skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone else tired of seeing this communist bullshit? Starting to get worried at the frequency these types of articles keep popping up here.
I was some years ago, before I gave up on the language; but one shouldn't have to be fluent in a language for it to satisfy the concepts of self-documentation and readability.

Requiring domain-specific knowledge of symbolic notation is not a trait of self-documenting languages. Recommending that the API search engine be open alongside or within your editor is likewise not a trait of self-documenting languages.

Self-documenting languages are coherent at-a-glance to average programmers with little to no knowledge of the language. Haskell is not this.
Gates bought his OS from Seattle Computer Products where Tim Paterson wrote it over four months merely to fill a temporary gap. So many people have written OSs for convenience, pleasure, etc. We needed an OS monopoly about as much as a financial plague. It made Gates et al rich at all our expense.
Practice resolved the issue for me. That's consistent with pretty much every aspect of photography in my experience: the more pictures I take, the better I feel about the average result.
I've found that the "like" feature on Facebook has trained me to be a better photographer. After you post enough pictures you start to get a feel for which pictures people actually appreciate. So I'm now much more careful about composition and lighting, I've learned to do basic editing, and I'm more ruthless about deleting imperfect shots. These skills are transferrable to any other site or app.
In cultures like Korea, hierarchy and unconditional respect for their elders is so deeply rooted that it is evident in the language itself (When addressing elders or someone more important, you have to speak a specific way). This gives a false sense of righteousness and superiority. In societies like these, could the culture itself be an obstacle to creative growth?
That's what it looks like.
Having more lasers and more processing power could very well help with estimation of atmospheric disturbance (although I don't know of any model being computationally overwhelming, but my knowledge is limited), while better actuators on the mirrors would allow a more accurate correction of the wavefront (as fast as possible ideally). Sounds like a mix of HW upgrade and more inputs for estimation.
Regulatory hurdles in the import/export market are like a person trapped in a sphere at sea. Even when you run out of drinking water inside the sphere, you still don't want the sphere to let in saltwater. It's all water but you shouldn't drink it. Your position makes sense where the sphere is floating in clean fresh drinking water. However, like an ocean is much larger than a lake, there is much more toxic crap on the market for import than there is good. Strong standards with proactive, responsive agencies make for the best public protections in imperfect markets. Whether or not this is caused by a failure there is a good question.
Will I be root on the boxed droid if I am root on the Linux system or do I still need to root the android system?
My Lumia 950 has one as well.
The main data the author cites is a 32-year-old pop psychology book where n=120. The rest is expert opinion. He also avoids making a case for why trying raising a child who is merely hyper-competent is less desirable goal than creating one who remakes a field of inquiry. After all, why would you want your child to become a run-of-the-mill Oncologist if they're not also going to win a Nobel Prize.

For all the author's dressing up a horrid argument with strained "statistics," he misses a key fact. True breakthroughs in most fields come around rarely, in time frames usually measured in decades. In the meantime, the market for high-end practitioners is evergreen.

For every Mozart, there are thousands of musicians to play in world-class orchestras. For every Jonas Salk, there are hundreds of thousands of doctors. On a risk-adjusted scale, shooting for competent if slightly less creative seems like a much wiser bet.
IIANM Trojita is limited to a single imap account which makes it almost useless to me, as I would have to have an additional email client for the other accounts.

Last time I checked trojita was still a work in progress with missing features and was not ready for production and daily use. Is it ready now ?
It's possible that both are true. 20k people is such an insanely small number of people in the scheme of things that it's possible that there are many people who, like you, filter this stuff straight to the trash - and that there are still many many 20ks to go round.
Because it's 25 Gbps electrically per lane, this also allows for economies of scale with new 25 GbE optical and direct attach NICs for servers, where 10GbE is not enough, but 100 is too costly. There is some good documentation and reference links on 25GbE on Wikipedia for anyone who is curious. This also allows for one 100GbE top of rack switch port to be broken out into 4x25GbE individual connections.

So if you have a 1.5RU 32-port 100GbE top of rack switch it can serve up to 120 servers, leaving two 100GbE ports free for uplink.
In England retailers are now asking for your email address to send you a receipt (partly so they can integrate you with stuff like LiveRamp too).
Isn't that getting fired?
Well, that would certainly solve those pesky problems with search warrants and encryption.
Single channel 100GbE is already done, but not with OOK, it's coherent modulated qpsk, 16qam or 64qam single wavelength. But wider channel size in THz occupied than a single channel 1550 10GbE single wavelength OOK circuit.
Are US potatoes really lower quality than Japanese ones?
It's a bannable offence to be uncivil like this and we've asked you before not to do it, so please don't.

For the most part it looks like your account has been following the site rules, so this should be easy to take care of.
Don't even need postgre, Lua scripts are transaction safe on redis clusters.
Excellent link.

Somewhat similar: NSA's Dan Geer on how we are all intelligence officers now.

https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/security-expert-dan-geer-w...
The article's author referenced athletes as well as creatives:

Even the best athletes didn’t start out any better than their peers. When Dr. Bloom’s team interviewed tennis players who were ranked in the top 10 in the world, they were not, to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, doing push-ups since they were a fetus. Few of them faced intense pressure to perfect the game as Andre Agassi did. A majority of the tennis stars remembered one thing about their first coaches: They made tennis enjoyable.
Ask HN: Traffic simulator?
Hi, would like to test some ideas,
does anyone have a recommendation of a traffic simulator that has all kinds of traffic, including cars, buses, trucks and the number of persons inside all of these?

Thanks
In Praise of Boredom
If you own an apartment building and rent it out, you have to pay taxes on the income it provides.

The grocery store won't take stock certificates in payment for a gallon of milk. Instead, you have to sell it. As soon as you do, you are recognizing a capital gain and are taxed on it.
I remember something called tutanota or totanuta that advertised itself as encrypting the data on the device itself (phone, tablet, computer,...).
Sylpheed is my all-time favorite e-mail app.

In late 2001 I brought a Vaio C1 [1] back from Japan. 192 MB ram, Transmeta Crusoe processor that could burst to 600 MHz. Running Windows ME _everything_ was slow out of the box, but with Linux (Slackware), a minimal window manager (forget if it was XFCE, Enlightenment, or something else), and Sylpheed it just flew. Even with huge numbers of messages everything was snappy. It was amazing.

I switched from Linux to Mac in 2009 and migrated to Mail.app at the time. It's not terrible, but even on recent hardware it feels more sluggish than Sylpheed did on that underpowered ultraportable in 2001.

Good to see that it's still getting occasional updates 16 years later.

1. http://www.sony.jp/ProductsPark/Consumer/PCOM/PCG-C1VSX/
> That's not true. Much of the value of ADTs in OCaml is full type inference.

I consider using type inference for your interfaces to be a software engineering anti-pattern. (Scala also doesn't really support that, except for return types, but you see related issues if you try type inference with objects in OCaml.) Without explicitly typing your interface, users have to look at the implementation to know what the type of a function is. Type inference for local entities is usually pretty easy.

Most of the remaining problems with type inference in Scala are the result of prioritizing Java interoperability in the type system, leading to a number of contortions and workarounds.
That's a good point! What third party tools I can use to handle the comments? Is Disqus worth it?
If demand for your skills is waning and your daily rate is dropping, it's time to re-skill.
4 x 25Gbps has been around for years but in larger form factors like CFP, cfp2, etc. The main difference here is they're using commodity lasers from China and Taiwan sources with prism to do 4 x 20nm width channels between qsfp28 optics. For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSFP

The next step down in size will be to sfp/sfp+ dimensions. I can see it coming, a qsfp is already a lot smaller than a first generation 100GbE CFP.
I'm happy that you posted this. It's something that I discovered on my own, and have been tentatively arguing for years[1][2][3][4].

In fact, I never really understood the visitor pattern until after I started using ML's pattern matching. The "eureka" moment came when I realized that not only do abstract classes map to sum types (logical disjunction), but interfaces correspond to product types (logical conjunction).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2e572a/rebutta...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/14t3ay/either_...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=822479

[4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19696342/limiting-class-a...
AI is the next big thing and is where parallelization really shines. Physics simulations is probably another big one. New video games will probably really start to take advantage of parallelization as they continue to get bigger and more immersive. Heck, I wish my crappy little Mackbook pro had more cores for the AI project I'm working on. We are really just getting started.
Cool!

What hardware abstraction layer is made available or what hardware can be used?

+ accelerometers, gyro

+ touch

+ bluetooth, BLE, WiFi

That would make it a complete debugging experience.
I'm not sure which Mozilla rewrite you're talking about, but in any case I feel that rewriting TB is doable. As you say there are better tools/frameworks, and the work done by asuth on the FirefoxOS mail client and glodastrophe (https://github.com/asutherland/glodastrophe) are good starting points.
There are Intel chipset single and dual port 100GbE pci-express 3.0 NICs with good Linux kernel support in v4.8+.
>If you want people to continue to take large risks, you need to offer them good rewards if they succeed

Is this what you think drives people like Jobs? The guy who had billions, worked relentlessly, and died of Cancer at a fairly young age?
Teacher cleared of raping pupil says men should stay away from teaching
I just bought a Panasonic Lumix G80 [0], my first new camera (other than iPhones) in almost ten years.

The first thing that struck me is how much more "technical" it all is nowadays -- many, many options are available, and it's going to be a learning curve. I accept this because I want some things you can only get with "real" lenses and bigger sensors, but as a software guy it makes me think there's still a lot of room for us to improve the user experience of digital cameras.

Ideally I'd want the various iPhone photo apps (VSCO et al) to live inside my Lumix. As far as I know, nobody is even remotely close to offering that, and I wonder why not.

[0]: http://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/cameras-camcorders/lumi...
I liked Remix OS, but hey, are they really comparing performance of a modern PC with Android phones and saying that Remix OS runs faster on the PC than Android on the phones?
Getting fired usually involves cause being shown.
Why? TB UI is currently in XUL which is a markup language like... the web. A lot of the TB backend is in js, like... the web.
I buy imported-from-Japan Kataage [0] potato chips at my local Nijiya market and to my taste these chips are much higher quality than, for example, Kettle brand and Frito-Lay brand potato chips.

Not sure if it's due to the potatoes, but the quality is undeniably (to my taste) higher.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=japan+K...
The article got the ethernet situation pretty much completely wrong. The MAC is on the PCH, not on the CPU die. It's not even new, either, dating back to the C200 chipsets of the Sandy Bridge era.
>Why do we always bring up CEO compensations, but never Hollywood actors', professional athletes' or even painters

I hear you, but there's usually a magnitude difference between these occupations and the highest paid CEOs.
you might aim for a DevOps role. It's a hot skillset that combines sysadmin with programming, it would jive well with your background. learn everything you can about modern databases, scaling/containers and security
Anbox is a baby now, full of bugs and without internet support. I will keep watching.
Very cool. Good work. I'm not a C++ developer my self so I can't find a use for this, but the maths is interesting and can be adopted.

Do you have any academic resources on hand that you used to help you complete this project?
You'll be rooted. There's no "android system".

Disclaimer: I'm just deducing from the Anbox landing page copy.
If, as your post seems to be recommending, such regulations were abolished, Japanese farmers would pretty much cease to exist because of their inability to compete with cheaper imports. Maybe you consider that an unacceptable tradeoff for some potato chip shortages but it's not clear that the Japanese share your sense of priorities.
This is a strange article. Not sure why it has so much traction on hacker news. Seems to just take Intel press releases and spit them out with some prose. It doesn't say much, doesn't add much, parrots Intel marketing and performance statements uncritically, doesn't mention any competition, and generally is less informative about Intel's road map, fab process, and cadence than an average in-depth review of Kaby Lake architecture found anywhere else many months ago. It relates that info to the server sphere which can be useful, but not when the body of knowledge seems limited to what Intel says and doesn't put this information into a larger perspective or compares it with anything.
One of the potential art side technical differences is vibration from mirror slap. Though many DSLR's offer mirror lockup or live view shooting, mirrorless systems do eliminate it completely from the process.
I have the exact opposite reaction: "This might be something that's been around for a long time, so it's probably more interesting than most of the vapid, insipid, overadvertised crap that passes for knowledge today."

...and indeed, this page has no ads and is in a very readable style, although it's actually quite new.
Why do you feel entitled to foist your own or other peoples problems onto strangers?
All it takes is the whim of one moody, angst ridden 15 year old who decides to make a false accusation to destroy your life.
It still amazes me that potatoes and tomatoes, originally South America only, have become a food staple in just about every country since.
>Life on an island with a historically strict protectionist food policy. There is no potato shortage, per se (per the article, I'm surely no expert). There's a shortage of potatoes from Hokkaido, and domestic consumers aren't prepared for (or allowed to) buy them from an international market.

Yeah, if only they gave up their autonomy and local agriculture to have more access to chips from abroad.
I think you (and I have noticed it elsewhere here) have nailed the main cause for the discrimination based on gender (and probably also age) that is really counter productive for the society as a whole.
Probably won't work because it has to install kernel extensions.
Without protectionist regulation Japanese farming isn't competitive.
I have both, I've switched completely back to DSLR. Why? Ergonomics.

The primary advantage of mirrorless cameras is the smaller weight and size, but if you do extended photo sessions you'll soon find the weight difference doesn't really matter and the smaller size of a mirrorless is actually a disadvantage.

There's a very real reason professional DSLR bodies are massive with defined grips, it's because your hand can start to cramp or it can otherwise be uncomfortable to stay in position for a long time waiting on a shot if you have a small body or poor grip angles. When doing wildlife photography and insect photography this becomes incredibly obvious because both require patience since you can't control your subject.

At this point I either go out the door with my DSLR kit or I stick to my phone. A phone camera is very good these days and can even shoot in RAW with manual adjustments for everything but aperture. When I need to specifically do distance or macro photos, nothing beats a full sized DSLR on ergonomics.

I love the Sony tech, but unless they end up building an optional grip systems for their bodies I doubt I will ever attempt mirrorless again.
That looks more like (define) than (let). When do the bindings fall back out of scope, if not when the let-form ends? And can you do multiple bindings?
> By the time a person brings a second camera, mirrorless and DSLR are approximately the same bulk.

Not true. I use a mirrorless APS-C camera with a prime lens, and it's small enough to carry in a case on a backpack's shoulder strap while running. A DSLR would probably require a chest harness.
I don't see it as totally outlandish to protect domestic industry at the cost of not being able to get produce as cheaply or easily as you could otherwise. It's not as though Japan is suffering from starvation.
Do you think that this is what honest you wants to say about the situation?
Slack, an Upstart in Messaging, Now Faces Giant Tech Rivals
“dimensionality”?
Does slate.js use contenteditable as an underlying primitive?
The early images released by Light aren't that great, and those are curated. You're paying 10x the cost for a modest improvement which is probably undetectable after going through an Instagram filter.

I hope the technology is awesome, but based on what I've seen (and heard from employees) it's not going to live up to the hype.
There are many alternatives around already. The issue is not alternatives, it is people not using and staying facebook's used.
I guess I became a bit disillusioned after I couldn't attribute a single sale to this popular video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCgXVkYQcA (here's my writeup on it with stats: https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/sales-results-f...)

"Figuring out YouTube" is definitely still something I'm interested in, though. Writing might be more suitable for me, but I don't often come across topics about Japanese candy where I could easily imagine how to get any distribution for them (where to post).
>I daresay “good philosophy” is based on the rigor of the ideas themselves, not the lives of philosophers themselves. The canon of philosophy is replete with men who did distasteful or abhorrent things, but their ideas are studied nonetheless.

That only drives the point further: there are no ideas in Cioran, just (or in any case, mostly) whining.

My mentioning of his life wasn't to diminish his ideas (or rather, the lack thereof), just to show how unjustified the whining.
Facebook shows you stuff that you have shown interest in or has been shared by your friends. If you want to expand the range of opinions you see in your feed follow some less liberal people.
I like this part the best:

> Twitter users sent encouraging tweets to Calbee, which apologized for the crunch via its official Twitter account.

Props to Japanese for being encouraging, instead of negative!

(And yes, I realize n=1, etc. etc.)
> Both are geniuses and both hated their childhood.

I don't know anything about their respective childhoods, and I have greatly enjoyed some of Mr Trier's films, but I fear this is a dangerously egalitarian notion of "genius."
They don't need money to survive, but they don't want to do volunteer work. They want to be in the workforce. Being given money carries meaning for them that goes well beyond the value of the dollar. Just talk to them and this is a theme they repeat over and over again.
I would also recommend Hugo as well. I just switched over to it from Jekyll and it's really quite nice. It takes a little bit to get used to the theme structure, but once you have it down, it's pretty easy to keep track of.

Disqus is also a great way to have comments on a static blog. I use Disqus and haven't really had any issues at all with it.
Six challenges for molecular nanotechnology (2005)
I doubt it, especially since you can generally get a much wider range of varieties of potatoes in the US than in Japan, not just organic/non-organic, but different colored potatoes as well. My guess is that the rhetoric coming from the companies that US potato quality is lower is more due to the government being protectionist about national agriculture.

It's also probably due to the mentality that producers want specific kinds of potatoes for specific purposes and maybe only trust Japanese farmers to make the specific kind of potatoes the way they want them.
Church of Virus
Yes, I think spy agencies should be able to spy on foreigners, and swap data. I don't think it's insane for the laws against collection of citizens data to include not trading for citizens data with foreign powers, such that the set of people that the UK and US spy agencies share data on is the disunion of their respective citizens. As with many things that involve crimes of thought or information, it's very hard to implement, and as such you should be careful how you phrase and prosecute, but that's a risk that has to be taken... And the penalties for when it's discovered should be appropriately severe to make up for that.
The Japanese potato-chip famine?
>Mirrorless cameras and their lenses are almost certainly cheaper than DSLR's to produce due to smaller size of bodies and lenses and the mechanical simplicity and smaller average sensor size of bodies.

But you do have an electronic viewfinder and you're cramming things into less physical space--at the offsetting benefit of eliminating some moving mechanical and optical parts which have been optimized over decades.

I don't have the numbers but I'm unconvinced absent evidence that mirrorless cameras are so much higher margin. The fact tht they're new systems that can't piggyback on decades of development may well play a role.
Stunning drops in solar and wind costs turn global power market upside down
You seem to have a tremendous grasp on the history of Central Asia, especially during the Middle Ages, a subject that I personally consider very obscure. May I ask if this is a personal interest of yours, given that most of your working hours are devoted to open source software?
No they show you stuff that you and people they think are like you have shown interest in or has been shared by your friends*. Friends being people you added because you felt obligated to not people you have mutual interests or hobbies with
and given how things like 9/11 were funded...

I must be missing something. How was 9/11 funded?
Early paper money from British Colonial America