skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just mean that tokens indicate buy-in value for a product in the same way that equity does, not that they're perfectly analogous or the same by definition.

If Amazon were to decide to set up some kind of coin product it wouldn't really work unless it were backed by something internal. So it's perfectly feasible that some kind of blockchain product the guys at Amazon come up with necessitates a token and this coin would certainly be correlated to the future of that one product's success, but as a company because they've already had an IPO and trade publicly what's the incentive to adopt a coin for the whole pie?

It's definitely not a case of blockchain-all-the-things (although that can be almost impossible to see just by glancing into the ICO space).
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I think he's referring to the pressures to produce working solutions. And there's a whole laundry list of attributes people attach to that process. And everyone has the opinion that they're ideals represent the best/most important subset of all the possibilities and/or that you should just meet them all or go work at McDonalds.

You can certainly write efficient code, that's reliable and robust and secure given the time and resources to do so. It usually comes down to money, and how no matter how efficient or high minded you are, crafting the optimal solution takes more time and resources. IE more money. If you can sell users and clients on the extra costs, great. Otherwise you need to figure out what you can do, with the time and resources you have, that will sufficiently satisfy your customers.

And yeah, the problem is with the gobs of resources available on modern computers writing efficient code matters less because most users aren't going to care if their music player is using 1% of the CPU or 10% of the CPU.

Of course I say that with the annoying exception I've experienced where the custom MP3 player in GTA V requires a relatively huge amount of resources and will easily reduce performance by 10-20FPS even on an overclocked i5.
I'm waiting for the PiperCash (PiedPaper? PiperPound?) ICO to do p2p payments.
A lot of the time the procurement team can tell the buyer to fuck off, or they'll suggest another software they already have a license for to try first
Anyone who's in DC should check out the Skylab module in the Air & Space Museum. It's remarkable how big it is.
> purported security failures

> people are looking to block it instead of silently explore its flaws

This is not a good heuristic for determining if security failures are "purported."

In point of fact, Telegram is widely lampooned by every self-respecting professional cryptographer who has written about it. There's nothing "purported" about Telegram's security failures - they are empirically demonstrable, and have been exposed through multiple cryptanalytic reviews.[1][2]

Frankly, I don't think I've ever seen anyone defend Telegram here on HN who actually has professional crypto experience (whether academia or industry), or any other similar proxy for credibility in the field. The popular contention is that (poor, harmless) Telegram is plagued by a persistent astroturfing campaign perpetrated by the likes of Moxie Marlinspike and Thomas Ptacek in order to elevate Signal's status. That's:

1) not true, in my opinion (though to be fair at least one of those people is obviously biased); and

2) irrelevant, because we have the benefit of empirical rigor to instruct our opinions of secure messaging systems. We don't need to rely on infosec ideologues on HN or Twitter.

Telegram is very much like climate change. There is a widespread consensus among the informed (read: academic and professional cryptographers) that Telegram's security failures exist, and that these failures are empirically demonstrable. At the same time, there is a controversy led almost entirely by the uninformed (read: non-cryptographers) that denies Telegram's security failures and undermines attempts at demonstrating them through accusations of shilling or misdirection.

To put it very succinctly: there are no valid arguments that Telegram has an optimal security model from the perspective of cryptanalysis and cryptographic design best practices.

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1. https://www.alexrad.me/discourse/a-264-attack-on-telegram-an...

2. https://cs.au.dk/~jakjak/master-thesis.pdf
So it is supposed to be a brain supplement now? Back in the mid to late 90s I knew people that took it to try to get bigger muscles.
The thing is that ROMs and emulators on PC offer some big incentives - stuff like Launch Box, settings and shaders, raw power of the device, controller support, etc. The emulator used/bundled here is apparently inferior to even one SEGA themselves used before on older devices.

In theory the ROM sites have a disclaimer that this is archival purposes, to be downloaded by legal owners, etc. - in practice anyone can download them. But if it wasn't for these borderline illegal sites the games would D I E. Nintendo famously used an 'illegal' ROM of Mario and sold copies of it, some people speculated that they lost the original material.

Yes, I guess piracy sucks and is technically illegal but even I (and I don't play many games at all) had to download cracks for physical legal copies I owned (including once for a game published by SEGA, funnily enough).
Nintendo doesn't know how to run a business. They know how to make games.

It's a shame. Because, as you said, they could effectively print as much money as they wanted with a long-term production run of the NES classic and the obvious sequels for SNES, N64, and Game Boy.
They were viable 30 years ago, maybe not today
I took a quick look at your code, it's well written! good job. But why not a single test unit?
Ask HN: What does “consulting” mean in the software world?
I was reading this discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14629533) and some of you were discussing the merits of consulting. I have a vague idea what this means for business, but realized that this is unlikely to be the same for software. Hence the question, what does it mean if you say you are consulting in the software world?
I draw little pictures for the cashiers at a store I frequent.
I tried creatine out for a while. It definitely had an effect on me; previously I tended to tire out in my strength workout prior to really pulling the muscles and I tended not to have to be too careful about that. Creatine allowed me to workout longer without realizing it, to the point that I was in some pain for the next several days on those muscle groups, rather than "maybe sorta sore the next day for a bit".

Whoops.

With a bit more work I was able to tune myself to stop that, but it didn't buy me much.

In the meantime I noticed no cognitive effects strong enough to be noticeable without full-on Gwern-style careful testing. (My policy on that is that if the power of the result isn't big enough for me to notice in "normal life", I'm not that interested.)

I can believe that dedicated athletes can use it to good effect but I don't think I recommend it for casuals such as myself. I also definitely had to be extra-sure to drink more water than I felt like I needed or I would get dehydration headaches.
I echo all of your issues with running Universe. I have a decrepit Macbook, and it was actually not possible for me to use it at all.
And nobody's saying that L1 health support should be uneducated (no dedicated schooling), unaided (no need for patient records indicating allergies etc.), or all-powerful (including, say, the ability to prescribe powerful doses). The argument is that there's plenty of room for people who went through a (significant) fraction of the time it takes to complete traditional medical school to earn a (significant) fraction of a doctor's earnings in order to reduce overall system costs and improve overall availability of care.
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I use it since 2005
What could Facebook possibly be looking for in West Nile region of Uganda
I know from experience that megadosing vitamin C is a sure fire way to get hot flushes and diarrhoea. Probably not the results people are after though!
If that works. In my experience, you're eating the initial DNS lookup, connection and SSL setup, etc. more frequently than expected.

The general rule about inclining render-blocking resources matters here, too.
USA still hasn't adopted the faster payment model of same-day payments between the banks (without charge). Compare that to the UK which most payment transactions are completed within 4 hours
Is that because it's that hard or they bet against ARM with its style of ecosystem?
It is far from boring.
> scrolling can be wonky

Last time this came up someone linked to a Google employee submitting a bug report to Apple about the scrolling. Their response was "that's how it's supposed to work - the rest of the system is wrong and we will fix that". So iPhone users might not have much choice anyway soon!

Kind of reminds me of how terrible mouse acceleration is on OSX, and how Apple gradually removed all the options for fixing it - now the only option is to install a completely different commercial mouse driver (SteerMouse).
Gov't workers can't be outsourced overseas and they're usually able to pay well. This is why after an industrial base is wiped out, the only people making a decent salary work for the state.

But these towns are going to keep getting wiped out until we free up the concentration of capital that favors dense urban areas
Sure - if you take Derleth's mankind-involving Manichaeism as canon. That's something I don't recommend doing, because it rather misses the point, which is that we are as ants under the careless tread of powers far older, far greater, and far stranger than anything we can possibly imagine.
FWIW there is a standard to describing (finite) state machines despite the RFC being expired https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bortzmeyer-language-state-...

I have used an "improved" version of it https://github.com/andreineculau/cosmogol-abnf
when working on https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram
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I for one will be using 'wallet garden' (which includes the 'monied tree') from here on out.
That's only the mean density. I doubt its mass is evenly distributed. You'd probably see through the wispy outer layers and mostly be able to see the denser interior. Much like looking at Earth from space, you don't see the atmosphere (mostly so, anyway) and see the point where the atmosphere transitions to solid planet.
> 16 years of experience is exactly what empployers and clients want.

Which area of the country is this?

edit: oh. Based on other comments, you're a freelancer. What companies want in a freelancer/consultant are wildly different from what companies want in a full time salaried dev.

edit2: And you live and work in Amsterdam. I hear the european job markets do indeed value experience. The American job market doesn't.
8. The answer is 8. 7 was so late-90's/early-00's. 9 string still gets laughs. But wait long enough and everyone will want to get lower.
Open source command line clients for streaming services are the best!

Pandora - https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar

Spotify - https://github.com/plietar/librespot

Any others for other services that still work?
You can hire Johnny-the-Mobster to protect you from Jimmy-the-Stereotype, but not against Uncle Sam or Grandpa Vladimir. State actors still have a disproportionate power.
I don't use my PIN either, for a different reason.

I force them to process it as a credit card because I get the consumer protections of the CC processing agreements. If I use my PIN, it's more like an ATM transaction.

LK
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Hello, author here. Sorry if I am posting from a new account but I forgot the password to my old one (crisbal) and I didn't set a recovery email.

Let me know if you have any question.
I see it more as Nintendo makes good games to drive sales and that tactic seems to still work for the time being.
> Yes, you can't really avoid that when converting text to path objects, there is no way to do something similar to PDF's subset embedding AFAIK.

If it's not done already one could probably save a little bit of space by extending Inkscape to define an SVG symbol for each letter used.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/sym...
Thanks! I'm trying out your model on a small data set I've been playing with for identifying invasive species of flowers [0] and so far it's working way better than my initial version that was based on resnet (though slower)!

[0] https://www.kaggle.com/c/invasive-species-monitoring
This is true, and a good warning. There's a whole industry of stuff like AlphaBrain out there that's dubiously effective, understudied, under-tested for purity, and generally scary. But I also think there's an awful lot of literature about most single-substance nootropics. It's the complex stacks that are totally unstudied.

Creatine, for instance, has been studied for mental effects a bunch of times - the answers all seem to line up on "can definitely help some people, but probably insignificant to most". Other substances shake out similarly - the data on bacopa is inconclusive, but the studies are numerous enough to suggest that the inconclusiveness is about a very weak or situational effect, not a lack of literature.

The vegetarian point does touch on my larger concern, though: people talk like studies finding weak 'average effects' mean the drug is universally effective, but low-powered. That's possible, but it seems more likely that there are lots of drugs which are situationally powerful (e.g. based on diet or genetics) and hardly any that are good for everyone. Creatine is obvious, and I kind of suspect cholinergics and bacopa for this also. Gwern is really good about acknowledging that his studies (of n=1) aren't being designed to apply to anyone else, but most people don't offer that caveat.
That is all in the Pop culture and mentions lovecraft right there, this isn't some prank or defacement. This is just real references to literature.
A while back, I wrote a quick Bash guide called "Adventures in Data Science with Bash" (https://gumroad.com/l/datascience).

It covers basic Bash commands (head, less, grep, cut, sort, uniq, curl, awk, join), but also pipes, for loops, variables, arrays, and command substitution.
True, many are indeed using ARM (in house designs are also more popular than you might think in deeply embedded SoCs), but a lot of companies would love to be able to throw out ARM due to licensing cost & hassle, or at least have a viable option in RISC-V to throw at ARM at the bargaining table.
Well for a while I was lulled into complacency because the retrained networks would indicate 98%+ accuracy, but really that was just an artifact of my 49:1 nothotdog:hotdog image imbalance. When I started weighing proportionately, a lot of networks were measurably lower, although it’s obviously possible to get Inception of Vgg back to a “true” 98% accuracy given enough training time.

That would have beat what I ended up shipping, but the problem of course was the size of those networks. So really, if we’re comparing apples to apples, I’ll say none of the “small”, mobile-friendly neural nets (e.g. SqueezeNet, MobileNet) I tried to retrain did anywhere near as well as my DeepDog network trained from scratch. The training runs were really erratic and never really reached any sort of upper bound asymptotically as they should. I think this has to do with the fact that these very small networks contain data about a lot of ImageNet classes, and it’s very hard to tune what they should retain vs. what they should forget, so picking your learning rate (and possibly adjusting it on the fly) ends up being very critical. It’s like doing neurosurgery on a mouse vs. a human I guess — the brain is much smaller, but the blade says the same size :-/
> US' bad train infrastructure with virtually no high-speed rail at all

The US has the best train infrastructure in the world. What is lacking is passenger rail, which gives the false impressions that the infrastructure is bad. Trains are not a very good fit for moving people for the most part. Other countries have stretched those limits to the max which means that they can give the impressions of good train infrastructure.
Digging past discussions on SSH here:

SSH Kung Fu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658459
I meant faith.
It seems a little backwards though right? Imagine if they offered a Netflix-style service (or akin to PlayStation Plus).

They could grant access to their back catalog for something like $10/mo, and roll out segments of the back catalog over time to promote it.

Then use nostalgia-based franchise reboots and new IP (lol, but occasionally something like Splatoon catches on) to push new console sales and then slowly phase-out back-catalog support from older consoles.

You could time the phase-out with a holiday season 2 years into a new console (aligns with discounts and once initial new console buzz wears out).

Seems like a much more predictable revenue stream than hinging on the success of a new console.

You could also create leaderboards and niche competitions for the hardcore audience (Super Mario Maker has a sizable hardcore following).
If there is a version annotation it is very easy to convert the old HyperLogLog to a 4 bit register representation. I will send you an email ASAP.
I mostly agree, but I think you're too quick to assume that everyone who doesn't write optimal code is doing so because of some tech fad. Frequently it simply doesn't pay to write optimal code; there's no viable business case. Sure, using an array can be faster and not much harder than using a hash table, but writing a network protocol is frequently not worth the effort. In my experience, poor performance comes from the inability to make a business case (whether or not one actually exists), not from chasing fads.
Purely anecdotally it works about 20-30 times better for me. Non-anecdotally there are plenty of large scale results showing it is much faster. If you find it equal or slower you are probably an extreme exception.
Well, I didn't know that. Maybe I should expect a rise on my cog-skills now that I started taking it last week for exercise.

On a side note: As others pointed out, Modafinil is really what you want if you need a brain supplement. I've been taking it since November last year on a daily basis (100 milligrams, half a pill) and I can say that I've been able to make a lot of progress to actively stop procrastination. It's not magic, I still struggle with it a lot, but I've been able to manage it and build a routine of meditation and exercise that I hadn't been able to build before (I'm 35 y/o). There's a lot of work left to get to point where I can say I've actually won and I'm not a procrastinator anymore, but this year so far will be one of the most productive I've ever had.
Until I see reports that it truly is "no ads" in the purchased version, I'll hold off. I've been burned too many times by the "pay full price to remove ads" only to get more ads.
So when you say "It's because...", are you in touch with people working there, or are you just guessing that this transpired because it seems like a reasonable assumption to you?
That's fair, but I think "solutions" contains the features your company needs to be successful. That's how I interpreted the quote - customers don't want to see a massive feature list, they want to see how you solve their business problems (which will be through features).
I find AMP only a marginal improvement over using an ad blocker. I see a far more noticeable speed boost leaving JavaScript disabled by default — that quick per-domain toggle is 80% of why I use Brave on iOS.
SSH tricks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3543334
"I think we could have done a better job communicating that was gonna be a limited run," Scibetta told Ars. "It was supposed to be for that holiday. We extended it actually because demand was so much, then we stopped producing it."

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/nintendo-switch-short...
> There is no requirement to include comments with the author and date.

Ack, but it's a strange culture that does so.

So you can omit 'public' or 'private' as keywords and the function / method will be package-private?
I've started to think that Nintendo's goal is survival, not profit. This is different than most American companies, and perhaps most companies in general. Profit and survival are, of course, related, but different things. First, I mean survival as-is, not just survival as a legal entity. So that means not laying off employees to survive. When the goal is survival, the risk-reward calculations may be different when you've got enough profit. It may mean not exploiting a cash-cow as aggressively as possible because after a certain point, the risk of over-extending yourself becomes non-trivial, and the extra profit is just racking up the score.
For the sake of sample accuracy -- I don't.
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The issue is that once they have your money, what is their motivation to offer updates to the game when new iOS versions come out?

This is no different from every other phone manufacturer but Apple. They have no reason to support older phones because it doesn't make them money. It does benefit Apple because they get recurring revenue from the App Store.

You might be willing to pay 20-40 bucks for a game, but the vast majority of users aren't.
> it’s all written in plain old C without leveraging the synergies of dozens of frameworks. One wonders how they managed.

As a C programmer it seems obvious that it's efficient exactly because it doesn't use dozens of frameworks.

I wonder if the author was ironic saying that...
It's still very popular in bodybuilding/fitness circles.
It definitely does that, and it's the reason creatine is cheap and common. But there's a long-standing question about whether creatine supplements are also psychoactive - the best data seems to suggest "yes if you're deficient, but if you're not then supplementing primarily affects your body".
Sure but Johnny-the-Mobster isn't exactly clever math either.
> What's with the weird shape in the bottom left? I don't suppose stars can get squished like that, so it must be some sort of optical artifact?

It's possible that it could be something physical, as some of the other commenters have mentioned. But it also could be a result of the response of the telescope. Interferometers like ALMA do not directly measure the distribution of emission on the sky. Instead they sample the fourier transform of the sky brightness. Because there are discrete pairs of antennas, the full fourier transform cannot be measured. When images such as this are created, the sampling of the fourier plane is deconvolved. But that process does not create a perfect recovery of the sky emission distribution. One would need to look at the raw data, but another explanation for that extension is that it is an artifact of the fourier plane sampling (e.g., analgous to Gibbs Ringing; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon).
Yes, that’s what you see in the picture, although as completely personal advice, I would stop short of recommending it. For one there are arguably better cases out there now, and you can sometimes build your own eGPU rig for less. Finally, the Mac software integration (with any eGPU) is very hacky at the moment despite the community’s best efforts, and I had to deal with a lot of kernel panics and graphics crashes, so overall I’m not sure I would recommend others attempt the same setup.
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