skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved

Well, that's a mistake right there: All life on this planet has been evolving for the same amount of time[0]. Every organism, every species extant today has already beaten incredible odds to avoid extinction (arguably the only true long term measure of success). None of us are any more or less "evolved" than any other.

[0] Of course, if instead of "time" we consider "generations" to be the correct measure of evolution, than all us multicellular eukaryotes are lagging the prokaryotes so much that we need to describe the number of orders of magnitude we're behind using powers of ten.
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I'd like to read this, but the moment I touch the thing on my tablet a window pops up promoting me to download their app. A lot of websites DJ this these days, and it's quite frustrating not knowing how to get around this.
We need to start thinking of AI as the budding interviewee we all need to hire
That's fair. I'll admit that he may be writing to an audience very different than myself.

The edit was because I only ended up scanning what I intended on reading and felt the second part of my criticism overly harsh.
Genuine question, what would an individual doing such a thing be arrested for?
Making renting easier shouldn't require UX. Just eli5 on a motherfuckingwebsite style page.
I guess I'm trying to say "wait a year... after actually having the cash in hand". But yeah, AMT sucks.
How a Money-Losing Snap Could Be Worth So Much
People do get attached with time though. Especially when the emotions are high, which seems something the company selects customers for.

I remember when I was a teenager and my mother bought us a cat. Until she came home with it, my reaction was "why don't we spend cat food money on a better Internet connection instead?". After it started living with us, I attached to it very quickly and couldn't imagine it not being there.

(In fact, that cat died recently. It was a hard emotional moment for myself and my whole immediate family.)
or, even worse, useless, because linear transformations are closed under composition.
Parable of the Polygons
China smashes solar energy records as coal use and CO2 emissions fall once again
Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects
SnapCookies ?
Some people are too trusting. I know I still am. People like us are sooner or later taught some hard lessons by life. The problem is, for many people, falling prey to this kind of scheme can completely derail their life.

Ultimately, dealing with businesses is an acquired immunity, based on heuristics. For example, I wouldn't come anywhere near that business from the article, because it smells off for me. On the other hand, I often skim the agreements with known, legitimate companies (like cellphone providers) when taking standard contracts, because if they were putting something fishy in them, there would be a huge shitstorm in the media already.
Or the guy at Whole Foods will sell you dog meat and label it organic grass fed beef, because nobody is looking over his shoulder.

If your assumption is that nobody is going to try to cheat or cut a corner to make a buck then your system is not going to work in the long run. As your system grows the odds of having an asshole who cheats and ruins it for everybody approaches 1.
We've banned this account for posting national slurs and ignoring our requests to be civil.
Because the further you are away from the original members, the further away you are from the people who did a lot of the work to create the community in the first place.

As the community approaches its peak, every new member gets to enjoy the increasingly polished community, but lacks the respect needed for the work required to get that polish.

Eventually, the inmates take over the asylum, and the original members leave.
Wouldn't the SpeedStep or whatever it is called be that? They dynamically disable cores and boost clock speed.
Chevrolet starts today to offer cars with unlimited data plan
They aren't "renting" them on purpose - as the article says, most people don't understand that they are signing a lease. In fact the only reason these transactions are structured as leases is to get around usury laws. It is effectively a loan with a very high interest rate - so high that it would be illegal in most states if it were called a "loan".
Awesome, looks like a lot of fun reading to be had. Thanks!
We've observed in the lab that in bacteria harmful changes in the environment increase the number of mutations.

Further, we've observed that in many cases the mutations tend to be in the genes that are most closely related to the change. That is, if the PH drops to the point it is causing mutations, many bacteria will tend to get those mutations in genes that are likely to increase tolerance for acidity!

Now that is what I call evolved evolvability.
Show HN: Calculator app as notification on Android
If one party has to make monthly payments, then what else do they think it is? And how can adults in this world not understand how interest rates work.
Sociopath. The word you're looking for is sociopath.
Yeah. Last time I was so "impressed" was when I read about that guy who managed to sell fake bomb detectors to bunch of militaries[0]. It's absolutely brilliant... if your moral compass fell out of your pocket and got driven over by an Uber car.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
Hm? I mean I don't know how one could think that and spearheaded go, but that paragraph seems reasonable to me.
Things to Know About China in the Paris Climate Agreemen
>You could make the same argument going the other way though - why should GitLab spend money recruiting/hiring people, leasing space, setting up monitoring, etc, if their solution today works? Why should anyone re-architect their system to give $COMPANY money?

Well, that reason would be, at a minimum, a halving of their hosting expenses.

It also doesn't necessarily take much refactoring to move either way. Even if you're heavily dependent on cloud storage, etc., you can access that from an external application server.

The person I replied to was suggesting that the parent refactor in order to make AWS costs less egregious without articulating any particular reason that the original commenter should do so.

> When your bare metal's RAID controller craps out and you have to order another, will his customers be understanding of his decision to move to bare metal?

His customers won't need to know, assuming he has a standby that can take over. Even if he doesn't, he can rush down and install one and move the disks over. With an AWS outage, you can't do anything but say "I hope Amazon fixes it soon". The bare metal equivalent is a power or connectivity loss at the DC, which is much rarer than AWS outages.
Reinventing the old DOM modifications with the modern framework ;)
You are probably vulnerable even if you don't subscribe too... There needs to be an "airplane mode" that completely disables wireless communications...
Loan agreements generally have to have this spelled out very clearly - even in my experience to the point that it's pointed out and initialed during contract signing.

The issue is that the dirtbag in barge here has structures these as closed end leases, not loans. Leases have very different sets of laws, and lessors can get away with a LOT more.
Show HN: A spreadsheet component for React
Intiertia among developers. Also since when is Apple know for their software architectural decision-making lol.
I owe a lot to her and to Thrun as well. I took Intro to Stats by Thrun and Intro to Databases by Widom when I wanted to brush up on my skills before interviewing and both have wonderful teaching style. Starting at very slow pace and smoothly and methodically going into depth of the subject matter.
The Accidental Arrival of the Cubicle
As nothing material about their business has changed in 3 years, I think it's safer to say Nvidia has raised AMD's stock price 400%.

See http://imgur.com/a/ul9LE (nvidia green, amd red)

Nvidia clearly started ramping first, after which investors looked at AMD as a "cheaper alternative". Apparently a bunch of people think they're the same company, but Nvidia's recent rise is a result of their work in AI while AMD has totally missed that boat with both developers and industry.
Neither does anyone an hour watching TV anymore? Everyone within the age range 18-30 in the US definitely spends more time on Snapchat than TV right now.
Do not disagree necessarily..

Like I said I think it should be readily available to those who seek it out, without the threat of substantial punishment, it would just be a shit show if Johny H.S. Senior is able to pick up a sheet at 7-11.

How many "Johny turned the school cafeteria into an acid test" news stories is this LSD legalization experiment gonna last for? It pains me to have to say that because I'd love to be able to pick some up at 7-11, just not sure if it's the best idea.
I see from the Google Request for Permission interface that Signal wants to "View your email message metadata such as labels and headers, but not the email body".

That's way too sensitive for me to give away in exchange for uncertain benefits. I realize that I've given this information to Gmail already. But it's not hard to concoct some very plausible bad scenarios of what could happen with this data if I said Yes.
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I'll never buy an AMD processor, but I'm glad they are giving Intel some competition.
I'll help you out.

Read her bio.

She earned it.
Your free-market economic paradise could work without perfectly rational consumers if there weren't so many "entrepreneurs" out to exploit them :/.
I can think of a few voluntary exchanges that are exploitative. For instance, if I offer someone a life-saving drug if they give me their house - they can voluntarily enter the agreement, or not.

I think we can safely say that in at least in some cases we can clearly judge that a voluntary exchange is exploitative. Do you feel like this is not one of those cases? Why?
Sure. You could use an SOT23 or a QFN like this: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/texas-instruments/T...

That's 4 mm x 4 mm (more with passives, but not too bad), and hits a solid 95% efficiency at the normal load of an iphone, and is above 90% all peak loads. Heat dissipation will be fine, all parts cost about $1.20. Low EMI.

However, its still a dozen new components. It's a ~10% tradeoff somewhere and while that may be totally worth it, its not simple. Phones do not have square millimeters to spare.
funny thing, it doesn't find you a renter, it helps you rent out a place from someone else.

The messaging is bad, it took me a while to work that part out
The copyright laws are what give studios the rights to license that content. Right now, most things published commercially after 1923 are copyrighted and require permission from their rightsholder to distribute. That's practically the entire history of cinema locked up tight.

Copyright should be adjusted so that people can make money off of their creations without allowing the culture to be held hostage to corporations. If the copyright term was shortened to, say, 10 years, a Netflix-with-only-content-from-10-years-ago would be totally viable without having to ask for anyone's permission.

Copyright is a government-granted monopoly. It's gotten totally out of control and severely restricts competition in this type of space.
I feel like this is not the problem people are having. I want to talk to Elon Musk, explain him how we can build a warp drive. If I am half as serious in this endeavor, I don't think I would have problem reaching him. If I am crackpot, he doesn't want to talk to me anyway.

Let's say I have idea for new company, next Groupon. I can reach out to local Chicago investors and they will refer me to people who would be interested.
> finally it doesn't help when they say things like this:

> "Replacement of a host insertion compound as cathode by a redox center for plating an alkali-metal cathode provides a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state cell with a huge capacity giving a large energy density and a long cycle life suitable for powering an all-electric road vehicle or for storing electric power from wind or solar energy."

I don't understand. That was surprisingly easy to understand, compared to the bulk of HN comments.
Fun to read a security hacking story from 1903
Since we're talking about servers, it doesn't seem like any of those are advantages for ARM compared to x86.
The grams are specified as "g (Li metal)", so grams of lithium.
Warren Spector Almost Made an RTS-Branded RPG Instead of Deus Ex
I'm not sure, but I am sure that someone internally is doing those calculations.
Even if there weren't another piece of software named that, I really think these single common dictionary word names need to stop.
Get their hands on something usable and relevant as fast as possible. I like using very precise and specific instructions for creating a twitter "every word" dictionary bot for instance. Simply exposing people to the idea that there is a whole world they can interact with with code (via an API) is a very powerful concept to get people interested in coding. It makes them go "aha!" when they think of all the apps and technology that use in their every day life and wonder how things work.
Ryzen 7 1800X unambiguously beats the 7700k on memory bandwidth:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_7_1800x_proce...
private office > cubicles > open office layouts.
Spaces are superior to tabs in only one (important) way: They're a constant width.
Looking forward to riscv here, since it will be possible for tons of competition in the wackass chip features department. We should get some great purpose built servers out of that in 10 years or so.
> hoard for no reason

If so, we simply need to increase the rate of inflation and the cash will start flowing.
the industry could self-regulate

Always a bad idea. Have you been to countries why there's very little govt regulation? To promote self-regulation is akin to saying that we don't need a "central" govt.
Same with my Gazelle which I purchased seven months ago. I definitely would not get another. The build quality of the case is horrible. The keyboard is horrible. The touchpad is horrible. The display is ok and that's about the best thing that can be said for the machine.
I can get how it works if people are unaware what's going on, but the term "product placement" is widely known now, and I can't fathom how does it work when it's obvious? I mean, how can people know that someone's being paid to advertise junk to them, and still be actually more likely to buy that junk?
Looks like Mozilla shows the source code[1] right on the site, saves me a step :) Most of the fancy is in content/content.js

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/files/browse/601156...
Pixel – How Google Mails Out Refurbished Devices
Powershell did one thing wrong, in that its tools emit objects, not data. In other words, they emit data with behavior (methods). This, in turn, imposes the CLR object and memory model on the whole thing, and makes the pipeline impossible to use between distinct processes.

The right way to do this is to pick some reasonable text-based structured interchange format - s-exprs, JSON, whatever. Actually, it wouldn't be a bad thing to have a binary protocol as well, so long as all that complexity is negotiable, and is implemented by the standard library.
No. The questions I'm likely to be interested in answering are worth more than that. I fill out a survey for fun or to move the needle on some pet issue occasionally, but doing it for pennies seems neither fun nor profitable.
Because I do fully believe that the cloud is the superior solution for most businesses, especially those employing sysadmins.

I've seen way too many companies with full-time sysadmins maintaining only a few dozen servers. The significant cost savings come from eliminating those positions.
> switch to another network

My point exactly. That's neither in the interest of the driver nor the company.
Agree on the battery part. But...

> Why do you want a giant, useless, 100+ year old analog port on your 2017 device? I don't. Its ugly.

Arguing about aesthetics is futile, but I want the port because I find it useful, and don't measure utility by invention-age. Seems similar to judging a beer by the bartender's height.
This would have been welcome news in the campaign.
And what kind of adult doesn't read a contract before they sign? Isn't that just common knowledge now?
I now have more respect for Teen Vogue than I do for The Guardian.

What upside down world am I living in?
This comment serves no purpose but to slander a public official and project your opinion. Is that wise?
I believe Jeff once said something along the lines of "why would I fire an employee that made an honest mistake? I just spent a bunch of money teaching him a lesson"
Sure, and that's precisely the operational efficiency which comes from cloud providers.
Someone told me last weekend that Teen Vogue was covering the political situation well and providing good technical stories. Of course, I had to ask them to repeat the name of the publication. Good for Teen Vogue.
If it's a true boost converter, it's also going to need an inductor somewhere. If it's really just driving an LED, it could be a charge pump, which uses capacitors instead. But charge pumps probably can't handle the current level that a phone requires.
You're very confused, it's clear you didn't really understand what I'm saying. Think about it more and read more reviews.
And why do you think he was working on a new OS, instead of improving Unix?
Have you used a MacBook before? I have. I have two and an iMac, and I'd still rate my experience in OpenSUSE (where I've ended up these days) as 1000% better than OSX aside from video codecs. So if you're not using that vegan Worcestershire sauce, could you please pass it this way?

No offense meant, but
Fable: An F# to JavaScript Compiler
I installed Minix 3 the other day in VMWare Fusion virtual machine. It felt a lot like running NetBSD due to the userland reason you mentioned.

The one oddity I noticed in my brief testing was that the Minix DHCP client doesn't allow for setting your own hostname, even though NetBSD's does.
America's Complacent Class
Ask HN: I'm constantly bored at work, what should I do?
Like the title says. 2016 I switched jobs because I got bored. But now I'm in the same predicament. I have more fun on my side projects, but I don't have an opportunity to apply the skills at work. A friend of mine recommended that I go to grad school.

Who do I know if something is wrong with my environment or my expectations(or me)?
Why Jeff Bezos Deserves More Credit Than We Give Him?
Literally no one is arguing to the contrary. The problems people have with immigration into the US typically involve the sheer scale of it, the fact that many people who come to the United States do so illegally, difficulty with integrating, and difference in values from native citizens. Nobody is arguing against small-scale immigration of highly skilled scientists, there aren't even enough of them to make a demographic difference.
Not just that, but there is a trademark on it:

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:9ig...
Except that we optimize on the timescales that are many orders of magnitude shorter than those of evolution. There was a threshold of intelligence in the past, the moment it was crossed, evolution[0] has lost the game.

That is, unless we decide to forfeit by nuking ourselves out of existence.

[0] - Here meaning non-human-directed part of evolution; technically, all humans and everything they do are part of nature too.
Simplifying Performance with Web Components
Agreed. One huge benefit to a text format is that you can generate small "ad hoc" snippets (e.g. echo) easily. Otherwise I'd love something like Protocol Buffers here.
Firing squad?
Sure, but Excel is presumably one of the most optimized (in terms of the amount of money and brainpower devoted to optimizing it) applications in existence.
Thanks. I got the gist at least.

I admired him and his answer at the time. The culture was quite professional and blame really never existed.
And also, because backwards compatibility matters once something is deployed on as large scale as Unix was.

(Windows also has a similar problem.)
I think accessible technology journalism in non-traditional venues is worthy of note, if only to see how our products are perceived in the wider world.
No. You don't make a daily task of testing backups. That would be wrong for precisely the reasons you cite. It's a waste of effort and time, and ignores what the point of testing them is for: ensuring that the procedure still works.

One would only actually test the backups about twice a year just to be damn sure they are still resulting in restorable data. The rest of the year it's only worth keeping an automated process reporting whether or not the things are being made, and people keeping an eye on change management to be sure no changes are made to the known-to-be working process that can break it without the new process incurring an explicit vetting cycle. Gitlab wasn't apparently testing or engaging in monitoring what was supposed to be an automated process. That's where they got burned.

Process monitoring may be boring as hell, but it's seldom wasted effort, and will prevent massive, compounded headaches from bringing operations to a chaotic halt.
Oh, I love those discussions on who invented what. For example, even a Brazilian Priest might have invented it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landell_de_Moura
Not that expensive or rare: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682024...
I thought the same thing before I went into the industry but now that I've been in it for a few years (including two at Amazon), it doesn't surprise me.

I suspect locking everyone down in the way you suggest would cost more in lost productivity (and costs for the infrastructure that would be required for greater auditing, etc.) than is lost in outages like this.
Yes. They talk about it specifically, but its too long to copy. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/ee/c6ee02888h
It depends on what you mean by "basic command". There are plenty which take arguments that aren't files - chown, chgrp and su, for example.
2) I'm writing a new shell! http://www.oilshell.org/blog/

1) This is an appealing idea, but my claim is that there's no single serialization format that will work. (Or if there is one, it has yet to be invented.) More detail here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell/comments/5x5rgg/pipes_in_p...

There's nothing stopping anyone from using structured data over pipes, but I think it's a mistake to assume there will be or needs to be a "standard".

3) I agree that JSON over HTTP is very much in the vein of Unix. The REST architecture has a very large overlap with the Unix philosophy -- in particular, everything is a hierarchical namespace, and you have a limited number of verbs (GET / POST vs. read() / write() ).
I'm actually surprised that Adobe never did this when Creative Cloud came out.
Hmmm... So foreign contractors will have IT systems-level access to HIPAA-protected PHI data? I wonder if that is an issue in this case. (i.e. not sure if encryption at rest is required for HIPAA data - though it probably should be).