skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm honestly astounded by this. This might just be the stupidest idea I've ever possibly heard. I mean, okay, "distributing money for everyone fairly" sounds noble (though maybe naive, too...), but like...literally everything beyond that point is either a) a terrible idea or b) impossible to implement in any meaningful way. And all that is not even getting to the absolute privacy nightmare that is this startup just going around collecting people's biometric data. Even Google, who has every other piece of data that's ever existed about me, doesn't have my eyeball data. I'm certainly not giving it to someone to get a little bit of crypto cash...

I'm completely baffled at how this has any funding whatsoever.
The problem for outdoor work is that your hours change and no one else’s does, so effectively you’re forced to work 10-6 for safety reasons. So blue collar folks get disproportionately less family time.
We had a very early touch tone phone that would silence one of the tone generators if you held down two buttons in the same row/column, so you could get pure-tone music out of it by dialing 3+6, 2+5, 1+4, 2+5, 3+6 3+6 3+6…
This. I recently wrote something about why I love McMaster.com so much

https://www.bedelstein.com/post/mcmaster-carr
Hype over crap like this grinds my gears. Organophosphines like VX are ALL toxic. There's about a zillion such toxic molecules all containing the same functional group. This study does not demonstrate that this tool is better generator of toxic molecules than anything that includes the basic rules of valence and rudimentary understanding of shape similarity.

When thinking about whether ML does something novel, we must always compare with some simple alternative. I would be impressed if it'd predicted something like Palytoxin, a highly specific molecule with extraordinary toxic activity. There's no way the tools of this paper would though.

-- director of ML at a drug company.
Is there any evidence that DHS employs anyone who would even understand a report about a breach?

Making a report to police about a crime they won’t understand sounds extremely risky for the reporter.
The big difference is that the Russian army has a strong precedent, and is happy to, blast cities to rubble and kill civilians indiscriminately. It works. For all the collateral damage that the US invasions in the middle east caused, US soldiers generally don't like murdering innocents blindly.
I'm not sure about the 80% number, but I know the number is certainly high.

> Can, but not usually. It's more likely to be a crime of passion.

Crimes of passion require opportunity for that passion. They tend to not occur with people you've not been in the vicinity of. If you're in a more densely populated area, you're more likely to be in the vicinity of more people and know more people. It's not necessarily causal, but it is an emergent statistical phenomenon.

> You're conflating necessary means to commit a single occurrence with population level causes. I'm questioning whether population density is a cause of murder. Which I don't see why it would be.

The narrative is that the political leadership is encouraging/enabling/whatever criminals, not victims, who reside in the area. If you are arguing that geography doesn't impact the distribution crime, then the victims would be spread throughout the country.

It's not that population density causes murder, but it affords more opportunity.

I think we all understand that murderers are much more likely to know and live near their victims. It should not be surprising that more densely populated areas would have a higher murder rate. What is surprising is when the less densely populated areas have the higher rate.
I'm pretty sure that modern software projects like Firefox need special patches to work on PIII-era hardware. The Debian versions of Firefox for i686 do include these patches, so they ought to work provided that the system has enough RAM.
My recent experience is that some books are unfindable by search, even if you enter the exact title. Only ISBN works. In other words, amazon search totally sucks. To the point that I find easier to search amazon via google ("now you have another problem").
>"You will spend year teaching someone then he leaves for another company who gave him 20% rase."

If you hire decent developer and it takes a year to teach them for example react to be productive the problem is not with the developer. Normal developer should be reasonable productive in a matter of days. Ok give it a month. And it does not require tutor hanging over the shoulder.

The problem is with you as you've just hired someone who's at the moment unqualified as a developer in general.
do you have evidence for your claim? everything I can find suggests that literacy is about as high as ever, as are book sales.
There are exactly such devices.
> That's funny, because PKD once wrote of a game wherein the players translate from one language to another and back again (he wrote this long before computer translation existed, by the way).

The popular, over used, example of that would be:

The flesh is weak but the spirit is willing.

The meat is rotten but the vodka is good.
True, but you need to have a very large unbalanced grid for that to occur: at the grid frequency (50 Hz), the corresponding wavelength is 6000 kilometer. So assuming that math is correct, you would need a path length difference of 3000km between two transformers to get full phase inversion between the paths.

That's more than twice the max diameter of the entire European grid (Tunesia-Gibraltar-Turkey seems the longest path). So as long as there's transformers every few hundred kilometer, and multiple paths between most of the connection points, the overall phase synchronization should be adequate to not need those fancier tricks.
Its a search box - you have to type at least 4 letters for results to populate. Did that do it?
I've heard this book (assuming it's https://dataintensive.net/) recommended before, but some have mentioned it's overly theoretical and doesn't offer much in the way of helping you build working examples of the material (although I suppose the complexity of the material does make toy examples a bit tricky to come up with). Do you know of anything that does have such offerings, or possibly if I'm thinking of a different book?
Lethality Engineer? Is that a P.Eng. kind of position? If your work doesn't actually kill anybody, could you be sued for malpractice and lose your license?
Thanks! Haha yeah it pulls all sorts of cities so can be confusing sometimes.
Another mature option with Lua scripting is LuaDNS[1]

[1]: http://www.luadns.com/
Thanks, that is still progress. You mean the Play Store? A possible alternative is to use Aptoide for downloading APKs or maybe simply getting them directly from a cellphone.
The important thing here is all the do nothing high paying jobs this will create. Seriously.

The bad thing is all the security incident response "experts" we will have to endure. Along with all the take my incident response course and such.
You don't worry about being out of battery on a Tesla, so why would you on an e-bike? Clearly you need to fit the drivetrain to the expected use case, but there are plenty of people who might ride the bicycle down the street to the grocerist, but would never even consider going on a ride lasting more than half an hour.
Upperclassmen should tutor lowerclassmen and perhaps they should even be graded on it. If you can't explain something, you probably don't actually understand that thing - and I really don't think school can get much worse, so perhaps adding a little self governance would give them a chance at being successful.
Abusing? Isn't this one of the principle motivations for developing facial recognition?
If you meet a new person, and they identify themselves as "The Tootie" you don't instantly start calling them Tom, that's just stupid. So what do they refer to themselves as?

The constitution and declaration of independence say "Ukraine", no The. Seems like they have decided what name(s) they prefer, so use their preferred names[0].

I couldn't find an English source on an official .gov.ua website, though the presidents page[1] in English always says "president of Ukraine" and not president of The Ukraine. Easily enough, they seem to prefer no the, so Ukraine it is.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of...
1: http://www.president.gov.ua/
The basic UI is the easy part.

Established companies have established company problems, complex flows that need to account for things like legacy deep links, A/B testing, UIs that go off the beaten path for brand identity, etc.

It all adds up to very little of a common denominator for all of these apps.

I've worked on some of the top apps in the play store for their respective categories, and if you saw their codebases your first thought would be "I could recreate this app in 1/10th this much code!".

After actually talking to all the stakeholders involved your second thought would be "I'm amazed this didn't take 10x the code!"
Years ago I did school IT, during the time when all websites moved to SSL-only. We used to filter websites easily with Squid and something called Dan's Guardian. When Google switched to SSL-only we had to change. We could have required everyone to install certificates, but instead we used PowerDNS with Lua to force all Google search related queries to answer with a Google-provided CNAME.

https://gist.github.com/hayesr/55b55d167f67f57fe5e56ec3ab1f8...
Do you mean 'chattering'? Double presses can happen with electrical contact mechanism switches, particularly if they are old or dirty.
what is the emergency backpack?
The launch time of JavaScript engine is fast enough for DNS?
What benefits are those exactly?
Cut out of my CF worker. Just add more routes as necessary (someone could come up with a DNS vs. HTTP specific router).

import { Router } from 'itty-router';
import { exportedObject } from './some/other/file';

const router = Router();

router.get('/update', async (request: Request, event: FetchEvent) => exportedObject.update(request, event));

router.all('*', () => new Response('404, not found!', { status: 404 }));

addEventListener('fetch', (event: FetchEvent) => {
event.respondWith(router.handle(event.request, event));
});

I don't even need to start up a http server to do testing of my handlers. I just test the functions directly.
Surely the skin (touch) is our primary sensory input?
Antiprotons can be stored pretty much indefinitely (many years) in cryogenic Penning traps. This is done by the BASE collaboration at CERN [1] who are actually neighbors of the group that the article is about.

[1] https://base.web.cern.ch/
A great example of this would be called an emulator, and I'd argue that, yes - those are completely independent designs. So does the law. :)
So many have been sold on cloud using the idea that they don’t need to worry about this stuff, because the big cloud provider has better security teams, etc. It’s not surprising at all that you end up with issues like this — any Ops person could’ve seen it coming from miles away.
>You never want to just show exact matches

I am not sure how well this holds up when searching a product catalog. I would believe it for a general purpose search engine, but for a product catalog, I am searching for a very specific thing.

Qualifying keywords on a product catalog are likely more common. Compare the searches for "'2' x '4' birch plywood" vs "birch plywood" and you can see why exact matching can be prefered, as it's very easy for the user to generalize their search.
I talk to random people outside of tech who love that site too. I did a bit of googling to get any details on how it came about and came up with this:

https://www.quora.com/Who-designed-UI-UX-and-developed-the-w...

It was heavily influenced by Tufte!
Eventually, you'll be able to buy Jacdac modules, brains, and cables.
20 meters under ground there is already no temperature difference between summer and winter.
> I think this is more about virtue signally than anything else

I don't really agree with you here, I think it's more about being respectful to the wishes of a country's people. Politics aside, Ukrainians do not want their country to be called "the Ukraine" in English, and respecting that isn't virtue signaling, it's just being respectful to that desire.
Just did a search for Fortran. Seems right to me.

Can you link to your search?
Define fulfilling potential? If early childhood education was something that a "genius" could afford to focus on(in terms of opportunity cost), wouldn't the contributions of the students far outstrip the potential individual contributions of the single "genius"? My focus is on the availability of these tutors for individuals.

You can kind of see this in sports in the US. Sports are only lucrative for the top performers, and those lucky enough as well. This leaves a wide swath of very high level athletes available to parents willing to pay. This also extends to competitive public funded sports depending on where you're at.

On one hand, it would be amazing for gifted tutors to be widely available, on the other- the situations that would create such availability are probably not going to be good. I'm just thankful that my career will hopefully afford me the ability to be a single income household, with the time and resources to tutor my own child.
Native Polish speaker.

To get out the max of this poem you need to be versed in Polish lang of course, but also mathematics and basic history of Polish literature.

The poem is a mock-erotyk (quasi "poem about lovemaking") where the mechanics of love are replaced with mechanics of mathematics. It works very well with całka (integral) which creates a fantastic replacement całkować (determine integral) instead of całować (kiss).

The other place that speaks volumes about this being satirical is an almost word for word quote from Polish national epos called "Pan Tadeusz": Wiele trzeba cię cenić, ten się dowie tylko" (Much you must be valued, he will only know), which for a Pole is an instantly recognisable stylistic device.

It also mentions a lot of math which is either made up or way above my head so I won't comment about that.
This might not be comparible but on webfiction platforms review swaps are so common that reviews should not be trusted in any form anymore honestly. "I'll review your stuff if you review mine"
I don't think that will help, I get it in Firefox in both Android and OSX.
Congrats on the launch! I've started playing around with the free version and love what I've seen so far. I'm excited to see where the product evolves to.
When I looked into a similar move (a dog who would need to be with me entire time) to Germany from the US, I found a cruise that went to Europe and then from there could rent a car or take trains.

You could try searching for how people afraid of flying travel. May have some creative solutions.
Unlikely, as those flights would be scheduled and the launch site publicized. It wouldn't absolutely preclude a masked nuclear strike, but that would be possible already with space launches.
When I see things like this from a company like google it tells me the company knows its dominance is coming to an end and its leadership is afraid and panicking.
How our free plan stays free
> I think it's a search tool and not a browse/explore tool. You should already know which thing you want by the time you ask amazon to find it for you

I was recently searching Amazon for a specific classic Kindle book with the exact title, author and publisher (Penguin Classics) and still got a list of maybe 500 completely garbage versions that had obviously gamed the algorithm.

Even finally finding the “correct” version in the list, and clicking on that led me to a fake version of the book.
BTW, this sort of smugness is why Detroit is a shattered husk of what it used to be.

When Deming still had all of his hair, he had trouble getting traction in the states. Japan, on the other hand, was intrigued by his ideas and wanted some quality time from him. If you look at the history of the Toyota Production System, they usually credit Taiichi Ohno and Toyoda, with the origin story sometime in the 80’s, after Detroit was already in flames, but before that was Deming, and for some reason he is usually not mentioned.
https://www.nhk.or.jp/sonae/en/goods/index.html
Could help to add (2009) in the title?
While true, this is unfortunately not unique, I see the same issue on (eg) Mouser/Digikey/Arrow for electronics parts.

Obviously in some cases it can be replaced by a range slider, but there's also cases where it really can't. In some cases it's the part itself that has the range - like let's say a pump is designed to produce a flow rate of 0.5-5 gal/min, you can't express that with the usual range slider.

I guess what you really need is an "inverse range slider" where instead of saying "I want a connector that carries at least 5 amps but not more than 15" you say "my project needs a flow rate of 2.5 gpm, what parts have that value within their range".

But I mean... compare the McMaster-Carr site to Home Depot, or Target, or whatever, and it's just a breath of fresh air. Like, if inverse-ranges are the biggest thing you can complain about, mission accomplished ;)
How the Victorians invented the future for us
Show HN: An in memory KV store with encrypted persistence and automatic backups
The follow up to this library was libdill, the library that I believe originally introduced structured concurrency: http://libdill.org/structured-concurrency.html
Thanks for that. Never heard of the lEEt/OS that this one is running but looks like an interesting toy.
Thankfully, Amazon India seems to be free from this so far.

Searching for brain cancer returns a self-help book for dealing with cancer, academic publications for cancer diagnosis and a memoir of a brain cancer survivor.

I was always puzzled by the negative experiences that I usually see in HN because I have literally never had a bad experience with Amazon. Sure, a few shipments I received were damaged but they were promptly replaced with minimal hassle. I guess the difference is Amazon is still trying to capture market share in India while it's already established itself as a Behemoth in the US.
I think it's the hack into `cd` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880065
Money is a lot freer than it was.
Is it possible you could share more specifics about these simulation figures? While I'm still very much pursuing technical/organizational info about what underpins the big scalable services (or the meta-scalable ones like firebase, which itself helps other devs make scalable apps) I'd be very interested to know how stark the difference in cost/performance is for this managed crud/firebase-heavy solution vs other offerings, or even just as a baseline of whats out there in the space of easier-to-architect scaling options.
> TCP/IP over smoke signals

I like the idea, I'm just worried about the CO2 released.

Then again, if the alternative is tons of bird-cr&! everywhere, it may be the better way.
I've found similar line of thinking in the work of Polish writer, Jacek Dukaj. In his "Po Piśmie" ("After Writing") he had also remarked on the fact that education you would get in higher classes is not the education you get in lower. You're taught how to deal with boredom (as in you were not supposed to work), so you'd be more creative.
There are various theories along the lines of "principal engineer retention strategy", where part of the reason for these projects (and I have to emphasize "part" in "part of the reason") is because they are the pet projects of some particular individual at Google who can deliver tons of value to the company other ways, and who might leave if they don't get to work on their pet projects.

I have definitely heard stories of people at companies like Google and Facebook who have done things in their career that saved or made the company enormous amounts of money in one fell swoop, people who can help get massive projects back on track or solve thorny resource usage problems. The theory is that if they've done it a couple times in the past, you do what it takes to keep them around because they'll probably do it again in the future.

These people generally get positions crafted for them, and sometimes teams.
I think you underestimate your ability. As a programmer, you've already learned and internalized abstractions that are far more complicated than anything here.

`select` is often aliased to `find_all` and that's what it does: finds all elements matching what's passed to it. `take` is sometimes aliased to `first`. Expanded ever so slightly:

nums.first(20).find_all { |n| n.odd? }.reduce { |sum, n| sum + n }

This reads: take the first twenty elements, find all the ones that are odd, and reduce by adding them together. The only "clunky" bit here is the word "reduce" which IMO there isn't an equivalent common English word for that gives a good intuition for what it does.

It might not look like it if you haven't internalized these abstractions, but they reduce cognitive load. Dramatically. You don't have to read through a complicated set of conditionals and control flow statements in an explicit loop, you can read the bits entirely linearly and (almost) in straight English. Once comfortable with these, you can quickly glance at pretty much any expression like this and know immediately both what it does and have extreme confidence it doesn't contain bugs, because there just isn't anywhere for bugs to be.

Don't sell yourself short. Take the time to learn these, and you will be a better programmer for it.
That ability to connect unmatched phases is secondary to the primary function of those interconnects: over those distances it is more efficient to transmit the power in DC instead of AC. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...
Goodness gracious, "I demo'd my work to $BIGCO and they stole it". Imagine my surprise. This has been going on since the start of the PC era. I don't condone it in any way, but trusting $BIGCO is like trusting the mafia; don't do it, or have a private army (lawyers, gunmen, doesn't matter).
What else can you do while driving a car?
Well that's horrifying. Not where I want multithreaded code. Definite risk of it being written in C with volatile~=atomic as the working assumption.
Also scissors can kill but there are rules/laws which should act as a deterrent. The trouble here is that who is making the rules is also the one who is using/abusing of it.
I'm okay using a different keyboard sometimes. It's probably a good idea for all of us.
So, as I said my remark didn’t come out right, but, some molecules may be considered harmful at low dose and harmless at high dose if they stabilize a deteriorating conduction at or over some threshold concentration. Yeah I know it’s a fetch but you got me thinking… It’s not that clear cut.

I mean the urine of someone on chemotherapy is pretty toxic, still we consider the molecules beneficial to the patient overall (the patient-tumor system if you will, not the patient by themselves).
> However they don't have the power to give me a pay rise or extra time off outside the normal bounds set by their bosses.

Maybe. But - maybe they just follow the path of least resistance, which is to lean on you rather than go up to their bosses and say "John Smith is quitting, and when he does, this project will crash and burn. We must stop this or the company will lose $$$."
On a related note, Amazon's recommendation engine was terrifyingly excellent in 1999-2000 or so, to the point I was probably spending more on books than I should have been at the time. It has been on a long downhill trend since some point after that, around 2000 or 2001, when it started insistently recommending me the current Harry Potter bestseller instead of things I was actually interested in.
Expectation of tech being 24x7 is foundational, to make our lives better, but at the same time not at the cost of a healthy lifestyle.