skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall there were many talks that have now been deleted because they were obviously frauds.

For example, Elizabeth Holmes gave a TED talk.

I wonder if there is a list of "deleted" TED talks over the years?
I wish. Maybe then we wouldn't be eating pasta every day. :)
yeah, good question. My limited experience has shown me that you end up coding in assumptions that make the sign flip problematic :). There are all those infamous cases of systems crashing on planes and ships when they cross the equator. Ideally you'd test in all four quadrants of the globe but this ends up being cumbersome.

There is also the convenience of having your coordinates change in the same way as your display coordinates. So if something displays off of where it should then you can easily diagnose the problem. Everything is always in units of degrees relative to the top left corner (with maybe a scale factor) - whether you're looking at the whole globe or just a region. With a signed coordinate you'd be relative to the image center which is not how your display works. You need to track offsets and image widths/heights. Debugging gets nastier and you have off by one problems and whatnot. That's just been my experience so far
The Dark Side of Smart Contracts
the only way to fix that is to improve education everywhere. that includes moral education.
Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
Unfortunately the latest published version, 0.2, is pretty old, and lacks newer features such as autoreloading imported modules for example, which imo is a must for any sizeable project.

That said, for me the miniconda setup was annoying but not too hard. Wouldn't say it's the worst part.

Learning the concepts and APIs with no prior 3D experience is a lot harder. Results are worth it though.
I’ll play:

The Thin Man (1934), It Happened One Night (1934), Dodworth (1936), Fury (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Grand Illusion (1937), You Only Live Once (1937), Wizard of Oz (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Great Dictator (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Philadelphia Story (1940), Rebecca (1940), The Maltese Falcon (1940), Citizen Kane (1941), A Woman’s Face (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Casablanca (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Great Expectations (1946), The Big Sleep (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Sunset Boulevard (1950), All About Eve (1950), A Place In The Sun (1951), High Noon (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), The Wages of Fear (1953). (I slipped two French films in.)

Almost anything by Hawks during those years. Or Hitchcock. Almost anything with Bogart. Or Grant. Or by Wilder.

Tons of noir films skirted the rules.

Look, I’m not a fan of the Hays code but some of those movies were to me better because of what they had to imply.

This is after the Hays code but as an example I recently watched the original 3:10 to Yuma and the remake. I hated the remake. What appeals to me about Elmore Leonard stories is that despite being about bad guys, they have a degree of charm to them (Out of Sight, Justified, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty,etc). The remake took all of the charm out of the original and replaced it with graphic violence and cruelty.
Absolute stand-outs from my teens, twenties and thirties, respectively, are The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien, Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Every visual/graphic/product/web designer should read The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst.
"One bad apple spoils the bunch"
It's probably cliché, and there are so many good books.. I must say "1984" because I read that as a kid, and it was not only the first "real book" i read from cover to cover, but also the one that I felt most strongly influence my thinking.
Israel Police Used Spyware Against Gov't Officials, Journalists and Activists
Now that the nm race is getting to a halt, I think that maybe there's a point of picking an older node and focusing on that for volume parts

65nm? 90nm? 180nm? I'd argue that the processes can be improved and cost can probably come down compared to the older machines.

I'm old enough to remember when 180nm chips were the fastest ones.
Ask HN: Why does Google have a much lower FIPS Encryption Level compared to IBM?
FIPS 140-2 is a standard which handles cryptographic modules and the ones that organizations use to encrypt data-at-rest and data-in-motion. FIPS 140-2 has 4 levels of security, with level 1 being the least secure, and level 4 being the most secure.

Google Cloud has level 1, and IBM Cloud level 4.

Why did Google not pursue level 4, and does it matter? If it does matter, under which circumstances would a company choose to select IBM Cloud due to this higher level?
Sounds like an awesome VR project to me
lat also sorts before lon, alphabetically. So easy to remember.
"Hello! I'm Phil, based in Queens, NY. I've been a developer and manager in the past. Some of the most viewed posts on this site are about building compilers, databases, and emulators from scratch.

I am building Multiprocess Labs around DataStation, an open-source data IDE to help you create dashboards and exports on data from every database, API, and file without cumbersome ETL processes.

I also run a Discord community for developers working on or interested in challenging programming projects like compilers, databases, emulators, etc. Come to share and learn from other folks!

You can find me elsewhere on Github, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Goodreads.

I love hearing from you!"

Probably because nowhere on your blog, or your Hacker News bio, do you say "please reach out for contracting."

You don't even say you're a contractor or have worked as a contractor in the past. It reads like you're a full-time employee.

ABC, always be closing.

If you don't have a call to action to convert blog readers into consulting customers, how will you ever get people wanting to hire you?
Circle lines seem to be making a comeback (or finally be getting popular?) e.g. Moscow’s mcl and bcl, paris’ line 15) and it’s really heartening to see. Circle lines tend to have pretty low distance/trip ratios but high value and great occupancy.
Like all the pilots, including from Lion Air, that requested extra training from Boeing and were laughed at?
I desperately want my company to announce their permanent WFH stance so I can find out if I can WF a real house outside of a tech hub instead of WF a tiny apartment that has turned into a cage for the last 2 years.

As it is, I think I have one more year of SiValley before I can't stand the competitiveness or the iciness of the tense, joyless local population. Financially it was a good move for a while, but joy is too precious to sell for a few more dollars.
Maybe they fear losing their jobs. As I understand it, with the healthcare system, this can itself be perilous.
Link to Google Encryption page: https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption/default-encrypt...

Link to IBM: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-crypto
If I could offer a book suggestion for you:

The Power of Now but Eckhardt Tolle.
I think you’ve stopped reading the article too soon. If anything, the article says the opposite. TED has been an amazing success, just not in the way we think of it.

>> TED of course can’t be held solely responsible for the increasingly eschatological pronouncements of this cohort [the tech elite]. That would be, in a way, to buy into its hype too much. But as the most visible and influential public speaking platform of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, it has been deeply implicated in broadcasting and championing the Silicon Valley version of the future. TED is probably best understood as the propaganda arm of an ascendant technocracy. It helped refine prediction into a rhetorical art well-suited to these aspiring world conquerors — even the ones who fail.
With respect to those in this thread, I'm seeing a lot of suggestions of fairly niche books that I have never heard of or would consider reading.

It may be that there is no one book that I think everyone should read. Everyone has different tastes and interests, and what I think is a must read is probably on someone else's list of books never to read.
The first two questions: cash is anonymous, a digital money transfer could be anonymous or not depending on the design. I don't think governments want anonymous transfers but they might not give that information to the party that receives of the money. That is, they know I paid 10$ to that shop but the shop doesn't know who I am.

The last question: some people have rooms full of 100$ bills. Some of them are evil.

Examples

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/russia-says-afgha...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/08/africa/sudan-al-bashir-trial-...

A technology people's fallacy is to expect technology to solve social problems. They are best solved socially.
I have to disagree, animation is again a storytelling tool. Instead of a flat presentation of data now you actually have a story with a beginning middle and end, it's much more engaging than a flat line chart.

Take the animated bar charts that where sort of a trend for a while on Twitter and Reddit, they got popular for a reason; they are interesting to look at. These types of charts, if done well, make you curious what will happen and how it will end.

With data visualization, and actually all design, you always have to consider your goals and audience.
https://status.im does this for text and group text just not voice. p2p leaves a pretty wide attack surface from everyone's ISP.
I always get triggered when a new team member comes in and starts to rename variables in Pull requests and plans out huge refactorings. I‘m like ok you are five minutes into this code without any knowledge why it is shaped and named like this. Not that the person is or isn’t correct it is just how fast people are willing to change working software because they feel they can make it better in an instant. The second reason I get triggered is that I think it is quite rude to the programmers that came before. I have to swallow a lot of pride over the years because of course ones code isn’t without fault. But to point that out from a newbie in the team who maybe only want to proof that they can code? Super hard for me ;)
I generally dislike fluent interfaces too, so much so that it stopped me from trying CadQuery initially. Only once I encountered something I couldn't do with OpenSCAD did I give it a go and now it's the only tool I use. It is one of the rare cases where fluent works very nicely.

Because it's python, you can always use parentheses to split long lines neatly.
No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”

― W.B. Yeats

That was written in 1919 and published in 1920.

So the US has been there before. Came back from there, but it took a depression and a world war.

We might get both of those soon.
I miss people. I don't miss my coworkers. I get plenty of interaction with my coworkers via the web. I miss socializing with normal folks who aren't obsessed with status, salary and career trajectory.
The Real Story of Money, Health, and Religion by Loren Howe.

I found about it thanks to this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29801661.
I thought the video was amazing so I searched for the author and found the book written by the same person. It didn't disappoint.
Not a book I would recommend without a trigger warning.
Then they started uploading the talks to YouTube
In the beginning I enjoyed WFH a lot, I thought it was really neat, but that declined quickly (to be honest, I should have seen that coming, because I've also had a fully remote position before, and it didn't suit me, for the same reasons).

To me, it's just less friction to be in the office, where I don't have to care about anything and can just do my work without distracting tasks like making sure there's coffee and food and avoiding doing chores "oh, I could clean a bit while thinking through this..."
https://outline.com/hGfBNu

to read the full article without GDPR, paywall, or other annoyances.
Isn't it the spirit of the era ? availability of everything to everyone ? you can all produce and distribute content, have an audience, be heard ? so that whatever group can monetize the attendence.
Some people think that 1984 is mostly about surveillance, but that’s a superficial reading IMO. I think it’s a lot more about bending the truth and suppressing ideas.

A quote that haunts me: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” Do we have that freedom in the west, today? Will we have it tomorrow? It’s a lot less clear than one would hope.
I started learning Japanese 4 months ago, and tried to invest at least 1h a day decyphering kanjies, learning new words and some grammar.

So far it's going pretty well. I've got half of 常用 kanjies under my belt and ~1500 words of vocabulary that allow me to get a basic understanding of what's going on in easy mangas.

1000 more words and I plan on getting N3 cert.
Impro by Keith Johnstone. Still the best book about improvisation and life, full of warmhearted stories about loss and renewal of spontaneity. I recommend the first 2/3 of the book to literally everyone (Masks is quite specific to stage work).
> It does not seem to be copying from the training data in any meaningful way.

My point is, I would like to verify this claim with different metrics, because we probably have different interpretations of the word "meaningful".

AlphaCode measures similarity between programs via longest common substrings. That's better than nothing, but that would mean two programs that differ only in variable naming would not be considered similar. If two programs differed only in the names of the variables/functions, I would consider that copying.

I think there are better comparisons of structural similarity: compare the ASTs, or the bytecode/assembly code generated, the control flow graphs, or perform SSA and compare the blocks generated. Each of these might have weaknesses as well, but they won't be as obvious as variable renaming, and so we'd get a better idea of what AlphaCode is copying, and therefore a better idea of its full capabilities.

I expect AlphaCode performs well on Python because the training data is dominated by Python, but Python isn't ideal for comparing program structure. I wonder which programming language (given enough training data) would be best suited for language model generation and analysis.
I get the irony but in the current context that doesn’t really read as a joke.
Is Web3 bullshit? Let's debate
It was fare easier than giant spheres
It's not its responsibility, no, but it still represents a set of skills (data analysis, coding, automation) that you just don't get with an arts degree. Those skills have immense value in non-STEM jobs, would easily make you a preferred candidate.

Your theory about supply and demand is interesting, but all things said, somebody with a STEM education is still automatically better off than other formal educations.
> Be careful with criminal prosecutions. I understand the desire for revenge, but criminal liability will cause everyone involved to be silent about issues, cover them up, be uncooperative, and not fix them

How is that in any way different than what happened with Boeing here and the McDonnell Douglas cargo door fiasco? The company refused to acknowledge and fix the problem until after multiple incidents happened, there was no criminal prosecution and nothing changed.

> That implies that airplanes have never had crashes before due to errors all around. There have been lots of them, and with each one, designs, processes, and training get better.

There have been many honest mistakes or just not knowing any better, miscommunications, etc. But what Boeing did now cannot be excused with an honest mistake. It's impossible that the people involved didn't understand the potential repercussions of no redundancy and hiding the presence of MCAS from regulators (which they were supposed to given the criticality of the system) and pilots. There's no way around this. What can be improved here? Add a "don't negligently implement stupid systems and hide their existence from everyone for a few bucks/months" sign to mandatory corporate training?
Also that changing clients is just as lucrative for contract employees as it is for fulltime employees.

You're usually expected to have 2-3 solid backup options, minimum.
Fun fact, cq-editor does actually work in Docker. I haven't tested autoreloading, but the app at least launches and renders fine, "just" needed to configure X.org proxying or whatever it's called. Thankfully I ended up not needing such a setup.

Cadquery works fine for me in its own separate miniconda environment. The full anaconda is not needed. If dependency resolution fails or is slow, I suggest using mamba for the cadquery / cq-editor install commands – way faster and more reliable.

I'm sure you know this if you use CadQuery, just saying it for the rest of the crowd.
We've done that but someone used relative includes/require statements and everything broke. It's exceptionally annoying.
The trust to refactor needs to be earned. There is a social dimension to refactoring. People that come to a codebase and immediately start refactoring don’t understand this. They believe they can just make objective arguments and others will accept them.
However, one factor not mentioned in the study is that China, which had announced a plan for foundry independence, had its capacity expansion program disrupted by the trade war, as the US restricted China's ability to acquire key equipment to build out fabs.

Page 5 alludes to this, but it does seem to be underrepresented in the report. Erratic policymaking on the US's part incentivized China to hoard semiconductors while they could still get them. For all they knew, their whole country was about to end up on the entity list.
Yeah, in all these polls about WFH or work-from-office preference, I'd really like to see it broken out by whether the respondent has an office in their WFH setup. I want to know if that changes the answer.

I know my own opinion of WFH improved once I got a desk (once there was finally stock…) and a chair.

It might be that the grass is always greener, but I feel like having the ability to close the door & have a private room (at home or in the real office…) can be a huge plus if you need some quiet time. Similar to the desk/chair, it's just a better working space.

Open office floorplans were effective paycuts, IMO; nothing more than less space == cheaper, and no thoughts were given to the long-term effects because nobody in our industry thinks long-term about anything. Who would when whole companies turn over every two years?

I'd love a home office… but real-estate prices are ridiculous.
> This is a classic neo-con argument

I don't follow this line of thinking at all. Could you explain how our middle class could go back to manufacturing and earn a decent wage? As long as there is a global market and we're not isolated from it, we cannot compete from a wage perspective.

> > While the US could do well to onshore production of critical components

> And how exactly is the US going to do that?

I didn't say "onshore everything". Look at the money we're spending on Intel and TSM to build plants in CONUS. We do that with key chemicals and pharmaceuticals. We don't need to make textiles or goods we can source from anywhere.

> Reality is the largest buyer of US debt is now the Fed. Any attempt to control the inflation at the backdrop of 33 trillion debt with higher rates is going to seriously raise the possibility of sovereign default. So hyperinflation and devaluations is the only way out. And the resulting political and social unrest follows.

I'm not sure where this came from. I think we have a handle on things. Others agree. If we didn't, the market would have way worse uncertainty priced in.
It's a summary of 2 books: The Loop and Stolen Focus

THE LOOP: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
By Jacob Ward

"In “The Loop,” Ward, an NBC technology correspondent, argues that artificial intelligence in particular is not only predicting our actions but increasingly causing our actions, narrowing our scope of options and imprisoning us in an automated existence."

STOLEN FOCUS
Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again
By Johann Hari

"Hari breaks down the many causes of our lack of attention into two categories: too much and too little. Too much information, stress, surveillance and manipulation, and ADHD diagnoses. Not enough sleep, novel reading, navel gazing and nutritious food."
That's kinda cool, I didn't know that was a thing but doesn't seem too difficult to achieve with a buffer.

Problem though, most of the cpu time to log a message is in preparing the log statement. Once you hand it off to a logging library you're off the critical path, probably on a background process and then off to the OS and sequential writes to disk (which is faaast).

There's also some benefit from having the other debug statements from previous correct runs to compare. If there's any state being set (you kinda deserve problems, but) it may help with debugging to have the previous messages.

And of course, the most difficult problems to solve are the ones that don't crash but run through feeling fine with values reversed / inverted / off by 1 etc.
I doubt you will find any example where minorities suffered from too much free speech. The truth it that there are always some people who pretend to know better and put pressure on officials. These people are not friendly to any minority and should be disregarded.

The people in power currently try everything to restrict speech, but it is also welcomed by a certain sheltered demographic whose worst part of the day is that they have to read an offensive internet comment that doesn't agree with their world view.
I had a Brompton for about two years but did not like how it felt riding it to be honest. The rather weird six gear box thing and lack of disc brakes (especially in rain and winter) was also not that amazing

But yes, the folding mechanism is superb.
Maximizing engagement is a result of ad-supported businesses because profit-maximization is from showing you more ads, which means you spending more time on the platform. Splitting up the network doesn't inherently make it better or worse.

If you're paying a monthly fee or buying hardware, they don't care how much time you spend using it as long as they get your money, so that's a different incentive.

The ad-supported model is more profitable specifically because of the network effect -- you get more users when you don't charge money and the bigger network is more network effect. But then the users don't have a real choice; the biggest network with everybody on it is the one funded by ads.

In a federated network, you choose the provider who makes the algorithm and can choose one whose business model isn't selling your attention to advertisers, and you're still a part of the same network as people who choose differently. Then people aren't locked in, and when they realize that the algorithm whose purpose is to suck up all their time and spam them with ads is costing them way more than e.g. $10/month, which business model becomes more popular?
Why did not so ancient Europeans build sky-seeking Gothic cathedrals?