skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? I voted on something like 24 initiatives in the last election defining how the state of California deals with things like Marijuana and the death penalty. Seemed to work just fine to me.

Presuming your lame post was actually referring to the presidential election, that was never direct democracy to begin with.
It seems like many if not most computer science students are actually interested in software engineering and not CS. It is a shame that more schools don't offer separate software engineering programs or at least make the distinction between the two more apparent to prospective students.

I am sure I wasn't the only 17 year old told I should get a CS degree if I wanted to be a software developer. Meanwhile the most value I have gotten out of the CS classes that taught me to write a loop in MIPS or two build a XOR gate out of NAND gates is commiserating about those experiences with fellow CS grads. I would have much rather had a class about reverse engineering an API or other less theoretical and more vocational classes.
Brilliant. Thank you
Why the Func?
> no banker in sane mind will issue a credit to an average Russian

No national putdowns on HN, please.

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If you think ads don't work in you it means they are doing a great job in lying to you and deceiving. Ads and marketing are more subtle than you can imagine.

Some example:
* You don't need to change toothbrush every 6 months, that's BS. Toothbrushes are plastic they are going to last hundreds of year more after we are all dead.
* You don't need to put so much toothpaste on your toothbrush, it was Colgate ads that started showing people putting a fat and thick long toothpaste on toothbrushes to encourage more use/consuming of toothpaste.
* The alkasetzer guys wanted to double sells, what did they do started showing commercials of people throwing 2 tablets instead of one.
* Also shampoo and hairproducts, they started showing people putting a ton of shampoo in their hands and making bubbles in their head. Actually you don't need that much shampoo.
You can't use madVR with mpv.io which is a deal breaker for many (better scaling algorithms, better dithering, display calibration with 3DLUT, HDR conversion/processing and so on).
National swipes like this are not allowed on HN and will get your account banned, so please don't post any.

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I worked with it for 7 years and the software ran car dealerships. That codebase is 40 years old now and still had remnants from the 70s where it had been originally built for the VAX.

Migrating it to a new architecture would not be trivial. That software is extremely tied into the underlying inter-process messaging protocols and data file formats provided by the operating system. You're not just working with a single monolith and flat files or any known database system for example. Though I think some were available much later.

The company did split and build a new piece of software from the ground up to replace it. That effort took nearly a decade and millions of dollars - way longer than anticipated - and so long that it was sold off to private investors for continued funding long before it ever became marketable. It does well now though and bears little resemblance to the original system except in the UI concepts and screens.

OpenVMS was a pleasure to use though I was more on the support side and didn't have anything to do with the admin level maintenance. I did manage to accidentally shut down a production timeshare instance in the middle of the day once though and impact thousands of users.

Which reminds me it had its own networking, and networking hardware, so a dealership would have VT terminal green screens and the DECnet protocol would route it over IP directly into the server. It was pretty awesome.

You don't really hear of systems that "small" these days serving thousands of simultaneous connections and tonnes of back end processing.

It had nightly batching for accounting which was a common source of problems when something went wrong because nobody really understood how it worked anymore and THAT code was mostly the very old shit.
To be clear, you are converting a vague term like "a few" into a specific amount of time, and converting it to an even more precise measurement (months)?
"RAM and process state is network synchronized."

Is this as slow as it sounds?
Not completely untrue. But if the model is a paid subscription the same pressures apply: doesn't matter why the user keeps paying their subscription, so long as they pay. Incentives are almost never perfectly aligned between information providers and information consumers. .
I've noticed that I'm the happiest when I have a sense of being intensely alive. Therefore investing in experiences has a compounding effect where you gain triple-pack utility from the experience itself, the memories it grants you, and the satisfaction of having the personal impression of a life being well lived.

Regarding material possessions, simply follow the rule of use. The more you use an item, the higher its quality should be. Computers and its peripherals, bed and bedding, shoes, glasses, audio equipment, e-reader...
I switch between workout A and B below training 2 to 3 times a week. If I hit 15 on the last set I add 2.5kg to the bar next time.

I've used a routine like this in the past and succesfully added around 10kg of muscle to my frame. I'm getting back into it again after a back issue, so I wanted to get strong again.

Workout A

---------

Bench Press 2 X 10, 1 x 10+

Squats 2 X 10, 1 x 10+

Row Machine 2 X 10, 1 x 10+

Barbell Curl 2 X 10-15

Workout B

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Overhead Press 2 X 10, 1 x 10+

Deadlift 1 x 5+

Chin Ups 3 X AMRAP

Parallel Bar Dips 2 X 10, 1x 10+
Yup. Even the early US.

For a long time only citizens of the United States could be protected under copyright law; it was legal to copy work by foreigners.
Success is fun and should be celebrated. It's definitely something that's nice to achieve from time to time.

What is problematic is when you look for something in success that success can't give you. If you don't like yourself, success won't make you like yourself. If you need more connection in your life, success won't necessarily give you that feeling of connection. If you're looking for proof that you have value, there is never enough success to prove it.

Success is great, but may lead you into doing things that are suboptimal for you, if you chase it. I think it's only really satisfying if you're chasing something more meaningful and then you are successful at that. The other advantage if you're doing something more meaningful, it's meaningful even if you're not successful.
The worst part is how inconsistent indicators of NFC support are. There is only one grocery store near where I live that I know supports nfc, because they put the logo on their credit card readers. Everywhere else I have to pull out plastic because I have no idea what payment systems they support.

Even worse, I think, is the proliferation of mobile app payments. Where you have to download the specific app for the business. (Burger King is IMO the worst offender - you cannot order in their app, but you can pay in it, so rather than support NFC and not wasting 50MB of space on my phone they make me download their proprietary junk and reenter my card info again just to avoid having to swipe the card...)
I wanted to apply, but both this and the Wizard position don't work. It seems anything with an apostrophe throws a 500.
Serverless image tagging using Google Cloud (Part 1)
I want to second this. Been using it for years and appreciate all the work you guys have done.
Success in my work brings me happiness but not via money. It brings me contentedness and satisfaction which in turn makes me happy. After all, I have a desire to be competent at whatever I apply myself towards and master the responsibilites I'm assigned. The satisfaction from my success comes from the reputation amongst peers, demonstrated mastery of fields, knowledge that my responsibilities are in order and working well, etc. rather than from the amount I earn every fortnight.

Where money does factor in to it, though, is as a tool to reduce the barrier of entry to other things I enjoy outside of work. In that sense, I don't feel inadequate if I'm not earning a certain amount and my satisfaction in my job isn't tied to receiving a certain bonus or whatnot. However by doing a good job - motivated by my desire to be satisfied with my work - I get rewarded with more money which enables me to do things like travel the world, afford luxuries, etc.

NB: I'm not one of the $1m+ club, so maybe something changes there, but I don't feel it would given my situation.
Why the world's biggest investor backs the simplest investment
Google search: alight your eye on the first result that is not clearly and distinctly marked "Ad" (you may have to scroll.)

For example I did this search since I expected it to be heavily ad-based:

http://i.imgur.com/j4ezbjF.png

everything above the fold (visible in my browser) was an ad. I then scrolled down and got to the organic search results:

http://i.imgur.com/hlVB36Q.png

Those are not advertisements. There is nothing to ignore. Google is not paid to show me those, and they fight link-spammers every day to attempt to get the best organic results.

I find Google's search results ads to be exceedingly easy to ignore. I also find them useful and sometimes click them.
They perhaps garner a sense of usefulness and productivity from working, even if it is illusory? The periods in my life where I was the most idle were also the most miserable as your mind can turn against you.
This new service sends anonymous Game of Thrones spoilers via SMS
first: savings
second: food - go plant based
third: all those tai chi classes which grew into a lifelong daily practice for health
I keep reading about similar successes and I don't imagine there is a better deal than spending your whole day doing whatever the fuck you want. If you have a family, is there a greater relief than knowing you have enough time for them? But also recognise that success of this kind is rare. How many HNers might be living a similar dream? I would be surprised if it's more than 100-200 and mind you, HN is a place where a good fraction are smart people who potentially can build a valuable business.
UK: We get robocalls (completely automated recording) for PPI, and in the past for government schemes like boiler replacement or lost insulation, wherein they try to misrepresent the call as being from the government.

Auto-dialers with spoofed caller ID are usually Indian call centres doing "Microsoft support" scam; or are UK fake invoice scammers; or are UK "phone companies" who try to convince you to change your phone/broadband (or sometimes energy supply) usually by saying someone else already agreed to it and this is just the final confirmation call.

We're on all the do-not-call lists.
1. Miners currently use approximately only 0.0012% of the energy consumed by the world.

Actually if that number is accurate, is quite shocking.
> should all be digital

I don't know what it means, but reading this all I could think was how there is absolutely no way Penndot is ever going to make Drivers Licenses in PA digital. Ever. They only just let people register to renew online like 2 years ago. You still have to drive to the DMV anyway, you can just sign up to get it renewed in advance for "fast processing".

State institutions resist technology to a pathological degree. At least in regards to ease of constituent use. They all have websites and have facebook groups and such, but they (by law, usually) never use it to improve the experience interacting with them.
I think the point of the quote is exactly the opposite.

Out of the millions who were aware of the innovations at xereox parc, only Apple took those ideas and made them into a product that consumers wanted to buy.
Same here.

I often get back to back calls with one bearing my landline prefix and followed by one to my mobile with its prefix (both numbers undoubtedly spoofed).
VMS was widely used in healthcare.
"There is literally nothing dumber than writing code, even cleaners at walmart have to be smarter to deal with real world issues."

Ah, those lovely dismal scientists.
Chinese money followed
> as opposed to cash, which is much slower with people counting out amounts and cashiers counting out change

I can't really let that comment stand. Cash transactions go way faster than credit card transactions in my experience. (They'd go faster still if prices were posted with tax included, but that's a different issue.) Hand over the card, swipe the card, hand back the card, wait for the receipt to print, get a pen, sign the receipt, hand that back VS Hand over the money, count the change, hand that back.

Don't get me wrong, I can imagine how credit card interactions should be able to go faster. But in practice, they don't. If anything, they've gotten worse lately, since the chip cards take a while to do their processing (and then you still need to sign the stupid LCD screen with the terrible stylus).
https://buildkite.com has all those features, and very easy to work with.

It's a hybrid hosted model -you supply your own workers (they provide a CFN template to make that part easy), everything else (e.g. web UI/API) is hosted
I used to work as a software developer in the UK insurance industry, and I can tell you that we (and hence several of the insurers/brokers we dealt with) used OpenVMS.

In contrast to some of the other comments here, we weren't using it because moving to another OS - or architecture - would have been a pain. In fact, our software originally ran on x86 machines at some point in the distant past, before we migrated it to OpenVMS relatively recently.

I don't know why OpenVMS was given preference over GNU/Linux, *BSD, or Windows; I'm guessing that the technical managers above me had their reasons, but I couldn't say what they were.

I left that job a few years ago, but I think that they did intend to eventually phase out the VMS systems as our new, GUI-based product slowly replaced the older text-based one.
>Handing my card over to someone who disappears off with it?

Does this bother you? If your system can't handle this scenario then it is flawed.

>Those bloody awful faux-pens to sign on an LCD?

Not required in lots of locations unless it exceeds some value.

>That's your idea of easy to use?

Yes, I put a card in a machine, wait 5-10 seconds, and take it out. Done.

In a sit-down restaurant, the waiter drops off the check towards the end of the meal. I put my card in the holder and he grabs it and returns with a receipt to sign and write a tip amount. Not quite as fast as the waiters who have payment processors they walk around with like in Europe, but close.
Paying with phone means you can go out wallet-less.
Except the cost of slow transactions is not eaten by the payment processor. The store just has to add more checkout lanes or clerks. The payment processor also never gets blamed - if the process is slow, the customer just blames the store.
Amazon is reportedly working on a messaging app called Anytime
Thanks but I do not see any mention of a backdoor. A different frequency is not one, it allows for local jamming (which is also possible with GPS) and that's all.
That's not strange, the CC processors still get a % from the merchant for each purchase.
Good to know. Does that mean Java classloaders are not supported on Android? And does this approach require breaking compatibility with that aspect of the Java spec?
> a permission-less censorship-resistant decentralized financial system has the potential to truly improve society

It is dependent on a huge amount of cheap energy

I wouldn't call it censorship resistant yet

Raise the cost of the energy and only the ones with deep pockets can decide what is true
Anything that lasts beyond the moment.

Food, sex, alcohol, etc... all that stuff can be the greatest high for a very short amount of time, and then I tend to experience some sort of depression after. Overall, with those things the net balance is pretty even and it's not worth the headache. Though fighting those impulses is not easy.

The things that last beyond the moment take both money and effort, usually. Creative projects, improving relationships, education.

Sometimes there's a bit of crossover. I'm planning to do a creative film+vr project so I am investing in some gear and new toys... within that I'm playing some stuff and having a bit of fun though I know it will pale in comparison to the happiness that comes from creating something.

I agree with some of the other answers here vis-a-vis tools and utilities (headphones, grill, etc.)... not for exactly the same reason, e.g. a grill might just be for cooking food (let's ignore the community-party aspect of it), but those things keep bringing back returns so it's like an investment in many short-lived moments which is worthwhile too.
It's amazing how quickly many will go nonlinear the second they know you're on to them.
Working four days a week. Effectively I pay 20% of my salary to buy an extra non-working day every week. This is a massive QoL improvement (a) because it keeps my RSI from being unbearable and (b) because of all the fun stuff you can do with that extra day...
How do you verify payment with QR code?
The danger comes from the illusion that you are somehow above the influence.
IBM reboots iconic mainframe: Encrypt data all the time, at any scale
The worst are misconfigured or broken robocall systems.

I once received a call on my phone system which ended up in a several hour long message of pretty much every ad that was on the robocall system. Very interesting but also very disturbing in a way.
Apache Foundation bans use of FB's BSD+Patents licensed libraries like React.js
Here's a couple of examples for you:

I Sysadmined a VMS box running on a couple of AlphaServers (2100 and 2100A) if I recall.

At one point a disgruntled employee had taken a 22 rifle into the server room and shot several rounds at the equipment, only 1 bullet hit, but it went through a RAM bank, the system disabled the faulty hardware and continued running.

The other cool part was the interchangeable boards - the system had a case that swung open on the side and you could insert cards much the same way as you slot in PCI cards today, except one of the cards could be a CPU block, or it could be RAM, so if you had a CPU intensive workload you could disable a physical board of ram, take it out, and replace with a CPU board - without halting or rebooting the OS
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Cool - did you folks know about the Concourse London User Group? The last two have been held just around the corner from you: https://www.meetup.com/Concourse-London-User-Group/
To support your point, the economist I can most clearly remember and who seemed to be on tv every other day, was chief economist with a bank that later needed rescuing.
You're right

Excel consumes a lot of energy
central planning is about supply and demand. basic income is just another way to deal with social welfare. Its not anymore central than conditional income. And even further than that calling it central planning doesent change its value one being the removal of the giant bureaucracy around it.
- Savings: a few months' living expenses in a readily available cash account. What happens when you suddenly finding yourself having to pay a few hundred or thousand bucks for an emergency? Not having savings means "Panic mode / scrimp and save / have to get credit". Having savings means "a number in my back statement changes, but does not really affect me"

- Access to experts: anything from doctors to lawyers or accountants to a bike mechanic or plumber. When you're faced with a hard problem, it's really comforting to know that you can get expert help rather than having to meddle through yourself.

- Time: Could be hiring a cleaning lady, so you don't have to spend time on your weekend cleaning your house. Or daycare for the kids, so you can get a break from watching the kids and do grown-up things for a while. Or just taking an extended unpaid vacation to unwind for a bit.
Tesla: Solar Car Roof Idea Is All but Dead
Gold takes untold amounts of natural resources, energy, capital and human labor to dig up just to sit in a vault. That seems the definition of waste.
https://github.com/github/site-policy/commit/04c8757f1fefd3e... this is fun - if you're a US government entity, you get much saner terms of service - they will not delete your data on a whim or without warning, only if you break their ToS and don't fix it when asked to. Would be nice if this applied to non-governments as well.
Lisp syntax in Rust
It's a 21st century gold rush... the prices of shovels rocketed up that the money hungry-people now see selling used shovels is more profitable than digging up the gold.

Econ 101 obviously says the price of shovels will now go down...
They just call every number. They spoof the area code and prefix to make it seem like it's a neighbor or local business calling.

This tactic may work for landlines, where prefixes are similar in particular neighborhoods (at least in the US). But for cell phones, it's actually a dead giveaway for many people. This is because prefixes are less correlated to location. For example, I have only ever known one person who had the same prefix as my cell phone. So whenever I see a matching prefix on the caller ID, I know it's a spoofed robocall.

But it's possible that these robocallers actually don't mind that people like me get wise to them in this way, because they'd rather only reach less tech-savvy targets, who don't know about caller ID spoofing.

This is like how spammers are rumored to use well-known tropes in their messages because then the only people dumb enough to respond are "qualified leads" that are more likely to fall for scams.
Tu Quoque
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and most of them fail including ecomics exactly because human systems arent adheering to the same simple rules as ex natural sciences.
I'm an academic. My frequent collaborator has a rule that I find very wise. Following this rule, we celebrate when we submit an article for peer review or send in a grant proposal, not (only) upon receiving positive news (article accepted for publication or proposal funded). That way, the happy occasions are based on our own goals and rhythm, not depending on outside confirmation. I'm sure you can generalize the underlying principle to other kinds of work as well.
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the aim of my post is not to make a prediction based on a standard alogrithm.
my goal is to show that DL techniques make better predictions. What I wrote was a first draft of the algorithm, and I've not made my point yet, unfortunately. I'm working now on a better solution.

Could suggest improving the DL algorithm I wrote?

Thank you.
Only to reflect back on this at a later day and head to the river.
Programmers are humans too
> Zuckerburg was telling a story[...]PG then commented how his internal alarm was going off saying "fund him.

Is this a story about PG's amazing "founder detector" or perhaps one about the learnable skill of telling a good story to potential investors?
Sounds about right, to me.

Solar cells are heavy, require maintenance, and the small amount of area on the roof of a car is unlikely to improve real world driving time, especially since the cells will be at an angle to the incoming sunlight most of the time.