skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Car won't be a Hyundai or Kia project, Korean automakers confirm
Same. English isn't my first language so I'm not sure, but the title doesn't' seem sincere when the subtitle reads "Kristina Lustig, formerly our Director of Design, explains why she took a new role as an associate software developer"
It’s a simple probabilistic argument: P(other alien civilizations exist | we exist) > P(other alien civilizations exist | we do not exist). Our existence is statistical evidence in favor of other civilizations existing elsewhere.

Similarly, the fact that we observed planets in our solar system should have increased our belief that other planets exist elsewhere. Then again, Giordano Bruno (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno) was burned at the stake for pointing this out.

To be honest, the dominant source of nonsense around here is sneering comments that contribute absolutely nothing to thoughtful conversation.
I wish Google would inform the users when they remove an app from Google Play due to it containing malware. I'm not sure if they also remove it remotely from the devices, I think they don't, because I once had an affected file explorer which then got removed from Google Play but not from my device.

The same goes for Chrome Extensions which have been removed from the Chrome Web Store. In that case, they get removed automatically from the browser, which is somewhat ok. I would prefer that they would get disabled without me being able to enable it again, and get labeled as malicious. Because how else can I verify that I once installed an extension or an app which then turned malicious?

Currently I know that either one of my or my dad's devices has something malicious on it, because I got an HTTP GET request to a URL whose full path is only known to our devices (and only via HTTPS).
No. Being able to explain 25% of sexual behavior does not mean that the remaining portion has to be explained by other factors. Ignoring the fact that other things, like hormone profiles, have additional explanatory power, many biological processes are subject to noise. The best algorithm in the world can only predict a fair die toss 1 in 6 times.

It may be possible that culture is a factor, but literature reviews of sexual orientation incidence suggest that it does not vary significantly across time or place, which is a pretty compelling reason to think culture is an important factor.
I think I saw something about reports that FB has hired a number of individuals to work full-time on the Rust lang, so there are probably lots of companies contributing to Rust in ways that don't get them features on the website.
I interviewed for my first employee a few weeks ago. I just opted for an audio call. I didn't want to judge candidates based on their coronavirus nest, coronavirus haircut, or anything that didn't influence their performance in a strictly remote job. I also didn't want to dress up.

That being said, German culture dictates that resumes have pictures, so it's sort of moot.
Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect Employment and Family Income
From a technical perspective, you're of course right.

I fear however that the majority of "regualar users" are being coerced into giving consent without realising what is happening - seeing the number of people end up in a FOMO-induced panic to join Clubhouse (or whatever the next big popular phone number based app is), a simple "give access to your contacts to invite a friend" masks the fact the app uploads your contacts to the server every time you open the invite tab.

It feels we need to address coercive practices or at least try to do some kind of taint analysis to allow iOS to alert that it believes the memory buffer about to go into a networking API originates from a permission-protected memory buffer, and are you sure you want to let the app upload your contacts... But I suspect we just end up shifting the problem, and they coerce users again, ad infinitum, until they harvest their social graph (illegally, at least in Europe/UK).
Thats about initiatives. Many daily drivers break some laws, like speeding or not using turn signals. Does that make traffic frontier territory? :)
Try something serious, like operating black drug market or treatening high level politician (in internet): you going to be surprised, how well different countries co-operate. For example operation involving 30 countries: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/%E2%80%98avalanc...
If it means what I think it means - understanding the code - sometimes it takes days to understand just one line of code. Document digging, googling, asking around, fiddling with test cases, reading production log etc.
Play stupid games with centralized entities, win stupid centralized prizes. I can understand using github/lab/etc if you're forced to by work in order to earn money in order to live. But willingly choosing them for personal projects is just stupid.
I interpreted it as tongue-in-cheek. On my reading, the point of the article is that titles and prestige are far less important than being excited about what you're working on. If having a more fulfilling job means a less fancy title (and you can afford the pay cut) you should go for it.

Sometimes people working in tech lose sight of why they went into this field. The author's enthusiasm is a great reminder why. Fantastic article.
Too much mindfulness can spike anxiety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

>Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency for most sufficiently intelligent agents to pursue potentially unbounded instrumental goals provided that their ultimate goals are themselves unlimited.

I mean canonically this is applied to AI, but no reason it should be limited to it. See also: paperclip maximizer.
I think it’s just to make an attention grabbing title.

After reading this, I’m just genuinely happy for the author. I think that not everyone is in a position to do that kind of thing, but for those who can, I wish we all had that kind of courage and the willingness to put in the extra work to make it happen.

For context, my last job change was also a diagonal step down and an overall step up in happiness. Not as dramatic though. I also did it because I felt like I was innately more suited to a different role.
I love the FSF, but frankly as a user, I'm glad that not just anybody can claim to be Rust. Especially so now that the trademark is controlled by a dedicated nonprofit.
Yes! Both are on our roadmap. Right now it's possible to chat directly with the supplier to get professional human feedback as well, which will probably always be necessary. All suppliers there are highly professional. Do you find yourself looking to get automated manufacturability feedback often?
> "We opened those intestines up like it was Christmas," said co-author David Hu

He must be fun at parties. ;-)

> The marsupial then stacks the cubes - the higher the better so as to communicate with and attract other wombats.

If I was a comedian who specialized in toilet humor (and let's face it - I totally would), I would either quit my job because of this sentence, or (if I was good at it), I would turn it into my next standup routine. I probably could just read the article verbatim and get a few laughs, assuming the audience was not openly hostile.

Just to be clear, I think this is very interesting, and absolutely a valid area of research. But it is rather funny as well.

EDIT: Now I wonder - what do wombats try to communicate by stacking poop? This seems like a very existentialist thing to do.
Security is an illusion and like kerning, you can both inform and break people by bringing their attention to the 'solutions' to that problem.

There are other ways to look at the world. In some ways they can be both more and less stressful than contemporary western ideology.
What you're ignorant of is intangible value. Sure there are managers and C levels that don't, but I'd bet that most are successful at creating value that you're just quite not able to see.
Can Bitcoin compete with the dollar?
It's impossible for two new unverified users to obtain "cash in hand" with bitcoin since you need a bank account and KYC to turn bitcoin into usable money in an urgent situation.
If pay stayed the same, then something went wrong. And I get it. I've had some friends go through this, where they'd get offered a lead position but technically it's 'Lead in training' so he gets the old pay while they evaluate him etc.

Complete BS. If they offer it to him, they think he would be a good fit and they're just trying to pay less. Contrast it with my experience, where I just stepped up to fill the gaps whenever I saw them, my boss noticed, offered a lead position including pay bump.
Medium Story: Getting your iOS app of 3 years wiped by scammers via fake ratings
2 confirmations is usually enough for most transactions. 6 confirmations guarantees the money will never be reversed.
I am quite happy being a developer. In this the tail of my career I'm happy to work as a consultant with peers, getting contracts and billable hours for all of us.

I never wanted management in a corporation. Used to be only half of America for instance worked in a big company. The rest of us worked in small business, or as individuals. That's changing I guess.

I hope there continues to be room for those of us who prefer a life to a career.
It depends on the level of scrutiny. It doesn't seem unreasonable. We review a lot more code per hour (usually C-like code though) but then we're not supposed to lock someone up for murder, we just find basic things like memory corruption. Don't even need to get into the business logic to find bugs that totally break the application, let alone all of it.

When writing Python (I don't have stats about reading), a 1.0 version of a small project took me 1.5 hours and consisted of 183 lines of code, so 2.2 lines per minute. That's much faster than this, but 183 lines is also a ton less complex than understanding the entirety of 180k lines and properly assessing whether it does exactly and only what it's supposed to.

10 lines per hour is probably taken as a lower bound to prove a point, especially because they argue about checking the whole thing (large parts can probably be skipped), but as a standalone statistic I would say it's probably within an order of magnitude from the true value. And for software time estimates that would be an amazing feat :p
You might be fine when walking at -31, but much below that a fall can be lethal. The snow is different at -40, stiffer and more slippery. Slip and knock your head, or simply roll an ankle, and the 300 yards to the next door will seem like miles. They have cancelled schools. They don't want the kids outside waiting for busses.
By far the most important driver of bitcoin's value is the marketing and the incentives for every holder to pump it. If a majority of miners got together and decided to raise the bitcoin supply limit I don't think it changes the BTC/USD price.

People are buying into bitcoin now because they see a graph going up and want it to keep going up. It could just as well be shares in a video game retailer.
AFAIK there are exceptions for express couriers, which is why you can still use fedex/ups to delivery documents.
One thing to note is that this is a bit-serial adder. If you use this to perform, say, 32-bit arithmetic, then the effective clock rate is about 3GHz. Half that for 64-bit. Compare this to a PCIe4 bus, which is clocked at 16GT/s -- that is, each "lane" runs at 16GHz and is used to transmit data around serially instead of routing more wires around to make a wider bus. That's readily-available (damn the chip shortages) tech, but we can't buy 16GHz general-purpose processors.
Huawei ?
Show HN: I built a tool to blur license plates
To Judge an AI's Smarts, Give It One of These IQ Tests
8 years is a long time. What he then wanted to code review Matlab, and then the compiler that Matlab used, then do some silicon verification...

Six to nine months seems like enough to do a very good code review with some testing. There's a good chance that 75% of that Matlab code doesn't execute for his test.
I like the way your mind works. (-:
"Demoted" from a common perspective, promoted from a true perspective: life isn't that long to do something that you don't love, or at least that you love less. No matter how much less (if it does) they get paid, congratulations on following your dreams.
Yes.

This is what it looks like if you only include things that are actually relevant (or don't try to actively make it look bad, IDK why else OpenBSD's sndio would be included in the Linux diagram):

https://aurora.nox.tf/tmp/linux-audio-output.svg

NB: this is specifically the Linux situation, and the original file on wikimedia has a deletion request on it because it's so bad.
My strategy: pursue a lot of things as hobbies. If you view amateur in the true sense as "not paid" vs. "not good" you can do so many things for a much purer motivation - it's sooo much more rewarding. Nothing wrecks something you love like having to do it.
Linksys Velop AX5300 Review: Fast and Dumb
>But I don't get that sense of unstoppable awe and desire that I get with people like Hemingway, Napoleon, or even those few anonymous, adventurous and idiosyncratic souls

Here’s what I wonder: is it possible to admire such people while simultaneously acknowledging they live a semi-tortured existence that may not be worth emulating?

I think the author was shooting for equanimity which may be somewhat different than how those types would be described
«What use case is that?»

Sending money to an unbanked person in severe financial hardship, for food & shelter. Nothing else worked. Not WU. Not TW.
This is excellent! As a principle, we should always be able to properly critique the expert witnesses and analyses! Or, at least, hire an expert firm to do the critique. It at least restores a proper ability to challenge an assertion of guilt.
I really haven’t cared for most of the places I’ve lived, but they all have their positives and negatives. Overall I didn’t care for the last city I lived in, however one thing I miss was a river walk they had right outside downtown along with another park adjacent to the river a quick walk to downtown. I would often go there in the evening and just walk for several hours and think. The scenery of the river and the surrounding nature was very nice and enjoyable. After the sun went down and it was dark, it was a brief walk into town where I could grab something to eat and do whatever I want. I haven’t been happy or even content in many years, but those walks brought some sort of peace to my mind.

Unfortunately there’s nothing really like that where I am now, at least nothing close enough for a casual afternoon trip. There’s a good bit of sidewalk around the neighborhood, but it really doesn’t feel the same. It’s in primarily residential area just off a busy road and the sound of cars zipping past you ,sirens from the nearby hospital along with the dim streetlight interrupted by shopping strips, etc. don’t exactly bring the same tranquility. Despite the parks from the city I used to live in being very close to urban areas, the river and more forested stretches gave a tranquil feeling and even the more open parts had a pleasant setting.
I'm still awaiting the promised post-mortem [1] of a retracted blog post [2][3] which has annnounced the deprecation of the GitHub Developer Program.

> There must be quite a story behind this - will you be putting up a post-mortem ? (Post mortems of business "outages" are usually more instructional)

> Yes. We will. Please stay tuned.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21718171

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21718083

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20191205225751/https://developer...
Someone should build spotify-like UI for this and add more songs from abcnotation.com .
Buildpacks has some nice features, at the expense of deviating from an industry standard (Dockerfiles). The speaker implies that Dockerfiles are fine if they're fine, but Buildpacks is attractive if you want more control over your Docker image build process.

Composite images. Don't need a Dockerfile for each app. Rebase layers when OS layer changes (Dockerfiles would require rebuilding the whole image).
Great news for Rust, congrats
Isn’t Stadia effectively dead in the water anyway? The idea was based on universal infinite low-latency bandwidth which is wasteful and incongruent with the laws of physics. There are articles elsewhere showing Google abandoning its own development on the platform.

This was a mainframe play for gaming. Think this platform will be around in 2023?
I can't find much in the way of Rust credentials for the rest of the members but, looking at their profiles, Nell (MS's representative) used to manage crates.io while at Mozilla, and Lars (Google) used to manage the Servo team. While they are technically representing corporate interests, they're also heavily invested in the community.
SEPA payments with my bank here in Germany typically take 3 business days, not 10 seconds. Reading about it, it seems that my bank doesn't support SEPA Instant Credit Transfer!? I'm not sure if any bank here in Germany does (never looked, though).

No one here can pay for their pizza delivery through SEPA. Intermediaries like PayPal are still needed. I'm baffled that banks can't get their shit together to offer an instant payment solution that works over the internet (ie. no card reader) for small purchases.

What's the problem?
> It seems inherent in the definitions of a conservative/traditionalist party and progressive/change based party.

I don't really buy this. Despite parties using those terms, they don't really mean anything when any given thing had been the status quo at some point in history.

Were the people who opposed sodomy laws in the 20th century agents of change, or reactionaries pining for the way things were in the time of the Romans? Roe v. Wade has been the law for generations, so aren't Catholics who want to ban abortion now the agents of change?

If someone wants to cut federal spending as a percentage of GDP in half, are they a liberal (because it's a change from the historical practice since WWII) or a conservative (preserving the thing that existed before then)? Does it matter if the thing they want to cut is military spending or entitlements, when both are the long-term status quo? Is market competition liberal (a change from historical feudalism) or conservative (the existing system)? Is regulatory capture liberal or conservative?

Wouldn't the labels have to switch whenever a law is passed, since the advocates of change who achieved it would then become "conservatives" who want to preserve the change they made?

If the answer is that whatever your side wants to do is Change and any change the other side wants to do is Reactionary then you're just trying to justify a ratchet.
My solution was to block IP addresses from the following regions who were never our target customers anyways:

India, Midde East, Turkey, Russia, China, South East Asia (except Singapore), All of Eastern Europe, Africa and island nations.

It immediately reduced the amount of fraud and spam. Sure you might miss out on the <1% of your revenues but its a tradeoff I'm okay with.
Its a quirk of human beings that certain research topics are neglected because of their proximity to humor. Whether its the hydrodynamics of the penis, or the musculature of the vagina, or the mechanics of excretion. Unless its funny, we reject whole areas of investigation as unworthy or repulsive.

There are so many urine tests I can't count them. But how many over-the-counter poop tests are there? Maybe one. Because, you know, its disgusting.
You did not answer the question.

I just gave you no less than 6 reasons!

Slightly is an understatement.
It's also bananas that they ban your entire google existence. If you violate some Developer TOS then ban you in the app store not in google drive, gmail, etc. That kind of collatoral damage begs for them to be broken up IMO.
Build system primitives for fuzz testing in Bazel
I would agree with it being tongue-in-cheek. The wording could be chosen to not include the negative connotations though.

These two are quite different:

I followed my dreams and got demoted to software developer

I follow my dreams and got promoted from Development Team Team to Software Developer
>Are you using VMC on Azure as well?

No. we are using VMC cloud , which I believe is its own offering.
They fill a similar role to prosecutors that field drug tests serve to cops[1]: they aren't meant to be accurate, they exist to give the cops legitimacy as they proceed to do whatever it is they wanted to do to you. In the cops' case, they need legitimacy to search and arrest you, and in the prosecutors' case, they need legitimacy to charge and convict you.

If field drug tests were actually accurate, they wouldn't be bought and used. Similarly, if an expert witness fails to give prosecutors the results and testimony that they want, they wouldn't be hired again.

[1] "How a $2 Roadside Drug Test Sends Innocent People to Jail": https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/how-a-2-roadside...
Hey HN! I wanted to learn about training + deploying ML models, so I built this!

It uses YOLOv4 to find license plates, and then opencv to blur them :)

Happy to answer questions!
You can see the server list here:
https://soldat.pl/en/lobby
Just sort by player count.
It's a neat idea that I don't want to hear about more than once a year, at most.
> Contrast this with the governance of GCC

The equivalent of that would be the Rust teams[0] as far as I can tell, which will still be the governing body of all development, and won't be replaced by the Rust foundation.

[0]: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance
The goal of the foundation is to work as a bridge between the Rust teams and the corporate world (e.g. sponsorship, licensing, etc). As the blog post notes, the actual development of the language is fully open and is comprised of RFCs and the like which allow anyone to contribute. It's the core team who oversee this process, not the foundation.

In short the foundation works for Rust, not the other way around.
I've always believed and practiced this too. You get the promotion & bump because you're already essentially doing the job. I'm OK with a trial without the promotion, but many (most?) seem to think you should get the opportunity to succeed or fail, with the rewards up front. I do't get this viewpoint.
Awesome project. We started looking into this area at https://www.brainboard.co and was happy to found that infracost already started the journey. Keep going!
A win for Rust for sure, but it also seems like a loss for Mozilla.
For context, the default settings are to move anything with a score above 5 to the spam folder.
Sure. No one can tell you exactly what job to apply, only you know what you'd really love. If you feel "trapped", start searching for something that you love doing (and also can get paid for that) that doesn't feel trapped. When you find it, you'll feel that it's the right thing.
Tesla issues shares. People might buy the shares based on what Tesla said it was going to do, then Tesla buys BTC, then BTC tanks, Tesla shares drop, people sue Tesla.
«replace all other currencies with btc»

What's up with this mindset that Bitcoin must REPLACE the existing system? As a Bitcoin user for 10+ years I always envisioned Bitcoin would simply co-exist with the rest. Your mind is too binary, my friend.
I'm not OP but maybe it's the same: attraction to men gets developed before sexual differentiation then gets (inaccurately) overwritten later?
Sure, you can always find exceptions.

But 1000 of 1200 kids ride their bikes to this school in Finland, in -17C weather: https://unofficialnetworks.com/2019/11/20/kids-in-finland-ri...

The people advocating for more biking aren't saying everyone everywhere at every time should ride bikes. They're saying more people, in more places, at more times, should.
The supply can be manipulated as well, just like how the supply of diamonds is manipulated.