skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They shouldn't have been allowed to begin with to send out. But there is nothing to do about it of course.
Oh the irony, criticising the mobile app about its design on a painful to use on a mobile phone slide show.
Maybe this is what the future of "treasure hunting" looks like?

Myself and a friend ran a wallet recovery service a while back, brings back memories haha. Very cool work, even as someone who works in the blockchain space.
Can we talk about the other red headed stepchild of desktop dev which is java cross platform apps? It'll take a lot to get me off my high horse that if all that was ported to electron, it'd be a great upgrade for users.

It's also a bridge for Linux desktop to get critical, same-in-class app support. Not a final destination but a possible breakpoint infusion.
If they could reasonably put that investment to use, that would be a fine thing to do. But Apple doesn't really have the same philosophy as Larry/Sergey and Zuckerberg do towards throwing money at any idea that has the slightest bit of potential. They want to see a legitimate and probable chance of success in their investments in addition to a synergy with Apple would enhance the investment or Apple itself. It just so happens that there aren't really hundreds of billions of dollars worth of such investments out there. So, instead, Apple tries to return that money to its investors. Unfortunately for that plan, if Apple were to give that money back to investors, it would incur a massive repatriation tax, so it instead sits overseas, "waiting" for a tax holiday.
Are you planing to add Linux and Windows builds?
I remember is was added, or at least announced, between late 1999 andr early 2001. Or maybe that was mounting a disk at a location instead of a letter. I just remember there was a fair amount of ridicule that it took so long for a simple feature that had existed for so long in Linux (and every UNIX) already, but both those fit the bill...
Reinvest in what exactly and in a way that would return money back?

Apple has suffered through the tough times in the 90s where they almost went out of business. Having that much money means Apple can take greater risks and still suffer through multiple failures.

The biggest problem is most of that cash came from iPhone revenue and if you remove that, Apple doesn't have much breathing room to take the same amount of risks.

Apple is currently placing a bid for Tosibia's memory business that could cost up to $30 billion dollars.
Maybe some day desktop OSs will adopt the save model that iOS and have a webkit component. That may allow different browsers and electron app to reuse/share components (i.e. Webrtc, etc.)
'Some' bloat.

Not to ham on the guy personally but someone posted his new cross-platform app on HN that put an icon in the systray/menubar and built it on Electron. The end result was something that should take up a few mb of memory at most consuming over 300Mb(!) of memory. That's simply ludicrous.
French Exhibitors Demand Netflix Release Its Cannes Movies in Theaters
I had the exact same experience, but now that I revisit it after a decade living in California, I find it hilarious.
TFA included this interesting link, about the multiple backdoor passwords in Arris cable modems: https://w00tsec.blogspot.com/2015/11/arris-cable-modem-has-b...
I had a different college experience. A degree in computer engineering required very little coursework outside of engineering. Due to human nature, I ended up hanging out with primarily other engineering students. All of the non-academic socializing, in retrospect, was very limited to a narrow college bubble.

It was only after I graduated and lived in the real world for a few years that I felt more 'well rounded'.

The tools to become a 'well informed citizen' should be taught at the high school level since not everyone goes to college.
They already are, you have to understand, they're practically printing money with the iPhones. They are capturing more than 90% of the market's profits for high end smartphones.

They are not sitting around doing nothing. They cannot just print new innovation every year, it doesn't work like that.

The problem will be when the market is fully saturated and people start upgrading every 5-10 years instead of the current 2 years.
It's money that they've made overseas from selling products through their foreign retail and wholesale divisions, so they didn't really "send it out."
Computer pioneer Harry Huskey dies at age 101
It's not that those foods aren't found in Italy, they're mostly just not found served like they are here. Spaghetti with meatballs exists, it's just that you'd have spaghetti usually first. Meatballs here are simplistically polpette al sugo there, and would be eaten as a meat course after the pasta.

Chicken parm is one too many ingredients slammed together. You have chicken cutlets there for sure. It would usually (but not always) be eaten more simply than with sauce and cheese on it, and not served over or next to pasta like here.

A lot of that is also more distant generation Italian-American. My parents, who are from different regions of Italy, and my grandparents, one of whom grew up in Italian Africa, didn't really make this stuff. Not to say it isn't good, I just think it's been changed to fit the US in two big ways - first, that meat (and food generally) is cheaper here, so we eat a lot more meat; and second, everything on one plate, since IMHO Americans want to eat faster than Italians would.
Maybe one part of the problem is conflating laptops with "desktop". Maybe I'm misguided since I don't use laptops for serious screen time and thus don't really care about power consumption at all, but it seems to me that perhaps laptops shouldn't be lumped in with desktops in this way as is now popular. Maybe we still have 3 major form-factor platforms[1], or perhaps even laptops should rather be lumped in with mobile, especially since we have 2-in-1 tablet/laptop hybrid devices.

[1]: Contrary to what Intel has been pushing with their lamentable "mobile-first" strategy.
> Last October, a judge tossed out the state’s case before a trial, ruling that the five-year statute of limitations had expired on the misdeeds that it had accused Dr. Laskar of committing.

The way it ended didn't help. It would have been better if it were thrown out because it was obviously BS, or if it went to trial and he were exonerated.
>SVOD services have to wait 36 months after a film’s release in theaters to gain access to films in France.

Good lord.
Obviously I don't know all the details of your story, but I'm still a little skeptical. Yes, there are likely doctors out there that do believe they're too good to get water for patients, but I haven't worked with any like that yet. I have rounded with doctors who have delegated simple tasks like getting water to someone else, but it's always been to either save time or avoid giving water to someone who isn't allowed to get it.

You mentioned you had a tube down your throat—that's probably an NG or OG tube, which is often used for feeding solids and liquids. If you had one of those tubes, then there's very likely a reason you couldn't take solids/liquids by mouth. Again, I don't know all the details, but I'd imagine what happened is that your consulting doctor saw you had an NG or OG tube and wasn't sure why. He probably deferred the decision on whether you could have water to your nurse who would know for sure what you were and weren't allowed to have. The nurse probably isn't aware of what the different doctors know and don't know about their patients and interpreted the request to get water as an ego thing. If my interpretation is correct, the doctor is still wrong in not giving you or the nurse an explanation of what's going on, but the issue is more communication related than it is ego related. I don't believe what happened to you is ideal or how medicine should work, but it's how medicine often ends up working with so many different people having tangential and partial responsibilities for patients.

Based on my experiences working in the hospital so far, communication issues are massive and frequent causes of problems and conflicts between health care providers and patients as well as between different health care providers. Again, the workflow in the hospital is complicated, and I don't believe any one person really knows what any other person should be doing. Each provider knows the extent and limitations of their own role, but others' roles are a mystery. All of this leads to miscommunication, misunderstandings, and massive/frequent problems like your experience.
Wait, where is this explosion of new desktop applications?

Also isn't it only a lower barrier if you already know html/css/js
>would it not be more useful to reinvest it

Or return it to shareholders via dividend or share buy-back.
Imagine Ruby, if you had to explicitly namespace every method call with the mix-in that contains the method, so that 1. there could never be collisions between method names, and 2. finding mix-in method definitions at compile time was context-free. It'd maybe look a bit like this:

> 4.Integer::even?
=> true

Just chew the syntax a bit, and that's Elixir's:

> 4 |> Integer.even?
=> true

Mind you, that has nothing to do with "everything is an object." An object is—in the original Lisp+Smalltalk sense—effectively:

1. a stateful closure,

2. which you call with args representing a "message" to send to the object,

4. where the object is free to respond to that message however it likes—i.e. you can code the closure-that-is-the-object however you like—and its responses can depend on its state, meaning that the messages it responds to, and even its internal logic, can mutate over time, as this state changes.

Well, we've got plenty of "objects" in Erlang/Elixir land. We call those "processes." And they are cheap enough that—if you wanted—you could code in an "everything is a process" style. Presuming we defined two modules, ObjectFactory and Object, as GenServers with the requisite functions:

{:ok, obj_f} = ObjectFactory.start_link
foo = obj_f |> ObjectFactory.make_object!
foo |> Object.extend(:bar, fn -> 3 end)
foo |> send(:bar)
# => 3

All Object.extend/2 needs to do its job is to store something in the GenServer's state, and to rely on Object's GenServer.handle_info/2 callback to do something with that state.

Now, mind you, this won't magick a Bar module into existence to make this API pretty. But there's nothing stopping you from defining one yourself—or even from creating a Mixin module that you could Kernel.use/1 in your mix-in modules, giving them an API Object.extend/1 could understand, and giving you the ability to:

foo |> Object.extend(Bar)
foo |> Bar.bar
Would you say that there is no discrimination along these lines, and that most companies aren't biased against, say, transgender candidates when making hiring decisions? I'm just curious.
Suits fun video 'i am done'
The money is mostly in Braeburn Capital, I believe. https://qz.com/393093/the-mysterious-fund-in-the-desert-that... [edit: better source]
I was critical of Christians in China. You are religious. Of course you question my judgement. You and everyone like you presumably does so. It's part of what undergirds your belief system.
Well, it is.

Most of this money is stored on things like multi billion factories manufacturing exclusively for Apple. For my company we went to some of them, and you get the impression of being on a huge manufacturing Catedral. Apple has a scale nobody in the world has, and I am used to see lots of factories, from cars' to refrigerators's manufacturing places.

If this money figures as cash it must be only for fiscal or "not telling your competitors how you do things" reasons, but this scale exerts an enormous pressure over suppliers.
So, they've reimplemented reversible debugging by a process of replaying from the start, with some finesse to ensure determinism in the multi-threaded case. Code seems to be here: https://github.com/fred-dbg/fred

It's worth noting that binary search is not necessarily optimal for a 'going back to the start' search. To see that,
assume the cost of an observation is zero: then linear search is clearly optimal. If it is infinite, then binary search is optimal. It it's something in between, then some pivot less than n/2 is the correct choice.

I worked this out once, and came up with the solution that the pivot should satisfy the equation:

1+(start_time+observation_cost)/length = log(pivot/length)/log(1-pivot/length).

(except that sometimes a pivot of 1 step is more efficient, because of a special case). But I have lost the derivation of this.
Mechanical issues and weather can happen at any time. It's reasonable to assume you could board a plane and then weather conditions change or a fault is identified. Deadheading crew is predictable and can be planned for. United should have been aware of the need for seats for those crew members and involuntarily denied boarding to enough passengers to accommodate them.
You can get those benefits without the complexity of C++ if you're willing to break with the past (and as for the newer features, it's possible C++ could have implemented them more straightforwardly, though maybe they were already designed into a corner).

For example, look at C++'s concept of move semantics. The language still runs destructors regardless of whether a value has been moved. This means every movable class has to have a valid "empty" state the destructor can check to avoid double frees. That means you need move constructors which can run arbitrary code. And that means generic code that does moves has to care about exception safety.

Instead, the language could statically avoid running the destructors of moved values. No more rvalue zoo needed to trigger a move, no more mandatory "empty" states because the destructor can assume a valid object, no more move constructors because they all reduce to memcpy, and thus no more exception safety problems and an easier job for the optimizer.
A cash horde isn't very helpful if your business is tanking. It prolongs the pain but doesn't fix anything. Ask Yahoo.
Definitely makes sense to. Wanted to make more progress and play with APIs before going wider on platform support.
I learn a lot from debating on HN. I will avoid saying this in the future.

I will agree that the statement is ignorant if taken very literally and, in my opinion, uncharitably. I don't actually think NZ is literally a giant national park, though it is a naturally beautiful and relatively undeveloped place.

Still in highly contentious arguments it's best to avoid giving people the opportunity to call you ignorant, so in future iterations I'll certainly be more careful.
There's no source because it's a completely false claim. The "remote doesn't work" trope is perpetuated by Silicon Valley Culture[1][2]. Remote work is like security. You can't bolt it on and expect it to work. You can't half-ass it and expect it to work. The companies that do it correctly make it a foundation of their culture. I will cede the fact that remote work isn't for every individual, but I think even that can be overcome with the right company culture and support network.

1. http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec07/
2. https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-...
Expensive for the business, yes, but it would be worth it for Apple to acquire a new visionary CEO.

Of course it won't and can't happen, but one can dream.
There was a brief window, back when Apple started taking off post-Jobs, when their pile of money put them in danger of a hostile, leveraged "bust-up" takeover -- i.e. an outsider could buy the company with borrowed money by using Apple's assets and cash flow as collateral. I always found that idea fascinating. Of course, that moment passed pretty quickly.
A misconception is that Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, etc... were more lifestyles or beliefs than religions. In terms of influence over life, they were very much like religions historically.
"fuck you and die". My CPU took this literally when it visited the site.
Really nobody has the scale that Apple has? Do they make ships like Samsung?

Where does Apple make cars?
> As participation increases, quality declines, unless there are structural safeguards built into the system.

Well, yeah, but that's a refutation of the entire web. Maybe we should go back to the days when only a chosen elite was able to distribute writing or software to a wide audience?
1998...2008...201...See the trend? Always have cash and assets on hand.
With 'equator' I mean the cross section that cuts the sphere into two equal sizes and goes trough the center.

Obviously choosing the equator is totally arbitrary in symmetric object.
..but I understand his broader point - these are not deeply introspective, gifted individuals. A front line GP (and probably many 'specialists') is an auto mechanic who replaces an awful lot of ECM modules unnecessarily along to way to actually fixing the problem. In an aggressively supervised service field many of these people wouldn't make it. Doctors may get flagged when they kill enough people over a local threshold, but qualitatively dismal performance (empathy, followup, even a solid fundamental knowledge of the subject matter) is tolerated quite nicely in the system.
Yea, science is often weaponized by non-scientific people as an im-smarter-cudgel.
Lucid Motors High Speed Test Video
The issue is that the networks are using a trivial, nonessential stimulus feature to base classification decisions on. It's like basing the decision on a very small-eigenvalue feature eigenvector. That could be a training set issue, or it could be something about the network structure.

The article was kind of interesting to me because it reveals that networks are probably sometimes making decisions on highly discriminating but non-essential stimulus features.

It's like the networks might have a high success rate with large number of replicated examples, over sample size, but not over a large number of distinct examples.

They're overfitting, but in a way that isn't immediately obvious because the test stimuli tend to be limited.

My guess is the answer is to incorporate into the training set a lot of quasi-random or structured but abstract images as controls for training.
Spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off...

Edit:Wow, downvotes for making an oblique reference to the fact the SA offshoot torrent sites have disappeared and reappeared under new names a half dozen times in the last decade.
Because they need another golden geese. The iPhone alone accounts for 70%+ of their earnings, and the smartphone market is pretty much saturated and almost completely matured. What do you think investors will start to do once iPhone sales start slumping, and Apple has no 'next big thing' lined up for a growing market?
I'm sure it is someones $246B job to figure that out, because right now they are not doing much anything beyond managing the iPhone.

If you have that much money, it means you didn't "take greater risks and suffer through multiple failures" in the years preceding.

Buying Toshibas memory business.. that again seems like some bean counters incremental improvement on their iPhone margins. They are going to incrementally improve themselves to death if they can't figure out something new.
Is there any difference in memory/battery footprint? I imagine that "problem" would still exists, because it's using Chrome underneath. Decreasing build sizes is a great improvement though!
If collisions exist in the hashing algorithm, how you derive the seed for a random number generator is pointless
3 must watch sessions from DockerCon
Uber drivers are contractors (or, at least that's what Uber claims), who are paid by customers and give Uber a cut.

In the car of Pool, Uber hires the driver.
Todo app in 15 lines of code with slim.js
Is this oral history written?
Nearly half is in the US anyway: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/me...
It's more of a cynicism towards institutional beliefs. It wasn't handed down by anything. Most likely due to the events of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward where old institution were destroyed by the existing shitty institution leavig people with dirt and craziness. The new God that emerged from the rubble was Money.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

If it fails to terrify you, reread.
Good choices for whole-house soundsystems replacing an intercom
My older house is rocking a 1970's era intercom. Every room has a speaker in it, with low voltage power from the central console in the kitchen. I'm looking for a whole house sound system that could replace these speaker-panels in place (10" square), and my fantasy is to do it with low voltage. Probably there will never be a very good low voltage speaker system, so maybe I should give up on that :-) I don't care about intercom usage, that's purely optional. I don't want cameras, either!

Ideas:
1. Sonos speakers
2. Google home
3. Homemade system (or from someone else) that has touch screen panels and speaker in each room. How about large format cell phones, with a speaker?

One solution is put sonos in each room, but it would be nice to have a control panel. Now there are the google home systems. Star trek computer talkins would be fun, but do I want a potential spying device in every room? How about a super advanced system where I roll my own voice recognization (so I could control it better...) that connects to search engines, has a touch screen, and speakers, and connects to whatever streaming system I use.
As a shareholder, they should raise the dividend. If you can't find opportunity to invest the money, it should be returned to the shareholders. I'm all for keeping cash around for a rainy day or for future opportunities but not 33% of your market cap. That is an absurd misallocation of capital.
Thank you. I really hope so.
This sort of article comes up on Hackerrank a lot. Zero research, a spreadsheet, and a prescription to change eduction from the ground up. The author advocates curiosity as a motivator for education, yet he doesn't appear to know anything about professional architecture (certification is complicated and not always tied to education) and doesn't seem to care enough to research it before bloviating.

I read his article dedicated to architecture on his blog, and it was equally ill-informed. Of course buildings built in the 1880s didn't require architects with a college degree. They didn't require that you know CAD, either.

What appeals to people about this type of article? The author doesn't bring any experience with education policy or teaching. He doesn't back his assertions with research, primary sources, or even secondary sources. He doesn't bother interviewing anyone with experience with the problem or who has thought about it.

And, his reasoning is fairly shoddy. Much of what he's arguing for already exists in parallel with formal education. Nothing stopped me in the past from supplementing my learning on Coursera or hiring a programmer without a degree in computer science. A good friend of mine dropped out of high school, got his GED, and went back to college. Nothing is stopping anyone, you just limit your opportunities.

Even if formal education was abolished or fully privatized, businesses would find a similar, expensive process for screening applicants. The government is rarely requiring this. It's usually industry associations.

I read this article because I'm curious about this sort of thinking. Why do we not only have a desire for simple solutions but a need for radical ones from people with no experience in the field they're discussing? Why is this appealing?

If you're curious about radical approaches to education and the deschooling movement, read Ivan Illich or research the free schools movement. I read Illich before sending my daughters to public school. I didn't think Illich had any answers, and much of what he advocated wasn't precluded by formal education. School doesn't take that much time. My kids thrived in public school, and one of them wants to be a teacher.