skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Okay, wait. Every modern CPU has a popcount instruction

What do you consider a "modern CPU"? Atom chips sold less than a decade ago didn't support popcnt. AMD shipped some C-series chips without support for it as recently as 2012. The low-end chips were likely to be sold later without refreshes to newer features in some cases, and those are also likely the ones to be repurposed for small and cheap x86 devices later. I wouldn't want the default compilation settings without specifying CPU extensions to use an extension that might not exist on my target platform.
A few comments come to mind.

Yes, there's so much to learn that you'll never have time for it, even if specializing in a small area. It reminds me of a Chomsky interview. He said that he has so many books left to read in his office alone that a lifetime wouldn't be enough. You're in good company.

It may sound obvious but don't forget that HN isn't one person. The guy that knows about particle physics is usually not the one that tell you about the latest type theory research. Don't compare yourself with a collective mind.

Besides, I'm sure there are people less bright than you in all positions you can imagine. Retrospectively, I realize that there are a lot of things I didn't even try for fear of failing or because I thought I wasn't smart enough. It's only a few years later that I realized I missed so many opportunities.
Just some honest feedback on your pricing that's hopefully helpful: Your Enterprise plan is at least an order of magnitude more expensive than what many organizations would pay for something like this.

E.g. a Jira license for 2000 people costs $24,000 yearly[1], licensing this for the same amount of users would be $1,200,000.

This is way more than organizations of that size tend to pay for top-tier support contracts for software that's critical to business continuity.

Pricing per-user without any advertised discounts is also a trap if you're selling to large organizations. A lot of them tend to, for simplicity's sake, want to just give everyone in the org access to a tool like this, but only 5-10% of the workforce might be using it, but due to how you're pricing it there's no way it's going to be bought in the first place.

1. https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/jira-software
I mean, I should not be senior. I should not have been the only web dev as my first job out of a bootcamp. That is insane. But, bizarrely, in this world of start-ups and feature pushing, shit has yet to hit the fan.

I think it helps I routinely push for that promised, mythical senior developer and instead they give more more classes, pair programming with senior devs of my choosing, etc. Perhaps my complete (justified) awareness I am way over my head is the prerequisite fire to keep me always drinking from the fire hose of knowledge. Who knows.

I will say that it seems baby startups who have to choose between cheap(er) bootcamp grads who know how to get a beta out quickly, cheap(er) fresh CS grads who often don't know how to get a beta out quickly, and more expensive experienced people often chose the bootcamp grad.

I said in my interview they should get a senior dev. They said they couldn't afford one. And here we are 3.5 years later.
Yeah, maybe, but the coders able to "combine lots of AI discoveries done by others", as well as those who make those discoveries, are likely to work for Google/FB/MS/IBM/Apple/Amazon/etc already (or want to work there).

A group like OpenAI also has a good chance to make a breakthrough, but you can hardly call them "a team of coders in a basement".

It's unlikely that any a single company (even a large one) will have any significant advantage, because the research everyone does is highly public (everyone tries to publish asap). The research right now is at the stage where people are still looking which way to go, so as soon as someone stumbles upon a promising direction, everyone will jump on it (e.g. AlexNet success in 2012).
Overseas Medical Schools Offer Remedy for Shortage of U.S. Doctors
Not at all, in fact the OP was being generous. Where's computer vision and cryptography on that list?
John Carmack used to participate in the Plan 9 mailing lists

https://marc.info/?a=111558719100068&r=1&w=4

Though Rob Pike might have not been very cooperative or
enthusiastic

https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558699517143&w=4

He goes on about some interesting architectural advantages
already in Plan 9 from a graphics programming standpoint and
capitalizing on them someday.

It'd be interesting to hear about how far along he got.

https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558698816997&w=4

Here he talks about trying to hack Plan 9 to run Quake
https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558698416915&w=4
This was in Northern Washington, close to the Canadian border, and more than 1000 miles away from Burning Man.
The c64's bitmap mode could either be 320x200 with color allocated in an 8x8 grid, much like the Speccy, or 160*200 with three selectable colors per 3x8 block, plus one background color shared across the whole screen.

It did, however, also have sprites, which could float over or under the main screen.

(If you're willing to dedicate pretty much all of the CPU time to flipping stuff around while the video chip is rendering the screen, you can have finer-grained color selections on the c64, but that's mostly the domain of demos.)
Reading HN is extremely overwhelming. I'm in the data science field. So I read yet another Deep Learning article on HN and wonder how long it is till I'm unemployed and bankrupt because I barely know anything about deep learning and have no opportunities at all to use it at my job.

Then I remember the following.

1). I'm employed, my manager is happy with the work I do, and I make enough money to pay my bills, have savings, and live in a decent place in a safe neighborhood.

2). I don't have to be better than everybody else at my workplace. I just need to find an area where I can contribute.

3). When I apply to other jobs I get some positive responses. I know people who would be happy to recommend and hire me if they can.

4). I've met more than a few people who can talk about data science like they can solve any business problem under the sun, but cannot actually do much of anything except talk.

5). There is plenty of stuff I read on HN that is clearly wrong or exaggerated.

I think the key is to focus on what you need today to stay employed and have a realistic assessment of your weaknesses and where you want to go. Then figure out what you need to get there and slowly work towards that that. I don't need to know Rust, Go, and Vue.js because they have nothing to do with my job or where I want my work direction to go. If they day comes when I do need to learn that stuff, I'll learn it.
Why is a server specification better than a DSO (library) specification that is shared between editors?

At http://langserver.org it is noted that plugins are created for N languages X M editors, and the USP of the language server idea is to reduce M to 1 through a shared server. I just don't see the force that drives us towards a server instead of a library.
Yooooowch. They appear to be VPS and dedicated host.
I think you are being too optimistic.

Big companies are just equally a problem as big governments. They are even more effective and efficient in collecting user data and reaching privacy sensitive information.

AI in general has become a game for big players, that's in itself a worrying trend.
Is it company policy to not respond to most applications?
I've applied several times and never got back a rejection..
I love capitalism
Are you really not aware of the extreme selection bias that's going on in this thread?

There seems to be a 95% do-well rate among replies here, and that's on top of being a tech forum to begin with.
Restic – Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Wayback Machine link if you want to know who they were:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170603212121/https://verelox.c...
Other parts of the world have been using chip and pin systems for a long time. Clearly, customers understand it. Americans know how to use similar technology from ATM cards (and many make purchases this way).

I have no doubt that businesses don't want to change and invest in new technology, but I have never met an individual credit card user who has professed love for our current credit card system.
Ithaca, NY, may not have the most remarkable architecture, but I am always amazed at how beautiful the city looks from the hilltops.

Crucially, there are few buildings above two stories in the many blocks between the downtown area and the south shores of Cayuga Lake. There are so many trees in between that one could be forgiven for thinking that a major section of the city is little more than a forest or a densely wooded park, when viewed from above.
Dick move from the ex-admin, but I'm curious to know what would compel an ex-employee to take such a brazenly criminal and traceable yet damaging action.

I'd like to know more, I think...
Good point about agent versus feeling. If my Greek friend is a reliable reference, the words originated in Greek mythology wherein a human acting in hubris would be punished by the gods, the punishment was called nemesis.
SGX is the ultimate DRM. Once SGX programs talk directly to monitors that support some HDCP like protocol, it will be the end of ad/tracker blockers. Web pages will run in SGX land.
Do you have any examples of them making bad UI to get people to use siri?
Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse
Not like I know the guy, but Johnny Depp doesn't seem to have been the same person after spending so much time with HST as well.
This isn't really a ’project’ in the sense you seem to intend: it was a 1990s AT&T research project that was abandoned and released under an open source licence in the mid-2000s.
Great idea loan money to sellers so you can take their ideas if they're too successful.

https://www.geek.com/news/amazonbasics-is-copying-all-the-be...
GameStop Customers' Credit Cards May Have Been Stolen, Company Says
Not if others are willing to offer worse versions of those services for free. And Microsoft/Amazon are perfectly willing, since they're already getting paid for other things.
Have you used good or custom IEMs? I have fairly standard Westone IEMs and I do not notice anything on a flight, talking or otherwise
You seem to denigrate being an "advertising company" as if all the work is exceedingly simplistic. I have a friend who recently moved into their ad division from a "sexier" one, and he said the amount of specialization being used in there is mind boggling. Which completely makes sense at the scale of Google, where some random team boosting your ad revenue by "only" .05% can be a worthwhile endeavor.
What you're posting is provably false. There's a huge barrier to entry that's obscured by being selective in reading replies and your own confirmation biases.

It doesn't contribute in any way to the discussion and is misleading and quite toxic to be honest.
Makes sense. If it was called Pirate Pete's I would understand. The same thing happened with South Butt, which was a weaker case in my opinion.
News and sports websites 'vulnerable to attack'
A lot of us learned this way from John Lions' Unix Commentary. There have been similar books for Linux and Apache. (They didn't have a concordance for the Linux Core Kernel Commentary so I wrote one and sent it the author who mentioned it in the second printing.) But I think for OpenBSD something like SourceGraph is more than enough.

I would recommend the SourceGraph people post browsers for Linux, L4, Xen, LLVM, ... and other great open source infrastructure projects. You'll drive more interest in your product in a helpful way.
Deploy a Vue.js App in 3 Steps Using Cosmic JS
„...chose to blame you in the hope you will believe it long enough for the warranty to expire...“

Customer for over 25 years...considering my CLV (customer lifetime value)...this just makes me sad :-/
My son used to love their Hawaiian bagels, which we would stock up on when we lived in Maple Ridge and went down to the US for a day trip occasionally. Trader Joe's also has wine which is good for the price, but that doesn't work for Canadians because of import duties and quantity limits. The Trader Joe's in Bellingham is overrun by us Canadians, just like Point Roberts for package receiving...
Which is insane. When I lived in Australia, 10+ years ago, inter bank transfers were settled within 4 hours (often hourly). Intra bank, immediately.
Reducing Our Redux Code with React Apollo
How does one integrate that with Facebook or Google or Nameasite?
A few years ago I was thinking about moving to another state, and we made a checklist of things to look for when checking out locations.

Up near the top of the list was "how far is it to the nearest Trader Joe's?"
That picture is so sad.
I wish I could fail like that.
Reminds me of this:

"Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician."

https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/198093512149958656
"I don't understand with what right..."

trademark. he picked the wrong name for his business.
It normalizes the behavior as acceptable. In reality, the aphorism is based on a ridiculous premise that nobody in their right mind should accept; that money is the only thing responsible for dictating what is acceptable behavior.
That's easy. The most common thing to do with my iPHone is hit the button.

They overloaded the button to load Siri if its held for even a fraction of a second too long. 99 times out of 100 I don't want to use siri but she continually pops up.

Trying to click to get back to the home screen.... here's Siri.

Trying to double click the button, to kill an app..... here comes Siri

So to answer the question....

1) They made Siri enabled by default, something that I can't see myself ever wanting.

2) They made Siri come up using the button, again something that almost always means when siri comes up its by accident and not indented.

Apple isn't immune from "dark patterns" in their UI. The Siri example above being the most egregious example I can think of.
Wiped by ex-admin, or by the ineptitude of current admins that can't maintain proper exit procedure?
From your reading of the article, is that within the context of what the article was referencing? Because I'm reading nothing that indicates to me that the conversation/interview had anything to do with manufacturing or employment practices. Additionally, I would argue that "employment practices" have little or nothing to do with "technology".
Came here to say these two things.

Dolores park is my trump card for showing off SF to (20 something) out of towners. There's usually nothing even remotely like it (when it gets crowded and boozy) wherever they came from.

And I'm in it for the al pastor and so far El Farolito has my favorite. I love Guadalajara too though, because you can get a burrito that's just two different (huge) portions of meat, and they also have some very spicy and delicious salsa. I've strained friendships arguing whether Cancun or El Farolito was better though.
> bastardising everything so Linux binaries run on it kind of defeats the point

Is there all that much of a difference between the kind of "secondary syscall ABI" approaches that allow OSes like Windows and Illumos to virtualize Linux binaries, and autoconf-based porting of those projects so they compile for the target OS, if they only use POSIX facilities that both OSes offer the same way anyway?

I mean, I agree with you when it comes to e.g. programs that use heavy amounts of OS-specific concurrency or IPC primitives. Postgres in WSL on Windows does not have the same concurrency semantics as MSSQL on Windows does, because Postgres is using POSIX concurrency primitives and MSSQL is using NT concurrency primitives.

But if there's a subset of your kernel's syscall ABI, that already has those same semantics, and really can just be 1:1 mapped with maybe a few extra instructions to handle different argument passing conventions—then does porting such a program to the OS really achieve anything?
There is no technical reason that Android phones aren't up to date with patches. Apple is not doing something magical here. This is something that could be remedied if Google forced phone makers and carriers to support the latest patches ASAP.

iOS may be more security-focused in general than Android, but this article is centered on updates and un-patched phones. That part of the security equation is very solvable.
Other than treating staff well, how would you go about stopping something like this?

As my own company is growing, we fully trust all employees, (limiting only what is essential), but, a dev ops guy if he was so inclined could technically do something like this... It always scares me.
Wow, they were a VPS hosting provider. Lots of unhappy customers (and this likely qualifies as a data breach for all of them as well).
Bypassing Region Lock
Been waiting for a company to announce shutdown after this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476421

Possibly related?
I answered the why below. Also, i didn't feel there was anything really "wrong" with others.

One motivation i had specifically apart from that paper i linked asking for a different way, was i was bored of seeing the same hash and type of code in hashes and ciphers again and again. And i had made a successful RNG, using a very simple construction, in a similar genre to this same regular genre, using the traditional operations like shifts and xors, and i felt i pretty much had nailed that type of construction to my satisfaction. So i wanted to do something different. A hash with a different aesthetic. A hash that, when you look at the code, it looks different to others.

I didn't like that i just had success in this one genre of hash or rng code, and i wanted to do something just using arithmetic operations. It annoyed me that i had never really been able to find, or make, a good hash or rng without using shifts or xors or the same boring multiply stuff. When you see enough of them, it's all just derivative... Changing constants and so on...And the choices, this xor instead of that plus, are basically arbitrary because the space of possible algorithms using similar constructions is so huge, they're really not so different to each other, just more points in the same hyperplane, and there exist still so many other algorithms to find that way, a computer could basically fill in the rest of the dots. So instead of trying to discover a new point in parameter space of constructions like that, i wanted to get back to something more pure, that was more about the essence of a different construction, rather than a few more tweaks to the same type.

Also, not just pure, but short. So many lines of shifts and xors are unnecessary...i know from deep and long experience, you don't need that much code to make so much good apparent entropy. I proved that by making a good rng, with a very simple construction. And I've written code like the sea of hashes and mixing functions hundreds of times... And really... It is like, change this shift, change this constant, change the construction, tweak until it works... But it's ask basically the same structure... It's just so boring after a while.

I'm trying to convey to you the feeling that motivated me to do it, since that is what you asked. Hope it comes across clearly.

Finally, i don't want this to come across as only a condemnation. I draw a lot of inspiration, ideas and information reading other people's ciphers, hashes, and papers. It's just, I don't want to copy the same style always. I want to diversify. I have a good mixing function in the traditional genre ( dosy, also on npm ), and I wanted to see if i could construct a good mixing function in a new aesthetic. And i have. Hooray!

Tl;dr - aesthetics. I felt bored with what i had seen and done. I wanted to discover, make and see something new.
> unless SoftBank wants to build giant mecha.

Deep inside you know that's what they want to build.
This smells more like you're frustrated with "business as usual" these days and less Apple specifically.

Every org I have been with has had to maintain a level of "can't resolve 100% of the numerous customer complaints, because gotta ship."

Can't Tim be pointing to a path forward? Why so negative. If they can't fix it all today, they're not good at their work, and completely incompetent?
I've been using iPhone's with Siri since it debuted and this has never once happened to me. Is this really something you experience regularly?
I don't think disgust implies judgement at all.
I work for an apartment development company. To build round walls would be prohibitively expensive and impractical. Every part of your pipeline from building materials to tools to furniture is designed for linear-walled rooms.
You can choose from a whole catalog of alternative clients.
apparently not if you buy ads.
No, the seller does not have any of those rights. It's called the first-sale doctrine.
I would expect to see some kind of police report, and prosecution of an individual charged with a crime, no?
Pith instruction. I don't think it can get much more succinct than that.
It's not a dismissive position - that's how capitalism works. Consumers as a whole don't believe the extra cost is justified. In fact, they don't even think the taste is better in some cases [1] or only a 5% preference in another [2].

Anyway, did your article talk about doing conventional and organic together? No it didn't. That's all I'm talking about. You see it as binary. I don't and neither do a lot of the best farms that have been using both methods to create a great product and have great soil.

Why is it so hard to believe that combining the best of both methods could be ideal? I mean - look at the chart at the top of your link. Imagine you decided you wanted to create a better combined system with a hybrid approach which would get you better yield and a lot of the benefits of organic. Logic and alternative research appears to be escaping you because you see it as binary and likely biased for some reason.

Did they also talk about waste of organic food versus conventional? No. Organic spoils faster. Since you like discussion from the consumer perspective - that's not good.

Your article you posted makes absurd general claims too.

Like this: "even when yields may be lower, organic agriculture is more profitable for farmers because consumers are willing to pay more"

That's not an accurate claim and it's dishonest because it suggests everyone should go organic and charge the consumer more; as if forcing an industry to do it one way, charge more, and have consumers be able to afford it is possible. That would likely just push them away from produce and onto more crap than they are already eating.

Higher prices do not necessarily mean higher profit and organic requires a lot more investment. If I'm a farmer and have a ton of acreage and go all organic, but cannot sell it - how do I make more profit? Or if I sell it to a market/store and it doesn't sell there - they'll order less or ask for a cheaper alternative.

If it was so simple as the author suggests, everyone would be organic. But it's not that simple of course. It costs more. Even if you remove some of the cost of the certification. You can only sell so much organic produce at the higher cost required to have a sustainable business with those methods.

> The review paper describes cases where organic yields can be higher than conventional farming methods.

In severe drought conditions only.

> Reganold and Wachter suggest that no single type of farming can feed the world. Rather, what's needed is a balance of systems, "a blend of organic and other innovative farming systems, including agroforestry, integrated farming, conservation agriculture, mixed crop/livestock and still undiscovered systems."

Right there it backs up my claim that there might not be a one true way. Note: "other innovative farming systems" and "still undiscovered systems too"

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8340585/Organic-food...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950329399...