 star review.
>Q: What was the password that Satoshi was supposed to share?

>A: It was a question in Japanese that he would have spoken to whoever found him. The answer to the question was the puzzle’s answer. The creator of the puzzle, Jey Biddulph, has posted an audio clip of the question on Twitter. Can you solve it?

( Direct link to the clip: https://soundcloud.com/user-650898069-942959925/speech-20201... )

"炎を生んで死んだのはだれ？ Who gave birth to a fire and died?"

Was the answer "Izanami" ? (Shinto creation myth - Izanami burned to death while giving birth to Kagutsuchi, the god of fire and blacksmiths.)

Edit: Yes, confirmed in the Twitter thread.
A few years ago, I made a website aimed at cataloging all the toilets in the world. The idea was to show that a big portion of the world population still has no access to proper toilets. It was a website with a map of toilets, where you could click on the location and see the toilets there. It worked for a year but did not generate much attention sadly.
Is there a youtube client (or browser extension) that accepts a whitelist of channels and only shows videos from those?

This got me thinking... A browser extension deleting everything from the front page except videos from the given channels might not even be that complicated. Hm, I might end up creating a simple extension like this...

Edit: Sorry for being OT
How about something like a quasi-log scale, e.g.,:
$19 for 6 weeks,
$39 for 6 months,
$79 for 12 months and
$99 for three years?
Ultimately we need a world where more than just technologists can run on commodity hardware and free operating systems. Hardware reached a point where most people can do all their computing in cheap hardware and Linux is really quite sufficient for most people, but many small and some medium size issues combine to make it too hard for most folks to embrace.