skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is brilliant news! It's one of those iconic London buildings. You'll see it on approach to London to Victoria station, it's clearly visible from the London eye, and as the other commenter noted it's on the cover of that pink floyd album. It's use and renovation has been mooted for years but presumably it's always been held up because it's both a listed building and will be very expensive to renovate due to old hazardous materials and the like. It would take a company with Apple's cash to do this and I'm delighted to see it finally happening.
It's difficult for us because we need GPU stability. The best place for that, for now, is going to be Windows.

With Windows we can more or less hope customers can use a more mixed variation of hardware and get ok results. With Linux, it's unlikely we'd be able to let people go it alone.
I didn't see the video. But given that a cab-service has a natural sharding point (i.e., per city), I don't get why scaling is such an issue.
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To my understanding, it's just Germany that's the outlier here, not all of Europe. I could be mistaken.
Confession time...

I really want to see fully autonomous vehicles but I don't really believe we'll see them on the road in the next 50 years. I think Google's concerns with being able to reliably pass control between the driver and the computer is warranted. I think that the technology will get stuck in the equivalent of the CGI uncanny valley where they find that the technology has to leave more control with the driver than its capable of to keep the driver engaged but never is capable of full control.

My guess is that these systems will evolve into assisted driving technologies that will use force feedback to the driver that will suggest the sanest path but won't take full control until the driver is outside the envelope and will predominantly be used to extend the window where baby boomers can drive and also save inattentive and unsafe drivers for themselves. In other words a drunk behind the wheel is still going to look like a drunk behind the wheel but just less likely to kill someone.

I expect the technology will be displace drivers in military convoys but I don't think it will be good enough for general use. Even if the technology is close I don't think the safety will be as good as the "augmented human" model which will also rapidly improve and so insurance and regulation will continue to hamper rollout.

Would love from those in the know to tell me I'm wrong. I want to believe!
This is definitely cool, but I don't see why bacteria wouldn't develop a resistance to this as well. I have a hard time getting excited about such things while the basic problem of reckless antibiotic use still exists.
Haven't used leaflet in just over a year - is it still limited to north-up only? Because I find it difficult to describe any map library as "mobile-friendly" if you can't rotate it to match the direction you're facing.
Indeed, Marching Cubes and similar algorithms are voxels and drive home the "not a little cube" point.
Ouch 2 popup before I can read the first paragraphe. Can't comment on the content.

Thanks for sharing, but we are still a long way from replacing the current processors (even in top 10 supercomputers).
> military special operations: Nothing comes close to the [...] ability to mitigate "interpersonal friction" that those guys have, IMO.

Any training material, courses or books on this? I need to improve my handling of "interpersonal friction".
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And I have my own laplink (with cables!) and will let you borrow my Compaq portable laptop.
90% of the users signed up without announcing it formally

Considering you can automatically provision accounts and get 100% signup, that's a pretty low number.

They rolled it out at my organization and everyone was automatically signed up and receiving notifications. We put together instructions for deleting your account and passed it around because that was the only way to get out of notifications.

Even still our communications department tried to push it as the primary platform to disseminate information and it was pretty worthless. It was destroyed in the annual survey they sent out and quickly faded into obscurity.

I guess it just depends on how you roll it out. I personally don't see the value in a social network for the office unless you're trying to identify who wastes time in the office not being productive.
Out of curiosity, what were you using to measure the speed of the various operating systems you mentioned?
On the other hand, however, physical decline is more rapid than mental decline and we're talking about a middle-aged man able to play with the best pro athletes in the world -- seems as clear an example of any of experience trumping raw youthful energy. Peyton Manning's last season or two seems like another good example.
Some cities are bigger than others. That's a heavily imbalanced sharding key.
That's something I never thought I would see someone say!

But it's true! At least you could install updates when you wanted, not when your remote masters in Redmond decided.
We see this pattern at PagerDuty over the majority of our customers. There is a definite lull in alert volume over the weekends that picks up first thing Monday morning.

It's led to my personal conclusion that most production issues are caused by people, not errant hardware or systems.
Before 1900 Frege pointed out that we don't need to say, "The sea is salty is true"; we can just say "The sea is salty". A century later it still hasn't sunk in.
What is "EV"?
Cab service on a planetary scale :) They have 2000 engineers, 800 microservices and 8000 GIT repositories. Does it still seem trivial to you?

EDIT: to downvoters: why shoot the messenger? :)
I wonder how they will handle truck inspections, generally you have to wait in a long line to drive over the scales.
What about IDN New GTLDs for Companies?
See Absolute Drift for another car thing: http://absolutedrift.com
You may not get updates after sometime, even for security issues. That's a big issue if you use the TV's "Smart Features" and someone is spying on everything you do with it or everything you watch on it.

This is a problem for TVs and other home appliances that are usually replaced by people once every several years or even once a decade or longer, on average (this does vary across regions and on incomes, but it's definitely a whole lot longer than people's replacement times for smartphones).
Atari ST running DevPac 3, you will love it!!

https://sites.google.com/site/stessential/development/devpac
The "concerns about patent usage" is a tired trope as well.

Yes, if you use React you're basically agreeing not to sue Facebook over patents. Except if Facebook was acting in bad faith they'd probably have enough patents you could be found in violation of to ruin you anyway. If your software is non-trivial, it's already violating patents you probably never even heard of.

But the real kicker is that if you're not using React you're probably already using open source software. And in the JS ecosystem that probably means you're using software under MIT, BSD and ISC licenses, which have no patent provisions whatsoever.

Fun fact: AngularJS uses the MIT license and does NOT contain a patent grant whatsoever. If you use AngularJS, Google can sue you over any patents it holds that are relevant to AngularJS -- they don't even have to wait until you sue them first.

Ember? Same thing (MIT license without patent grant).

jQuery? Although it was dual-licensed as MIT/GPL at some point it's now only MIT-licensed and again contains no patent grant.

In other words: unless you have an explicit patent grant, you're at risk of being sued by the owners of whatever patents you happen to be infringing upon. The only difference is that you're entirely reliant upon the goodwill of the patent owners while React explicitly shields you unless you sue Facebook over patents.
Pure CSS Animated 3D Contour Terrain
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Darn right about the screens. And your parent is right about flexy keyboards. I chose the MacBook due to the OS at the time (Snow Leopard where art thou) and hardware, although it'll be some time before anyone can wrest the 2012 MBPr from me due to it actually having ports on it
Decidedly clickbaity title: this guy's new implementation of the algorithm for computation is the story, while the algorithm itself is as non-revolutionary as you could get.
Not to mention that this is 1-30MB/host. Just wait until gigabit for consumers is the mainstream.
I've come to question releasing often as a result.
I thought .local was a de-facto standard for this?
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"Please what kind of programmer would ever do this?"

I've seen some coding rules/guides that explicitly forbid short form of 'if' statement usage.
Pentium FDIV bug
> A [decently managed] team of 5 will always outproduce you. No matter how little they work or how much better you are individually.

Furthermore, that team will also outproduce a 25 people team.
Lisp, though, does have types.
Sounds like they have 2000 very individualistic engineers with that level of insanity.
This is great.

Definitely matches some of the fun we had trying to figure it out in the dark.
We introduced homework to filter out candidates who could not complete FizzBuzz level tasks. 70% of applications can be filtered by simple home work.
Hey where are my travel logs? Uhhh can't watch them, I'm in another city today :(
Quite a thorny issue! I wish you the best as you look for a good solution.
Status may be a part, but it is not the ONLY part. Which is what the parent (or parent's parent) was stating, that people ONLY buy these devices to look swish.
I understand how world and business work, no problem.
I just lined out this is the reason they claim for banning those YT accounts from revenue. I have personally no problem understanding it, but it doesn't make it any less hypocritical.

The same with Google best the practices on showing content first, ads after, same time their search is covered with ads and the content is below fold.
I'm curious how a company ends up with 10 git repositories per microservice, and 4 repositories per engineer?
Do they have the same load/users during the weekend?
since long time ago I could download youtube for offline watching already so what's new here, I tried two minutes to read this article and gave up, I wish it pinpoints what youtube-go really is and give me the answer in 144 words.
Sounds like they should sit down and re-think why they need one service for every two engineers (!), and ten repos per service (!!).
I'm a fellow traveler with regard to reactionary thought. It boggles my mind that people in the US don't perceive the downsides to mass democracy.
The Other Road Ahead (2001)
"More than double the fleet" . . . from 6 to 12 trucks in 2017

I have a hard time believing that Otto was more than an opportunity to pick up engineering talent and that their interest in freight - for now - is more than an ongoing PR opportunity.
Special Use IPv4 Addresses
McDonald's Theory
75k, bonuses, dating - I smell badoo. Am I right and if I am, how is it working there? Glassdoor is conflicted.
Was interviewing with a blockchain company yesterday and this was my question to them. There is a strong buzz -- imo not very informed buzz -- about this approach in the enterprise and after this cycle of failed pilot projects the buzz should/will die.

Blockchains waste a substantial amount of computing resources. All that heat is wasted energy if the technology is used where the unique featureset of a blockchain are not important. And in the enterprise, that unique featureset is typically not really that important. B2B is a much better enterprise space for blockchains since the name of the blockchain game is 'distributed computing at the edge'.
Yes we and Wikipedia as well do remember him.

"After federal investigators were unable to prove these initial accusations, the government conducted a separate investigation and was ultimately only able to charge Lee with improper handling of restricted data, one of the original 59 indictment counts, to which he pleaded guilty as part of a plea settlement. In June 2006, Lee received $1.6 million from the federal government and five media organizations as part of a settlement of a civil suit he had filed against them for leaking his name to the press before any formal charges had been filed against him.[2] Federal judge James A. Parker eventually apologized to Lee for denying him bail and putting him in solitary confinement, and excoriated the government for misconduct and misrepresentations to the court.[3]"
Fake where, and block where?

If you fake your neighbors IP address then the hacked IoT device never gets taken down, and innocents get bothered unless the ISP does a good job investigating.

Will the ISPs monitor faked packets inside their own network? And if they do at what level? Individual modems, entire segements? Entire regions?
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My first thought would be to set the default gateway to 127.0.0.1. It should mean that they can't route packets to anything outside their LAN?
Thanks for the quote! Barbara Honegger writes:

https://www.quora.com/Did-William-Casey-CIA-Director-really-...

"indeed said by CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration."

To consider: Media Consolidation 1983-2011

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8OufMYrC...
I'm willing to believe that there could be full autonomy under some circumstances (e.g. highway driving) significantly sooner. Which would probably be a significant safety win if nothing else. (Presumably, it could also increase vehicle utilization for trucking.)

Of course, what that doesn't enable is eliminating the need for a licensed, competent human to be present. So it doesn't allow for any of the shared automated car scenarios that get people excited.

I do know a lot of smart people who are convinced that we're on this exponential technology improvement path and nirvana really is only 5 or 10 years away. But I listen to other experts and just look around busy, congested cities and getting computers to the last 5% looks really hard.
Absolute numbers of alerts are probably a lot less useful than alerts/use, or alerts/users. After all, if people use the services PagerDuty covers less often on the weekend then you might see a lower alert volume even if issues are relatively more common.
I don't know anything special, but I think you're wrong. Three reasons: convenience, cost, and safety. These are just too nice and compelling to let this technology drop.

Driver handoff is an optional feature. Cars could just stop instead. New cars have to have autonomous braking now (or very soon). A timeout on handoff can just have the car slow down to stop (which will trigger cars behind it to stop too). That's a compelling reason to have the driver want to pay attention enough to take the wheel before apologizing to everyone behind them.
Which ones? I have a wired one with number pad (yes, it's chiclet) and it is shallow, plus I use my MacBook Pro 2012 non-retina too (which is chiclet, but not as shallow as the Air keyboards) and I can touch type on both no problem at all.

So which keyboard prevents touch typing?
If it could be implemented easily, chances are it would have been by now. One big issue is, TeX doesn't run in traditional compiler-like layers (lex,parse,etc.) In TeX, the meaning of the next token (lexer level) can be changed by something happening in the guts of the engine in response to the previous token. So, just as compiling LISP requires an ability to interpret LISP, compiling TeX into some sort of tree structure would require implementing a big chunk of the TeX engine itself in the process.
Hourly billing.
ISP > you don't get paid to sit around and collect money.

I don't think you understand the purposes of ISPs in the US :)
Used pilot back in the 80's when I was at a college. We used it for some remedial math training and the drill and practice that went with it. It was pretty simplistic, but it was easy to get the professors (actually the TA's) to write the courseware.
> "I'm curious about this project this little repo of yours. Is there some particular reason you chose to use to use / not-use X"

This kind of question is exactly what I had in mind when I said "pushing to see how you react." I think we agree :)
This, and it's incredibly depressing not merely in its result but in its sheer needlessness. Sometimes even the best companies make choices that really don't fit someone's use case, maybe to the extent of ending the relationship, but it's possible to step back and see the business case for it. It's not happy but it can be logical. But I always feel a special set of negative feelings when a company I like well enough does something bad and it's just doesn't even make any sense period. In this case while yes the old Mac Pro case could have used some minor refreshing to make better default use of space in a world of 2.5" drives and such, frankly I suspect most of us would have been reasonably content if Apple took the absolutely utterly laziest, cheapest possible approach, kept the exact same thing and merely kept updating the chipset and CPU and graphics card and that's it. SB-E, IB-E, etc., the same old dual socket boring workstation, just with the internals refreshed. Maybe swap the ports for USB-C eventually. They could have kept a higher profit margin, done much less engineering work, and had a better product.

Instead they actively expended money making it fundamentally worse, and not just that but making it a zero-sum game. Many people correctly compared the Cylinder (it's hard to resist the more colloquial in our office "trashcan mac") MP to the old Cube in terms of basic thermal and design tradeoffs, but the Cube never inspire active dislike because there was still the MP. On the contrary the small niche of users that actually found its set of tradeoffs worth it had a soft spot for a long time. Nobody lost anything at all from the existence of the Cube, so the only people who got were those fine with it, and anyone else could just look from afar. By making the neoCube the only thing though Apple shot any hope of that.

And the Cylinder was form over function in a way I can't recall from Apple in a very long time, and also seemed a fundamental misreading of what they're good at and what they want to be actively engaged in. The mirror of an easily expandable pro friendly system offering flexibility on user side is that it also provides flexibility on the manufacturer side: because 3rd parties can do more entirely on their own, the manufacturer in turn can get away with doing less because the gaps can be filled in by the market. The more control a manufacturer takes for themselves, the more responsibility falls on their shoulders in turn, which is why command-and-control economics tends to have scalability problems vs approaches that make more use of markets.

At any rate it's a real bummer. I've looked at Xeon hackintosh efforts but that's definitely getting into pretty shaky territory and with Apple abandoning pro systems themselves support is probably only going to get worse. I agree it is time, probably past time, to start planning to abandon the platform but boy will it be painful (closer to 25 years in my case).
It's a house. In Compton. That cost $600K.
For anyone else reading this in the future, I should mention that the ESLint 'no-unreachable' rule will catch this even if you don't require semicolons.
This leads to an interesting perspective, that there is a hard limit on how much traffic your services will ever have to handle, and that limit is probably a constant expression on the planet's population.

But I can't imagine how you could possibly need 8000 git repositories unless you're massively over engineering your problem. Project structure tends to reflect the organizations that build them.
The problem here is that the choice is one extreme or the other, never the happy medium.

The extremes are statically linked everything and dynamically linked everything.

Bryan Cantrill deplores this part of the design of Go. He decries the fact that rather than sitting on top of a HLL-function-call binary interface, with the portability layer being HLL function calls like read(), write(), close(), socket(), execve(), Go produces executables that hardwire one specific instruction set's kernel system call traps.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11392119 for his own words.

GCC allows one to selectively statically link various libraries in an otherwise dynamically linked executable. (clang had yet to achieve this functionality, last that I checked a year or so ago.)
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You mean unlike every company that is behind any other project you are relying on that doesn't come with an explicit patent grant?

In other words you have no MIT or BSD licensed dependencies, or in fact no open source dependencies that don't either come with an explicit non-revocable patent grant and aren't licensed under Apache 2.0, GPLv3 or MPL 2.0 (all of which by the way still terminate the patent grant if you sue over infringement of patents within the licensed code itself).

Lucky you?
I can see the argument that if releasing causes things to break then don't release so frequently, but in practice the end result of that is lots of things breaking at once and having to unpick everything. Debugging is much easier if you're debugging a single change fresh in your mind.
How does that stop spoofing addresses inside the segment?

If I am 8.8.8.8 and I fake 8.8.4.4, you still get my traffic, and someone else gets the complaint.
Do you mean on tax forms or the declaration that you are not a member of Scientology?

Afaik you can enter whatever you want on the tax form, it is just used to collect membership fees/church tax on behalf of a church. Mostly part of an old deal between the state and the catholic church.

Scientology on the other hand counts more or less as an enemy of the state, stability and not something you let near children. So you need to fill out a corresponding form for specific jobs. If even half the stories of what they get up to are true that is a good thing.
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