skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's already something. But you shouldn't have started with a bad placeholder, waiting for others to criticize and propose replacing it. Start with open languages and technologies right away.
This is nothing new. I work marketing side running customer acquisition for 12 countries across 3 brands, with budget significant enough to bring in ~3% of a countries population annually in our higher coverage markets. And this year we will add additional countries and brands.

We are a team of 3. There is no way this would have worked 10+ years ago. Maybe in another 10 we will be 1...
"We’re confident we can accomplish these reductions without any effect on the expertise and exceptional customer service we provide to our customers."

Lanham never would have missed the opportunity to drop "fanatical" in.

"The company is cutting jobs in its corporate administration and management teams."

Sounds like they are not releasing technical and customer facing talent?
This does seem like the way things will need to go. The system may need to break down completely in order to be recreated. Perhaps it will start in a state with sufficient size to achieve price bargaining power.

Perhaps some combination of eliminating medical school tuition, exemption from liability, and long term contracts could be used to recruit the talent.
Do you have a source for your claim?
> "Up to 24% of the aircraft occupants were rendered temporarily unfit for duties following the incident"

Gotta love the officialese for 'people puked everywhere'....
Ha my spouse decided to try this once.

Emphisis on _Once_.
I didn't claim that was his motivation, I claimed it was the practical outcome of urbit, and it is. His presence prevented a great many people from attending lambdaconf because they had a legitimate fear of the racist violence he advocates, and refuses to recant. You'd have to work a lot harder apologizing for fascist bigots to make me feel any embarrassment for calling out their negative impact on communities I care about.

Claiming politics is out of scope is absurd, and is a rhetorical mechanism designed to, at a minimum, preserve the status quo. His politics are abhorrent -- accepting his declaration of them as irrelevant when they're anything but is effectively siding with them.
It would be interesting to use this not only for the filesystem but for the entire OS, so that all state changes could be audited. Perhaps some unikernels already do this sort of thing.
https://search.creativecommons.org/ is also a great meta-search engine.
Not sure if you're serious or not, but 'souls' is the term used to refer to everyone onboard a plane (when declaring an emergency, etc)
> Or you can use a brainwallet that is never stored in a file at all

This is an incredibly bad idea. This publishes an unsalted, unhardened hash of your password to the blockchain to be cracked by anyone. There are bots with large precomputed tables that will instantly steal from especially weak ones.
Lack of known good reasons, and their major infamy in perpetuating lock-in in general. They have only themselves to blame for being seen in negative light in this topic by default.
Oh I see, we're getting pedantic over semantics.

If your GPU is designed with a small bus between system and GPU memory, that's still a GPU issue. You could make the same argument on the CPU side for caches and DRAM if you want to go that far. I appreciate the education lesson but I think you'll find most graphics programmers will consider it a GPU problem :).

At the end of the day though here's the thing. The intersection of users that have a GPU capable of discrete pipelines, compute shaders and all the other things that make this interesting but won't go through the effort of installing a native app is relatively small. You can't polyfill(otherwise why use the GPU in the first place?) on the users don't have a cutting edge machine so you're going to have a swath of people that your WebApp won't work for. From a value proposition it just doesn't make sense.
I used to keep putting my phones through the washing machine, so I stuck with cheap prepaids until I got over the habit. This happened several times:

Me: Hi, my phone number is X. I put my phone in the wash, please transfer my number and minutes to this new phone.

Telco: Ok what was your old serial number?

Me: I don't know, my old phone went through the wash.

Telco: Um...ok you're all set.
Neat! Are you compiling Hoon for the programs, or did you make your own language that targets it? How are you handling infinite loops or calling potentially unsandboxed jets? Reading over your code, it looks like you expanded Nock a bit with opcodes for e.g. hashing. instead of having a base stdlib context you are calling against with a jetted gate for it. Any reason?

The problem with Nock as an embedded language is that you need a certain critical mass of jets before it's usable, unfortunately. How has that worked out for you?

I thought that Nock would be a cool language for this type of stuff, or replacing Bitcoins/Etherums embedded stack languages due to the purely functional, its-just-reduction aspect.
Consumers don't appear to be bothered by any of those missing freedoms.
This is good news; it sounds like solar has really come into its own.

I'm particularly intrigued by how utilities are turning to solar for price stability. It makes sense, since oil has had bitcoin-level price volatility over the last two years, but it's certainly not what you think when you think solar -- as the article points out.
Cool, might try it out. Factorio is really designed for this so it's much easier to build things than I'd expect in a modded minecraft, but will try it out.
Exactly. This is why level 2-4 automated cars scare the hell out of me.
You are right. It is a big problem. Its hard to do because you want to avoid complicated parsing and compilers. You don't want to put in lots of costume code.

Finally, I think the next version of Clojure will be able to make a big step. Spec improves multible problem points, error messages is one of them. It will take some time until the tooling around Spec is ready, but the data that spec provides is very nice for tools.
I also saw that triangle shaped plot and had the same thought. I read a great paper about this recently [0] with some of the same examples as the link in the parent, but going a little further in depth.

I originally got on this topic when reading Bayesian Methods for Hackers [1]. I am still hunting for a good method to correct/compensate for this when I am doing these types of comparisons in my own work.

[0] -http://faculty.cord.edu/andersod/MostDangerousEquation.pdf

[1] - https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
They DID say the same thing 10-20 years ago, and they were CORRECT.

Ever try to build a web application in Assembly language or C? It would probably be pretty difficult. You don't have to do that anymore.

1 web developer can do more work today than 100 assembly developers could, from 50 years ago.
I could also imagine that a Boeing pilot generally has more respect of the machine (s)he's operating because of the direct control. The overall deadly accident rate in Boeing vs. Airbus, plotted over time, would be interesting.
I think it's a sane expectation to use something that is both open and already available. GLSL, SPIR-V and etc. Using something like MSL won't go anywhere, if there won't be comparable, open and freely available implementation already.

You should take that idea seriously, if you want to view it as a truly collaborative project that invites everybody's participation. I.e using MSL from the start was a major mistake.
Would be interesting to know exactly why, at the transistor level, it is failing.
Almost all US prepaid providers use the last 4 digits of the phone number or the billing zip code as the PIN.

Many landline and voip providers really do just require a signature.
"expression #1, char 17: unterminated `s' character"
Isn't that just a `grep -R [regex pattern]`? Not sure where something like awk or sed fits in to solve such a problem.
Well, I guess you know all this but you've asked me to elaborate. So, in terms of compatibility you have:

DX12: Windows only. Metal: macOS/iOS only. Vulkan: cross-platform and cross-vendor. Windows 7/8/10, Android, Linux, MoltenVK supports iOS/macOS with a wrapper. That's a big win for Vulkan IMHO. Valve also agrees with this assertion.

In terms of performance, I don't think Metal is even a contender, given how bad macOS hardware is compared to Wintel. w.r.t. Vulkan vs DX, from what I've seen it's pretty close, with Vulkan usually coming out ahead by a few performance points but of course it depends a lot on the implementation when it's at that level. Vulkan has been shown to be systematically better than OpenGL.
I think rough consensus and running code will end up more convincing than the things you suggest. So that's what we're working towards.
Ask HN: Am I obsolete?
I'm being constantly rejected at interviews. I was lazy not to change company early in my career. Now after 12 years when I finally started trying, I feel like I am obsolete and no company wants to hire me.
Thing is I am not a worst programmer. I did receive many performance awards in my company and for most of the years received good salary hikes. In last few interviews I did well in coding questions but (I think) failed in design/architectural questions. I worked in a small company(300-500) for a very long time, where I never faced challenges that large or even medium size companies face. This has put me way behind other programmers with same number of years of experience.

I even tried applying for positions requiring 5-6 years experience, but for those I don't even get an interview call.

I'm so much depressed right now, I don't know what to do anymore. Is my career as a programmer over? What should I do?
You basically just described Cat Programming 101.
When you look at the amount of effort that's gone into SPIR-V you'll only have one conclusion to this question.
Typically people post a question to StackOverflow because they are confused, but it seems unlikely that people are more/less confused about any given topic based on it being a weekday versus a weekend so relative usage makes sense.
Docker Swarm - especially 1.13 with the new, simpler yml file based deployment
>For example I think it's far more important that gay people enjoy full civil rights, be able to marry etc. than they had better privacy tools that would allow them to remain in the closet indefinitely.

That's like saying that having 100% uptime and zero failures is more important than having backups. Sure the former would be ideal but in reality that answer doesn't cut it. Sure civil rights and free speech and personal autonomy are ideal, but over here in the real world there are a lot of people who still have to hide to avoid bad stuff happening to them.

I also don't think you can use 'automate' and 'security' like in the previous paragraph and expect good results.
This is why I have gripes about the OS X command line. I can't confidently use the scripts I do on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian. Like, get with the program, Apple. It infuriates me and I'm moving entirely off their platform as soon as my Mac kicks the bucket.
It provides an application framework and reinvention of the world to have decentralized apps work, instead of just providing packaging apps like Sandstorm.

Urbit has an identity system with limited space to prevent Sybil attacks. The network pretends to expose exactly-once networking that Just Werks so that apps don't have to worry about it. All apps are purely functional state machines to make it easier to handle them and transparently upgrade them from code updates. Sending RPC messages so your own apps I exactly the same as sending them to remote hosts, the same with reading files, with peer discovery happening for you by the kernel.
I definitely wasn't saying it was a good thing, just the reality in the graphics space.

I just don't see how you push it to the web. You're forcing device capabilites onto users and the web always lags well behind what's happening in the native domain.
Should they have invented a different place holder (and all the work that would require) just to throw it away and be all data they weren't using the shader language that Vulcan uses?

The post was VERY clear that that was temporary while working on the other basics and a real decision would be made later.
Both aircraft are so incredibly safe with vanishingly low accident rates, that it'd be nearly impossible to suss out accidents due to the respective designs versus pilot error, weather, carrier procedures etc.
The biggest advantage of the Boeing approach is that the controls are linked; if one moves, so does the other. Mismatched inputs are impossible.

I truly don't understand the Airbus approach... There is no method of resolving conflicts between the sticks that make sense... Sum them? Average them? Take the last seen input? Prefer the left side always?
Yeah, but IBM doesn't have a good track record of buying out companies and making them profitable.

Anyone remember when IBM bought out Lotus? Anyone remember when IBM was making OS/2 with Microsoft?

IBM got out of the PC desktop, laptop, and printer markets. They got out of the Intel server markets as well.

IBM should just provide service for Linux and make their own FOSS apps for Linux that they can sell support for. Maybe invest or submit code to ReactOS, HaukOS, AROS, or OSFree?

The least that IBM can do is document every OS/2 API call so someone can write an FOSS alternative to it, or a WINE like environment for Linux.
When coining new terms at my day job (software engineer) I try to avoid terms like "indicated air speed" for the reason that part of the term – "indicated" in this case – is easily ignored by those less familiar with the terminology, because it seems superfluous. (In this case, "indicated" to a layperson simply means "it was shown on a dial". In that interpretation, it carries little information and hence gets ignored.)

We had a similar problem at my day job (a storage company) – there were two kinds of entities, one called a "volume" and one called a "storage volume". The were related (hence the similar names) but not the same thing. Of course, those less familiar with the difference kept dropping "storage" from "storage volume" to cause all sorts of confusion.

My solution? Eradicate "storage volume" from our vocabulary and replace it with the pseudo-acronym "SV", which stood for nothing. Confusion ended.
Don't you have to train your cat almost everyday? And a 2 week break and the cat "forgets" almost everything? I have a cat and dog and I've trained them both. Getting the cat to come to us has been far more difficult than teaching our dog 10+ tricks (and he remembers if we don't do the trick in over a month). After about a week after we stopped giving snacks to our cat when we called her over she decided she doesn't want to come sometimes (and sometimes she came). Anyways, I gave up training the cat because I don't have the time.
Vulkan is a horrible choice for a web standard. Their hardware support is abysmal, the only graphics hardware that supports it was made from 2012 on wards. Even then a decent chunk of the support is experimental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)

Vulkan is great, but you need to think about the cross compatibility of the web.
This shows, that this idea wasn't thought through enough. And coming from Apple, it raises a concern naturally. These things should have solid foundations from the start.
I don't see this anywhere in the linked article. What am I missing?
Nice little minimum security prison Uncle Sam is building here.

Right now it seems so innocuous: you can't leave the country for limited reasons. Expect the reasons to expand in time. Scope creep is routine in Federal law.

I am a tax lawyer, and I am disgusted. Land of the free, indeed. Peh.
We took our cat outside and she stayed at the door for about 20 minutes. Then she walked about 15 feet to the bicycle rack and stayed there for another 10 minutes before we took her back in.
Please tell me about software contracting work in Silicon Valley
I'm in Silicon Valley, having mostly worked at Google (5+ years as a SWE) and startups. I like the idea of trading some money for time, so I was wondering if there's such a thing as contracting out here for people like me. Assuming I have an impressive enough resume...

1) Does it exist at all for backend engineers?
2) What resources, if any, should I be aware of (besides my own social network)?
3) What's the experience of contract working like?
Electronics robust enough for Venus
No, Nvidia and AMD including Vulcan drivers. Intel isn't and said they don't plan to. Intel has a HUGE market share thanks to integrated graphics. There are other companies too.
"Up to" ;)
Indeed, the question was rhetorical, and more of a poke at using Metal shaders in the initial proposal, instead of going right away with open languages and representations.
How Technology Is Ruling the World?
The aircraft has a maximum speed rating, beyond which the structure may fail. That speed rating is based on the aerodynamic forces on the aircraft, which are proportional to the indicated airspeed, not the true airspeed. That's why the instrument panel almost universally shows IAS. That way the pilot doesn't need to perform an altitude-based nonlinear conversion in his head during an emergency to see that he's about to kill everyone on board.
I'm pretty new to the industry, being young, but as soon as I got a machine to run a Linux VM on, I spent hours reading docs and man pages and books on Bash and general *nix commands. Definitely helped me become a better programmer. It's amazing what you can do with simple POSIX commands. I didn't even know about sort until now, but it'll help me a bunch now.
Synergy, Commitment, Talent, Experience, Drive, Honesty, Adaptability.

Pick someone who fills your gaps, covers your weaknesses and you'd work with then for free because you enjoy working together.

I'd recommend before signing any contracts or forming an actual business to make a side product not related to what you want to build or do but something you guys have experience in. See if you work well together and can solve a simple problem together. Typically you'll run in to issues if not that's great but you want issues and problems because great cofounders solve things together.

Chances are youll fail and learn or get luck and make money to fund your new venture!
What kind of trash-tier reliability-increasing hardware stops working for a day every 90 days? I'm really surprised they didn't put two or three batteries into it.
They are going to take their amazing wealth-creating skills out into the wider world and we are going to see a second industrial-revolution. Exciting times are ahead...
You can drive many TVs (~$250), phones (~$150), and sometimes even cars (~$3000) through the regional, situational, quality level, and market timing variations in the prices of housing and healthcare (I've lived in a $600/mo sublet and a $2500/mo 1-bedroom in the same 6-month window; I've gone for years without seeing a doctor, and then had emergency surgery).

A direct, fixed cash transfer will never, ever have the properties you suggest. It's sort of the point of money that people can allocate it according to their priorities. You'll have a hard time stopping someone from taking a 100 fewer sqft apartment in exchange for a smartphone. Or colluding with the landlord to kick back part of the rent reimbursement in exchange for a smaller apartment.

To get what you're talking about, the government would have to directly issue housing, food, and clothes, or run another one of its extremely complicated and unintended-consequence-laden means-testing systems to tailor the amount of cash transferred for your exact situation a moment-to-moment basis, if it wishes to give you exactly enough cash to buy the things on your list and no others.

Once it's playing this game, you've lost the small government/simplicity/low overhead aspect which caused many to favor UBI over the existing welfare state. A UBI like you suggest is really not UBI, it's just government-issued basic necessities, an idea with substantially less traction.
> It doesn't seem like non-English users were ever considered when the decision was made to "make ASCII great again".

That turn of phrase sure is pretty revealing in this case.
Sounds pretty realistic :)

https://twitter.com/DeepDrumpf/status/796195299337338881

https://www.getdjtrump.com/videos/bc48090c/i_told_ohio_my
Installing Openstack Newton on Ubuntu 16.10 Server – Install Keystone
While I'm far less negative about this blog post than most of the other commentators seem to be, the part where you cite seems more like "well yeah, we're proposing Metal, and that's obviously going to be contentious so lets sheepishly point out that again this is all subject to negotiation".

My interpretation might be too uncharitable, or yours might be too charitable by taking it at face value, it's pretty difficult to know without having insider knowledge.
Rabbits, properly cared for (i.e., kept indoors with space to run and unlimited hay), live 7 years.

Split loom shielding is a cheap and effective way to protect cables: https://www.amazon.com/Install-Bay-Split-Loom-Inch/dp/B005V9...
I'm sorry I'm being so relentlessly negative, but I'm skeptical of this approach too. There's the obvious Orwellian angle -- it sounds like you might be legally required to have an online presence tied to your real name and identity -- and if you stigmatize basic-income recipients as parasites, you'd risk generating the political will to repeal basic income entirely. (See also Bill Clinton, in a memorable only-China-can-go-to-Nixon moment, promising to "end welfare as we know it" in the 1990s.)

I think it's better to just push through with the idea and accept the inefficiencies of everyone getting it -- once a given country has the tax base to pull it off.
There is literally 0% chance you are obsolete. You have to focus on the opportunities that match your skill sets that is all.
Title needs to updated:
1) Published in 2015
2) Clarify that Voyager is military designation for A330
I believe he means unofficial as in not provided by Microsoft. Microsoft works to make sure Direct3D works and I imagine they have lots of tests and compatibility suites there. I'm guessing they don't have any tests or standards were requirements around Vulcan.
The primary point was one of mindset, but the second example in the cited section is a tailor-made sed example:

Let's say you're on my team, and I've decided I'm a real stickler for code formatting. But I've got peculiar tastes, and one day I decide I want to have all parentheses stand out very clearly in your code.

So let's say you've got a set of source files in C, C++, or Java. Your choice. And I want you to modify them so that in each source file, every open- and close-paren has exactly one space character before and after
ObZenPhotonGarden: http://zenphoton.com/
Pretty soon all trading will be an elaborate form of corewars.
"Ah, yes, I remember when I used to actually own my computer..."
Does WHQL actually include any Vulcan tests? The driver may be officially certified but is the featur in question?
I didn't see the word "legacy" technology used in the article, but I think a lot of the stuff in the weekday column is exactly what people associate with the word legacy. I mean soap and xslt !? That is straight from the darkest era of bloated J2EE apps.
This may sound silly, but keep in mind that TOTP requires that both ends agree on the current time. I learned this the hard way when my authenticator stopped working consistently.

Apparently I had disabled my device's (the one with the authenticator app) "automatically set time from NTP" feature. Over time this resulted in my device's clock drifting X seconds away from the providers' clock(s), which in turn resulted in my occasionally using codes that were already X seconds expired.
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