skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RISC-V is officially added as supported, which is exciting.

Now if I could only get hold of a nice RISC-V board...
The fact that our eyes adapt so well to the light temperature change by flux makes me wonder if there are other tricks we could be burning into operating systems to reduce eye strain or other benefits for health just by applying filters or alter treatments to the display. It seems like "health-oriented graphics methods" is pretty uncharted territory.
Obviously wrong bit: "Downloading such files this quickly [at 22.6 megabytes per second] over the internet, especially over a VPN (most hackers would use one), would have been all but impossible because the network infrastructure through which the traffic would have to pass would further slow the traffic."
For or against Trump is an issue. He is the president. You cannot threaten the president and expect no action from the FBI and secret service.
>All of their concerns?

Yes.

>We shouldn't be ignoring the concerns of the radical Communists either;

Not even remotely the same thing. Not even in the same galaxy. Not even in the same universe.
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To say it's "complex" seems to justify the kind of raw bigotry you see in KKK/neo-nazis/"alt-right". People on the conservative side might say:

• "I'm sick of SJW libtards telling me what to do"

• "we're losing out jobs because of immigrants/others"

• "we're losing our culture to immigrants/others"

The gamut runs from bald-faced lies to legitimate grappling with the inequities and isolation of modern life. None justify bigotry, which exists only to actively and passively cause people harm. Having an articulate and unifying vision of why this kind of hatred should be rejected is valuable and appropriate.
Hacking the election is the language that the mainstream media has been promulgating. Shouldn't he use the same language they use to point blame?
Recommended reading? not really. I expect most people would find the real stuff just sad. Much of the drama seems to be politics mixed with greed.

I've served on a couple of boards (private companies) once as an independent director and once as a technical adviser and remember wondering once if the folks I was dealing with were just bored or if they really didn't care one way or the other.

That said, I've also worked with board members at companies that were very engaged and very involved with their companies and the companies involved benefited from their attention.

The only common thread was that generally the board members had a whole lot less to lose if the company failed than the executive staff did, and so they often assume that the executive staff is motivated to make things succeed, and seem disinclined to second guess the CEO and their team's tactics. Of course things get unpleasant when the tactics make them look bad as we've seen in Uber and Theranos as well.

There are various places that recruit people to serve on boards. Some people feel like it 'boosts' their executive street cred if they are on the boards of several companies. I'm not one of the people who is impressed by something like that but I recognize that some folks are and its part of the VC "game". (sort like having rare Magic the Gathering cards I guess, "I play Unicorn Startup on your Bootstrapped Lifestyle Business.") It would probably make for an interesting subplotline in Silicon Valley.
If you want Russia to pull back, you have to pull back too (ala Bill Clinton detente) Pull back on the sanctions, pull back on hovering over and picking up pieces in their former sphere of influence (former central Asia soviet reps).

We might be able to influence N Korea with these tactics, but Russia has a lot of natural resources, people and materiel. It's a diff game.

You have had (some) people on the left defending Kim Jun-un's actions as predictable (he's being bullied, etc). Putin's are predictable too, given what he has to work with.

I think we'd be better off reluctantly working with him (in the ME, for ex.) than blocking them every corner. It sets them back into a cold-war mentality. We (the world) need the biggest powers, US, CN, RU, to get along, if not be friends. We don't see eye to eye in many things (human rights wise, ex, pollution, ex) but we can work toward a more stable planet.
It was. And in fact afaict the archive was never public.
This sort of sophistry is a mental virus. Say what you mean, stop with the mealy-mouthed "whataboutism" and vague questions. There are no communists involved in this discussion. Nobody calls Nazis "National Socialists" unless they're trying to blame the nebulous "left" for the evils of the Nazis.

We've been through these arguments since the 1940s. Karl Popper's view of the Paradox of Tolerance [1]

>Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

If we want an open society that permits maximal freedom, we can not permit those who wish to destroy freedom to override those who wish for freedom. The white nationalist movement includes people who explicitly endorse fascism and "throwing into ovens" those who exercised their free speech. [2]

Stop defending this evil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

[2] http://www.inforum.com/opinion/letters/4311880-letter-family...
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Don't pull that alt-right logic-gymnast bullshit where suddenly we're calling nazis "national socialists" and all socialism are the same. It's fine if you've convinced yourself that you can't smell your own bullshit, but don't ask us to be party to it.
If the ownership of the land is a little ambiguous, you might want to try a few simple 'please don't pick the walnuts, these trees are on private property' signs. It will stop some people convincing themselves that it is probably ok to do.
It seemed easier than dealing with the probable responses that my own experiences condition me for. Namely, if I point out a negative action, people have historically commented with false beliefs about my politics.

It was meant to save time and add clarity. I know there are people on my side of the political spectrum who do things I don't agree with. I know that my favored politicians are less than ideal. I admit this.

I'd have voted for Bernie in the general, had he been the candidate.

At the same time, I watched the video where the young lady was killed. They had bats, rebar, and it looked like one had a chain. Life isn't a video game, they didn't just pick that stuff up off the ground in those numbers and with that level of readiness. I also know they weren't Trump supporters.

No, they are on the left. They are on the same end of the political spectrum as I.

But, the usual response I get (when pointing out flaws by those on my end of the spectrum, which happens with great frequency) is to all me everything from a Nazi to a Trump supporter. (I am not sure which one they consider worse.)

So, I figured I'd save some time. It would appear that it didn't work to save one bit of time.
Wow, is there a genre or something for things like this? Seems like a pretty novel medium for expressing non-trivial idaes.
This seems really interesting, but it looks kind of dead.

That's a shame, I'd love to get into it.

EDIT: Ignore me
I think the minimum sizes were chosen because of a combination of (a) there was a much greater variety of hardware available then, and (b) people hadn't learned that fixing these sizes is better.
Have you read Mortimer J Adler's How to Read a Book? I just finished it a month ago and your mention of terms, propositions and arguments seems straight out of the book's theory of reading :)

Thanks for your review by the way, it motivated me to reread Euclid.
Because only "free" US media can influence US citizens...
Mark Twain wrote about it long ago in his "Running for Governor"
That's not a good source. It looks like they only drive on public roads in challenging conditions, they're committed to self-driving by 2019.

https://electrek.co/2017/04/29/elon-musk-tesla-plan-level-5-...

I think Volvo and Ford have the next commitment at 2021. Most other automakers see themselves licensing it by 2024-2026.
I was saying that President Trump is unrelated to the usual topics on that blog.
Nix does not particularly care about the hash of the result of a build, but mostly only the hash of the input.

When you download a package from the binary cache of Nix, you use the input hash. The binary cache contents may differ depending on the system of the build server.

Nix does try to eliminate nondeterminism in their builds though.
Just for the record, this is in his bio:

>you can be accosted for publicly engaging a wrongthinker.

I don't think he cares about rationality, let alone having the fortitude to say what he means. "Everyone else is wrong and when I get called an asshole it's clearly because it's 1984."
If its a 808nm or other really close wavelength, then you could be seeing the primary wavelength, but the apparent intensity will be very low as the eye has very little sensitivity.
It's worth noting that the photograph halfway down the page of the man using a hand drill, which appears like it may have been taken quite recently, was actually taken 75 years ago, in 1942:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PalmercarpenterA.jpg
Interesting:

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For one thing, modern game engines often have custom allocators and a large array of performance critical bits of code that assume cache locality. So in general, having the memory involved be non-contigous could break lots of assumptions.
What are the angles that make Linux so compelling to you? For example, I am a linux user since mid 90s. But recently I have been doing a lot of programming with an emphasis on IO. From what I am seeing both bsd (through kevent) and windows (through completion sockets) offer far better APIs for complex IO handling. The lack of a consistent IO API in Linux is making me wonder why is has so much momentum. (Drivers are pretty important, and Linux does tend to be strong here.)
It's also apparently the CEOs of Dell, Lockheed Martin, GE, Whirlpool, Dow, Campbell, International Paper, Nucor, and the President of the AFL-CIO.

https://www.marketplace.org/2017/08/14/business/what-ceos-tr...
It's cool that you can do this, but it's probably not something you want to do unless you have an unusual application. A reasonable application might be a heavily used API at the HTTP level, where the web-facing part is really a subroutine call interface, performance may be a big issue, and safety against bad parameters is a big issue.
I understand why you're getting downvoted but I think this is a really good point.
By the ZFS proponents own standard for "mature", I guess I should still wait a decade to use this, right? ;)
The request was basically a dragnet, and they're collecting far more information than you say they are.
> Biologists don't deal with EMRs, healthcare professionals do.

Healthcare professionals are a subset of biologists. But outside of computational biology and a few odds and ends (electrophysiology comes to mind), I have seen precious little evidence throughout the range of biologists of anyone having any interest in math. And I am about as close to basic science as any physician can get.
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Yes, that's the most defensible position to take on what "hacking the election" could mean.

There are plenty of other possible meanings, and people feel differently about the many possible definitions.

The word "Hack" does not just mean "illegal intrusion of a computer system"

I quite enjoy the irony of pointing this out on HackerNews...
And Google search results as well. Search results are publicly accessible but if you try to crawl them, Google will block it.

If it becomes illegal to block crawlers, then Google is gonna get hammered with bot traffic.

It will also mean that google won't have to be the front-end to search results, and anyone can build on top of it, which could kill google ad revenue because then you could create anonymous google searches.
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Just a note: We are currently unable to offer income-based repayment outside of the United States. You can still attend Lambda School, but you would have to pay at least $10,000 up-front

$10,000 - that's about as expensive as a high quality bachelor's degree (in Germany) at private university via distance learning, where someone can pay flexibly btw. Additionally: We are talking about 6 semesters worth of material and study, study time can be extended for free.

What you are offering is a 6-month crash course where someone will have _NO_ degree whatsoever afterwards. I also doubt how much computer science you can teach in that time. Normal CS curriculum spends about one module (one semester's worth) on just the introduction to programming, has probably 2 modules (that you would do in 2 semesters) of computer science basics like computer architecture et cetera... there are so many good resources already available, including lectures of incredibly professors from some of the greatest universities.

Also: You have to create the learning resources once and can take on as many students as you want w/out any additional cost, great for you, seems like selling snake oil to me. I am unsure besides the resources and apparently online group working ("group work happens live and interactive") what it is you provide for possibly 30k$ in cash? 1 success finances the cost you have w/ an incredible amount of failures, and it's not clear to me if that one guy finding a job will have done so bc of your awesome curriculum and support?

It seems to me like anyone who can possibly finance proper education some other way should (and I want to repeat: it's a 6-months crash course, not a degree)
This reminds me of people who would re-sell search query data via aggregation of google referrals across a network (usually ad based.) In general, if there's a way to get that kind of data (search data is gold due to the ability to mine it for adwords niches), you can presume there are people out there who are going to skirt right up to the line of acceptable ethical behavior to try to aggregate it to sell it.
> How is this fueling and distribution system cheaper or more efficient than the grid plus a bunch of 240v/60a outlets, most of which are already available in home garages. If instant refueling is a really a dire need for someone, they can just get a plugin hybrid (i.e. Chevy Volt) and no new infrastructure needed at all.

Simple. The grid - electricity transmission and especially distribution networks (depends on how they are classified at your location) are most likely not designed to sustain the load. There are multiple problems here.

First, not sure about US, though, distribution networks are usually overcommited by some factor (sometimes hundreds of percent). It works only because urban end users in a community do not utilise their line to the max all at once. Plug in whole suburban neighbourhood full of EVs for a night and quite likely will see power outages. Oops.

Second, the problem is not as simple as "more copper = more load". Mainly the grid must have some level of redundancy - single home unit is reached from power plant via multiple paths, so fault of a single line disrupts minimal portion of the grid. Next, there is balancing (or whatever that is called. Balancing is having redundant coal/nuclear reactor to balance quick and unpredictable output variations from e.g. solar/wind, variations in demand quicker than output increase rate of a plant, etc.) - grid designers/operators must ensure that energy flows more or less equally through out the grid. Similar problem to wireless mesh networking - one needs smart routing to avoid bottlenecking at single link.

Some of electric grid and computer network problems are almost the same. While users can say, well 10 years ago we had single desktop at each home unit and were happy. Now we have the problem that each home member has laptop, smartphone, tablet. We will install wireless routers and ISP can "ADD MOAR FIBER!!1". Not that simple, right?
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> Yes.

I'm sure white supremacists are concerned about employment, the decline of the American manufacturing sector, and the cost of health insurance. In fact, I'm pretty sure these concerns contribute to their desire to join others who say they have the solution.

> Not even remotely the same thing. Not even in the same galaxy. Not even in the same universe.

Now, I'm not generally one to nickel-and-dime the deathtolls of genocidal ideologies, but I don't think you could credibly argue that in the 20th century National Socialism was more deadly than Communism. At least you'd have to concede that they are in "the same universe", or "the same galaxy".

Don't use hyperbole, else all of your blood will drain instantly from your eyes.
One thing that was striking to me when quitting caffeine (after drinking coffee consistently for years every day) was how after a week or two the feeling you have when waking up is completely different. I had always assumed when you wake up it was normal to feel terrible until the morning coffee. Not so. Off caffeine, a proper nights sleep will have you up and active right away.
I think you'd be better received if you didn't speak so cryptically. What do you mean an answer in search of a question? Do you want us to meditate on that like a Buddhist koan?

You're implying a hidden knowledge of just what critical concerns people are ignoring, but you won't tell us.
But I don't understand what you'd have the left do in that situation, turn the other cheek? Conservatives love boasting about carrying around their guns. Frankly the fact that somebody was killed to me suggests that they weren't properly armed to defend themselves.

This is of course assuming you don't unconditionally condemn violence, which you might.
Are there any good examples of projects like this that drag on for an eternity and somehow, despite the odds, release, and also become extremely successful? It seems like after a certain point you have basically missed the boat on delivering value based on the assumptions you had when starting the project.
I agree that he's probably an impossible case. He's too arrogant and far too emotionally weak if he thinks public rebuke of ideas is "accosting."

But we are in a public space, and the commonly-endorsed tactic of ignoring trolls has the unfortunate effect of letting this sort of pablum spread. I care about not letting stupid ideas and weak thinking persist without the easy counterarguments. When I say "mental virus" I really mean "mental virus." It's a sickness that only reason can defeat.
The actual allegations are that Russia was behind the hacks of the DNC servers.

Generally speaking "hacking the election" doesn't refer to this, and instead refers to information operations by Russian linked groups. Indeed, there were no credible public allegations of actual voting machine hacks or even attacks until the "Reality Winner" leaks.

I'd note that on a website called "Hacker News" it should be pretty clear that "hack" can refer to many, many thing.
Because that indictment was bare-bones and bullshit. I may be wrong here (and part of me hopes that I am), but this entire thing smells like the US flexing its power. Marcus gets picked up by the Feds, disappears without anybody knowing where he is for several days, and then suddenly we get an indictment with almost nothing in it claiming he wrote and sold Khronos based on some IRC logs? That just smells fishy to me.
if you're thinking about how to get a drone to determine its' place in space without radio make sure to consider celestial navigation.[0]

The SR-71 Blackbird used a navigation system that incorporated both methods (inertia and star-watching).[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation

[1]: https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/nortronics...
Mark me down as one who hates it defaulting to Apple's maps. On the older iPad, you could not even use the web version go Google Maps. Horrible!
> This sort of sophistry is a mental virus. Say what you mean, stop with the mealy-mouthed "whataboutism" and vague questions.

It seems like you had this line in your clipboard, it is inaccurate, irrelevant, and puzzling in the context of this discussion.

> There are no communists involved in this discussion.

Well, there were communists at the rally, and they came with (thankfully blunt) weapons, ready to brawl. They dressed in black instead of red because that's the trend as of late. Radical communists have been regularly assaulting people at protests and assemblies in America for at least a year.

> We've been through these arguments since the 1940s. Karl Popper's view of the Paradox of Tolerance [1]

I'm not interested in tolerating political violence, but political speech I will.

We need to make ethnonationalism and other seductive ideologies obsolete, instead of suppressing the people who go to them for help.
VR: voices of VR, Rev VR

Startups/Business: How I built this, a16z, masters of scale, startup, indie hackers

Other: talking machines (NLP/ML), Mogul (more of a mini-series then a real podcast), Acquisitions Inc (DnD)
How's that working out for him? Trump is no more in his court than Clinton was, Ecuador has cut off his Internet access, and he's squandered any support he had by helping elect an even bigger idiot.
Or he saw a URL in the malware code, and decided to register it to see what would happen and isn't a malware selling mastermind.