skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to learn coupled with the willingness to adapt.

More specifically you should look to balance out what you already know with something new. If you spend your weekdays making CRUD apps, don't spend your free time investigating (yet another) different way to make a CRUD app. Learn machine learning, operating systems, etc.

For an actual field, I would think anything to do with large amounts of data, whether it's machine learning, data visualization, etc.
Like a government?
I agree with the main thrust of your statement. My understanding from my synthesis of reading the experts is that the U.S.' current economic success and international power comes down to:

1) Political stability and the rule of law: No point in investing much in a farm, factory, or infrastructure (fiber!) if it will be burnt down the next day by bandits or seized by someone more powerful (government, the rich family in town, etc.). The same applies to human capital (education): No point in studying computer science if there is no electricity and your life will be a fight for survival with guns and knives.

2) Free people and free markets (as a general principle, not taken to logical extremes): The system that produces the most aggregate wealth from the same labor and capital inputs.

3) Scale: Of developed nations, the U.S. has by far the largest internal market. ~325 million in the US, second is Japan at ~125 million. The UK market is 60 million, for example; that's why the Beatles sang with American accents (AFAIK - and also because the UK and Europe probably were still recovering from two massive wars). Note that Europeans are roughly as productive per capita as Americans. Scale by itself isn't sufficient; China and India have probably always been larger, for example.

4) Geographic security: Protected from enemies by two oceans, and with neighbors too weak to do anything but be friendly. To get a sense of what those oceans mean, look at how hard it was to attack across the English channel in WWII. If the U.S. was in continental Europe, WWI and WWII would have devastated the U.S., twice, just like the rest of Europe - and who would have provided a Marshall Plan to bail out the US along with the Europeans? Instead, thanks to geography, it's only a slight exaggeration to say that not a foreign shot was fired on US soil - and hasn't been since 1812.

5) Geographic economics: According to one geopolitical analyst I read, the U.S. has the largest navigable river system and the largest contiguous area of farmland in the world, and they are in the same place, the Mississippi River basin. Remember that most of the world economy was agricultural for much of U.S. history; imagine the impact of that geography, an almost guaranteed economic engine. Consider how critical controlling New Orleans and the Louisiana Purchase were and are.
Cool, I may give Jekyll another shot(had a false start couple years ago).

I have tons of experience doing hardened WP installs(and compromise root cause) but almost no experience USING it haha. I'd prefer not to go down that rabbit hole if something like Jekyll is sufficient.
One of the problems of being the sole developer...
Blendtec. One Apple, one pear, couple of oranges, one kiwi and some green stuff results in a smoothie portion that is easy to drink along with morning coffee.

For lunch throw in some cucumber, tomatoes, carrot and peppers and you get a gazpacho (Google for more detailed recipe).

No need to do much chopping, just throw the stuff in and let machine do the work.
I set TERM=vt100 and run it in stunning mono.
>or just enough to quell the uprisings.

There's actually an economic model for this "sweet spot" wherein the rich can maximize their profits to the breaking point before revolt happens believe it or not, and it's widely taught in Capitalist universities as a very reliable and worthy economic tool to ensure the rich stay rich without reprieve. Though the way they frame it is not malicious or neo-feudalistic, it's as a way of promoting "stability." Capitalism=Feudalism with makeup.
Xilinx announces new RFSoC devices
This article is not exactly doing the math right. Yes, the total value of Tesla might become negative in 4 months, but it won't have run out of cash at that point.

If Tesla is anything like any other company, it can maintain an accounts payable balance. So that $1.6 billion, as long as money keeps flowing through Tesla, does not have to be paid back. It's simply the balance on it's credit card. It's paying it down every month, and adding new things onto it, just like every other company. This results in a running credit line that effectively stays open forever. Most of it, like your own credit card's first month balance, probably doesn't even have interest on it.

Long term debt is -surprise- long term. So it doesn't have to be paid back in the next two years (that's the usual definition).

http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1564590-16-26820&...

If you want to know when capital needs to be raised, this document has a cashflow section. It's not 100% enough to know how the cash-on-the-running-account situation is, but it's certainly a good starting point.

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period: $ 3,084,257 (in 1000)

TLDR is: Tesla has 3 billion in the bank, and is using in it's new fast investment rampup plan for the gigafactory about 250 million per quarter, but let's say that doubles, ok, then we have about 3 years. Given that in that time, some long term debt will become short term debt, let's say further analysis will probably shorten that, but even shortened it will be more than 2 years. So ... 2.5 years ?

Yes it's net worth if you add it all up is negative, just like every other company these days (the 2008 FED recovery plan has made sure that the holdouts didn't hold. They offer 1% or so long term debt to companies, companies took it and, effectively and predictably, paid it out to shareholders. Barring exceptions, every large company has negative value. At least Musk is spending it on infrastructure and research & development). If you're going to refuse to invest in net-negative-worth companies you're going to be missing out on a lot, and even the champions of that approach, like Warren Buffett, don't do it in practice (despite rhetoric to the contrary). Not that they have a real choice, of course, but still.
DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken
“The boss who doesn't believe in work-life balance”
Um what? Software written in the past 20 years has a baked-in assumption that the length of some ID can't change?
I'm trying to understand where you're coming from with "I don't see how it is the fault of men if those women choose not to fund women startups."

I can follow a chain of logic that goes something like:

- there's a lack of gender diversity in tech, in that there are disproportionately fewer women.

- this is a problem we should solve

- given that there's more men in tech, they're somehow to blame

Is this an accurate representation of how you get to "I don't see how it is the fault of men"?

I don't see (most) people blaming men as intentionally causing this problem. I see plenty of people, men and women, at trying to figure out how to understand the disproportionate lack of women and do something about it. Similarly, I don't see it as the responsibility of women to do this on their own.

If I've completely misinterpreted your comment, it wouldn't be the first time. I don't mean to put words in your mouth. Please do elaborate and correct me if and where I've misunderstood.
Ask HN: Are there any open-source projects for long-term personal archive?
If take a long-term view on things, web applications and platforms tend to have a temporary role on our lives but end up keeping many parts of us (photos, text, video, quantified-self types of data, etc). These can easily get left behind and lost when those services arrive at the end of their incredible journey.

Even if I'm not thinking of deleting all my social accounts (right now...), I was wandering if there are any solutions that one could self-host as personal archive for the long-haul, in the same way our parents kept boxes of memories. I'm thinking this would probably be some sort of quite simple but reliable service (so it's easy to maintain in the long-term) that we could connect to existing platforms and fetch our memories from there.

I think this is something I would like having for myself and I guess that I'm not the only one. Do you know any open-source project or other solutions that fit this pattern?
Observation (as used in quantum mechanics) has nothing to do with consciousness. Consciousness is not a prerequisite to measure an observable.... That's a total non sequitur...
You might like The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick[1]. In this 1964 novel the world has shifted slightly: Instead of giving "just enough to quell the uprisings", large parts of the population are just kept eternally busy to support the wealthy lifestyle of a few.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penultimate_Truth
There are only 2 reasonable rationales for the 160 bit restriction: it was arbitrary because that was the length of the chosen hash, or for performance (and no one will ever need more that 640kb of RAM, or 160 bits of hash). I'm guessing it was probably the first, though, and Linus designed for the immediate now, and not for the future.
This is the best! I cleared out all of my social media accounts just over a year and a half ago, but did so using unreliable tools.

The real joy is the ability to filter and remove.

Unlike the other tools I used, this actually reduced the overall tweet count accurately. When I started fresh before, twitter was still reporting 11k tweets.

Thanks for mentioning this!
Some examples that can easily push you beyond 64 GB:
- high resolution photo editing: when you start with a 80 mpix / 48 bit photo from a medium format camera pushing beyond 16 GB requires only a couple layers and a couple undo steps being available
- high resolution video processing. 1 second of uncompressed 4k 60fps video is almost 1.4GB
- very large application compilation: building Android requires 16GB of RAM/swap - I'm sure there are apps that push that requirement even further
- development environment for a complex system that requires you to run dozens of VMs if you want all components running locally (I've had to run 2 VMs with 12GB requirements each once)
Archaeologists hunt for long-lost tomb of Scottish king
> Donations will never be paid to an individual, only ever put back into the running costs and expansion of the website.

Just fyi. This does not mean that you should not donate.
> "The research wing of Sam Altman’s start-up incubator, Y Combinator, is planning to pass out money to 1,000 families in California and another yet-to-be-determined state."

Oh, really? Where do we sign up? I'd love to be able to build my business(es) without taking investor funds.
Have you tried to handle it as an error and retry?

Retry": [ {
"ErrorEquals": ["S3resourceNotFound"],
"IntervalSeconds": 1,
"MaxAttempts": 2,
"BackoffRate": 2.0
},

"ErrorEquals": ["OtherErrorName"],
"IntervalSeconds": 1,
"MaxAttempts": 2,
"BackoffRate": 2.0
}]

Simpler.
They will also be 65W in that case, they are made from the same dies
I know, but competition would hopefully raise these limits in consumer machines.
Ask HN: Is there a way to measure government funding's effectiveness on disease?
The U.S. government gives staggering amounts to fund disease prevention such as $27B to domestic HIV/AIDS efforts, $861M for Malaria, etc.

Is there a way in which they measure the effectiveness per dollar with each recipient of funding, or is there a way they could?
Sometimes gluing together libraries in a certain way can produce an error or behaviour that's not documented (as it's outside the scope of each individual project) as either nobody has tried to do that before or they've not written about it.

Multiple times now it's been an obscure blog post found on google that's given the answer to those issues.
PDF is fucked up beyond all doubt. But there seems to be no better (even if unpopular) alternative.

How do you imagine a better format PDF alternative? On the one hand, we have text-based formats. They are not serialization of the exact rendering. On the other hand, we have ps, which is, probably, too complex to be manipulated as text when rendered. PDF and dejavu do kinda both, even if quite imperfectly.

So how do we construct a file format, which can render a symbol (not necessarily a unicode one) anywhere, pixel-perfect, but still has concept of words, paragraphs, preferably tables and such?
Thanks a lot, I've just extended the post with this information.
"Next dead-giveaway: non-typist code is... minimalist. They don't go the extra mile to comment things. If their typing skills are really bad, they may opt to comment the code in a second, optional pass."

Steve Yegge in http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties... where he also says

"And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to [explitive] type"
— Mr. Pink

And from Coding Horror (Stack Overflow co-founder):

We Are Typists First, Programmers Second
https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programme...
What ends up happening in practice instead is that large projects using dynamic languages are hesitant to change anything like that. So if you didn't know the problem domain sufficiently to guess all the interfaces up front correctly, you end up in a pretty bad place.

In contrast, making such changes when you have types is an order of magnitude easier.

The equivalent would be to have integration tests that exercise the entire system with all its functions and code paths checking for basic data compatibility. Seems like a worthwhile thing to have to me, as its not easy to achieve at all.

Not to mention you have a tool to answer "if I change X, what will be affected" - even if you are not changing the type. Just pretend that you changed the type of X (e.g. change "name" to "firstName"), and see all the places that don't compile now. So much better than grep!
Do you think it's simply a coincidence that both divorce and out-of-wedlock births have become so much more common as they've become so much less stigmatized?
Anyone knows where can I get detailed information about the processor? I tried to search in AMD page but the information is very scant.

Namely do these processors support ECC and what virtualisation capabilities do they have (for KVM with full GPU access).
>Preimage resistance does matter

Is there a preimage weakness though? I thought this attack only reduced collision resistance.
2017 Mercedes E-Class Crash Test – Better Than 5 Stars
Marx predicted that...hundred forty years ago. Hasn't happened. History suggests revolts occur when basic needs are unmet, usually after a nation falls into debt and ruin as a consequence of war
I've never thought of it this way. While I don't necessarily agree, I'm thankful for this insight.
Many times you don't know what's useful to your colleagues until you hit publish. Writing is useful as experimentation that way.
Since pretty much nobody believes that there's a "global male conspiracy" afoot, rejecting that claim doesn't make your argument very persuasive.

Obviously, there could be a number of different reasons why a field could be unfairly skewed against women, many of which require very little intentionality.
Genomics. E.g. building a genome index of k-mers (n-grams) usually requires more than 64 GB.

It can be quickly done on a consumer workstation, but you do need 128 GB in many scenarios.
Their worst crippling so far is ECC being unavailable on even costly customer parts...
That video is insane! Self-driving companies just keep turning it up.

It will be interesting to see how all this shakes out when the hype is over.
This reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT9i99D_9gI

It also reminds me of the "two dot" illusion from psychology: http://i.imgur.com/j8sEFuT.jpg

If you close your left eye and look at the left dot with your right eye, the other dot should disappear (you might need to adjust your distance from the monitor). Your eye has a blind spot that uses the surrounding information to fill in the blank space, much like what these deep learning algorithms are doing.
Perhaps you should re-read the last paragraph of the article.
Yes, customer Ryzen CPUs support ECC.
No, this claim is false for any reasonable definition of "STEM" and "dwarfed".
ok then, lets turn this around: every blogger should code!
Blogging is waste of time. Most of blogs are paid PR/Marketing/SEO content that is low quality click-bait. Like this blog post that is PR piece for company that author works.

Engineer should sharpen theirs skills on github. During interview github profile is much larger hiring factor than blog.
What is this known vulnerable attack you are talking about? The birthday paradox applies to every hashing function.
There is no free lunch. Moving to quad channel incurs more costs in pins, mobo traces, etc.. It's targeted product development.
Medicine and the law both overtly "self-corrected" successfully, creating marked and durable improvements to gender parity that benefited the fields.
It doesn't sound possible for all but the most trivial diffs. An attacker would have to guess not only the exact commit text, but also its timestamp. And the only attack scenario I can conceive of seems pretty silly. Maybe I'm missing something...

Alice clones an open source git repo, commits one secret change where she edits a config file's default password to her own secret password (a bad practice), and then publishes the new hash in public for some reason (build info?). Mallory would have to (a) know that exactly this happened, (b) guess the commit message, (c) guess the commit's timestamp to the second (or within a few seconds), and (d) preimage-attack her password.

And the preimage attack must pierce git's Merkle tree, which sounds downright impossible. (Unless Mallory is just bruteforcing, in which case a strong password is enough.)
I used to have my silly micro-blog posts reviewed by a respected peer, but it kind of defeated the purpose of cracking me out of my shell. Sometimes diving into the deep end works for the better.
Tim didn't say it's useful for other engineers. He said it's useful 1) to get non-technical people can hear about your skills (the ones who couldn't tell good code from bad code) and 2) for yourself, since writing forces clear thinking.
This basically sums up the debate to me. Great summary.
This is awesome! Did you expect the post to get you a job? Do you have a link to it?
No, you're correct that for large inputs there are obviously going to be many that lead to the same hash (see pigeonhole principle).
Have there been writings on what exactly git's migration strategy to a new hash function will be? Apparently they have a seamless transition designed that won't require anyone to update their repositories, which seems like a pretty crazy promise in the absence of details.
Funny, I had no idea it could do all that. I've been using it in production for years to extract width/height/duration of media files at compile time so my loading placeholders are perfectly sized at runtime in a basic web app.
This is an absolute tragedy. I'd say that it's near the top of the list of the worst things human beings are doing I'd say that if we weren't in denial, five alarm fire alarms would be going off. I wish I knew what I could do to help stop this horror but I feel powerless. :-(

By the time my 5-year-old son is an adult, I think I'm going to have to explain to him what happened. That is, if things aren't so fucked up by unintended and intended consequences that this conversation never can happen. What a fucking delightful world that we are just destroying it with no more honor and respect than we'd give an ant on the kitchen floor.
From the image it looks like they're visualizing dendrites rather than a big ass bifurcating axon. That neuron is really huge if true.
There was a bug in the last version of iOS which, using an obscure series of commands to trigger, turned off all animations. It was amazing how much faster and more responsive the OS felt. It disappeared after each reboot and I eventually got sick of trying to trigger it but it was a good couple of weeks of iOS bliss.
I've seen some people start with just a github repo full of markdown files, and issues for comment threads. Can work for programming blogs, and you can easily turn the markdown files into blogposts in another system later.

(downside is that you can't as easily tie it to a personal domain name)
If you can afford a $30,000 medium format camera, you can afford the Xeon workstation it usually needs. The kind of person that work with those systems would pay $6,000 for an umbrella that doesn't even have any electronics in it: https://www.adorama.com/bcb3355203.html?gclid=CLKvmd2erNICFY...

Absolutely no one that owns one of these professional cameras uses them with non-Xeon CPUs.

Really the only use for greater than 64Gb for non-Xeon CPUs would be student animation or machine-learning projects.
Google spinoff sues Uber, alleging Otto leader stole key designs
Seems odd to compare Rust and Python.

They're different levels of abstraction and I think are both great languages that serve different use cases.

I'm always going to be more productive in Python. And Python has an awesome ecosystem for web apps. Rust gives you native compiled binaries, concurrency, and speed in general.

Why you'd consider these two languages for the same app is beyond me.
It reads like a "get shit done" manifesto, and good rules of thumb for most programmers tasked with doing just that. Worth remembering that iD had some of the most advanced 3D and networking code for years and really pushed the envelope and the industry forward in many ways (first huge shareware company, first big company to allow mods, first big company to make code open source, etc.)

It is easy to slide into an OCD mindset when programming, to make things tidy and proper. It feels dirty to make stuff just work, to make stuff disposable, but evolution operates a lot like this - many little, reversible mistakes that add up to big improvements quicker than any other method.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree on that one. The effects of observation is all about consciousness, and has nothing to do with measuring.
Change such fundamental factors and the universe would probably be different. But different is not enough to say better or worse.