skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems my hosting is having problems at the moment. I host Gaming Reinvented (https://gamingreinvented.com) on the same server, and that's been going down a fair bit today as well.

Which is weird, given how even after being linked from the home page of Eurogamer, Destructoid, Nintendo Life and various others all the same time, it didn't move an inch.

Huh, guess LiquidWeb must be having a bad day or something.

Sorry about that!
> So, theoretically if you replaced the world's currencies with BTC, having a single BTC would make you incredibly wealthy.

The rules can and have changed with just majority (of compute power) consensus through forks. They could be changed to make it inflationary.
Here is another one in development: https://github.com/QuantStack/xeus-cling
Must be the software detecting certain patterns to trigger certain functions. Fake the sequence of patterns and you can control some outcomes.
Very good point. The assumptions I was implying were that a UBI would replace the broad, disjointed social welfare programs with a centralized, singular service that's relatively equal but weighted by need.
Interestingly there is no mention of the disruptive risk automation and technology presents to this class of jobs.

- In the back off the house, automation and centralization (to tightly controlled, centralized commissaries).

- In the front of the house, self ordering via kiosks + on mobile phones

I am strongly in support of raising minimal wages, but this will only help further incentivize/accelerate adoption.
Having near certain evidence of life existing on another planet, due to seeing oxygen present in the emission spectra of an atmosphere of another planet, would be a true game changer for space probe and exploration funding.

Astronomy funding stagnates when its about rocks and geology. Bring real evidence of aliens into the mix and you've defined humanities focus for the next century.
There's nothing that prevents you from running say XMonad and Emacs (every buffer as a new window), Firefox (every tab as a new window), urxvt (without tabs) thus delegating all window management to XMonad.

I did try this for urxvt and it was quite efficient. No idea whether it will run well with hundreds of e.g. emacs buffers.

At least, with GridSelect [1] the selection mechanism scales well to hundreds of items.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs...
It's based on seq2seq translation models, where instead of translating from one human language to another, it translates a human language to a command language: "Find appointments in San Mateo" -> "find($type=appointments, $location=San Mateo)". The code that does that parsing (PyTorch based) is at https://github.com/spro/RARNN

The missing piece is generalizing the training process to fit other people's schemas; generating training data based on models, attributes, and relationships.
Because you need to keep proving over time
Fair. I didn't trawl through the frontpage/new to find it.

I worry that marking this dupe will just kill the take, but c'est la vie.
Taxes are the least of your problems in SF. It's not even a consideration and probably the wrong optimization to make when deciding where to live.

There's a reason most US billionaires live in CA or NY.
Well, I spend most of my time dealing with internet and serial protocols, and the strict demarcation between unicode strings and byte strings is what keeps me sane. Explicit encode/decode calls are a feature, IMHO.
I'm not saying they'd need to change their beliefs, I'm just pointing out the irony.
http://pictoswap.ajf.me/

It's a note-drawing messaging single-page web app for the Nintendo 3DS, in homage to the long-since defunct SpotPass (i.e. Internet) functionality of Nintendo Swapnote/Letter Box.

(Also, every open-source contribution of mine ever.)
> benefit

Easy: Marketing the brand name. Imagine a rocket with Google painted on the side on the evening news. Updates on the construction and progress, all mentioning Google. Google setting up a Google Center that collects all the data coming down. Every discovery has Google's name attached to it. Etc.
Your assumption is correct. Men's and women's toilet facilities are counted separately for each sex by OSHA. The exception is single-occupancy rooms, which can count for either sex.

(It's not clear the exact algorithm one should use in counting a mixture of multi- and single-person restrooms, but I would presume it's something like, count all the men that can use your male restrooms, count all the women that can use your female restrooms, and take everyone left over and see if they fit is your unisex restrooms.)
Mods - the headline isn't really a reasonable reading of the original and should be changed to match.

And to the OP - it's hard to see this as anything other than a deliberate attempt to distort the debate.
Or maybe because its employees feared being doxxed for participating:

> “We had hoped to have a frank, open discussion today as we always do to bring us together and move forward. But our Dory questions appeared externally this afternoon, and on some websites Googlers are now being named personally,” Pichai wrote in an email to employees. “Googlers are writing in, concerned about their safety and worried they may be ‘outed’ publicly for asking a question in the Town Hall.”
You can host a static site on S3 + Cloudfront, so what purpose does Lambda have in this picture?
I've heard second-hand reports of larger ones than that, but the vesting was a pain and, well, it wouldn't be worth as much today already. Maybe not the most attractive time to take that bet.
where do I send my $56 check?
I frequently wish the Jupyter notebook server were a C library instead of requiring Python. Would make deployment and installation of notebooks for non-Python languages easier. That's kind of the opposite of this though.
I didn't see this myself but the guy who works the drivethru at my local burger king told me that the red team has perfected the flame grilled whopper and they had to be fired because they had gone too far
Can you share a link? Is love to know where that number came from. I'm personally incredulous that someone could be fired over such a reasonable letter, even if their conclusions were incorrect.
Google Cancels Diversity Town Hall Over Concerns for Employee Safety
Its a nice excuse.
50% of googlers disagree with the firing of damore.

This will be a massive shitstorm for google internally and out.
It makes much more sense to postpone this until some of the media and public furor dies down.

Regardless of which side you are on, it's not worth the risk of discussing it openly right now.
Does nuclear power also add heat to the Earth?

All forms of obtaining energy for use in machines have heat as a byproduct.

How long can we sustain that?
Is it not? How did you interpret the article?

Edit: Fear not, downvoters, I'm just asking a question, not challenging your beliefs.
Perhaps, but I've heard politicians on the national level talk about this as just business as usual. If the system creating the laws sees "move fast and break things (like laws)" as the norm, then we can scold and shame all we want, but it's not going to change things. Regulatory capture and law-breaking startups seems to be what's expected out of American business by the very people doing the legislation.
So as a racist, all I need to do is hide behind dog-whistles and implications and I'm untouchable? Fantastic. Thanks.
Any plan that depends on individual consumers making choices in the aggregate to solve the problem is simply doomed.
Not the target demographic, 21 and I don't think there's a single person I know who doesn't use Snapchat while Facebook stories is literally always empty. I'd say Instagram stories is the real competitor. Even then, when I meet someone Snapchat is usually the first thing that gets exchanged.
> wouldn't pass even the most basic "is this poll statistically valid?" test

It totally would. Statistically, a sample size of 282 out of a population of 60000 is pretty good.

If this test was authentic, we would be 95% sure that the true percentage of the population who think that the memo is harmless is between 47% and 60%.
The mods (or somebody) are actively suppressing this story and all other stories about James. It's reasonable; they are probably trying to keep it from distracting us from what this board is generally for. But perhaps they could make a sticky or something about it.
> SoundCloud just chose to not solve it once it became too hard on their database, including when they famously had issues with being early adopters of Mongo

Do you have more info on the Mongo angle? I worked in SoundCloud engineering for a while (long ago) so I'm curious how that happened :D

> Please don't die. I have nobody else.

Yeah I share that sentiment :(
How about encouraging each community worldwide to plant more trees, thereby offsetting their carbon usage? I know the carbon gets released when the trees die or are burned but the tree biomass overall is what matters.
A minor crash in a 50s and earlier car would likely result in death or severe injury due to the lack of seat belts, lack of crumple zones, metal bayonets knobs on the dashboard, metal dashboards, etc.

Pre-50s is definitely going to be quite fragile, but it really depends what you mean by "minor". In a major crash, a modern car is going to be far safer, but in a minor one both the passenger and an older car are likely to survive with nearly no damage, whereas a modern car, although with the same outcome for the passenger, may be damaged extensively. Late 70s/early 80s bumpers were probably the best designed for this.
Yeah this title makes it sound like they're afraid of consequences from Google. But it's actually because of being afraid of external attention, given the consistency of leaks on this whole thing.
I find it weird how every bookmarking service lacks a high density list format like how browsers display it. It frustrated me so much I just made my own https://felipecortez.net/marks/felipecortez/tag/people+desig...
> The toilet seats were always urinated on.

I don't get this; this happened at my workplace too, until we installed a coded lock on the restroom (which was otherwise accessible to anyone in the building). What kind of boor has a professional job but can't piss in a foot-diameter hole and is too lazy to clean up when he does so?
I'm about to release Magic Lasso – a free ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and macOS simply because I think advertising on the web has gone too far.

http://magiclasso.co/

Won't make money but hopefully will help make the web better.
There's an alpha implementation of the IPFS and libp2p stack here: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs and https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p
Glassy metal is another name for metallic glass/amorphous metal.
I never switched anything. The conclusion that "there aren't as many high-IQ women" comes from "there is a higher variance in the distribution of male intelligence". It's been there from the beginning.

You have to actually follow the links I give and pay attention during reading.
https://github.com/MikeTheGreat/GLT

I wrote "GLT", which stood for 'GitLab Tool'. It was going to enable me to manage a classroom's worth of git repos, 1 per student per homework assignment.

I chose GitLab because you can set up your own server, and then lock down stuff so it's harder for students to copy homework within the system (obviously they can still copy it offline).

Then I got busy with other stuff.

Then I found out about GitHub Classroom, which is the same thing just hosted by GitHub. I haven't retooled it to work with GitHub, but I'm hoping it's not too tough.

(I started off idly wondering whether to pronounce it "Guilt", like "Why haven't you done more of your grading?" or "gelt", like the candy.)
> But where is it writ-large that entertainment == playing video games on a free, public library computer? There's lots of entertaining books in the library too. Grab one and sit quietly on a chair if free entertainment is so important to you.

Who are you to dictate which fun is Proper and Allowed?
I think the previous comment was about lack of commitment to trying to compete. I don't know exactly what she was doing or where, but I think it's possible to have a work/life balance in IT.
What makes this difficult to compare is that a nuclear plant will likely have a capacity factor > 90% and wind will be < 40% and solar < 10& (in UK). The low capacity factors will add in lots of additional cost if wind or solar is expected to some day be a significant source of power.
The PARC book is a must, so many things that are the foundation of our industry were invented there.
No, something has come from it. We now have a growing massive list of habitable planets. What's lacking now is the extra tooling to study them more extensively.
FBI Says ISIS Used EBay to Send Terror Cash to U.S
You can turn off their special keyboard shortcuts to enable normal scrolling behavior. Check out https://duckduckgo.com/settings

You can add this (and any other setting you tweak) to your browser search bar so you don't have to rely on cookies. In this case, edit the search URL to: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&kk=-1
Doesn't seem like it's really any better than eliza or the emacs doctor or whatever stuff didn't use the buzzword tech of the year.
Yea Stefan was not the greatest choice. But I thought he did well on Bloomberg, even though Emily Chang had it out for him.

Cancelling the Town Hall is a cop out.
This is extremely far from my area of expertise so I am probably wrong, but I imagine that at some point we will advance earth based telescopes to the point where we get diminishing returns when considering atmospheric disturbance.

At that point, it will make more and more sense to launch space based telescopes. But... if we wait until we reach that point in the diminishing returns curve, than we lost valuable innovation time/expertise in space based technology.

My hunch is that if we wanted to get the best telescope tech in any given period of time, we should do both and watch as the two types of technologies converge.
Actually it's not, the model optimizes for the minimum overall LCOE (i.e. kWh cost).

You're right. I meant that the Google abstract: the $2200/kW figure referring to capital cost.

Interestingly, the UK has enormous potential for tidal lagoon energy. These developers claim that it would be the cheapest energy of all new UK power projects:

http://www.tidallagoonpower.com/projects/swansea-bay/
HN always felt like a bit of the agora, with the occasional thunderbolt from dang to shut down flagrant shitposting; MeFi seems more civil. People seem more caring there.
> No, not WoW. You can leave WoW whenever you want and come back later. It also consumes huge amounts of time, so it's not at all the same.

> Dota / LoL / CSgo matches last an hour and have severe penalties for leaving, and they are very popular at internet cafes so I wouldn't be surprised if that was what's being played.

Perhaps not the most fair comparison, as soon as you get into even casual raiding/mythic+ dungeons.
> "Rather than exploit an existing vulnerability in the fqzcomp program, as real-world hackers do, they modified the program's open-source code to insert their own flaw allowing the buffer overflow."

So really, this is not as interesting as the headline would have you believe. Storing data in DNA is nothing new, and these researchers are just using it as input to a program that was deliberately written to improperly handle that data.
It's not much of a "town hall" if employees are afraid to participate.
Putting it bluntly: I'm not flabbergasted because I don't live in a bubble. The great majority of people in this planet have more pressing things to worry about than a 100 metre telescope, things like housing, having food for tomorrow, money, not getting killed, not getting raped, not getting exploited by rich oligarchs/the government, etc etc.

Man, I too wish we had more money for large scale scientific endeavours, but I am not flabbergasted that we don't; I can see perfectly why not.
"Simultaneous VI Mode" in Karabiner (RIP) is apparently one such example of normal keys as modifiers.

https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/153
> It doesn't believe in absolute "free speech" like Reddit or HN. The moderators will tell you to cut it out.

HN absolutely moderates certain speech, and every subreddit is different - I'm a mod on one, and I absolutely do not hesitate to swing the hammer when necessary.
Holy shit man. This was literally my experience with Accenture. I worked side-by-side with them on a massive IT project. Their team was like 60 liberal arts grads willing to work 80 hours a week configuring some COTS software and 4 managers making sure they don't go home. I think they just use India now instead.
Is that due to the physical Apple keyboards? Or OS X?
That project looks pretty cool actually. It is unfortunate that it is not cross platform.
Looks like you could just dismantle it with a pipe wrench or two.
3 Differences Doing SEO in Hong Kong
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I moved from Australia (with ~50% top marginal tax rate) to the US (where everything's all about "low" taxes and getting nothing for them except funding dumb wars) and my take home pay was higher in Australia.

Let's not even get started on the underfunded schools, crime, etc, etc. To send your kid to a decent school in SF costs 25k+/year per kid.

Most people move out of the city after one kid.
An interview with the creator of PiCluster on Coder Radio
>It's been nearly 100 years since anyone struggled with that in the West.

The privilege is palpable. That's almost insulting.
One thing that people should look at is MOF or other solutions to do carbon capture at existing fossil fuel/coal plants. MOFs can be highly efficient at removing carbon output from these older plants.

Then the flue gases we currently emit can be re-used as reagents in algae bioreactors to produce biodiesel.
It's the price of civlization for all, not just the lucky few.
You made a claim you didn't have the facts right on.

If someone without the relevant information reads it your comment could thus spread misinformation.

And so people downvote. The other replies that got downvoted after that I don't know about though.
HP Z VR Backpack PC
What type of car was it? The 70s is well within the era of required seatbelts for US cars, which had been offering seatbelts since the 50s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeguard_(automobile_safety)
The biggest pyramid scheme is the fed
How would one build something like this securely and ensure fairness to all those who wish to execute (avoid DOS)?

Surely there is more to it than just running the code in a Docker container, right?
We are working on benchmarks comparing ourselves to other solutions so hopefully we'll have concrete numbers on those soon. (Incidentally, we did a blog post on us vs plain PostgreSQL today: https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e)

At a high level though, we do find that having native support for full SQL to be a big win. Also, if you already store metadata or other relational data that you want to combine with your time-series data, it's great to be able to use one DB instead of separate solutions. Performance wise we do believe we are competitive and in some cases much better, and we have the 20 years of stability from PostgreSQL to build on.
That is a deep well to dive down. It's similar to the feeling I get when I am procrastinating on the weekends - I want to be 'productive' which in that case means spending some time playing one of the games I have going.

The feeling of "I could be using my time better".

The main difference here, specifically, is that the game has a well defined set of constraints. It is a limited environment with a known correct solution; it has an achievable goal.

There are well defined and measurable metrics, and you quickly learn systematic methods to improve your results with respect to those metrics.

Furthermore, the ability to achieve the goals and improve your stats is entirely within your own control.

Unfortunately, the real world is a mess of subtle complexity. Sometimes not so subtle!

Constraints are poorly defined if at all. Often there is no 'known correct' solution, because most of the time there isn't a well defined problem. Bug reports are a good counterexample to this, however.

Often the metrics aren't defined at all, or different people measure them in different ways. Most of the metrics people care about won't be measured automatically, and you have a limited ability to directly incrementally improve them.

Lastly, your ability to make any impact at all is almost always dependent on other people working with you to that end.

There have been lots of attempts to 'gameify' real-world code development; I wish the world weren't so complex. Sometimes I wish I didn't have that nagging in the back of my head that I could be spending my time better, but to be fair it's probably the one thing that keeps me from getting bored!
> Now let's look at some real-world examples: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2...

How in the world is this article supposed to buttress your argument that women are somehow innately unfit for STEM careers? The article literally says "A recent study found that rather than too few girls opting to study scientific subjects or women forgoing careers to care for their children, the biggest cause of gender imbalance in Stem is cultural." Clicking through the link, you get to this paper [1], which is in fact a pretty thorough refutation of your entire position.

[1]: http://www.uchastings.edu/news/articles/2015/01/double-jeopa...
SoundCloud blocked them from making a backup copy of the site. Source: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/888093838107189249

I don't know why.
Dave Kleiman - Look him up. It's actually all a kind of sad and sordid story. The myth is far better than the reality.
You're in for a treat, "Kepler 2.0" launches next year: https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/overview.html
What's the lifetime of the plant?

The cost to build the plant must be amortized over it's lifetime, plus the operating expenses required to operate.
Sorry, but this comment is completely uniformed.

Explaining ML inference is an active area of research, and there are plenty of decent approaches which are getting good results.

For example, LIME[1] can explain why a neural network doing visual classification came out with the result that it did. Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network[2] is another approach which leads towards simpler representations.

LIME isn't perfect, but that's the nature of research (and why DARPA funds this kind of thing).

this is a fool's errand

"Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network", authors: Geoffrey Hinton, Oriol Vinyals, Jeff Dean

Fools, all of them. DARPA should ask HN next time it wants to know about the current state of AI.

[1] https://github.com/marcotcr/lime

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531
"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal claim upon it. ” — Chief Joseph, 1879”
I will pile on as well. Thanks.
> The world had less reliable housing, less clean water, less reliable food, worse healthcare, and more physical conflicts in the 60s, and we still had the Apollo program put people on the moon.

You could (more or less) translate the fascination of the moon landing into an excuse for less reliable housing and so on in the 60s. You can't do so today.
I've tried vi mode copypasting and the copycat plug-in but finally settled for just shift selecting and ctrl+shift+C/V my way through everything.

Edit: for vertical panes ctrl+shift selection works on gnome-terminal at least.
> No true Scotsman is a kind of informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample.

I thought the "No True Scotsman" fallacy was something more like this:

Alice: "No programmer indents with tabs instead of spaces"

Bob: "But Guido Van Rossum liked using tabs [0]"

Alice: "No real programmer indents with tabs"

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20160513172920/http://legacy.pyth...