skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using google bits recently. I agree that the docs for e.g. all the python sdks need a lot of work.

That said, boto3 has thorough docs, but I wouldn't consider them particularly well organized. I can only really navigate AWS sdk docs because I already know what I want to do, and can google the specific terminology
Link for the lazy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene–Eocene_Thermal_Max...
The author addresses this. I suggest you read the book before making assumptions.
Autonomous is has need been the answer to me. It has always seemed like a way to raise more money using the latest fad. With autonomous you have massive up front capital costs and then you have to hire staff to service the cars.

Also, city and state regulators are not even close to allowing massive fleets loose on the roadways. Uber will need 5+ years of burn or positive cash flow before they can even begin to rely on autonomous cars and that is only in easy to navigate dense cities of the world.
I was sure this was about some multiplayer game thing, but no, it's a crossword. Not entirely sure what they are even scaling here, I was expecting an article about a CDN..
You're honestly a fucking idiot shut up
I have actually had an idea related to the sort of debt had to be taken by American university students for their academics.

Why not use a mixture of blended learning and Coursera, where students pay not just professors but also industry folk for cutting-edge knowledge but also open up a marketplace for Youtube tutorial people to do physical workshops in their cities that can be charged and move onto a sort of Airbnb for education and workshops? I feel a lot of straight-up learning can be gained and the 3% charged per workshop will go towards scholarships. For people who think you would be paying high prices per lecture/workshop in this model, a university student has already been paying about $50 or more per lecture.

Instead of basically physical/manual admin systems in individual centralized universities, you have decentralized software system managing schedules and booking workshops/lectures.

Just an opinion and thought I've been having, any feedback welcome.
Hey great work thanks! I used it a few times with good results.

Would it make sense for your app to also link topics to distance learning universities ?

I mean you could contact them first then talk about a commission fee, if someone joins their course they should pay you

The same thing could be done with coursera and edX.
Consumers seem to be motivated by coddy and availability. If an upstart has lower prices and enough drivers I think there isn't as much of a moat. But this would require a lot of cash to subsidize. Solvable surely if not improbable.
Sounds like this writer is talking about two different things:

1. dragging/pasting ideas from an idea section directly into a writing program. This is where s/he's sitting comfortably somewhere actually working.

2. Scribbling ideas "on the fly" - which can happen anywhere (on the bus, walking down the street, etc..)

For the second, I like simplenote[0] and their tagging feature. Lots of support for various OSes. On 32-bit LinuxMint, I'm using nvPY[1] since simplenote doesn't have a 32-bit deb.

In order to solve both problems, the writing program could support something like simplenote via plugin. This way s/he gets their left-hand, drag/paste panel.

Note: also like https://standardnotes.org/ but could not get it to run on my older phone, no 32-bit linux support.

[0] https://simplenote.com/

[1] https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy
>> And its pretty difficult to imagine that aesthetics aren't a useful signal to watch for, unless you simply aren't paying attention; very few communities don't construct their own slang, attire, quirks and what-nots. Even long-standing groups of two or three will do so. And few are skilled at hiding it.

I've seen several people buy Hyena Agenda[1] shirts specifically to find other furries out in the wild without being overt about it to non-furries (most furry apparel is obviously furry, while this company sells a lot of less obvious stuff). Furries are majority LGBTQ nerds by a wide margin, so it's a great filter.

[1] https://hyena-agenda.com/
I'm unable to find references, so I'm reconstructing this from memory and the paper (http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp13/papers/p133-elphinstone.pdf). I have never had any experiences with L4 or any of its relatives; all of mine were with Mach and its derivatives, along with reading about the Scout microkernel (http://www2.cs.arizona.edu/projects/scout/).

As I recall, the problem is that raw IPC costs are a red herring. It's possible to get the IPC costs almost arbitrarily small, if you're not actually toting any data or if you don't have memory protection domains separating the components (as in Scout).

If you are toting data around, such as reading or writing to a filesystem server, you have three options:

* Copy it. That's kind of expensive.

* Share it. Copy-on-write magic, for example. Unfortunately, that requires fiddling with the VM system, to set up a mapping between user-space and filesystem-server-space, for example. Fiddling with the VM system can be surprisingly expensive, too.

* Pre-establish a shared-memory buffer. This is what L4 does(?), if I'm reading section 3.2.2 correctly. It may be much better than the other options, I have no experience there.

(Excellent paper, by the way. I'm hoping to get to do something with L4 at some point; microkernels are neat and it seems like it doesn't suck.)
Raising fares would open more opportunities for competitors to enter the space.
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/el-gordo/ great story
Ironically I used some orthotics as a teen. My feet are half flat, some "podologist" gave me curved soles. Didn't work on me. I don't refute the idea; I probably just needed a more comprehensive solution for a prolongated time to make a difference.
The problem is often I need that data locally. With video editing in particular, I can't work with data that's not local and I can't run my editing software in the cloud because I'm not aware of any kind of remote workstation that offers colour management and whatnot.
Innovation in specific areas slows or stops all the time. The general run of technical progress in a specific area shows an S-curve, in which initial discoveries are made slowly, later progress accelerates as synergies are exploited and greater investment is made, and finally innovation decreases as low-hanging fruit is exhausted and the shape of available technology matches that of the problem domain. For an example of this, see aerospace; it took around sixty years to go from the field's inception to the moon landing and the Concorde, and in the fifty years since we've made mostly incremental progress over the technologies involved in both.

It seems that we're currently approaching the top of the S-curve for computation via integrated circuits; further increases going forward are likely to be incremental and margin-focused, as opposed to paradigm-shattering. Maintaining the 1950-2010 rate of productivity improvement will require new paradigm-shattering advances in some other field (machine learning? Internet of Things stuff?). It's possible that these are indeed forthcoming, and we can continue our absurd growth levels for another fifty years. It's also possible that we're nearing the edge of the problem space and we won't have any more easy order-of-magnitude productivity boosts. If the latter is true, then our economy will inevitably collapse with enormous collateral damage. As an economic system, this seems unstable at best.
"Rod should have predicted the kind of response this tweet received"

I was on the fence until I hit that part. The tacit admission that they're holding him responsible for what other people are saying on Twitter is all I need to know. They wanna feel like righteous warriors defeating evil.
Do Dogs Know Themselves?
Ben Horowitz is a hip-hop fan too, see his book Hard thing about hard things, I like the fact the Hip-hop can be used to instruct technology and business and make things interesting.
Legal action at this rate is going to amount to holding an impromptu trial on the deck of the Titanic.
Breeder reactors still require a chemical re-processing step to separate fission products (the lighter atoms produced when heavy actinides like uranium split and release energy) from the fuel.

There are two main theoretical advantages for breeder reactors.

One advantage is that the total energy extractable from terrestrial mineral resources is much greater with dedicated breeder reactors than with reliance on naturally fissile U-235 in simpler non-breeding reactors. In practice, nuclear power production has not grown fast enough to cause uranium shortages. Until there is a significant uranium shortage, reflected in much higher prices for freshly mined uranium, the higher complexity/cost of a breeder reactor cannot be offset by cost savings on fresh uranium fuel.

The other theoretical advantage is a reduction in actinide waste production (plutonium, americium, curium). These heavy waste atoms dominate the radioactivity of spent nuclear fuel in the medium term, thousands to tens of thousands of years from now. But in the short term (years, decades, and centuries), the radioactivity of spent nuclear fuel is dominated by fission products rather than actinides. Breeder reactors do not notable reduce production of fission products compared to conventional reactors. Further, the reprocessing of nuclear fuel to separate the fission products has a tendency to turn potent but small, easily-handled waste problems into less potent but much larger and more unwieldy waste problems. Even though there are some theoretical waste advantages to reprocessing fuel instead of using it once and sealing it up forever, in practice waste reprocessing has always led to higher expenses and more radionuclides actually released into the wider environment.
Sorry but you are ignorant if you think that dementia is painless. My mother has dementia, and it's a horrible, horrible disease. She is going to a tremendous amount of pain, because she is confused and scared and angry. She knows something is terribly wrong all the time, but she doesn't know. She has written notes to herself that she wants to die. She can't control her bodily functions anymore and has to endure the humiliation of being bathed by strangers that scare her. It's a horrible horrible disease, and it is not painless or peaceful. I wish she would get cancer so that she could die quicker, that's how terrible this disease is.
Also there is the header-only khash.h [3], complete with benchmarks:

https://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/comparison-...

(Also provides kbtree.h, ksort.h, kstream.h, kvec.h)

[3] https://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/programs/

Also there are the stb header-only libraries. There is a hash table implementation buried inside stb.h

[4] https://github.com/nothings/stb
Whether it's a university or a government or any other bureaucracy, the money eventually flows to the top. And the top tier of employees have no incentive to remove their own livelihoods.

Thinning the waste at the top is a great idea, but never gets done unless a bigger bureaucracy makes it happen.
Strava[1] provides a cycle route builder that uses the popularity of routes based on their dataset of uploaded rides. As it's using recorded rides, typically by local riders, I've found it produces good routing; quiet roads similar to those you'd choose if you knew the area well.

[1] https://www.strava.com
Google gives nothing.
From your sentence i can only deduce that you don't believe in scientific results and instead in some other 'erratically acting' null-deity.

But that can't be the case, since we can build airplanes and satellites based on our understanding of how the natural system works.

Why would you say that these things work and could stop to do so if the supposed null-deity doesnt think it's appropriate now, acting by no law in particular?
I completely agree. I used to have a couple of pages (across various weather sites) bookmarked but nowadays I just have the "local" page on forecast.weather.gov bookmarked. No ads, no links to clickbait articles, no unrelated crap I don't care about, and it loads a helluva lot quicker and transfers much less data also.
Usually I use JBL J88's for mostly everything, they are very comfortable and sound great. Personally I'd like a little more base to them but would recommend them for someone who isn't looking for much.
Why Oil-Loving Louisiana Should Embrace America’s Coming Offshore Wind Boom
Has anybody had successful experience deploying docker containers on appengine ? Last time i tried, i had such a bad experience in terms of deployment speed ( time to build the image, then upload it, then waiting for the stuff to deploy) that i reverted to managing my own gce instance.

But maybe i had bad luck..
sure, but most crimes aren't murders.
I love how they try to scientifically analyze it but they'll never be able to truly understand it.
We can't cut the pointless admin for public schools because we need to comply with government regulations. Not making a judgement call here, but it's there.
Thank heavens. Google's efforts to 'improve' the web have been disastrous. Like turning every list of facts into a pointless ramble because Google needs 1000 words of 'rich content'. And Amp being a push to hobble pages by making them into a proprietary cache format instead of encouraging simpler HTML.
Ask HN: Analytics tools to for sales across UberEats, Grubhub etc?
My friend has a restaurant and he is using 8 different delivery services.

Accounting / sales analytics is a mess. Is there any tools like Mixpanel for that need?
And why, would i ask? For instance, I was supposed to be reading an ebook on my iPad, but instead I've been reading this thread for the past half hour...
U.S. Naval Mishaps – Human Error or Cyber Malfeasance?
Nope, forecast.io became darksky.net, some months ago. Also, WRT your other comment, I live in Istanbul and find it very accurate, whenever I see that it shows some precipitation I take the umbrella with me, and thus I've spent the last two years way more drier.
They do, but it reduces your profit...
Two things keep coming up while comparing GCP and AWS:

* This accomplishment would not have been possible for our three-person team of engineers with out Google Cloud (AWS is too low level, hard to work with and does not scale well).

* We’ve also managed to cut our infrastructure costs in half during this time period (Per minute billing, seamless autoscaling, performance, sustained usage discounts, ... )
We are not an elite team...believe me.
I don't disagree with what your saying, but...

LED's don't produce light from heat so they don't really correspond color temperature. They can fake it, but the current approach produces blue at higher efficiency than yellow. Thus upping the yellow content results in lower brightness and lower 'efficiency' for the same device or identical brightness and higher costs.

However, producing a lot of blue light is often sub optimal so you need a consumer willing to make that trade-off instead of just seeing white/cost/brightness and assuming that's the whole story. Thus, cheap really does mean more blue.
I was always saying that if I was younger, I wish company like ThoughtWorks got me under it's wing, send me off to their Bootcamp/University, indoctrinated me into right ways of doing things.

I had to learn same things, but much harder.
> charged particles traveling faster than the speed of light in water

What did I just read?
Per capita spending on lotteries in Chicago's poorest neighborhoods is about ~$600 per year, of which the state of Illinois pays back about ~$100 to advertising agencies to continue to immiserate its own poor people, because if they don't constantly market the games sales go down.
Why do you think a lack of ability to detect/quantify these micro-structural abnormalities is hindering clinical trials? Is it a problem of detection lag?

How will your tech enable a disease-modifying treatment? Is the hypothesis your tech is the first way we can even measure?

Are you using standard MRIs and just a layer of software, or do you require some sort of special physical device?

This is all curiosity btw; I love the idea. I used to work on software for confocal microscopy and protein melting curves (to be clear, two different labs) before selling out and working on ads.
A High Credit Score Can Make You Look Sexy on Dating Apps
I probably wouldn't have cared much if AMP pages weren't broken or missing content so often, but anything that means less AMP sounds good to me.
.. so 4 times as strong as the biggest men made explosion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

Well, thats bad for sure, but far from humanity-threatening, I guess.
I thought the issue was that the machine is inaccurate (although I understand there was always a certain amount of accuracy with ML)

Wasnt the real issue:
"The researchers’ paper includes a photo of a man at a stove labeled “woman.” as stated in the article?

Thus isnt this article rather calling for an improvement in the system and simply stating that the data coming in is not as good because systems are also heavily influenced by data or as they say garbage data generates garbage results.
I live in Seattle and there are a lot of hills when going east/west because it's a glacial area and the glaciers come down from Canada north/south. Fun!
Why the alt-right can’t build an alt-internet
That definitely puts some perspective on things. It's a little bit absurd it was at 0% and it stayed there for so long. Never in the previous history (at least of the graph history) did it stay at the same rate for so long.
I'm guessing you didn't put up a reward. I put just a $5 reward per tester and got ~100 testers who applied within 2 weeks.
Yes. This is why I refuse to donate to my alma mater anymore. Tuition has nearly tripled in in fourteen years while they are still teaching the same number of students with roughly the same or fewer full time faculty. There's something seriously wrong with that and this is a huge symptom of it. Until they get their shit together, they need less money coming in, not more. This is supposed to be a nonprofit institution but clearly many people are making big money in this business at the expense of students. The federal loan programs certainly don't help either. Allowing student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy would also lessen this money feast for universities. Alas, no solution looks in sight so I do my part in keeping money away from these money furnaces.
Oh indeed. I read the first two paragraphs and didn't bother to read the last sentence. Thanks for correcting me!
Speed of light in water is slower than speed of light in vacuum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

The particles are still moving slower than Relativity's limit, the speed of light in a vacuum.
Are you talking about this Python SDK doc? https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/la...
> Seriously, the "sapiens" part in the name of our species is a bit of an exaggeration.

I think that was meant to point to the individuals, not the species as a whole and that's exactly what causes this problem. But we're working on the hive mind as we speak.
But this report is about CO2, not Methane. Methane is yet another reason to be worried.
alleged by whom? some conspiracy theorists? who cares?

Fake news would be a mainstream media outlet declaring that George Soros paid the driver to drive into the crowd.

Nothing like that was alleged in the story though (unless I missed it). He just mentioned conspiracy nuts threatening him on twitter, email, etc.
From a command-line, try:

$ curl http://wttr.in/5digitzip

(NB: SSL/TLS is enabled, w/ a self-signed certificate, so you can also use `curl -k https://`)
An Educator Makes the Case That Higher Learning Needs to Grow Up
Questions to zoho sridhar vembu?
I have some questions to ZOHO here, Do raise if any have

Why don not zoho encourage startup ?

Why do zoho employee salary is lower than others who works in same kind of product startup
( Chargebee, freshdesk, etc startup ) ?

Why zoho did not give share to early employees who helped zoho to raise billion dollar company ? or did zoho
raised to billion dollar company in single handle ah ?

If zoho don not have value degree then why do have package variation based on colleges (NIT, IIT, sastra)

Why do people leave zoho and Can you reveal the recent attrition rate ?

Why do zoho new product development is very slow, why they don't develop product like startup product.

I have worked in zoho almost 9 years and showed good performance with given responsibility but zoho did't recognize till I left.but when I am leaving from zohi they ready to recognize me ( trying to give MLS, salary hike ) is this right approach ?

I feel that people who you know about them well ( in terms of work and performance wise) get recognition than others in the same with different managers.

Recent days part of zoho product management is so weak, Of course people management too. I am not sure who is taking care of people management maybe HR, product manager but truth is they are so weak in terms of people management.
I did write it, but I stated it was a feeling I didn't have a lot of support on and admited it.

Politicization: That the thing was more about "feel bad for this person/person with attribute (religion, race,etc) insert police state here."

If they're teaching people to feel bad rather than think, they're teaching people to react badly.
Cherenkov Radiation [1]. It's not because the particles are going faster than 300M m/s, but because light in the medium is going less than 300M m/s. The unbreakable "speed of light" is actually, the "speed of light (in a vacuum)". Outside of a vacuum, the light is slowed by the materials it travels through (see prisms, angles of refraction, Snell's Law [2] etc.). But it's still a very special condition when the medium slows light to some large fraction of C, while particles are going faster than that (but still less than C).

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%27s_law
I remember an ASIC that was supposed to accelerate multigrid preconditioners, out of some big German university. They were never able to get stuff to market fast enough to beat Intel and Moore's law.

Perhaps the biggest recent success story in this field is Anton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)
> They do have teams in Brazil, China, etc, that are cheaper than their US based devs.

They have an office in Bangalore, India too. Or had until a while ago - not checked recently.
That phrase can be parsed in two ways
What is crypto’s agenda really?
I've had a tough time finding something good on iOS. I used WxUSA for a long time (I think that's what it was called) but then the dev stopped supporting it.

Then I switched to Storm, which was awesome until they decided to stop allowing ad-free subscriptions.

Then I switched to AccuWeather until this came to light yesterday.

Now I'm using Carrot and MyRadar which so far seems to be great.
That would make much more difficult (if not impossible) to guess the internal state of all RNGs.
I daily a Felt Nine E-20, it's a mountain bike with front suspension. I also have a Cube 400 and a Juiced u500 cargo bike.

I recommend spending $3k on a bike with a Yamaha or Bosch motor, it's easy to justify that crazy price if you look at the money you'll save in gas/payments/gym expenses. Most importantly, I enjoy my commute now and I feel like a part of the city in a way that car commuting doesn't give you. Also, get a pedal-assist bike not one with a hand throttle, trust me it's not better to have a throttle.

Disclaimer: My new startup is ebike related but I'm not going to be selling any bikes or hardware.