skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking of buying a boat that's both smaller and cheaper. That way if I regret my decision I can quickly reverse without too much economic damage. If I think it's acceptable to live in really cramped conditions 35ft will seem like heaven.
GPUs are not designed for vector graphics, they are designed for triangles and triangles only. Triangles are a subset of vector graphics, but are almost never the subset that people mean when they say "vector graphics."

Specifically vector graphics typically includes curves, which GPUs just don't do at all.

Once you've tessellated a curve into triangles you've already baked in a desired resolution. You can't have resolution independent vector graphics in a GPU friendly way.
> I'd say that you are assuming that optimizing for price is good,

No, capitalism assumes that. HFT traders offer a product to the free market, they sell liquidity and they do it cheaper than their old school competition, there are willing buyers, that is the only justification they require to exist.

> Leverage can be used for good, and sometimes it's used irresponsibly. As this thread's article demonstrates, short selling also creates systemic risk.

Leverage and short selling are different issues, that leverage can be dangerous is not a valid critique of short selling, you're trying to move the goalpost, this is a fallacious argument.

> Eliminating middlemen and/or reducing transaction overhead costs do not require high frequency.

No one said it did, however HFT does do that, which is what was claimed, so again, a fallacious and baseless critique.

> "Buy low, sell high." is the foundation of any successful trading strategy. HFT (when successful) is literally the same thing at much shorter time scales and improved heuristics. Machine learning can probably provide more detailed at a much finer-grain than a simple 10 day sliding window. Again, this does not require high speed.

Again, baseless critique, no one said it required HFT. HFT trading sells liquidity cheaper than those old school simple traders, the market chose HFT.

Do you have any actual critique of HFT, or do you simply presume it's bad and then employ fallacious arguments that X doesn't require HFT? You quite literally have added nothing to the conversation. That it's possible to have a healthy market without HFT is irrelevant, it asserts HFT is bad without evidence, HFT traders have the same right to trade that anyone else does, you don't just get to ban them because you don't like them without cause. That something still works without HFT is not evidence against HFT any more than the fact that I can still travel without a car is evidence against cars.
We trusted him with our data, and he's spent the last 12 years selling it, making billions, and manipulating news/views/free speech to fit his agenda.

How is this an off-the-cuff comment? It is his mantra. Are we somehow not dumb-fucks for still giving him our data? Again - he's made billions because of that comment alone.

He will never, ever, ever, get my vote.
Maybe, but what about what Musk has done as a whole? If he can drive home-battery adoption, solar, and electric vehicles, and create markets where companies like GM, Ford, and the Euro manufacturers have to chase the new market, that has to make a huge impact. Obviously it's not going to completely remove our dependence (mainly plastics and shipping) but it will absolutely hit the bottom line of the most oppressive regimes funded by oil (Saudi Arabia). Also this will help us you know stop destroying entire mountain ranges and the largest CO2 sinks in North America for tar sands mining (Boreal Forest).
>and lost it by continually making the user experience worse.

That does seem to happen more often than makes sense for many software/industrial/government organizations, doesn't it?
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That is for adding trading support. Any forks which have worked out the replay protection problem - which includes BCH - are trivial to add withdraw support for, and many exchanges have offered this from day one (demonstrating they're likely above board as far as handling users' funds go).

Coinbase and others saying they'll "wait and see" is really just another bump on a long road of screwing users out of funds. They once again profit off of later price information - and in this case can even decide to argue that they held the assets and so own the BCH - essentially just earning another piece of their users' pies.

I'm amazed people still stick with Coinbase. Any exchange that even nominally 'puts users first' (i.e. isn't trying to screw them for profit) has offered withdrawal of BCH from the get-go. Though OTOH anyone who has seen how Coinbase operates with price fluctuations and so on would have guessed they'd end up doing this for the fork.

Pick your partners wisely folks. :)
You must be new here. Wait until you read the comments on a Hyperloop thread.
> Can you give an example of code that is improved by let significantly?

"Let" is one of the most important special operators in Lisp. It allows you to create lexical variables within an s-expression.

Roughly equivalent to creating local variables within a block (in other languages).

So i'd claim it is essential.
> Is there a future for someone who wants to be a musician, but not a personality?

There are tons of edm producers who don't cultivate much of a public personality, but even then, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes networking that goes on.

Being a professional artist has always been about cultivating relationships with people who have money. Whether it's wealthy patrons, or people who own record labels or galleries, or event promoters, etc.
I remember all the disconnects with ICQ file transfers. I think they added a recovery mechanism eventually.

Some friends even ran their own ftp (I think most people used War ftp) before ISPs started blocking ports.

Now it's all about uploading to "the cloud" or use sneakernet. My friend uses mega.nz, which seems decent for file sharing. I, personally, never underestimate the bandwidth of a sedan, driving down the highway with a single USB key.
Oh yeah! Fresh Italian Paninis! They're the best Paninis!
> NOTHING is provable and EVERYTHING is a belief

If that's the case, then it's tautological. In practice, "provability" is partially quantitative, not starkly Boolean (True/False)

I'm not sure Russell's Teapot concept was troubled by his later failures to create an internally consistent body of mathematics:

> Russel's teapot was mathematics as he could not meet the burden of proof at the axiomatic level, yet we still believe it to be true.

You don't need to meet a BoP at an axiomatic level, by definition of what an axiom is. We still accept the analogy of the teapot, because the axioms are accepted by standard. If this acceptance is "faith", it is still far from religious faith, whose "axioms" are not reduced/irreducible, but complex, dependent (on reason) and ad-hoc.
Does anyone know why carriers charge based on volume (total gigabits downloaded) and not congestion (gigabits downloaded during peak hours)?

It seems like if the issue was contention, it would be helpful to encourage people to, for example, download podcasts and videos on wifi or overnight.
Qu'est-ce qu'une startup?
gmail does the same (to drive of course)
This, this, this.

I work in hardware verification and have worked in software verification in the past.

I still wouldn't trust voting machines that I had verified myself. How could I tell my program apart from software that "looked" right?

I can't fathom why anyone who is honest wants to bring electronics into this.
Hah, I misinterpreted "storage" here, and thought this was going to be about Li-ion cells getting cheap enough to replace the capacitors in the Power Loss Protection circuits in hard drives/SSDs/NVMe boards.

Which doesn't make sense, after giving it a second's thought—batteries wear out after just a few years, while capacitors (very nearly) don't, so it'd put a hard lifetime on drives. (Though, for server use-cases with constant workloads, they have hard lifetimes anyway...)

But it's an interesting question! If—rather than UPSes as specialized enterprise-level hardware—we instead had Li-ion cells on computer motherboards (picture a big brother to the CR-2032 CMOS battery) that kept the disks alive for up to, say, 30 minutes after power loss—could we architect our storage subsystems differently?

(Sorry if that's a complete tangent from the topic at hand, but I'm not sure where I'd post this otherwise!)
> They have now declassified the UK/USA agreement so you can see for yourself.

You honestly believe that those "words on paper" have any kind of restrictive capacity on these agencies? If you really do, I've got a bridge to sell ya.
IM type apps seem to all go to shit after a while. Every one starts out good and then becomes feature encrusted bloated junk that barely works.
Bind prettier (https://github.com/prettier/prettier) to run on your editor/IDE "Reformat code" shortcut. Follow the github page to add the automatic git pre-commit hook. Add eslint-config-prettier if desired. Done. No more bikeshedding.

You'll be in good company, with React, Babel, Yarn, Webpack etc.

And just use const by default. Let/var is a warning sign that side effects are happening, like a traffic warning to slow down and stay alert.
This is something I definitely have experience of, albeit perhaps in a different way. Through my own conscious effort, my life is significantly different to that of most others in many ways. Professionally I'm freelance and work comparatively little. I live in a warehouse with 6 others, I built my own bedroom. Both my sexuality and relationship style are outside the norm.

At several junctures I've asked myself the same questions you are asking now.

All of the above changes have caused me to become more distant from many of my older friends. There have been very few (if any) upsets, but certainly paths have diverged. I think this is perfectly ok and I do not see it as a negative.

The flip side of this, is that I have made multiple times more friends as a result of doing something different. It has made my life richer and better in ways I could never have imagined previously.

Also, a friend of mine has a theory wrt dating. It's something like "A lot of people are not into beards, but people who are into beards and REALLY into beards". In your case you can substitute 'beards' for 'people who live on boats'.

Plus, it is perfectly ok to change your mind after trying something for a while. Obvs.
Exactly. If you hire a recruiter to source employees for you, they aren't going to come back and say "Here's your employee. Hope things work out for you." they are going to say "Here's someone who seems like a good fit. Do you want to interview them?".
There are zero details on this story...calm down..
(1) Things are crazy right now. As an example that is relevant for the HN audience, Republican voters would feel the wrath and hysteria of Liberals in San Francisco who would kick them out of companies or demand their dismissal. The same would happen to Democrat voters in some Republican stronghold in a Red state.

(2) Probably not in a long time in the US. The system is built under the assumptions that you can't trust voters know what is good for them, let alone what is good for the country overall.
At this point we can certainly hope he hasn't just been disappeared forever.
Excerpts from Robert Greene on how to learn through apprenticeship
I recently came across some "burekasim" in Israel. The double plural there has a taste of the entire mediterranean from turkish/greek/arabic/ladino/spanish/hebrew :) I guess it could be dialed up one more notch if an english-speaking tourist would ask for some burekasims.
>"Time on site/in app" is a strong indicator of revenue per user for apps that monetize through ads

Why don't they just report revenue per user though?
Well, to be fair, a good implementation should throw some simple statistical sanity checks at RNG input during self-test and throw an error when it doesn't pass. Passing such tests doesn't indicate that the RNG is cryptographically secure, but failing them indicates that it is insecure.
> Then Libsodium danced on the same line, and I was able to compare the results (they behave the same, phew).

Do they really? What about timing attacks? Does all your code run in constant time? If not, there's a whole class of vulnerability that basically will only be found when experienced attackers have a chance to poke at it. Timing attacks are a great example of why "don't roll your own crypto" is sound advice. No amount of testing your library against a reference library will uncover them.
For the benefit of French speakers, the ą in Polish seems to be pronounced like the "on" sound.

So "pączki" is pronounced "pon-tch-qui" while "paczki" is "patch-qui".
Those CG and Kerbel rocket launches they broadcast were incredibly realistic, I'm amazed that NASA, independent photographers and even competitors like ULA went along with such a complex charade.
I posted this link in the other Mozilla thread a few days ago:

www.file.pizza

Let the p2p transfer commence
Kevin Kelly on the Future of Books in Our Networked Economy
The short version, as I understand it, is this will enable the GHC Haskell compiler to validate state machines at compile time. Which is pretty awesome.
I'm American and see those sites as equally regressive.
I keep seeing ads for a "date a surfer" website.

Clearly google knows I surf, but doesn't know I'm married...or maybe it does...
60k Euro for a senior? Is that total liquid comp? That's like one fifth of what a senior makes at goofacesoftwhatever. I had no idea German salaries were so low, wow.
> There's no need to know the singular for pierogi, because no one has ever eaten just one.

Ain't that the truth! My Polish friend also introduced me to 'pierogi rooski'? Apparently, a Russian take on pierogi, with more meat. Do I have the spelling correct?

> In return, I promise to continue working to stop Polish people from pluralizing potato chips as "chipsy".

As a Jamaican, where banana chips are like a national snack, it was amusing to see "chipsy bananowe" for sale. Fun times; I plan to go back.
> Healthy competition optimizes for value, HFT is just optimizing for profit.

Value is measured by profit, if what the HFT's were offering was of no value, there would be no profit in it as no one would buy their liquidity. HFT sell liquidity, that there are willing buyers proves their value. Quite simply, you do not know what you are talking about.
Do you they not offer an unsubscribe option?
But at a certain point, a loan word becomes "adopted" by its language, right? And at that point, it doesn't make sense to carry over the foreign rules for pluralization, etc.

I'm not sure if "pierogi" is common enough yet for "pierogies" to become the valid way to pluralize it in English, but as a Russian speaker, "чипсы" sounds perfectly normal to me.

After all, if I were speaking Russian I wouldn't say "компьютерз" - I would say "компьютеры", using the correct pluralization in the language I'm speaking in.
This is exactly the kind of junk that makes HN the cesspool that it has become. Do you really think that only Tesla can make electric motors, despite it being a mature, 150-year-old industry in which Tesla ships only about 15% of the electric cars? Where Nissan ships product at a dramatically lower price? Did you know that trains and elevators and blenders are also electric, and companies like Alstom and Kawasaki and Bosch make them?

By the way Tesla hasn't made a battery, ever. They are made by Panasonic. Tesla packs them into little metal boxes.
test the SHA1 of your passwords, not your passwords, and you are safe.
Sure, maybe for Tesla, (and other similar growth at all cost technology companies) it it's not immediately profitable. Let's check back in 10 years and see if this makes Tesla and their investors any money.
I use it regularly and have self hosted webdav server for this reason. iirc, extension for custom server is required, but the functionality comes from Firefox.
Use a Design System If You Want to Speed Up Front-End Development
I think I see where you are coming from but that's because you actually grew up in a weird situation, right ? It's not the same when you actively choose and prepare for it. Of course I am postulating OP isn't going the hobo full mode.
>I wonder how much of this is simply the Gigafactory coming online at full production + others trying to keep their factories running.

The "Gigafactory," is a drop in the ocean if you count noname Chinese factories, but it will be one of the biggest market players outside of China
I consider that a huge issue. No justifiable reason for that.
Zumper Select wants to make renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel
So? Why does this bother you? Why can't people be fans of a person, company or product?
A tiny reduction in the rate of increase of CO2 emissions. Every bit helps, but it's not saving the planet.
Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Visiting Nevada for DefCon, Arrested by FBI
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They're surprisingly clever, to arrest after DefCon. Typical stupid USA LEOs would arrest ASAP, so the unjust detention could be a cause célèbre hyped up by half the talks.
> Valueless content finds you. Worthwhile content you really have to go looking for, or have a good social network funneling stuff to you.

Really valuable content usually comes in batches, points directly to other valuable content (i.e. good things tend to discuss and cite other good things), and/or is long form. There's no need to look for valuable content every day, or even every week. It might be entertaining, but it's not a good use of time. Exceptions for people who have to keep up with news-cycle garbage and up-to-the-minute trends, of course. Those poor souls.

I waste more time than I should on Internet garbage (ahem) and sometimes I find good new stuff, but if I stopped doing that it'd still take me years to get through the great stuff I've already found but haven't yet engaged with. Plus many things could do with a second look. I'm 100% certain that'd be a better use of my time than looking for even more good stuff on the Internet.
Carry propagation is one pixel in the 4K movie that is safe crypto implementation. One reason not to link to trivia and factoids about safe crypto implementation is that it builds a dangerous false sense of competence.

There are programs that teach this, but they take years. Nobody who's passed through that is interested in creating an easy scaffolding whose levels are unclear.
The emergency difficulty adjustment finally tripped, and block times are now around 25 minutes.[1] 40 blocks mined so far, 1208 to the next difficulty adjustment. So about 3 weeks to go until the next regular difficulty adjustment, which should bring block times down to the usual 10 minutes.

After that, BCC should function normally. The financial end is a separate issue; that won't be clear until BCC markets are fully functional.

[1] https://medium.com/@SimpleCrypto/bitcoin-cash-difficulty-adj...
TLS != crypto. TLS is actually very well-suited for a higher-level language like Rust or OCaml, especially due to how state machine patterns can be expressed safely in those languages. Crypto, on the other hand, often relies on low-level intrinsics to get good performance and cache timing attack resistance.
I thought my ire at the term "data science" would have worn out by now, but it hasn't. To me it is a utterly meaningless term whose adoption in itself speaks volumes about the dynamics behind it.

As someone who has been doing "data science," including the programming, to me watching this trend has seemed mostly to be about hype and non-STEM-types, especially in business management and other similar areas, picking up on the importance of quantification.

I can think of two things that seem like legitimately very novel trends in my career in this area: deep learning, whose frameworks were largely abandoned in the preceding decades, and management of very large datasets. The first surprised me, the second I was talking about for years before it happened. The first seems so specialized to me, and to come after the "data science" trend, that the "data science" label seems unnecessary; the second is now usually discussed in terms of "data engineering" which I'm totally cool with.

There's a tendency to somehow suggest that the data science label is justified because statistics is all theoretical and not enough about real-world data, but that's always seemed to me to be a strawman that people erected to justify business hype labels to further their career. What it boils down to is playing off of business management's confusion that "statistics"=census numbers, counts, etc. It ignores the decades of computational statistics that was developing, and the fact that statistians are forced to deal with data as part of the field.

I wish I could find more of the papers I've read that illustrate the frustrations of statisticians and other scientists with data science. This will probably suffice, although there's more cogent, heartfelt examples: http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2015/11/01/statnews2015/

It's difficult to describe, but for me personally it goes something like this: for years, you use R, C/C++/Python, Lisp, etc. to solve really difficult stats problems, are trying to be careful so as to not do something irresponsible. You've done work on supercomputers, laptops, you name it. Then, all of a sudden, there's an explosion of blogs, etc. talking about R, mahalanobis distances, and optimization routines as if they were discovered yesterday, by this brand new field of "data science" that's revolutionizing the world. All of a sudden because you don't know Cassandra or Spark, even though you're familiar with a lot of the underlying concepts because you've had to manage large datasets, and don't have a comp sci degree.

I don't mean ill will toward the practitioners, but it's difficult to convey what it's like to watch your field get repackaged and resold because of other peoples' misunderstandings about what it's about.
No, you can replicate the option exactly if you keep re-weighting the debt and stock ownership.

Granted, this is only really feasible for large institutional investors, but you can do it.
This moves validation to people, requiring that everyone have internet access that is used to check their voter tally.

Unfortunately, this system is neither trustworthy nor correct, as adding new UUIDs to the rolls defeats the system.

A voting system is a security system that has to work in the presence of bad actors.
I may be totally off base here but IIRC, before he ran MalwareTech and was a whitehat, he participated (and was an op) in fairly "shady" IRC channels, with his oldest nick I can recall being `Ntoskrnl`, dedicated to malware and malware development which even had a person (Edit3: As pointed out in this thread, that person was `BetaMonkey/TouchMe`) who was selling a variant of a botnet drone client builder. Edit2: From one of the comments below in this thread, the network on which he was present (and was an IRC operator of) was `irc.voidptr.cz` or a variation of that, I could not recall the name of the network at first but when someone mentioned it, I instantly recognized it.

If he's who I think he is, I doubt his early background is that clean, despite him being a whitehat now. It is very much possible he is being held because of something related to that and not because of anything related to WannaCry. This was all before he even started running the MalwareTech blog, it's very much possible the FBI decided to look into his background or were already familiar with it prior to him arriving in or leaving the US.

That being said, it's possible that I'm mistaking him for someone else in which case I do apologize. I edited the post a bit, to clarify, the first paragraph to the best of my knowledge is certainly true, second one is based on my own speculation so take it with a grain of salt.
What international affairs podcasts do you listen to? It's an area I would like more analytical insights into.