skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> build an infrastructure that eliminates the need for people

I don't understand that reasoning. I ordered groceries online today, and the groceries were packed by a person and delivered by a person (who wouldn't have his job if there were no truck to drive to my house). The IT system that supports all that is built and maintained by people. The truck fleet is maintained by people. This certainly required more person-hours of work than a cashier would have done if I had gone to the store myself. (The delivery service is operated by the same company that owns the supermarket chain, and uses trucks with the company's name on them, so I'm assuming that all these people are real employees, not gig workers.)

Also, the closest Trader Joe's store to me is a half hour drive in dense suburban traffic, and is crowded with people. I'd love to try their amazing stuff, but it's not worth the time and effort to me.
We don't have an SCP-055, is this your first day?
For anyone else wondering, the article seems to suggest that it's not Google donating, but the employees:

> From 2004 to 2017, $15 million donated by employees of Google and its related companies went to Democrats, and just $1.6 million went to Republicans. Alphabet was created in 2015 as an umbrella company for these companies.

The article's source [1] verifies that the data is about the companies' employees, not the companies themselves.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191212055101/https://www.govpr...
Regarding filepicker and path editing…

So, regression to several systems ago? Maybe System 7, or MacOS 8, or 9? If so, we'll need a new thing like Super Boomerang…except with all the modern security, it'd practic'ly have to come from Apple as some kind of option. )*:
One thing I forgot to mention about searching for prior art, kinda important, too:

Do a web search for "prior art search." There are companies that do it for you, at costs that are... well, less than $500/hour. It's a flat fee.

When I was at Google we tried a whole bunch of them on the same patent, so we could compare them. There were a few that were quite good. Unfortunately I can't remember their names, but they're probably different now anyway.

So that's your gutsy opening conversation with Mr. Troll: "Hey, our search firm found some prior art that invalidates your patent. [Do NOT show it to him.] We're going to IPR you with it."

They might bluff you, laugh at your naivete, and say "We know all about that prior art; it's no good." If you have a lawyer, which you should, let him or her handle all this. You want the threat of an IPR to sound credible.
As an avid user of pandas: That solution is just kicking the can down the road.
It's not all that surprising if you think about it. Let's say you go right to college after HS, and take a year off between college and med school (due to the competitiveness this is becoming very common, maybe even more common than direct admits). You'll enter medical school around age 23 and will be there until around age 27. You'll be a resident until at least 30, but maybe as late as 33 or 34 depending on the specialty - family med is only 3 years but some of the more intense surgical residencies can be 5-6 years. Fellowship is optionally another 1-4 years on top of that. With a few notable exceptions, the most lucrative specialties have you not drawing more than a token paycheck until your late 30's, best case.

Combine that 23ish-30ish age range with the fact that many (probably most) residents will work above the ACGME-mandated 80 hours a week for at least the first half of their residency, and I'm honestly shocked it's only ~21% of physicians that marry other physicians. Not to mention the fact that the income bump is substantial.

My fiancé is a physician and we met when she was a resident, and I'd say about 40% of all the residents I met during her residency who were in relationships were in a relationship with another physician.
Garbage In, Gospel Out
Schneier at least has substantial experience and analysis on public policy - his "Beyond Fear" book published over a decade ago is one example.
I think it’s fair to consider companies offering Agile training and certifications to be custodians of the Agile philosophy. Our team was sent to a week long SAFe Agilist certification course. Our management was notably absent.

I think Agile fails because the manifesto says nothing about management’s role other than “business people and developers will work together.” It’s no surprise then that management fills their version of their role to be whatever they want- usually to the detriment of the developers and the core Agile principles.
The Autobiography of Max Gergel is a similarly interesting book about chemistry with some anecdotes from the early space age. Not in print that I've found but the PDF is on archive.org
Seems wild to me to assert that a settlement is not a contract. What is the basis for this?
Don't think Mommy's coke is relevant. More "do you want to upgrade to your Playstation 7 or stay with the looser with a 6".
The original leaf had underspecced batteries and could be easily upgraded. Motorcycles have severe volumetric limitations for storing chemical energy in any form.
But this kind of thing described by the parent (SMC data corruption) is usually caused by a local condition on the device rather than specifically buggy code. Waiting for a later version would not help in that case.

Not saying that there aren’t sometimes bugs in initial version released and it’s perfectly rational to wait to hear about any fire alarms going off, but the example given is not really a case in point.
With jeval we try not to modify/extend Java syntax for lambdas, variable type inference, method pointers or anything else. It means that your code is backwards compatible with Java.

jeval is based on jshell and tries to provide better integration with cli. Please see Overview http://portal2.atwebpages.com/jeval/ for examples. It also allows you to declare dependencies in Java scripts to any libraries from Maven repository so that jeval will automatically resolve them and add to the script class path.
From wikipedia:
"It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers.."
FDA Panel Recommends Covid Shots for Children 5 to 11
honestly, this seems pretty damning... watching the raw video of these various activities they describe there is genuinely zero chance that he did not, at the very least, have a relationship with fence-pusher-guy. and his single-mindedness in insisting people go to the capitol certainly gives me very strong he's-a-cop-itis.

i'm torn in terms of dismissing its utility outright, but this governmental infiltration of every "bad" group out of the sun, and pushing its members toward maximal(ly incriminating) realization of their goals just feels so mid-20th-century-CIA inhumane, and i find it weird that any vestiges of that kind of thinking actually remain in the centers of power... or maybe i'm naive... or maybe im just an overly conspiratorial nutjob.
>I find it somewhat incredulous that anyone could argue that the existence of Israel doesn't involve religion

That is not a claim I am making. Whether an affinity for Israel has religious roots depends on the person. There are a lot of secular Americans, and Israelis, who believe in a case for Israel that is not religious. So I assert.

I did not endorse the logic; I personally think that other groups survive without a country, like say the Kurds, and I am not sure it's necessary for Israel to exist, much less in its present state.

But to oppose Israel, I think understanding who you are trying to convince, of what, is vital.

I don't see how you can not understand it, since surely appealing to secular Americans is why you would be commenting on a place like HN?

>I don't see the threat, do enlighten me.

My comment was explaining a way non-religious people justify Israel. It appeared to me that you thought I was threatening you in some way, hence ignoring it and calling me religious.

I think it's a historical fact that non-religious factors, ie the Holocaust, were pivotal in making a case for Israel to both Jews and non-Jews, and secular non-Jewish American support for Israel today can't be discounted.

I inferred you agree with me based on your comment about the Hutu and the Tutsi. It implies to me your preferred audience is secular Americans without religious motivation, who don't sympathize with far off ethnic/religious conflicts.

I think this is the correct group of people to try to convince, tactically.

I don't believe top people in the military-industrial complex are highly religious. I may be completely off base, but reading the news about, for instance, Mark Milley, it confirmed my assumptions that they believe in a secular creed, understanding their enemies, and stuff like that. But also not isolationism.
I wrote a post about the search firms, then I saw this, sorry.

Yeah, a lot of the firms are garbage, but I remember a couple being pretty decent.
So you can have lots of ram, XOR useful video out. Great.
Sandboxing is one of the benefits that Apple taunts with apps deployed in the App Store. You have to explicitly give access to app for a range of locations. This is one reason that some publishers refuse to distribute their apps in the App Store.
Taking you at your word that you're just asking out of interest, I hear (but haven't verified) that libgen mirrors scihub.

http://libgen.rs/dbdumps/
Off topic a bit. I don't watch serpentza regularly but I did see that happen with him, although I must say the manner of the switch and the stories he tells on "the other side" make me uneasy that there isn't something more going on there, but who knows. Have there been others that are as dramatic as him?
> Google can walk and chew gum at the same time.

As I recall from my outside/user perspective: Google Plus pretty much co-opted the entire organization in an supposed "all hands on deck, existential fight" against Facebook. Every product and feature had to have a "social" layer (including GMail!); YouTube even adopted a "Real Name" policy but still amazingly managed to worsen the comment system.

Can you imagine what a similar level of effort on the cloud would have produced? Maybe they wouldn't be a distant #3 in that space today.
i agree with you wholeheartedly, nice point. I guess you can liken it to junk food, most people would be happier and healthier without it but marketing and people's propensity for an easy way out if it exists has lead to people being fat, unhappy and addicted to junk food. I wonder who is to blame? People for the choices they make, or businesses who know people's propensity to do stuff even though it goes against an individuals own best interests.

b/w i found your search engine and blog, you are exactly the type of people we need more of, thanks for everything!
Also, for reference, Zero's SRS is pretty badass: https://www.zeromotorcycles.com/model/zero-srs - if they just licensed Bosch's electronic safety brains, I'd be all over it.

But, even not considering the safety electronics, it's still a few grand more and generally just-a-little-bit-less-nice-along-all-other-dimensions-except-exhaust than what I ended up with: https://www.kawasaki.com/en-us/motorcycle/z/z-hypernaked/z-h...
Do the ants come up to your skeletal wall of ancient ancestors and flee in fear?
True but the 70MPG you could get on a more capable ICE bike isn't terribly expensive even at EU prices for gas, and Americans don't ride motorcycles for primary transportation anyway.
From TFA: But for many South Koreans, the homegrown Netflix series is not just riveting entertainment. Behind the violence and horror, it has captured long-held anxieties and brought them to life on screen. It has also sparked a debate in South Korea about the exploding personal debt and widening inequality consuming this nation.
They may not be accepted by the form issuer if they have a process to pull the text out of specific fields in the PDF. I have run into that before. They are not just looking at the document but processing it.
California looks outside and sees $5/gal. This is cheap?
What's the meaning of "liff"?
The Cultural Revolution was partly about promoting a "loss of cultural and family values" (reporting your parents etc.), so that the state could have more control. The CCP has always been corrupt, and its leaders have always wanted more control.
I was looking for a big and novel dataset to work on as a personal project. Can devote a couple months after work to it.
What are interesting things that could be done with this now as a non-scientist, but that could be useful to share too?
Perfect for startup .com names. It found insulately.com which is currently available, for your insulation start up!
All bridges have a capacity limit.

"Doesn't scale" doesn't imply "inadequate."

Overbuilding is waste.
This is just an ad posted by the CEO of this company
> You skipped over Whitfield Diffie

don't forget Steven M. Bellovin who's on that list and who was one of the inventors of the first Encrypted Key Exchange, a precursor to the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange.
The article said that the power company quoted 80 grand despite the nearest pole being across the street, about 45 metres away.

The guy wasn't feeling entitled to costly infrastructure for free. He seems to have correctly concluded that the price the local monopoly quoted was ridiculous.
I would assume it’s partly because software devs tend to work longer hours and do less stuff socially outside of work than average. As an adult I’ve only dated people long term I either met through work or online games.
There's definitely a niche market out there, I think https://poki.com exemplifies it. Which ones do you play?
With server side scanning, if someone accidentally enables uploading you are in exactly the same position. It being enabled on upload, which side it runs changes nothing in all the scenarios you are sarcastically ranting about.
> morphing it into an ideological echo chamber

Assuming that wasn’t the point from the very beginning.
The unstoppably good news about clean energy – Canary Media
Negative ions — There are various studies that show their impact on physiological and psychological health.
Can a billionaire please step up and fund all anti-trolling defense? Where’s Peter Thiel when you need him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkn5wtPYvOM&t=40s
I really enjoyed this comment.
It's not a matter of who's problem it is. It's just that a scale-able architecture in most cases is a premature optimization. When building a product, scalability is only one aspect. And in case of most startups and companies, amongst the smaller ones.

I personally interview a lot of people and if they start proposing microservices or k8s or anything trendy like that (before having context), I consider it a negative point.

When hiring, I want someone to take a look at a busines problem, break it down into a smaller pieces. Most of the times, the most important engineering work is coming up with the right data models/data structures.

So yeah, maybe the architecture I have now wont scale up. But at least it'll get the business going. Years later when there are more resources, the software could be rewritten or whatever.

Also, you'r example mentioned "software being hacked". I never said undermine security. Security should always be taken seriously. Security is not a premature optimization. Scalability is.
> "Client side scanning" (both in general, and in the recent Apple kerfuffle) is talking about a network client, that will be talking to servers that are owned by "them." If they wish to enforce rules over what is stored on their server then to enforce that right, the only two choices are to disallow E2EE or to perform client-side scanning.

So the core of the problem is that they want to enforce rules over what is stored on their servers, even in E2EE form. They could just allow regular E2EE, where they ignore the content that they don't know and push back against politicians who think they are entitled to all data. They chose to push back against user's privacy instead.

What if I have a file on my phone that is already encrypted before I upload it to icloud and it gets encrypted a second time? Apple would have no knowledge about its content. Would they have to scan all my other devices too?
Depends what you mean by primary transportation, but lots of Americans commute by motorcycle. Especially in california lane splitting is a huge time savings in traffic (and legal here).
Good aggregators came along that basically perform this function.

Since the signal to noise is higher than just manually going over search engine listenings you have fallen into the pattern of just checking the same websites over and over. I’m sure the fact that this is more time efficient has reinforced this behaviour.

The disadvantage is that others are effectively acting as gatekeepers to your knowledge acquisition now. There might be things on the internet that you find incredibly interesting but will never see because the majority of other people don’t find them interesting.
Misread as "this world does not exist", an alien website that generates fake but realistic-looking worlds such as the one we currently inhabit
This is the most based thing I have ever seen on hacker news. The lack of nuance ( or in the other direction, the lack of genuine consideration in general ) around the moral/spiritual implications of technology in the last hundred years or so is truly sad. Very grateful that this is top comment
Where would the oxygen would come from?
In a way, this is it: https://frame.work/

But really, these mockups are absolutely beautiful. IMHO easily among the best looking designs I've seen in computing.

I think the framework's approach is a good one, it would be very interesting to have a cheap data transfer backbone that you plug modules into -- to include adding more processors. It would be a better form factor than wires and dongles all over the place for things like external hard drives and external GPUs.
It's not about making the roads more narrow or winding per se. It's about deliberately slowing cars down where they need to, through the road design. See this video for example: https://youtu.be/bglWCuCMSWc

Besides that, roads in the US are generally poorly classified. They're often trying to both function as both high throughput roads and destination serving streets. Such hybrid roads are known as "stroads" and they're bad for everyone involved. Stroads are bad for moving cars fast due to the many conflict points (driveways, intersections, etc.) that force drivers to constantly slow down. They are also bad at serving destinations because the many conflict points make stroads very dangerous, especially if you're not in a car. See this video for example: https://youtu.be/ORzNZUeUHAM
Great catch, thanks! And thanks for the kind words!

Websockets felt a little out of scope, at least for the first release. But when I end up needing to use them for a project, I might be tempted to add them :)
I don't think you can place market orders after hours.

It could have been a deliberate limit order to avoid a margin call by raising the mark-to-market value of an account.
A few years ago a few links on HN talked about "the small web", webrings, and drove me to a trove of amazing original little websites exploring the possibilities offered by the web 1.0 mostly. Just like back in the days. And some of them were real pieces of art. I never managed to find them again. For example I remember a website that told a story in the form of a calendar you gad to scroll down, it found it so creative that I felt the same amazement as my first steps with the web in '95.
There are many actual e-motorcycles out there.
The main question is what you want it for.
Battery in EVs do cost 50-60% value, and battery equals range.

Here is one for under 10k US on-road. Takes a while to get one as production is limited. However, its worth thee wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkn5wtPYvOM&t=40s
There's a link on the page to a different chart that does this. A bit less visually clear, but pretty cool to explore as well.
Imagine being a drug kingpin, but instead of the government making your product illegal, they make it mandatory.
CS programs at most schools in the US keep getting larger and larger, so that doesn't really surprise me if you assume the age distribution of software engineers resembles a pyramid.

The program I went to tripled in size over the course of my time there.
A lot of "real businesses" are online and saw a massive boom of people searching for, and buying products online. Additionally, a lot of marketing campaigns on TV/radio were stopped when the lock-downs started, and the budgets were shifted online. Same real businesses (think fast-fashion retailer), simply shifting more money to Google while they figured out if, and how to shoot new ads to replace those that depicted happy people at crowded parties.
I also wonder whether the reason the "natural vs vaccine" immunity question may not have a great, direct answer is it wasn't asked until covid-19.

When I was asked about this by a 'vaccine skeptic', I said having the vaccine after an infection was clearly a huge benefit over having just the vaccine or just the infection - so do it. I've also seen a study where the super rare, problematic responses to the vaccine seemed to be the same symptoms someone would experience with an infection sans the vaccine - only the effect would be dramatically worse with an infection. (Sorry I can't offer sources at the moment - moments from sleep.)
I'm interested in reading this, but I hope people also read the classic books on the Kimball model. Yes, it is "old", but it is "old" in the way sql and relational database are "old" - the are something people got pretty much right early on. I'm not saying a simple star schema in one db is always the answer, but it is still very often the answer.

It is sad that so many data modelers are just playing it by ear and have never read anything on the topic. I'm finding this to be more and more true throughout programing though. Nobody reads the definitive books anymore, just blog posts and SO, and maybe some online bootcamp. And engineering quality is declining accordingly.
Maybe the web 1.0 was for exploring ?

Maybe the web 2.0 changed that ?
My longest relationship so far was with a software developer. She was great.

I think it's just a cool thing to relate too
hmm. out of 5 words i generated, two actually exist: bioamine and bioprocessor.
I don’t follow. If your managers have disempowered you, it’s not the “agile custodians” fault, nor is it Agile, it’s your management’s fault and you should want nothing else to do with them instead

That or invent something better that management cannot infect
Oura and I believe Whoop provide this data.
Beyond freedom of speech, there are many extreme progressives (not "liberals") who will attack you if they think that your beliefs are "wrong".

You can maybe kind-of almost justify strong restrictions on what someone is allowed to say in public - but no, these people will try to get you fired if they think that you have the wrong thoughts. This is, quite plainly, inexcusable pure malice.
Childcare has increased by 21x in price over the past 40 years. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/why-child-...

At 16k per child per year, one or two kids is equivalent to one or two persons making minimum wage.
"not your chips, not your data" & "not your software, not your data"
Well, looks like it's around ~$7 in Europe based on www.globalpetrolprices.com, so yeah that would be cheap.
Why do they need a bridge run by them that everyone's info goes through?

Why can't you install the service on your own phone, and have all your stuff talk to it?
Yeah in a lot of Europe it’s more like $6-7. Used to be a bigger price difference, but california is not far behind. Texas though is still a lot less.
This should be a huge sigh of relief for parents - I think it will have a huge boost to the economy as well.
ICE starting batteries are a tiny fraction of the price of this battery, and even those are stored under hoods that are locked from the inside of the vehicle.