skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which german company? That sounds stupid. I think no company profited from that over the long term, ever. Management must be stupid to think 90% of costs can be cut... if anything, costs may go up
Others children, of course. Unless there aren't enough, and then there's a problem.
I never turn it off, but in the night it is silent.
> Considering the history of Japan, China, and the rest of East Asia, along with the apparent weariness of the US defense guarantee, nobody can blame Japan for wanting to begin strengthening itself militarily. They'd be stupid not to.

Why? I'm not particular familar with the regions history, but from the last ~150 years or so China and Korea should be scared of Japan, not the other way around.
>For what its worth, it hints that those sleds will also become public transit platforms as well

So this is something I've been trying to address all thread, so excuse me picking your comment.

You can only create a public transit platform by having _dedicated_ infrastructure. We know this because cities like London and Paris (and not-so-big Vancouver) all have mostly-to-fully automated trains with 90-second headways between each train at rush hour. This basically means that if once a train pulls out of the station, the next one pulls in mere seconds later. These trains are usually packed to the gills. Even one single-occupancy vehicle would decrease the overall efficiency of that system.

Heck, you can create a tunnel in each which sled contains one bus and it'd still be less efficient than the London Tube because the whole thing will take up more space, physically (these trains squeeze in every last passenger). This is what Seattle tried to do with the downtown bus tunnel and they're evicting all the buses there in favor of light rail.

I think it will always make sense for subway trains in dense city cores, but I think the discussion about dedicated rapid transit is hampered in more suburban areas because of the whole notion that we have to fit in cars into rapid transit corridors, or else it's not worth it. But this ends up making buses less reliable and gives them their crappy reputation (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching).

Grade-separation is absolutely necessary for good rapid transit.
I totally understand where you are coming from. I was actually raised by a family who were deeply nationalist and voted twice to separate from Canada. They wanted borders around Quebec and laws to protect the language and culture.

To answer both you and the other commenter, I'm a consequentialist. That is, I genuinely believe the world would be a better place without modern day nationalism. There would be less wars and more cooperation. Cultures would win by merit. Nationalism is not far removed from racism (which I assume you do not support) when you think deeply and honestly about it. Your nationality is for the most part an accident of birth, doesn't define you and is very difficult to change.

I could keep going without changing your mind. Nationalism is such a deeply emotional, entrenched notion that is taught from childhood, from Hollywood movies to popular songs, and almost never challenged (you may have thought about the subject more deeply, but you'd be in a minority). Plus, even if you agreed with me on a philosophical level, being Canadian and all, it'd probably still be in your best self interest not to join the anti-nationalist ranks :) In the spirit of full disclosure, I traveled a lot and lived in a few countries (including China), so I can't pretend to be completely unbiased.
In Germany i think it will take 5 up to 10 years.
But i hope it will go faster ;-)
>Now, I dislike Trump and Elon is my hero (don't know much about Kalanik), but clearly there's a very serious groupthink problem going on here on HN.

Not that I disagree in premise, but when does an obvious conclusion become group think?

On the flipside to what you're saying, there is also a risk in being contrary simply to avoid group think. e.g. Look at people calling climate change "group think".

Well supported positions shouldn't be necessarily conflated as group think.
How is Manning a hero? She released a trove of information without any regard for the sensitivity of the contents or the value in the document being made public. Snowden released specific facts and documents to reveal programs many believe to be unconstitutional.

Manning was a mentally troubled individual, who abused their access to sensitive documents and jeopardized national security, and repeatly attempted suicide. That's not a hero.
I think it's more situational and maybe a little revelatory. They state they would prefer a universe where they have backdoors into encryption. But, in a universe where encryption exists without backdoor(s), the strongest move is to go the route without a backdoor. This may also be them admitting to failing to crack this particular piece of encryption.
US Prepares to Ban Laptops on Flights from Europe
That makes complete sense.
haha well put. think most ppl disabled updates because of piracy to be honest. don't think ppl are anti vaxxers because they get vaccines on the black market xP
> Or do the third party clients not provide enough vendor lockin?

Ding ding ding we have a winner.
The big headache is not 1TB but 64TB which is the maximum physical RAM limit of the Linux kernel / x86-64 architecture. Big NUMA systems could go higher but they don't. Look here: https://www.sgi.com/products/servers/uv/ "SGI UV 300 scales from 4 to 64 sockets with up to 64TB of shared memory in a single system." vs "SGI UV 3000 scales from 4 to 256 CPU sockets with up to 64TB of shared memory as a single system." see how 256 and 64 sockets both only support 64TB?

More ordinary servers typically stop at 6TB since one Xeon can support 1.5TB so an ordinary quad socket board typically with 96 DIMM slots can go up to 6TB with 64GB DIMMs. You can configure a machine like this at http://www.thinkmate.com/system/superserver-4048b-tr4ft and see that for the relatively low price of $110K you can get a machine with 6TB of RAM.
TransferWise becomes profitable six years after being founded
It would be quite fine as a plugin. I'm using fossil for instance so care little about git integration. Atom is already bloated and slow as it is, but then again it's their call to bundle whatever they want because I'm not going to use it anyway.
And suddenly there would be no escape from the matrix, no seriously may I recommend matrix.org for you?
I've always wondered about this. I love the portability but limiting myself to the power of something that has to fit in my pocket feels... limiting. What if we just carried around our software and files and popped them into whatever computer we have on hand? I know they're pricey but M.2 SSDs are tiny, fast, and high in capacity. I can imagine a desktop (maybe even a big laptop) with an sd-card-reader-like slit where you pop the SSD in and boot in mere seconds. Your computing environment travels with you but can take advantage of whatever hardware you have.

It's not like you can use these phone-desktop solutions without a keyboard, mouse, dock, display, etc. anyway. You still need hardware.

As a proof of concept, I've been itching to get a few of those USB SATA toaster things and set them up at my desks. The only hitch is finding a laptop these days with a 2.5" bay that's easy to get to.

Would you use something like this?
> Once we reach that point, the robot will be running on a far more advanced algorithm, closer to the one you're using.

I'm using one algorithm? That's a rather controversial claim. And it's advanced? How so?
To prepare:

1. Load test and fix what breaks. In the fastest and least-sophisticated way, this is just taking typical requests and throwing increasing numbers of them at your server until it breaks (or if you're testing in production, until user experience begins to deteriorate). This is the most accurate way to identify performance bottlenecks and also gives a rough estimation of your total capacity. If you do nothing else, do this.

2. Make sure your failure state isn't disastrous (for example, if our servers go down, you're still presented with a somewhat-functional webapp, not a 503 error page).

3. Make sure you are able to (and know how to) identify when systems are failing due to traffic and quickly add capacity to any component of your system. Ideally you have SMS/email alerts for this (they're really easy to set up in AWS, for instance).

"Hugs of death" (at least at the HN or even large subreddit scale) are not usually caused by lack of raw computing power, they're usually caused by architectural/algorithmic flaws exposed by unusual request volume. Send that traffic yourself ahead of time, and then fix those.

This is essentially how sites and services for large hardware launches are scaled (such as console launches), just with more sophisticated methods. I took this approach with Guilded (http://www.guilded.gg) and the hug from hitting #2 on a million-person subreddit only reached about 15% of capacity.
I'm not sure I follow. Assuming that lambdas can indeed be optimized/inlined, shouldn't the same performance gain exist with a single error-handling std::function (lambda) parameter in an otherwise-normal function? In other words, avoid wrapping the entire return value in a special type, avoid weird calling conventions, and simply supply a block to invoke if/when there is an error (and if there is no error, do nothing different).
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14354665 and marked it off-topic.
This is a relevant article to HN.

It articulates what to likely expect from the presidency in the future.

It also brings up a certain psychological profile that we may find in startups and their founders.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355449 and marked it off-topic.
Remember that time Sarah Palin had to release her personal email acct? All that shady stuff, Spirit Cooking, $65k on 'hotdogs'? No? It's pretty telling when the people on the other side demand that their 'opposition' 'must be' just as bad.
It seems to me that Wikileaks has lost all credibility at this point. I wouldn't bet on their Seth Rich story panning out.
'Fat but fit is a big fat myth'
Planetary Protection Is a “Wicked” Problem – Many Worlds
Ive actually noticed that really there appears to be a pretty interesting split between progressives and conservatives. Leaving the middle "liberals" (really from both sides) caught in an awkward situation.

For example, being liberal usually implies greater freedoms, such as being pro-choice. However, it can also be pro-gun ownership, or anti-war, pro-research, etc. To me that's the dichotomy the U.S. is facing is really about the progressives and religeous conservatives duking it out, but (I'd argue) most people are much more moderate.

It's interesting to me that a third party (libertarians, or someone else) can't capture that group. As many liberals differ pretty substantially from the progressives, and concervative minded people just lump liberals and them together because they all identify as Democrats
If your government controls history and what is in the history books there won't be anything about these people at all.
I almost never do. I ssh into it.

To be fair, I had a Pi2 and used it to watch videos but it died and my tablet or my TV+USB key are more convenient to use now. I guess some people would use a Chromecast instead.
Ransomware – A Nightmare for any IT team
OMG this being a thing is awesome. Thanks a lot.

It's extremely useful to be able to read whole threads on email when you have a potent MUA.
However, I think on net it is still more economically productive, at least in a large portion of cases.

"Economically productive" in what way? If you want to adopt a short term perspective of a particular nuclear family making X dollars over Y years, maybe.

But that's a rather shallow and irresponsible way of looking at things without accounting for what's better for the future society of our descendants, economically and otherwise.

What in most cases will produce a better quality of individual, a child raised at home by a loving mother, or a child shuffled off to some "childcare" to be looked after by a minimum wage worker absorbed in a smartphone half the time?
(Not that all non-motherly childcare is like that, but you get the point)
Manning leaked facts about actions of the government that most citizens wouldn't want to be part of, prompting change.
He/she also released stuff that was ethically good or neutral, but damaged the security. On the balance I'd say that was a service to the mankind and the US, motives irrelevant.
I feel gnome should use the best product out there that they can afford instead of the best opensource product.

Even Linux used the closed bitkeeper for a long time
Thanks. Changed to that.
DependenCI: Continous Integration Tool for Composer
It's amazing how disconnected developers are when it comes to RAM, the steam user survey (http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey) puts 30% at having 4GB or less, and that's an audience that trends towards the higher end.

For all the complaints of the mac book pro not having enough RAM, it had enough for 99.9% of people.
Can we make Java better already?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14353627 and marked it off-topic.
> And the biggest problem is what to do with all those cars in the city.

Tunnels are great parking structures. Cars on sleds provide a great interface to said parking structure. Heck, NYC has automated parking structures with car elevators and sleds. The only imagination required is not having to dig a big hole down to the depth of the lowest level of the garage first.
It shows nice designs with good contrast.
Really? I don't see the slant.
ArcaOS 5.0 (OS/2 Warp sucessor) released
I used vim for 3 years until Sublime Text came out and found I get work done much faster with it. I used the jump feature (forgot what it's called, similar to AceJump on emacs), position stacks, search commands, etc. I installed and learned NERDTree (that's the name) and a buffer management plugin, but they took hours to get used to while editing and many more hours to configure my .vimrc to be somewhat sane. ST came along, and with some plugins, I was able to migrate very smoothly and was introduced to some new editing methods, like multicursors and the wonderful Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down commands for moving lines. No more sequences of characters to perform a common task!

If ST was open source, there would be no need for a competing GUI text editor IMO.
Very early trial of a moment driven communicator
An argument could be made that the entire capitalist system is built upon uncompensated labor.

This is kind of an odd damning of capitalism, because no matter how we organize society, there is going to continue to be mothering so long as our species is to survive. And whatever societal system we may have, that society is going to be built in large part by mothering.
How effectively content management strategy can benefit business
Working along the lines of a well-developed content management strategy is the key to getting success in your mobile app development business. It is a proven plan to get the success easily.
At the time, it seemed silly that I maxed out my laptop with 64 GB of RAM, but now, I'm starting to feel like it was good foresight.
Sure, you can do most things with macros, but I prefer the interactivity of multicursors. With macros I have to carfully plan out how the macro will affect all the different instances where I let the macro run, and if something goes wrong, I have to revert it and try again. With multicursors I also have to do some trial and error, but usually much less since I can immediately see how each step influences the text at all cursor instances, and revert it in a much more granular way.

If I have to do some heavier processing for 100-1000+ lines, I still use macros, but for most cases in my day to day programming multicursors just feel better.
> While Telegram is only using 78MB

My irssi seems to be using an order of magnitude less than that, 7.8 MB RSS.

Get off my lawn! :-/

(Yes, irc is unencrypted, but still...)
I wonder if their app is just a bunch of javascript wrapped in a web frame? That's how other 'apps' of such design seem to perform (atom etc...)
Sure, I think we can all agree that bloated features like this are undesirable. But there are many options for editors that don't have these features, gladly.
Really? I see nothing obvious about it. Hell, the main people that seem to be making that claim is the CIA, an organization known to lie in the past and benefit from discrediting Wikileaks.
> clearly ... groupthink

That's not clear to me. And it's quite plausible that a US President could take an important action every day. One might infer the intent to overwhelm the public's sense of outrage so that at least some of Trump's agenda takes effect. As we tire of the news, we submit to whatever "they" want.
That's because it's only a bug if you're not using Microsoft software.
IBM unveils its most powerful quantum processor
What an incredibly deep and well written story. I did not know or appreciate that the author Alex Tizon died a few hours before publication - and this piece was his Faustus, the one personal story he struggled for years to write.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/a-repor...

I rarely use the word masterpiece, but it feels appropriate here.
I think this is a comments board mature enough to realise we aren't doing attacks on people. We are discussing issues.

If this was reddit or slashdot, I wouldn't phrase it that way.
Really? You gave up on an editor because of a smiley face icon? And you call the editor juvenile?
Yes, for a MagLev train that achieves the fantasy of hyperloop (but is actually happening now). From my perspective, hyperloop and TBC are each 100% upside down in terms of their approach. America can only dream of 505km/hr interstate ground transport.
I'm writing this from aboard the Nozomi express Shinkansen at around 300km/hr, by the way. Just left 名古屋駅.
Have you checked out gitea, the community-developed fork of gogs?
Factcheck: Senior Product Managers at Amazon HQ with 4-6 years of experience self report an average salary of $123K and average total comp of $162K.

Even if a single Amazon PM has made $600K in one year, it does a disservice to readers to imply that that's commonplace.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Amazon-Senior-Product-Manag...
Having worked for one of those names, I have to guess that this is probably clearing the bench rather than removing employees with billings.

More often than not, the bench exists to promise a customer that they have the people to "start yesterday" on the project.

The trouble with choking off the supply into the industry is that often the demand dies out as a result rather than increasing the price of a service - complete rewrites get shelved, new development gets postponed and sustenance projects use band-aids to treat bullet holes.

And that causes a trickle-up effect across the product companies selling into the industry - you don't sell new database licenses if billing systems aren't getting revamped and if that ripples continues, everyone upstream starts getting extremely frugal with their expenses.

Which is bad for the enterprise software ecosystem - the only folks who are likely to not notice that immediately will be small bootstrapped consumer companies, with real boxes to ship and lots of room to grow (or giant ones with room to grow, like a self driving car paid for by clicks).

I'm a bit apprehensive of drastic changes ever since I read the CA Budget (see last page of Economic Outlook[1]).

[1] - http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2016-17/pdf/BudgetSummary/Economic...
The bread and butter of many of those shops was already on the trailing edge when they came to the fore.

The market has dried up. There are springs of Windows, Oracle, NetSuite, Java and other Turn-of-the-Century technology, but new customers are fewer and fewer. Of those are a fraction who want/need bargain-grade Global IT Support.

Combine the declining presence of IT with manual administration interfaces, and it really is no great mystery.
Wow, you're talking about Pizzagate. Are you serious or trolling? Please don't spread that junk.

You may think it's a joke, but some people will believe even obvious nonsense if you keep repeating it. Back in December, a man drove to Washington to "self-investigate" with a gun:
https://www.google.fi/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

Alex Jones has apologized for spreading this story. Don't be worse than him.
Strategies to Stay on Top of Bots
previous submission
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8300619
"Outright immediate shutdown of anything ever related to politics" is not at all an accurate description of HN, nor is your "dominate the front page". If you know of a fine supply of deeply interesting stories out there, by all means please submit them.

"Links which are often only tangentially related to hacking" are not only not off-topic here, they're so on-topic as to be celebrated at the very beginning of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your phrasing rather suggests that you want the very sort of flamewars and partisan battles that we're specifically excluding. If so, HN may not be the website you're looking for. Not all internet forums need to be the same, and I don't see why this one shouldn't preserve its mandate.
I try to be equally clear when I'm hiring. I make it clear to the candidates that this is not a place for individualism, not a place for innovation, not a place for cutting edge tech. We are heavily team oriented, process oriented, CRUD application maintaining, older stable tech platforms with interchangable teams. I want to make that clear, not because I want to "horrify" candidates (though no doubt many on HN are horrified) but so that people who want the exciting startup lifestyle aren't bamboozled by some swarmy HR position description that tries to sell something that isn't.

Thanks for making this stuff clear. While it's disappointing to me that so much of the field has gone down this kind of path, it's good to know up front.
arguably layering tunnels is increasing the density of humans in transport along the Y axis. right now its approximately one.
> No. Once a TBM is below a certain depth (approximately two tunnel diameters – or 28 feet in this case), the tunneling process is almost impossible to detect, especially in soft soil.

They missed an important FAQ, Will this tech increase bank heists?
The main problem here is acting like there are two simple categories that we can easily sum up, "capitalism" and "socialism", with no gray area or alternative conceptions available for consideration.
There are more open source Source Code management tools, such as RhodeCode, or Gitea
Wondering what could've been fixed instead.. 6 years ago emoji symbols weren't as predominant as today, I guess it's more of a marketing bug-fix, indeed.
> The big headache is not 1TB but 64TB which is the maximum physical RAM limit of the Linux kernel / x86-64 architecture.

It sounds like you know what you're talking about, so I'm sure it was inadvertent that you wrote "physical RAM limit of the Linux kernel". It's primarily the x86-64 architecture and 5-level paging is coming which extends the linear address space to 57 bits (128 PiB) and the physical address space up to 52 bits (4 PiB). Still, one wonders how long it will take for that to be inadequate.

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/2b/80...
nobody said that cars are the only thing that these sleds would shuttle around. use your imagination a bit and i think you can probably imagine how this can be use for a public transit system.
Didn't the article state that they would run their own GitLab inside Gnome's infrastructure?

This mean they will have full control of the update process, right?