skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the scales one uses. You're right for most bathroom scales, but not for balance-beam scales as one tends to find in physicians' offices; those measure mass and are accurate in a wide variety of accelerated reference frames (and in particular are insensitive to anisotropies in the Earth's gravitational field).

Accurate weight-measuring scales rely on m = F_w/g, where m is mass, F_w is the normal force delivered by the scale's measuring surface to the measured object, and g is almost always g_n := 9.806 m/s^2 per ISO 80000-3:2006 (item 3-9.2) or similar standards. (Tbh the ISO document does not do much more than offer up a defined value.) This relation only holds (and only approximately) when the scale is used as intended by its designer, and that condition picks out a set of preferred (and accelerated) reference frames. A "contact camp" supporter (like Baez[1]) would say that the measurement of weight is accurate in a much wider variety of frames, crucially including in local free fall.

Modern weight-measuring scales will almost always use SI units internally, but most can supply a variety of output units (the one in my bathroom can show kg, stone, lb, Newtons, and the value read from the piezo element package. It sadly has no internal bubble level or equivalent, and no accelerometer, and its software doesn't make use of data from devices within the mobile device it runs on (which could be placed on the scale between my feet). Finally, it was expensive enough to do any or all of the above, so I won't recommend it).

More colloquially:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/343183-the-differences-bet...

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Weight/whatIsW... -- and revisiting this wonderful page is the real reason for this reply. :-)
Im pulling for the H1 gang. Bug bounties are a critical security component for any business: They are the only way to catch unknowns and known unknowns. If your business doesnt have some form of bounty program, you are whistling past grave yards.

Working with h1 is great because they can help you avoid running a program that creates problems during your launch, manage submissions, handle international payouts, etc. Cant say enough positive things about these folks.
I have done a (very) little bit of work in Chromium/WebKit, which at the time was split across two repos. The dance you had to do to make a change spanning both repos (make a commit in repo A that adds a hook for the thing you need but still compiles, make repo B use it, maybe a third commit to tidy up A) was incredibly tedious and I'm sure introduced extra bugs.

When the Chromium team forked WebKit (renaming it Blink) they merged it into Chromium, specifically citing ease of development.

To some extent I think the problems with split repositories are just down to bad design. WebKit was never a nice clean API, it was just a mess of whatever hacks Apple and Google needed for their respective browsers. The Chromium/WebKit split wasn't made on sensible engineering grounds, it just reflected the Google/Apple administrative divisions (Conway's law: "organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations")

I still feel like modular code is better, and properly designed modular code can work well in modular repositories. But good modular code can work in monorepos too. Monorepos have the advantage that you can do huge codebase-wide refactorings atomically. Clang seems to use that approach -- all the internal APIs are constantly in flux.
> Space migration: an obscenely expensive way to sideline earth's environmental problems

Or maybe some see space as the final frontier and want humanity to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.

Or, as Elon Musk has said many times, an insurance policy against extinction from any number of unavoidable causes such as disease or a meteor strike.

> Increased Intelligence: Not that helpful in an era when humans are going to have to re-articulate their raison d'etre in the face of superhuman machine intelligence.

Why are you against increased intelligence? Humanity saw increased intelligence throughout the 20th century due to things like getting proper nutrition during childhood. Superhuman artificial general intelligence isn't the only outcome, nor do I think it is the most probable. We're more likely to become one with the machine using AI to augment our own intelligence, much like we do today with computing devices.

> Life Extension: One of the key features of being human is being mortal. It's not just an inconvenience to be done away with.

First of all, life extension != eternal life. Even immortality != eternal life. Nothing lasts forever and on a long enough timeline, you will die and have to make peace with that. You don't have to be afraid of the afterlife to want to live longer. Perhaps you just want to visit another planet or see more than .0000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the universe.

Second and most importantly, we've already been through this. The 20th century added ~30 years to human lifespan. That represented a whopping 61% increase! It's not unreasonable to see these gains continue or even increase with accelerating technology. Arbitrarily mandating that people die at a certain age because of one's personal belief on the meaning of life is savage and barbaric.

Third, you may want to see what humanity evolves into. I'll leave this quote from Battlestar Galactica:

“I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more.
Was he talking to engineers or owners / executives though?

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The Upfront Summit is LA's premier technology event, with more than 750 of the country's top investors, startups, and corporate executives
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If he was talking to executives, it may be sound advice. It's extremely likely the hot business opportunities in the short-term will be applying ML techniques to outstrip competitors trying to solve problems with traditional hand-coded solutions. In business-speak, "Learn ML" translates to "Familiarize yourself with the space and hire the people you need who know the topic," because that's how a company "learns" something.
How to write a compiler – for dummies
Surprised that nobody has mentioned the true hero of this story - git bisect - awesome tool, and perfect for pinpointing these sorts of regressions.
I don't think we will ever know the answers to fundamental philosophical questions such as why or how the universe exists.

However, dark matter is measurable physics. I'm sure if technology and knowledge keep getting better we'll be able to solve this one, but it won't help with the aforementioned fundamental philosophical questions.
Github does not need to sell the content to do anything I described. The content is software, and they can run it, modify it, and sell access to the site that runs it.

And "Service" is defined as "anything github is doing", so distribution inside the Service could involve any number of entities.
Completely agree. It is frequently the media companies' unwillingness to sell to buyers on their own terms that leads to this problem. Additionally, the fact that most content is irrelevant to most buyers.

Obviously, the traditional model was designed to subsidize creating something for everyone. But, now, it has been subverted to improve margins by creating everything for everybody / lowest common denominator. On the off chance that it fits my tastes, I still have to buy the rest of the crap just to view what I want.

I'll pay for content, but I want to be able to buy what I want. Content creators have always had a tough time monetizing the content vs the mode of delivery. You pay for the theater when you go to the movies, you pay for the bandwidth when you stream, you pay for the dvd printing when you buy a DVD. It would be nice if the licensing per item were fixed, and the mode of delivery were left up to the buyer.
Hey man, I know this is probably stressful for you and I don't want to be adding to that for you. I'd be willing to take this offline if you'd like but can you please not call me a liar, immigrant-hater, accuse me of being a ball of hatred or that I hate immigrants from the depths of my heart?

I think you know all that isn't true and I think the readers can see through those accusations and it ultimately devalues your input to the discussion.

(For the record I want an automatic green card for skilled immigrants and a higher bar for what counts as a skilled immigrant. I want a massive expansion of refugee immigration into the US. I want automatic green cards for unskilled immigration where they have created roots in the US)
Thank you very much! I'll try using the bootstrap script and come to slack if I encounter difficulties. Best regards!
I think this happened to me once. I try to read a little fiction right before bed to help get my mind off work and programming.
Indicated airspeed is not related to ground speed, but indicated airspeed is the important number, as far as keeping the aircraft in the air is concerned.
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You can buy tickets to E3 for the first time this year
erikb didn't assume the benefits were linear, just strictly increasing between 8 and 6.
Looking forward to referring to this email in 10 years time as the sudden resurgence of Actionscript 3 takes everyone by surprise.
We believe the reason why so few people turn around and stay long enough to look behind them is due to stylistic choices made my filmmakers. Most videos orient users at 0° along the y-axis and keep the action focused there throughout the video

Or they were sitting down?
I think his target audience was investors and company owners, so "Learn ML" in this context really means "Get savvy about the market and hire the people you need for your org to have some knowledge of the topic."

Perhaps a good time to be an ML grad coming fresh out of college.
From the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good luck with that. Any place doing serious ML will require the person to have a PhD or have publications and presentations at conferences like NIPS/ICML. Even most CS grads with a bachelors do not have the math background required unless they double majored in math or stats.

This is more VC/founders who are hyping up AI and need more ML folks so they can drive down costs.
I used to do this early in my career too, until I realized how counterproductive it was. I've found that it isn't "coding marathons" themselves that are good, but being motivated, undisturbed, structured etc. Few people are that everyday, so we have to work on it.

Nowadays instead of coding full out until I go home and crash on the couch I try to spend the last hour of the work day documenting what I've done, what need to be done tomorrow and even what I'm doing this evening. That way I've probably had some decent time off, I know what to do the next day and can more easily get started. Even if I'm not motivated I can do something simple for a couple of hours, at which point I usually get motivated again.

Coding marathons feels good when you do them, but they also builds up debt. Both in the structure of the project and in motivation. It's quite natural that it's hard to get started if you don't have an obvious starting point and you anticipate that you have to do a full 8 to 10 hours and be completely spent at the end.
I seriously have issue with calling us wage slaves and such, let alone claiming its because of the failed labor movement.

we are slaves to our uncontrolled passions that marketers have ruthlessly and easily exploited having us believe we need something we cannot afford. we allow ourselves to be convinced that our life would not be as fulfilling without the latest fad/gadget/etc.

If people paid in cash for what they want, put off such purchases for three or more days, and bought a home one income could support, there would less "slave to wages" than people think
If you ever want to make 1$ on it, its worth having a lawyer make sure you won't lose your hat.
Except Github is hosting software, and this license allows them to modify and use that software in any way they like, without complying with the software's normal license.
How valuable is this without any of the discussion context surrounding these books? It seems unlikely that I'm going to purchase a book based on a metric like "mentions", when much of the discussion could be negative. I mean, I get it from the perspective of scraping/development practice, but it doesn't feel overly useful. And I'm a book hunter.
Pretty much my exact experience with it. I think I just haven't found many of the articles I have read very interesting, and I find the site a little hard to navigate.
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'Open, police' the day a Turkish writer's life changed
When I talk to Swedes they seem to be way ahead of the curve on the idea that total employment is unsustainable. I wonder if maybe they'll approach this problem from a different angle?
I dream a lot about what I could do with the money I'm making from coding. It's never enough...
Normally I'd laugh off any Mark Cuban antics but he isn't wrong. AI is going to greatly reduce white collar jobs with economies of scale.

Luddites of 18th century thought they would never be replaced and continued on their trajectory.
I don't really remember my dreams, my wife says I'm coding in my sleep though, and if I'm working on a difficult problem I usually solve it instantly when I wake up... I think maybe I really DID solve it in my sleep...
When I've been paged overnight, my alarm clock integrates itself into dream logic as something that has to be defeated so that I don't wake up. not sure if the role assignments are random (alarm = pager = evil).
> But if you could learn some things from the history and use that to your advantage, why wouldn't you? Everyone would be doing so.

Hah! Reasons for not learning from history:

* history is hidden behind NDAs, bad licences and patents

* history is hard to access due to its environment (printed on out-of-print books, stored on tapes, HDD and other forms of storage in someone's basement)

* history is written in a programming language nobody knows anymore

* history is written in an incompatible programming language, one for which there are no stable bindings to your favorite language (or for which there aren't any bindings, period)... just think how many times the String class or data type has been written and rewritten just in something like C, let alone the copies in Java, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Go, Rust, etc., etc.

There's a ton of (somewhat) valid reasons history is forgotten and most of them aren't "history was bad, let's just forget it".
We are currently working on solving this exact same problem, developer friendly report automation sans visualization. We are entirely focused on solving the reporting problem before tacking visualisation etc. If you are interested in trying out our product, please send me an email at abhyrama at google email service and I will send you the instructions to try it out. The product is out and is being piloted in two large startups which have seen tremendous efficiency improvements in their whole reporting process. We are yet to bring the product public website up.
They seem to be adding history items when you scroll. Try scrolling down the page some, then going back. It took me about ten clicks to get back when I tried it.
I studied for an interview with Google late last year. I did a lot of algorithm and data structure exercises along with system design work. The study was intense for me, I spent about 3 hours a day working on problems in CLRS for about 5 weeks. I would dream of algorithms a few times a week and think about problems constantly.

Unfortunately I didn't get the job but it was really interesting to experience how my mind operated when a large chunk of my attention was consistently focused on complex topics.
Personally, I did it for six months, but I don't actually want to work from home. I live within five miles of my office and enjoy a clear work vs home seperation. So, I don't think this is really limited to what companies want.

That said, my office has flexible hours and a liberal WFH policy which is a huge deal to me.
The ability to create dynamic POST monitoring checks is interesting. I have an API that requires a current timestamp be applied to each call plus an HMAC header. Typical uptime monitoring service does not allow that.
Absolutely. It's hard to turn your mind off when you're thinking about something complex and rewarding. Some recent study I read said we sleep to forget, so maybe this is your mind's way of making sure you don't forget the progress you've made on whatever particular thing you're working on.

I've found that watching some boring TV or having a drink (alcohol) before bed helps.
The whole phone number as primary authentication method seemed liked a bad idea from the beginning, at least to me.
This doesn't really surprise me. It's a bit like sitting on a tour bus I bet. Most of the interesting things are in the front and to the sides, so almost no one will be turning around, or looking up. This doesn't mean the full 306 degrees shouldn't exist however, just that human nature is always more excited about what's coming up rather than what's behind.
>VR analytics

Where people look in VR depends on the content. That's all there is to it.

That blog post is terrible advertising for your company, as it shows that you will gladly create bullshit content around a trivial fact to boost sales.
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> Presumably the shorter the work day, the more likely you would be to consider it ok to push through it if you feel ill

If the net effect is that you still show up to work anyway, does it really matter?
On the subject of indicated airspeed, does the mach number have the same meaning? That is, if the aircraft had reached an indicated airspeed of Mach 1, would they break the sound barrier and experience a sonic boom?
This sounds like it's related to the Tetris Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

I've experienced the same thing.
Amazon Is Humiliating Google and Apple in the AI Wars
This is a very informative article. If you're interested in getting started with search relevancy I would also suggest the book:
https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search

Which was very helpful to me.
> I keep thinking their future may eventually be Tegra with Risc-V replacing ARM.

Why? RISC-V doesn't have nearly the acceptance that ARM does, and they already get ARM for minimal cost (e.g. licensing fees).

No one is forcing NVidia to design their own cores that conform to the ARM ISA (as Project Denver [0] was rumoured to be NVidia's take at x86 re-purposed for ARM after they were refused an x86_64 license).

So if they just want to slap their GPU onto a reference ARM design and sell it, they'll be like a bunch of other ARM players (Hisilicon, Amlogic, <insert not Apple/Samsung/Qualcomm chip maker here>).

The only reason I can see for including RISC-V in their GPU is that they'll get it for free, and they can modify it to their hearts content without having to tell anyone about it due to RISC-V BSD style license.

This is about NVidia locking down their platform more, through proprietary modifications to RISC-V, than it is about anything else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
It may be having issues, but as long as the US Government agencies (including DOD) use openstack, it will continue to exist.
I'm new to this, but does it mean that Apple is preparing for some AR stuff ? Thanks.
Judging by the perspective, the seats are all the way back. When occupied, the end of the armrest should be somewhere close to the sidestick.
> So it may have been poor wording on my part, but I don't think it unfair to consider religious freedom an important consideration for the Founding Fathers.

For sure, and I didn't mean to be correcting you, I was just pondering what seemed like a sort of historical elision of "move to the new world to practice religion freely" and "founding fathers creating the USA" when the former predated the latter by more than a century.

I like to try to grapple with timescales as a way to understand history, so finding conclusions like "the vast majority of the founders and framers were born in the colonies" (and, in many cases, from prominent families that had been in the colonies for generations) are interesting to me.
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> In any case, the moral argument doesn't appear to work.

Why would it work? You could equally successfully try to shame people into not breathing without payment.
One rather awesome video you can look at is Senza Peso. It's implemented as a 'game' (though it's completely on rails), and you need a VR headset of course, but it's really well made.

Of course, most of the action still happens in front and to your sides. Not so much behind. That seems like a reasonable compromise with viewer attention, though.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/496190/

There's a also a 2D opera version of the same concept, which you can find on YouTube. The VR version basically puts you in the role of the movie's (main? viewpoint?) character.
>Today there is talk of a big clock rate bump (to 200 GHZ or so) if they go to a different semiconductor, but at that point you probably need a fiber optic or terahertz wave link to memory to keep the pipeline full.

You talk as if there couldn't possibly be a benefit to an increase in speed without a corresponding increase in memory bandwidth. Whilst it wouldn't be an optimally efficient system, if we /could/ bump to 9GHz (or 200GHz), wouldn't it be worth doing so for at least some kinds of calculations, even if the memory can't keep up?

edit: Both responses were super-interesting. Don't wanna reply to both, but thanks all :)
4x is within an order of magnitude. That's pretty good in technical terms...I mean in computing, we talk about bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, etc. which is a granularity of three orders of magnitude. Even in ordinary life we chunk time time into seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks months, years, decades (kinda), centuries, etc...each approximately an order of magnitude.
Yeah. SREs that often fail to patch systems because they're in GoLang building their pipe dream ignoring the basics of good hygiene. Or the App Dev that write enough Ruby blocks to create 10yrs worth of technical debt that they can't pay off if their lives depended on it. Meanwhile, their laptop remains unsecured and unencrypted while their I.P. is up for grabs.

Don't hire a CSO.
Hi, I'm one of the authors on the post, happy to answer any questions.
Just don't run the script as is on existing server. It's designed to run on a vanilla server.
Absolutely this can be a contributing factor. Something we are interested in exploring in the future is "how" people are watching these videos. Are they sitting down, lying down on a bed, turning around in a swivel chair, etc.

However, we did notice that the majority of videos with lots of action tend to center their content at 0 degrees.
I'm not seeing any changes in my results. I'm testing in an old laptop, I guess that's why it's so slow.

My rustc version is 1.15.0 and go 1.8.
Adding Persistent Volumes to Jenkins with Kubernetes
edit: got reemed for even attempting, read below